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 running tests that they
don't normally do, usually because your insurance
company doesn't want to pay for them, but it's
a lot less expensive than you might think to
get true healthcare. I've got an exciting show
to you today. We're going to be talking about
some... some ongoing reasons that most medical
doctors just don't know anything about or even
if they hear about, still choose not to provide
safe, effective, natural solutions for most health
challenges and instead just rely on drugs and
conventional medical care. I'm also going to
talk about an exciting case study about... A
patient of mine who had a really bad cancer of
the stomach and intestines who completely reversed
it with my help and conventional oncology combined
and has now been feeling great for two years
plus. I've mentioned before that one of the reasons
99 % of most doctors don't offer safe, effective
natural solutions and still just rely on pharmaceuticals
is because their employees, most doctors. are
employees of a private equity group or a contract
management group or a hospital or a health system
or a health insurer. So here's an article that
just came out. UnitedHealth's Optimum Division
just added 20 ,000 doctors this year alone. They
now have over 90 ,000 doctors. Some 10 % of the
physician workforce has employees or... Well,
that's good if you have insurance with UnitedHealth
Group because you want to have doctors available
to treat you if you need medical care and lots
of people need medical care. There's absolutely
nothing wrong with that. But in addition to this
10 % of the physician workforce, UnitedHealth
also counts an additional 40 ,000 advanced practice
clinicians among its ranks. make Optimum Health
the largest employer of physicians in the U .S.
and UnitedHealth is the largest, country's largest
private health insurer. So why do I mention this?
The main reason is because people often ask me
all these things that you talk about, about how
you can use better food, exercise and supplements
where indicated and the fact that you do all
these tests that most other doctors don't do.
Why don't all doctors do that? Well, this is
the reason. They're employees. They're employees
of corporations that dictate what they can and
cannot do. They get penalized if they order the
tests that I order. It costs them money. They
can even lose their credentials. I've mentioned
this in a previous show of mine where a group
of physicians were penalized in their health
care facility for not prescribing medication
and instead offering lifestyle alternatives,
basically better food, exercise, and supplements.
And they got downgraded in their ratings because
the ratings weren't based on how healthy the
patient was. The ratings were based on how well
the patients adhered to taking recommended medications,
which is just ridiculous. Here's another reason
most doctors don't recommend natural alternatives.
They continue to see in the medical press articles
like this, which was just on Medscape this week,
an article entitled, Can Vitamin and Mineral
Supplements Prevent Cancer or Cardiovascular
Disease? Well, I can guarantee you when you see
a headline like that, the answer is going. According
to this article, the USPSTF, the United States
Prevention Services Task Force, said that they
reviewed 17 ,000 unique citations and 379 full
-text articles that included randomized clinical
trials and observational cohort studies. The
conclusions of their research showed that there
was little to no benefit in taking vitamin or
mineral supplements to prevent cardiovascular
disease. cancer or death so i mentioned this
because this is what your doctors see in the
medical literature every day not every day but
every week at least two or three or four times
every month they see these ridiculous announcements
pro announcements that vitamins don't work for
this or that and as i've mentioned before i'll
mention it again most of these studies if not
99 i don't know what the percentage is but a
vast majority of the studies that say vitamins
don't work for this or that are poorly designed
from the outset they're testing vitamins on their
own with crappy forms, the cheapest forms of
nutrients, insufficient doses to achieve the
desired effect. They ignore other studies that
show if you want vitamin D or vitamin C or vitamin
E or a certain amount of turmeric or coenzyme
Q10, if you want it to achieve the desired effect
that is reported in the literature, then you
have to take enough of it. to do the job, and
they usually use insufficient dosages. And they
often use inferior forms, the cheapest forms.
They think all nutrients are just chemicals,
and that is not true. Nutrients come from plants,
and everyone knows that there's variations in
the quality of plants. If you've ever had taste
of the difference between a crappy... apple that
tastes like plastic and a real apple that was
just picked off of a tree recently that you got
off your own tree or from farmer's market it's
a similar difference between high quality and
low quality nutrients and even organic doesn't
always ensure that you're getting the best thing
because the organic version might have been picked
in chile two months ago and shipped in on a truck.
Whereas if you buy something from your local
farmer's market, even if it isn't organic, because
they can't afford to get the certification, buy
local, fresh. Organic when you can and grow your
own veggies when you can. The point is, these
studies about vitamins and other nutrients are
horribly biased because they ignore the forms
of the nutrients. They use doses that are way
too low to achieve the desired effect most of
the time. And they test supplements, vitamins,
minerals, other nutrients, as though they were
supposed to function like drugs. Meaning they're
supposed to work in isolation. Just give 1 ,000
people or 200 people or 300 people or 6 ,000
people X amount of this vitamin and see if it
achieves this effect that they're looking forward
to have. And vitamins don't work by themselves.
They work in combinations. They work synergistically.
Like the multiple nutrients that are in food,
they work in combinations. The article goes on
to state that the Internet is full of the wonders
of supplements from turmeric curing cancer to
vitamin D curing COVID. Cure, cure, cure. Conventional
medicine loves this term. They own it legally.
It's largely a fantasy, especially as regards
cancer and cardiovascular disease, the headline
disease for this article. There are no cures.
for either of these in most people. Once you
get cancer, it goes into remission. The success
that you're looking for is to put cancer in remission
and keep it in remission. If anyone tells you
it's cured, they're largely... misinformed because
it's always more likely to come back once you've
had it. And cardiovascular disease is never cured.
People who have inflammation and plaque formation
in their arteries, that never goes away. There's
no treatment that completely reverses that and
restores your cardiovascular system to perfect
health. So the goal is really reducing your risk
of getting these things in the first place and
then maximizing your body's innate ability to
heal. itself. The lack of evidence of cancer
on a scan rarely means you've ridden your body
of cancer forever. When you take blood pressure
medication, it does not cure hypertension. It
manages it. I've said it before and I'll say
it again. I have never cured a single disease
in any of the thousands of patients I've seen
over the past 30 plus years. Your body does that.
The only thing that cures any disease is your
body. Body. Only your body can heal or cure anything.
This article goes on to make suggestions as to
what most doctors should do when patients ask
them about supplements. It says we should hear
what they're saying. They don't know who to trust,
and we'll never become their trusted source of
medical information if we don't listen to their
concerns. Well, that's good. Then the next line
says, answer their questions, quote, no matter
how ridiculous they may seem to us. Many people
who sell supplements sound convincing, and that
is how they sell their products. Hmm. That sounds
a lot to me like the inflated confidence physicians
place in the efficacy and safety of many medications,
which are often only tested on a few hundred
people before they're released on the market.
No one ever tests the effects of multiple medications.
They only test them one at a time. Next, the
article says to give the patient resources so
that they can know what websites to direct them
to to get accurate information. Well, this is
excellent advice. Don't get medical advice from
blogs with no doctors on them. patients doing
their own independent research. These may be
good places to get a baseline information to
understand a condition to do further research,
but you do not want to base your treatment decisions
solely on a blog with no doctors giving, no experts
giving you information that you need for proper
treatment. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, and you're listening
to Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions to Almost
Any Health Challenge. And I'm happy to announce
again that people are often asking me, where
can I hear the past episodes of the show? So
I do have a podcast set up now. You can go to
my website, BinkleyHealingCenter .com, BinkleyHealingCenter
.com to get the past episodes of the program.
And you can also email me your questions at DrBinkley
at BinkleyHealingCenter .com. Here are some good
websites to get useful health information. The
Cleveland Clinic website, the Mayo Clinic website,
but most importantly PubMed. Just Google PubMed.
The actual name of the website is much longer.
But if you just Google PubMed, it will come up.
And you can look up any information about any
research that's done on any condition, any supplement,
any drug. All the research from around the world,
including European studies, Indonesia, et cetera,
are published for free by the National Institutes
of Health on PubMed. PubMed. Unfortunately, the
U .S. Preventative Services Task Force, like
so many other so -called authorities regarding
all aspects of health, will never find the studies
that show the tremendous benefits of supplements
on preventing cancer, heart disease, COVID, or
any other health condition, because they're only
looking for studies that show that supplements
work on their own and cheap forms and low doses,
like I mentioned before. But these studies are
available on PubMed. thousands of them, like
the ones I mentioned in last week's program about
vitamin D. As a reminder, anytime I say prevention,
know that I mean reduce risk. There are no guarantees
in health care of any sort that will prevent
absolutely 100 % guaranteed prevent any disease.
What matters is keeping your body healthy, giving
your body a fighting chance, keeping your immune
system strong, your heart, your liver, your kidneys
functioning as close to peak function as possible.
so that you can reduce your risk of premature
death and disability. This is as close as you
can get to preventing almost any disease condition.
This article goes on to mention that many patients
assume that supplements are safe. And while this
may be true for many of them, some of them can
be harmful in several ways. They can act with
medications that patients may be taking. And
this is true. Some are shown to cause liver and
other organ damage. It's very rare, but there
are some important examples to know about. Although
it amazes me to hear people in authority talk
about the danger of vitamins while never citing
the statistics that show properly prescribed
medications kill 100 ,000 people every year in
America alone, it is true that some supplements
can interact with medication. And here are some
of the more important ones to know about. If
you're taking the blood thinner Warfarin, there
are a host of things that you shouldn't take,
the most important of which is vitamin K, which
can interfere with the function of that medication
dramatically. Drinking grapefruit juice can interfere
with several medications because of its interaction
with a major pathway in the liver that clears
many drugs from your body. Probably the worst
single category of supplements people should
be wary of if they're on any medications are
many weight loss or sports or so -called energy
boosting or performance enhancing supplements.
The stimulants in these products like mawang,
ephedrine, and many other dangerous stimulants,
even ridiculously high doses of caffeine, can
have a dangerous effect on people with heart
conditions and high blood pressure. If you need
a pick -me -up, a couple of cups of coffee or
tea is fine for most people. But don't take stimulants
in powdered form or capsules and definitely not
these massively caffeinated sugar overdoses like
Monster and Red Bull. Instead, sweeten your coffee
or tea with liquid stevia or liquid... Allulose.
A lot of people have tried stevia, think it tastes
terrible. Some people can never get used to the
taste, but most people have only tried the powdered
form of stevia. And every powdered form of stevia
I've ever tasted tastes terrible. So there's
a really good, I've tried many, many kinds. I
put liquid stevia in my water every day just
because it coats my throat and I'm always talking
a lot. keeps my throat from drying out. And the
brand of Stevia that I like, that I've also given
to lots of my patients in the office, just to
help sweeten their tea or coffee, is called Sweet
Leaf Sweet Drops. vanilla flavored so sweet leaf
is the brand sweet drops is the product vanilla
flavored tastes better they used to have a decent
tasting plain flavor but then they changed it
so the vanilla flavored kind of cuts the taste
of the herby part of the stevia a lot of people
still think that stevia is an artificial sweetener
it is not stevia is a plant i have it growing
in my veggie garden right out in front of my
office you can come by Take some leaves off and
chew on it. It's amazing. The juice from the
leaves of this little shrub -like plant are 200
times sweeter than sugar. And they have no calories.
There's no carbohydrate in it. It's a different
type of sweet nutrient in it that stimulates
the sweet sensors in your tongue, but has no
carbohydrates. Another option is allulose. So
Stevie has been around for years. A lot of people
haven't ever even heard of allulose. Allulose
is also a natural sweetener that to most people
tastes much better. To many people, it tastes
exactly like sugar. It's not as strong as sugar.
So you have to put, if you're going to cook with
it or put it in your tea or your coffee, you're
going to put twice as much of allulose as you
would put for sugar. And again, the powdered
forms of allulose also don't really taste that
great. The one that I've found that tastes the
best, which I just buy from Amazon, is called
My Normal. keto allulose so allulose is made
from monk fruit and jackfruit this particular
brand appears just to be made from monk fruit
it actually does have a little bit of stevia
in it too but It tastes great. It looks the color
of honey. It's a syrup and it tastes a little
bit like honey. It's really good. I put it in
my Earl Grey tea. It's also really good in coffee.
So natural stevia or natural allulose are great
substitutes to sweeten your coffee or tea or
bake with or anything else that you want to substitute.
I make pumpkin pie and apple pie with no sugar.
Oh my God, how is that possible? Well, with allulose.
And with apple pie, just by cooking the apples
a little bit. There's plenty of sugar in the
apples. So more on the sugar -free options later.
Just to finish off the comments on this article
about dangerous supplements, quote unquote, there
are a lot of cheap Chinese herbs out there that
can cause problems, that can interact with a
lot of common medications. And cheap Chinese
herbs that you just might buy in some store somewhere
have frequently been tested and found. to be
dangerous and even laced with drugs, with pharmaceuticals.
So I recommend a number of herbal products in
my practice, but I always recommend only getting
them from reputable sources like... Orthomolecular
Products, Designs for Health, Doctors Research,
and Clinical Synergy, which is a product line
specifically designed for cancer patients by
the preeminent integrative oncologist, Dr. Isaac
Elias, MD. So, you know, you get what you pay
for. Don't buy cheap Chinese herbs. Most of the
rest of the supplements, you're going to take
all the ones you're going to hear me talking
about on this show. are very safe, especially
compared to the drugs that kill 100 ,000 people
a year, properly prescribed medications. I promised
to talk about an exciting cancer patient. A 64
-year -old woman came to me who had been diagnosed
with stomach cancer that had spread to her small
intestine and slightly into her pancreas. This
was about three years ago. She was scheduled
for chemotherapy, and she wanted to know if there
were any nutrients that could help her body heal
itself while she was... doing the chemotherapy,
which of course I said, yes, there definitely
are. You don't take, when you're on chemo, you
don't take a bunch of supplements while the same
day that you're doing the chemo. But chemotherapy
is usually done in cycles where you take it for
two or three days and then you go off for...
the remainder of a couple of weeks. They vary
a lot, but the point is you don't take it the
day of, you don't take it the day before, you
don't take it the day after, but then the rest
of the days in between the days when you're going
in, usually for an infusion. for chemotherapy,
then you can load your body up on nutrients to
help it survive the horrible damaging effects
on your healthy cells that the chemotherapy is
doing to try to kill off your cancer cells. You
want the rest of your cells to survive and boosting
your body with nutrients in between the chemotherapy
sessions can do wonders for that. So she started
off with just a very basic program. of vitamin
D, some anti -inflammatory nutrients, a nutrient
to boost her glutathione levels, and some mushrooms.
There's a whole host of great nutraceutical products,
mushrooms that help boost your immune system.
This was one in particular by Clinical Synergy,
which I mentioned earlier. And a low dose of
curcumin, a product from Designs for Health called...
So she did that for a while and she got her response
back and she did pretty good. Her response to
the chemotherapy with the support of the nutrients
combined was pretty good. And then a few months
more went by and she got another PET scan. And
after the initial PET scan, she was. doing great.
The response was deemed by her traditional oncologist
to be a very good response. But then a few more
months went by and she got her blood tests again.
I'm constantly talking, not constantly, but occasionally
talking about these blood tests you can do, which
oncologists use called tumor markers that measure
your immune system's ability. to your immune
system's activity, your immune system's attempts
to fight off cancer causing cells. So these markers
she had done a few months after her fairly successful
bout with cancer treatment, these markers were
going back up again. And I said, well, you know,
I had mentioned to her before that I would recommend
that she take a whole bunch of supplements. If
you have cancer, you want to load your body up
with. everything it could possibly benefit from
to fight the cancer off. And she wanted to take
it slow. She just took a few things, the ones
that I mentioned before. So then when she came
back a few months later and her tumor markers
started going back up again, I said, okay, don't
waste any more time. And we added, well, she
actually wasn't even taking the good multivitamin
I recommended before. So now we added the good
form of vitamin D, fish oil, the good multi.
A special form of magnesium to help deal with
some of the side effects that chemo can cause
on nerves, tingling and numbness in the nerves.
Some acetylalcarnitine to help also heal nerves.
Resveratrol, a potent antioxidant. An herbal
product to directly help her body rebuild, called
neurotrophin, to directly help repair damaged
nerves. Chemotherapy damages, in a lot of cases,
damages your nerves. Some NSAIDs. enzymes to
help break down the products of inflammation,
continuing on the curcuma veil, the turmeric
product, glutathione support, and the mushroom,
high -dose mushroom product to boost her immune
system. So a few more weeks go by, and all of
her tests come back much, much better. And after
doing both traditional oncology with a whole
host of nutrients, both to deal with the side
effects of the chemotherapy, but also to boost
her body's immune system and give it its best
chance to fight off the cancer, she has now been
in complete remission. Her PET scan, totally
clear. Her oncologist was very impressed with
her response to treatment. And she's doing great.
actually been almost a year ago she's still doing
i spoke to her recently and she's still doing
really great in another episode i'll talk more
about these tumor markers relatively inexpensive
blood tests that can be used to identify places
where your immune system currently needs support
in fighting off cancer causing cells which you
can use to reduce your risk of many types of
cancer I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. Remember, the health
of your body is always far more important than
the name of any disease condition you've been
diagnosed with. Have a fabulous weekend. Do something
this weekend to be healthier than you were last
weekend. Give someone a hug. Stuff yourself with
some healthy fats and proteins, nuts, a piece
of chicken, anything with sustained energy and
actual nutrients before you go to all those parties
and are tempted by all those sugary stuff. I
look forward to speaking with you right here
on KDR next Friday at 4 p .m. You've been listening
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