WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.660 Prepare to have your health questions answered 00:00:02.660 --> 00:00:06.620 here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions with 00:00:06.620 --> 00:00:10.000 Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:14.710 in downtown Ventura. Now, here's Dr. Todd. Good 00:00:14.710 --> 00:00:16.870 afternoon. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board -certified 00:00:16.870 --> 00:00:19.129 doctor of non -force chiropractic and practitioner 00:00:19.129 --> 00:00:22.030 of functional medicine. Last week at the top 00:00:22.030 --> 00:00:23.730 of the show, I promised I was going to talk about 00:00:23.730 --> 00:00:27.629 why no one should take gummy supplements, and 00:00:27.629 --> 00:00:29.429 I didn't get to it. We ran out of time, so I'm 00:00:29.429 --> 00:00:31.070 going to start with that. We're also going to 00:00:31.070 --> 00:00:33.289 get to an exciting case, another exciting case 00:00:33.289 --> 00:00:35.789 about someone who had a woman, a 70 -year -old 00:00:35.789 --> 00:00:38.429 woman, who went on a trip to Thailand and came 00:00:38.429 --> 00:00:41.929 back, had diarrhea for three months. I don't 00:00:41.929 --> 00:00:43.929 know why she waited so long before she came back. 00:00:43.850 --> 00:00:46.390 came in to me but we got her fixed up feeling 00:00:46.390 --> 00:00:48.549 a lot better i'll tell you how we did that a 00:00:48.549 --> 00:00:52.250 microbiome update and if we have time some exciting 00:00:52.250 --> 00:00:55.149 new information about another great test information 00:00:55.149 --> 00:00:57.229 some of it's which has been out for a while but 00:00:57.229 --> 00:01:00.149 more research has come about identifying how 00:01:00.149 --> 00:01:03.109 another really good blood test can identify earlier 00:01:03.109 --> 00:01:06.430 signs of arteriosclerosis the hardening of the 00:01:06.430 --> 00:01:09.189 arteries plaque forming in the arteries the best 00:01:09.189 --> 00:01:11.670 way to tell how much plaque you have in your 00:01:11.670 --> 00:01:13.989 arteries is to do a CT scan but there's a lot 00:01:13.989 --> 00:01:16.409 of radiation and expense involved with that so 00:01:16.409 --> 00:01:18.689 when we can give you earlier signs of stress 00:01:18.689 --> 00:01:21.829 and motivate you to do something about reversing 00:01:21.829 --> 00:01:24.189 and reducing the formation of that plaque in 00:01:24.189 --> 00:01:27.170 your arteries anytime we find another test that 00:01:27.170 --> 00:01:30.189 can do that it's a great great news and cholesterol 00:01:30.189 --> 00:01:32.730 is not what I'm talking about that's the standard 00:01:32.730 --> 00:01:34.890 what most doctors use cholesterol is just not 00:01:34.890 --> 00:01:37.590 a very good indicator of your risk of heart disease 00:01:37.590 --> 00:01:39.870 it is an indicator it's not completely useless 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:42.280 But cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease. 00:01:42.620 --> 00:01:45.019 Inflammation causes heart disease. And you can 00:01:45.019 --> 00:01:48.700 have very high cholesterol and very low plaque 00:01:48.700 --> 00:01:51.260 in your arteries. And you can have very low cholesterol 00:01:51.260 --> 00:01:53.879 and still have very high plaque in your arteries, 00:01:53.939 --> 00:01:56.439 which doesn't make it a very good test, nor does 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:59.219 it make it a very good target for therapy. So 00:01:59.219 --> 00:02:01.079 we're going to come back to that. But first, 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:02.579 we're going to talk about it. I'm excited to 00:02:02.579 --> 00:02:04.760 do this. I hope you find it interesting. Because 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:08.699 this is shocking to me that anyone takes... Gummy 00:02:08.699 --> 00:02:11.300 supplements. Why would anyone do that? They're 00:02:11.300 --> 00:02:14.479 obviously candy, aren't they? Well, apparently 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:18.099 not. People who don't want to take any vitamins, 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:21.219 but okay, if you give me some gummies, they taste 00:02:21.219 --> 00:02:23.819 good. I'll chew on those. Well, gummies are useless. 00:02:24.180 --> 00:02:27.979 All gummy supplements are useless. Why is that? 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:31.639 Because they're candy. They're mostly gelatin, 00:02:31.939 --> 00:02:35.900 sugar, artificial flavors, colors, and preservatives. 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:38.780 They also have a tiny amount of nutrients in 00:02:38.780 --> 00:02:40.620 them, but they're almost always the cheapest, 00:02:40.860 --> 00:02:44.539 least bioavailable form of those nutrients. So 00:02:44.539 --> 00:02:46.099 what am I talking about? Well, here's a popular 00:02:46.099 --> 00:02:51.129 one. Nature's made multivitamin gummies. Over 00:02:51.129 --> 00:02:54.289 50 years of experience, they say, on their label. 00:02:54.330 --> 00:02:56.330 Quality you can trust. No artificial flavors. 00:02:56.449 --> 00:02:58.689 No synthetic dyes. No high fructose corn syrup. 00:02:58.770 --> 00:03:01.849 No artificial sweeteners. And gluten -free. Well, 00:03:02.030 --> 00:03:05.069 no multivitamins have gluten in them, so that's 00:03:05.069 --> 00:03:07.469 kind of silly to point out that they're gluten 00:03:07.469 --> 00:03:10.430 -free. But here's the fun part. No high fructose 00:03:10.430 --> 00:03:12.430 corn syrup. Well, that's good. But instead, the 00:03:12.430 --> 00:03:15.729 first ingredient, the thing that there is more 00:03:15.729 --> 00:03:18.770 of than anything else in Nature's Made Gummy 00:03:18.770 --> 00:03:22.110 multivitamins, is glucose sugar. That's the number 00:03:22.110 --> 00:03:25.889 one ingredient, glucose syrup. The second ingredient 00:03:25.889 --> 00:03:29.409 is sugar. The third ingredient is water. The 00:03:29.409 --> 00:03:31.569 fourth ingredient is gelatin. So that's like 00:03:31.569 --> 00:03:33.590 99, I don't know what the exact percentage is. 00:03:33.610 --> 00:03:35.689 It's probably something like 90 plus percentage 00:03:35.689 --> 00:03:39.969 of what's in that gummy is glucose syrup, sugar, 00:03:40.150 --> 00:03:44.210 water, and gelatin, and a tiny amount of vitamins. 00:03:44.389 --> 00:03:47.990 But even more importantly is what type of vitamins 00:03:47.990 --> 00:03:50.729 are in there and how much. So here's another 00:03:50.729 --> 00:03:55.990 takeaway key point to remember. Ignore the percentage 00:03:55.990 --> 00:03:58.469 daily value, what used to be called the RDA, 00:03:58.629 --> 00:04:00.909 the recommended daily allowance. The government 00:04:00.909 --> 00:04:04.830 recommended amounts of vitamins is now the percentage 00:04:04.830 --> 00:04:08.729 daily value. So the daily value on the supplement 00:04:08.729 --> 00:04:12.330 facts and the label on any vitamin product is 00:04:12.330 --> 00:04:14.689 really useless information. What is that information 00:04:14.689 --> 00:04:16.930 for? Where does that come from? Well, the daily 00:04:16.930 --> 00:04:22.300 value of vitamin C, That's enough to prevent 00:04:22.300 --> 00:04:26.279 scurvy. The recommended daily value of niacin, 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:30.699 vitamin B3, is 16 milligrams. That's enough to 00:04:30.699 --> 00:04:34.639 prevent pellagra, the severe deficiency disease 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:38.379 that happens if you get no vitamin B3, no niacin 00:04:38.379 --> 00:04:40.759 in your body. It causes discolored skin, diarrhea, 00:04:41.180 --> 00:04:44.319 mental confusion, eventually multiple organ failure 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:47.680 and death within a few years. The U .S. recommended 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:51.399 daily value of thiamine, vitamin B1, is 1 .2 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:55.199 milligrams, which is enough to prevent beriberi 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:57.620 disease that causes swelling in the legs, feet, 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:00.019 ankles, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, 00:05:00.019 --> 00:05:02.779 and chest pain. The point is there are severe 00:05:02.779 --> 00:05:07.060 deficiency. diseases of every vitamin and most 00:05:07.060 --> 00:05:10.480 nutrient minerals. That's where these daily values 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:12.899 come from. In the early 20th century, people 00:05:12.899 --> 00:05:15.620 used to actually die from inadequate amounts 00:05:15.620 --> 00:05:18.680 of vitamin C and various B vitamins, vitamin 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:22.959 D. Vitamin D, if you have lack, most people know 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:25.199 if you don't get sufficient vitamin D, your bones 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:28.019 will collapse, among other things. But the point 00:05:28.019 --> 00:05:31.319 is, hopefully no one is taking a multivitamin. 00:05:31.379 --> 00:05:33.019 I don't think anyone is going out and buying 00:05:33.919 --> 00:05:37.480 multivitamin gummies to prevent scurvy or beriberi 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:40.100 or pellagra or any other severe nutrient deficiency 00:05:40.100 --> 00:05:42.800 disease. These things have been largely eliminated, 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:46.600 at least in the Western world. The point of taking 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:49.639 a multivitamin is the same as the point of taking 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:51.720 any other supplement. You're not getting enough 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:56.160 nutrients from your diet to be healthy. to maximize 00:05:56.160 --> 00:06:00.199 your immune function, to maximize the intake 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:02.779 of nutrients your body needs to heal and repair 00:06:02.779 --> 00:06:06.420 itself and maintain vital health all of the time. 00:06:06.420 --> 00:06:09.199 Most people don't get enough of some of the vitamins 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:11.360 and many of the minerals from their diet, as 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:14.079 well as omega -3 fatty acids and especially vitamin 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:17.779 D from their food. or the sun in the case of 00:06:17.779 --> 00:06:20.139 vitamin D, which is why I recommend that everyone 00:06:20.139 --> 00:06:23.000 take a good multivitamin, and fish oil for the 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:24.860 omega -3 fatty acids that are difficult to get 00:06:24.860 --> 00:06:28.160 enough of from your diet, and 5 ,000 units of 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:30.879 vitamin D for most adults, which no one gets 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:34.220 from the sun, except for very rare circumstances. 00:06:34.259 --> 00:06:36.720 If you sunbathe a lot in the summer only. So 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:40.220 back to the ingredients on nature -made multivitamin 00:06:40.220 --> 00:06:43.759 gummies. They have 36 milligrams of vitamin C, 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.519 which is a ridiculously small amount. Vitamin 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:49.620 C capsules on their own come in 500 milligram, 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:55.779 1 ,000 milligram. The gummies have vitamin E 00:06:55.779 --> 00:06:58.800 as D -alpha -tocopherol. Look for that on the 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:01.100 labels. That is the cheapest form of vitamin 00:07:01.100 --> 00:07:05.480 E. The cheapest form of vitamin E is D -alpha 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:08.519 -tocopherol. And many top -shelf companies are 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:11.319 doing away with this entirely. It is the cheapest 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:14.699 form of vitamin E. but it actually slows the 00:07:14.699 --> 00:07:17.040 absorption of several other forms of vitamin 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.300 E, which are much more important. The tocotrienols, 00:07:20.420 --> 00:07:25.699 for example. The gummies have niacin, 8 milligrams, 00:07:26.019 --> 00:07:29.339 a teeny tiny amount. It's 1 .7 milligrams of 00:07:29.339 --> 00:07:32.680 B6. A good amount of folate, 400 micrograms of 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:34.480 folate. That is a good dose. That is the RDA. 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:37.279 The RDA for folic acid is adequate for most people. 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:40.720 Here's another really bad one, vitamin B12. The 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:45.500 gummies have 2 .4 micrograms. That is just weight. 00:07:45.660 --> 00:07:47.819 That's just not enough for anybody to maintain 00:07:47.819 --> 00:07:51.920 health. And it's in the cyanocobalamin form, 00:07:52.019 --> 00:07:54.980 which is the cheapest form. 99 % of B12 supplements 00:07:54.980 --> 00:07:58.639 are cyanocobalamin. That is the cheap form. The 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:01.120 active form is methylcobalamin. So if you want 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:02.800 to know if your vitamins are good or not, look 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:05.399 at the B12 on the label and see if it's methyl. 00:08:06.089 --> 00:08:09.290 and see if the folate is methylfolate instead 00:08:09.290 --> 00:08:12.970 of the B12 being cyanocobalamin. And you definitely 00:08:12.970 --> 00:08:17.430 need more than 2 .4 micrograms. to stay healthy. 00:08:17.790 --> 00:08:20.310 In addition, these gummies, the nature -made 00:08:20.310 --> 00:08:22.829 multivitamin gummies, have a little tiny little 00:08:22.829 --> 00:08:25.230 bit of iodine, a little bit of zinc, and a little 00:08:25.230 --> 00:08:28.170 bit of chromium. That's it. Three minerals. So 00:08:28.170 --> 00:08:30.529 I'm going to compare this list to the multivitamin 00:08:30.529 --> 00:08:32.070 that I recommend. It's not the only good one. 00:08:32.129 --> 00:08:34.970 There are lots of good ones, but all good multivitamins 00:08:34.970 --> 00:08:38.690 are three or four capsules a day, never a gummy, 00:08:38.850 --> 00:08:41.750 and never a one -a -day tablet or a capsule of 00:08:41.750 --> 00:08:45.799 any type. Why is that? Everyone, why are there, 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:47.480 why are there, if they're no good, then how come 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:49.419 there's so many, the shelves are full. Every 00:08:49.419 --> 00:08:53.580 store has, you know, shelf feet of one a day 00:08:53.580 --> 00:08:56.299 multivitamins. Well, the answer is very simple. 00:08:56.580 --> 00:08:59.759 Everyone wants a one a day multivitamin. If they're 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:01.940 going to take anything, just give me one pill 00:09:01.940 --> 00:09:04.559 with a little bit of everything I need. The market 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:08.399 for one pill is insatiable. So those will always 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:11.120 be there. But you now know. They're useless. 00:09:11.220 --> 00:09:13.980 There's not enough room in one capsule or one 00:09:13.980 --> 00:09:17.820 tablet to fit bioavailable forms of any decent 00:09:17.820 --> 00:09:20.399 amount of the nutrients that you need. So if 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:21.740 you want to know if your multivitamin is good, 00:09:21.860 --> 00:09:23.919 it should be at least three or four capsules 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:25.159 a day. I'm going to tell you about it. Compare 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:29.419 these Nature's Made gummies to my favorite multivitamin. 00:09:29.419 --> 00:09:31.519 It's not the only good one, but it is four capsules 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:35.159 a day. It is Alpha Base. Alpha Base, like alpha, 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:37.100 the first letter in the Greek alphabet, and base, 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:39.720 like the basic nutrients you need. to be healthy, 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:42.600 not to survive, not to prevent scurvy, but to 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:47.320 be healthy, to support a healthy diet with vitamins 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:49.460 and minerals that most people just don't get 00:09:49.460 --> 00:09:52.500 enough of from food. So it's Alpha Base by Orthomolecular 00:09:52.500 --> 00:09:55.799 Products. In contrast with the 36 milligrams 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:59.360 of vitamin C that are in the nature's made gummies, 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:03.080 alpha -base has 500 milligrams of vitamin C. 00:10:03.100 --> 00:10:05.620 That's a good amount of vitamin C. Alpha -base 00:10:05.620 --> 00:10:09.320 has 500 micrograms of methylcobalamin, the form 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:13.299 of vitamin B12 that you want. It has 25 milligrams 00:10:13.299 --> 00:10:16.759 of niacin, three times the amount in the gummies, 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:21.399 37 milligrams of vitamin B6. 20 times the amount 00:10:21.399 --> 00:10:23.940 in the gummies. And most importantly of all, 00:10:24.019 --> 00:10:26.580 a whole host of vitamins and minerals that aren't 00:10:26.580 --> 00:10:29.340 in any amount in the gummies. For example, the 00:10:29.340 --> 00:10:32.960 gummies have a little tiny bit of iodine, zinc, 00:10:33.179 --> 00:10:37.200 and chromium, but zero calcium, zero magnesium. 00:10:37.899 --> 00:10:41.000 zero selenium. The gummies have no copper, no 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:43.600 manganese, no molybdenum. They're missing multiple 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:46.820 important B vitamins like vitamin B1, thiamine, 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:49.039 vitamin B2, riboflavin. They have a little bit 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:53.129 of niacin, no vitamin B5, pantothenic acid. In 00:10:53.129 --> 00:10:55.870 total, the list of vitamins and minerals on the 00:10:55.870 --> 00:10:59.950 Nature's Made Multi Gummies is 11. 11 vitamins 00:10:59.950 --> 00:11:02.090 and minerals. The list of vitamins and minerals 00:11:02.090 --> 00:11:05.070 and nutrients in Alpha Base, the vitamin that 00:11:05.070 --> 00:11:08.549 I recommend four capsules a day, is 29 vitamin 00:11:08.549 --> 00:11:11.129 minerals. And most of them in much larger amounts 00:11:11.129 --> 00:11:15.649 than the US RDA and far larger amounts than in 00:11:15.649 --> 00:11:17.970 any gummy. Because they just don't fit. So it's 00:11:17.970 --> 00:11:20.669 just the most important thing is I want people 00:11:20.669 --> 00:11:23.220 to understand is if you're going to take a multivitamin 00:11:23.220 --> 00:11:25.700 you should because no one gets enough especially 00:11:25.700 --> 00:11:27.960 of the minerals you can get vitamins from food 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:30.960 but very few people get enough manganese and 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:34.399 chromium and selenium and zinc and calcium and 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:36.980 magnesium from their food that's the reason to 00:11:36.980 --> 00:11:41.269 take a good supplement so alpha base has 29 vitamins 00:11:41.269 --> 00:11:43.230 and minerals in it. And it's always going to 00:11:43.230 --> 00:11:45.490 be four capsules a day because the bioavailable 00:11:45.490 --> 00:11:48.389 forms of the minerals in particular are bulky. 00:11:48.509 --> 00:11:52.210 They take up space. If you mine minerals from 00:11:52.210 --> 00:11:54.450 the surface of the earth, you can put them in 00:11:54.450 --> 00:11:57.850 one tablet in an amount that reaches the U .S. 00:11:57.850 --> 00:12:00.490 daily value, but not in forms that your body 00:12:00.490 --> 00:12:03.690 can absorb very well. We're not designed to eat 00:12:03.690 --> 00:12:06.490 dirt and absorb minerals from ground up rocks 00:12:06.490 --> 00:12:09.149 and seashells and other things mined directly 00:12:09.149 --> 00:12:10.759 from the surface of the earth. earth if you stick 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:13.480 a plant in the surface of the earth especially 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:16.860 in good soil then it will absorb those same minerals 00:12:16.860 --> 00:12:19.259 and bind them in the leaves and the vegetables 00:12:19.259 --> 00:12:22.399 and the parts of the plant that we eat and forms 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:25.440 that are easy for our digestive systems to break 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:29.919 apart and absorb and these forms are bulky they 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:33.159 take they physically take up more space than 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:36.059 the same stuff took up when it was in the dirt 00:12:36.059 --> 00:12:38.019 and that's why you'll never find you'll net you 00:12:38.019 --> 00:12:40.649 there will never ever be a one -a -day multivitamin 00:12:40.649 --> 00:12:43.509 that has those same bioavailable forms, other 00:12:43.509 --> 00:12:46.769 minerals that everyone needs to be healthy. I'm 00:12:46.769 --> 00:12:49.110 Dr. Todd Binkley. You're listening to Safe, Effective, 00:12:49.110 --> 00:12:52.029 Natural Solutions to Almost Any Health Challenge. 00:12:52.149 --> 00:12:55.190 And I've spent the first 12 minutes of this show 00:12:55.190 --> 00:12:58.309 talking about why no one should take multivitamin 00:12:58.309 --> 00:13:01.610 gummies or any other gummy supplements because 00:13:01.610 --> 00:13:04.230 they're mostly... candy they're mostly sugar 00:13:04.230 --> 00:13:07.169 and gelatin and just to finish off the label 00:13:07.169 --> 00:13:10.029 on here's a common popular nature's made gummies 00:13:10.029 --> 00:13:12.370 multivitamin a popular brand that lots of people 00:13:12.370 --> 00:13:14.330 buy it says right here on the label from the 00:13:14.330 --> 00:13:17.330 number one pharmacist recommended vitamin and 00:13:17.330 --> 00:13:20.529 supplement brand in small print at the bottom 00:13:20.529 --> 00:13:22.850 based on a survey of pharmacists who recommend 00:13:22.850 --> 00:13:25.970 branded vitamins and supplements well Pharmacists 00:13:25.970 --> 00:13:27.629 are essential if you need information about the 00:13:27.629 --> 00:13:29.309 prescriptions that you're picking up that have 00:13:29.309 --> 00:13:32.070 been prescribed for you. But if this crappy candy 00:13:32.070 --> 00:13:35.289 multivitamin is recommended by any majority of 00:13:35.289 --> 00:13:37.690 surveyed pharmacists, then I recommend not asking 00:13:37.690 --> 00:13:39.929 your pharmacist what kind of vitamins you should 00:13:39.929 --> 00:13:42.870 take. Because they're in the medical system. 00:13:42.929 --> 00:13:45.450 They're subject to the same misinformation that 00:13:45.450 --> 00:13:48.289 most medical doctors get, which is that vitamins 00:13:48.289 --> 00:13:51.490 are at best useless. Might even be harmful. It's 00:13:51.490 --> 00:13:53.870 ridiculous. This is all marketing funded by the 00:13:53.870 --> 00:13:56.269 pharmaceutical industry. If you want to be healthy, 00:13:56.429 --> 00:13:59.210 you're probably not getting enough vitamins and 00:13:59.210 --> 00:14:00.850 especially minerals from your diet. That's why 00:14:00.850 --> 00:14:03.029 it's good to take a good multivitamin, which 00:14:03.029 --> 00:14:04.750 is always going to be four capsules a day and 00:14:04.750 --> 00:14:08.309 never one a day and definitely never a gummy. 00:14:08.990 --> 00:14:12.110 It's time for a microbiome update. I love presenting. 00:14:12.110 --> 00:14:14.029 There's always new information coming out about 00:14:14.029 --> 00:14:17.210 the importance of the gut microbiome, the balance 00:14:17.210 --> 00:14:19.870 of healthy bacteria and other beneficial organisms 00:14:19.870 --> 00:14:23.230 in your gut versus the non -beneficial or even 00:14:23.230 --> 00:14:27.919 sometimes pathogenic. viruses, bacteria, worms, 00:14:28.299 --> 00:14:30.279 parasites, et cetera, that can show up in your 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:32.279 gut. And this is, I have a really great case 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:35.259 to talk about as a 70 year old woman who had 00:14:35.259 --> 00:14:38.399 recently visited Thailand. And when she got back, 00:14:38.460 --> 00:14:41.179 she started having really bad diarrhea, gas, 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:44.639 bloating, cramping pain and her stomach and her 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.039 intestines. And I don't know why she waited three 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:49.039 months to come see me. Cause she was a previous 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:51.299 patient who I hadn't seen in a while. Cause she 00:14:51.299 --> 00:14:52.799 was feeling good. Her back was feeling better. 00:14:52.820 --> 00:14:55.710 So she hadn't seen her in a while. And she said, 00:14:55.809 --> 00:14:57.490 well, I didn't want to go to any doctor because 00:14:57.490 --> 00:14:58.990 they're just going to give me antibiotics. And 00:14:58.990 --> 00:15:00.429 I didn't want to do that. I don't want to kill 00:15:00.429 --> 00:15:02.789 off. She knew her microbiome was important. She 00:15:02.789 --> 00:15:06.049 knew that antibiotics can. kill off all the beneficial 00:15:06.049 --> 00:15:08.330 bacteria in your gut. Well, if you have a really 00:15:08.330 --> 00:15:10.809 bad bacterial infection, it might be a good idea 00:15:10.809 --> 00:15:14.049 to take antibiotics for a little while. And then 00:15:14.049 --> 00:15:16.309 you can rebuild the beneficial microbiome in 00:15:16.309 --> 00:15:18.549 your gut by taking probiotics and prebiotics 00:15:18.549 --> 00:15:21.049 to feed the good bacteria in your gut. But it's 00:15:21.049 --> 00:15:24.070 never always about bacteria either. She could 00:15:24.070 --> 00:15:26.129 have had a virus. She could have had a parasite, 00:15:26.370 --> 00:15:30.330 worms, a fungus, a whole host of other, several 00:15:30.330 --> 00:15:32.909 other categories of bugs that can cause her symptoms. 00:15:33.250 --> 00:15:35.529 And obviously it's a That's an important thing 00:15:35.529 --> 00:15:38.070 to consider if somebody's returning from a foreign 00:15:38.070 --> 00:15:40.090 country where you haven't lived, you haven't 00:15:40.090 --> 00:15:42.169 developed the natural defenses that the people 00:15:42.169 --> 00:15:45.429 who live there have developed against bugs that 00:15:45.429 --> 00:15:49.490 are prevalent in their environment. And so I 00:15:49.490 --> 00:15:51.450 told her, well, we need to do a stool test. The 00:15:51.450 --> 00:15:53.830 only way we're going to know for sure. What kind 00:15:53.830 --> 00:15:56.710 of bad bug you have is to do a comprehensive 00:15:56.710 --> 00:15:59.009 stool test. And the one that I use from Doctors 00:15:59.009 --> 00:16:03.250 Data, GI 360, the report from it is generally 00:16:03.250 --> 00:16:06.090 12 to 16 pages. There are other companies, there 00:16:06.090 --> 00:16:08.450 are a few other good companies that offer a comprehensive 00:16:08.450 --> 00:16:12.919 good stool test like Genova Diagnostics. Vibrant 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:14.820 Wellness. There are a couple of others. But anyway, 00:16:14.899 --> 00:16:16.379 I like the doctor's data reporting because it 00:16:16.379 --> 00:16:19.399 shows it in a really nice form that's easy to 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:22.320 explain the results and educate you about what 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:24.240 needs to be done. So anyway, it includes a very 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.879 long list of virtually every known bacteria, 00:16:26.980 --> 00:16:31.080 virus, worm, parasite that human beings ever 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:35.470 encounter. And that is often a problem in a case 00:16:35.470 --> 00:16:37.250 like this. So what was really interesting about 00:16:37.250 --> 00:16:39.409 this 70 -year -old woman who had just come back 00:16:39.409 --> 00:16:42.370 from Thailand is that she didn't have any bad 00:16:42.370 --> 00:16:45.370 bugs. She didn't have any pathogenic viruses, 00:16:45.629 --> 00:16:50.250 bacteria, parasites. or worms. She just had a 00:16:50.250 --> 00:16:54.250 severely depleted microbiome. She had severe 00:16:54.250 --> 00:16:57.970 deficiencies of the normal healthy bacteria in 00:16:57.970 --> 00:17:00.629 her gut. And that's why she had diarrhea for 00:17:00.629 --> 00:17:03.919 three months, because her normal bacteria weren't 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:06.140 there in sufficient amounts to do the job of 00:17:06.140 --> 00:17:08.059 the microbiome, to facilitate the absorption 00:17:08.059 --> 00:17:11.559 of essential nutrients, to maintain the balance 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:13.920 of the structure of the feces that are produced, 00:17:14.140 --> 00:17:17.500 to fight off bad bacteria and keep them in check, 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:19.980 and to control inflammation. There's a long list. 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:22.900 And they do this primarily, one of the main reasons 00:17:22.900 --> 00:17:25.299 the microbiome becomes deficient is because lack 00:17:25.299 --> 00:17:28.779 of fiber in the diet. So just the actions of 00:17:28.779 --> 00:17:31.990 fiber in the gut. help increase the abundance 00:17:31.990 --> 00:17:36.430 of important species like bifidobacterium, acromantia, 00:17:36.529 --> 00:17:39.549 some specific forms of beneficial bacteria in 00:17:39.549 --> 00:17:42.750 the gut. The fiber also helps maintain glucose 00:17:42.750 --> 00:17:45.589 balance by slowing the absorption of sugar from 00:17:45.589 --> 00:17:48.910 food and stimulating GLP -1 production, which 00:17:48.910 --> 00:17:53.849 is huge in the media, ozempic. Terzepatide, all 00:17:53.849 --> 00:17:58.069 these medications for weight loss are GLP -1 00:17:58.069 --> 00:18:01.329 agonists. And GLP -1, the production of that 00:18:01.329 --> 00:18:05.210 is stimulated by having adequate amounts of fiber 00:18:05.210 --> 00:18:08.599 in the gut. And then also... Prebiotic seeding. 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:12.180 Fiber is one of the main categories of prebiotics, 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:16.059 food for the good bacteria to help them produce 00:18:16.059 --> 00:18:18.940 short -chain fatty acids and other essential 00:18:18.940 --> 00:18:22.019 nutrients that keep your microbiome in balance 00:18:22.019 --> 00:18:25.140 and keep it doing its job. Only about 5 % of 00:18:25.140 --> 00:18:28.440 the population consumes... enough fiber per day. 00:18:28.579 --> 00:18:31.319 And it's really interesting because I'm a strong, 00:18:31.420 --> 00:18:33.299 I'm a huge advocate of a low carbohydrate diet, 00:18:33.380 --> 00:18:35.740 of a ketogenic diet, of eating, you know, adequate 00:18:35.740 --> 00:18:38.220 amounts of protein and good fats and minimizing 00:18:38.220 --> 00:18:41.220 your consumption of grains, starch and sugar. 00:18:41.339 --> 00:18:44.160 But everything is in balance, should be in balance. 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:46.460 And people that are on diets like that who eat 00:18:46.460 --> 00:18:51.160 no vegetables, who eat no carbs at all. So I'm 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:53.920 not, you know, I like to talk about grains, starch 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:56.180 and sugar instead of carbs because hardly anyone 00:18:56.269 --> 00:18:59.509 needs bread or pasta or rice or potatoes or corn 00:18:59.509 --> 00:19:01.910 in their diet but you do need vegetables and 00:19:01.910 --> 00:19:04.829 there are carbohydrates in broccoli and cauliflower 00:19:04.829 --> 00:19:08.450 and spinach and leafy greens and tomatoes so 00:19:08.450 --> 00:19:10.170 you can get all the carbohydrates you need from 00:19:10.170 --> 00:19:12.450 food but you do need to eat the vegetables you 00:19:12.450 --> 00:19:15.170 need and among other reasons you do need some 00:19:15.170 --> 00:19:18.930 carbohydrates and you need the the fiber most 00:19:18.930 --> 00:19:21.089 importantly you need the fiber and excellent 00:19:21.089 --> 00:19:24.750 sources of fiber for bulk are vegetables for 00:19:24.750 --> 00:19:27.420 the inside fiber that help form proper stools, 00:19:27.420 --> 00:19:29.880 control the balance between constipation and 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:33.079 diarrhea. But you also need soluble fiber, soluble 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:37.259 fiber from things like chickpeas and beans, kidney 00:19:37.259 --> 00:19:41.140 beans, lima beans, lentils, chia seeds and onions, 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:44.920 even bananas and oat bran and rice bran. One 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:47.400 of my favorites, fresh garlic has something called 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:50.259 oligosaccharides, which are prebiotic fibers 00:19:50.259 --> 00:19:53.579 that feed the healthy bacteria in your gut. I'm 00:19:53.579 --> 00:19:55.339 Dr. Todd Binkley. If you've just tuned in, we're 00:19:55.339 --> 00:19:57.579 talking about a case of a 70 -year -old woman 00:19:57.579 --> 00:20:01.160 who came back from vacation in Asia with a severe 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:06.400 pain in the gut, diarrhea, bloating, etc., and 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:09.019 nothing was helping. And I did a stool test on 00:20:09.019 --> 00:20:11.759 her and found out that she had and did not have 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:15.990 any horrible virus or bacteria or parasite. from 00:20:15.990 --> 00:20:18.670 an exotic, faraway place. In fact, she just had 00:20:18.670 --> 00:20:23.089 a very weak, insufficient, normal microbiome 00:20:23.089 --> 00:20:25.329 in her gut. So she was getting sick from just 00:20:25.329 --> 00:20:29.470 being unable for her gut to control against inflammation 00:20:29.470 --> 00:20:31.970 and the bacteria that we consume in our food 00:20:31.970 --> 00:20:35.250 every day. She needed her normal microbiome to 00:20:35.250 --> 00:20:37.990 be bolstered. And so insoluble fiber is an important 00:20:37.990 --> 00:20:42.289 way to do that. Also, polyphenols from plants, 00:20:42.430 --> 00:20:44.589 antioxidants that you've heard of from things 00:20:44.589 --> 00:20:47.529 like blueberries and pomegranates, cranberries. 00:20:47.670 --> 00:20:50.670 So I needed to get a large dose of these things 00:20:50.670 --> 00:20:53.430 into her system. So I gave her a powder, a powder 00:20:53.430 --> 00:20:56.009 from Pure Encapsulations called Polyprebiotic. 00:20:56.910 --> 00:21:00.130 It has high doses of oligosaccharides, these 00:21:00.130 --> 00:21:02.670 things that are in garlic and onions, but a lot 00:21:02.670 --> 00:21:04.490 of people can't eat large amounts of those. So 00:21:04.490 --> 00:21:07.029 in powder form, you can get these in combination 00:21:07.029 --> 00:21:10.069 with some large amounts of powdered cranberry 00:21:10.069 --> 00:21:13.369 extract, blueberry extract, and pomegranate to 00:21:13.369 --> 00:21:16.250 feed the healthy bacteria in her gut. I also 00:21:16.250 --> 00:21:18.789 gave her a really good probiotic to just get 00:21:18.789 --> 00:21:21.970 in some healthy bacteria to support. the ones 00:21:21.970 --> 00:21:24.450 that live in the gut. It's important to understand 00:21:24.450 --> 00:21:27.750 that probiotics never take up residence in your 00:21:27.750 --> 00:21:29.829 gut. They don't replace the good bacteria that 00:21:29.829 --> 00:21:31.970 live in your gut. They just support them, give 00:21:31.970 --> 00:21:34.390 them a little bit of a break. But the most important 00:21:34.390 --> 00:21:37.069 thing when you have a severe gut issue is to 00:21:37.069 --> 00:21:41.069 feed and restore healthy amounts of the normal 00:21:41.069 --> 00:21:43.789 good bacteria and other beneficial organisms 00:21:43.789 --> 00:21:45.730 that live in your gut. So we did this for her. 00:21:45.769 --> 00:21:48.349 It took several weeks, but finally her gut got 00:21:48.349 --> 00:21:51.509 back completely to normal, diarrhea gone. cramps, 00:21:51.509 --> 00:21:53.569 all the bloating and gas and all of her horrible 00:21:53.569 --> 00:21:56.769 abdominal symptoms were completely eliminated. 00:21:57.740 --> 00:21:59.980 If you like what you hear about when I do case 00:21:59.980 --> 00:22:01.480 studies like this and the general information 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:03.980 I talk about every Friday on this show, I'm happy 00:22:03.980 --> 00:22:06.000 to announce that I'm hosting a monthly series 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:09.920 in my office the first Wednesday of every month 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:12.700 live at Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura. 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:14.920 If you like hearing about published research 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:17.400 on natural evidence -based treatments that you 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:19.940 might not hear anywhere else, I've got a number 00:22:19.940 --> 00:22:21.900 of PowerPoint presentations that I've presented 00:22:21.900 --> 00:22:25.519 at local hospitals and Rotary groups and several 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:28.130 other organizations around. Ventura County for 00:22:28.130 --> 00:22:30.569 many, many years now, and I love speaking live 00:22:30.569 --> 00:22:33.029 in person. It gives me a chance to see you in 00:22:33.029 --> 00:22:35.049 person and answer your questions, bring your 00:22:35.049 --> 00:22:37.750 friends and family. I'd love to see you in my 00:22:37.750 --> 00:22:39.589 office Wednesday, October 1st. It's going to 00:22:39.589 --> 00:22:41.789 be a talk about breast cancer, how to reduce 00:22:41.789 --> 00:22:45.150 your risk, recurrence, and conventional treatment 00:22:45.150 --> 00:22:47.950 side effects. So I don't treat breast cancer, 00:22:48.069 --> 00:22:49.609 but I have lots of patients that I treat for 00:22:49.609 --> 00:22:52.829 other things who also have or have had breast 00:22:52.829 --> 00:22:55.210 cancer, and I love presenting cases like this 00:22:55.210 --> 00:22:57.579 to show how You can reduce your risk of getting 00:22:57.579 --> 00:23:00.160 breast cancer in the first place. You can reduce 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:02.619 your likelihood of having a recurrence if you've 00:23:02.619 --> 00:23:04.880 recently recovered and gotten through treatment, 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:06.539 but you want to make sure that it's not going 00:23:06.539 --> 00:23:08.200 to come back and you want to identify earlier 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:11.279 signs of your body fighting off cancer before 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:13.980 it becomes visible on another scan or a mammogram 00:23:13.980 --> 00:23:18.279 or an x -ray or CT. There are ways to do that 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:21.220 and measure your response to that with blood 00:23:21.220 --> 00:23:25.700 tests. There are also natural ways to deal with 00:23:25.769 --> 00:23:27.349 the side effects. Many women who have survived 00:23:27.349 --> 00:23:29.690 breast cancer and had an excellent outcome still 00:23:29.690 --> 00:23:32.130 have lingering side effects from the chemo and 00:23:32.130 --> 00:23:35.069 the radiation, numbness and tingling, neuropathies 00:23:35.069 --> 00:23:38.490 in their feet, hands and feet, legs. Fatigue 00:23:38.490 --> 00:23:41.089 is a huge one. Several other symptoms. A lot 00:23:41.089 --> 00:23:43.730 of these things can be identified and relieved 00:23:43.730 --> 00:23:46.049 with essential nutrients that are often missing, 00:23:46.109 --> 00:23:49.230 especially magnesium. A specific form of magnesium 00:23:49.230 --> 00:23:52.470 called magnesium threonate is really important. 00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:56.440 for any kind of neuropathy. As an example, I'll 00:23:56.440 --> 00:23:58.440 be talking about several other things like this 00:23:58.440 --> 00:24:00.839 that are relevant to breast cancer survivors. 00:24:00.940 --> 00:24:03.980 Survivors of any type of cancer who have undergone 00:24:03.980 --> 00:24:06.380 standard oncology, standard medical treatment, 00:24:06.420 --> 00:24:08.640 often have lingering side effects that they don't 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:12.000 get sufficient help for. As always, remember, 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:15.059 the condition of your body is always more important 00:24:15.059 --> 00:24:17.420 than any condition you've been diagnosed with. 00:24:17.539 --> 00:24:19.400 Thank you for listening. I look forward to speaking 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:23.220 with you here next Friday at 2 p .m. Have a fantastic 00:24:23.220 --> 00:24:27.359 weekend. You've been listening to Safe, Effective 00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:30.740 Natural Solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. 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