1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,480 Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions 2 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:12,040 with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura. 3 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:14,920 Now here's Dr. Todd. 4 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,840 Good afternoon, I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified doctor of non-force chiropractic 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,280 and practitioner of functional medicine. 6 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:26,240 Functional medicine means using standard diagnostic tests to identify conditions other doctors 7 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:29,980 miss mainly because they don't do these tests. 8 00:00:29,980 --> 00:00:35,640 Identifying toxins that you may have been exposed to, chemicals, pesticides, fertilizers 9 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,800 that are in the air we breathe if you live especially near conventional farming like 10 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:44,080 we all do in Ventura County. 11 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:48,400 Chemicals that are in the water and in the food that we eat that we're exposed to in 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,080 different types of workplaces. 13 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:55,960 These are all things that can be tested mainly with a urine test but also heavy metals, heavy 14 00:00:55,960 --> 00:01:00,640 metals can also be tested in a urine test or even more simply in a hair test. 15 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:05,980 If you have ever heard about people getting drug testing with a hair test that's a fairly 16 00:01:05,980 --> 00:01:11,560 common thing and heavy metals are also detectable in a hair sample. 17 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:16,360 The focus of today's show is going to be ways to prevent your risk, reduce your risk of 18 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,320 lung cancer and heart disease. 19 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:23,880 And so there's an excellent study that came out in the Nature Reviews of Clinical Oncology 20 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:30,320 in January 2024 talking about lung cancer in never smokers. 21 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:36,600 So lung cancer is the most common cause of death from cancer, the most deadly type of 22 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,480 cancer and it's mostly caused by cigarette smoking. 23 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:45,680 So if you're not a smoker there are still lots of people that get lung cancer that never 24 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:46,680 smoke. 25 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:52,360 It's estimated to be the fifth most common cause of cancer related deaths worldwide. 26 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:57,760 It is more common in individuals, especially women of Asian ancestry, but it's certainly 27 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,360 not limited to them. 28 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:06,280 And this paper, the Plenary Session at the 2024 World Congress on Lung Cancer, many, 29 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:13,680 many experts addressed the known and suspected causes of lung cancer that people that have 30 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:14,680 never smoked. 31 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,640 So what else causes lung cancer besides cigarette smoking? 32 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:23,640 Well, climate change, mainly dust in areas with prolonged severe drought, stirring up 33 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:24,640 things. 34 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:27,960 We talked a little bit about that in the previous couple of shows. 35 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:28,960 And wildfires. 36 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:34,120 So wildfires is something we all know about here in California and they're probably going 37 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:40,120 to continue to become more and more frequent and that stirs up all kinds of nasty stuff 38 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:44,480 in the air and not just on the days of the fire itself when you can see the smoke, but 39 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:49,760 then that stuff blankets the surface of the earth, your roof, all around your house. 40 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:55,240 It's really important to clean up around your house, vacuum, change your filters after we've 41 00:02:55,240 --> 00:03:00,240 been exposed to wildfires, change the filter in your heating and ventilation system, change 42 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:05,280 the filters in your HEPA filters, get a HEPA filter, especially in your bedroom so you're 43 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,160 breathing clean air at night. 44 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:14,400 So wildfires and dust are one of the most common causes apart from smoking of lung cancer. 45 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,640 Also, vaping. 46 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:22,120 So vaping was hoped by some people would be a good alternative to cigarette smoke, but 47 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:23,160 not so much. 48 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,460 The chemicals for one of the main things is it's unregulated. 49 00:03:26,460 --> 00:03:29,000 You don't really even know what's in a lot of that stuff. 50 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:37,560 And when they are tested, many, many of the most common brands of vaping stuff that they 51 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,960 put in those vaping things is full of toxic chemicals. 52 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,240 So you really don't want to be doing that either. 53 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,800 And cannabis, marijuana, you know, has some health benefits. 54 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,040 It's relaxing, stimulates appetite in cancer patients. 55 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,160 It has some benefits, certainly. 56 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,360 But if you're going to do cannabis, you might want to consider doing an edible instead of 57 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,080 smoking because smoke is smoke. 58 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:06,360 Any kind of smoke produces fine particulate matter that gets down directly into the deepest 59 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:11,740 recesses of your lungs and enters your bloodstream and wreaks havoc. 60 00:04:11,740 --> 00:04:17,840 So any kind of smoke, including pot smoke, damages your lungs, increases your risk of 61 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:19,260 lung cancer. 62 00:04:19,260 --> 00:04:25,480 And then lastly, airborne carcinogen exposures arising from military conflict was mentioned 63 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:31,840 at this World Congress on Lung Cancer, identifying other causes apart from smoking cigarettes. 64 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:36,480 Carcinogen exposures from military conflict, explosions, building fires, pit fires, oil-filled 65 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:39,280 fires where they're burning debris. 66 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:43,200 Most of the listeners to this show can thank God we don't live in a war zone. 67 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:47,440 And my heart certainly goes out to all the folks that are suffering in those horrible 68 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:53,200 conflicts that are still raging in the Middle East, Ukraine, Africa, et cetera. 69 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:57,840 So Letitia Noguiera, PhD, Scientific Director of Health Services Research at the American 70 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:03,260 Cancer Society at this conference on lung cancer, issued a call to public officials 71 00:05:03,260 --> 00:05:07,520 to do what they continue to do what they can, do the things necessary to reduce climate 72 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:12,360 change so that we can have, not continue to have these severe droughts and floods and 73 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:17,440 wildfires and for everyone else to educate their patients and themselves on how to avoid 74 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:22,000 exposure to these other known causes of lung cancer. 75 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,880 So if you're going to use cannabis, consider doing an edible instead of smoking. 76 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:33,560 Don't vape and do the things that I've been talking about to reduce your exposure to the 77 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:39,680 damaging effects of all that stuff that's stirred up when we have wildfires. 78 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:44,320 Another study that was presented, reviewed there and published in the Lancet, Planetary 79 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,880 Health Long-Term Exposure to Wildfires was associated with an increased risk of lung 80 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,080 cancer and brain tumors. 81 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:56,180 So individuals exposed to a wildfire within 50 kilometers of their residence in the prior 82 00:05:56,180 --> 00:06:04,240 decade has a 5% increased risk of lung cancer and a 10% increased risk of brain tumors. 83 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,120 So I'm going to say that again. 84 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,120 50 kilometers is 31 miles. 85 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:13,280 So people that have been exposed to a wildfire within 31 miles of their residence in the 86 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:19,560 previous decade have a 5% higher incidence of lung cancer and a 10% higher incidence 87 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,840 of brain tumors. 88 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:26,400 So check out the episode 60 of my podcast on my website. 89 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,600 Anytime you can go back and listen to that. 90 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:34,120 The whole episode was about wildfires and how to reduce your risk of the damaging effects 91 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:39,880 of the debris that ends up all over the place and far, far away from the source of the fire 92 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:40,880 itself. 93 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,080 Lots of ways to reduce your exposure to that. 94 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:44,920 So enough about wildfires. 95 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:47,000 For now, we're going to turn to heart disease. 96 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:53,040 Now one important way you can reduce your risk of heart disease, and that is a very 97 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:56,960 simple thing, don't drink energy drinks. 98 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,000 I actually get people ask me about this a lot. 99 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,120 Well, how bad is it? 100 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,080 Everyone knows they're not great for you. 101 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:08,680 How bad is it to drink Monster and Rockstar and all these other energy quote unquote energy 102 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:13,680 drinks that mainly young people eat, drink, but others as well? 103 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:15,620 And the answer is they're all bad. 104 00:07:15,620 --> 00:07:16,620 They're full of sugar. 105 00:07:16,620 --> 00:07:18,440 They're often full of other stimulants. 106 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:20,600 There's nothing wrong with caffeine. 107 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:26,000 Lots of studies show that one or two cups of coffee or one or two cups of tea a day 108 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,040 for most people is good for you. 109 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:33,760 And there are beneficial things in tea and in coffee that have health benefits. 110 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,880 So it's not it's not tea or coffee, but it's these energy drinks that are full of other 111 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:46,160 stimulants like Ma Wang and then all the sugar and some other herbs in different types of 112 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:47,560 these energy drinks. 113 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,880 The study that came out here in July 2024 in the journal Heart Rhythms analyzed data 114 00:07:52,880 --> 00:08:01,440 from 5000 patients treated for arrhythmias at the Mayo Clinic between 2000 and 2023 and 115 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:06,680 presented some surprising cases of cardiac arrest, mainly in young people who had been 116 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:08,460 drinking energy drinks. 117 00:08:08,460 --> 00:08:12,800 So these things can typically typically contain up to 300 milligrams of caffeine per serving 118 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,680 three times the amount in a typical cup of coffee, which has about 100 milligrams. 119 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:22,960 And they also include ingredients like taurine and guarana. 120 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:29,160 Guarana is another one of those herbs that I was looking for. 121 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:33,200 Taurine in and of itself isn't necessarily bad, but too much of it can be just like too 122 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:34,920 much caffeine can be. 123 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:39,840 And guarana is not really good for anybody to take it anytime in my opinion. 124 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:44,880 So the interaction between these ingredients and just the high amounts of them are of particular 125 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:50,000 concern, and especially people who if they've been told already they have abnormal heart 126 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,960 rhythms, but they can surprise you even if you don't have a family history of arrhythmias. 127 00:08:53,960 --> 00:09:00,160 So for example, a 32 year old woman experienced cardiac arrest 11 weeks after delivering her 128 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,440 baby after consuming an energy drink before a workout. 129 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:08,600 The cardiac arrest occurred when she was resting. 130 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:13,680 Before workout she was resting, no specific cause was identified, but postpartum weakness, 131 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:19,680 sleep deprivation and malnutrition were determined to have been possible contributing factors. 132 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:27,800 But one energy drink before workout at rest and a woman who had recently given birth caused 133 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,000 her to have a heart attack. 134 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,640 Another one, here's another case of 37 year old woman had entered cardiac arrest, had 135 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:37,640 a heart attack after consuming an energy drink in the evening. 136 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:44,800 Her partner noticed her gasping for breath and successfully revived her with a defibrillator. 137 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:50,320 The cause of the cardiac arrest remained undetermined, but it happened right after she drank an energy 138 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,000 drink in the evening. 139 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,840 Here's another one, a 20 year old man who was regularly consuming energy drinks before 140 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:03,120 exercising on one occasion collapsed during a sprint and required resuscitation. 141 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:08,920 A 28 year old woman had a heart attack after consuming large quantities of an energy drink 142 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:14,760 right after a work related argument and she was diagnosed with a specific type of heart 143 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:19,340 condition that she didn't know she had until she aggravated it by drinking this energy 144 00:10:19,340 --> 00:10:20,880 drink. 145 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,560 Another one, a 20 year old woman who was known to have a specific gene associated with a 146 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:34,520 type of rapid heart rate had previously experienced fainting at age 7, but despite medications 147 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:39,920 she collapsed after an argument with a colleague at work having consumed an energy drink. 148 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,760 So there's another tip if you're getting in an argument with somebody at work, don't 149 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:44,200 drink an energy drink at the same time. 150 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:50,320 Here's another one, a 42 year old patient who had a fainting incident after giving birth 151 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:54,240 regularly consumed energy drinks before workouts. 152 00:10:54,240 --> 00:11:00,960 She fell off of an exercise bike and required resuscitation due to cardiac arrest. 153 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:06,000 She later found out that she did have a genetic heart condition as well, but she found out 154 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:07,800 about it by drinking an energy drink. 155 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:12,160 Another one, a 26 year old woman collapsed after exercising and experiencing cardiac 156 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:13,760 arrest at a hospital. 157 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:19,400 She had consumed an energy drink, was dehydrated and had eaten very little food, was also diagnosed 158 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:25,720 with a type of genetic heart condition that was triggered, caused a heart attack after 159 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,280 drinking an energy drink. 160 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:34,400 So this is just a sample of cases published in a study in the journal Heart Rhythms analyzed 161 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:38,800 from data people that showed up in the Mayo Clinic with heart arrhythmias over the past 162 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:39,800 few years. 163 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:44,360 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, you're listening to Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions to almost 164 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:45,360 any health challenge. 165 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:49,680 We've been talking today about things you can do to reduce your risk of lung cancer 166 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:55,520 and heart disease and specifically for reducing your risk of heart disease, don't drink so-called 167 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:57,240 energy drinks. 168 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:01,000 Everyone always, I often ask questions, a lot of people ask questions about what about 169 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:02,080 coffee and tea? 170 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:09,960 So the lay press in particular, magazines and newspapers, TV stations, everyone's, 171 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,880 every week, month it seems like there's another new study that says coffee's good for you, 172 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,600 coffee's bad for you, tea's good for you, tea's bad for you. 173 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:21,600 Well, we're never going to stop hearing studies like that, especially in the non-medical press 174 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:23,480 because they're just a great story. 175 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:28,100 That's what they're, they're attention, they generate attention getting headlines. 176 00:12:28,100 --> 00:12:37,200 When you look at the real medical research that has good data behind it, the answer consistently 177 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:44,040 is showing that in general, a couple of cups of coffee or a couple of cups of tea a day 178 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:48,120 is perfectly healthy for most people and often beneficial. 179 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:53,080 In other words, people are even, people who drink two cups of coffee or tea a day are 180 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,960 in many studies healthier than people who don't drink any coffee or any tea because 181 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:03,800 there are beneficial, healthy antioxidants in coffee and other components in green tea, 182 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:09,520 example, foraphanes and a bunch of other cancer fighting particular components in tea. 183 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:13,280 Consistent evidence from observational and epidemiological studies indicate that intake 184 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:19,440 of both coffee and tea have beneficial effects on stroke, reducing stroke risk, heart failure, 185 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,200 cancers, diabetes and Parkinson's. 186 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:27,800 And several studies also suggest that coffee may reduce the risk for Alzheimer's disease. 187 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,720 But as with everything, moderation is key. 188 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:37,420 So the headline of this study, which was presented on the Alzheimer's Association International 189 00:13:37,420 --> 00:13:45,280 Conference this year, July of 2024, by Kelsey Sewell, PhD, Advent Health Research Institute, 190 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:50,480 showed that drinking more than three cups of coffee a day is linked to more rapid cognitive 191 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:52,940 decline over time. 192 00:13:52,940 --> 00:13:57,040 So that's one of the ways it's reinforcing that for most people, the ideal amount is 193 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:03,200 two cups a day, three or more is linked to more rapid cognitive decline. 194 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:09,880 So this was a study done in the UK on 8,000 older adults in the UK biobank, which contains 195 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:15,320 anonymous in-depth genetic and health information from a half a million participants in the 196 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,200 United Kingdom. 197 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:21,520 And 18% reported drinking four or more cups, high consumption. 198 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:26,900 And 58% reported drinking one to three cups, which they defined as moderate consumption. 199 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:29,080 And 25% reported they never drink coffee. 200 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:32,560 So I just said, and a lot of other studies have shown that drinking two cups a day for 201 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,640 most people is beneficial. 202 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,920 This study actually shows that up to three tended to be okay. 203 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:39,600 It was more than three cups. 204 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:47,840 Drinking four or more that showed increased risk of cognitive decline, the precursor of 205 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:49,640 dementia. 206 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:53,640 One of the main things they measured in this study is fluid intelligence. 207 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:58,600 So in psychology, fluid intelligence is the ability to think abstractly, to reason quickly 208 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,200 and solve problems without relying on previous knowledge. 209 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:07,460 It's a cognitive ability that involves generating, transforming and manipulating new information 210 00:15:07,460 --> 00:15:08,640 in real time. 211 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:13,160 So it's one of the standard things they test you for to evaluate cognitive decline. 212 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:19,020 It's different from quote, crystallized intelligence, which is the ability to use knowledge and 213 00:15:19,020 --> 00:15:21,800 experience that has been acquired over time. 214 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:27,480 So crystallized intelligence is involved in tasks like crossword puzzles and Scrabble. 215 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:33,080 Fluid intelligence peaks in late adolescence and tends to decline with age while crystallized 216 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,000 intelligence increases throughout life. 217 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:41,760 And both are important for living and negotiating and navigating the world. 218 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:48,060 So in this UK study of 8,000 older individuals after eight, almost nine years, 8.83, almost 219 00:15:48,060 --> 00:15:53,640 nine years of follow up people with moderate consumption, one to three cups of coffee a 220 00:15:53,640 --> 00:16:00,920 day had slower decline in fluid intelligence than people who drank four or more. 221 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:05,760 And then they also showed that people who had moderate consumption, one to three cups 222 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:12,640 of coffee compared with people who didn't drink any tea or coffee had a health benefit. 223 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:19,380 It showed that people who never drank tea or coffee had a greater decline in fluid intelligence 224 00:16:19,380 --> 00:16:22,520 than those who had the moderate consumption. 225 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:28,000 There have been other studies that showed that the amyloid plaque, one of the most famous 226 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:33,680 researched things that sign of decline in the brain, people who have Alzheimer's are 227 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:40,360 often diagnosed with amyloid plaque buildup in the brain and coffee and tea drinking seems 228 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:46,480 to reduce that and sleep patterns also may be involved. 229 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:51,000 There's further research may demonstrate said Dr. Sewell in conclusion. 230 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,280 So the takeaway is evidence suggests that one great way to reduce your risk of Alzheimer's 231 00:16:55,280 --> 00:17:01,560 and other forms of dementia is to drink one to three cups of coffee or tea per day, no 232 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,480 more and probably no less. 233 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:05,760 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. 234 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:10,360 You're listening to safe, effective, natural solutions to almost any health challenge while 235 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:15,200 we're on the subject of heart health and brain health. 236 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:20,320 Here's a great case study on how to reduce blood pressure naturally. 237 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:24,600 So I have a lot of patients who come to me with high blood pressure and there's lots 238 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:25,760 of things that you can do. 239 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:31,220 One of my favorite things that anyone can do to reduce their own blood pressure is to 240 00:17:31,220 --> 00:17:33,040 do deep breathing exercises. 241 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:37,560 And if you go on my website and look through the past episodes of this show, I've talked 242 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:43,120 about many, many episodes on how to reduce blood pressure naturally by doing deep breathing 243 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:44,680 exercises among other things. 244 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,540 The most important thing is to get a lot that goes with that is to get a blood pressure 245 00:17:48,540 --> 00:17:55,040 cuff, an upper arm blood pressure cuff that you can use at home so that when you have 246 00:17:55,040 --> 00:18:00,200 a high reading, you can lay down on the floor and just do simple deep breathing exercises 247 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:05,320 for 10 or 15 minutes and then take your pressure again and you'll usually see a significant 248 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:10,240 drop and that makes it less likely that you'll become upset, freak out, have a panic attack 249 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,160 when you get a high reading. 250 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:13,820 One high reading doesn't matter. 251 00:18:13,820 --> 00:18:17,360 What matters is an average of your readings over a week. 252 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:20,400 So if you're concerned about high blood pressure, definitely check it. 253 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,400 If you haven't checked it recently, if you have a high reading, just keep checking it 254 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:31,640 at different times, switch arms, sitting up, lying down, write all the numbers down, add 255 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:36,120 them all up at the end of the week and divide by the number of times you checked it to get 256 00:18:36,120 --> 00:18:37,120 the average. 257 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:41,720 It's the average over a week that really matters for your risk of damaging your heart. 258 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,540 So here's a great case. 259 00:18:43,540 --> 00:18:44,540 It's easy. 260 00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:48,040 Somebody comes in in their 40s and 50s and has high blood pressure, it's actually pretty 261 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:53,480 often quite relatively easy to help people effectively reduce their blood pressure without 262 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:54,480 drugs. 263 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:59,120 I always stress, there's lots of things that people come to me and say, I don't want to 264 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:06,160 take medication for cholesterol, for osteoporosis, for anxiety and depression and those are examples 265 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:11,780 of medications that are often a good idea to get off of if you can by going, by making 266 00:19:11,780 --> 00:19:16,560 sure that you're resolving the issue with safe, effective, natural solutions and I always 267 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:21,000 instruct my patients to, if you're on some medication that was prescribed by another 268 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:25,080 doctor, you need to go back and tell that doctor that you're choosing to take yourself 269 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:27,000 off of this, discuss that with them. 270 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:28,960 I'm not taking you off of your medication. 271 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:34,760 You can choose to do that and you always should do that in a conversation with, include having 272 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,300 a conversation with a prescribing physician when you choose to do that. 273 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:39,880 But blood pressure is the great exception. 274 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:43,580 If someone comes in and says, I want to get off of my blood pressure medication, well, 275 00:19:43,580 --> 00:19:47,360 you have to keep taking your blood pressure medication until you get your blood pressure 276 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:48,360 down. 277 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:53,040 And then you do the healthy things to naturally relax more, lower your heart rate, lower your 278 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:58,240 blood pressure by reducing the back pressure in the pipes from various things by taking 279 00:19:58,240 --> 00:19:59,920 certain nutrients, which I'm going to talk about. 280 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:01,440 I'm going to present this case. 281 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:05,240 It's much easier to, you know, the younger you are, the easier it is to do that. 282 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:09,920 And most importantly, if you're on medication for blood pressure, you have to do something 283 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:11,920 to get it down. 284 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,920 And then when you do that, your blood pressure will start to go a little bit too low. 285 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,860 And you know, you're ready to have a conversation with your prescribing physician and reduce 286 00:20:19,860 --> 00:20:22,280 the dose of your blood pressure medication. 287 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,360 If you're on more than one medication, maybe stop taking one of them. 288 00:20:25,360 --> 00:20:29,100 Maybe one of them will still be enough, but you never want to stop blood pressure medication 289 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:30,520 cold turkey. 290 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,760 So it's easier to do in your fifties and your sixties. 291 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:36,080 The older you get, the more stress you have in your life. 292 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:40,280 If you can't figure out a way to reduce that stress, then the more difficult it is going 293 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:42,240 to be to reduce your blood pressure naturally. 294 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:46,360 But one thing that's really difficult is to reduce high blood pressure. 295 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:50,200 That's been high for decades and somebody in their eighties. 296 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:51,200 So this is a case. 297 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:52,640 I love talking about this case. 298 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,200 An 82 year old woman who'd had high blood pressure. 299 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:00,280 The top number was over 155 for 30 years. 300 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,560 And the bottom number was nearly a hundred. 301 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:06,160 I think it was 97 on average for 30 years. 302 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,340 And she was otherwise really fit and healthy. 303 00:21:09,340 --> 00:21:14,680 She was a orchestra conductor with her church. 304 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:21,000 She played the violin and she was thin and busy go-go. 305 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,720 She ran a school play at her church every Christmas. 306 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,880 She was just a constant, she was a force of nature. 307 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:27,000 She was amazing. 308 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,620 And she felt dizzy when she took her blood pressure medication. 309 00:21:30,620 --> 00:21:33,000 That's why she kept telling her doctor she wasn't going to take it. 310 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,320 Well, he kept telling her, you know, it's going to catch up with her eventually. 311 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:37,920 And I told her the same thing. 312 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:42,000 I said, you really should take the blood pressure medication until you get it down. 313 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,240 So she said, well, I've tried all the natural things. 314 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:45,240 Nothing works. 315 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:50,240 I said, well, have you tried taking three gram, a good, a good high dose of a high quality 316 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:51,240 official? 317 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:52,240 Yep. 318 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:53,240 Tried taking high quality official. 319 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:54,240 I said, did you take enough? 320 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:55,240 Yes, I took, you know, three or four capsules. 321 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,160 She told me, verified that she had done that. 322 00:21:58,160 --> 00:21:59,160 Didn't reduce her blood pressure. 323 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:03,020 I said, well, have you taken 5,000 units of vitamin D every day to get your level up to 324 00:22:03,020 --> 00:22:04,360 between 50 and 90? 325 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:05,360 Yes. 326 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:06,360 Didn't have, didn't affect my blood pressure. 327 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:09,840 I said, have you taken a good multivitamin that has all the minerals you need in bioavailable 328 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,760 forms so that your body can heal and repair itself? 329 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:13,760 Yes. 330 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:18,000 Have you taken natto kinase, which is a systemic enzyme from the Japanese food natto that's 331 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:23,980 been identified decades ago to be one of the main causes that the Japanese have lower risks 332 00:22:23,980 --> 00:22:24,980 of heart disease? 333 00:22:24,980 --> 00:22:26,600 He says, yes, I actually have tried that. 334 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,360 Well, I was surprised because not most people haven't even heard of that. 335 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:30,960 She had tried that. 336 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:31,960 Didn't reduce her blood pressure. 337 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:37,960 I said, have you taken anything to boost nitric oxide like arginine or citrulline? 338 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,280 Yes. 339 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:40,640 She had taken that too. 340 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,080 She had been to some other good practitioners over the years. 341 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,320 And I asked her about CoQ10, a couple of other things. 342 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:48,320 Yes, yes, yes. 343 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:49,320 I've tried all those things. 344 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:50,320 None of them ever worked. 345 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:57,640 I said, have you ever tried taking all of those things at the same time? 346 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,440 And she looked at me like, why would you even ask? 347 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:01,440 Like, why would I do? 348 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,000 Why would I know which one's working if I did all of them at the same time? 349 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,360 Well, this is the big important takeaway of this case. 350 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:11,720 And it applies to lots of situations. 351 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,520 Nutrients don't work like drugs. 352 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:14,560 Drugs work by themselves. 353 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:18,560 They have specific effects on receptors and on chemical pathways in the body. 354 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,440 And they do work all by themselves. 355 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,080 Nutrients work in combinations. 356 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:25,360 They work synergistically. 357 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:28,660 They support the effects of one another. 358 00:23:28,660 --> 00:23:30,520 And so you can guess the outcome. 359 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:34,920 She put her on a quality list of all of those. 360 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,160 She was already taking some of those things. 361 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,040 And I recommended that she add in several others. 362 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,880 A product called Citrinox from Orthomolecular Products that has L-citraline is one I use 363 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,280 a lot for high blood pressure patients. 364 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,520 Anyway, the bottom line is when she took all of those things, her blood pressure in her 365 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,680 80s dropped 30 points. 366 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,400 And it stayed there. 367 00:23:54,400 --> 00:24:00,040 And she lived many, many, many years after that without having a heart attack or a stroke. 368 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,840 And she was very happy about that, as was her family. 369 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,120 Once again, we're about out of time. 370 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:06,520 So thank you for tuning in. 371 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:07,520 Thank you for listening. 372 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:13,960 I hope everybody's enjoying getting together with family and loved ones and having stress-free 373 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:14,960 holiday gatherings. 374 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:20,160 Remember, a great way you can reduce your stress anytime is to go for a walk and do 375 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,200 some deep breathing exercises. 376 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,520 If you're at a holiday gathering, go hide in the bathroom for a few minutes and relax. 377 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:27,960 Have a great weekend. 378 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:33,460 You've been listening to Safe, Effective Natural Solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. 379 00:24:33,460 --> 00:24:37,980 If you have a health question you want discussed on the show, email your health questions to 380 00:24:37,980 --> 00:24:42,560 drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. 381 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:47,240 Take advantage of this opportunity to ask questions for yourself and for your loved 382 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,160 ones 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