WEBVTT 00:00:00.490 --> 00:00:03.330 Prepare to have your health questions answered 00:00:03.330 --> 00:00:07.290 here on Safe, Effective Natural Solutions with 00:00:07.290 --> 00:00:10.689 Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center 00:00:10.689 --> 00:00:15.699 in downtown Ventura. Now, here's Dr. Todd. Good 00:00:15.699 --> 00:00:17.739 afternoon. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board -certified 00:00:17.739 --> 00:00:20.000 doctor of non -force chiropractic and practitioner 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.199 of functional medicine. What is functional medicine? 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:25.739 Functional medicine basically means using the 00:00:25.739 --> 00:00:28.199 same diagnostic tests, mostly blood tests, but 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:30.940 some other tests that most doctors use to identify 00:00:30.940 --> 00:00:34.560 disease, and instead using those same tests and 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:37.240 often more of them with a different metric, a 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:40.039 way of looking at your health of your body to... 00:00:40.469 --> 00:00:43.310 Identify earlier signs of stress on your liver, 00:00:43.390 --> 00:00:46.310 on your kidneys, on your cardiovascular system 00:00:46.310 --> 00:00:49.450 and your immune system in ways and at times that 00:00:49.450 --> 00:00:52.929 enable you to restore normal health, to restore 00:00:52.929 --> 00:00:55.070 normal function. So functional medicine means 00:00:55.070 --> 00:00:58.310 using standard diagnostic tests to identify earlier 00:00:58.310 --> 00:01:01.969 signs of stress on your body so that you can 00:01:01.969 --> 00:01:04.469 heal yourself, so that you can reverse disease 00:01:04.469 --> 00:01:07.549 and not become dependent on pharmaceuticals or 00:01:07.549 --> 00:01:10.709 other invasive medical treatments. for the rest 00:01:10.709 --> 00:01:12.810 of your life. Medical care is wonderful. Medical 00:01:12.810 --> 00:01:15.450 care is necessary when you need it. But a lot 00:01:15.450 --> 00:01:17.829 of people would like to be able to avoid it. 00:01:17.969 --> 00:01:20.489 And a lot of people, honestly, more people that 00:01:20.489 --> 00:01:22.950 come to me have already been through. They've 00:01:22.950 --> 00:01:24.989 already seen several other doctors. They've been 00:01:24.989 --> 00:01:27.590 through all of the tests. No one has been able 00:01:27.590 --> 00:01:31.329 to help them. They've seen specialists. And it's 00:01:31.329 --> 00:01:33.510 really frustrating when you go and over and over 00:01:33.510 --> 00:01:36.090 again be told that all of your tests are normal. 00:01:36.810 --> 00:01:38.849 and there's nothing wrong with you, or even worse, 00:01:38.950 --> 00:01:41.730 it's all in your head. People really love to 00:01:41.730 --> 00:01:44.109 get a referral to a psychologist or a psychiatrist 00:01:44.109 --> 00:01:47.250 when they know they have a real physical complaint. 00:01:48.150 --> 00:01:50.450 No, of course, they don't love that. They're 00:01:50.450 --> 00:01:53.090 looking for a solution. So if you know somebody 00:01:53.090 --> 00:01:56.189 that has been to several doctors and been told 00:01:56.189 --> 00:01:57.590 that there's nothing wrong with them, somebody 00:01:57.590 --> 00:01:59.890 you love, maybe yourself, have a condition that 00:01:59.890 --> 00:02:03.030 no one else has been able to figure out the actual 00:02:03.030 --> 00:02:06.349 cause of and come up with a solution that will 00:02:06.349 --> 00:02:09.509 enable your body to heal itself again, then I'd 00:02:09.509 --> 00:02:12.210 love the opportunity to help you or them and 00:02:12.210 --> 00:02:15.050 using functional medicine to identify earlier 00:02:15.050 --> 00:02:17.189 signs of stress on all of your organs. So a lot 00:02:17.189 --> 00:02:20.210 of the time, people have one condition that they're 00:02:20.210 --> 00:02:23.650 bothered with the most, and it's sometimes difficult 00:02:23.650 --> 00:02:26.849 to not kind of sometimes become obsessed, really, 00:02:26.949 --> 00:02:28.990 with that one thing. Oh, it's this, you know, 00:02:29.030 --> 00:02:31.449 if you can just fix this spot, I'll be happy. 00:02:31.550 --> 00:02:32.889 Oh, I have a whole bunch of other things going 00:02:32.889 --> 00:02:34.650 on, but I don't want to talk about that. I just 00:02:34.650 --> 00:02:36.930 want to focus on this one thing. Well, health 00:02:36.930 --> 00:02:39.729 and healing doesn't really work that way. Medicine, 00:02:39.789 --> 00:02:44.069 taking medication, one drug for one problem is 00:02:44.069 --> 00:02:46.340 sometimes important. But if you want to heal 00:02:46.340 --> 00:02:49.599 yourself, if you want to identify areas that 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:52.139 need healing in your body, if you want a natural, 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:55.259 safe, effective, natural solution to a problem 00:02:55.259 --> 00:02:57.319 that's been bothering you or someone you love 00:02:57.319 --> 00:02:59.419 for a long time that no one else has been able 00:02:59.419 --> 00:03:02.680 to help, then that usually will require addressing. 00:03:03.340 --> 00:03:05.620 everything in your body all at the same time, 00:03:05.620 --> 00:03:08.939 identifying problems with multiple organs and 00:03:08.939 --> 00:03:11.520 systems and nutrient deficiencies and maybe a 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:13.520 chronic infection that you don't even know you 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:17.599 have, things that don't necessarily fit what 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:19.840 you might have been told about various conditions. 00:03:19.900 --> 00:03:22.419 But it's all about combinations, looking at everything 00:03:22.419 --> 00:03:26.139 that's happening in your body all at the same 00:03:26.139 --> 00:03:28.800 time. One of my favorite metaphors to help people 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:31.719 understand this is what I call the river of life. 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:35.780 Your bloodstream is kind of like a river filled 00:03:35.780 --> 00:03:38.719 with nutrients that all of your cells need to 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:41.719 heal and repair themselves. And there are crews 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:44.939 waiting along the banks of this river that are 00:03:44.939 --> 00:03:47.819 anxious to heal and repair some part of your 00:03:47.819 --> 00:03:50.000 body, do routine maintenance, fix a problem, 00:03:50.139 --> 00:03:53.449 cure a disease. And they require the necessary 00:03:53.449 --> 00:03:56.550 materials to do that. And oftentimes, many, many 00:03:56.550 --> 00:03:59.310 times, much of the time for so many people, those 00:03:59.310 --> 00:04:02.310 basic raw materials needed to heal and repair 00:04:02.310 --> 00:04:05.689 your kidneys or your liver or your immune system, 00:04:05.729 --> 00:04:08.090 those materials are not available. They're not 00:04:08.090 --> 00:04:10.310 in your bloodstream. They're not in your river 00:04:10.310 --> 00:04:14.590 of life. So to heal and repair yourself, you 00:04:14.590 --> 00:04:17.230 need to identify all of the things that are missing. 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:20.639 from your river of life and replace all of those 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:24.180 things, all of them at the same time until your 00:04:24.180 --> 00:04:26.040 body is finished healing itself so that those 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:28.579 construction crews finally get all the raw materials 00:04:28.579 --> 00:04:31.879 they need to heal and repair everything at the 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:34.000 same time. And a lot of times people say, oh, 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:36.680 I just want to try one vitamin. If you say this 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:40.079 works, if this one thing works for lowering my 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:42.800 cholesterol or my blood pressure or helping with 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:44.079 my arthritis, let me know. I'm just going to 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:47.649 take that. for a few weeks. And then if it works, 00:04:47.649 --> 00:04:49.810 then I'll, I'll try the next one that you recommended. 00:04:49.930 --> 00:04:53.529 Well, I'm sorry that that doesn't work when you're 00:04:53.529 --> 00:04:56.480 river of life. lacks any of the essential nutrients 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.480 that your body requires to properly heal and 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:02.379 repair itself, then that is often what underlies 00:05:02.379 --> 00:05:04.560 the condition that no one else has been able 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:06.899 to figure out because you need all of the nutrients. 00:05:07.139 --> 00:05:09.439 You need to give your body, you need to flood 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:11.540 your river of life with all of the nutrients 00:05:11.540 --> 00:05:15.420 required to heal and repair. And, you know, that 00:05:15.420 --> 00:05:17.800 seems it is different than the practice of medicine. 00:05:18.139 --> 00:05:20.660 Medicine means identifying a single condition, 00:05:20.740 --> 00:05:22.779 usually maybe more than one condition, but usually 00:05:22.779 --> 00:05:26.089 at least focus on one condition. and one diagnosis 00:05:26.089 --> 00:05:29.149 and treatment with a pharmaceutical or a surgical 00:05:29.149 --> 00:05:33.120 procedure or some other invasive. often costly 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:36.120 therapy that has side effects that most of us 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:38.819 would rather avoid. And so the only alternative 00:05:38.819 --> 00:05:42.240 is to heal and heal and repair yourself naturally 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:45.199 by giving your body all of the nutrients it needs 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:47.759 to do that. And to be able to give your body 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:49.439 all of the nutrients it needs, you must first 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:52.379 identify the ones that are missing. So that is 00:05:52.379 --> 00:05:55.699 what functional testing is for, using standard 00:05:55.699 --> 00:05:57.939 diagnostic tests to identify places where normal 00:05:57.939 --> 00:06:01.800 function is lacking and giving your body. nutrients 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:03.879 that needs to restore that normal function. So 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:07.160 unfortunately, insurance usually does not pay 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:09.720 for functional medicine. Insurance does not pay 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:13.079 to heal and repair your body. What goes under 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:16.259 the rubric of health insurance, really there's 00:06:16.259 --> 00:06:18.699 no such thing as health insurance. What we call 00:06:18.699 --> 00:06:20.939 health insurance is not health insurance, it's 00:06:20.939 --> 00:06:24.100 medical insurance. Medical insurance pays to 00:06:24.100 --> 00:06:27.040 identify medical conditions that require immediate 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:31.480 medical intervention with drugs, surgery, etc. 00:06:31.899 --> 00:06:34.300 Not to identify whether or not you're healthy. 00:06:34.420 --> 00:06:36.620 So people go to the doctor all the time and they're 00:06:36.620 --> 00:06:40.660 told all their tests are normal and they're quote 00:06:40.660 --> 00:06:42.379 unquote fine. There's nothing wrong with them. 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:44.920 Well, that's not true. Most medical doctors don't 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:47.800 even look, ever look to see whether or not you're 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:49.899 healthy. They look to see whether or not you 00:06:49.899 --> 00:06:51.939 have a disease that requires medical intervention. 00:06:51.819 --> 00:06:54.439 medical attention. So that's a big difference. 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:56.600 I'm going to say that again. Most doctors, when 00:06:56.600 --> 00:06:58.399 you go to a medical doctor, most of the time 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:01.139 for an annual physical or for a checkup or with 00:07:01.139 --> 00:07:03.560 a specific complaint, they're not checking to 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:06.180 see if you're healthy. They're checking to see 00:07:06.180 --> 00:07:08.379 if you have a medical condition that requires 00:07:08.379 --> 00:07:10.980 medical treatment. And they're looking to see 00:07:10.980 --> 00:07:12.620 if you have something that they can bill your 00:07:12.620 --> 00:07:15.639 medical insurance for, something that is medically 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:18.579 necessary. Health is not medically necessary. 00:07:19.259 --> 00:07:21.420 Medical necessity is based on the identification 00:07:21.420 --> 00:07:24.199 of a full -blown disease that you already have 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:27.459 that you can't usually heal yourself from. That's 00:07:27.459 --> 00:07:29.519 why you need medical care. And that's what medical 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:32.240 insurance is for. And that's a good thing. Everyone 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:34.699 should have medical insurance. All of us are 00:07:34.699 --> 00:07:37.540 at one point or another, hopefully later rather 00:07:37.540 --> 00:07:40.240 than earlier. probably going to require at some 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:43.319 point medical care. And here in the United States, 00:07:43.339 --> 00:07:46.639 we're blessed with among the most amazing medical 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:51.480 care institutions, hospitals, doctors, specialties, 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:54.759 anywhere in the world. We can get amazing medical 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:57.579 care to save our lives in a crisis when we need 00:07:57.579 --> 00:08:00.779 it. But it's also important to recognize that. 00:08:01.370 --> 00:08:04.410 Most of the care you get from most doctors is 00:08:04.410 --> 00:08:07.529 designed to heal disease, not to identify whether 00:08:07.529 --> 00:08:10.509 or not you're healthy and not to restore full, 00:08:10.670 --> 00:08:16.029 robust, 100 % healthy function. Functional medicine, 00:08:16.209 --> 00:08:19.089 on the other hand, is designed specifically for 00:08:19.089 --> 00:08:21.329 that purpose, to identify deviations from normal 00:08:21.329 --> 00:08:23.629 health and restore normal health with better 00:08:23.629 --> 00:08:26.709 food, eating vegetables instead of junk food. 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:29.660 With exercise, finding some way to move your 00:08:29.660 --> 00:08:31.920 body that you enjoy. It doesn't really matter 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.539 how you move your body. It just matters that 00:08:34.539 --> 00:08:37.200 it's something that you enjoy so that you will 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:39.940 do it. The best form of exercise is always something 00:08:39.940 --> 00:08:42.919 that you enjoy so that it's easy to work into 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:46.720 and maintain as part of your normal. daily life. 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:49.879 And when those two things, good food and moving 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:52.080 your body, don't do the job, then oftentimes 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:55.740 supplements. Supplements are often required to 00:08:55.740 --> 00:08:59.220 help heal the things that have been put off for 00:08:59.220 --> 00:09:02.059 too long, healing projects that have become delayed 00:09:02.059 --> 00:09:06.340 for far too many months and years. Sometimes 00:09:06.340 --> 00:09:09.000 your body needs a little support and that's what 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:13.059 we can identify on tests that you have a vitamin 00:09:13.059 --> 00:09:16.600 D deficiency or an insufficient amount. of healthy 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:19.120 nutrients to keep your heart functioning, like 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:22.460 coenzyme Q10 is a common nutrient lacking to 00:09:22.460 --> 00:09:24.799 heal and repair your heart. Interestingly, the 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:27.480 statin drugs that medicine loves to tell everyone 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:29.759 they need to lower their cholesterol deplete 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.600 this essential nutrient for your heart. So oftentimes 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:36.480 the medicine that might save your life in a crisis 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:39.419 is also making that part of your same part of 00:09:39.419 --> 00:09:42.690 your body struggle more to stay healthy. which 00:09:42.690 --> 00:09:46.190 sounds crazy because it is. So identifying nutrients 00:09:46.190 --> 00:09:48.850 that are missing from your body, from your river 00:09:48.850 --> 00:09:51.230 of life, your bloodstream, and repleting those, 00:09:51.289 --> 00:09:53.570 giving your body all of the nutrients it needs 00:09:53.570 --> 00:09:55.970 all at the same time. That's what restores health. 00:09:56.190 --> 00:09:58.149 That's what you'll see. That's what allows us 00:09:58.149 --> 00:10:01.210 to see four months later, six months later, three 00:10:01.210 --> 00:10:04.490 months later, when we retest the same blood tests 00:10:04.490 --> 00:10:08.950 and then identify the places that your body has 00:10:08.950 --> 00:10:11.860 improved in. People wonder, how do you know, 00:10:11.899 --> 00:10:14.379 for example, that these supplements work, that 00:10:14.379 --> 00:10:17.200 you're recommending, or better food? How do you 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:20.620 know that it really is that important to exercise 00:10:20.620 --> 00:10:23.759 or eat vegetables? Well, diagnostic tests. The 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:26.740 only way I know to prove that something is working 00:10:26.740 --> 00:10:31.220 for any individual is to do tests, make recommendations 00:10:31.220 --> 00:10:34.159 that will address the things that show up on 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:36.899 those tests, and then test again. So when any 00:10:36.899 --> 00:10:40.399 time you take someone and do a diagnostic test, 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:43.480 provide some kind of treatment for the things 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:45.240 that show up on those tests, and then test again, 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:49.120 that's a case study. That's a legitimate, accurate 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.379 way of measuring whether or not something is 00:10:51.379 --> 00:10:54.779 working so that you know sometimes when things 00:10:54.779 --> 00:10:56.759 are working, most of the time, when you do something 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:59.649 to make yourself feel better. healthier to restore 00:10:59.649 --> 00:11:02.750 and repair the normal function of some part of 00:11:02.750 --> 00:11:04.950 your body. You feel that. You feel it immediately 00:11:04.950 --> 00:11:07.649 and that's easy to detect and it feels wonderful. 00:11:07.830 --> 00:11:10.870 But sometimes when you have especially a really 00:11:10.870 --> 00:11:12.909 chronic condition like irritable bowel syndrome 00:11:12.909 --> 00:11:16.570 or cancer or something that's been around for 00:11:16.570 --> 00:11:21.129 a long time, your tests might start to get better 00:11:21.129 --> 00:11:23.669 before you feel anything. Some conditions do 00:11:23.669 --> 00:11:27.059 require weeks or months even. until your symptoms 00:11:27.059 --> 00:11:29.000 are gone and you feel perfectly healthy again. 00:11:29.059 --> 00:11:32.080 So using standard diagnostic tests can let us 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:34.820 know if the treatment is working, sometimes even 00:11:34.820 --> 00:11:37.500 before you feel that change. And then, of course, 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:41.240 most of the time you do feel changes quicker 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:45.139 than weeks or months. And the diagnostic tests 00:11:45.139 --> 00:11:48.679 help confirm that you are, in fact, on the right 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:50.720 track, that your kidneys and your liver and your 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:53.139 heart and your digestive system and your immune 00:11:53.139 --> 00:11:56.059 system are working like they should. That's how 00:11:56.059 --> 00:11:57.799 you know if any treatment works. That's the only 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:00.200 way I know to identify whether or not any particular 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:02.720 supplement works. For example, people often ask 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:06.120 me, how do you know this product works and some 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:08.740 other product that I might have gotten from Costco 00:12:08.740 --> 00:12:11.879 or some store doesn't work? Well, give it to 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:13.720 a few thousand people and test them before and 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:15.960 after and see if it achieves the desired result 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:19.279 on a standard diagnostic test. That's how you 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:22.850 know if something works or not for sure. I'm 00:12:22.850 --> 00:12:25.490 Dr. Todd Binkley. You're listening to Safe, Effective, 00:12:25.490 --> 00:12:28.809 Natural Solutions to Almost Any Health Challenge. 00:12:28.830 --> 00:12:30.850 We're talking about functional medicine, the 00:12:30.850 --> 00:12:33.429 restoration of health, the use of diagnostic 00:12:33.429 --> 00:12:37.009 tests to identify earlier signs of stress on 00:12:37.009 --> 00:12:39.870 your body. And unfortunately, medical insurance 00:12:39.870 --> 00:12:43.309 does not pay for this. Medical insurance pays 00:12:43.309 --> 00:12:46.049 for medical care in a crisis. It is not health 00:12:46.049 --> 00:12:48.049 insurance. It's medical insurance. It does not 00:12:48.049 --> 00:12:51.710 pay for anything that does any of the normal 00:12:51.710 --> 00:12:53.370 things. that you normally do to make yourself 00:12:53.370 --> 00:12:55.690 healthier there's no insurance that will pay 00:12:55.690 --> 00:12:58.350 for your gym membership or buy a new water filter 00:12:58.350 --> 00:13:00.850 so that you can drink clean water or buy you 00:13:00.850 --> 00:13:03.649 organic food or subsidize you growing your own 00:13:03.649 --> 00:13:06.590 healthy food anything that you do to maintain 00:13:06.590 --> 00:13:09.460 your own health is something that you have to 00:13:09.460 --> 00:13:12.000 take care of yourself. Similarly, I like the 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:14.460 analogy I like to help understand this is like 00:13:14.460 --> 00:13:17.120 car insurance. Car insurance doesn't pay to keep 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:19.500 your car healthy. Car insurance doesn't pay to 00:13:19.500 --> 00:13:21.740 get your oil changed or put new tires or new 00:13:21.740 --> 00:13:24.679 belts or hoses on your car or any of the things 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:27.200 that you do, routine maintenance on your car. 00:13:27.659 --> 00:13:30.519 It pays, car insurance pays when you crash your 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:34.220 car. And similarly, What we call health insurance 00:13:34.220 --> 00:13:36.179 is actually medical insurance, which pays when 00:13:36.179 --> 00:13:38.899 you crash your body and need full -blown medical 00:13:38.899 --> 00:13:42.840 care in a crisis. And if you think about it, 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:45.320 this makes sense. The way insurance, any kind 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:48.019 of insurance works is a bunch of us pool our 00:13:48.019 --> 00:13:50.980 resources, put them all into one pot so that 00:13:50.980 --> 00:13:54.159 when one of us needs help in a crisis, there's 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:56.399 money there ready to take care of us. There's 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:59.799 never going to be a way for you to pay money 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:03.960 to some... middleman to get you all the care 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:06.080 you need to heal and repair yourself. That's 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:09.000 ongoing maintenance. That is the responsibility 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:12.600 of everyone to take care of themselves. So there 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:16.320 is, however, unsurprisingly to some, many ways 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:20.220 of identifying. The causes, the root causes of 00:14:20.220 --> 00:14:23.519 whatever is ailing you and coming up with a means 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:26.539 of healing your body and restoring yourself to 00:14:26.539 --> 00:14:29.139 full health when you have even severe conditions 00:14:29.139 --> 00:14:33.039 like full -blown diabetes. Some of the things 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:35.340 that I see, for example, which are often severe 00:14:35.340 --> 00:14:38.100 cases, are people that have had diabetes and 00:14:38.100 --> 00:14:41.000 been on medication for diabetes for 10, 20, 30 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:45.080 years. Sometimes, oftentimes, you can still reverse 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:47.879 diabetes, even if you've had it for years, even 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:49.980 if you're on medication for it. If you take better 00:14:49.980 --> 00:14:51.879 care of yourself and identify all the things 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:54.000 that are contributing to that, you can reverse 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:57.720 diabetes. People come to me with cancer. I don't 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:00.159 treat cancer. I don't ask people to come to me 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:02.460 to get their cancer treated. But people show 00:15:02.460 --> 00:15:06.019 up with diabetes or arthritis or irritable bowel 00:15:06.019 --> 00:15:08.440 syndrome or some other condition. And I do a 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:11.789 full case history like I do on everyone. They 00:15:11.789 --> 00:15:13.990 revealed that they have cancer. They have breast 00:15:13.990 --> 00:15:17.129 cancer. This week, I've had new patients that 00:15:17.129 --> 00:15:19.250 are recovering from breast cancer. Another one 00:15:19.250 --> 00:15:21.529 who's recovering from prostate cancer. Another 00:15:21.529 --> 00:15:24.029 one who's recovering from colon cancer. That's 00:15:24.029 --> 00:15:26.490 just in one week. And so I explained to them 00:15:26.490 --> 00:15:29.769 that I'm not going to treat their cancer, quote 00:15:29.769 --> 00:15:33.330 unquote, air quotes. That's the province of oncologists. 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:36.600 But whatever you show up with, I am going to 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:39.240 identify places where every part of your body 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:41.659 needs a little bit of help and show you how to 00:15:41.659 --> 00:15:45.059 give it that help so that you can heal and repair 00:15:45.059 --> 00:15:48.700 yourself. And that often results in people getting 00:15:48.700 --> 00:15:51.360 better outcomes. If they're going through cancer 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:52.940 treatment now, if they're going through chemo 00:15:52.940 --> 00:15:55.539 and radiation, you can do healthy nutrients, 00:15:55.980 --> 00:15:58.740 eat better food, exercise a little bit, and take 00:15:58.740 --> 00:16:02.059 some nutrients that are lacking that your oncologist 00:16:02.059 --> 00:16:05.480 won't check for you. I can identify those things 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:09.419 and show you how to alternate, not the same day. 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:12.000 You don't want to take a lot of supplements when 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.940 you're going through chemotherapy, for example, 00:16:15.059 --> 00:16:17.679 or sometimes other forms of cancer treatment, 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:21.759 radiotherapy, immunotherapy. But you can still 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:24.000 do both at the same time, meaning in the same 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:26.700 weeks or months period that you're going through, 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.700 just by not doing it on the same day. You don't 00:16:29.700 --> 00:16:32.220 take all your vitamins when you go in that day 00:16:32.220 --> 00:16:33.980 to get chemotherapy. but you're usually getting 00:16:33.980 --> 00:16:35.899 that in cycles anyway. So on the days that you're 00:16:35.899 --> 00:16:39.220 not taking chemotherapy, after waiting sometimes 00:16:39.220 --> 00:16:42.279 a day or two, then you can flood your body with 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:44.879 all the nutrients it needs to recover from the 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:47.580 damaging effects of the chemo and give your body 00:16:47.580 --> 00:16:50.419 a better fighting chance to heal and recover 00:16:50.419 --> 00:16:53.340 from cancer. So that's not treating cancer, that's 00:16:53.340 --> 00:16:56.149 treating a person. and restoring the health of 00:16:56.149 --> 00:17:00.490 a person that has cancer. And among other common 00:17:00.490 --> 00:17:02.929 people that I see all the time are people, there 00:17:02.929 --> 00:17:05.109 are millions, I think the last count I heard 00:17:05.109 --> 00:17:07.950 statistics, something like 20 million cancer 00:17:07.950 --> 00:17:12.289 survivors in the United States alone. So there 00:17:12.289 --> 00:17:14.369 are better treatments. Even the standard medical 00:17:14.369 --> 00:17:16.569 treatments get better and better for some cancers 00:17:16.569 --> 00:17:19.450 like breast cancer. A few of the other cancers, 00:17:19.470 --> 00:17:22.089 the medical treatment is getting better and lots 00:17:22.089 --> 00:17:24.779 of people are surviving. And the downside of 00:17:24.779 --> 00:17:28.500 that is once you survive cancer from standard 00:17:28.500 --> 00:17:32.380 oncology, then you're usually on your own. They 00:17:32.380 --> 00:17:34.680 might have you come back in a year for tests 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:36.940 to make sure the cancer is not coming back because 00:17:36.940 --> 00:17:42.200 you can identify cancer fighting activity in 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:45.019 your body before it will show up on a scan on 00:17:45.019 --> 00:17:48.619 blood tests called tumor markers. In fact, most 00:17:48.619 --> 00:17:51.390 oncologists don't. Never use these tumor markers 00:17:51.390 --> 00:17:54.789 until after you've been treated for cancer because 00:17:54.789 --> 00:17:57.769 they know what kind of cancer you have already, 00:17:57.869 --> 00:18:00.970 which has been identified on scans. And they 00:18:00.970 --> 00:18:04.109 know that before cancer, if it comes back, before 00:18:04.109 --> 00:18:06.589 it will show up on a scan, there are blood tests 00:18:06.589 --> 00:18:08.549 that will identify cancer -fighting activity 00:18:08.549 --> 00:18:10.750 before it shows up on a scan. So that's why they 00:18:10.750 --> 00:18:12.809 use those tests. But you can also, any doctor 00:18:12.809 --> 00:18:16.349 can use those tests to identify cancer. fighting 00:18:16.349 --> 00:18:18.289 activity in your body that's happening right 00:18:18.289 --> 00:18:21.470 now before it's big enough to show up on a scan. 00:18:21.509 --> 00:18:24.089 Before you get a diagnosis of cancer, you can 00:18:24.089 --> 00:18:27.170 use these same tumor markers to identify cancer 00:18:27.170 --> 00:18:29.670 fighting activity. So most doctors don't do this 00:18:29.670 --> 00:18:33.190 before you have cancer because there's no treatment. 00:18:33.289 --> 00:18:35.890 There's no standard medical treatment for early 00:18:35.890 --> 00:18:39.599 signs of cancer developing. They're not going 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:41.779 to give you chemotherapy or radiation if you 00:18:41.779 --> 00:18:43.779 have early signs of cancer -fighting activity, 00:18:43.900 --> 00:18:47.369 and you can't diagnose cancer with... standard 00:18:47.369 --> 00:18:50.369 tumor markers, you have to diagnose cancer by 00:18:50.369 --> 00:18:53.890 seeing it on a scan, on an MRI, on a mammogram, 00:18:54.089 --> 00:18:56.750 on an ultrasound, on an x -ray, on a CAT scan, 00:18:56.950 --> 00:18:59.089 et cetera, PET scan. These are ways that you 00:18:59.089 --> 00:19:02.250 diagnose cancer. But you can identify cancer 00:19:02.250 --> 00:19:05.190 -fighting activity anytime with tumor markers 00:19:05.190 --> 00:19:07.990 and help your body, support your body, give it 00:19:07.990 --> 00:19:11.170 the nutrients it needs to heal itself and give 00:19:11.170 --> 00:19:13.930 you a better fighting chance to survive a cancer 00:19:13.930 --> 00:19:17.059 and prevent its recurrence. Lower your risk, 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:19.700 reduce your risk of that cancer coming back. 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:22.700 I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. You're listening to Safe, 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.420 Effective, Natural Solutions to almost any health 00:19:25.420 --> 00:19:27.339 challenge. I'll begin getting a lot of new patients 00:19:27.339 --> 00:19:29.660 coming in, listeners to this show, with various 00:19:29.660 --> 00:19:31.559 conditions, sometimes simple things like just 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:34.240 not being able to lose weight. I have a woman 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:37.119 who came in who knows she needs to lose weight 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:41.720 and has tried. quote -unquote, that you're normally 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:44.660 told to do, and it's just not working. And there 00:19:44.660 --> 00:19:47.440 are a lot of reasons for that that can be identified 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:50.859 on testing, such as low thyroid, borderline low 00:19:50.859 --> 00:19:52.940 thyroid. You can go get your thyroid tested, 00:19:53.059 --> 00:19:56.079 your TSH, by your standard general practitioner 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:58.599 and be told that your thyroid is fine and still 00:19:58.599 --> 00:20:01.140 have functioning low thyroid. You can be told 00:20:01.140 --> 00:20:04.359 that you don't have anemia and still have functioning. 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:07.680 anemia, iron deficiency, B12 deficiency that 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:09.319 will show up on tests if you know how to read 00:20:09.319 --> 00:20:11.400 them for normal health as opposed to just a full 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:13.119 -blown disease that requires medicine. So there 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:15.839 are a number of reasons that people have fatigue 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:19.319 and difficulty shifting weight that fly under 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:21.279 the radar of standard medical treatment but can 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:25.220 be identified on proper functional testing. And 00:20:25.220 --> 00:20:28.519 toxins is another huge one. People with rashes 00:20:28.519 --> 00:20:31.119 that no one has been able to figure out how to 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:34.900 treat. taking every kind of cream or allergy 00:20:34.900 --> 00:20:39.619 medicine or steroid medication, and it just never 00:20:39.619 --> 00:20:42.759 goes away. And that's often because of toxins. 00:20:42.819 --> 00:20:45.440 We're all exposed to toxic chemicals and pesticides 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:48.059 and fertilizers in the food we eat, in the air 00:20:48.059 --> 00:20:51.480 we breathe, in wildfire smoke, which we've talked 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:54.240 about many times before. And there are just a 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:56.059 whole host of things that make it really difficult 00:20:56.059 --> 00:20:58.579 for your body to heal and repair itself. And 00:20:58.579 --> 00:21:01.539 exposure to heavy metals, mercury, lead, arsenic. 00:21:01.740 --> 00:21:04.160 cadmium, uranium. These things are identifiable 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:07.559 on tests. Interestingly, the toxins are not usually 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:10.319 very well identified on blood tests. Blood tests 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:12.579 are the standard test for most things, but not 00:21:12.579 --> 00:21:15.880 toxins. Toxins are flushed out of your bloodstream 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:18.099 as quickly as your body can possibly flush them 00:21:18.099 --> 00:21:20.079 out. Your kidneys and your colon, your liver 00:21:20.079 --> 00:21:22.559 will identify the presence of toxins that you're 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:24.799 exposed to and flush them out as best as it can. 00:21:25.099 --> 00:21:28.869 But when you're exposed to heavy metals like 00:21:28.869 --> 00:21:31.269 mercury or lead or arsenic or chemicals like 00:21:31.269 --> 00:21:36.329 organophosphates, fertilizers, pesticides, Roundup. 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:39.700 One of the most common pesticides used that all 00:21:39.700 --> 00:21:41.940 of us are exposed if you're downwind from a farm, 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:44.819 anywhere that's being sprayed with standard chemicals 00:21:44.819 --> 00:21:47.180 or just even on your yard. People spray Roundup 00:21:47.180 --> 00:21:49.880 on their grass and their yards and then go out 00:21:49.880 --> 00:21:52.059 and have their kids roll around in that toxic 00:21:52.059 --> 00:21:54.839 soup. I hope you don't do that, but people do. 00:21:55.079 --> 00:21:57.539 And these things don't show up on blood tests 00:21:57.539 --> 00:22:00.160 unless there's a huge recent exposure. People 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:01.779 that might have been exposed to these things 00:22:01.779 --> 00:22:04.859 years ago, decades ago, 10, 20, 30 years ago. 00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:08.980 your body is unable to fully excrete from your 00:22:08.980 --> 00:22:12.259 bloodstream it will shove into fat cells to get 00:22:12.259 --> 00:22:15.720 them out of circulation so if you have you know 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:18.680 if you live in flint michigan and you know you're 00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:21.660 exposed to lead in your water and your blood 00:22:21.660 --> 00:22:24.140 test comes back negative that doesn't mean that 00:22:24.140 --> 00:22:26.420 you weren't exposed like everyone else it just 00:22:26.420 --> 00:22:28.220 means that it's not enough of it to show up on 00:22:28.220 --> 00:22:30.940 a blood test and the better test to do for heavy 00:22:30.940 --> 00:22:34.470 metals is a hair test or a urine test Because 00:22:34.470 --> 00:22:38.849 hair test measures chemical toxins and heavy 00:22:38.849 --> 00:22:42.269 metal toxins that are excreted through your hair 00:22:42.269 --> 00:22:44.309 follicles and your sweat glands and accumulate 00:22:44.309 --> 00:22:46.230 in your hair as it grows out. That's why they 00:22:46.230 --> 00:22:49.130 use hair to do drug testing. Because things that 00:22:49.130 --> 00:22:52.250 are excreted from your skin accumulate in hair 00:22:52.250 --> 00:22:54.130 as it grows out and you can test and identify 00:22:54.130 --> 00:22:56.880 those things. weather air test and then do an 00:22:56.880 --> 00:22:59.579 appropriate treatment and retest again to make 00:22:59.579 --> 00:23:01.839 sure that your body burden of those things is 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:04.220 eventually coming down. So we're all exposed 00:23:04.220 --> 00:23:06.039 to these things. And if you haven't been tested 00:23:06.039 --> 00:23:09.950 for toxins. like these, and you have a condition 00:23:09.950 --> 00:23:11.990 that no one else has been able to help, especially 00:23:11.990 --> 00:23:15.309 a skin condition, a rash or cancer or anything 00:23:15.309 --> 00:23:17.809 wrong with your brain, a mood disorder, anxiety, 00:23:18.109 --> 00:23:21.230 depression, or a chronic problem with the brain 00:23:21.230 --> 00:23:24.710 like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease or neuropathies, 00:23:24.730 --> 00:23:26.950 anything that affects your nervous system, your 00:23:26.950 --> 00:23:30.589 immune system. These are often conditions that 00:23:30.589 --> 00:23:33.710 involve toxins that need to be identified and 00:23:33.710 --> 00:23:36.809 eliminated so that you can heal yourself better. 00:23:37.309 --> 00:23:39.769 So I love helping people understand this. If 00:23:39.769 --> 00:23:42.210 you know someone who's just not getting the treatment 00:23:42.210 --> 00:23:44.589 they think they should have, if they don't feel 00:23:44.589 --> 00:23:46.609 well and they're told that there's nothing wrong 00:23:46.609 --> 00:23:48.049 with them, well, that's not true, of course. 00:23:48.069 --> 00:23:52.319 If they were. perfectly healthy, they would feel 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:54.259 good. So if something is wrong with you, you 00:23:54.259 --> 00:23:55.900 know it. If somebody tells you there's nothing 00:23:55.900 --> 00:23:58.339 wrong with you, then please give me, send them 00:23:58.339 --> 00:24:00.240 to my office, give them, give me a call and we'll 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:03.440 figure out what is wrong and identify. Most of 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:05.819 the time we can't identify a safe, effective, 00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:09.440 natural solution to almost anything. That ails 00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:11.960 you. Thank you so much for tuning in today. I 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:14.980 love answering questions. Text me, email me with 00:24:14.980 --> 00:24:16.700 any questions you may have, and we'll bring them 00:24:16.700 --> 00:24:19.599 up on the air or privately. I can just respond 00:24:19.599 --> 00:24:21.460 to your email directly if you prefer that too. 00:24:21.660 --> 00:24:24.400 Thanks again for tuning in. Have a fabulous weekend. 00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:26.079 I look forward to speaking with you again right 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:29.440 here next Friday. You've been listening to Safe, 00:24:29.500 --> 00:24:33.019 Effective Natural Solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:35.299 If you have a health question you want discussed 00:24:35.299 --> 00:24:38.980 on the show, email your health questions to drbinkley 00:24:38.980 --> 00:24:42.980 at binkleyhealingcenter .com. 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