1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,720 Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:12,080 with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura. 3 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:14,560 Now, here's Dr. Todd. 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,540 Good afternoon, I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified doctor of non-force chiropractic 5 00:00:19,540 --> 00:00:23,240 and practitioner of functional medicine. 6 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:28,940 Functional medicine means using standard diagnostic tests to identify earlier signs of stress 7 00:00:28,940 --> 00:00:34,280 on all of your organs and tissues, your heart, your liver, your lungs, your kidneys, your 8 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:40,520 spleen, your pancreas, your digestive tract, your respiratory system, and identifying things 9 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:46,200 that are out of, just not ideal, not necessarily a full-blown disease condition that requires 10 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:52,600 medical intervention, but showing some signs of stress early enough that you can restore 11 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:57,260 or correct them with better food, exercise, and supplements. 12 00:00:57,260 --> 00:01:01,960 It's always best to get as many nutrients as you can from food, but there are some really 13 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:06,200 common nutrients that most people don't get enough of from food. 14 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:11,480 Minerals, and that's why I recommend that everyone take a good multivitamin, multimineral 15 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,480 supplement and how do you identify a good one? 16 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:15,860 It's more than one a day. 17 00:01:15,860 --> 00:01:19,860 There's no such thing as a good one a day multivitamin because the forms of the minerals 18 00:01:19,860 --> 00:01:24,560 in those are not readily bioavailable to your body. 19 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:30,200 The forms that are absorbable, that are plant-like, the ones that are in plants, like the minerals 20 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:35,760 that are in broccoli and spinach and other dark green vegetables, putting those into 21 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:40,640 a good multi-forms that are close to those plant-like forms into capsules and tablets, 22 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:44,960 they're bulky, they take up space, so they won't fit into, the absorbable forms will 23 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:46,960 not fit into one tablet or capsule. 24 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:51,480 So good multivitamins are always three or four capsules a day. 25 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:56,660 And my favorite one that I've been using on almost all of my patients for 25, 30 years 26 00:01:56,660 --> 00:02:00,560 now is Alpha Base by Orthomolecular Products. 27 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:04,560 So everyone needs a good multi for just basic nutrition. 28 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,120 Vitamin D and fish oil. 29 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,600 So there's a little bit of vitamin D in every multi, usually about 400 units, sometimes 30 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:12,600 600. 31 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:18,860 The standard adult dose for vitamin D is 5,000 international units a day. 32 00:02:18,860 --> 00:02:23,000 If you weigh less than 120 pounds, maybe a little bit less than that. 33 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,320 But most people, when you test their blood to optimize the functional levels of vitamin 34 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:34,560 D in your blood, and those levels are between 50 and 90, you want your blood level, if you 35 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:38,600 get your vitamin D blood tested, you want your vitamin D in the blood to be between 36 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,760 50 and 90. 37 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:46,020 This is the level required to make your immune system function at its peak. 38 00:02:46,020 --> 00:02:52,560 So a good multi for the minerals, 5,000 units of vitamin D, and fish oil for the omega-3 39 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,920 fatty acids that you can only get from the ocean. 40 00:02:55,920 --> 00:03:00,800 And these two omega-3s are EPA and DHA. 41 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:06,840 So any vegetable source of omega-3s that you hear about, like chia seeds and walnuts, these 42 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:15,080 are those, the omega-3s in those vegetable-based sources, that omega-3 fatty acid is ALA. 43 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:22,280 And your body can convert about 5% of that into the EPA and DHA, but only about 5%. 44 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:27,240 So all the benefits that you hear about from omega-3 fatty acids, especially for reducing 45 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:33,180 inflammation, joint, arthritis, brain health, cardiovascular health, all of the studies 46 00:03:33,180 --> 00:03:37,200 on those are on EPA and DHA. 47 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:41,360 And there is no EPA and DHA in walnuts and chia seeds. 48 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,200 You need to get that from fish oil. 49 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:47,320 For algae, vegans can get algae supplements. 50 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:52,560 The downside of those is they cost about two and a half times a good quality fish oil to 51 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:53,700 get the same dose. 52 00:03:53,700 --> 00:03:57,280 So those are three basic nutrients I recommend for everyone. 53 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:02,960 Another product that I use in a lot of patients, because it's something that's just not in 54 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,480 anyone's diet, is called modified citris pectin. 55 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:11,080 So we're going to talk about the benefits of modified citris pectin today on brain health. 56 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,720 It helps a whole bunch of other parts of your body. 57 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:21,040 The developer of my favorite brand of it, Pectisol, is a functional medicine oncologist. 58 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:25,120 So it also works really well for helping the body fight off many, many cancers. 59 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:29,820 So I want to come back to that because if you've listened to this show for a while, 60 00:04:29,820 --> 00:04:34,600 if you go through my past episodes, which you can find, all of the past episodes of 61 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:41,800 this show are on my website, binkleyhealingcenter.com, so you can go there anytime and play all the 62 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,080 past episodes whenever you like. 63 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,280 Binkleyhealingcenter.com. 64 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:47,960 There's a link right on the homepage. 65 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,920 The first few episodes are right on the homepage, and then there's a link to all the rest of 66 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:51,960 them. 67 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:56,580 You can also find all the past episodes of the show on Apple podcasts, if you use that 68 00:04:56,580 --> 00:05:02,600 little purple podcast app that comes on an iPhone or an iPad, as well as Spotify and 69 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:03,600 YouTube. 70 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,560 So if you're in any of those places, just punch in my name, Todd Binkley, and the name 71 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:14,200 of the show, Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions, and you can listen to all the past episodes 72 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:15,200 there. 73 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:20,560 And if you do and you like it, please scroll to the bottom and like the podcast on Apple 74 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,600 podcasts or Spotify or YouTube. 75 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,380 So anyway, I hope you enjoy listening to some of those other episodes. 76 00:05:26,380 --> 00:05:28,400 People tell me all the time that they do. 77 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,640 A lot of people that come in for the first time after hearing the show, they usually 78 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:36,040 say, I heard a little bit of the show, and then I checked out the past episodes, and 79 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:41,480 that really armed me with information that convinced me that you could probably help, 80 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:43,160 and nothing I can help with. 81 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,520 All kinds of things that you just might not know about, unless you hear about that. 82 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:52,720 So one of the things that I often talk about is the direct connection between heart disease 83 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:54,720 and dementia. 84 00:05:54,720 --> 00:06:00,320 Cognitive decline, mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's, any form of dementia. 85 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:04,920 These are, I did I think three or four episodes in a row a few weeks ago about how these are 86 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,720 inextricably linked. 87 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:08,560 You can't have one without the other. 88 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:14,320 So functional medicine practitioners have known about this for many, many years, and 89 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,660 there's always new data coming out about that. 90 00:06:16,660 --> 00:06:24,000 But the exciting thing more recently is the American Heart Association has finally recognized 91 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:30,100 that they just released a paper, a new scientific statement on the link between three forms 92 00:06:30,100 --> 00:06:31,960 of heart disease and dementia. 93 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:36,520 So the three forms of heart disease are heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and coronary 94 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:38,480 heart disease, or coronary artery disease. 95 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:43,320 So the most common cause of a heart attack is coronary artery disease, when an artery 96 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,000 suddenly becomes blocked and you have a heart attack. 97 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,920 Everybody's familiar with that. 98 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,260 Atrial fibrillation, a lot of people have also heard of, that's when the upper chambers 99 00:06:51,260 --> 00:06:56,920 of the heart flutter, and then therefore blood can pool in those chambers that aren't in 100 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:00,840 sync with the lower ones and increase your risk of a stroke. 101 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:07,000 So a lot of people who have that fluttering of the heart have to take medication to stop 102 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,040 the production of clotting, anti-clotting medication to prevent stroke. 103 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:15,520 And then heart failure doesn't mean that your heart is stopped, it just means it's failing 104 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:17,780 to keep up with demand. 105 00:07:17,780 --> 00:07:23,280 So congestive heart failure is a common, quote unquote, natural cause of death. 106 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:28,760 A lot of people who just get older and weaker, and if you've ever known anybody who in their 107 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:33,400 later years, fluid starts to back, they start to get shortness of breath and fluid backs 108 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:39,240 up in their lungs or in their ankles or both, that's congestive heart failure, a very common 109 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,680 thing that happens as the heart just gets old and weak and can no longer keep up with 110 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:48,340 the demand that your body requires to pump oxygen to every cell in your body. 111 00:07:48,340 --> 00:07:53,960 So all three of these types of very common types of heart disease are directly linked 112 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,360 to your risk of cognitive decline. 113 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:02,560 So the statement says, oh, it includes an extensive research review and offers compelling 114 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:07,000 evidence of the inextricable link between heart, brain, heart health and brain health, 115 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:11,160 which investigators said underscores the benefit of early intervention. 116 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:12,300 Yay. 117 00:08:12,300 --> 00:08:17,560 So glad to hear the American Heart Association say that early intervention is important. 118 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:22,960 Of course, they've always encouraged people to exercise and eat better, but they don't 119 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:29,000 usually give you very much information on how to do that, how to eat better, certainly. 120 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:35,040 And there have been studies showing these links in very specific ways for years. 121 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:40,400 So it's exciting to see that high profile organization release this statement. 122 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,680 It goes on to say, investigators say the findings reinforce the message that addressing cardiovascular 123 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:50,640 health early in life may deter the onset or progression of cognitive impairment. 124 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:57,960 So the earlier this is done, the better, says Fernando Testa, MD, PhD, professor of neurology 125 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:03,760 and vascular neurology, head of the department of neurology and rehabilitation at the University 126 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,040 of Illinois. 127 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:10,360 So everything you've ever heard about keeping your heart healthy and strong, eating a healthy 128 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:14,840 diet, keeping your cholesterol under control is helpful. 129 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,000 It's not the most important thing. 130 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:17,120 It's the thing you hear about the most. 131 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:18,800 It's actually not the most important thing. 132 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:23,480 Controlling inflammation, eating an anti-inflammatory diet, which means not a lot of junk food, 133 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:27,680 not a lot of sugar, not a lot of grains and starch that turn into sugar and then turn 134 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:32,000 into fat and drive inflammation throughout your body. 135 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,240 These are some of the eating more fruits and vegetables for fiber to maintain a healthy 136 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:36,960 gut microbiome. 137 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:42,000 Basically, almost anything that you can think of to do to improve your health that you hear 138 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,640 about that improves your health generally is going to improve the health of your heart 139 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:52,520 and therefore help prevent and reduce the onset of dementia. 140 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:56,940 One of my favorite supplements that you probably haven't heard much about is called modified 141 00:09:56,940 --> 00:09:59,280 citrus pectin. 142 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:06,920 There's some new data out that shows the tremendous benefits modified citrus pectin has on preventing 143 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,960 and restoring and repairing damage to nerves. 144 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:17,240 A modified citrus pectin helps protect against post-stroke brain injury. 145 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:21,620 If you have a stroke and then start taking a modified citrus pectin, it can reduce the 146 00:10:21,620 --> 00:10:26,800 damage that's caused by the stroke because it helps your brain heal faster. 147 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:33,240 It also helps defend against cognitive decline and it helps protect against neurological 148 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:34,240 pain. 149 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:35,240 There's a whole bunch of studies. 150 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:39,080 I'm going to just go through some of these here because it's really exciting to see this. 151 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:46,440 I've always used modified citrus pectin for cancer patients as well because there has 152 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:51,400 been for a long time a lot of research showing that it helps protect against the damaging 153 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,000 inflammatory effects of cancers. 154 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,040 It does this with a specific measure. 155 00:10:56,040 --> 00:11:02,480 A lot of this data that's come out, these exciting studies, are all talking about one 156 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,360 thing that it has in common and that is this. 157 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:18,960 There's a pro-inflammatory protein called galectin 3, or GAL3 for short, G-A-L-E-C-T-I-N-3. 158 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:25,120 Galectin 3 is a master pro-inflammatory protein, so it drives inflammation in a bad way. 159 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:30,520 You need some inflammation to heal and repair when you've had a trauma, but this product, 160 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:38,320 modified citrus pectin, works by blocking or reducing overproduction of this pro-inflammatory 161 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:39,320 protein. 162 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:45,480 Basically, it works as an anti-inflammatory and it does so by blocking this pro-inflammatory 163 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,080 protein. 164 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:53,320 A growing body of data points to microglial neuroinflammation. 165 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:54,320 What does that mean? 166 00:11:54,320 --> 00:12:01,160 The brain is made up mostly of fat and water, and some nerve cells, and then some wires 167 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:05,840 that come from called axons that project from each nerve cell and they connect to other 168 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,400 nerves. 169 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:16,800 In between all of those cells is a sort of insulation type material, fatty padding insulation. 170 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,720 It also helps with conduction from one nerve to the next. 171 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:26,320 Those microglia is that part of the brain, these cells that kind of act like insulation 172 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:27,320 in the brain. 173 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:33,720 That can become inflamed and can be a contributing factor to ischemic stroke, and it is driven 174 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,280 that risk for having a stroke. 175 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:41,320 This inflammation of that part of the brain that increases your risk of a stroke is increased 176 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:45,840 itself by high levels of Galectin 3. 177 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,320 Taking modified citrus pectin can reduce that. 178 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,280 It does the opposite. 179 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:56,280 Preclinical study highlights the mechanisms of Gal 3, an ischemic stroke study published 180 00:12:56,280 --> 00:13:03,480 in 2022 of the Journal of Inflammation Research shows how modified citrus pectin reduces neurological 181 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:12,640 deficit, brain water content, and volume of an infarct if you have a blockage from a stroke, 182 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:18,720 as well as relieving cell injury in the cerebral cortex, the higher part, upper part of the 183 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:20,560 higher functioning parts of the brain. 184 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:27,520 It also is shown to increase cell viability, the health of the existing cells, and reduce 185 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,480 something called apoptosis. 186 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,680 That's a little technical, but apoptosis means programmed cell death. 187 00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:38,240 So that's one of the reasons it helps with cancer, because all cells have something called 188 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,040 apoptosis, which is programmed cell death. 189 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:45,760 All of your cells are only supposed to divide a certain number of times so that they don't 190 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:51,080 continue to divide forever and ever and ever, which is what cancer cells do. 191 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:55,760 So those are several mechanisms that are being studied and coming back with some really impressive 192 00:13:55,760 --> 00:14:04,760 data showing how modified citrus pectin helps reduce the production of this pro-inflammatory 193 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:06,840 protein called Galactin 3. 194 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:14,000 Well, the same study also shows that modified citrus pectin decreases the expression of 195 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:20,280 a couple of other really common pro-inflammatory factors, one of which is called NF-kappa B. 196 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,520 Again, this is all too technical stuff, but there are several different kinds of these. 197 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:29,680 This is just Galactin 3 is just one type of pro-inflammatory protein. 198 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:31,960 There are many, many others. 199 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:36,280 And this study showed that modified citrus pectin helps block overproduction of those 200 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:37,360 as well. 201 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:44,840 So citrus pectin is just the pulp from the rind of citrus fruits, oranges, lemons, limes, 202 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:45,840 grapefruit. 203 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:53,320 That pulp is modified in a way that pectin is modified in such a way that it's made into 204 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:58,880 nano-sized particles, very, very, very fine particles that can more easily pass through 205 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:05,440 cell membranes and basically get anywhere in the body that it needs to get to. 206 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,680 And it does that. 207 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:12,400 That's one of the ways that it facilitates its ability to deal with inflammation, which 208 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:18,480 can just happen in any part of the body, very often happens in any part of the body. 209 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:22,360 And it also, it's on another subject, which I've talked about before. 210 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:23,640 I'll come back to it another time. 211 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:30,180 But just while we're on the topic of modified citrus pectin, it also acts like a sponge 212 00:15:30,180 --> 00:15:34,680 to scavenge for toxins, heavy metal and chemical toxins. 213 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:40,080 So anytime I test somebody for exposure to pesticides, fertilizers, chemicals, heavy 214 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:46,460 metals, lead, arsenic, cadmium, uranium, mercury, these things, modified citrus pectin helps 215 00:15:46,460 --> 00:15:51,080 your body flush those things out as well. 216 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:52,320 I'm Dr. Todd Benkley. 217 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:58,040 You're listening to Safe, Effective Natural Solutions to Almost Any Health Challenge. 218 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:02,960 We're talking today about how you can protect your brain against cognitive decline and heal 219 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,840 damage to nerves with a product called Modified Citrus Pectin. 220 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,440 The brand is Pectisol. 221 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:15,720 The inventors of this product, the best form of it, Pectisol, that company, that is a brand 222 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,600 name of a product made by a company called EcoNugenics. 223 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,600 So I always stock Pectisol in my office. 224 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:27,520 The professional grade Pectisol is made by a company called Clinical Synergy. 225 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:32,760 There's a whole line of clinical synergy products that are developed by a functional medicine 226 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:41,280 oncologist who seems to spend his whole life collating research on nutraceuticals, nutrients 227 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:45,280 that you can take to help your body, give your body a fighting chance to fight off certain 228 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,640 types of cancers. 229 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:49,880 And that's one of the primary products. 230 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:57,440 So anyway, there is a direct to the consumer company that also sells Pectisol called EcoNugenics. 231 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,400 It's the same, just two different divisions of the same company basically. 232 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:04,200 But if you want to find Pectisol, if you like what you're hearing, what we're talking about 233 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:09,560 today, I stock it in the office, but you can also get it online directly from the company. 234 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:16,940 And again, the product is called Pectisol, P-E-C-T-A-S-O-L. 235 00:17:16,940 --> 00:17:27,960 And the company that sells it is EcoNugenics, E-E-C, let me start that over, E-C-O-N-U-G-E-N-I-C-S. 236 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,560 So EcoNugenics.com is where you can find Pectisol. 237 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,760 And it comes in powder, chewables, capsules. 238 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:37,320 I recommend getting the powder because it doesn't really have any taste. 239 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:42,480 It's just easier to get a good quantity of it by putting a scoop in water, stirring it 240 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:44,760 up and drinking it like that. 241 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:48,680 And it's the least expensive to get a decent quantity of it as well, to get the powder 242 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:49,680 form. 243 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:53,520 So, modified Citrus Pectin does all kinds of wonderful things in the body. 244 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:59,800 We just were talking about how it can help your brain repair damage from a stroke. 245 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,240 It also protects against cognitive decline. 246 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:10,640 So a study published in the Journal of Diabetes Investigation pointed to this Galactin 3 protein 247 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:17,420 I've been talking about as a very powerful, damaging pro-inflammatory protein. 248 00:18:17,420 --> 00:18:24,080 This study showed that the overproduction of this pro-inflammatory protein is a driving 249 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:31,840 factor and key therapeutic target for diabetes-related cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. 250 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:37,640 So if you haven't heard this already, Alzheimer's disease is being called by some researchers 251 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:44,160 type 3 diabetes because hyperglycemia, having too much sugar in your blood all the time, 252 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:49,560 which is the problem with diabetes, excess blood sugar, damages nerves and damages blood 253 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:50,560 vessels. 254 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,280 So when you have diabetes, the longer you have it, the more at risk you are of having 255 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:59,720 damage and the most common parts of your body that are damaged are the kidneys, your toes 256 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:04,480 and feet, the eyes, and the heart and the brain. 257 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,320 So having high blood sugar damages nerves. 258 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:10,440 It also causes erectile dysfunction. 259 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:14,440 Sometimes that's a good motivator for some people to take better, identify that issue 260 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:15,440 and take better. 261 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,400 They're even, I'm glad I thought of that actually. 262 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:26,160 Erectile dysfunction is also being recommended by the cardiology organizations, cardiologists, 263 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:31,820 professional boards as a early finding, something that all doctors should be asking their male 264 00:19:31,820 --> 00:19:36,560 patients about because it's an early sign of heart disease. 265 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:42,040 So it's also potentially an early sign of cognitive, something that can contribute to 266 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:43,240 cognitive decline. 267 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:49,300 So modified citrospectum helps prevent that by down regulating, by preventing the overproduction 268 00:19:49,300 --> 00:19:54,940 of this pro-inflammatory protein called Gal 3. 269 00:19:54,940 --> 00:19:58,600 You can just think, just to keep it simple, just think of it as a really good anti-inflammatory. 270 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:04,120 So modified citrospectum was shown in this study, published in the Journal of Diabetes 271 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:09,840 Investigation and showed that it reduced metabolic dysfunction and cognitive decline. 272 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:16,120 And another study published in the Journal of Inflammation Research also shows that this 273 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:20,920 same modified citrospectum by blocking this pro-inflammatory protein in the brain protects 274 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:28,520 against neuroinflammation and cognitive decline, reducing cognitive impairment, insulin resistance, 275 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,680 oxidative stress and neuroinflammation. 276 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,240 That was an animal study in rats. 277 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:39,160 They're also doing studies in humans that show very similar effects, as well as some 278 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:44,080 of those effects on the brain that I mentioned in that previous study, reduce oxidative stress 279 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:45,080 in the brain. 280 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,880 So there are both human and animal studies showing similar things. 281 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:54,600 A 2016 study published in the Public Library of Science, one journal, demonstrated that 282 00:20:54,600 --> 00:21:00,160 this same blocking of that pro-inflammatory protein with modified citrospectum, this was 283 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:08,200 a study in the lab on a model of damaged nerves to study the way nerves heal and showed that 284 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:13,640 it can help repair nerves and reduce nerve pain. 285 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:15,600 And this is any cause of nerve pain. 286 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:22,040 So nerve damage from trauma, from diabetes, any type of nerve injury, the mechanisms that 287 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:26,600 your body uses to heal and repair damage to any nerve. 288 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:31,880 One of the major pathways, several of the major pathways involved in that healing process 289 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:37,280 that are made worse if you have high amounts of inflammation are reversed or reduced. 290 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:43,260 That inflammation is reduced, therefore enhancing the healing, speeding up the healing by taking 291 00:21:43,260 --> 00:21:45,760 modified citrospectum. 292 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:50,600 So many functional medicine practitioners have long used modified citrospectum to help cancer 293 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:55,640 patients as well because it helps your body flush out pesticides that have become stored 294 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:59,160 in fat cells throughout your body after chronic exposures. 295 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:05,000 And this is a very exciting study that just was published this month, November 2024, in 296 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:12,040 the journal Cancer, very prestigious Cancer journal by Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE, Associate 297 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,200 Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine. 298 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:20,760 The headline is, Pesticides and Prostate Cancer Incidents and Mortality, an Environment-Wide 299 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,440 Association Study. 300 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:30,120 So 22 pesticides showed consistent, direct associations with prostate cancer incidence 301 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:32,620 in these groups of people they studied. 302 00:22:32,620 --> 00:22:36,360 Of these four were also associated with prostate cancer mortality. 303 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:40,760 In other words, they're likely to, they're strongly associated with getting cancer in 304 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:45,780 the first place and 22 different pesticides are very strongly associated with your risk 305 00:22:45,780 --> 00:22:48,380 of getting prostate cancer. 306 00:22:48,380 --> 00:22:54,320 And four of those are very strongly associated with your risk of dying from prostate cancer. 307 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:59,200 So this is really exciting because there have been studies like this in other journals for 308 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:00,200 years. 309 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:05,480 It's the first time I've seen one directly linking this connection between common pesticides, 310 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:12,200 very common pesticides and prostate cancer in the very prestigious journal Cancer. 311 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:16,600 So the conclusions, the results of this study suggest a link between pesticides and increased 312 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:22,160 prostate cancer incidence and mortality and therefore warrant further investigation of 313 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:28,600 these specific pesticides to confirm their role in prostate cancer risk and develop potential 314 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,600 public health interventions. 315 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,440 Well here's a public health intervention. 316 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,640 You're listening and you're buying on this show. 317 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:40,680 Tell everyone you know, pesticides cause, or dramatically increase your risk of prostate 318 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:41,680 cancer. 319 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,420 So if you want to know if you've been exposed to too many pesticides or have an increased 320 00:23:45,420 --> 00:23:48,080 risk from that, you can get that tested. 321 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:49,160 I can help you with that. 322 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:55,000 I can run a urine test to identify the most common pesticides and other chemicals that 323 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,040 people are exposed to. 324 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:58,680 We're about out of time again. 325 00:23:58,680 --> 00:23:59,680 Thank you for listening. 326 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:04,120 I hope you're enjoying your holiday, all of the holiday events that you're going to do 327 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:09,620 something healthy to be healthier this week than you were last week by for example, eating 328 00:24:09,620 --> 00:24:14,920 some healthy food before you go to all these holiday parties so that you'll be full when 329 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:19,240 you get there and when you're being tempted with sugary sweets and cakes and all that 330 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:25,980 stuff you'll have a legitimate reason to decline those things and not regret it later. 331 00:24:25,980 --> 00:24:27,480 Have a fabulous weekend. 332 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:33,000 You've been listening to Safe, Effective Natural Solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. 333 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,520 If you have a health question you want discussed on the show, email your health questions to 334 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,080 drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. 335 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:46,760 Take advantage of this opportunity to 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