WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.899 Prepare to have your health questions answered 00:00:02.899 --> 00:00:06.860 here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions with 00:00:06.860 --> 00:00:10.259 Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center 00:00:10.259 --> 00:00:14.890 in downtown Ventura. Now, here's Dr. Todd. Good 00:00:14.890 --> 00:00:17.410 afternoon. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board -certified 00:00:17.410 --> 00:00:20.370 non -force doctor of chiropractic and practitioner 00:00:20.370 --> 00:00:23.589 of functional medicine. I identify conditions 00:00:23.589 --> 00:00:27.010 other doctors miss by running tests that they 00:00:27.010 --> 00:00:30.250 don't normally do, usually because your insurance 00:00:30.250 --> 00:00:32.130 company doesn't want to pay for them, but it's 00:00:32.130 --> 00:00:34.170 a lot less expensive than you might think to 00:00:34.170 --> 00:00:36.950 get true healthcare. I've got an exciting show 00:00:36.950 --> 00:00:38.450 to you today. We're going to be talking about 00:00:38.450 --> 00:00:42.920 some... some ongoing reasons that most medical 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:45.920 doctors just don't know anything about or even 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:49.700 if they hear about, still choose not to provide 00:00:49.700 --> 00:00:53.719 safe, effective, natural solutions for most health 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:57.859 challenges and instead just rely on drugs and 00:00:57.859 --> 00:01:00.340 conventional medical care. I'm also going to 00:01:00.340 --> 00:01:02.960 talk about an exciting case study about... A 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:07.000 patient of mine who had a really bad cancer of 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.719 the stomach and intestines who completely reversed 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:14.159 it with my help and conventional oncology combined 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:18.239 and has now been feeling great for two years 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:22.109 plus. I've mentioned before that one of the reasons 00:01:22.109 --> 00:01:26.129 99 % of most doctors don't offer safe, effective 00:01:26.129 --> 00:01:29.329 natural solutions and still just rely on pharmaceuticals 00:01:29.329 --> 00:01:33.810 is because their employees, most doctors. are 00:01:33.810 --> 00:01:38.569 employees of a private equity group or a contract 00:01:38.569 --> 00:01:42.049 management group or a hospital or a health system 00:01:42.049 --> 00:01:45.430 or a health insurer. So here's an article that 00:01:45.430 --> 00:01:48.689 just came out. UnitedHealth's Optimum Division 00:01:48.689 --> 00:01:52.549 just added 20 ,000 doctors this year alone. They 00:01:52.549 --> 00:01:57.310 now have over 90 ,000 doctors. Some 10 % of the 00:01:57.310 --> 00:02:02.159 physician workforce has employees or... Well, 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.780 that's good if you have insurance with UnitedHealth 00:02:05.780 --> 00:02:07.859 Group because you want to have doctors available 00:02:07.859 --> 00:02:11.120 to treat you if you need medical care and lots 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:12.919 of people need medical care. There's absolutely 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:17.699 nothing wrong with that. But in addition to this 00:02:17.699 --> 00:02:20.520 10 % of the physician workforce, UnitedHealth 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:24.479 also counts an additional 40 ,000 advanced practice 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:32.289 clinicians among its ranks. make Optimum Health 00:02:32.289 --> 00:02:35.169 the largest employer of physicians in the U .S. 00:02:35.169 --> 00:02:37.729 and UnitedHealth is the largest, country's largest 00:02:37.729 --> 00:02:41.729 private health insurer. So why do I mention this? 00:02:41.949 --> 00:02:45.289 The main reason is because people often ask me 00:02:45.289 --> 00:02:48.030 all these things that you talk about, about how 00:02:48.030 --> 00:02:51.210 you can use better food, exercise and supplements 00:02:51.210 --> 00:02:53.150 where indicated and the fact that you do all 00:02:53.150 --> 00:02:56.030 these tests that most other doctors don't do. 00:02:56.069 --> 00:02:59.129 Why don't all doctors do that? Well, this is 00:02:59.129 --> 00:03:02.280 the reason. They're employees. They're employees 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:06.300 of corporations that dictate what they can and 00:03:06.300 --> 00:03:09.759 cannot do. They get penalized if they order the 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:13.060 tests that I order. It costs them money. They 00:03:13.060 --> 00:03:15.159 can even lose their credentials. I've mentioned 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:19.259 this in a previous show of mine where a group 00:03:19.259 --> 00:03:24.240 of physicians were penalized in their health 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.240 care facility for not prescribing medication 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.689 and instead offering lifestyle alternatives, 00:03:30.930 --> 00:03:33.310 basically better food, exercise, and supplements. 00:03:33.770 --> 00:03:36.849 And they got downgraded in their ratings because 00:03:36.849 --> 00:03:39.669 the ratings weren't based on how healthy the 00:03:39.669 --> 00:03:42.610 patient was. The ratings were based on how well 00:03:42.610 --> 00:03:47.270 the patients adhered to taking recommended medications, 00:03:47.669 --> 00:03:51.740 which is just ridiculous. Here's another reason 00:03:51.740 --> 00:03:55.120 most doctors don't recommend natural alternatives. 00:03:55.180 --> 00:03:57.860 They continue to see in the medical press articles 00:03:57.860 --> 00:04:00.819 like this, which was just on Medscape this week, 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:04.219 an article entitled, Can Vitamin and Mineral 00:04:04.219 --> 00:04:06.879 Supplements Prevent Cancer or Cardiovascular 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:10.080 Disease? Well, I can guarantee you when you see 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:14.890 a headline like that, the answer is going. According 00:04:14.890 --> 00:04:19.009 to this article, the USPSTF, the United States 00:04:19.009 --> 00:04:21.990 Prevention Services Task Force, said that they 00:04:21.990 --> 00:04:26.730 reviewed 17 ,000 unique citations and 379 full 00:04:26.730 --> 00:04:29.310 -text articles that included randomized clinical 00:04:29.310 --> 00:04:33.430 trials and observational cohort studies. The 00:04:33.430 --> 00:04:34.990 conclusions of their research showed that there 00:04:34.990 --> 00:04:38.509 was little to no benefit in taking vitamin or 00:04:38.509 --> 00:04:40.389 mineral supplements to prevent cardiovascular 00:04:40.389 --> 00:04:43.850 disease. cancer or death so i mentioned this 00:04:43.850 --> 00:04:46.569 because this is what your doctors see in the 00:04:46.569 --> 00:04:49.110 medical literature every day not every day but 00:04:49.110 --> 00:04:51.870 every week at least two or three or four times 00:04:51.870 --> 00:04:54.730 every month they see these ridiculous announcements 00:04:54.730 --> 00:04:57.730 pro announcements that vitamins don't work for 00:04:57.730 --> 00:04:59.790 this or that and as i've mentioned before i'll 00:04:59.790 --> 00:05:02.529 mention it again most of these studies if not 00:05:02.910 --> 00:05:05.670 99 i don't know what the percentage is but a 00:05:05.670 --> 00:05:08.370 vast majority of the studies that say vitamins 00:05:08.370 --> 00:05:10.350 don't work for this or that are poorly designed 00:05:10.350 --> 00:05:13.250 from the outset they're testing vitamins on their 00:05:13.250 --> 00:05:17.160 own with crappy forms, the cheapest forms of 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.399 nutrients, insufficient doses to achieve the 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:23.759 desired effect. They ignore other studies that 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:27.339 show if you want vitamin D or vitamin C or vitamin 00:05:27.339 --> 00:05:31.360 E or a certain amount of turmeric or coenzyme 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:33.819 Q10, if you want it to achieve the desired effect 00:05:33.819 --> 00:05:35.759 that is reported in the literature, then you 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:39.389 have to take enough of it. to do the job, and 00:05:39.389 --> 00:05:42.209 they usually use insufficient dosages. And they 00:05:42.209 --> 00:05:44.569 often use inferior forms, the cheapest forms. 00:05:44.670 --> 00:05:47.250 They think all nutrients are just chemicals, 00:05:47.410 --> 00:05:50.209 and that is not true. Nutrients come from plants, 00:05:50.370 --> 00:05:53.389 and everyone knows that there's variations in 00:05:53.389 --> 00:05:56.009 the quality of plants. If you've ever had taste 00:05:56.009 --> 00:05:59.620 of the difference between a crappy... apple that 00:05:59.620 --> 00:06:02.019 tastes like plastic and a real apple that was 00:06:02.019 --> 00:06:04.019 just picked off of a tree recently that you got 00:06:04.019 --> 00:06:06.379 off your own tree or from farmer's market it's 00:06:06.379 --> 00:06:08.660 a similar difference between high quality and 00:06:08.660 --> 00:06:12.279 low quality nutrients and even organic doesn't 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:13.759 always ensure that you're getting the best thing 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:16.500 because the organic version might have been picked 00:06:16.500 --> 00:06:22.019 in chile two months ago and shipped in on a truck. 00:06:22.259 --> 00:06:24.360 Whereas if you buy something from your local 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:26.939 farmer's market, even if it isn't organic, because 00:06:26.939 --> 00:06:30.100 they can't afford to get the certification, buy 00:06:30.100 --> 00:06:34.170 local, fresh. Organic when you can and grow your 00:06:34.170 --> 00:06:37.709 own veggies when you can. The point is, these 00:06:37.709 --> 00:06:41.209 studies about vitamins and other nutrients are 00:06:41.209 --> 00:06:44.310 horribly biased because they ignore the forms 00:06:44.310 --> 00:06:46.470 of the nutrients. They use doses that are way 00:06:46.470 --> 00:06:49.629 too low to achieve the desired effect most of 00:06:49.629 --> 00:06:53.589 the time. And they test supplements, vitamins, 00:06:53.790 --> 00:06:56.050 minerals, other nutrients, as though they were 00:06:56.050 --> 00:07:00.519 supposed to function like drugs. Meaning they're 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:04.040 supposed to work in isolation. Just give 1 ,000 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:07.240 people or 200 people or 300 people or 6 ,000 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:10.459 people X amount of this vitamin and see if it 00:07:10.459 --> 00:07:13.220 achieves this effect that they're looking forward 00:07:13.220 --> 00:07:15.199 to have. And vitamins don't work by themselves. 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:18.339 They work in combinations. They work synergistically. 00:07:18.500 --> 00:07:21.819 Like the multiple nutrients that are in food, 00:07:22.060 --> 00:07:26.579 they work in combinations. The article goes on 00:07:26.579 --> 00:07:29.100 to state that the Internet is full of the wonders 00:07:29.100 --> 00:07:32.639 of supplements from turmeric curing cancer to 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:36.420 vitamin D curing COVID. Cure, cure, cure. Conventional 00:07:36.420 --> 00:07:38.500 medicine loves this term. They own it legally. 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:42.160 It's largely a fantasy, especially as regards 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:44.920 cancer and cardiovascular disease, the headline 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.839 disease for this article. There are no cures. 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:51.180 for either of these in most people. Once you 00:07:51.180 --> 00:07:55.600 get cancer, it goes into remission. The success 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:58.439 that you're looking for is to put cancer in remission 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:01.180 and keep it in remission. If anyone tells you 00:08:01.180 --> 00:08:05.089 it's cured, they're largely... misinformed because 00:08:05.089 --> 00:08:07.730 it's always more likely to come back once you've 00:08:07.730 --> 00:08:10.269 had it. And cardiovascular disease is never cured. 00:08:10.490 --> 00:08:13.509 People who have inflammation and plaque formation 00:08:13.509 --> 00:08:15.529 in their arteries, that never goes away. There's 00:08:15.529 --> 00:08:17.949 no treatment that completely reverses that and 00:08:17.949 --> 00:08:21.230 restores your cardiovascular system to perfect 00:08:21.230 --> 00:08:25.490 health. So the goal is really reducing your risk 00:08:25.490 --> 00:08:28.129 of getting these things in the first place and 00:08:28.129 --> 00:08:31.850 then maximizing your body's innate ability to 00:08:31.850 --> 00:08:36.149 heal. itself. The lack of evidence of cancer 00:08:36.149 --> 00:08:38.830 on a scan rarely means you've ridden your body 00:08:38.830 --> 00:08:41.350 of cancer forever. When you take blood pressure 00:08:41.350 --> 00:08:44.750 medication, it does not cure hypertension. It 00:08:44.750 --> 00:08:47.129 manages it. I've said it before and I'll say 00:08:47.129 --> 00:08:49.289 it again. I have never cured a single disease 00:08:49.289 --> 00:08:51.730 in any of the thousands of patients I've seen 00:08:51.730 --> 00:08:56.090 over the past 30 plus years. Your body does that. 00:08:56.250 --> 00:08:59.789 The only thing that cures any disease is your 00:08:59.789 --> 00:09:04.220 body. Body. Only your body can heal or cure anything. 00:09:04.820 --> 00:09:07.159 This article goes on to make suggestions as to 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:09.740 what most doctors should do when patients ask 00:09:09.740 --> 00:09:12.220 them about supplements. It says we should hear 00:09:12.220 --> 00:09:14.860 what they're saying. They don't know who to trust, 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:18.279 and we'll never become their trusted source of 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:19.879 medical information if we don't listen to their 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:22.399 concerns. Well, that's good. Then the next line 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:25.259 says, answer their questions, quote, no matter 00:09:25.259 --> 00:09:29.320 how ridiculous they may seem to us. Many people 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:32.059 who sell supplements sound convincing, and that 00:09:32.059 --> 00:09:36.399 is how they sell their products. Hmm. That sounds 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:39.620 a lot to me like the inflated confidence physicians 00:09:39.620 --> 00:09:42.879 place in the efficacy and safety of many medications, 00:09:43.139 --> 00:09:45.360 which are often only tested on a few hundred 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:47.500 people before they're released on the market. 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:52.879 No one ever tests the effects of multiple medications. 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:57.059 They only test them one at a time. Next, the 00:09:57.059 --> 00:09:59.879 article says to give the patient resources so 00:09:59.879 --> 00:10:02.480 that they can know what websites to direct them 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:05.279 to to get accurate information. Well, this is 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:09.299 excellent advice. Don't get medical advice from 00:10:09.299 --> 00:10:13.490 blogs with no doctors on them. patients doing 00:10:13.490 --> 00:10:15.629 their own independent research. These may be 00:10:15.629 --> 00:10:18.830 good places to get a baseline information to 00:10:18.830 --> 00:10:21.730 understand a condition to do further research, 00:10:21.789 --> 00:10:24.110 but you do not want to base your treatment decisions 00:10:24.110 --> 00:10:29.710 solely on a blog with no doctors giving, no experts 00:10:29.710 --> 00:10:32.450 giving you information that you need for proper 00:10:32.450 --> 00:10:35.750 treatment. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, and you're listening 00:10:35.750 --> 00:10:38.889 to Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions to Almost 00:10:38.889 --> 00:10:41.090 Any Health Challenge. And I'm happy to announce 00:10:41.090 --> 00:10:44.909 again that people are often asking me, where 00:10:44.909 --> 00:10:46.889 can I hear the past episodes of the show? So 00:10:46.889 --> 00:10:48.710 I do have a podcast set up now. You can go to 00:10:48.710 --> 00:10:53.190 my website, BinkleyHealingCenter .com, BinkleyHealingCenter 00:10:53.190 --> 00:10:57.049 .com to get the past episodes of the program. 00:10:57.110 --> 00:10:59.990 And you can also email me your questions at DrBinkley 00:10:59.990 --> 00:11:04.039 at BinkleyHealingCenter .com. Here are some good 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:07.000 websites to get useful health information. The 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.779 Cleveland Clinic website, the Mayo Clinic website, 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:16.629 but most importantly PubMed. Just Google PubMed. 00:11:16.789 --> 00:11:19.389 The actual name of the website is much longer. 00:11:19.490 --> 00:11:21.590 But if you just Google PubMed, it will come up. 00:11:21.629 --> 00:11:24.730 And you can look up any information about any 00:11:24.730 --> 00:11:27.549 research that's done on any condition, any supplement, 00:11:27.830 --> 00:11:31.809 any drug. All the research from around the world, 00:11:31.889 --> 00:11:34.330 including European studies, Indonesia, et cetera, 00:11:34.450 --> 00:11:36.909 are published for free by the National Institutes 00:11:36.909 --> 00:11:40.539 of Health on PubMed. PubMed. Unfortunately, the 00:11:40.539 --> 00:11:43.019 U .S. Preventative Services Task Force, like 00:11:43.019 --> 00:11:45.759 so many other so -called authorities regarding 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:49.820 all aspects of health, will never find the studies 00:11:49.820 --> 00:11:53.080 that show the tremendous benefits of supplements 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:56.980 on preventing cancer, heart disease, COVID, or 00:11:56.980 --> 00:11:59.379 any other health condition, because they're only 00:11:59.379 --> 00:12:01.100 looking for studies that show that supplements 00:12:01.100 --> 00:12:04.179 work on their own and cheap forms and low doses, 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:06.600 like I mentioned before. But these studies are 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:09.559 available on PubMed. thousands of them, like 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:11.759 the ones I mentioned in last week's program about 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:16.580 vitamin D. As a reminder, anytime I say prevention, 00:12:16.940 --> 00:12:21.919 know that I mean reduce risk. There are no guarantees 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:25.639 in health care of any sort that will prevent 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:29.000 absolutely 100 % guaranteed prevent any disease. 00:12:29.100 --> 00:12:32.159 What matters is keeping your body healthy, giving 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:34.820 your body a fighting chance, keeping your immune 00:12:34.820 --> 00:12:37.600 system strong, your heart, your liver, your kidneys 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:40.740 functioning as close to peak function as possible. 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:44.460 so that you can reduce your risk of premature 00:12:44.460 --> 00:12:48.440 death and disability. This is as close as you 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.820 can get to preventing almost any disease condition. 00:12:52.330 --> 00:12:54.509 This article goes on to mention that many patients 00:12:54.509 --> 00:12:57.029 assume that supplements are safe. And while this 00:12:57.029 --> 00:12:59.809 may be true for many of them, some of them can 00:12:59.809 --> 00:13:02.549 be harmful in several ways. They can act with 00:13:02.549 --> 00:13:04.809 medications that patients may be taking. And 00:13:04.809 --> 00:13:09.730 this is true. Some are shown to cause liver and 00:13:09.730 --> 00:13:12.710 other organ damage. It's very rare, but there 00:13:12.710 --> 00:13:16.389 are some important examples to know about. Although 00:13:16.389 --> 00:13:18.549 it amazes me to hear people in authority talk 00:13:18.549 --> 00:13:21.029 about the danger of vitamins while never citing 00:13:21.029 --> 00:13:23.649 the statistics that show properly prescribed 00:13:23.649 --> 00:13:28.309 medications kill 100 ,000 people every year in 00:13:28.309 --> 00:13:31.970 America alone, it is true that some supplements 00:13:31.970 --> 00:13:34.990 can interact with medication. And here are some 00:13:34.990 --> 00:13:36.990 of the more important ones to know about. If 00:13:36.990 --> 00:13:39.409 you're taking the blood thinner Warfarin, there 00:13:39.409 --> 00:13:41.450 are a host of things that you shouldn't take, 00:13:41.549 --> 00:13:43.950 the most important of which is vitamin K, which 00:13:43.950 --> 00:13:46.509 can interfere with the function of that medication 00:13:46.509 --> 00:13:49.789 dramatically. Drinking grapefruit juice can interfere 00:13:49.789 --> 00:13:52.389 with several medications because of its interaction 00:13:52.389 --> 00:13:55.450 with a major pathway in the liver that clears 00:13:55.450 --> 00:13:59.980 many drugs from your body. Probably the worst 00:13:59.980 --> 00:14:02.179 single category of supplements people should 00:14:02.179 --> 00:14:05.500 be wary of if they're on any medications are 00:14:05.500 --> 00:14:09.080 many weight loss or sports or so -called energy 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:11.139 boosting or performance enhancing supplements. 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:14.740 The stimulants in these products like mawang, 00:14:15.299 --> 00:14:18.740 ephedrine, and many other dangerous stimulants, 00:14:18.779 --> 00:14:22.519 even ridiculously high doses of caffeine, can 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:24.799 have a dangerous effect on people with heart 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:27.639 conditions and high blood pressure. If you need 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:29.960 a pick -me -up, a couple of cups of coffee or 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:34.220 tea is fine for most people. But don't take stimulants 00:14:34.220 --> 00:14:37.679 in powdered form or capsules and definitely not 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:40.820 these massively caffeinated sugar overdoses like 00:14:40.820 --> 00:14:45.259 Monster and Red Bull. Instead, sweeten your coffee 00:14:45.259 --> 00:14:50.529 or tea with liquid stevia or liquid... Allulose. 00:14:50.649 --> 00:14:53.169 A lot of people have tried stevia, think it tastes 00:14:53.169 --> 00:14:56.210 terrible. Some people can never get used to the 00:14:56.210 --> 00:14:59.029 taste, but most people have only tried the powdered 00:14:59.029 --> 00:15:02.169 form of stevia. And every powdered form of stevia 00:15:02.169 --> 00:15:05.330 I've ever tasted tastes terrible. So there's 00:15:05.330 --> 00:15:07.769 a really good, I've tried many, many kinds. I 00:15:07.769 --> 00:15:10.110 put liquid stevia in my water every day just 00:15:10.110 --> 00:15:12.649 because it coats my throat and I'm always talking 00:15:12.649 --> 00:15:16.139 a lot. keeps my throat from drying out. And the 00:15:16.139 --> 00:15:18.940 brand of Stevia that I like, that I've also given 00:15:18.940 --> 00:15:21.779 to lots of my patients in the office, just to 00:15:21.779 --> 00:15:25.440 help sweeten their tea or coffee, is called Sweet 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:29.679 Leaf Sweet Drops. vanilla flavored so sweet leaf 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:32.419 is the brand sweet drops is the product vanilla 00:15:32.419 --> 00:15:35.039 flavored tastes better they used to have a decent 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:38.220 tasting plain flavor but then they changed it 00:15:38.220 --> 00:15:40.440 so the vanilla flavored kind of cuts the taste 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:43.000 of the herby part of the stevia a lot of people 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:46.940 still think that stevia is an artificial sweetener 00:15:46.940 --> 00:15:51.120 it is not stevia is a plant i have it growing 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:53.360 in my veggie garden right out in front of my 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:56.580 office you can come by Take some leaves off and 00:15:56.580 --> 00:15:59.679 chew on it. It's amazing. The juice from the 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:02.500 leaves of this little shrub -like plant are 200 00:16:02.500 --> 00:16:07.340 times sweeter than sugar. And they have no calories. 00:16:07.379 --> 00:16:09.620 There's no carbohydrate in it. It's a different 00:16:09.620 --> 00:16:13.519 type of sweet nutrient in it that stimulates 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:16.360 the sweet sensors in your tongue, but has no 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:19.679 carbohydrates. Another option is allulose. So 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:21.580 Stevie has been around for years. A lot of people 00:16:21.580 --> 00:16:25.019 haven't ever even heard of allulose. Allulose 00:16:25.019 --> 00:16:28.840 is also a natural sweetener that to most people 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:32.100 tastes much better. To many people, it tastes 00:16:32.100 --> 00:16:34.899 exactly like sugar. It's not as strong as sugar. 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:38.320 So you have to put, if you're going to cook with 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:40.419 it or put it in your tea or your coffee, you're 00:16:40.419 --> 00:16:44.379 going to put twice as much of allulose as you 00:16:44.379 --> 00:16:49.320 would put for sugar. And again, the powdered 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:51.919 forms of allulose also don't really taste that 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:55.440 great. The one that I've found that tastes the 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:58.940 best, which I just buy from Amazon, is called 00:16:58.940 --> 00:17:03.580 My Normal. keto allulose so allulose is made 00:17:03.580 --> 00:17:07.099 from monk fruit and jackfruit this particular 00:17:07.099 --> 00:17:10.819 brand appears just to be made from monk fruit 00:17:10.819 --> 00:17:13.240 it actually does have a little bit of stevia 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:17.369 in it too but It tastes great. It looks the color 00:17:17.369 --> 00:17:19.769 of honey. It's a syrup and it tastes a little 00:17:19.769 --> 00:17:21.970 bit like honey. It's really good. I put it in 00:17:21.970 --> 00:17:25.650 my Earl Grey tea. It's also really good in coffee. 00:17:25.750 --> 00:17:30.029 So natural stevia or natural allulose are great 00:17:30.029 --> 00:17:33.589 substitutes to sweeten your coffee or tea or 00:17:33.589 --> 00:17:35.910 bake with or anything else that you want to substitute. 00:17:36.390 --> 00:17:41.170 I make pumpkin pie and apple pie with no sugar. 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:44.839 Oh my God, how is that possible? Well, with allulose. 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:48.039 And with apple pie, just by cooking the apples 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:49.619 a little bit. There's plenty of sugar in the 00:17:49.619 --> 00:17:52.799 apples. So more on the sugar -free options later. 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:56.440 Just to finish off the comments on this article 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.579 about dangerous supplements, quote unquote, there 00:17:59.579 --> 00:18:03.099 are a lot of cheap Chinese herbs out there that 00:18:03.099 --> 00:18:05.279 can cause problems, that can interact with a 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:08.019 lot of common medications. And cheap Chinese 00:18:08.019 --> 00:18:11.019 herbs that you just might buy in some store somewhere 00:18:11.019 --> 00:18:15.460 have frequently been tested and found. to be 00:18:15.460 --> 00:18:19.140 dangerous and even laced with drugs, with pharmaceuticals. 00:18:19.140 --> 00:18:22.039 So I recommend a number of herbal products in 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:24.680 my practice, but I always recommend only getting 00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:28.160 them from reputable sources like... Orthomolecular 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:31.579 Products, Designs for Health, Doctors Research, 00:18:31.900 --> 00:18:34.859 and Clinical Synergy, which is a product line 00:18:34.859 --> 00:18:38.019 specifically designed for cancer patients by 00:18:38.019 --> 00:18:41.619 the preeminent integrative oncologist, Dr. Isaac 00:18:41.619 --> 00:18:45.259 Elias, MD. So, you know, you get what you pay 00:18:45.259 --> 00:18:49.500 for. Don't buy cheap Chinese herbs. Most of the 00:18:49.500 --> 00:18:51.220 rest of the supplements, you're going to take 00:18:51.220 --> 00:18:53.539 all the ones you're going to hear me talking 00:18:53.539 --> 00:18:57.089 about on this show. are very safe, especially 00:18:57.089 --> 00:19:02.890 compared to the drugs that kill 100 ,000 people 00:19:02.890 --> 00:19:08.309 a year, properly prescribed medications. I promised 00:19:08.309 --> 00:19:10.890 to talk about an exciting cancer patient. A 64 00:19:10.890 --> 00:19:13.349 -year -old woman came to me who had been diagnosed 00:19:13.349 --> 00:19:16.150 with stomach cancer that had spread to her small 00:19:16.150 --> 00:19:18.690 intestine and slightly into her pancreas. This 00:19:18.690 --> 00:19:21.789 was about three years ago. She was scheduled 00:19:21.789 --> 00:19:24.410 for chemotherapy, and she wanted to know if there 00:19:24.410 --> 00:19:26.650 were any nutrients that could help her body heal 00:19:26.650 --> 00:19:29.950 itself while she was... doing the chemotherapy, 00:19:30.230 --> 00:19:32.390 which of course I said, yes, there definitely 00:19:32.390 --> 00:19:35.490 are. You don't take, when you're on chemo, you 00:19:35.490 --> 00:19:38.390 don't take a bunch of supplements while the same 00:19:38.390 --> 00:19:40.490 day that you're doing the chemo. But chemotherapy 00:19:40.490 --> 00:19:43.210 is usually done in cycles where you take it for 00:19:43.210 --> 00:19:45.609 two or three days and then you go off for... 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:49.440 the remainder of a couple of weeks. They vary 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:52.319 a lot, but the point is you don't take it the 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:54.180 day of, you don't take it the day before, you 00:19:54.180 --> 00:19:55.799 don't take it the day after, but then the rest 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:58.700 of the days in between the days when you're going 00:19:58.700 --> 00:20:02.579 in, usually for an infusion. for chemotherapy, 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:05.220 then you can load your body up on nutrients to 00:20:05.220 --> 00:20:08.920 help it survive the horrible damaging effects 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:12.299 on your healthy cells that the chemotherapy is 00:20:12.299 --> 00:20:14.460 doing to try to kill off your cancer cells. You 00:20:14.460 --> 00:20:18.299 want the rest of your cells to survive and boosting 00:20:18.299 --> 00:20:21.500 your body with nutrients in between the chemotherapy 00:20:21.500 --> 00:20:23.940 sessions can do wonders for that. So she started 00:20:23.940 --> 00:20:28.710 off with just a very basic program. of vitamin 00:20:28.710 --> 00:20:32.269 D, some anti -inflammatory nutrients, a nutrient 00:20:32.269 --> 00:20:36.750 to boost her glutathione levels, and some mushrooms. 00:20:37.549 --> 00:20:40.930 There's a whole host of great nutraceutical products, 00:20:41.109 --> 00:20:43.210 mushrooms that help boost your immune system. 00:20:43.289 --> 00:20:46.349 This was one in particular by Clinical Synergy, 00:20:46.369 --> 00:20:49.890 which I mentioned earlier. And a low dose of 00:20:49.890 --> 00:20:52.230 curcumin, a product from Designs for Health called... 00:20:52.940 --> 00:20:56.440 So she did that for a while and she got her response 00:20:56.440 --> 00:20:59.200 back and she did pretty good. Her response to 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:01.799 the chemotherapy with the support of the nutrients 00:21:01.799 --> 00:21:04.940 combined was pretty good. And then a few months 00:21:04.940 --> 00:21:09.880 more went by and she got another PET scan. And 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:13.380 after the initial PET scan, she was. doing great. 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:16.259 The response was deemed by her traditional oncologist 00:21:16.259 --> 00:21:19.339 to be a very good response. But then a few more 00:21:19.339 --> 00:21:23.480 months went by and she got her blood tests again. 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:26.480 I'm constantly talking, not constantly, but occasionally 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:29.660 talking about these blood tests you can do, which 00:21:29.660 --> 00:21:33.759 oncologists use called tumor markers that measure 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:36.859 your immune system's ability. to your immune 00:21:36.859 --> 00:21:38.700 system's activity, your immune system's attempts 00:21:38.700 --> 00:21:42.140 to fight off cancer causing cells. So these markers 00:21:42.140 --> 00:21:45.400 she had done a few months after her fairly successful 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:50.420 bout with cancer treatment, these markers were 00:21:50.420 --> 00:21:52.619 going back up again. And I said, well, you know, 00:21:52.660 --> 00:21:54.740 I had mentioned to her before that I would recommend 00:21:54.740 --> 00:21:56.740 that she take a whole bunch of supplements. If 00:21:56.740 --> 00:21:58.480 you have cancer, you want to load your body up 00:21:58.480 --> 00:22:01.380 with. everything it could possibly benefit from 00:22:01.380 --> 00:22:03.799 to fight the cancer off. And she wanted to take 00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:05.559 it slow. She just took a few things, the ones 00:22:05.559 --> 00:22:07.539 that I mentioned before. So then when she came 00:22:07.539 --> 00:22:10.859 back a few months later and her tumor markers 00:22:10.859 --> 00:22:13.859 started going back up again, I said, okay, don't 00:22:13.859 --> 00:22:17.359 waste any more time. And we added, well, she 00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:19.180 actually wasn't even taking the good multivitamin 00:22:19.180 --> 00:22:22.720 I recommended before. So now we added the good 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:25.900 form of vitamin D, fish oil, the good multi. 00:22:27.069 --> 00:22:29.890 A special form of magnesium to help deal with 00:22:29.890 --> 00:22:32.450 some of the side effects that chemo can cause 00:22:32.450 --> 00:22:35.130 on nerves, tingling and numbness in the nerves. 00:22:35.309 --> 00:22:39.230 Some acetylalcarnitine to help also heal nerves. 00:22:39.690 --> 00:22:44.230 Resveratrol, a potent antioxidant. An herbal 00:22:44.230 --> 00:22:47.890 product to directly help her body rebuild, called 00:22:47.890 --> 00:22:50.670 neurotrophin, to directly help repair damaged 00:22:50.670 --> 00:22:54.349 nerves. Chemotherapy damages, in a lot of cases, 00:22:54.390 --> 00:22:56.960 damages your nerves. Some NSAIDs. enzymes to 00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:58.859 help break down the products of inflammation, 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:02.759 continuing on the curcuma veil, the turmeric 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:07.299 product, glutathione support, and the mushroom, 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:09.980 high -dose mushroom product to boost her immune 00:23:09.980 --> 00:23:13.200 system. So a few more weeks go by, and all of 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:17.950 her tests come back much, much better. And after 00:23:17.950 --> 00:23:21.970 doing both traditional oncology with a whole 00:23:21.970 --> 00:23:24.670 host of nutrients, both to deal with the side 00:23:24.670 --> 00:23:27.849 effects of the chemotherapy, but also to boost 00:23:27.849 --> 00:23:30.369 her body's immune system and give it its best 00:23:30.369 --> 00:23:33.829 chance to fight off the cancer, she has now been 00:23:33.829 --> 00:23:37.970 in complete remission. Her PET scan, totally 00:23:37.970 --> 00:23:41.390 clear. Her oncologist was very impressed with 00:23:41.390 --> 00:23:45.789 her response to treatment. And she's doing great. 00:23:46.279 --> 00:23:48.819 actually been almost a year ago she's still doing 00:23:48.819 --> 00:23:51.460 i spoke to her recently and she's still doing 00:23:51.460 --> 00:23:55.039 really great in another episode i'll talk more 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:57.519 about these tumor markers relatively inexpensive 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:00.779 blood tests that can be used to identify places 00:24:00.779 --> 00:24:03.160 where your immune system currently needs support 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:06.099 in fighting off cancer causing cells which you 00:24:06.099 --> 00:24:08.880 can use to reduce your risk of many types of 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:12.319 cancer I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. Remember, the health 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:15.240 of your body is always far more important than 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:17.200 the name of any disease condition you've been 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:20.359 diagnosed with. Have a fabulous weekend. Do something 00:24:20.359 --> 00:24:24.819 this weekend to be healthier than you were last 00:24:24.819 --> 00:24:28.619 weekend. Give someone a hug. Stuff yourself with 00:24:28.619 --> 00:24:32.019 some healthy fats and proteins, nuts, a piece 00:24:32.019 --> 00:24:35.440 of chicken, anything with sustained energy and 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:37.599 actual nutrients before you go to all those parties 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:39.480 and are tempted by all those sugary stuff. I 00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:41.299 look forward to speaking with you right here 00:24:41.299 --> 00:24:45.559 on KDR next Friday at 4 p .m. 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