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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 doctor of non-force chiropractic and practitioner

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of functional medicine.

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Functional medicine means using diagnostic tests to identify conditions early enough

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that you can usually reverse them and heal your body with better food, exercise, and

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supplements so that you don't become dependent on drugs and other complicated and potentially

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dangerous medical procedures.

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The subject of today's talk is going to be breast cancer prevention.

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Every fall we hear all about raising money for more early detection of breast cancer

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that you already have and raising money for more drugs to treat cancer that you already

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have.

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This makes me think, wouldn't it be better if we could prevent cancer from forming in

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the first place?

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Well, there are lots of ways, some of which are well known and many others which are not

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so well known, that you can dramatically reduce your risk of getting breast cancer.

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Before we dive into that, I just want to say thank you for tuning in, everyone who's listening

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now.

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It's been just over a year that this show has been on, 98.3 FM every Friday afternoon,

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and the response to it has been fantastic with so many people calling and contacting

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and coming in and sending in questions.

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So please keep those emails coming.

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There are no bad questions.

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If you have a question about something, there are probably 100 other people out there listening

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who have the same question or a similar question, so you're doing them a favor by asking your

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question and who knows, it could become the subject of an entire show.

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I'm always looking for new ideas to present and new conditions to cover, so please let

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me know what you're most interested in.

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Every October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, of course, and so I get a lot of questions

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about many aspects of that.

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This month is no exception, this past month, so I prepared a talk on breast cancer prevention

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because so much of the conversation is always about early detection and finding more treatments

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for cancer that you already have.

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So wouldn't it be nice to stop the cancer before it starts?

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Well, there's no guarantees, there's no way to guarantee that you're never going to get

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cancer because there's just too many factors that can contribute to it, but there are many,

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many ways that a lot of people don't know about to dramatically reduce your risk of

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ever getting cancer in the first place, and most doctors never even consider.

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Most doctors focus on early detection and then wait until something is bad enough to

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justify the risks of big guns like chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery.

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And if you do end up getting cancer, the medical standards of care usually mean that you get

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the same treatment everyone else gets.

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But you are as different on the inside as you are on the outside, and restoration of

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health requires personalized care.

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On the plus side, survival rates for breast cancer are better than ever due to earlier

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detection and better conventional treatments in large part, but 13% of American women will

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develop cancer in their lifetimes, and that percentage is going up.

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It used to be 10%.

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Every year, the percentage of women getting newly diagnosed with cancer goes up.

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So it's important to understand that early detection is not prevention.

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How can you stop cancer before it shows up?

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Well number one, identify your risk factors.

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Number two, get better testing, and number three, take better care of your health.

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So risk factors, a good place to see the known risk factors, some of which people are familiar

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with is breastcancer.org.

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That website shows that you have, for example, increased risk if you're over 55.

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Two-thirds of invasive cancers occur are diagnosed in women over 55.

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If you have a family history, a sister or a mother or a daughter who has breast cancer,

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it's dramatically increased risk.

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Genetics is always a factor in many cancers.

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5% to 10% of breast cancers are now considered to be hereditary.

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Radiation exposure, so radiation exposure especially to the face or the chest, especially in younger

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women.

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If you're under 30, that dramatically increases your risk of getting breast cancer later.

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But also just being overweight increases your risk of developing breast cancer.

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Lack of exercise, drinking alcohol, and smoking, these are all known risk factors for getting

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breast cancers.

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Increased risk of breast cancer occurs if you give birth before the age of 30 and women

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who breastfeed have a lower risk of breast cancer.

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But you can also do other tests.

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So if you've known somebody in your family or your personal life who's had breast cancer

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and gotten standard treatment, you might have heard about how after they make it through

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chemotherapy and radiation or surgery or whatever treatment they end up getting, after they're

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finished with that, they go back six months later, a year later, three months later, something,

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some kind of regular scheduled appointment to get follow-up blood testing to see if the

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cancer's coming back.

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These blood tests are called tumor markers.

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Tumor markers with names like CA15.3, CA19.9, CA125, CEAAFP.

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It doesn't really matter that you don't have to worry about what those complicated names

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The important thing is that these are things that measure cancer-fighting activity in your

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body taking place with your immune system's attempt to fight off and destroy cancer-causing

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cells.

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Have you ever heard that your body is fighting off cancer-causing cells from the day you're

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It is true, and this is one of the ways that we know that and we can measure that activity.

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Your immune system's attempts to identify and destroy cancer-causing cells results in

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these markers in the blood becoming elevated.

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If they're elevated after you've had treatment for cancer, then that can show that the cancer

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is returning before it gets big enough to show up on a scan.

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That's why they do the blood tests.

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These blood tests aren't used to diagnose cancer.

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They are used to measure cancer-fighting activity.

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Your immune system, is it having a normal level of cancer-fighting activity?

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Are these tests really low, therefore fine?

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So you can see if the cancer is coming back on a blood test often before you can see it,

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usually before you can see it return on any kind of scan.

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And so that's why oncologists use those tests.

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But you can, anyone can have those tumor markers tested now, not to diagnose cancer, but to

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see if your immune system has some cause, something that's causing it to fight to produce

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these tumor markers, to represent cancer-fighting activity.

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Any elevation in these tumor markers is representative of some kind of pathological condition.

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It's never good to have these things elevated.

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And if they are elevated, you can use them as a benchmark and use better food, exercise,

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and supplements to reduce them and reduce your risk of the cancer forming in the first

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place.

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So there are also a number of toxins that cause the genetic mutations that cause cancer

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to start, such as chemicals in the air and water, heavy metals, plastics, antibiotics

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and certain that are fed in foods that we eat, beef and chicken, hair dyes and hair

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straighteners, cosmetics, sunscreen, chemicals that are used in farming, pesticides and fertilizers,

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mold toxins.

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And you know, a lot of chemicals are just in the food and air and the water that we

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drink.

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They're just unavoidable.

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So there are ways to test for these things to see if you have a body burden of them that

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warrants being more proactive and doing something to gently and safely flush those things out.

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Doing this can reduce your risk of getting breast cancer and other cancers.

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And there's tests that document whether or not you have an increased burden of these

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and then follow up testing to show that you are reducing your burden of those toxins in

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your body.

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And then thirdly, just general health screening.

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So inflammation, heart disease, diabetes, liver, kidneys, digestive system and immune

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system function are the things that I test on everyone when they come for a general health

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screening to do a comprehensive blood panel to see if every part of your body is working

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normally.

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And when that is the case, when all of these things are working better, you are at lower

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risk of getting cancer.

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So taking better care of your overall health, all of the following things dramatically reduce

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your risk of cancer and have data behind them to support it.

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Exercise 35 to 40 minutes a day for five days a week.

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Eat mostly vegetables, healthy fats and protein.

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Drink plenty of clean water.

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Get seven to eight hours of sleep.

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Maintain a healthy weight.

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Limit alcohol use to one serving per day.

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So this isn't essential for everything, but it is widely known now that for women, drinking

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more than one serving of alcohol per day does increase your risk of breast cancer.

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So flush out the toxins that we just talked about, optimize your immune system function

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and identify and supplement essential nutrients that are missing.

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Are in a way the most important nutrient that people often do not, so many people do not

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have enough of to keep themselves healthy is vitamin D. And vitamin D dramatically reduces

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your risk of breast cancer if you get adequate amounts.

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And most people don't.

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How do we know that?

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By testing their blood levels of vitamin D.

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So sun exposure does not reduce your risk of breast cancer unless you combine it with

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vitamin D supplements.

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This is from a study that came out in the journal Environment International in January

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of 2022.

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And the reason is because most people just do not get enough sun exposure to significantly

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alter their vitamin D levels.

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People think of them outside or, you know, we're supposed to, our bodies are supposed

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to make vitamin D in the skin and our bodies do make vitamin D in the skin, but just not

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enough to optimize your immune system function and get that benefit of reducing your risk

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of many, many types of cancers, breast cancer among them.

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Because if you're just out in, you know, with short sleeves and short pants, there's not

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enough surface area.

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If you sunbathe with your torso exposed, basically naked or in a bikini, 20 minutes a day, a

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white person, 20 minutes a day, three times a week in the summer in Southern California,

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say from June to August in a part of Southern California that isn't foggy, like it is in

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Ventura, then you might make enough vitamin D to have a healthy blood level of between

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50 and 90.

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I'm going to come back to that in a minute because there's a difference between what's

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considered normal medically and what is now known to be the healthy level of vitamin D

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in the bloodstream that will keep your immune system strong.

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So you know, 20 minutes a day, three times a week or more if your skin is darker in the

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summer with no clothes covering most of your skin and no sunscreen on.

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So no one does that, you know, and most of the time if you're going to be out in the

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sun for very long, you should put sunscreen on too.

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So you don't get skin cancer, obviously.

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So it's just very, there's a lot of reasons that it's just very difficult to get adequate

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vitamin D to keep your immune system strong and reduce your risk of breast cancer from

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the sun.

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You have to supplement.

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So you hear about studies, maybe you've read, you hear about studies that come out in the

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news all the time.

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One says that vitamin D works for this and another one that it doesn't work for that.

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And most of the studies that are done are poorly designed from the outset.

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They use ineffectual doses, even in a lot of medical journals.

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You know, there are some excellent studies out there if you know how to find them.

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But if you don't look for them, you probably won't find them.

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And so there's many, many studies that say that vitamin D doesn't work for this and that

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because they just don't use enough.

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Well that's just egregious, especially for doctors who have a responsibility, I think,

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to educate their patients because for 20 years data like this has been out.

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Here's a study that came out in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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in 2007.

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Vitamin D level of over 50 reduces your breast cancer risk by 50%.

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Have you ever heard that before?

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Anybody?

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It's huge.

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Having a serum vitamin D level when you do your blood test, having a blood level of 52,

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just over 50, reduces your breast cancer risk by 50%.

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This has been known for years.

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An even newer study in the journal Nutrients that just came out in March of this year showed

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that you reduce your risk of breast cancer by 80% with a serum vitamin D level of 60

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compared to people who only have a vitamin D level of 20.

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So guess what, most people's blood level of vitamin D is if they're not supplementing

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vitamin D, 5,000 units a day, even if you're taking a multivitamin with the Paltry U.S.

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recommended daily allowance of 400 units a day, your blood level is usually less than

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20, almost always less than 30, and often even down in the teens.

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A level of 30 is considered enough to keep your bones from collapsing, but it is not

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going to keep your immune system strong.

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The healthy range for vitamin D to keep your immune system strong is 50 to 90, and most

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doctors will never tell you that, and no one gets their blood up to that level without

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supplementing vitamin D. Usually 5,000 units a day for most people is what it takes to

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get it up to that range and keep it there.

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If you're a thin woman under 120 pounds, 4,000 might be enough, but even children over 60

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or 70 pounds can take 5,000 units a day, these 1,000 and 2,000 unit capsules that you see

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for sale in stores, those are for children, the average daily dose.

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If you want to keep your immune system healthy, that's 5,000 units of vitamin D per day for

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most people.

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And then you can achieve these reduced risk, I'm going to say it again, 80% lower risk

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if you get your vitamin D level up to 60 versus 20.

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This is a study that came out this year, so most people test below 20 if they're not taking

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vitamin D supplements.

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, you're listening to Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions to Almost

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Any Health Challenge.

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We're talking about is it possible to prevent breast cancer before it starts?

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Early detection and funding for new treatments for people who unfortunately get breast cancer

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is obviously very important, but wouldn't it be nice if you could prevent it?

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So there's a case study, a 47-year-old woman came to me who woke up one morning with a

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grape-sized mast in her left breast, and a few days later it had tripled in size, about

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to about the size of a jalapeno.

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So she went to her oncologist who recommended immediate surgery to cut it out, because if

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you're over 40 and you have a mast that size, that is the standard recommendation.

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And unfortunately, medical standards of care mean that you get the same treatment as everybody

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else.

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Well, this woman chose not to get the surgery, and I put her on a high dose of vitamin D,

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iodine, and fish oil.

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So iodine is super important for breast tissue.

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A lot of people are familiar with its importance in the thyroid, making thyroid hormone, but

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there's actually a greater need for iodine for healthy breast tissue simply because the

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breasts are much larger than the thyroid, and a lot of people are deficient in iodine

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as well.

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And then fish oil helps with inflammation and a whole host of other things.

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So high dose vitamin D, iodine, and fish oil, this 47-year-old woman took, and three weeks

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later the jalapeno-sized mast in her breast disappeared, and it never came back.

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And that was over 10 years ago.

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And the reason that that happened is because she didn't have cancer.

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She had a cyst.

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The technical term is a fibroadenoma.

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A fibroadenoma is a relatively common cyst that can form in the breast, and if you're

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over 40, they recommend cutting them out because they can become cancerous, but they also often

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don't, and it is often possible to reduce them with high dose nutrients.

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So one of the takeaways from this case that I hope that you'll remember is that a recent

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cancer diagnosis is almost never an emergency.

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Even if you get told that you have to have chemotherapy or radiation or surgery, months

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often pass before you even get scheduled for that procedure.

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So you have time to come in and try something, to get some blood tests like I've been talking

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about, identify some nutrient deficiencies, and flood your body with nutrients to help

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it heal itself better, and then retest in a couple of weeks or a month.

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There's often time, and sometimes even in as little as two weeks, we can retest those

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same tumor markers and other tests of nutrient deficiencies, inflammation, and signs of stress

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on your body that are associated with most cancers, and see if the numbers are heading

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in the right direction.

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See if you're starting to get improvement, and then you can make a more educated decision

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about whether or not you need chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery immediately, and you

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take that information back to your...

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I always encourage you to take the information you get from my tests back to your other doctor

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and discuss that with them, and just make an informed decision, whichever route you

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end up taking.

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So I do see patients who have cancer relatively frequently, but I don't treat cancer.

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I'm not an oncologist.

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Instead, I optimize their immune system function.

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Patients who come to me often come to me because they've just been diagnosed with breast cancer,

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and they come specifically for that, but they might just be coming because they have neck

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or back pain, and they also have breast cancer.

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So I'm going to help them optimize their immune system function, identify and restore nutrient

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deficiencies like vitamin D and a whole host of other things, protein deficiency, make

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sure they don't have anemia, also really common in cancer patients.

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If you start out in any recent diagnosis with low protein and anemia, really common in any

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kind of cancer, it can be very difficult to get those things back up.

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So the earlier you identify low protein, for example, and any form of anemia, which I see

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all the time in people who think they're healthy, and you can fix those, then you're going to

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be going to have a much better recovery from any type of cancer.

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So I can also help reduce and treat the side effects of chemo radiation and surgery with

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nutrients.

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I'm not going to stop your hair from falling out when you get chemo, for example, but some

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of the pain associated with it, the vascular complications, a lot of people who end up

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eventually unfortunately dying from cancer don't die necessarily from the cancer, but

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from a heart attack or a stroke because the treatments for cancer dramatically increase

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your risk of heart attacks and strokes because of the vascular inflammation that they cause.

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And so these are things that can be reduced with better nutrients.

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And then the side effects of the treatments themselves, neuropathy, burning numbness and

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tingling and pain down the arms and legs and into the feet, profound fatigue and brain

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fog.

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These are really common after you've gone through any kind of gauntlet for treating

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cancer.

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So many people report having these things and they can be severely debilitating and

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they just they often don't really get any effective treatment for these things.

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So they'll give you medication to help reduce the nausea, but many people come in with these

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lingering symptoms that the medical profession often just doesn't have any answers for.

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So let's talk about some specifics.

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What are these cancer support nutrients I'm talking about?

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Well actually before I dive into this list, I think it helps to think about this.

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Think of your bloodstream as a river of life and you've got construction crews waiting

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on both banks of the river that are there to heal and repair.

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They've got a job list, they've got a bunch of projects that need fixing, but if the raw

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materials that they need to do that job aren't available, then that job just gets put on

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hold indefinitely.

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So you've got construction crews on both banks of the river, your river of life, your bloodstream.

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And if you keep adequate amounts of the nutrients that your body needs to heal and repair all

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of the things that end up needing routine maintenance, there's a lot of them, then those

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projects do get taken care of.

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That construction project will get completed.

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Your body will heal and repair that tissue and reduce your risk of a whole host of diseases.

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So specifically with cancer, some of the most common nutrients overlap between the nutrients

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required to maintain general health and to specifically reduce your risk of side effects

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from chemo and radiation and surgery and optimize your immune system to give you a fighting

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chance to fight off the cancer.

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But so, for example, just vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, systemic enzymes, betaine hydrochloric

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acid.

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Your stomach makes hydrochloric acid and if you lack sufficient hydrochloric acid in your

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stomach, then it makes it very difficult to absorb the protein you're eating.

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So having protein deficiency when you're going through a bout with cancer is critically important

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because most of your cells are made of protein.

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Protein is the basic building block for almost all of your cells and it is very, very common

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for people to end up protein deficient.

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So if you identify that and maybe you're eating adequate protein, maybe you're not eating

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enough.

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Some people don't eat enough protein, especially oftentimes vegetarians and vegans.

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Sometimes they do, but you don't know unless you get tested.

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But I see it all the time where people are eating plenty of chicken and fish or beef

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or whatever kind of protein, eggs, it was an excellent source of protein for breakfast.

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People know or I help them figure out that they're eating plenty of protein but still

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shows up deficient on their blood tests.

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And the most common reason for that is insufficient hydrochloric acid in the stomach.

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So if your stomach isn't producing adequate amounts and that does show up low on your

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blood tests, then we can fix that by supplementing betaine hydrochloric acid.

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It's just a capsule that you take that gives you sufficient acid to assimilate the protein

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better and then we retest to make sure that you're having adequate protein in your blood

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stream again.

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Glutathione support is critically important for cancer patients.

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It's an essential nutrient.

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The glutathione is the master antioxidant.

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So it's really important for detoxifying things that could be contributing to getting cancer

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in the first place.

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Also detoxifying some of the effects of the medications that you have to take sometimes

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when you're going through cancer treatment and just to maximize your immune system function

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and your liver function.

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So glutathione is the master antioxidant.

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It is possible you can buy supplements of glutathione but they often don't work as well

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as just supporting your body's ability to make glutathione on its own.

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So your body makes glutathione from three amino acids called cysteine, glutamate, and

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glycine.

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Well you can get plenty of glutamate and glycine from food and routinely do.

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The missing link, the rate limiting nutrient that people often don't get enough of to

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make adequate glutathione is cysteine.

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And there are a number of ways to get more cysteine into your system so that you can

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make adequate amounts of glutathione but we're about to run out of time this week so we will

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continue this discussion next week on how to prevent cancer by flooding your river of

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life, your bloodstream with the nutrients your body needs to better heal and repair

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itself.

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Send in your questions for me if you have any more questions about breast cancer or

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any other type of cancer or how you can reduce your risk and optimize your immune system

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function to give your body a fighting chance.

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Please send me those questions at binkleyhealingcenter.com and listen to past episodes of this show on

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my website, binkleyhealingcenter.com.

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Thank you for tuning in.

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I look forward to speaking with you right here again next Friday at 2 p.m. on 98.3 FM.

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Have a great weekend.

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