WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:03.100 Prepare to have your health questions answered 00:00:03.100 --> 00:00:07.059 here on Safe, Effective Natural Solutions with 00:00:07.059 --> 00:00:10.439 Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:15.220 in downtown Ventura. Now, here's Dr. Todd. Good 00:00:15.220 --> 00:00:17.160 afternoon. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board -certified 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:19.559 doctor of non -force chiropractic and practitioner 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:21.980 of functional medicine. Today, I'm going to do 00:00:21.980 --> 00:00:25.300 a continuation of the topic from last week, toxins. 00:00:25.500 --> 00:00:26.899 We're going to present a little more material, 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:30.079 some great studies on the effects of toxins and 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:32.399 motivate those of you who have never had your 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:35.240 body tested, perhaps to get tested for things 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:38.320 like arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, and uranium. 00:00:39.070 --> 00:00:41.429 top five heavy metals that we're concerned about, 00:00:41.570 --> 00:00:44.409 and chemical toxins like glyphosate, the most 00:00:44.409 --> 00:00:46.429 common pesticide that people are exposed to, 00:00:46.469 --> 00:00:49.229 people that work in agriculture or people who 00:00:49.229 --> 00:00:51.649 live near agriculture. If you're downwind from 00:00:51.649 --> 00:00:54.070 a field, it might be a mile away. But if you 00:00:54.070 --> 00:00:56.689 sleep with your windows open and that stuff's 00:00:56.689 --> 00:00:58.210 in the air, you're going to be breathing it. 00:00:58.270 --> 00:01:00.310 I've tested people many times who said, no, I 00:01:00.310 --> 00:01:02.329 don't live anywhere near a farm. And then I look 00:01:02.329 --> 00:01:04.489 up on the map. Well, it's almost a mile away. 00:01:04.590 --> 00:01:06.810 But when we test you, you're still going to have 00:01:06.810 --> 00:01:09.560 a high body burden of that. I had a woman in 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:12.200 her 30s who was an attorney, was working indoors 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:15.700 her whole life in a courtroom, in an office, 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:18.680 couldn't believe that she had exposure to glyphosate. 00:01:18.700 --> 00:01:21.780 But it was very, very high and explaining a lot 00:01:21.780 --> 00:01:24.379 of the symptoms that she had. And just by giving 00:01:24.379 --> 00:01:26.340 her some things to gently flush that out, she's 00:01:26.340 --> 00:01:28.180 been feeling a lot better for a long time now. 00:01:28.500 --> 00:01:30.239 So, yeah, it's very difficult to tell if you're 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:31.620 exposed to these things. And that's why it's 00:01:31.620 --> 00:01:34.260 so critically important to get tested to see 00:01:34.260 --> 00:01:37.319 if you have a body burden. of various pesticides 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:39.480 so that you know that you need to flush those 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:42.439 things out. Do you or does someone you know have 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:45.180 an unexplained rash that no one's ever been able 00:01:45.180 --> 00:01:48.180 to resolve? Having extra toxins in your body, 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:51.319 your skin is an organ like the kidneys and the 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:53.599 colon. Your skin is an organ of elimination. 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:56.519 That's why sweat smells sometimes. That's another 00:01:56.519 --> 00:01:59.750 way that your body flushes things out. the body. 00:01:59.849 --> 00:02:02.209 So when you're having an abnormal amount of that 00:02:02.209 --> 00:02:04.769 or it's been exposed to certain things, a rash 00:02:04.769 --> 00:02:06.909 can be caused by your body's attempts to get 00:02:06.909 --> 00:02:09.629 rid of that stuff. People that have autoimmune 00:02:09.629 --> 00:02:12.490 conditions like rheumatoid arthritis or Hashimoto's, 00:02:12.490 --> 00:02:14.550 the low thyroid condition that's caused by your 00:02:14.550 --> 00:02:17.469 immune system overproducing certain... Your body 00:02:17.469 --> 00:02:19.370 doesn't... A lot of times people say, oh, you 00:02:19.370 --> 00:02:20.990 have an autoimmune condition because your body's 00:02:20.990 --> 00:02:23.169 attacking itself. Nobody's immune system attacks 00:02:23.169 --> 00:02:27.650 your own body. It overproduces certain things 00:02:27.650 --> 00:02:30.000 that are normal. for it to produce. What's happening 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:32.740 is your immune system is finding foreign debris 00:02:32.740 --> 00:02:35.080 in places in your body where it doesn't belong. 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:37.419 That's why so many autoimmune conditions start 00:02:37.419 --> 00:02:39.400 in the gut. Things are getting into your bloodstream, 00:02:39.460 --> 00:02:42.360 migrating to other tissues that don't belong 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:44.520 there. Foreign debris, foreign protein fragments 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:47.599 and other things end up, and if it gets lodged 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:49.939 in your thyroid, then your immune system rightly 00:02:49.939 --> 00:02:51.840 sees that as something that doesn't belong there 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:54.620 and it attacks it. And that is the etiology, 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:57.419 the cause and the mechanism of a lot of autoimmune. 00:02:58.079 --> 00:03:02.340 conditions. So lupus, multiple sclerosis, any 00:03:02.340 --> 00:03:04.219 of these types of autoimmune conditions can be 00:03:04.219 --> 00:03:08.120 caused or dramatically exacerbated, made worse, 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:10.379 and made much more difficult to treat and resolve 00:03:10.379 --> 00:03:13.879 if you have a high body burden. of toxic chemicals, 00:03:14.060 --> 00:03:16.620 heavy metals, mold toxins, and these other various 00:03:16.620 --> 00:03:18.539 other types of toxins. If you have a family history 00:03:18.539 --> 00:03:22.199 of cancer, then exposure to these toxins can 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:24.259 increase your, can doubly increase your risk 00:03:24.259 --> 00:03:27.319 of certain cancers. And any stress you, they 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:29.680 impose stress on your immune system. The toxins 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:31.520 make it more difficult for your immune system 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:34.719 to fight off any cancer. And most doctors never 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:36.740 test for these things. At best, they'll do blood 00:03:36.740 --> 00:03:38.819 tests. If you have a known exposure, you know, 00:03:38.819 --> 00:03:40.300 something that you knew happened, you can go, 00:03:40.340 --> 00:03:41.960 oh, I think I might've gotten exposed to mercury. 00:03:42.219 --> 00:03:44.240 let me go get that tested, and they'll do a blood 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.180 test, and if it doesn't show up in your blood 00:03:46.180 --> 00:03:47.919 test, they tell you you're fine. Well, that's 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.020 not true. It's good that it's not showing up 00:03:50.020 --> 00:03:51.680 in your blood test, but it will only show up 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.000 in a blood test if you've had a recent, relatively 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:56.539 significant exposure. And most people have no 00:03:56.539 --> 00:03:58.620 idea when they're exposed to these things. They're 00:03:58.620 --> 00:04:01.879 exposed to minor, small, small amounts over years 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:04.800 and even decades, and you have no idea, you have 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.439 no symptoms to warn you of that, to alert you 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:09.780 to that, until many years later. until it gets 00:04:09.780 --> 00:04:11.879 bad enough to stress a part of your body that 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:14.800 it shows up in some kind of a symptom. Because 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:17.220 your body stores these things in fat cells. It 00:04:17.220 --> 00:04:19.100 wants to get it out of your bloodstream so it's 00:04:19.100 --> 00:04:20.959 not circulating around, affecting your brain, 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:23.319 affecting your heart, affecting your liver and 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:26.560 kidneys. So it tries as best it can to eliminate 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.379 an exposure to any kind of toxic chemical or 00:04:29.379 --> 00:04:31.279 heavy metal by flushing it out through the kidneys 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:33.639 and the colon and the urine and in the stool. 00:04:33.819 --> 00:04:36.000 But what it can't flush out, it wants to get 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.240 out of circulation as quickly as possible. So 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:40.319 as a protective measure, it will shove it into 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:42.339 fat cells just to get it out of circulation. 00:04:42.620 --> 00:04:45.180 But then unfortunately, These toxins remain in 00:04:45.180 --> 00:04:48.120 your fat cells forever. And the way you can test 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:50.720 this is with a urine test that identifies what 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:53.439 your body is, the small, tiny amounts that are 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:55.980 coming out in the urine. And sometimes you can 00:04:55.980 --> 00:04:58.439 take certain agents to facilitate your body to 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:00.360 excrete a little bit more of that just for the 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:02.560 test. And then there are ways you can safely 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:06.000 excrete these things and increase your immune 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.000 system's ability to fight off most conditions, 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:10.850 reduce your risk to certain cancers. These things 00:05:10.850 --> 00:05:14.980 are often also very commonly implicated. whenever 00:05:14.980 --> 00:05:17.100 a condition of the brain is involved. So mood 00:05:17.100 --> 00:05:20.100 disorders, anxiety and depression, brain fog, 00:05:20.500 --> 00:05:23.759 unexplained fatigue or malaise, anything that 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:27.100 makes an increased risk of dementia. In older 00:05:27.100 --> 00:05:29.860 age, Parkinson's and various forms of dementia 00:05:29.860 --> 00:05:33.579 are also more likely to occur and more difficult 00:05:33.579 --> 00:05:36.660 to address if you have a high body burden of 00:05:36.660 --> 00:05:39.420 various types of toxins. As a reminder, you can 00:05:39.420 --> 00:05:41.860 listen to past episodes of this show anytime 00:05:41.860 --> 00:05:44.680 you like on my website. You can also subscribe 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:48.199 to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, 00:05:48.540 --> 00:05:53.480 and on YouTube so that it comes to your... Whatever 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:54.899 you're chosen, whichever one of those things 00:05:54.899 --> 00:05:57.139 you like the best. For example, if you go to 00:05:57.139 --> 00:05:59.339 Apple Podcasts, it's the little purple app on 00:05:59.339 --> 00:06:02.199 your iPhone or your iPad. 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You can find a place there. 00:06:25.670 --> 00:06:28.129 Click and it'll show you the transcription if 00:06:28.129 --> 00:06:29.629 you want to read about some of the things you 00:06:29.629 --> 00:06:31.370 heard me talk about or didn't quite hear something 00:06:31.370 --> 00:06:34.110 and want to look it up. And as a compliment to 00:06:34.110 --> 00:06:36.850 this show and the podcast, I'm also now doing 00:06:36.850 --> 00:06:40.230 a series of presentations in my office in downtown 00:06:40.230 --> 00:06:43.310 Ventura, live at Binkley Healing Center every 00:06:43.310 --> 00:06:46.389 month, the first Wednesday of the month at 6 00:06:46.389 --> 00:06:49.189 p .m. We'll have a 20 to 30 minute presentation, 00:06:49.410 --> 00:06:51.949 some light refreshments, and then... plenty of 00:06:51.949 --> 00:06:54.050 time afterwards for questions and answers. I 00:06:54.050 --> 00:06:56.430 always love hearing your questions. I always, 00:06:56.470 --> 00:06:59.490 I'm really excited whenever people send me questions 00:06:59.490 --> 00:07:01.470 as it gives me more material to cover on this 00:07:01.470 --> 00:07:03.389 show. Please let me know what you would like 00:07:03.389 --> 00:07:06.269 to hear about on future episodes of this show, 00:07:06.329 --> 00:07:08.449 but it's also nice to meet you face to face and 00:07:08.449 --> 00:07:10.290 hear your questions in person. You can, you're 00:07:10.290 --> 00:07:12.350 welcome to bring your friends and family, anybody 00:07:12.350 --> 00:07:14.850 that has a concern or a question, you know, what 00:07:14.850 --> 00:07:16.870 about this? Can you help with this? What causes 00:07:16.870 --> 00:07:19.509 this? I've been, had this condition for so many 00:07:19.509 --> 00:07:21.230 years and no one has been able to able to help 00:07:21.230 --> 00:07:23.569 me, anything like that. There's no, there's no 00:07:23.569 --> 00:07:27.430 bad questions. So yeah, please join us next Wednesday, 00:07:27.529 --> 00:07:29.610 not next Wednesday, the first Wednesday of the 00:07:29.610 --> 00:07:32.069 month, 6 p .m. So the next presentation will 00:07:32.069 --> 00:07:35.370 be November 5th, Wednesday, November 5th, first 00:07:35.370 --> 00:07:37.269 Wednesday of the month, 6 p .m. at Binkley Healing 00:07:37.269 --> 00:07:40.910 Center in downtown Ventura, 961 East Main Street. 00:07:41.370 --> 00:07:44.310 Space is limited, of course, so please RSVP if 00:07:44.310 --> 00:07:45.889 you're going to make it and how many people you 00:07:45.889 --> 00:07:52.459 might like to bring. RSVP 805 -612 - If you're 00:07:52.459 --> 00:07:54.800 able to come to the talk, it's first Wednesday 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:57.899 of every month, 6 p .m. Next one, November 5th. 00:07:58.100 --> 00:08:04.000 Reserve your spot, 805 -612 -5531. The presentation 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.480 will be on toxins, how to test for them, identify 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:08.899 them, why you should do that, who should do that, 00:08:08.980 --> 00:08:11.720 how to safely eliminate them. And I will be doing 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:15.540 a really great case study of a 32 -year -old 00:08:15.540 --> 00:08:17.199 man that came into me with some really severe 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:19.639 fatigue and dizziness. He'd been going to the 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:21.699 emergency room and seeing all kinds of doctors 00:08:21.699 --> 00:08:24.439 that no one was able to help him for about seven 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:29.240 months, really debilitating symptoms. And I finally 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:31.959 identified the thing that everyone else was missing 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:34.120 after all the other. tests that he had done by 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:36.340 other doctors and that I did on him as well. 00:08:36.779 --> 00:08:40.559 He had a large exposure to chemical toxins. And 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:42.299 when we started to get that stuff flushed out, 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:45.139 he felt like a whole new person again. And it 00:08:45.139 --> 00:08:46.980 is, of course, Breast Cancer Awareness Month 00:08:46.980 --> 00:08:49.639 still this month. So any questions when you come 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:51.799 to the live presentation, I'm happy to answer 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:55.039 questions about toxins and any other topic that 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:58.440 you'd like to talk about. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. 00:08:58.460 --> 00:09:00.299 You're listening to Safe, Effective, Natural 00:09:00.299 --> 00:09:03.279 Solutions to Almost Any Health Challenge. This 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:05.820 week I got a question, or last week, whatever, 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:07.639 a few days ago I got a question from one of the 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:11.240 listeners about piriformis syndrome. What is 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:13.500 that? Well, the piriformis is a little muscle 00:09:13.500 --> 00:09:16.700 about three and a half, four inches long. In 00:09:16.700 --> 00:09:20.899 the upper glute area, it is a hip rotator, meaning 00:09:20.899 --> 00:09:23.659 it turns your foot out, like a ballerina turns 00:09:23.659 --> 00:09:26.200 their foot out, or soccer players often use that 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:28.159 muscle. If you're not a ballerina or a soccer 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:30.159 player, you probably don't use the piriformis 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.000 and the other hip rotator muscles that much. 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:35.879 But it's in the upper glute area. It attaches 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:38.679 to the tailbone area, the sacrum specifically, 00:09:38.940 --> 00:09:41.559 at the base of your spine, and then goes out 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.500 to the side and attaches to the femur, the hip 00:09:44.500 --> 00:09:47.399 bone, that spot. If you just put your fist against 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:49.100 the side of your hip, that bone that you can 00:09:49.100 --> 00:09:51.820 feel, that's the top of the thigh bone, the femur. 00:09:51.940 --> 00:09:53.940 The piriformis goes from that to the base of 00:09:53.940 --> 00:09:57.179 your spine. So a lot of overlooked low back pain. 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:00.799 And sometimes people have, so piriformis syndrome 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:02.700 is if you have pain right in that, somebody, 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:04.960 some doctor has identified that you're the cause 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:08.230 of your pain. in that area is because of a spasm, 00:10:08.230 --> 00:10:11.129 inflammation, irritation of this muscle. It's 00:10:11.129 --> 00:10:14.009 also a really commonly overlooked cause of low 00:10:14.009 --> 00:10:18.490 back pain and sciatica. So it pulls on when it's 00:10:18.490 --> 00:10:20.529 tight. When this muscle is tight, it pulls on 00:10:20.529 --> 00:10:22.730 the base of your spine and irritates other muscles 00:10:22.730 --> 00:10:25.029 going up into your low back and is a common, 00:10:25.169 --> 00:10:28.370 very common cause of low back pain. And it's 00:10:28.370 --> 00:10:30.769 also a very common cause of sciatica. The sciatic 00:10:30.769 --> 00:10:34.409 nerve is a bundle of nerves that exit the spine 00:10:34.409 --> 00:10:36.629 near the base of the spine, the low back and 00:10:36.629 --> 00:10:39.649 the sacral area, right above the tailbone. And 00:10:39.649 --> 00:10:41.570 these nerves come out from several levels of 00:10:41.570 --> 00:10:44.169 the spine and then merge together and form this 00:10:44.169 --> 00:10:46.590 big bundle of nerves that go all the way down 00:10:46.590 --> 00:10:49.120 the back of your leg. back of your calf, even 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:50.720 all the way down to the bottom of your foot. 00:10:51.220 --> 00:10:55.139 And in fact, everything below your knee is innervated. 00:10:55.179 --> 00:10:57.980 All the muscles, all the nerve endings, the pain 00:10:57.980 --> 00:11:00.919 sensors, and all the nerves below your knee are 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:03.899 branches of the sciatic nerve. And so it's very 00:11:03.899 --> 00:11:05.759 common if you have numbness, tingling, burning, 00:11:05.860 --> 00:11:08.100 or pain shooting down the back of your leg or 00:11:08.100 --> 00:11:11.320 anywhere along that pathway. It could be just 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:14.360 in your foot or your ankle, your big toe. That's 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:17.519 often because of pressure on that nerve. The 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:21.039 nerve endings can commonly get pressure on them 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:23.460 from a herniated disc. It's a common symptom 00:11:23.460 --> 00:11:25.700 of a herniated disc to have those pain, burning, 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:27.840 numbness, tingling going down the back of your 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:30.100 leg. But it can also very often, probably more 00:11:30.100 --> 00:11:33.460 often, in my experience, it is caused by pressure 00:11:33.460 --> 00:11:36.419 on the sciatic nerve bundle from the piriformis 00:11:36.419 --> 00:11:39.519 muscle, this hip rotator muscle in the upper 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:42.559 gluteal area. goes from the tailbone area to 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.820 the femur, the thigh bone. And when you have 00:11:45.820 --> 00:11:47.580 spasm in that muscle, it often doesn't hurt, 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:50.080 right? In that muscle itself, it can, but it's 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.240 more common to have pain in the low back or going 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:55.299 down the back of the leg when you have a spasm 00:11:55.299 --> 00:11:58.200 in this muscle. It's very easy for me to identify. 00:11:58.259 --> 00:12:00.220 So if you suspect that you have that, I'd love 00:12:00.220 --> 00:12:02.820 an opportunity to identify that, whether or not 00:12:02.820 --> 00:12:05.220 that's a cause of your issues. I see it probably 00:12:05.220 --> 00:12:09.080 in 80 % of the patients that come to me for non 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:11.840 -force chiropractic. check it on everyone. And 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:15.460 it is so very, very common to have tightness 00:12:15.460 --> 00:12:18.200 restriction or even a full blown spasm in this 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:20.200 muscle. It's often not a full blown spasm. It's 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:22.419 most commonly just really, really short and tight 00:12:22.419 --> 00:12:25.340 because it's been too tight for years and years, 00:12:25.419 --> 00:12:27.620 even decades. You can tell by how tight it is. 00:12:27.659 --> 00:12:29.360 Some people come in and they have no range of 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:32.460 motion. in that muscle at all. What does that 00:12:32.460 --> 00:12:34.179 look like? Well, you're lying on your back with 00:12:34.179 --> 00:12:36.399 your knee pointing straight up towards the ceiling, 00:12:36.500 --> 00:12:38.919 your foot on the table. So knee bent, foot on 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:40.820 the table, lying on your back and knee pointing 00:12:40.820 --> 00:12:42.799 straight up towards the ceiling. And then I push 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:45.240 that knee towards the opposite side of the body. 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:48.340 This muscle, that's the way you test the piriformis 00:12:48.340 --> 00:12:50.759 muscle. It goes from the base of the tailbone 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:53.019 area over to the thigh bone. So when you push 00:12:53.019 --> 00:12:55.159 on the thigh bone, you're testing the length 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:58.279 and relative flexibility range of motion in that 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:00.700 muscle. It's really restricted in many, many, 00:13:00.700 --> 00:13:02.919 many people. Most people who have low back pain 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:06.360 have restrictions in that muscle. And so to fix 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:08.700 it, you stretch it on the table. I help you loosen 00:13:08.700 --> 00:13:11.480 it up on the table over a series of visits. It's 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:13.440 more difficult than some muscles to get loosened 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:15.539 up completely, but it always... feels better 00:13:15.539 --> 00:13:19.120 immediately when you just start to lengthen that 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:21.340 muscle release some of the tension from that 00:13:21.340 --> 00:13:23.639 muscle when it's really tight it can also very 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:26.519 very quickly eliminate sciatica just by getting 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:29.960 that muscle loosened up One of the worst scenarios 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:32.980 with tight site piriformis muscles is when it's 00:13:32.980 --> 00:13:35.519 really, really tight on one side and not that 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:37.500 bad on the other side. The imbalance of having, 00:13:37.539 --> 00:13:39.399 it's better to have both sides equally tight 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:41.679 than to have one side really, really tight and 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:44.340 the other side not so much because that imbalance 00:13:44.340 --> 00:13:46.899 makes the symptoms even worse. And it's often 00:13:46.899 --> 00:13:49.740 more difficult to release that tighter side when 00:13:49.740 --> 00:13:51.700 one side is a lot tighter than the other. And 00:13:51.700 --> 00:13:53.659 it's not uncommon. For that to happen, I've got 00:13:53.659 --> 00:13:55.220 a couple of patients right now that just have 00:13:55.220 --> 00:13:57.700 no motion at all. When I lie them on their back, 00:13:57.779 --> 00:13:59.299 knee pointing straight up, try to push it to 00:13:59.299 --> 00:14:02.139 the opposite side of the body, no motion at all. 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:07.299 It's just totally stuck. And so working on the 00:14:07.299 --> 00:14:09.139 table, we can get that to loosen up, and it very 00:14:09.139 --> 00:14:11.559 quickly starts to feel better. One of the most 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:14.360 severe cases I had a few years back, a 16 -year 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:17.759 -old cheerleader who had been dropped a few times, 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:21.190 fall on her butt, obviously. just that's how 00:14:21.190 --> 00:14:23.269 we figured out later that caused this tremendous 00:14:23.269 --> 00:14:27.509 pain that she had in her right hip and she had 00:14:27.509 --> 00:14:29.389 been to several doctors nobody could figure out 00:14:29.389 --> 00:14:31.730 nobody could help her she went to even went to 00:14:31.730 --> 00:14:33.190 a surgeon who was thinking about recommending 00:14:33.190 --> 00:14:35.309 some sort of surgical procedure she wasn't even 00:14:35.309 --> 00:14:37.190 clear on what he was recommended doing just saying 00:14:37.190 --> 00:14:40.690 he's probably there's possibly could be a candidate 00:14:40.690 --> 00:14:42.549 for some type of surgery. I can't even imagine 00:14:42.549 --> 00:14:45.070 what that would be, but surgeons like to do surgery, 00:14:45.110 --> 00:14:46.970 but fortunately she did not need that. I very 00:14:46.970 --> 00:14:50.269 quickly got her pain to where she could get back 00:14:50.269 --> 00:14:52.350 to her normal activities after just about two 00:14:52.350 --> 00:14:54.809 or three weeks. Um, she was feeling at least 00:14:54.809 --> 00:14:56.909 50, 70 % better, something like that. She was, 00:14:56.929 --> 00:14:59.350 I know that she could go back to doing most of 00:14:59.350 --> 00:15:02.029 the things that she wanted. to do. And, you know, 00:15:02.029 --> 00:15:03.730 then I think I probably had her coming in once 00:15:03.730 --> 00:15:06.370 a week for another month or so after that. And 00:15:06.370 --> 00:15:09.870 after, you know, maybe twice a month for a month 00:15:09.870 --> 00:15:11.850 or so, after about three or four months, she 00:15:11.850 --> 00:15:14.470 was completely back to normal, as good as new. 00:15:14.549 --> 00:15:17.750 So 16 year olds respond a lot faster than 60 00:15:17.750 --> 00:15:21.289 or 70 year olds. But no matter how bad it is 00:15:21.289 --> 00:15:24.750 and how old you are and how many years or decades 00:15:24.750 --> 00:15:27.190 that muscle has been tight, when we just start 00:15:27.190 --> 00:15:30.009 to loosen it up, you immediately start feeling 00:15:30.009 --> 00:15:32.990 relief. If you just tuned in, I'm Dr. Todd Bankley. 00:15:33.009 --> 00:15:35.769 The theme of this week's presentation is toxins. 00:15:36.330 --> 00:15:39.269 And it's important to note, especially the following. 00:15:39.350 --> 00:15:42.370 The brain is the most sensitive organ in the 00:15:42.370 --> 00:15:45.809 body to any kind of nutrient deficiency. The 00:15:45.809 --> 00:15:47.330 brain is the most sensitive organ in the body 00:15:47.330 --> 00:15:50.990 to any exposure to toxins. And those two things 00:15:50.990 --> 00:15:53.110 often go together. If you're exposed to a lot 00:15:53.110 --> 00:15:54.850 of toxins and you're not getting adequate nutrients, 00:15:55.049 --> 00:15:57.110 you're going to have more severe symptoms from 00:15:57.110 --> 00:16:00.190 that if your body lacks the things it needs to 00:16:00.190 --> 00:16:03.009 flush out. But you never know how much you have 00:16:03.009 --> 00:16:05.809 unless you do certain specific types of tests, 00:16:05.889 --> 00:16:08.470 usually urine tests or heavy metal hair tests, 00:16:08.690 --> 00:16:11.090 identify what you have, your body burden of those 00:16:11.090 --> 00:16:14.190 things. And so if you have an increased body 00:16:14.190 --> 00:16:16.429 burden, it increases your risk of chronic degenerative 00:16:16.429 --> 00:16:18.850 conditions of the brain like Alzheimer's, other 00:16:18.850 --> 00:16:22.429 forms of... dementia and Parkinson's. And there's 00:16:22.429 --> 00:16:23.830 some really good data that's come out recently 00:16:23.830 --> 00:16:26.389 in the literature. This is a study published 00:16:26.389 --> 00:16:30.110 in the journal Neurology, where they analyzed 00:16:30.110 --> 00:16:34.070 the records of more than a million Medicare beneficiaries 00:16:34.070 --> 00:16:39.049 and showed that exposure to ambient trichloroethylene, 00:16:39.250 --> 00:16:41.950 a common chemical used in degreasing and in dry 00:16:41.950 --> 00:16:44.190 cleaning, exposure to ambient exposure. What 00:16:44.190 --> 00:16:46.970 does that mean? It wasn't people that were exposed. 00:16:47.190 --> 00:16:49.980 It wasn't people working. degreasing engines 00:16:49.980 --> 00:16:51.820 and other machine parts in certain industries 00:16:51.820 --> 00:16:54.200 or in the military, very common exposure. People 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:58.259 that worked in dry cleaners or in the places 00:16:58.259 --> 00:17:00.080 that make those chemicals obviously are going 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:02.340 to have significant exposure to those chemicals. 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:04.980 This wasn't any of that. There was no direct 00:17:04.980 --> 00:17:07.640 exposure to all. This was just breathing in, 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:10.180 just living near these places, living a certain 00:17:10.180 --> 00:17:13.359 distance from these places and breathing it in 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:17.160 through the air had a 10 % increased risk of 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:20.599 Parkinson's disease. compared to people that 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:23.539 lived further away from them. So this was reported 00:17:23.539 --> 00:17:29.440 by Brittany Krzyzanowski, PhD of the Barrow Neurological 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:32.259 Institute in Phoenix, and certain co -authors. 00:17:32.420 --> 00:17:35.779 Exposure to outdoor trichloroethylene was associated 00:17:35.779 --> 00:17:39.480 with new diagnosis of Parkinson's disease 14 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:42.619 years later. in a dose -dependent manner, meaning 00:17:42.619 --> 00:17:45.160 the people that lived the closest to the sources 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:49.400 of that chemical had a higher risk. Well, other 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:52.200 studies I've reported recently, a study on this 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:55.539 show about the increasing proximity to a golf 00:17:55.539 --> 00:17:58.059 course. Just living near a golf course because 00:17:58.059 --> 00:18:00.759 of the pesticides that they use on the grass 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:03.460 can dramatically increase your risk of Parkinson's 00:18:03.460 --> 00:18:08.220 disease. And there's been evidence linking air 00:18:08.220 --> 00:18:10.460 pollution to Parkinson's disease. Certain other 00:18:10.460 --> 00:18:12.500 studies, certain other pesticides have long been 00:18:12.500 --> 00:18:16.220 associated with it. And air pollution, pollutants 00:18:16.220 --> 00:18:18.460 from wildfires and other particulars. matter 00:18:18.460 --> 00:18:20.180 in the air that we're breathing in more and more 00:18:20.180 --> 00:18:23.039 of every year has been tied to an increased risk 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:26.019 of Parkinson's disease. But this is the first 00:18:26.019 --> 00:18:28.779 data that's shown that it's a link just from 00:18:28.779 --> 00:18:32.599 breathing the air near sources of these chemicals. 00:18:32.700 --> 00:18:34.279 And it's something that's, it's an environmental 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:38.240 exposure that's widespread, but a lot of neurologists 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:42.859 are not. familiar with. They cited in this article 00:18:42.859 --> 00:18:45.420 sites that environmental exposure to this has 00:18:45.420 --> 00:18:48.019 been detailed in the books, A Civil Action, which 00:18:48.019 --> 00:18:50.539 was also made into a movie, and the Pulitzer 00:18:50.539 --> 00:18:54.559 Prize winning Tom's River. So trichloroethylene 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:56.759 is a volatile chemical that's used to dry clean 00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:59.339 clothes like perchloroethylene, very similar. 00:18:59.819 --> 00:19:02.200 Trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene are very 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:04.720 similar chemicals that are used to dry clean 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:06.940 clothes, degrease metal, decaffeinate coffee. 00:19:07.339 --> 00:19:10.529 Yikes. Decaffeinated coffee. Some of the ways 00:19:10.529 --> 00:19:12.730 they decaffeinate coffee are really, really toxic. 00:19:12.990 --> 00:19:15.210 I don't recommend decaffeinated coffee. By the 00:19:15.210 --> 00:19:16.950 way, since we're on that subject, decaffeinated 00:19:16.950 --> 00:19:20.390 coffee is not caffeine free. So if you want less 00:19:20.390 --> 00:19:22.450 caffeine, but you really like coffee, then just 00:19:22.450 --> 00:19:25.589 drink less regular coffee. That's my recommendation. 00:19:25.849 --> 00:19:28.890 But these things are also even used to anesthetize 00:19:28.890 --> 00:19:31.990 pregnant women. Wow. There's a horrifying thought. 00:19:32.029 --> 00:19:33.349 I wonder where that was happening. I'll have 00:19:33.349 --> 00:19:36.809 to look that up. Toxic chemical causes cancer 00:19:36.809 --> 00:19:38.829 has been well known to cause cancer for 50 years 00:19:38.829 --> 00:19:40.809 or more, but this link to Parkinson's disease 00:19:40.809 --> 00:19:43.390 is relatively recent. So the environmental... 00:19:43.819 --> 00:19:46.059 The EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, banned 00:19:46.059 --> 00:19:50.279 most uses of trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene. 00:19:50.500 --> 00:19:55.240 As of June 2025, most of the ban is likely to 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:57.420 remain in place and will lead to a phase -out 00:19:57.420 --> 00:19:59.920 of uses of the chemical over the next decade. 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:03.019 However, the ban does little to address the thousands 00:20:03.019 --> 00:20:06.160 of sites contaminated with the persistic chemicals, 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:10.180 these chemicals and others that are around the 00:20:10.180 --> 00:20:13.480 U .S. and around the world. So if you or someone 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:16.119 you love lives near one of these places, it's 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:18.859 a very good idea to get a urine test to measure 00:20:18.859 --> 00:20:22.240 your body burden of these chemicals. they can 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:24.980 increase your risk of any brain conditions. So 00:20:24.980 --> 00:20:27.500 in addition to Parkinson's and dementia, they 00:20:27.500 --> 00:20:30.220 can also increase risk of anxiety and depression 00:20:30.220 --> 00:20:33.079 or make those conditions worse. They very often 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:37.000 contribute to brain fog and fatigue. Some of 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:38.900 you may be becoming fatigued hearing me talk 00:20:38.900 --> 00:20:40.819 so much about toxins over and over again because 00:20:40.819 --> 00:20:43.440 it can be kind of confusing, but it is so important 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:45.740 to get these things checked if you have any of 00:20:45.740 --> 00:20:48.019 those symptoms. So back to Parkinson's, there's 00:20:48.019 --> 00:20:49.819 another study that came out relatively recently, 00:20:50.019 --> 00:20:53.480 exposure to the industrial solvent trichloroethylene 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:56.180 and other volatile organic compounds in drinking 00:20:56.180 --> 00:20:59.240 water, raised the risk of Parkinson's disease 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:04.000 decades later in an analysis of 158 ,000 military 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:06.920 veterans. So this was personnel that compared 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:10.799 military personnel who lived on the base at Camp 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:15.299 Lejeune in North Carolina from 1975 to 1985. 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:19.099 They compared them with military personnel that 00:21:19.099 --> 00:21:21.900 lived at Camp Pendleton. a large California base, 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:23.920 which most of us are familiar with around here. 00:21:24.140 --> 00:21:28.259 So the people at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina 00:21:28.259 --> 00:21:31.200 had a 70 % higher risk of Parkinson's disease 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:34.000 compared to the people that lived at Camp Pendleton. 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:37.519 This was reported by Samuel Goldman, M .D. and 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:40.640 Masters of Public Health, University of San Francisco, 00:21:40.740 --> 00:21:43.359 and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 00:21:43.440 --> 00:21:45.640 and their co -authors. So it was published in 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:47.960 Journal of American Medical Association Neurology, 00:21:47.960 --> 00:21:50.410 and the exposure occurred. when Marines were 00:21:50.410 --> 00:21:53.950 an average of age 20. And the Parkinson's diagnoses 00:21:53.950 --> 00:21:58.269 emerged at Camp Lejeune on average 34 years later. 00:21:58.450 --> 00:22:01.150 So when you hear me talk about, this is a perfect 00:22:01.150 --> 00:22:03.309 example of how most people are totally unaware 00:22:03.309 --> 00:22:07.289 of their exposure to these things. They don't 00:22:07.289 --> 00:22:09.349 have any symptoms until years later. In this 00:22:09.349 --> 00:22:12.880 case, Parkinson's showed up. 34 years later, 00:22:12.980 --> 00:22:17.539 so average age of 20, these men and women serving, 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:21.539 and it most often shows up. 34 years later in 00:22:21.539 --> 00:22:24.259 your 50s. So trichloroethylene has been used 00:22:24.259 --> 00:22:26.700 since the 1920s to decrease metal, decaffeinate 00:22:26.700 --> 00:22:27.940 coffee. Talked a little bit about this already. 00:22:28.140 --> 00:22:30.859 It's been linked with cancer, miscarriages, neural 00:22:30.859 --> 00:22:34.480 tube defects where people have a cleft palate 00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:36.940 or parts in the middle of the body, parts of 00:22:36.940 --> 00:22:40.019 the spine, spina bifida, where the bones don't 00:22:40.019 --> 00:22:42.819 close in the middle. Congenital heart disease. 00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:45.079 which one of the most common one of those is 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:47.420 where there's a hole between one side of the 00:22:47.420 --> 00:22:49.019 heart and the other or just underdeveloped heart 00:22:49.019 --> 00:22:51.200 tissue. Autoimmune disorders, which we talked 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:53.539 about, and Parkinson's disease. So from 1975 00:22:53.539 --> 00:22:57.799 to 85, the median monthly level of trichloroethylene 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:01.700 in the Camp Lejeune drinking water was 70 times 00:23:01.700 --> 00:23:05.799 higher than the permissible level. Wow. So their 00:23:05.799 --> 00:23:07.880 drinking water, it's unavoidable, their drinking 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:11.700 water has 70 times the permissible level of trichloroethylene. 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:14.119 And the wells providing this water were taken 00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:16.920 offline in the mid -80s after the contamination 00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:21.000 from underground storage tanks, industrial spills 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:23.640 and waste disposal sites for the trichloroethylene 00:23:23.640 --> 00:23:26.700 and an off -base dry cleaning business for the 00:23:26.700 --> 00:23:30.440 perchloroethylene after these were discovered. 00:23:30.579 --> 00:23:32.740 So the co -authors evaluated the health reports 00:23:32.740 --> 00:23:35.920 of 172 ,000 Marines and Navy personnel who lived 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:40.140 at Camp Lejeune from 1975 to 85 and compared 00:23:40.140 --> 00:23:43.859 them with 168 ,000. and Camp Pendleton personnel. 00:23:44.420 --> 00:23:46.720 And interesting to note that the study was just 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:48.440 the military personnel that lived on base. It 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:51.859 excluded their spouses and dependents and the 00:23:51.859 --> 00:23:54.079 large civil populations who worked at the base. 00:23:54.640 --> 00:23:56.400 So this, of course, means that these studies 00:23:56.400 --> 00:23:58.500 are radically underestimating the effect on the 00:23:58.500 --> 00:24:00.299 total population. I'm going to be doing more 00:24:00.299 --> 00:24:01.960 studies on this, and, of course, I will report 00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:04.539 them when they come out. We are almost out of 00:24:04.539 --> 00:24:07.019 time again to hear a fascinating presentation 00:24:07.019 --> 00:24:09.339 on toxins and some great case studies of people 00:24:09.339 --> 00:24:11.720 who I have helped by getting those toxins flushed 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:14.180 out. Join me November 5th, Wednesday at 6 p .m. 00:24:14.180 --> 00:24:16.900 at my office for my presentation, Toxins Live 00:24:16.900 --> 00:24:18.880 at Binkley Healing Center. We'll have plenty 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:21.259 of time afterwards to answer any and all of your 00:24:21.259 --> 00:24:23.160 questions, and I'd love to meet you and answer 00:24:23.160 --> 00:24:25.869 them face -to -face. until then have a blessed 00:24:25.869 --> 00:24:29.680 weekend You've been listening to Safe, Effective 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:33.059 Natural Solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. If you 00:24:33.059 --> 00:24:35.019 have a health question you want discussed on 00:24:35.019 --> 00:24:38.400 the show, email your health questions to drbinkley 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:42.380 at binkleyhealingcenter .com. Take advantage 00:24:42.380 --> 00:24:45.200 of this opportunity to ask questions for yourself 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:48.779 and for your loved ones because our health matters. 00:24:49.019 --> 00:24:53.619 Join him next Friday at 2 p .m. for Safe, Effective 00:24:53.619 --> 00:24:57.849 Natural Solutions here on 98. The Word.