1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:12,440 with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura. 3 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:14,920 Now, here's Dr. Todd. 4 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:15,920 Good afternoon. 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:20,520 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified doctor of non-force chiropractic and practitioner 6 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:21,840 of functional medicine. 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,720 Today we're going to talk about reducing your risk of prostate cancer, a certain type of 8 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:31,360 lung cancer, kidney disease, dementia, a natural treatment for neuropathy, which is a common 9 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:35,160 complication of diabetes and several other things, time permitting. 10 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:37,160 So thanks for tuning in today. 11 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:40,800 But before we get into that, people often ask me or they'll say, hey, I heard part of 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,280 your show or when was your show on again? 13 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,600 Or I'd like to hear some more about that. 14 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:53,580 I had an interview yesterday with Brian Toohey, the station manager of KDAR, and he was talking 15 00:00:53,580 --> 00:00:58,560 about how he gets phone calls as well, people calling in asking when the show is on or can 16 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:02,800 you tell me how to find out more information about that health show that's on Fridays? 17 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:07,800 And so all of the past shows are available on my website. 18 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:13,960 You can listen to them anytime you like by just going to binkleyhealingcenter.com. 19 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:15,280 They're right on the homepage. 20 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:16,280 Just scroll down. 21 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,800 The two or three episodes are right on the homepage. 22 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,480 And then there's a link to click to get to all the rest of them. 23 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:23,040 And I've recorded over the past year. 24 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,120 There's over 50 of them now. 25 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,080 And they're also on Apple podcasts. 26 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:34,280 So the little purple app on your iPhone, if you use that, they're also on Spotify and 27 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:35,520 YouTube. 28 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:42,600 Just search for my name, Dr. Todd Binkley, and the name of the show, Safe, Effective, 29 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:43,600 Natural Solutions. 30 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:49,540 And you can get past episodes of this on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or you can just 31 00:01:49,540 --> 00:01:53,880 go to my website, binkleyhealingcenter.com. 32 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:54,880 And I love questions. 33 00:01:54,880 --> 00:02:01,280 If you have questions about any health concern or health concern of a family member of yours, 34 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,920 I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. 35 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:10,040 And if somebody that you know and love and are concerned about, if you have a question 36 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:12,480 about them, please email me. 37 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:17,640 Email is the best way to contact me because it's easy to send documents and easy to read 38 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:20,160 them on a large screen. 39 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:23,760 Like with any doctor's office, the first step is always sending a questionnaire if somebody, 40 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,960 if you do want to come in and get an evaluation. 41 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:31,840 And the initial consultation for functional medicine to identify what tests might be most 42 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:36,640 appropriate for you or help start the process of figuring out an alternative if you're not 43 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:40,720 happy with the care that you're getting for one of the conditions that we talk about on 44 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:41,720 this show. 45 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,960 Basically, if you can walk and don't need hospitalization, if you don't have a fever, 46 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,320 if you don't obviously have something that requires medical care, then there's a pretty 47 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:50,520 good chance I can help. 48 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:55,480 A way to figure that out for sure is to fill out a seven page questionnaire and do a consultation. 49 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,020 And the initial consultation is $100 per half hour. 50 00:02:59,020 --> 00:03:00,680 So it also makes a great gift. 51 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:02,800 It's a great way to get someone you love to come in. 52 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,560 If they're reluctant, tell them that you've already paid for it. 53 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,720 And it's $100 per half hour. 54 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:11,320 I say that instead of $200 per hour because it usually takes a half hour. 55 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,320 If someone has a lot of questions or a lot of conditions that, you know, it's hard to 56 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,480 talk about, then it might take 45 minutes or an hour. 57 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,760 But 80% of the time, at least, it takes about a half an hour. 58 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:22,640 You can also call the office if you want. 59 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:27,120 The landline at the office is 805-641-9000. 60 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,480 I encourage people to email instead though because it's just easier to reach me that 61 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:31,480 way. 62 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:32,640 And you're going to get voicemail. 63 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:35,960 I'm sorry to say that, but the ringer on my phone is always off. 64 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:40,320 The voicemail on the landline at the office forwards to my cell and the ringer is always 65 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,240 off because I just get too many spam calls. 66 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,000 If I'm in the office, I'm with patients and I have the ringer off. 67 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,360 And other times I have the ringer off all the time unless I'm expecting a call. 68 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:54,920 But I'm happy to talk on the phone to you if you just simply email me and ask me to 69 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:55,920 call you. 70 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,520 So, happy to do that as well. 71 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,800 Another thing that came up when I was chatting with Brian at the radio station the other 72 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:06,940 day, as he said, he really liked how I often talk about stuff that can be sometimes fairly 73 00:04:06,940 --> 00:04:11,720 technical on the show, but break it down in a way that makes it easier to understand. 74 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:13,080 So I hope that's true. 75 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:14,720 That's a pretty high compliment. 76 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,800 I like to think that my listeners, you, are people that listen to the show, are pretty 77 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:19,800 smart. 78 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,880 The ones that have been showing up in the office seem to be fairly well educated about 79 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:28,800 their health and the things that matter most to you. 80 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,680 And I think, you know, most people are ready and willing to do a little research on their 81 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:37,080 own if they're concerned about something and they're not getting the results they like. 82 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,120 It is important to know where to get good information. 83 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:45,360 There's a lot of misinformation on the internet that can confuse people and sometimes even 84 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:52,240 be dangerous, especially on blogs or social media forums or places where there are no 85 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:56,880 doctors weighing in and commenting on health information. 86 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,960 And there are some excellent sources like the Mayo Clinic's website and the Cleveland 87 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:09,260 Clinic's website and PubMed, the National Institutes of Health place where all medical 88 00:05:09,260 --> 00:05:12,520 research in America is funded, even research from around the world even. 89 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:16,240 That's where I get a lot of material for this program. 90 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:20,360 And as always, anything you don't understand or want more information about, send me a 91 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:28,600 question to Dr. Binkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. 92 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:35,440 I routinely help people with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, depression, anxiety, restless 93 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,640 leg syndrome, just a few of the things that come off the top of my head. 94 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:42,640 Fatigue is a really common thing that people come to me for. 95 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,460 These are things that, well, obviously lots of people are on medication for high blood 96 00:05:46,460 --> 00:05:51,360 pressure and high cholesterol, but those medications have side effects. 97 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,520 It's important to take medication if you have high blood pressure and can't control it or 98 00:05:55,520 --> 00:06:00,560 are not controlling it with natural means, but there are other options available for 99 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,200 many people. 100 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:07,280 The medications for cholesterol have a lot of side effects that are best avoided and 101 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:12,040 there are really, really effective options for lowering your cholesterol and more importantly 102 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,440 protecting your heart because that's what really that's out about. 103 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:19,960 There's much better ways to control your cholesterol and protect your heart than taking statin 104 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:24,280 drugs, many natural alternatives for that. 105 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:30,080 I routinely get people to lower their cholesterol 25 or 30 points in a few months with natural 106 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:35,480 options like bergamot, pantothene, niacin are some of the most common things that I 107 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:36,480 use. 108 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:41,800 I've even had people drop their total cholesterol and their LDL bad cholesterol by 50 points 109 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:43,360 or more. 110 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:47,200 So let me know what you're most concerned about, what you're wondering if there's a 111 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,060 safe, effective natural solution for some condition that you're dealing with. 112 00:06:51,060 --> 00:06:55,960 Last week I was talking all about wildfire smoke, how to protect yourself from it and 113 00:06:55,960 --> 00:07:00,840 some of the very important reasons to protect yourself from it and just yesterday another 114 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:06,440 article came out about wildfire smoke exposure and dementia. 115 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,540 So breathing wildfire smoke can increase the risk of dementia. 116 00:07:09,540 --> 00:07:14,760 This is the headline from a study that was just published in JAMA Neurology and you know 117 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:19,000 we're camp, wildfires are just going to be more and more. 118 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,240 They already have become more frequent. 119 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:25,940 Anyone who lives in Southern California knows this or watches the news and it's only looking 120 00:07:25,940 --> 00:07:30,120 like they're going to grow more frequent as time goes on. 121 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:35,200 So we're getting more and more information about the damaging effects of breathing that 122 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:39,280 stuff so it's really important to protect yourself from it by closing the windows, getting 123 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:46,840 a good HEPA filter so you're breathing clean air at night and you can also check the air 124 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:47,840 quality. 125 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:54,560 There's a government website called airnow.gov where you can check the air quality index 126 00:07:54,560 --> 00:08:01,080 wherever you live and the number you're looking for older adults or people with sensitive 127 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:06,360 conditions, lung conditions, diabetes, heart disease, if the air quality index is over 128 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:10,840 101 they recommend that folks stay inside for everyone else. 129 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:18,280 If it's over 151 they recommend that you stay inside or wear a mask if you go outside or 130 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,480 you're better still if it's really bad wear a respirator. 131 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:26,000 I talked about that on last week's show as well so check that out. 132 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,780 So this study that was just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association 133 00:08:29,780 --> 00:08:35,980 Neurology was led by Joan Casey, an environmental epidemiologist and professor at the University 134 00:08:35,980 --> 00:08:42,440 of Washington School of Public Health and she talked about how wildfire smoke is a mixture 135 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:48,180 of gases and particles and the most important ones being the fine particulate matter that 136 00:08:48,180 --> 00:08:54,920 is smaller than 2.5 microns, 2.5 microns or less which is smaller than the diameter of 137 00:08:54,920 --> 00:09:01,040 a human hair and these micro particles can get into the lungs and move directly into 138 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:02,040 your bloodstream. 139 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:10,120 They cause inflammation and oxidative stress and even DNA damage in the body and in this 140 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:16,040 study she presented data that showed a much stronger relationship between long-term exposure 141 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:23,360 to wildfire micro particles than other sources of particles that have been around for four 142 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:29,800 years from industrial sources, from cars and other things that produce particulate matter 143 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,200 traffic if you live near a freeway things like that. 144 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:37,760 The stuff from wildfires is worse, the organic material that's burning in forests, the things 145 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:42,840 that go up in smoke when a house or cars or electronics burn. 146 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:47,180 These things are shown to cause much more inflammation in the body than other ultrafine 147 00:09:47,180 --> 00:09:54,000 particles and they can move directly into your brain and damage brain cells resulting 148 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,040 in dementia. 149 00:09:56,040 --> 00:10:01,280 Well fortunately wildfires aren't happening every day, we had one recently here but she 150 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:07,320 stressed in this study that the way the data is looking a lot of people that were only 151 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:13,120 briefly exposed maybe even just a few days to really high levels which happens all the 152 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,000 time when there's wildfires. 153 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,640 If there's a wildfire and you're out and that stuff you want to even if it's only a few 154 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:24,440 days it can cause enough damage to increase your risk of dementia so it's really important 155 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:31,800 to protect yourself from that and for example she found the way to quantify this one microgram 156 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:40,160 per cubic meter for a three-year average increased 18 percent increase risk of developing dementia 157 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:45,440 so it's kind of hard to imagine exactly what that is but this is basically a common exposure 158 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:51,200 that she was seeing in southern California and it was increasing those people's risk 159 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:57,000 of dementia by 18 percent so that's obviously not good. 160 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Fortunately here in Ventura County we've got some rain so the rain is a great way to clear 161 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:07,520 all that smoke out of the skies and I just went on to airnow.gov to check and the air 162 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:12,800 quality index is 12 which is great it's in the green zone so we're not having to breathe 163 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,840 that smoke now but just remember the next time you are exposed to any kind of smoke 164 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:22,200 it's a really good idea to protect yourself from that and to get a good HEPA filter in 165 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:27,640 your bedroom especially so that you're breathing clean air all night while you're sleeping 166 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:32,920 and even though we've gotten these rains I was just noticing out behind my house in 167 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:37,720 a little storage shed there everything's covered with ash so you want to clean that stuff up 168 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:43,080 get rid of it vacuum it if you have a shop vac ideally because if you sweep it and definitely 169 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:49,400 don't use a blower that's just going to blow it around vacuums clean that stuff up also 170 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:55,760 the return air vents in your heating ventilation and air conditioning systems have a filter 171 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:03,920 you want to get a Merv 13 filter that's the minimum quality number to clean out this fine 172 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,920 particulate matter and everyone should be changing those right now and everyone in Ventura 173 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:14,520 County anybody who's had a anytime you have a wildfire near you where you see smoke in 174 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:21,360 the air you should change that filter it costs maybe 18 20 dollars for a Merv 13 filter depending 175 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:26,960 on the size but it is worth it that's going to keep that stuff from recirculating around 176 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:33,040 your house I'm Dr. Todd Binkley you're listening to safe effective natural solutions to almost 177 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:37,680 any health challenge here's another interesting study that just came out this was published 178 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:43,640 in the Journal of American Medical Association internal medicine about night time leg cramps 179 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:49,180 vitamin K supplementation this is the headline by it which is really unusual to see a vitamin 180 00:12:49,180 --> 00:12:55,000 study like this in JAMA so that's always exciting they're finally getting it the major medical 181 00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:01,120 press does get it right or is learning more about this the super importance of several 182 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:05,960 vitamins and anyway this one's pretty exciting vitamin K supplementation significantly reduces 183 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:13,560 the frequency intensity and duration of night time leg cramps in older adults so this is 184 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:19,140 a double blind a double blind placebo controlled randomized clinical trial say that three times 185 00:13:19,140 --> 00:13:25,520 fast hundred and ninety nine participants age 69 65 years or older and it's important 186 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:32,440 to know with vitamin K a lot of people understand that there is vitamin K in dark green leafy 187 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:38,540 vegetables and that is true things like spinach kale a lot of people don't like kale but anything 188 00:13:38,540 --> 00:13:45,700 dark green broccoli any kind of salad greens have a lot of vitamin K one that's vitamin 189 00:13:45,700 --> 00:13:51,640 K one phylloquinone and that's not what this study is talking about this is talking specifically 190 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:59,160 about vitamin K two so vitamin K two you can really only get from a supplement it is made 191 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:06,220 from a Japanese fermented soy food called natto and most of most people in the West 192 00:14:06,220 --> 00:14:13,680 are not going to eat natto it's a porridge that has the consistency and slight odor of 193 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:20,980 nasal mucus it's gooey and stringy and it's really disgusting I have a cousin who lives 194 00:14:20,980 --> 00:14:27,180 in LA who married a Japanese woman and the Japanese serve it to their children from birth 195 00:14:27,180 --> 00:14:33,000 so they get used to the taste of it it wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be but yeah 196 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:38,280 most people are not gonna eat natto but it's great that they do because it's that's where 197 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:43,320 vitamin K two comes from super important vitamin and it's also where something else called 198 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:51,660 natto natto kinase comes from so natto kinase is an enzyme that's that's useful for preventing 199 00:14:51,660 --> 00:14:58,280 arthritis reversing even arthritis osteoarthritis any kind of arthritis as well as plaque forming 200 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:05,000 in the arteries but this study is about vitamin K two there are several forms of vitamin K 201 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:13,760 two there is a common the two most common ones are called mk7 and mk4 so this study 202 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:19,520 used the mk7 menaquinone form you don't need to remember that if you want more information 203 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:23,800 about just just email me and say which is the right kind of K to get I stock it in the 204 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:30,280 office I get it from a company called Orthomolecular Products there's a product I recommend that 205 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:36,400 everyone take a good multivitamin for the minerals vitamin D and fish oil those are 206 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,840 just three basic things that most people don't get enough of in their diet and the vitamin 207 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:47,460 D if you're over 50 I recommend that you take a combination vitamin D with vitamin K two 208 00:15:47,460 --> 00:15:55,800 in it because those vitamins work together especially for bones so for preventing osteoporosis 209 00:15:55,800 --> 00:16:00,740 you need a good source of calcium preferably from food from supplements if you're not getting 210 00:16:00,740 --> 00:16:07,920 enough from food and vitamin D keeps good calcium in circulation and vitamin K two deposits 211 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:15,360 that calcium in bone so for people with osteoporosis really important often really important to 212 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:22,060 take extra vitamin K two and the dose used in this study is the same amount I recommend 213 00:16:22,060 --> 00:16:27,080 for people with osteoporosis or osteopenia if you've had one of those bone density scans 214 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:34,560 and been told that you have osteoporosis or the earlier form osteopenia can often definitely 215 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:40,880 stop it and often reverse it by getting adequate amount adequate amounts of good quality absorbable 216 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:48,440 calcium vitamin D and vitamin K two and the one I use is this mk7 form in a product called 217 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:56,660 K force has the standard adult dose of vitamin D 5000 units of vitamin D and 180 micrograms 218 00:16:56,660 --> 00:17:03,140 of K two so that's important 180 micrograms of K two that's four times the amount that's 219 00:17:03,140 --> 00:17:08,580 in most multivitamins if they have a good multivitamin if it has any K two in it we'll 220 00:17:08,580 --> 00:17:17,160 usually have something closer to 45 or 50 milligrams 45 is typical and some have 90 221 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:23,640 and some have 180 so those are common doses so for this study about nighttime leg cramps 222 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:31,080 they used 180 micrograms of vitamin K two menaquin on seven and it significantly reduced 223 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:37,800 the frequency how often the intensity and the duration how long they lasted of nighttime 224 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:42,220 leg cramps and older adults so that's pretty exciting that's the first time I've ever seen 225 00:17:42,220 --> 00:17:47,020 a study that showed that there are so many benefits to vitamin K especially the K two 226 00:17:47,020 --> 00:17:52,580 form that it's starting to become the next vitamin D because vitamin D has myriad effects 227 00:17:52,580 --> 00:17:59,220 on almost every part of the body not just bones and other exciting news that just came 228 00:17:59,220 --> 00:18:07,740 out in the medical press is a paper submitted by dr. Krittal Kritty Mittal genitourinary 229 00:18:07,740 --> 00:18:12,620 medical oncologist at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center talking about the 230 00:18:12,620 --> 00:18:21,340 benefit of the gut microbiome and renal and other genitourinary tract cancers so cancers 231 00:18:21,340 --> 00:18:26,500 kidney cancer bladder cancer and this came about because one of the most common treatments 232 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:32,700 for these types of cancers is something called checkpoint inhibitors which help facilitate 233 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:39,380 normal immune system function and a type of immunotherapy the problem with immunotherapy 234 00:18:39,380 --> 00:18:44,700 drugs is they have a lot of really horrible side effects like diarrhea fatigue cough nausea 235 00:18:44,700 --> 00:18:51,460 skin rash poor appetite constipation muscle and joint pain somewhat similar to chemotherapy 236 00:18:51,460 --> 00:18:56,420 so you know if there's a way to help your body fight off cancer better on its own obviously 237 00:18:56,420 --> 00:19:00,940 that would be nice to know more about and that's basically the thrust of this paper 238 00:19:00,940 --> 00:19:08,120 because she's showing data that shows that dysbiosis too many bad bacteria and insufficient 239 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:14,820 good bacteria interferes with the T cell function of the immune system and cytotoxic activity 240 00:19:14,820 --> 00:19:21,580 which is important for fighting cancers and microbiome profiling by rectal swab or gut 241 00:19:21,580 --> 00:19:27,580 composition analysis distinct what has revealed a notable distinction between patients found 242 00:19:27,580 --> 00:19:34,180 to have prostate cancer compared to patients with benign prostate conditions and similarly 243 00:19:34,180 --> 00:19:40,920 urinary microbiome so the microbiome in the bladder reveals a greater abundance of bad 244 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:48,420 bacteria in patients with cancer of the bladder so interventions include probiotic supplementation 245 00:19:48,420 --> 00:19:54,620 dietary modifications for to get more prebiotics so it's important often in a situation like 246 00:19:54,620 --> 00:19:58,300 this if you have any immune system compromise especially if you have any kind of cancer 247 00:19:58,300 --> 00:20:02,980 but obviously much more important to prevent and reduce your risk of getting cancer in 248 00:20:02,980 --> 00:20:07,640 the first place and keep your immune system strong is pay attention to your gut so anytime 249 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:12,500 somebody has any gut conditions when they come to see me I'll often recommend that we 250 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:18,420 do a stool test to check and see do you have sufficient good bacteria in your gut do you 251 00:20:18,420 --> 00:20:25,140 have an overabundance of bad bacteria in the gut if you have any digestive symptoms that 252 00:20:25,140 --> 00:20:30,820 have been going on for years gas bloating constipation diarrhea that nothing is ever 253 00:20:30,820 --> 00:20:37,500 helping then there's a very good chance that you have dysbiosis in the gut and dysbiosis 254 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:42,540 like dysfunction just means that you have too many bad bacteria and or not enough good 255 00:20:42,540 --> 00:20:48,240 bacteria in your gut or both and there is you know so the gut is the is the microbiome 256 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:52,780 that we hear about the most it's the most important one but there is a microbiome and 257 00:20:52,780 --> 00:20:58,140 every cavity of your body there's a normal flora of bacteria in your urinary bladder 258 00:20:58,140 --> 00:21:06,200 in the mouth and basically any opening in the genitalia especially women so these are 259 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:12,000 all things that are have a tremendous amount of research going on about them and this article 260 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:21,220 was pointing up the difference between you can identify weaknesses and more cancer prevalence 261 00:21:21,220 --> 00:21:25,940 in people with insufficient good bacteria so she's recommending more studies on this 262 00:21:25,940 --> 00:21:30,580 so that's exciting hopefully we'll hear more about that as time goes by and they can identify 263 00:21:30,580 --> 00:21:37,340 their have they have identified an abundance of these certain bad bacteria in patients 264 00:21:37,340 --> 00:21:43,980 with certain types of cancer and they're treating them with probiotic supplements dietary modifications 265 00:21:43,980 --> 00:21:50,120 like I was talking about to get more prebiotics prebiotics are types of fiber that your good 266 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:56,140 bacteria feed on and it helps produce a larger prevalence of the good bacteria that you need 267 00:21:56,140 --> 00:22:03,540 to keep your immune system strong and then in critical conditions they often use fecal 268 00:22:03,540 --> 00:22:09,900 microbiota transplants so that's not very exciting to think about it is actually very 269 00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:16,620 effective there's a lot of data on it for certain things still better than doing the 270 00:22:16,620 --> 00:22:22,020 chemotherapy and immunotherapies because of the lack of side effects anyway it's exciting 271 00:22:22,020 --> 00:22:28,460 to know that the medical press is discovering more and more data about how to support and 272 00:22:28,460 --> 00:22:35,580 the importance of supporting a healthy microbiome in your gut to reduce in this case to reduce 273 00:22:35,580 --> 00:22:43,260 your risk of your own bladder urinary bladder cancers prostate cancers and kidney cancer 274 00:22:43,260 --> 00:22:47,300 but the real takeaway from this is just the importance of everyone maintaining a good 275 00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:54,700 healthy microbiome in their gut I had a woman in her 70s earlier this year who I ran a stool 276 00:22:54,700 --> 00:23:00,020 test on because she was having severe diarrhea and just nothing nothing was helping had been 277 00:23:00,020 --> 00:23:04,540 going on for weeks before she even I asked her why didn't you come in earlier she had 278 00:23:04,540 --> 00:23:09,060 been suffering for a long time and nothing was helping she'd been to her regular doctor 279 00:23:09,060 --> 00:23:14,260 and they didn't they did a it actually did a stool test couldn't really get any useful 280 00:23:14,260 --> 00:23:19,620 information from it so anyway I did a good a good stool test costs about four or five 281 00:23:19,620 --> 00:23:24,820 hundred dollars at least four hundred dollars usually and requires collecting a sample over three days 282 00:23:25,460 --> 00:23:31,700 and I was expecting to have her to have a really bad bad overabundance of some bad bacteria in her 283 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:37,300 gut because she had recently traveled to Asia to Thailand I believe it was and she was concerned 284 00:23:37,300 --> 00:23:41,060 that she might have eaten some bad food she got sick you know when she she'd eaten something there 285 00:23:41,620 --> 00:23:46,260 and so you know it wasn't there was a lot of reason to expect that she may have gotten something 286 00:23:46,260 --> 00:23:51,300 that way but it turned out that the real problem with her was just insufficient good bacteria 287 00:23:51,300 --> 00:23:56,020 she was getting sick over and over and over again because she just lacked sufficient good bacteria 288 00:23:56,020 --> 00:24:02,100 and when we gave her some supplements some prebiotics to build up her natural good bacteria 289 00:24:02,100 --> 00:24:06,740 and some probiotics to take care of the the burden until the good guys could get their 290 00:24:06,740 --> 00:24:12,740 reinforcements built up completely eliminated that problem for her and I saw her recently and 291 00:24:12,740 --> 00:24:17,620 she's doing great now looks like we're about out of time have a fantastic rest of your thanksgiving 292 00:24:17,620 --> 00:24:24,420 weekend everybody please tune in next 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