Prepare to have your health questions answered
here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions with
Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center
in downtown Ventura. Now, here's Dr. Todd. Good
afternoon. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board -certified,
non -force doctor of chiropractic and practitioner
of functional medicine. I identify conditions
other doctors miss by doing tests that most other
doctors don't. Don't do. Usually because your
insurance considers them medically unnecessary
and doesn't want to pay for them. But it doesn't
cost as much as you might think to get comprehensive
testing to identify conditions that get overlooked
and underlie a lot of misery and pain and suffering
or just minor symptoms even. Things that you'd
really rather not have to deal with if you've
been to a doctor and told there's nothing wrong
with you. But you don't feel right. There probably
is something wrong with you. You just haven't
identified it yet. And there is a safe, effective
natural solution for almost any health challenge.
We're going to talk about supplements today.
I get a lot of questions about, you know, what's
the best supplement for this or that. And I'm
going to describe a really exciting case about
an 82 -year -old lady who we were able to get
her blood pressure to drop 30 points. That's
a big deal. It's not easy to reduce someone's
blood pressure by 30 points in their 80s with
no medication. When I talk about functional medicine,
a safe, effective, natural solution to almost
any health challenge, there are three main things
that I use to achieve that, and they are better
food. exercise, and supplements. There are other
things that are important, getting a good night's
sleep, doing things to reduce stress in your
life. having a good spiritual practice. Most
of the listeners here probably have that covered.
Or doing something as simple as meditation and
deep breathing exercises. Also releasing physical
stress from your body by having a good stretching
routine. But the most important things that I
find that make the biggest difference when people
come to see me are counseling them on how to
get better food exercise. and supplements in
response to the testing that we do to identify
what their body needs. This is the most important
thing. I cannot stress this enough. You are as
different on the inside as you are on the outside.
There are no one -size -fits -all solutions for
any health issue. The medical profession's standards
of care tries to do a one -size -fits -all treatment
based on tests that show that the drugs they
give you are not dangerous enough to kill you,
but helpful enough to solve a certain crisis,
acute condition, or manage a chronic condition.
But there's a big difference between drugs and
supplements. So that's a common question I get.
What is the difference between drugs and supplements?
Drugs are essential when you need to intervene
now and get a quick, specific, controlled, reliable
response to something that's ailing you, maybe
to save your life even. And drugs work by altering
and manipulating cell receptors and biochemical
pathways in your body. They block receptors on
cells or increase cell receptor activity. They
directly alter enzymatic and other chemical...
pathways that immediately change your physiology
and they're often essential if your heart is
stopped an injection of epinephrine directly
into your heart may get it started again and
save your life or if you have anaphylactic shock
from some form of allergy opening your airways
with an epi pen also epinephrine adrenaline can
save your life if you have a stroke and you're
Blood circulation is cut off to parts of your
brain. Getting to the hospital as quickly as
possible to take something that will reduce the
clotting that's blocking those arteries and restore
blood flow to the brain before too much damage
is done. Obviously, these things are all essential.
But none of these drugs do anything to improve
your health. There's a bold statement. I'm going
to say it again. Drugs don't improve your health.
They may save your life. They're amazing at treating
disease. But they don't improve your health.
The only things that improve your health are
things that enhance the internal mechanisms that
your body was designed with to use to heal and
maintain itself. Better good food. Full, nutrient
-rich food. Exercise. Moving your body the way
it was designed to be moved. the way we've been
moving our bodies most of the time for most of
our existence on a grand scale, and where necessary,
based on comprehensive testing, using supplemental
nutrients to fill in the gaps that you're not
getting from your food. So drugs are essential
when you need to intervene and get a quick, specific,
controlled, predictable response, but they're
all toxic to the body. precisely because they
interfere with normal human physiology. Normal
control mechanisms are overridden, and consuming
too much or too many drugs can easily kill you.
Properly prescribed medications, not medical
errors, not some instance where the pharmacist
couldn't read the doctor's handwriting. Properly
prescribed drugs kill nearly 100 ,000 people
every year. By contrast, nutrients... are foods
that our bodies have evolved. The ability to
assimilate and utilize for sustaining life. I'm
going to say that again. Nutrients, like food,
are things that our bodies have been experiencing
and learned how to utilize for healing and repairing
cells. They're raw materials for building and
maintaining every tissue and organ in your body.
They're non -toxic because they support Normal
human physiology. NA control mechanisms are maintained
when you eat good food and take supplements that
have been identified as missing on comprehensive
testing. If you consume more than you need of
most nutrients, your body will simply excrete
them. well if supplements are so great why do
you always hear these news stories continually
coming out saying this vitamin or that was proven
to be useless for this or that condition you
know i just the best advice i can give you is
if you hear Two things I can say. If you hear
a study slamming some vitamin saying it's useless
and proven to be not effective for this or that,
number one, email me that and I'll give you a
response. I'll look up the original data on that
study and explain to you why that study was probably
doomed to failure at the outset. So much money
is wasted, time and money is wasted by myopic
medical researchers trying to study supplements,
nutrients, like they were drugs. Nutrients do
not work like drugs. And most of these studies
use insufficient dosages, inferior forms, and
most importantly, they're just idiotic by design
because they test nutrients in isolation nutrients
don't work in isolation they're synergistic they
work in combinations like the nutrients in foods
supplements and these studies also test them
in isolation and never consider the diet and
lifestyle of the person who's taking them supplements
are called supplements because they're meant
to supplement A good diet. They do not replace
healthy food. So when you hear about a study
that declares conclusively that vitamin D doesn't
work for this or that or vitamin C or coenzyme
Q10 or fish oil or anything else, probably the
best thing to do is just ignore it because almost
all of these studies are poorly designed from
the outset or biased or basically useless. But
if you want to know more, please, I invite you
to email me any such study that you hear about
and I'll look up the base data and reply to you
and explain it. on air why such studies are so
misleading. There is one common thing you hear
all the time, though, that is absolutely true.
Most multivitamins are useless or nearly useless.
I'm Dr. Todd Bankley discussing with you safe,
effective, natural solutions to almost any health
challenge. And yes, I just said it. I'll say
it again. Most multivitamins are nearly useless.
Why is that? The main reason is because most
multivitamins are one a day. multivitamins. Everyone
wants one pill. Just give me one pill. I'll take
it. Store shelves have always been and will always
be stocked with one a day multivitamins. Most
one a day multivitamins are nearly useless. And
the reason for that is because the purpose of
taking them, I recommend that all of my patients
take a multivitamin and it is never a one a day
multivitamin. The main reason to take a multivitamin
is not for the vitamins, but for a mineral. So
we call them multivitamins. But all multivitamins
are multivitamin and mineral supplements. And
you can get vitamins from food. If you eat any
decent amount of vegetables, you can get most
of the vitamins that you need. Many, at least,
of the vitamins that you need from food. There's
exceptions. No one gets enough vitamin D from
their food, for example. But you can get vitamins
from food. But you can't get what most people
do not get. After testing thousands of people
myself and... With my colleagues, hundreds of
thousands of people around the country, most
people do not get enough minerals from their
food. Most people do not get enough calcium and
magnesium and manganese and selenium and chromium
and zinc and molybdenum and germanium. These
are essential cofactors and enzymatic reactions
in every tissue and cell pathway, chemical pathway
in your body. You need minerals to function.
and most people do not get enough minerals from
their diet. Well, why is that? The food we eat
comes from soil that has been so depleted by
conventional farming that there's no minerals
left, not enough at least, minerals left in the
soil. So how are they going to end up in your
food? Unless your diet includes a lot of super
greens, unless you're eating a lot of kale, spinach,
broccoli, anything dark green in abundance every
day, then I can guarantee you when we test you,
you will show functional deficiencies of many,
many minerals. So there are three common supplements
I recommend to almost anyone. The best thing
is to get proper comprehensive testing done to
identify your specific needs, things that are
missing from your diet. Think of your bloodstream
like this. Your bloodstream, I like to call it
a river of life. Imagine your bloodstream is
a river. that is constantly coursing throughout
your entire body. And there are construction
crews waiting on both sides of this river. The
guys are there. They've got their tools. They're
ready to rebuild. They're ready to heal and repair
tissues throughout your body. They're waiting.
All they need is the materials. They're waiting
on something to be delivered that they need.
It's essential without which they cannot heal
and repair that tissue. So that river of life
is your bloodstream. And if those nutrients are
not in your bloodstream, when that crews, they're
waiting to heal your kidney, some part of your
liver, repair your joints to reduce or prevent
arthritis. especially provide nutrients to your
brain to prevent the catastrophic neurodegeneration
that is just getting worse and worse every year
in our society as we get older, right? People
didn't used to live that long, so neurodegeneration
in your brain that causes Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
and other neurodegenerative diseases was less
of a problem. But the river of life in your body
is your responsibility. If you want those construction
crews that are waiting, day after day to repair
the parts of your body that need attention and
maintain them, then you must provide that supply.
You must provide them with the nutrients necessary.
So one of the most important things to make that
happen is to take a good multivitamin. A good
multivitamin is almost always four capsules a
day. Three or four capsules. If you weigh less
than 120 pounds, three might be enough. My favorite
multivitamin, it's not the only good one. I tell
my patients all the time the supplements that
I stock in my office and most commonly recommend
to my patients are not the only good ones. They're
not the only ones that work. They are ones that
I've been giving to hundreds, thousands of patients.
My colleagues that I speak with at seminars several
times every year have collectively given to hundreds
of thousands of patients. tested them before
and after to prove that they achieved the desired
result. The only way I know to find out if any
particular supplement, product, nutrient works
is to give it to several thousand people and
test them before and after and see if it achieves.
the intended result. So alpha base by orthomolecular
products is the multivitamin that I recommend
to all of my patients. And again, I recommend
it not for vitamins, but for the minerals. It
has minerals that are as close as you can get
in capsule form to the plant -based forms that
we would all ideally get from our diet, but usually
fail to do. So these plant -based plant -like
forms of minerals in these four capsules are
bulky. They take up space. And most multivitamins
are just made from minerals that are mined from
the surface of the earth. And so you can put
a certain amount of zinc, chromium, magnesium,
calcium, et cetera, into one pill and test it.
And they have to be tested. That's one thing
the government does is make sure that what's
on the label is in the tablet. But does that
mean it actually enters your, does anybody ever
test to see whether those one a day useless centrum
silver. multivitamins kirkland vitamins from
costco you know you get what you pay for one
a day multivitamins the minerals in one a day
multivitamins usually just pass straight through
your body and into this into the toilet so the
most expensive vitamin you'll ever take the most
wasteful the most money you'll ever waste on
a supplement is the one that just passes straight
through your body without any benefit so the
forms of minerals that are like the ones That
plants make instead of just mining minerals directly
from the surface of the earth, isolating them,
grinding them up and putting them into one tablet
that everyone wants. If a spinach plant or a
broccoli plant in that same dirt and those minerals
are absorbed through the roots of that plant
and then bound up in the leaves and the fruit
and the stalks of whatever vegetable it is, informs
that our bodies recognize. that they automatically
understand how to break down and easily assimilate
and utilize for all those so important pathways
that are required to heal and maintain our organs
and tissues. So to get something like that in
a multivitamin, manufacturers that make the best
quality multivitamins have figured out ways to
develop minerals that are bound up. in forms
similar to the ones in plants. And they're bulky.
They take up space. They just will not fit. And
a decent daily dose to keep you healthy, to keep
most people healthy, will give you a chance of
being healthier than you otherwise would be.
Keep that river of life flowing with the materials
those construction crews need to heal and repair
every part of your body. Those plant -like based
minerals will not fit into one capsule. They're
bulky. They take up space. And usually they take
the space of about... Four capsules for most
people. So there's two other nutrients that I
can recommend to anyone without any testing.
Because again, these are two other things that
I continually see no one gets enough, almost
no one gets enough from their diet. And they
are fish oil and vitamin D. So fish oil, everyone's
heard about the benefits of omega -3 fatty acids
for cardiovascular health, for raising your good
cholesterol, for your brain. Your brain is mostly
made of water. and fat. And 25 % of the fat in
your brain is made from docosahexaenoic acid,
DHA, one of the two omega -3 fatty acids that
you can only get from the ocean. The other one
is EPA. So whenever you look at something that
purports to be a good source of omega -3s, Check
and see how much EPA and DHA is in that product.
And these are things that are only available
in the ocean. There is no DHA or EPA, these most
essential omega -3s that you hear all the health
benefits about. There are none of those in any
vegetable -based source. There's no EPA or DHA
in walnuts or chia seeds or flax seeds. These
are all good things that are nutritious, that
are absolutely fantastic. to include as a part
of your diet. But you want to think of flax oil
or flax seeds or chia seeds the way you think
of olive oil or sunflower seeds. Just they're
good additions. They're great things to put on
your salad. They're nutritious, but they do not
produce the benefits that you hear about for
omega -3 fatty acids. which mainly only get from
the ocean. So most people, to get adequate amounts
of that, need to either eat a piece of salmon
every day or some sardines. or supplement, I
recommend a gram and a half at least for most
people, about 1 ,500 milligrams combined EPA
and DHEA in supplemental form because most people
don't get enough of it from their diet. The third
nutrient I recommend everyone supplement because
no one gets enough of it from their diet, and
the most important of the three is vitamin D,
but it looks like we're not going to have enough
time to cover that today. I could do a whole
show just on the importance and benefits of vitamin
D, but let's just do a quick overview. Most adults
need to supplement 5 ,000 units of vitamin D
per day. You hear all the time, oh my god, you
can take too much vitamin D, it's dangerous.
Most medical doctors are worried that if you
take too much vitamin D, you're going to get
kidney stones. It's possible, but it never happens.
Look in the literature. It's just really, really
rare. It's very difficult to take too much vitamin
D. Meanwhile, thousands of people die from Cancers
and colds and flus that could be prevented end
up in a hospital and die from infections and
cancers that could have been prevented if their
immune systems were working properly by virtue
of having adequate vitamin D. So most adults
should take 5 ,000 units of vitamin D a day if
you weigh less than 100. 20 pounds, maybe 4 ,000
might be enough. But the most important way to
ensure that you're getting adequate vitamin D
is like with everything else, get tested. The
lab range for vitamin D on most standard tests
is 30 to 100. So most doctors will order your
vitamin D test for you, but they'll also egregiously,
in my opinion, tell you that you're fine if it's
30 or above. And that's just not true. Your immune
system will not function at its peak unless your
vitamin D level is between 50 and 90 so get your
vitamin d level tested take enough vitamin d
you're never going to get enough from the sun
or doing gardening or walking around in short
sleeves and short pants you need to supplement
5 000 units a day sometime more sometimes more
and get your blood levels tested to make sure
that they're in between 50 and 90 so that your
immune system is functioning at its peak do this
and you can prevent a whole host of diseases
especially you just most people who do this never
get colds and flus anymore or if they do they
last for a couple of days instead of weeks or
months your immune system is totally dependent
on adequate levels of vitamin d So let's talk
about that case study I mentioned previously,
an 82 -year -old, lovely 82 -year -old lady whose
blood pressure was consistently running around
157 over 90. She was otherwise fit. She was an
orchestra conductor, a concert violinist. She
was a force of nature. In her 80s, she was still
running a school play at her church every year
and directing this orchestra. At her church and
you'd look at her and she just, you know, looked
in to be an amazing and she was in really phenomenal
health for her age. She was thin and tall and
had just an abundance of energy. And she had
high blood pressure for over 20 years. And she
refused to take any blood pressure medication
because when she did, it made her dizzy. And
she had had she had bypass surgery two years
ago and her. Her other doctor was strongly, constantly
urging her to take medication to keep her blood
pressure under control. So she asked me, you
know, is there anything that you can recommend?
I said, have you ever tried taking fish oil?
Yep, didn't work. I said, have you ever tried
taking pomegranate juice? Because pomegranate
juice can actually reverse arteriosclerosis in
high concentrations, especially if it's not too
sweet. Yep, tried that, didn't work. Have you
ever tried turmeric? Yes. Have you ever tried
taking any kind of systemic enzymes like serrapeptide?
or natokinase? Yes. Have you tried taking CoQ10?
Yes. Are you taking a good multivitamin with
all the minerals your body needs to heal and
repair it? She says, yep, I've tried all of those.
None of them worked. I said, have you ever taken
all of those things at the same time? Well, no,
she says, almost indignantly. Of course not.
Why would I do that? How would I know which one
was working if I took them all at the same time?
And I carefully explained that Supplements, nutrients
are not drugs. They do not work by themselves.
They work synergistically. They work in combinations,
just like all the nutrients in your food. Everyone
knows that there's a lot of nutrients in broccoli.
We've only identified a small portion of them,
but trust me, they work in combinations. She
started taking fish oil, pomegranate juice, permaric,
adokinase, coenzyme Q10, and a good multivitamin.
I also recommended that she do some stretching
for flexibility, relaxation, and stress relief.
And in six weeks, her blood pressure went down
to 127 over 80. From 157 over 90 to 127 over
80. Her top number dropped 30 points and the
bottom number dropped. 10 points to well to nicely
within the healthy range with no medication.
That's really hard to do in an 80 -year -old,
especially a go -go active person like she was,
which can create a certain amount of stress.
We dropped her blood pressure 30 points without
drugs and she was elated. Remember, the condition
of your body is always far more important than
the name of any disease you've been diagnosed
with. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. You've been listening
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