WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.779 Prepare to have your health questions answered 00:00:02.779 --> 00:00:06.719 here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions with 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:10.119 Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:15.349 in downtown Ventura. Now, here's Dr. Todd. Good 00:00:15.349 --> 00:00:17.370 afternoon. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board -certified 00:00:17.370 --> 00:00:19.809 doctor of non -force chiropractic and practitioner 00:00:19.809 --> 00:00:22.649 of functional medicine. We're continuing a review 00:00:22.649 --> 00:00:25.089 of the latest research into brain health, several 00:00:25.089 --> 00:00:27.370 episodes in a row now. I've been getting a lot 00:00:27.370 --> 00:00:29.570 of questions, a lot of feedback from these past 00:00:29.570 --> 00:00:32.229 two or three episodes, and so I ran out of time 00:00:32.229 --> 00:00:34.810 on the last one, so we're going to continue where 00:00:34.810 --> 00:00:36.929 we left off there. But the main focus is how 00:00:36.929 --> 00:00:39.829 to protect the health of the brain. how to protect, 00:00:40.009 --> 00:00:42.950 how you can help your loved ones to keep their 00:00:42.950 --> 00:00:46.189 brains healthy and reduce the risk of the devastating 00:00:46.189 --> 00:00:49.490 effects of dementia and neurodegenerative conditions 00:00:49.490 --> 00:00:52.270 like Parkinson's. And I'm going to talk about 00:00:52.270 --> 00:00:55.530 one of my favorite patients, a lovely lady in 00:00:55.530 --> 00:00:58.270 her 80s who is doing a great job of reducing 00:00:58.270 --> 00:01:01.270 her risk of dementia by keeping herself healthy 00:01:01.270 --> 00:01:04.790 generally. And in spite of very... various genetic 00:01:04.790 --> 00:01:09.209 predispositions and that lovely lady is my mother. 00:01:09.349 --> 00:01:11.129 But before we do that, we're going to finish 00:01:11.129 --> 00:01:13.730 talking about where I left off last week, this 00:01:13.730 --> 00:01:16.829 article about the toxic effects of golf courses. 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:20.480 increasing risk of Parkinson's. Now, this article 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:22.780 is specifically about Parkinson's or a review 00:01:22.780 --> 00:01:25.239 of several studies specifically about Parkinson's, 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:27.439 but I can promise you anything that increases 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:31.120 your risk of anything that involves toxins, exposure 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:34.480 to toxins, increasing your risk of Parkinson's 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.480 is also going to increase your risk of all neurodegenerative 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.579 conditions of the brain, including all forms 00:01:40.579 --> 00:01:43.879 of dementia. including Alzheimer's. At the end 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:45.439 of last week's show, I ran out of time in the 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:48.120 middle of reviewing this excellent article in 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:50.079 JAMA, the Journal of American Medical Association 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:54.140 Network, open on Parkinson's, entitled, The Risk 00:01:54.140 --> 00:01:57.480 of Neurologic Disorder Rises for People Who Live 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:01.500 Near Golf Courses. Yikes. A lot of people who 00:02:01.500 --> 00:02:05.120 are at the highest risk of these things naturally 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:09.340 often move. to be near golf courses. So that's 00:02:09.340 --> 00:02:11.759 not very encouraging to know about. But what's 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:15.060 happening here? So the risk is from toxins. It's 00:02:15.060 --> 00:02:17.460 from all of the pesticides and chemical fertilizers 00:02:17.460 --> 00:02:21.060 that they put on these vast expanses of green 00:02:21.060 --> 00:02:24.099 that then slowly trickle down into the drinking 00:02:24.099 --> 00:02:27.340 water of the people that live nearby there. And 00:02:27.340 --> 00:02:30.360 so they determined that living within one mile 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:32.319 of a golf course was associated with more than 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:35.159 double the odds of developing Parkinson's disease. 00:02:35.710 --> 00:02:38.770 compared with living more than six miles away. 00:02:39.069 --> 00:02:43.009 This was led by a researcher with a Polish name 00:02:43.009 --> 00:02:45.009 that's a little bit difficult to pronounce, Dr. 00:02:46.449 --> 00:02:49.050 Kryzhanowski, PhD of the Barrow Neurological 00:02:49.050 --> 00:02:50.909 Institute in Phoenix, and it was reported in 00:02:50.909 --> 00:02:53.669 JAMA in May of 2025. This was a study done in 00:02:53.669 --> 00:02:58.050 Minnesota with 1 ,419 Parkinson's cases and over 00:02:58.050 --> 00:03:03.009 5 ,000 control patients. The median age was 72, 00:03:03.250 --> 00:03:07.250 and the study was done from 1991 to 2015. They 00:03:07.250 --> 00:03:12.069 collected data from 139 golf courses and 224 00:03:12.069 --> 00:03:15.669 water services areas. And they found that the 00:03:15.669 --> 00:03:17.689 odds of getting a Parkinson's disease decreased 00:03:17.689 --> 00:03:22.030 by 9 % for every mile in distance from a golf 00:03:22.030 --> 00:03:26.870 course up to 18 miles. Wow. Full stop. That stuff 00:03:26.870 --> 00:03:29.550 they put on golf courses is clearly not good. 00:03:29.789 --> 00:03:32.530 So you can always avoid these things. One way 00:03:32.530 --> 00:03:34.830 you can dramatically reduce your risk of these 00:03:34.830 --> 00:03:36.969 things, if you live near a golf course, for example, 00:03:36.990 --> 00:03:40.990 is to get a good water filter, a solid carbon 00:03:40.990 --> 00:03:44.210 block filter. So send me questions if you want 00:03:44.210 --> 00:03:45.710 to know more about that. A lot of people have 00:03:45.710 --> 00:03:48.900 reverse osmosis. filters that's the three chamber 00:03:48.900 --> 00:03:51.240 very common type of filter that people have under 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:53.539 their sinks that will also filter out most of 00:03:53.539 --> 00:03:55.639 the toxins unfortunately it also makes the water 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:57.659 a little acidic so a solid carbon block filter 00:03:57.659 --> 00:03:59.780 is better but yeah filtering that water can be 00:03:59.780 --> 00:04:02.699 really important the data is now showing if you 00:04:02.699 --> 00:04:05.659 live near a golf course the topography varies 00:04:05.659 --> 00:04:07.979 obviously in different regions but limestone 00:04:07.979 --> 00:04:10.379 bedrock is very common that dissolves over time 00:04:10.379 --> 00:04:12.680 and it creates little underground voids that 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.300 allow water from the surface to move rapidly 00:04:15.300 --> 00:04:19.050 through it and accumulate in your water that 00:04:19.050 --> 00:04:22.490 your water service area provides to your tap. 00:04:22.670 --> 00:04:25.490 The authors also encouraged people who live near 00:04:25.490 --> 00:04:28.750 golf courses to find out what days they spray 00:04:28.750 --> 00:04:31.149 the pesticides and other chemicals and during 00:04:31.149 --> 00:04:34.050 those times try to stay indoors and close your 00:04:34.050 --> 00:04:36.769 windows and putting a HEPA filter in your bedroom 00:04:36.769 --> 00:04:39.310 so that you're breathing clean air all night 00:04:39.310 --> 00:04:42.379 is always a great idea. Parkinson's disease has 00:04:42.379 --> 00:04:44.680 been tied to many environmental contaminants, 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:47.360 including industrial solvents like trichloroethylene 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:50.019 in drinking water and pesticides like semazine, 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:53.720 atrazine, and lindane, all of which have long 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:55.579 been known to be associated with the development 00:04:55.579 --> 00:04:57.699 of Parkinson's disease and used to treat golf 00:04:57.699 --> 00:05:01.259 courses for years, Dr. Krishnanovsky and her 00:05:01.259 --> 00:05:03.670 colleagues pointed out. They also reviewed data 00:05:03.670 --> 00:05:06.709 showing that pesticides such as paraquat and 00:05:06.709 --> 00:05:10.089 rotanone have been shown to induce Parkinson 00:05:10.089 --> 00:05:13.550 -like neurodegeneration in the substantia nigra. 00:05:14.110 --> 00:05:16.750 Substantia nigra is the main part of the brain 00:05:16.750 --> 00:05:18.970 that's damaged by Parkinson's disease. It has 00:05:18.970 --> 00:05:21.569 a role in movement and cognitive functions. It 00:05:21.569 --> 00:05:24.129 produces dopamine. It's the loss of function 00:05:24.129 --> 00:05:27.129 of that part of the brain that is primarily involved 00:05:27.129 --> 00:05:30.009 in Parkinson's. And so these pesticides, paraquat 00:05:30.009 --> 00:05:34.290 and rotanone, damage. that induce neurodegeneration 00:05:34.290 --> 00:05:38.430 in those areas through oxidative stress, mitochondrial 00:05:38.430 --> 00:05:40.829 dysfunction, damaging the energy -producing part 00:05:40.829 --> 00:05:44.589 of every cell, and even death of the cells that 00:05:44.589 --> 00:05:48.709 produce dopamine. So you can get tested for your 00:05:48.709 --> 00:05:51.509 exposure. How do you know? Chemicals are everywhere. 00:05:51.529 --> 00:05:54.009 It's sometimes frustrating. People get tired 00:05:54.009 --> 00:05:56.160 of hearing about them because you can... often 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:58.019 get the sense that they're unavoidable. What 00:05:58.019 --> 00:06:01.019 are you going to do? Well, exposures vary. Your 00:06:01.019 --> 00:06:03.660 genetic ability to excrete the toxins that you 00:06:03.660 --> 00:06:07.620 are exposed to varies. And whether or not, critically, 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.379 whether or not you're getting the nutrients needed. 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:14.560 to excrete those toxins efficiently is really 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:16.680 important. So let's say those things again. So 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:19.000 obviously everyone's exposure to chemicals varies. 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:22.319 And one of the best ways, there are known exposures. 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:24.579 Now we know another one. Don't live near a golf 00:06:24.579 --> 00:06:26.860 course if you want to minimize your risk to Parkinson's 00:06:26.860 --> 00:06:30.079 or take an appropriate action to make sure that 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:31.860 you're not exposed to the chemicals that they're 00:06:31.860 --> 00:06:35.360 using. But you can, in addition to dealing with 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:37.740 known exposures and avoiding them or mitigating 00:06:37.740 --> 00:06:41.600 them, It's also important to at least know that 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:45.540 the genetic ability for you and those you love 00:06:45.540 --> 00:06:47.800 to excrete things that you're both exposed to 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:50.199 varies tremendously. And people have experienced 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:53.100 this. You may, you know, know someone who had, 00:06:53.300 --> 00:06:56.009 who was diagnosed or, you know. had the proper 00:06:56.009 --> 00:06:58.470 testing and found out that, wow, they had this 00:06:58.470 --> 00:07:00.290 toxic exposure and it's been causing them all 00:07:00.290 --> 00:07:01.709 kinds of problems and now maybe they're working 00:07:01.709 --> 00:07:04.029 on eliminating it. But what about their spouse 00:07:04.029 --> 00:07:06.050 or their family members that lived in the exact 00:07:06.050 --> 00:07:09.209 same environment and didn't have a problem? How 00:07:09.209 --> 00:07:13.250 does that happen? So you can be exposed to certain 00:07:13.250 --> 00:07:15.810 things and have someone else sitting right next 00:07:15.810 --> 00:07:19.230 to you living in the same house. with virtually 00:07:19.230 --> 00:07:22.370 identical exposure and not develop the same symptoms 00:07:22.370 --> 00:07:24.329 and other health -related problems, how is that? 00:07:24.550 --> 00:07:28.310 Well, your genetic ability to excrete the toxins 00:07:28.310 --> 00:07:32.689 that you're exposed to varies tremendously. And 00:07:32.689 --> 00:07:37.089 so have some sympathy. Some of us know that person 00:07:37.089 --> 00:07:39.649 that's sensitive to everything. They're sensitive 00:07:39.649 --> 00:07:42.629 to fragrance. They're sensitive to chemicals 00:07:42.629 --> 00:07:46.250 of any kind. And hello. I am one of those people. 00:07:46.389 --> 00:07:48.829 And that's not necessarily a bad thing, being 00:07:48.829 --> 00:07:52.509 insensitivity, being insensitive to things that 00:07:52.509 --> 00:07:55.930 damage your health is far worse than being sensitive 00:07:55.930 --> 00:07:58.410 to them because then you don't know that you 00:07:58.410 --> 00:08:00.089 need to do something to avoid those things. But 00:08:00.089 --> 00:08:03.769 some people just seem to be hypersensitive to 00:08:03.769 --> 00:08:07.069 everything. And that is partly genetic. That 00:08:07.069 --> 00:08:09.389 has been shown. So people's sensitivities in 00:08:09.389 --> 00:08:13.819 general to various types of toxins. It's different 00:08:13.819 --> 00:08:16.420 for everyone. So your exposure is different. 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:19.019 How your body is going to react to the same toxins 00:08:19.019 --> 00:08:21.339 is going to be different than other people. And 00:08:21.339 --> 00:08:24.810 most importantly. When you want, the people who 00:08:24.810 --> 00:08:27.350 have part of the reason that some people, another 00:08:27.350 --> 00:08:29.310 reason that some people don't have as much of 00:08:29.310 --> 00:08:31.689 a problem with a chronic toxic exposure, maybe 00:08:31.689 --> 00:08:34.110 they work in a factory or some kind of industry 00:08:34.110 --> 00:08:36.909 with a lot of toxins and their best friend got 00:08:36.909 --> 00:08:41.190 cancer from it and they're fine. Another reason 00:08:41.190 --> 00:08:45.210 that that experience varies is because even if 00:08:45.210 --> 00:08:47.889 you have the good genes that minimize, that enable 00:08:47.889 --> 00:08:52.009 you, fortify your ability to flush toxins out 00:08:52.009 --> 00:08:54.230 more effectively. maybe than the average person, 00:08:54.350 --> 00:08:58.490 your body needs certain nutrients to make that 00:08:58.490 --> 00:09:01.990 work well. The mechanisms your body uses to flush 00:09:01.990 --> 00:09:05.889 out toxins ongoingly, every day, your kidneys 00:09:05.889 --> 00:09:08.830 and your colon and your liver help filter these 00:09:08.830 --> 00:09:10.929 things out of your body and flush them down into 00:09:10.929 --> 00:09:15.840 the sewer system. But you need nutrients to facilitate 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:18.000 that process and make it work at its best. And 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:21.299 mainly these nutrients are minerals. All the 00:09:21.299 --> 00:09:23.639 minerals that so many people don't get enough 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:26.960 of. Calcium, magnesium, iron, selenium, zinc, 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:29.419 chromium. There's a long list of micronutrients 00:09:29.419 --> 00:09:31.559 that you need in tiny, tiny amounts. And these 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:34.000 are also measured, by the way, when you do toxic 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.700 testing. So if you do a hair test or urine test 00:09:36.700 --> 00:09:40.139 with a chelating agent like DMSA, that's kind 00:09:40.139 --> 00:09:42.039 of a whole other conversation. But there's a 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:44.850 couple of... important ways to test these things. 00:09:44.929 --> 00:09:48.090 And the same tests performed by the best lab 00:09:48.090 --> 00:09:50.070 in the country, Doctors Data, the most accurate 00:09:50.070 --> 00:09:52.549 lab for testing these things. The test results 00:09:52.549 --> 00:09:55.909 also include your level of Essential minerals. 00:09:56.009 --> 00:09:59.830 It includes, it shows you how much of these various 00:09:59.830 --> 00:10:03.049 healthy, important minerals are also being excreted 00:10:03.049 --> 00:10:05.490 by your body naturally. It gives you a proxy 00:10:05.490 --> 00:10:08.809 for your levels of getting, whether it tells 00:10:08.809 --> 00:10:10.370 you whether or not you're getting enough of those 00:10:10.370 --> 00:10:13.870 in many cases. So all of these things are testable. 00:10:13.950 --> 00:10:16.669 You can get a hair test or a urine test to test 00:10:16.669 --> 00:10:18.990 your exposure to heavy metals and a specialty 00:10:18.990 --> 00:10:23.259 urine test called ToxDetect. tox detect test 00:10:23.259 --> 00:10:26.039 is the premier test for measuring most of the 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:28.500 pesticides, chemicals, fertilizers, other environmental 00:10:28.500 --> 00:10:31.179 things that we're exposed to. Uh, and it is from 00:10:31.179 --> 00:10:34.240 mosaic diagnostics and that is available. And 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:36.080 a lot of my patients have been very surprised 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:38.220 to find out, Oh my God, where did I, where did 00:10:38.220 --> 00:10:40.679 I get all this stuff? Well, We're all exposed 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:42.679 to it, but it really kind of hits home when you 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:45.620 see the data on the lab report right in front 00:10:45.620 --> 00:10:47.799 of you. And hopefully that can make it easier 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:50.740 to motivate yourself or someone you love to take 00:10:50.740 --> 00:10:54.399 the necessary steps to gently, safely, slowly, 00:10:54.779 --> 00:10:57.220 not fast. You make yourself sick if you do one 00:10:57.220 --> 00:10:59.519 of these crazy liver cleanses and try to. clear 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:03.320 everything out of your body in one week or one 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:06.759 vacation or something. You want to flush these 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:09.500 things out slowly, gently, so that your body 00:11:09.500 --> 00:11:12.399 can eliminate them without making you sick. These 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:14.779 things are stored mainly in fat cells throughout 00:11:14.779 --> 00:11:17.159 your body to keep them out of circulation, to 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:19.679 keep them from irritating your brain, your cardiovascular 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:22.600 system, your immune system. And so when you're 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:24.279 trying to flush these things out, you're pulling 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:27.029 them out of storage. into circulation where they're 00:11:27.029 --> 00:11:29.509 floating throughout your body and, you know, 00:11:29.529 --> 00:11:31.610 for a short period of time, irritating cells 00:11:31.610 --> 00:11:33.570 throughout your body again. So that's why you 00:11:33.570 --> 00:11:35.590 want to pull them out slowly, no faster than 00:11:35.590 --> 00:11:38.049 your kidneys, your liver, your colon can complete 00:11:38.049 --> 00:11:40.690 the process of flushing them out of your body. 00:11:40.730 --> 00:11:43.710 So out of storage into circulation, then through 00:11:43.710 --> 00:11:46.169 mainly the liver and the kidneys and somewhat 00:11:46.169 --> 00:11:49.789 the colon out into the sewer system. I'm Dr. 00:11:49.909 --> 00:11:52.149 Todd Bankley. You're listening to Safe, Effective, 00:11:52.149 --> 00:11:55.049 Natural Solutions to Almost Any Health Challenge. 00:11:55.350 --> 00:11:58.309 I sometimes get asked if I can help somebody 00:11:58.309 --> 00:12:00.029 who lives out of state. If you know someone, 00:12:00.190 --> 00:12:02.330 maybe something I've said on this show reminds 00:12:02.330 --> 00:12:05.009 you of a problem that your brother or your niece 00:12:05.009 --> 00:12:09.250 or your aunt in Washington State or Florida or 00:12:09.250 --> 00:12:12.850 Illinois or New York, you know, can I help somebody 00:12:12.850 --> 00:12:14.809 that lives in those places? And the answer is 00:12:14.809 --> 00:12:17.110 yes. I have patients in all of those states and 00:12:17.110 --> 00:12:20.179 a dozen others. I can consult with your loved 00:12:20.179 --> 00:12:22.600 one anywhere in the country, on the phone or 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:25.379 a video call, have them get their blood drawn 00:12:25.379 --> 00:12:28.240 in their town. LabCorp has a draw site within 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:30.960 five miles of almost any city in the country. 00:12:31.059 --> 00:12:33.460 And the specialty labs for the toxin testings, 00:12:33.460 --> 00:12:35.980 those are all samples that you collect yourself 00:12:35.980 --> 00:12:38.399 and mail into the lab anyway. There's only one 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:40.809 lab in the whole country. And then I receive 00:12:40.809 --> 00:12:44.029 the results online on a secure website and call 00:12:44.029 --> 00:12:46.750 you or them up. It is nice to see patients face 00:12:46.750 --> 00:12:49.250 -to -face in the office, but it's often not necessary. 00:12:49.769 --> 00:12:52.169 And we can review the results on the phone, email, 00:12:52.529 --> 00:12:55.070 whatever, a video call, whatever's easiest for 00:12:55.070 --> 00:12:59.049 them. And this distance consultation or telemedicine 00:12:59.049 --> 00:13:01.370 that I've done with many, many patients is the 00:13:01.370 --> 00:13:04.389 standard of care I provide to one of my favorite 00:13:04.389 --> 00:13:07.980 patients, my own mother. And she's given me permission 00:13:07.980 --> 00:13:10.960 to talk about her case, and she's doing great. 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:14.879 So my mom just turned 83, and her mother died 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:18.279 at 79. complications from open heart surgery. 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:21.519 She also had severe arthritis with the gnarled 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:24.940 fingers and stiffness and, you know, aches and 00:13:24.940 --> 00:13:26.559 pains all the time that were difficult to deal 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:28.980 with. And my own, you know, my mother also has 00:13:28.980 --> 00:13:31.240 arthritis, but it started many, many years later 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:35.379 than my grandmother's did. And even though she's 00:13:35.379 --> 00:13:37.379 older, it's still nowhere near as bad as what 00:13:37.379 --> 00:13:40.039 my grandmother had. So my mom has outlived her 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:42.940 mother by four years and remains in excellent 00:13:42.940 --> 00:13:46.659 health for her age. My mother's father, my mom's 00:13:46.659 --> 00:13:49.059 dad, my maternal grandfather, he began showing 00:13:49.059 --> 00:13:52.440 early signs of dementia. in his late 70s and 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:55.399 died of complications from Alzheimer's at 87. 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:58.419 So I've taken it upon myself to help her in any 00:13:58.419 --> 00:14:01.059 way I can, obviously, to avoid that fate or prolong 00:14:01.059 --> 00:14:03.860 it as much as possible. I'd like to have her 00:14:03.860 --> 00:14:07.220 around for as long as she still feels good and 00:14:07.220 --> 00:14:09.580 healthy. And she kind of has a metric of her 00:14:09.580 --> 00:14:12.259 own. She's already told my sister and brother 00:14:12.259 --> 00:14:17.080 and me that she wants to live until we take her 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:19.669 car keys away. So it's not my favorite metric. 00:14:19.809 --> 00:14:22.090 But if that works for her, that is her motivation. 00:14:22.190 --> 00:14:24.389 She is taking good care of herself. She exercises 00:14:24.389 --> 00:14:27.370 every day. She walks two miles a day. She still 00:14:27.370 --> 00:14:30.490 travels regularly. She just visited me. She flew 00:14:30.490 --> 00:14:32.570 from Kansas to California and stayed for a week 00:14:32.570 --> 00:14:35.350 earlier this year. And she still goes to church 00:14:35.350 --> 00:14:37.590 every day. She sings in the choir at Christmas. 00:14:37.830 --> 00:14:40.830 And she does her best to eat good food. She's 00:14:40.830 --> 00:14:43.490 doing actually really good with her diet. And 00:14:43.490 --> 00:14:45.629 she takes a handful of supplements from me. And 00:14:45.629 --> 00:14:48.389 we check her labs at least. once a year and sometimes 00:14:48.389 --> 00:14:52.870 more. And, you know, she's doing great. And she's 00:14:52.870 --> 00:14:55.049 a great patient. She would much rather do anything 00:14:55.049 --> 00:14:57.809 natural than become dependent on drugs for the 00:14:57.809 --> 00:15:00.309 rest of her life. When she goes in to see her 00:15:00.309 --> 00:15:02.429 doctors back home, they often are surprised. 00:15:02.450 --> 00:15:04.789 They're shocked, actually, that she's not taking 00:15:04.789 --> 00:15:07.190 seven, six, seven, eight medications like all 00:15:07.190 --> 00:15:10.820 their other patients that are her age. And she, 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:13.480 you know, for example, one time a few years ago, 00:15:13.500 --> 00:15:15.980 her cholesterol was elevated and they wanted 00:15:15.980 --> 00:15:18.220 to put her on statin drugs. And of course she 00:15:18.220 --> 00:15:20.799 said, thank you, but no, thank you. And we got 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:23.379 her cholesterol down, I don't know, 30 or 40 00:15:23.379 --> 00:15:25.740 points or whatever it was in a few months, went 00:15:25.740 --> 00:15:28.100 and had it retested. And I had her take that 00:15:28.100 --> 00:15:29.820 in and show her doctor, look, my cholesterol 00:15:29.820 --> 00:15:31.480 is fine now. What about that? And he said, well. 00:15:32.059 --> 00:15:33.620 thinking that, of course, her doctor would be 00:15:33.620 --> 00:15:36.240 fascinated to know how she lowered her cholesterol 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:39.039 without taking statin drugs. Was he interested? 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:42.960 No. He also wanted her to take bisphosphonates, 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:46.429 bone density. drugs, osteoporosis drugs. And 00:15:46.429 --> 00:15:48.590 these things are, you know, I'm not going to 00:15:48.590 --> 00:15:50.789 tell you not to take any medication. Some other 00:15:50.789 --> 00:15:53.009 doctor recommended for you, but I will tell you 00:15:53.009 --> 00:15:55.230 that these drugs are horrible. And I definitely 00:15:55.230 --> 00:15:56.909 did not recommend that my mother take them and 00:15:56.909 --> 00:15:59.730 she didn't want to take them. And she is taking 00:15:59.730 --> 00:16:03.090 adequate forms of bioavailable calcium, vitamin 00:16:03.090 --> 00:16:07.690 D. vitamin k2 and collagen and she hasn't had 00:16:07.690 --> 00:16:10.789 a fracture since she was in her 30s or 40s and 00:16:10.789 --> 00:16:13.929 she's you know her bones are in excellent health 00:16:13.929 --> 00:16:17.309 for her age much better than a lot of her friends 00:16:17.309 --> 00:16:19.889 for example even who are taking those drugs and 00:16:19.889 --> 00:16:23.019 still end up falling and breaking their hip In 00:16:23.019 --> 00:16:25.139 other news, the British Medical Journal just 00:16:25.139 --> 00:16:28.500 reported a meta -analysis of cardiovascular risk 00:16:28.500 --> 00:16:32.940 associated with the use of cannabis and cannabinoids. 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:35.519 So these things are growing more popular. They're 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:37.399 being legalized in several states. Sometimes 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:39.419 patients ask me about them. What do I think about 00:16:39.419 --> 00:16:42.480 this? I'm not a fan. There are some uses for 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:45.179 it that are pretty well documented for appetite, 00:16:45.419 --> 00:16:48.580 people, cancer patients, other patients who have 00:16:48.580 --> 00:16:50.840 difficulty feeling, you know, getting enough 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:54.929 food. Again, it helps with their appetite and 00:16:54.929 --> 00:16:58.009 for pain control as well. A lot of data on pain 00:16:58.009 --> 00:17:00.570 control for some things with using these things, 00:17:00.629 --> 00:17:03.029 but they're not without risk. So this is an analysis 00:17:03.029 --> 00:17:05.549 that looks at the relationship between major 00:17:05.549 --> 00:17:08.839 adverse cardiovascular events. and the use of 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:11.000 cannabis. And they also used cardiovascular death, 00:17:11.259 --> 00:17:14.640 non -fatal acute coronary syndrome, including 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.940 myocardial infarctions and non -fatal stroke. 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:21.720 So they found 24 articles, analyzed them, and 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:24.240 found that your risk for acute coronary syndrome 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:30.380 was 1 .29. and 1 .2 for stroke, and 2 .1 for 00:17:30.380 --> 00:17:32.420 cardiovascular death. So that means you had a 00:17:32.420 --> 00:17:36.680 29 % increased risk of acute heart attack, a 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:40.599 20 % increased risk for stroke, and double the 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:44.059 risk for cardiovascular death. So it's a really 00:17:44.059 --> 00:17:47.380 well done study, and it appears to be the first 00:17:47.380 --> 00:17:49.900 meta -analysis that examined the potential association 00:17:49.900 --> 00:17:54.859 of cannabis and these major... adverse cardiovascular 00:17:54.859 --> 00:17:57.980 events. Further, they wondered, so how does it 00:17:57.980 --> 00:18:01.039 do this? What are the mechanisms that cause cannabis 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:04.599 to increase risk of negative impacts on the cardiovascular 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:07.299 system? So there were associations with oxidative 00:18:07.299 --> 00:18:12.400 stress, tissue injury, and cell death. Cannabis 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:15.880 use was also pro -atherogenic and pro -fibrotic 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:17.700 and pro -inflammatory. So all three of those 00:18:17.700 --> 00:18:20.599 things are going to increase the plaque formation, 00:18:20.980 --> 00:18:23.299 blocking of the arteries, hardening of the arteries 00:18:23.299 --> 00:18:24.940 and the formation of plaques that can become 00:18:24.940 --> 00:18:28.420 thromboses that could migrate and cause a heart 00:18:28.420 --> 00:18:31.240 attack or a stroke and results in vasodilation 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:33.359 and constriction in the sympathetic nervous system 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:36.200 that could put additional stress on the entire 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:39.130 cardiovascular system. One thing the study doesn't 00:18:39.130 --> 00:18:41.269 address is whether or not the effect is in part 00:18:41.269 --> 00:18:43.789 due to the smoke or how much of these effects 00:18:43.789 --> 00:18:47.329 are due to the fact of smoking cannabis as opposed 00:18:47.329 --> 00:18:50.069 to doing an edible. For example, there are some 00:18:50.069 --> 00:18:52.549 well -known dangers with edibles because the 00:18:52.549 --> 00:18:55.589 manufacturers that make them have these ridiculous 00:18:55.589 --> 00:18:58.490 portion size. They give you something that looks 00:18:58.490 --> 00:19:00.650 like one serving and then say in fine print somewhere, 00:19:00.809 --> 00:19:02.789 oh, don't eat all of that, only eat a tiny portion 00:19:02.789 --> 00:19:04.750 of it. So if you are going to do those things, 00:19:04.829 --> 00:19:08.049 definitely make sure. to find out what the actual 00:19:08.049 --> 00:19:10.309 recommended serving size is before eating the 00:19:10.309 --> 00:19:13.089 whole thing. So my concern is smoke. They don't 00:19:13.089 --> 00:19:14.769 really mention anything in this study. They don't 00:19:14.769 --> 00:19:17.089 look at how much of these damaging effects to 00:19:17.089 --> 00:19:18.990 the cardiovascular system involved with cannabis 00:19:18.990 --> 00:19:21.609 use is simply due to the fact that someone is 00:19:21.609 --> 00:19:26.299 smoking. The cannabis smoke of any kind is pro 00:19:26.299 --> 00:19:29.660 -inflammatory, pro -atherogenic, pro -fibrotic, 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:32.160 increases hardening of the arteries. It irritates 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:35.660 this delicate lining of the blood vessels throughout 00:19:35.660 --> 00:19:38.480 your body, just as it irritates the linings of 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:41.200 your lungs. So smoking anything, cigarettes, 00:19:41.500 --> 00:19:45.019 marijuana, breathing in smoke from wildfires, 00:19:45.059 --> 00:19:47.319 as we've talked about on several previous episodes, 00:19:47.380 --> 00:19:49.980 which is becoming more and more unavoidable. 00:19:50.859 --> 00:19:53.039 And just any kind of smoke so that, you know, 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:57.099 even the smoke from candles, the smoke from anything 00:19:57.099 --> 00:20:00.119 that produces smoke, fireplaces, a lot of these 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:01.960 things aren't problems for most people, but they 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:05.200 might be. Anytime you see something, any fine 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:07.839 particulate matter that can float in the air, 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:10.599 that you can see floating in the air. That's 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:13.359 the definition of smoke. And any fine particulate 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:15.599 matter that is light enough to float in the air 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:19.859 is going to, when it floats in your nose, up 00:20:19.859 --> 00:20:22.240 your nostrils and down your trachea and into 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:26.240 your lungs, has a unique ability to reach the 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:29.420 deepest crevices of your lung tissue where it 00:20:29.420 --> 00:20:33.099 then gets lodged. And it's so difficult to cough 00:20:33.099 --> 00:20:35.660 or in any other way flush out. Your body makes 00:20:35.660 --> 00:20:39.000 mucus and you have a coughing mechanism to try. 00:20:39.660 --> 00:20:41.380 get that junk out of your lungs when your body 00:20:41.380 --> 00:20:43.220 realizes there's stuff in there that shouldn't 00:20:43.220 --> 00:20:46.039 be there, it causes you to cough and it causes 00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:48.279 you to make more mucus to produce phlegm so that 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:50.920 you cough that up and get that junk out of your 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:53.079 lungs that you've been exposed to. But those 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:56.700 mechanisms can only do so much. And when you 00:20:56.700 --> 00:20:59.059 have a particulate matter like that and other 00:20:59.059 --> 00:21:03.349 things that your lungs cannot help you. cough 00:21:03.349 --> 00:21:06.529 out, then it forms scar tissue. Your body forms 00:21:06.529 --> 00:21:10.069 scar tissue around these deposits and those things 00:21:10.069 --> 00:21:12.849 cause things like chronic obstructive pulmonary 00:21:12.849 --> 00:21:15.710 disease and lung cancer. And of course, just 00:21:15.710 --> 00:21:18.829 like oxygen, anything you breathe in also goes 00:21:18.829 --> 00:21:21.609 into your blood circulation and courses throughout 00:21:21.609 --> 00:21:25.130 your arteries and veins to every cell in your 00:21:25.130 --> 00:21:28.960 body. So your lungs are designed to breathe in 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:32.640 oxygen every day. That's how air reaches every 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:34.500 cell in your body. It first has to pass through 00:21:34.500 --> 00:21:37.519 a membrane at the furthest recesses of your lungs, 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:40.019 which is a very thin membrane that it can easily 00:21:40.019 --> 00:21:43.539 cross directly into your bloodstream. Every breath 00:21:43.539 --> 00:21:46.670 you take involves... oxygen molecules coming 00:21:46.670 --> 00:21:48.890 across from the air you breathe through that 00:21:48.890 --> 00:21:51.049 slight barrier directly into your bloodstream 00:21:51.049 --> 00:21:53.630 so that it can reach all of the cells that depend 00:21:53.630 --> 00:21:55.430 on it for life. But because of that, because 00:21:55.430 --> 00:21:57.970 that membrane has to be so thin to allow oxygen 00:21:57.970 --> 00:22:02.349 to directly enter your liquid bloodstream, toxins 00:22:02.349 --> 00:22:05.720 of any kind that you breathe in can also work 00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:08.500 their way directly into your bloodstream and 00:22:08.500 --> 00:22:10.920 irritate the lining of your arteries in ways 00:22:10.920 --> 00:22:13.519 that cause little micro tears that your body 00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:16.799 then forms scars around, which eventually become 00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:19.339 plaques. The plaques that narrow your arteries 00:22:19.339 --> 00:22:22.119 reduce circulation to your brain and eventually 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:25.180 can sometimes break off little fragments called 00:22:25.180 --> 00:22:28.380 thrombi, thrombuses, and migrate to your heart 00:22:28.380 --> 00:22:30.359 and cause a heart attack or to your brain and 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:32.500 cause a stroke. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. You're 00:22:32.500 --> 00:22:34.859 listening to Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions 00:22:34.859 --> 00:22:38.180 to Almost Any Challenge. We're about out of time 00:22:38.180 --> 00:22:39.880 here. So I'll just talk about one more thing 00:22:39.880 --> 00:22:42.839 about creatine. A couple of episodes ago, we 00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:45.279 were talking about creatine and its beneficial 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:48.039 effects that are now documented to actually even 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:51.599 slightly reverse damage to the brain, damage 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:53.700 that causes dementia and Alzheimer's. So this 00:22:53.700 --> 00:22:55.819 is really exciting. And I got a few questions 00:22:55.819 --> 00:22:57.359 about that. And there's a really interesting, 00:22:57.539 --> 00:22:59.940 you know, for more information about creatine, 00:22:59.960 --> 00:23:01.609 a couple of people. ask me, okay, where do I 00:23:01.609 --> 00:23:03.529 get creatine? What's the form that you recommend? 00:23:03.710 --> 00:23:07.630 And I recommend creatine from Thorne, T -H -O 00:23:07.630 --> 00:23:10.569 -R -N -E. Thorne is the company that makes an 00:23:10.569 --> 00:23:13.049 excellent creatine supplement. And you can go 00:23:13.049 --> 00:23:16.970 to their website, thorne .com, and punch in creatine. 00:23:16.970 --> 00:23:19.349 There's an article on their website that was 00:23:19.349 --> 00:23:22.069 published this month called Creatine Benefits 00:23:22.069 --> 00:23:24.069 for Women's Health. It was in response to the 00:23:24.069 --> 00:23:26.509 same research that I talked about. on the last 00:23:26.509 --> 00:23:28.970 couple of episodes. And it talks about how the 00:23:28.970 --> 00:23:31.910 evidence shows that creatine can be very beneficial 00:23:31.910 --> 00:23:34.730 for women's muscle strength, body composition, 00:23:34.950 --> 00:23:39.420 mood, energy. and overall health throughout their 00:23:39.420 --> 00:23:41.880 lifespans. And they have research at the bottom 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:43.920 of that article to back it up. So you can find 00:23:43.920 --> 00:23:45.940 that on their website. And, you know, it reviews, 00:23:46.099 --> 00:23:49.059 highlights the fact that women consume less creatine. 00:23:49.220 --> 00:23:52.579 They store less creatine. And supplementing, 00:23:52.579 --> 00:23:55.759 the research shows that supplementing it is an 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:57.900 option that many women might want to consider 00:23:57.900 --> 00:23:59.839 throughout their lifespans. During childbearing 00:23:59.839 --> 00:24:03.180 age, through menopause, estrogen and progesterone 00:24:03.180 --> 00:24:06.000 are known to alter creatine bioavailability as 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:15.019 well as the expression. Thank you so much for 00:24:15.019 --> 00:24:17.420 listening. Send me, email me, or text me your 00:24:17.420 --> 00:24:20.640 questions anytime at drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:24.039 .com. Have a fantastic weekend. 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