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 --> 00:00:15.439 in downtown Ventura. Now, here's Dr. Todd. Good 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:17.679 afternoon. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board -certified 00:00:17.679 --> 00:00:20.079 doctor of non -forest chiropractic and practitioner 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:23.120 of functional medicine. The theme of today's 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:27.260 show is take responsibility for your own health. 00:00:27.980 --> 00:00:30.820 Well, what do I mean by that? What becomes available 00:00:30.820 --> 00:00:34.399 when you truly embrace responsibility for your 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:37.820 own health? Each week on this show, I bring you 00:00:37.820 --> 00:00:39.439 a selection of highlights from current medical 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:42.719 literature about topics I hope you find interesting. 00:00:42.939 --> 00:00:44.759 They're certainly the ones I find interesting. 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:47.979 And most of medical literature isn't really that 00:00:47.979 --> 00:00:50.420 interesting to me. It's mostly about the latest 00:00:50.420 --> 00:00:53.659 offerings from big pharma. So I choose reporting 00:00:53.659 --> 00:00:56.520 on the latest science that supports my main mission 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:59.880 for this show, which is to arm you with evidence 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:02.560 -based information you can use to take better 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:06.079 care of your own health. You certainly don't 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:11.340 have to. You're busy. Everyone's busy. Ultimately, 00:01:11.459 --> 00:01:14.920 time and treasure govern all of our choices and 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:18.079 decisions. So by choice or lack of resources 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:21.450 or neglect, Far too many people choose to just 00:01:21.450 --> 00:01:25.609 say to themselves, I feel fine. Well, what does 00:01:25.609 --> 00:01:28.209 that mean? Usually it means the person saying, 00:01:28.329 --> 00:01:31.090 I feel fine, thanks. I'm in great shape. I'm 00:01:31.090 --> 00:01:34.890 perfectly healthy. The best thing to do is just 00:01:34.890 --> 00:01:36.969 ignore pesky little symptoms. They'll probably 00:01:36.969 --> 00:01:41.090 go away. And even worse, if I really need a doctor, 00:01:41.230 --> 00:01:44.290 we've got great hospitals in the area. I'll be 00:01:44.290 --> 00:01:46.870 fine. Well, I'm going to be a little facetious 00:01:46.870 --> 00:01:49.290 now, but waiting for a magician in a white coat 00:01:49.290 --> 00:01:52.409 to save your life in a crisis is not usually 00:01:52.409 --> 00:01:55.989 the best way to go. It's really popular, but 00:01:55.989 --> 00:01:58.890 it results in a lot of unnecessary pain, expense, 00:01:59.329 --> 00:02:03.760 suffering, and early death. I love it when I 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:05.780 hear someone say, oh, I took my mother to the 00:02:05.780 --> 00:02:09.080 top guy at UCLA or the Mayo Clinic or the preeminent 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:12.159 expert in the world at John Hopkins or some other 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:14.560 major medical center. But I'm thinking, well, 00:02:14.699 --> 00:02:17.819 great. How's that going? And it may be great 00:02:17.819 --> 00:02:21.240 to seek out the top. best in their field, world 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:23.539 -renowned experts, especially if no one's ever 00:02:23.539 --> 00:02:25.719 been able to even diagnose your condition. If 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:27.520 no one can figure out what's wrong with you, 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:30.639 then nationally recognized experts might be worth 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:32.699 the time and the trouble to figure out something 00:02:32.699 --> 00:02:35.520 that other doctors couldn't. But here's what's 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.780 missing from all these conversations, in my experience, 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:40.280 most of the time. When patients come to see me 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:42.340 and they tell me they've been to a dozen doctors, 00:02:42.539 --> 00:02:45.180 they've been to the best of the best, their doctors 00:02:45.180 --> 00:02:48.259 have, quote, unquote, checked everything. That's 00:02:48.259 --> 00:02:50.800 the favorite phrase. I'm sorry, no doctor ever 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:55.360 checks everything. But they've been to all these 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:56.939 doctors and no one's been able to figure out 00:02:56.939 --> 00:02:59.259 what's wrong with them. And no one has consequently 00:02:59.259 --> 00:03:01.000 been able to figure out how to help them. Well, 00:03:01.099 --> 00:03:04.639 that's simply never true. Most of the time, all 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:07.400 the doctors they've been to do the same thing. 00:03:08.300 --> 00:03:11.159 They all practice standard Western medicine. 00:03:11.659 --> 00:03:14.039 They look for well -known diseases for which 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:16.699 there is a standard of care, usually drugs or 00:03:16.699 --> 00:03:19.300 surgery or some other traditional medical therapy. 00:03:19.500 --> 00:03:21.939 And if you don't have that, they say something 00:03:21.939 --> 00:03:24.439 like, you're fine, there's nothing wrong with 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:27.840 you, maybe you should see a psychiatrist. Well, 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:29.680 if you have a mood disorder, if you have anxiety 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:33.300 or depression or another obvious condition for 00:03:33.300 --> 00:03:37.099 which psychiatry is appropriate, then sure, but... 00:03:37.340 --> 00:03:39.099 People get told they need to go see a psychiatrist. 00:03:39.460 --> 00:03:41.099 Basically, they're told it's all in your head. 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:43.280 We can't find anything. I can't find anything 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:47.000 wrong with you. Therefore, it must all be in 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:50.479 your head. Wow. I can't tell you how many patients 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:53.120 have come to me with that story, something like 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.719 that story. And it's really frustrating. And 00:03:55.719 --> 00:03:58.580 the problem is most doctors never do enough tests 00:03:58.580 --> 00:04:01.840 to get a comprehensive overview of how your body, 00:04:01.939 --> 00:04:05.060 your normal function, your body, whether or not 00:04:05.060 --> 00:04:08.120 it is, is every organ and system in your body 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:10.639 functioning normally or not? Most doctors never 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:13.780 use the tests to identify that. The narrower 00:04:13.780 --> 00:04:16.379 set of lab ranges that identify not just disease, 00:04:16.540 --> 00:04:20.040 but lack of normal function. function. When you 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:23.699 restore normal function, everything works better. 00:04:24.139 --> 00:04:27.980 And many doctors, like most patients, are looking 00:04:27.980 --> 00:04:31.540 for open quotes, the single cause, close quotes, 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:35.459 of everything that ails you. This is the kiss 00:04:35.459 --> 00:04:37.660 of death. This is a trap that far too many people 00:04:37.660 --> 00:04:40.300 fall into. We're always looking for that one 00:04:40.300 --> 00:04:42.779 thing that no one else has been able. I can just 00:04:42.779 --> 00:04:45.160 figure out that one thing. It's never one thing. 00:04:45.459 --> 00:04:48.920 What ails most of us rarely has a single cause. 00:04:48.980 --> 00:04:51.959 We feel the way we feel, and we do or do not 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:55.000 get the results we would like for a whole host 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:58.339 of reasons, which can be identified with proper 00:04:58.339 --> 00:05:01.579 testing, usually can be identified with proper 00:05:01.579 --> 00:05:03.899 testing. So it is much better, in my humble opinion, 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:06.519 I hope you agree, to find the motivation, the 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:09.060 willingness to make time, spend a little bit 00:05:09.060 --> 00:05:11.660 of money, far less than you might imagine, to 00:05:11.660 --> 00:05:14.379 take better care of your own health. And you 00:05:14.379 --> 00:05:16.540 don't have to do it alone. I'm here to help. 00:05:16.910 --> 00:05:19.550 And I'd love an opportunity to use more progressive 00:05:19.550 --> 00:05:22.490 analysis of standard medical tests to identify 00:05:22.490 --> 00:05:25.029 conditions other doctors miss that you can usually 00:05:25.029 --> 00:05:28.170 heal and restore normal function with better 00:05:28.170 --> 00:05:31.730 food, exercise, and research -based supplements. 00:05:31.829 --> 00:05:33.790 Last week, I talked about the correlation between 00:05:33.790 --> 00:05:37.949 grip strength, a standard test for muscle strength 00:05:37.949 --> 00:05:40.689 in general, the correlation between this and 00:05:40.689 --> 00:05:44.339 abdominal obesity. So abdominal obesity means 00:05:44.339 --> 00:05:46.699 you could have a normal BMI, a normal body mass 00:05:46.699 --> 00:05:50.379 index, a normal weight for your height. But if 00:05:50.379 --> 00:05:53.620 you have a belly, if your waist specifically 00:05:53.620 --> 00:05:57.199 is for a woman greater than 31 .5 inches or for 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:00.680 a man greater than 37 inches, then you have something 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:04.939 called abdominal obesity. Meaning you might not 00:06:04.939 --> 00:06:07.920 be overweight at all, but you have too much weight 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:13.819 around the middle. result from that high blood 00:06:13.819 --> 00:06:15.779 pressure, increased risk of diabetes and heart 00:06:15.779 --> 00:06:18.899 disease, et cetera. So a fat gut is the worst 00:06:18.899 --> 00:06:21.019 kind of fat. And so I got a lot of questions. 00:06:21.060 --> 00:06:22.660 Well, so what am I supposed to do about that? 00:06:23.220 --> 00:06:26.540 And some people think, obviously everyone would 00:06:26.540 --> 00:06:29.339 love something quick and simple. Oh, if I'm fat, 00:06:29.379 --> 00:06:31.399 I'll do sit -ups. If my belly is fat, I'll do 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:33.600 sit -ups or, you know, train, get core exercises. 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:36.639 And, you know, most people, I think most people 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:39.019 know that that. Usually it doesn't work. What 00:06:39.019 --> 00:06:40.779 does work, if you want to get rid of fat from 00:06:40.779 --> 00:06:45.019 any part of your body, the most effective way, 00:06:45.060 --> 00:06:47.500 in my experience, is to build and maintain muscle 00:06:47.500 --> 00:06:51.019 mass, eat fewer junk carbs, do cardiovascular 00:06:51.019 --> 00:06:53.959 exercise and weight training to build muscle 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:56.360 mass, and for many people, time -restricted eating, 00:06:56.519 --> 00:06:59.339 restricting the time window in each 24 -hour 00:06:59.339 --> 00:07:02.759 period when you eat food to eight hours or maybe 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:06.079 even six hours. and allowing your body to rest 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:09.959 and digest for the remaining 16 to 18 hours per 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:12.620 day. Well, what if you're already doing all of 00:07:12.620 --> 00:07:14.019 those things? This is something that comes up 00:07:14.019 --> 00:07:16.500 all the time. You've got a perfect diet. You 00:07:16.500 --> 00:07:19.160 exercise every day or at least three times a 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:20.899 week, five days a week, something in the range 00:07:20.899 --> 00:07:24.420 of 20 to 30 minutes, maybe even 45 minutes, three 00:07:24.420 --> 00:07:27.620 days a week or more. And you've got Fitbit data, 00:07:27.819 --> 00:07:29.600 your smartphone, you're monitoring everything, 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:32.139 and you still can't lose the weight. I get a 00:07:32.139 --> 00:07:34.860 lot of questions about this all the time. So 00:07:34.860 --> 00:07:37.000 if you've done all the things that you know to 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:40.259 do to maintain some muscle, decent amount of 00:07:40.259 --> 00:07:42.939 muscle mass and exercise, keep your heart strong, 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:46.120 you still can't lose that belly. The first thing 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:48.259 I think of is I recommend that you get tested 00:07:48.259 --> 00:07:52.480 for your body burden of mold, heavy metal, and 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:55.339 chemical toxins. So last Wednesday night, I did 00:07:55.339 --> 00:07:57.860 a talk in my office or explained, presented some 00:07:57.860 --> 00:08:00.800 cases. We've seen some just amazing results when 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:04.259 people finally get tested. How much of this, 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:07.759 we're all exposed to glyphosate, the most common. 00:08:08.590 --> 00:08:11.029 Pesticide roundup that's sprayed on fields and 00:08:11.029 --> 00:08:14.810 lawns everywhere. We're exposed to a whole host 00:08:14.810 --> 00:08:17.310 of chemicals that are in the air we breathe when 00:08:17.310 --> 00:08:20.389 the wildfires are going. It's unavoidable. We're 00:08:20.389 --> 00:08:22.990 saturated with chemicals more than ever before 00:08:22.990 --> 00:08:26.170 in human history. It's unavoidable. But we all 00:08:26.170 --> 00:08:29.050 vary in the amount of these things we're exposed 00:08:29.050 --> 00:08:31.329 to, depending on where we live, where we work, 00:08:31.470 --> 00:08:34.970 which way the wind blows sometimes. We vary in 00:08:34.970 --> 00:08:36.590 the amount that we've been exposed to. That's 00:08:36.590 --> 00:08:40.250 obvious. We also vary genetically in our ability 00:08:40.250 --> 00:08:43.730 to excrete these toxins. So two people can live 00:08:43.730 --> 00:08:45.789 side by side their whole life, be exposed to 00:08:45.789 --> 00:08:48.269 the same amount of this or that and have different 00:08:48.269 --> 00:08:51.129 experience because one is genetically more efficient 00:08:51.129 --> 00:08:53.950 at flushing that stuff out. Our bodies are trying 00:08:53.950 --> 00:08:56.590 to flush this stuff out all the time too. It 00:08:56.590 --> 00:08:59.769 does the best it can. So that varies. And then 00:08:59.769 --> 00:09:02.149 the nutrients that you need flushing this stuff 00:09:02.149 --> 00:09:05.070 out effectively requires certain nutrients, mainly 00:09:05.070 --> 00:09:08.059 minerals. antioxidants, a few other things, and 00:09:08.059 --> 00:09:11.220 everyone varies tremendously in whether or not 00:09:11.220 --> 00:09:12.799 they're getting enough nutrients to facilitate 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:15.940 those normal mechanisms of excreting toxins. 00:09:16.139 --> 00:09:19.139 So all of these things can be identified with 00:09:19.139 --> 00:09:21.860 proper testing. I've had so many patients over 00:09:21.860 --> 00:09:23.879 the years that have unexplained persistent weight 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:26.360 that nothing they can do will get that weight 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:28.940 off, but also unexplained rashes. I've had some 00:09:28.940 --> 00:09:32.250 severe rashes. I talked about this. I do this 00:09:32.250 --> 00:09:33.950 in the lecture talk. People that have just had, 00:09:33.990 --> 00:09:36.230 I had a man, the first one that comes to mind 00:09:36.230 --> 00:09:39.570 is a man that just had severe, just oozing pink 00:09:39.570 --> 00:09:42.809 rashes over his entire forearm and both forearms 00:09:42.809 --> 00:09:45.289 and both hands on his neck and back that had 00:09:45.289 --> 00:09:47.129 been going on for several months. He'd been to 00:09:47.129 --> 00:09:49.070 several different, well, two or three. Everyone 00:09:49.070 --> 00:09:51.490 says I've been to everyone. I think he went to 00:09:51.490 --> 00:09:53.350 two or three different dermatologists. He tried 00:09:53.350 --> 00:09:55.690 all the standard topical ointments, cortisone, 00:09:55.690 --> 00:09:57.470 steroids, and everything, and nothing helped. 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:00.960 And I did some toxin testing on him and I said, 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:03.820 you know, it's going to take probably four months 00:10:03.820 --> 00:10:07.279 to completely flush out. not even completely 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:09.600 flush out, to flush out enough of these toxins 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:11.659 that it's going to stop burdening your skin. 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:14.159 Your skin is an organ of elimination. If you 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:16.960 know someone who has a rash that nothing has 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:19.360 been able to help, it's often, in my experience, 00:10:19.419 --> 00:10:22.460 because your skin is an organ of elimination. 00:10:22.500 --> 00:10:25.659 When you sweat, that's one of the ways your body 00:10:25.659 --> 00:10:28.360 flushes out toxins that it can't flush out through 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.820 the colon or the kidneys. And if it's struggling 00:10:31.820 --> 00:10:34.100 with that and it's something particularly toxic, 00:10:34.220 --> 00:10:36.230 that's going to irritate your skin. can often 00:10:36.230 --> 00:10:38.970 cause a rash that nothing else will help. So 00:10:38.970 --> 00:10:41.509 this man who had just these postulant, oozing, 00:10:41.590 --> 00:10:47.129 disgusting rash all over his hands, slimy, I 00:10:47.129 --> 00:10:49.169 think you get the idea. And he was, you know, 00:10:49.169 --> 00:10:51.090 obviously really, really frustrated. And I told 00:10:51.090 --> 00:10:54.200 him, this is a really bad. condition you have, 00:10:54.259 --> 00:10:56.039 one of the worst ones I've seen. We're going 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:57.700 to be able to help it because we've identified 00:10:57.700 --> 00:11:00.120 these toxins. We're going to help your body flush 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:02.820 out, excrete these things safely and efficiently, 00:11:02.940 --> 00:11:04.960 but there's no fast way to do it. It's going 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:07.840 to take four months. Well, two months, two months 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:09.899 later, he came and says, I've been doing everything 00:11:09.899 --> 00:11:12.779 you tell me. You know, it's, it's hardly changed 00:11:12.779 --> 00:11:15.379 at all. It's just, I'm going crazy here. What 00:11:15.379 --> 00:11:17.159 are you going to do for me? And I said, I told 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:19.320 you when you came in, it's going to take four 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:21.340 months. You're going to have to be patient. It's 00:11:21.340 --> 00:11:23.019 going to help. I promise. It's going to help. 00:11:23.059 --> 00:11:24.840 He had been coming to me a long time before for 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:27.639 other things. So he did trust me and he held 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:31.159 out. Four months later, a little over four months, 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:32.659 around four months later, maybe a little before, 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:34.419 a little after, somewhere around then, it was 00:11:34.419 --> 00:11:37.220 a few years ago, the rash was completely gone. 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:39.639 And that's been several years ago. I've spoken 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:41.399 to him a few times since. He moved to another 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:44.899 state and it's never come back. So if you have 00:11:44.899 --> 00:11:47.580 a family history of certain cancers, exposure 00:11:47.580 --> 00:11:49.840 to many toxins can increase your risk of those 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:52.460 things. And the stress they impose on your immune 00:11:52.460 --> 00:11:55.659 system can make any fight with cancer more difficult. 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:58.159 And most doctors never test for toxic exposure. 00:11:58.460 --> 00:12:01.399 They might, if you go and say, oh, I was exposed 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:05.399 to lead or mercury at work, if you have a known 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:07.620 exposure, an acute exposure, it just happened 00:12:07.620 --> 00:12:10.159 recently, they'll do a blood test to see if you 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:12.980 have mercury in your blood or lead or arsenic. 00:12:13.659 --> 00:12:17.259 etc. And if you have an acute exposure to glyphosate 00:12:17.259 --> 00:12:19.860 or other pesticides or benzene or industrial 00:12:19.860 --> 00:12:21.559 chemicals, anything, you know, something at your 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:23.840 work, it will show up on a blood test if it just 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:27.440 happened. But most people are totally unaware 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:29.980 of when they've been exposed to any of these 00:12:29.980 --> 00:12:33.120 things. And the symptoms don't show up till years 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:37.559 later, decades later. It's much more common for 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:40.759 people to have low dose exposures to these things 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:44.440 over many, many years. And your body is very 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:46.740 good at flushing most of these things out through 00:12:46.740 --> 00:12:49.639 the kidneys and the colon as best it can. But 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:52.600 what it can't flush out gets shoved into fat 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:56.059 cells just to get it out of circulation. If it 00:12:56.059 --> 00:12:57.779 can't flush this stuff out, this is a protective 00:12:57.779 --> 00:13:00.669 mechanism. If your body can't get this, if you 00:13:00.669 --> 00:13:02.309 can't get that stuff out of circulation, then 00:13:02.309 --> 00:13:04.870 it's constantly floating around, round and round, 00:13:05.009 --> 00:13:07.529 saturating your entire body, all of your cells, 00:13:07.610 --> 00:13:10.049 your brain, irritating your brain, stressing 00:13:10.049 --> 00:13:12.169 your immune system. So the defense mechanism 00:13:12.169 --> 00:13:15.470 is to get it out of circulation as best it can. 00:13:15.529 --> 00:13:17.870 If it can't excrete it, shove it into fat cells. 00:13:18.029 --> 00:13:19.830 At least that'll take it out of circulation. 00:13:20.610 --> 00:13:22.730 So your body does that as a protective mechanism, 00:13:22.830 --> 00:13:25.110 but then unfortunately those toxins remain stored 00:13:25.110 --> 00:13:30.029 in your fat cells indefinitely. Forever. And 00:13:30.029 --> 00:13:32.309 so the best way to test this long -term exposure 00:13:32.309 --> 00:13:35.590 is with a urine test. Heavy metals, chemicals, 00:13:35.830 --> 00:13:38.830 like the stuff we breathe in the air, industrial 00:13:38.830 --> 00:13:41.210 exposures, pesticides, fertilizers, urine tests 00:13:41.210 --> 00:13:44.230 is the best way to test that. Mold, toxins. If 00:13:44.230 --> 00:13:47.009 you've been exposed to mold, say you lived in 00:13:47.009 --> 00:13:49.750 some place. I had another patient who said, oh, 00:13:49.769 --> 00:13:51.870 yeah, no, I haven't been exposed to mold. Oh, 00:13:51.950 --> 00:13:54.149 well, wait a minute. He came back later and he 00:13:54.149 --> 00:13:55.950 said, oh, yeah, when I moved out of this place 00:13:55.950 --> 00:13:59.570 about 10 years ago, we moved all our boxes out 00:13:59.570 --> 00:14:02.230 of the garage. There was all this mold behind 00:14:02.230 --> 00:14:04.149 the boxes, trapped between the boxes and the 00:14:04.149 --> 00:14:06.429 wall. And I said, how long have you been living 00:14:06.429 --> 00:14:08.629 there? Oh, yeah, like two or three years. So 00:14:08.629 --> 00:14:10.870 that was, you know, every time he was driving 00:14:10.870 --> 00:14:13.519 in and out of his garage. He was breathing in 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:16.480 mold spores from that mold that he couldn't even 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:18.899 see. You usually can't see it. You see a little 00:14:18.899 --> 00:14:22.200 tiny speck in your bathroom breaking through 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:26.059 the drywall. And you get a guy, hopefully, get 00:14:26.059 --> 00:14:27.620 somebody in that knows how to take care of that 00:14:27.620 --> 00:14:29.440 stuff. They'll open up the wall and the cells, 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:33.799 the space between the studs and the drywall is 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:37.899 full. It's full of mold. And so you usually don't 00:14:37.899 --> 00:14:39.320 even know you're being exposed to it. But the 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:40.960 most important thing to understand about that 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:43.879 is it's usually not an issue of a lung infection 00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:48.740 or sinus irritation from an acute exposure to 00:14:48.740 --> 00:14:51.460 the mold. It's not the mold irritating your respiratory 00:14:51.460 --> 00:14:55.600 system. The metabolic waste from the mold, basically 00:14:55.600 --> 00:15:00.200 the mold's wee, is a chemical toxin that accumulates 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:03.200 that your body sometimes can't efficiently excrete. 00:15:03.259 --> 00:15:06.940 And that also gets shoved. into your fat cells. 00:15:07.059 --> 00:15:10.659 So mold toxins, basically the issue with mold 00:15:10.659 --> 00:15:14.100 is mostly just like being exposed to glyphosate 00:15:14.100 --> 00:15:16.659 or other chemical pesticides or fertilizers or 00:15:16.659 --> 00:15:20.320 being exposed to benzene or petrochemicals, something 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:22.559 in your workplace or breathing in the stuff from 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:25.440 the wildfire smoke. It's like mold toxins are 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:28.120 a chemical toxin that also gets stored in fat 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:30.980 cells long -term. And you never know if you have 00:15:30.980 --> 00:15:33.899 that unless you get tested. It can be identified. 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:38.379 on a urine test. The stored toxic chemicals that 00:15:38.379 --> 00:15:40.539 build up in your fat cells, small amounts of 00:15:40.539 --> 00:15:43.899 that do get excreted in your very small amounts. 00:15:43.980 --> 00:15:46.039 It requires sensitive equipment to identify it, 00:15:46.059 --> 00:15:48.399 but small amounts of it are still slowly, your 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:50.860 body's still trying to flush that stuff out and 00:15:50.860 --> 00:15:54.000 it will show up. on a urine test. And once you 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.019 know, because everybody's different, once we 00:15:56.019 --> 00:15:57.799 know the things that you've been most exposed 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:02.200 to, we can customize a course of things to help 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:05.220 your body safely, slowly. It's not fast. It takes 00:16:05.220 --> 00:16:07.539 months, but slowly, safely excrete those things. 00:16:10.049 --> 00:16:12.970 It seems miraculous to many people when they 00:16:12.970 --> 00:16:15.429 do that. And so when I say slowly and safely, 00:16:15.549 --> 00:16:18.129 some people say, oh, yeah, I did this liver cleanse 00:16:18.129 --> 00:16:20.269 that my cousin told me about. And oh, my God, 00:16:20.370 --> 00:16:25.330 I was sick for days. Well, don't do that. Your 00:16:25.330 --> 00:16:27.710 liver is the cleanser. You don't need to do a 00:16:27.710 --> 00:16:30.450 liver cleanse. You need to identify toxins and 00:16:30.450 --> 00:16:34.129 customize a plan of things like binding agents, 00:16:34.529 --> 00:16:39.070 modified citrus pectin, antioxidants like glutathione, 00:16:39.409 --> 00:16:42.149 chlorella for heavy metals. There are a number 00:16:42.149 --> 00:16:44.269 of things you can use, but everybody's different. 00:16:44.450 --> 00:16:47.210 You need to do the proper testing and identify 00:16:47.210 --> 00:16:49.210 what's going to work best for you. When you're 00:16:49.210 --> 00:16:53.019 excreting, when we talk about detoxing, These 00:16:53.019 --> 00:16:55.320 toxins are stored in fat cells. And so when you 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:57.700 pull them out of storage in fat cells, you're 00:16:57.700 --> 00:17:01.379 pulling them into your bloodstream, where it's 00:17:01.379 --> 00:17:04.420 now, once again, saturating every cell in your 00:17:04.420 --> 00:17:07.359 body with a small amount of those toxins, irritating 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:11.599 your immune system, saturating your brain, causing 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:13.980 brain fog. You don't want to pull that stuff 00:17:13.980 --> 00:17:17.420 out of storage faster. then you can excrete it 00:17:17.420 --> 00:17:19.859 mainly through the kidneys and the colon. A certain 00:17:19.859 --> 00:17:22.920 amount through sweat also, doing saunas for some 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:25.339 of these toxins is also important, or sweating 00:17:25.339 --> 00:17:28.640 by any other means. So it's stored in fat, you 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:30.380 pull it into the bloodstream, and then you want 00:17:30.380 --> 00:17:33.759 to immediately flush it out by sweating, by peeing, 00:17:33.779 --> 00:17:36.559 or pooping. And if you can't, if you try to pull 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:38.380 it out, if you pull out of storage too fast... 00:17:38.910 --> 00:17:40.470 then it's circulating around and it'll make you 00:17:40.470 --> 00:17:42.410 sick. So you never want to do that. So identifying 00:17:42.410 --> 00:17:44.670 the best way to do that requires testing and 00:17:44.670 --> 00:17:48.109 customizing a specific program for what you are 00:17:48.109 --> 00:17:50.930 dealing with. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley. You're listening 00:17:50.930 --> 00:17:53.390 to Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions to Almost 00:17:53.390 --> 00:17:55.690 Any Health Challenge. I know a lot of this is 00:17:55.690 --> 00:17:59.049 kind of complex, so send me a question. I love 00:17:59.049 --> 00:18:01.269 getting questions. I'd love to answer you specifically 00:18:01.269 --> 00:18:04.519 or talk about it next week. On next week's episode, 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:07.000 email me at drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:11.779 .com. You can also text me at 805 -218 -3939. 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:13.819 Feel free to text me anytime. The ringer on my 00:18:13.819 --> 00:18:17.289 phone is always off, but I will reply. So more 00:18:17.289 --> 00:18:19.890 good news in the medical press. The whole theme 00:18:19.890 --> 00:18:22.710 of last week's show was about exercise. And when 00:18:22.710 --> 00:18:24.670 it rains, it pours. You may have even heard about 00:18:24.670 --> 00:18:28.650 this. I heard it on the radio and in the popular 00:18:28.650 --> 00:18:31.809 press. Walking, the title of the study is Walking 00:18:31.809 --> 00:18:35.869 is Good for You. Walking backward can add to 00:18:35.869 --> 00:18:39.920 the benefits. So most of us know that exercise 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:43.240 has impressive mental and physical benefits, 00:18:43.299 --> 00:18:45.799 stronger bones and muscles, cardiovascular fitness, 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:48.880 and stress release. But, you know, sometimes 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:52.640 it gets boring. People say, oh, yeah, I'd love 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:54.779 to go out and walk. But for whatever reason you're 00:18:54.779 --> 00:18:57.339 not doing it, then it can be helpful to shake 00:18:57.339 --> 00:18:59.500 up the routine. I mean, whole industries are 00:18:59.500 --> 00:19:02.980 based on this. New classes and this or that just 00:19:02.980 --> 00:19:05.019 to, you know, shake up the routine. Nothing wrong 00:19:05.019 --> 00:19:08.000 with that. It's all good stuff. Backward walking, 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:11.200 also known as retro walking or reverse walking, 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:15.019 adds variety and when done safely has a whole 00:19:15.019 --> 00:19:17.200 host of benefits. It not only provides a change 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:20.279 of view, but it also puts different demands on 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:23.920 your body. Janet Dufek, Ph .D., a biomechanist 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:26.059 and faculty member at the University of Nevada 00:19:26.059 --> 00:19:28.759 in Vegas, has researched the mechanics of both 00:19:28.759 --> 00:19:32.619 walking and landing from jumps to identify ways 00:19:32.619 --> 00:19:35.339 of preventing injuries and improving physical 00:19:35.339 --> 00:19:38.200 health. The former college basketball player 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:41.299 and regular exerciser, she's also done her fair 00:19:41.299 --> 00:19:44.839 share of backward walking. In humans, walking 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:47.220 backwards can increase hamstring flexibility, 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:50.660 strengthen underused muscles, and challenge the 00:19:50.660 --> 00:19:53.880 mind as your body adjusts to movement and posture. 00:19:54.059 --> 00:19:56.319 Quote, she says, I see a lot of people in my 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:58.339 neighborhood and they walk and that's great, 00:19:58.599 --> 00:20:00.839 but they're still stressing the same elements 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:03.470 of their structure over and over again. Walking 00:20:03.470 --> 00:20:06.069 backward introduces an element of cross -training, 00:20:06.089 --> 00:20:10.190 of a subtly different activity. Kevin Patterson, 00:20:10.250 --> 00:20:12.210 a personal trainer in Nashville, Tennessee, recommends 00:20:12.210 --> 00:20:16.089 the treadmill as the safest place to retro -walk. 00:20:16.569 --> 00:20:20.349 You can adjust it to a slow speed. And he even 00:20:20.349 --> 00:20:22.430 likes to turn off the treadmill and do something 00:20:22.430 --> 00:20:25.190 called a dead -mill, where you have the clients 00:20:25.190 --> 00:20:27.890 propel the belt on their own. Quote, it can take 00:20:27.890 --> 00:20:30.190 a while to get the treadmill going. But from 00:20:30.190 --> 00:20:33.170 there, we have them be the horsepower for the 00:20:33.170 --> 00:20:35.309 treadmill. It's great for older clients because 00:20:35.309 --> 00:20:37.450 you have handles on both sides and you can reduce 00:20:37.450 --> 00:20:40.230 the risk of falling. Since reading this, I've 00:20:40.230 --> 00:20:41.970 been trying it again myself. I haven't done it 00:20:41.970 --> 00:20:44.069 in a long time. And it is really fun. It's a 00:20:44.069 --> 00:20:47.670 great workout for your brain as well as your 00:20:47.670 --> 00:20:49.789 body. And I don't do it on a treadmill. Like 00:20:49.789 --> 00:20:53.390 Dufek also suggests, you can incorporate a one 00:20:53.390 --> 00:20:55.930 -minute segment of backward walking every 10 00:20:55.930 --> 00:20:58.220 minutes that you walk. You can even do it with 00:20:58.220 --> 00:21:01.240 a partner facing each other, clasping hands if 00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:03.599 necessary. One person walks backward, the other 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:05.720 person strolls forward and watches for problems, 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:08.720 and then you switch. Start off slowly at first 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:10.420 because you might need to make sure that you've 00:21:10.420 --> 00:21:12.500 got good balance and you are retraining your 00:21:12.500 --> 00:21:14.740 brain. You're learning a new skill, but you're 00:21:14.740 --> 00:21:18.119 also using muscles in different ways. Some people 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:22.079 even do marathons. Some people run whole marathons 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:25.339 backwards. So this is considered a form of cross 00:21:25.339 --> 00:21:28.359 -training or incorporating a mix of moves into 00:21:28.359 --> 00:21:31.000 a fitness programming. Doing a range of exercises 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:33.619 can help prevent overuse injuries, which can 00:21:33.619 --> 00:21:36.640 occur after repeatedly using the same muscle 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:38.799 groups over and over. And for many people, cross 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:41.779 -training involves different activities or types 00:21:41.779 --> 00:21:44.059 of exercise, like running one day and swimming 00:21:44.059 --> 00:21:46.539 the next and strength training on the third day. 00:21:46.700 --> 00:21:48.720 But if you don't have time for all of that, just 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.319 walking backwards can work in the same way on 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:55.069 a small level. Well, do small tweaks like this 00:21:55.069 --> 00:21:57.390 make much of a difference? How does it actually 00:21:57.390 --> 00:21:59.750 work? Well, physical therapists instruct some 00:21:59.750 --> 00:22:02.529 of their clients to reverse walk after knee injuries 00:22:02.529 --> 00:22:04.789 or for people in rehabilitation or recovering 00:22:04.789 --> 00:22:08.349 from surgery. Back walking is different from 00:22:08.349 --> 00:22:11.930 a movement pattern perspective. Dudek says instead 00:22:11.930 --> 00:22:14.549 of landing heel first, you strike your forefoot. 00:22:14.910 --> 00:22:17.910 First, often quite gently, and often the heel 00:22:17.910 --> 00:22:20.190 doesn't even touch the ground. So this reduces 00:22:20.190 --> 00:22:22.069 the range of motion in the knee joint, which 00:22:22.069 --> 00:22:25.250 allows for activity without stressing the knee. 00:22:25.579 --> 00:22:27.779 Backward walking also stretches the hamstring 00:22:27.779 --> 00:22:31.299 muscles, the back of the thigh, and ongoing studies 00:22:31.299 --> 00:22:34.640 are evaluating whether it can seemingly reduce 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:38.359 fall risk in older adults by activating more 00:22:38.359 --> 00:22:40.900 of the senses in the body to maintain balance. 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:43.960 There's nothing unnatural about backward walking. 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:47.359 In fact, backward running is a key skill for 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:49.759 top athletes. Basketball players, soccer players, 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:52.519 American football players, particularly the defensive 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:55.799 backs, do it all the time. Let's see if I can 00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:57.980 get to one more question I had from last week. 00:22:58.019 --> 00:23:01.400 How do you build muscle mass? This person asked 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:03.799 me, was asking about their father who's frail 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:07.200 and obviously is not going to go to a gym, can't. 00:23:07.460 --> 00:23:10.680 What's the simple way someone older... Or just 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:12.920 someone who maybe even just isn't going to go 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:15.700 to the gym and wants to know a quick exercise 00:23:15.700 --> 00:23:18.460 that anyone can do at home to build and maintain 00:23:18.460 --> 00:23:21.140 muscle mass. Well, the quadriceps and other leg 00:23:21.140 --> 00:23:23.339 muscles in your thighs are the biggest muscles 00:23:23.339 --> 00:23:27.000 in your body. So doing squats, using your own 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:30.579 body weight as resistance is a simple way to 00:23:30.579 --> 00:23:33.220 build and maintain muscle mass. And you can do 00:23:33.220 --> 00:23:36.359 that by grabbing a hold of a handrail, if you 00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:39.970 have one, or the edge of your kitchen sink. Or 00:23:39.970 --> 00:23:43.130 if you have in your kitchen, you can open a drawer 00:23:43.130 --> 00:23:45.170 in your kitchen and reach up under the cabinet 00:23:45.170 --> 00:23:48.789 and grab a hold of something secure. And then 00:23:48.789 --> 00:23:53.170 simply squat down and squat back up. Most people 00:23:53.170 --> 00:23:55.309 do this too fast. You want to squat down really 00:23:55.309 --> 00:23:57.750 slowly. People are fine with that. But then they 00:23:57.750 --> 00:23:59.589 usually jump back up. So you want to squat down 00:23:59.589 --> 00:24:03.890 slowly and really slowly bring your weight back 00:24:03.890 --> 00:24:06.930 up. That slowly coming back up is what makes. 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:10.039 Most of the difference, a simple way to increase 00:24:10.039 --> 00:24:12.720 muscle mass. At the same time, give me a try. 00:24:12.940 --> 00:24:14.900 Shoot me an email or a text. Let me know how 00:24:14.900 --> 00:24:17.299 it's going. Shoot me any questions you have, 00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:19.700 other things you'd like to hear about on this 00:24:19.700 --> 00:24:23.279 show. Thank you for listening. Have a fantastic 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:27.759 weekend. You've been listening to Safe, Effective 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:31.079 Natural Solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. If you 00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:33.059 have a health question you want discussed on 00:24:33.059 --> 00:24:36.420 the show, email your health questions to drbinkley 00:24:36.420 --> 00:24:40.420 at binkleyhealingcenter .com. 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