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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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Thanks for tuning in today.

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I'm going to continue talking, as we did last week, about breast cancer prevention.

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Been getting a lot of questions over the last month about this, different aspects.

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Can you prevent breast cancer?

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Is there any guarantee?

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Can you help people who already have breast cancer?

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Are there any other ways to detect it earlier than mammograms and the standard recommendations

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that you get from the American Cancer Society, etc.?

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So last week we went through a pretty detailed description of many of the main ways that

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you can help minimize your risk of getting cancer in the first place.

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Wouldn't it be great if you could stop cancer before it started?

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So it is an early detection, which we hear about every October, is important.

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And developing new and better treatments for people who get breast cancer, obviously very,

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very important.

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But it's also, I think, important to learn about and implement ways of dramatically reducing

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your risk of getting breast cancer in the first place.

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So review last week's episode, number 56, for more information about that.

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I ran out of time, as I was discussing some of the ways that I help patients who have,

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unfortunately, already got breast cancer.

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So I do have people who come in to me.

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Because they have breast cancer, I'm not an oncologist.

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I don't, quote, treat cancer.

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I do help people get healthier who have cancer.

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I help optimize their immune system function to give them a fighting chance.

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I have provided, test them for nutrient deficiencies and impairments and other struggles, like

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exposure to toxins that stress their immune system and make it more difficult for them

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to fight off cancer on their own.

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And I basically just make people healthier to give you a fighting chance whenever you're

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doing battle with cancer.

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So I should remind you that you can listen to past episodes of this show anytime you

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like on demand at my website, binkleyhealingcenter.com, as well as on Apple podcasts, if you like

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to listen to the podcast app on your iPhone or iPad, Spotify, and YouTube.

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Just search for the name of the show, Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions, and my name,

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Dr. Todd Binkley.

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So last week, we began this presentation on breast cancer prevention by identifying how

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can you stop cancer before it starts?

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How can you dramatically reduce your risk of getting cancer in the first place?

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Well, number one, know your risk factors.

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Two, get better testing.

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And number three, take better care of your overall health.

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So we talked about testing for toxins and things that, chemicals, heavy metals, plastics,

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things that are in our food and hair products, cosmetics, sunscreen, mold, things that we're

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constantly exposed to that cause the genetic mutations that trigger the formation of cancer

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cells in the first place.

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There's testing for tumor markers, blood tests that can identify cancer fighting activity

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that your immune system is engaged in.

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And as always, just taking better care of your general health, keeping inflammation

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under control, preventing heart disease, diabetes, keeping your liver and kidneys and digestive

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system and immune system functioning at their peak, all dramatically reduce your risk of

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getting cancer.

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Taking better care of your general health by exercising 30 to 45 minutes a day, five

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days a week, eating mostly vegetables, healthy fats and proteins instead of loading up on

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nutrient free carbohydrate junk food, obviously.

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Hopefully people know about that.

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Drinking plenty of clean water, getting seven to eight hours of sleep a night, maintaining

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a healthy weight for women to reduce risk of breast cancer specifically, limiting alcohol

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to one serving per day, flushing out toxins, et cetera.

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These are ways that you can reduce your risk.

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We went over how important it is to optimize your vitamin D levels.

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Vitamin D dramatically reduces your risk of breast cancer.

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You can breast cancer in a study that came out last year, 80% lower risk of breast cancer

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if you get your vitamin D in your blood up to 60 compared to people whose blood level

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of vitamin D was only 20 and people who do not supplement vitamin D about 5,000 units

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a day every day usually have a vitamin D level of less than 20.

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I talked about a 47 year old woman who woke up with a grape sized mast in her breast that

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tripled in size a few days later and was told that she had to have it cut out immediately

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and stressed to her that a recent cancer diagnosis is rarely an emergency.

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Even when you're told that you have to have surgery or chemo or radiation or some combination,

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immune therapy, et cetera, they're coming out with new treatments all the time.

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Even when you do end up possibly needing that, they usually don't even schedule for a few

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weeks out, sometimes months out, and you have time.

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It's rarely, almost never an emergency and you usually do have time to do some tests,

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identify some ways, some areas that your body needs support in, give you some high doses

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of really important nutrients that tests show that you're lacking, and then retest in a

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couple of weeks and see if the numbers are heading in the right direction.

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Then you can make a more informed choice about the treatment that you want going forward.

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This particular woman didn't have cancer.

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She had a cyst.

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She had a fibroadenoma, which is a relatively common cyst that forms in the breast and it

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can become cancerous, which is why if you're over 40, the standard of care in the medical

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profession is to surgically remove it, but it's often not necessary to do that.

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I put this particular woman on a high dose of vitamin D, iodine, and fish oil, and three

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weeks later the mass disappeared and it never came back, and that was 10 years ago.

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So to truly understand what's possible with functional medicine, with identifying nutrient

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deficiencies and optimizing them, I encourage you to think of your bloodstream as a river

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of life.

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So there's nutrients in your bloodstream coursing through your body throughout the day from

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whatever you swallow, and there's construction crews on both banks of the river there ready

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to heal and repair various tissues in your body, and if the materials are there that

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they need to do what they're waiting to do, then that project will take place.

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That part of your body, that tissue, that repair job will occur.

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You will heal and repair that tissue.

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That's how every part of your body is maintained throughout your life.

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But if the construction crew is sitting there waiting and the raw materials they need are

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not there, if the nutrients are not available that are needed to heal and repair that tissue,

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then that just goes, gets put on the back burner, and sometimes indefinitely, sometimes

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forever, and we chalk that up to feels like I'm getting old, or any number of other reasons,

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and it's just, it's really, it's amazing what is possible when you flood your river of life

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with all the nutrients that every part of your body needs to heal and repair itself.

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So basic things like vitamins and minerals and antioxidants, systemic enzymes that help

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scour your body for inflammatory debris and eliminate it to reduce inflammation and facilitate

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healing and repair.

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Last week we talked about the importance of hydrochloric acid in the stomach, because

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that's essential to digesting the protein that you eat.

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Protein is the basic building block of every cell type in your body, and especially if

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you get cancer, you need adequate protein to heal and repair every part of your body.

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And many people are deficient when we measure their protein level in the blood.

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For most people it should be seven point something.

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in your blood.

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If it's six point something or five point something, then you should do something about

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We talked about glutathione support.

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That was where we left off.

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Last week we left off in the middle of a discussion of the importance of glutathione for cancer

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patients and for a whole host of other things.

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Glutathione is the master antioxidant.

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So antioxidants are things that help heal and repair tissues that need support.

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Some people liken rust as a form of oxidation.

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So some people like that metaphor.

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You've heard about antioxidants in fruits and vegetables.

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Among the most important reasons to eat a reasonable amount of fruits and vegetables

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is for the antioxidants in them to help you heal and repair.

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So glutathione is made by your body.

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You can supplement it.

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It is the master antioxidant.

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But taking supplements of glutathione is not often the best way to resolve a deficiency

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in glutathione.

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It's more important in most cases to help your body make more glutathione on its own.

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Glutathione is made of three amino acids, cysteine, glycine, and glutamate.

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Most of us get enough glycine and glutamate in food.

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The limiting factor is we often don't have enough cysteine.

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So many people have heard of the supplement N-acetylcysteine.

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Maybe you have, maybe you haven't.

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But N-acetylcysteine is a common supplement.

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A lot of people think that it is itself an antioxidant.

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It is in fact a precursor for glutathione.

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It helps your body make more glutathione.

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It's been available for many, many years.

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It can be very helpful to help replenish glutathione levels, very commonly used in certain circumstances.

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But there is a better way.

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There are a couple of better ways to replenish glutathione.

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Number one, liposomal.

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Lipo means fat, somal means body.

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So liposomal glutathione is basically glutathione that's been encapsulated in a little blob

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of fat.

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Little phospholipids, the technical term for a liposome is a spherical vesicle composed

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of phospholipids that are compatible.

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They basically mimic the structure of a cell membrane.

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So it makes any nutrient, makes it easier for it to cross cell membranes and enter the

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tissue where it has its active function.

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So liposomal glutathione is an option and I use this in my office a lot for many different

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Another option that I more commonly use, especially for cancer patients, is a cysteine donor.

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So we talked about the three amino acids that your body uses to form glutathione.

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They are again, glycine, glutamate, and cysteine.

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We get glutamate and glycine from food readily.

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So a cysteine donor, a really excellent product for that is called Immunocal.

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The company that makes Immunocal, Immuno-Tech, has published a tremendous amount of research

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that's available on PubMed to substantiate the fact that it does raise glutathione levels

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in the blood and that it has beneficial effects on a whole host of human conditions.

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That's what first impressed me about it when I first heard about it and started using it

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in my practice.

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I've been using it for several years now for a whole host of different things.

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But especially with cancer patients, it's actually a specially processed form of whey

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protein, nothing like the protein supplements, whey protein supplements that people take

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for building muscle mass or just as an alternative source.

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But the difference mainly is that it's processed without any heat and without any agitation.

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Proteins actually have a three-dimensional, it's a little bit complicated, but proteins

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have three-dimensional structures that alter their function.

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in supporting the production of glutathione, this particular product is an excellent donor

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of cysteine.

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So I know that's a little complicated, but the takeaway is for many, many cancer patients,

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I've found this to be the best way to optimize glutathione levels.

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And many of the most dramatic examples of cancer patients who have achieved dramatic

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results, oftentimes doing both chemotherapy, radiation, standard oncological treatments,

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along with nutrients, this has always been a key component of the patients that I've

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gotten the most dramatic results with.

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I'm Dr. Todd Benkley.

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

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We're talking about breast cancer prevention generally, but also specifically now, things

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that can be done to help people with breast cancer.

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I'm not an oncologist.

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I don't treat breast cancer, but I do help anyone with cancer optimize their immune system

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function to give themselves a fighting chance.

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And a lot of people are surprised to learn that if you do end up going to an oncologist

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finding out that you need chemotherapy or radiation or surgery or immune therapy or

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any of the newer cancer treatments, you can do natural therapies along with conventional

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oncology treatments.

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And most oncologists won't tell you that.

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Sometimes they're even confused about it.

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They think, oh, we're trying to destroy your immune system and hope you survive.

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And in fact, you can do both, not at the same day.

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So for example, if you're doing a chemotherapy regimen, you're not doing it every day.

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You do it in cycles.

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So the days that you're taking a chemotherapy regimen, you don't take any supplements.

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But then the day after you finish with that, you can flood your body with nutrients to

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recover from the damage from the chemotherapeutic agent or whatever other type of pharmaceutical

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treatment you're doing for your cancer.

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So in between rounds of chemo, you can flood your body with nutrients to give it a fighting

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chance to heal itself.

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So for example, here's an example, a 75-year-old woman came to me with a 3.2 centimeter invasive

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ductal carcinoma.

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That's bad.

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That means it spread from the breast to the lymph nodes.

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And she went through two courses of chemotherapy and aromatase inhibitors, which are estrogen

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blockers.

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It's a relatively common type of cancer treatment these days.

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And I reviewed her scans and her biopsy and gave her some supplements to maximize their

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healing ability to boost her immune system function, et cetera, to take between rounds

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of chemo.

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And a few other things, as so many cancer patients do, she had some difficulty getting

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adequate amounts of protein in her diet.

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But the upshot is she made a very rapid recovery that amazed her oncologist.

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That was the way she described her experience.

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Her oncologist was amazed at how fast she got better, especially given her age, 75 years

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old with her pretty scary cancer.

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And so after all that, even though she had this dramatic recovery, she's feeling great

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now, no signs of cancer, she's in complete remission, the oncologist was still recommending

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that she continue to take the estrogen blockers for the rest of her life.

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And so she called me up and she said, you know, I'm so grateful, I'm feeling great,

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better than I expected.

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But these estrogen blockers are horrible.

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They make me want to kill people.

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When you take estrogen blockers, it's like having all the worst effects of menopause

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all at the same time, and more or less indefinitely.

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So she said, do I really need to take these?

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I said, well, I can't make that decision for you.

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You have to decide that for yourself and in conversation with your oncologist.

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But here's what you can do.

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Ask your oncologist, what is the risk given his experience with your type of cancer?

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What is the likelihood that your cancer is going to come back if you don't continue to

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take estrogen blockers for the rest of your life?

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And she went back and she asked him, she said, oh, he says it's actually going to reduce

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your risk by about four to 8%.

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And she said, so that doesn't sound like a lot.

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He says, yeah, actually, given what you described to me, she made it clear how miserable she

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was on these things to him.

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And he said, you know, now that you mentioned that, you really don't need to take these

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things.

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The risk reduction is probably not worth the stress that it's going to cause you if you

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continue to take these.

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So she was very excited about that.

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And that sounds like a simple thing, but it made a huge difference for her.

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And so that's one of the things that I get really excited about being able to help people

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with because a lot of times you just don't know.

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You don't know what your options are.

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And the medical standards of care mean that you get the same treatment as everyone else.

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They're mostly just concerned with doing whatever they can to save your life and prevent the

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cancer coming back.

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And you really have to educate yourself and know what your options are and know good questions

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to ask to make an informed decision on how you want to proceed.

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And this 75-year-old woman with a pretty nasty cancer was very excited about the fact that

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even her oncologist thought that she recovered better than expected.

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And she was also happy to, after having a discussion with me and her oncologist, realize

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that she didn't actually need to continue taking estrogen blockers for the rest of her

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life.

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And if someone you love has breast cancer and is wondering if there are options to optimize

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their immune system, give them a fighting chance, give them the best possible outcome,

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I'd love an opportunity to have a consultation with them and see what their options are.

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Everyone's different.

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We don't know for sure what any specific woman's options are until we do some testing and I

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ask them a few questions and figure out what will work best for them.

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I also help breast cancer survivors.

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So there are 15, 20 million projected, I think, the last numbers I heard.

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I don't remember exactly, but there's millions of women who have survived breast cancer because

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the treatments are better than they used to be.

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And early detection means that they're going to find it and do something that allow you

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to survive.

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So that's all great.

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One problem is there are a lot of cancer survivors that have risk of cancer recurrence that they're

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not always told about.

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Anytime you have cancer, you're at dramatically increased risk of cancer coming back, even

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when you're in complete remission.

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Any cell in your body that learns how to override the innate mechanisms that your body uses

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to stop a cell from dividing and dividing over and over and over again, that's how cancer

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works.

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It's just a cell that no longer cooperates with its neighbors and just learns how to

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continue reproducing itself indefinitely and establishing its own blood supply so that

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it can spread to other parts of your body.

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Every cell would love to do that, but multicellular organisms like ourselves are able to survive

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and function because we have robust mechanisms to prevent any particular cell from dividing

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uncontrollably.

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And when those mechanisms are overridden, that's when cancer that might have been fought

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off naturally instead grows and spreads to other parts of the body.

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So it's wonderful that more and more women are surviving breast cancer, but it also means

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it's a whole bunch of people out there.

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Usually when you're finished, you're declared in a state of remission by your oncologist.

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They monitor you occasionally, but a lot of these survivors have lingering complications

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like neuropathy, burning, tingling, and numbness in their hands and in their feet and other

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parts of the body, profound fatigue, brain fog, vascular inflammation that can increase

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your risk of heart attack and stroke, anemia and protein deficiencies that they don't even

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know about except that they cause fatigue and make them more likely to get sick.

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And unfortunately, once you're declared in remission, most oncologists do not do anything

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to routinely address these lingering complications that can be often resolved with adequate amounts

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of high dose nutrients based on testing to identify deficiencies that you have and then

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treating them with better food, exercise, and supplements.

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For example, here's another great case study.

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A 76 year old woman came to me who had an ER positive breast cancer survivor, which

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basically means that there are estrogen receptors on her cancer.

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Therefore it would be dangerous to take estrogen because it could cause the cancer to come

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back potentially, but she has a whole bunch of symptoms that could also be attributed

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to a lack of estrogen.

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She has mainly afternoon fatigue, low mental sharpness, allergies, night sweats, muscle

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loss, and low libido.

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She's not feeling great and she's wondering if she has options.

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So instead of doing the typical blood tests for hormones, I did a saliva hormone test,

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which is much more sensitive for identifying both problems with the adrenal glands and

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with the standard sex hormones, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, et cetera.

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So her test results came back and showed a number of really interesting things.

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Number one, her estrogen was within range.

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She has symptoms of low estrogen, but other hormones can cause the same symptoms, deficiencies.

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And her estradiol, E2, the main estrogen that you think of with hormone replacement therapy,

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was actually okay.

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And her progesterone was fine.

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Her testosterone was basically undetectable, really, really low.

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And her DHEA, which is the precursor that your body uses to make estrogen and testosterone,

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was also really, really low.

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So I told her this is really, really great news because she doesn't need any estrogen.

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And if we just supplement DHEA, it will help her body make more testosterone, which is

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likely to improve all of her symptoms.

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And it will not increase her estrogen levels because her estrogen is already fine, number

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one.

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And even if it does increase her estrogen a little bit, the risk of even that causing

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a problem is minuscule because her estrogen, although it's within the normal level, is

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very, very low within that normal range.

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So fast forward, I put her on some supplements to support adrenal function and some DHEA.

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And when we retested her four months later, her DHEA level had gone from 41 to 104.

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The range we're looking for is 100 to 300, so it went from 41 to 104.

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And her testosterone went from undetectable, less than six, up to 34, well into the healthy

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range for testosterone.

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And her estrogen level was one before on the initial test, and it remained exactly the

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same on the follow-up.

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So just like I'd predicted with her, she was very excited that the DHEA didn't raise her

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estrogen levels at all.

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It just increased her testosterone, and she felt amazing.

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All of her major symptoms were either gone or much better.

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Her fatigue was nearly gone.

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Her mental sharpness had improved.

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Her night sweats were nearly gone.

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She was able, she had more energy to exercise more, so she was building some muscle mass

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again.

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And her libido was back to where she thought it should be for her age.

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So don't wait until drugs, surgery, chemo, and radiation are the only options.

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Try all the places where normal function has become diminished with comprehensive testing

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and experienced functional analysis so that you can restore optimum health with better

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food, frequent exercise, and researched back supplements.

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This is the practice of functional medicine.

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley.

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Thank you for listening.

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Again, send me your questions about any health-related topic you have.

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I'd be happy to answer your questions privately or on the show.

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Take a moment this weekend to do something to be healthier than you were last weekend.

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Go for a walk.

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Call a loved one that you haven't spoken to in a while.

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And if you're constantly feeling overwhelmed, learn the power of saying no to people who

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put demands on your time to prevent you from taking better care of yourself.

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Have a fantastic weekend.

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You've been listening to Safe, Effective Natural Solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley.

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If you have a health question you want discussed on the show, email your health questions to

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Take advantage of this opportunity to ask questions for yourself and for your loved

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ones because our health matters.

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