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 --> 00:00:15.480 in downtown Ventura. Now, here's Dr. Todd. Good 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:17.539 afternoon. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board -certified 00:00:17.539 --> 00:00:20.019 doctor of non -forest chiropractic and practitioner 00:00:20.019 --> 00:00:22.440 of functional medicine. The purpose of this show 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:25.100 is to bring you the latest research into ways 00:00:25.100 --> 00:00:27.500 you can take better care of your health so you 00:00:27.500 --> 00:00:29.920 can be proactive. You can avoid becoming dependent 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:31.679 on pharmaceuticals for the rest of your life. 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:34.579 Or maybe even just find out what's actually wrong 00:00:34.579 --> 00:00:36.740 with you when no one else has been able to help 00:00:36.740 --> 00:00:38.520 you figure that out. We're going to go review 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:40.439 some of the latest research into a whole host 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:42.500 of different things today that's in the most 00:00:42.500 --> 00:00:45.280 recent journals that are coming out. And top 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:47.719 of the list has to be this. Untreated thyroid 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:52.840 dysfunction in moms tied to autism in kids. So 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:56.560 hypothyroidism in pregnant mothers is increasing 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:00.200 the risk. of autism in their children. Chronic 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:04.299 and combined chronic and gestational hypothyroidism 00:01:04.299 --> 00:01:07.280 was linked to a more than two -fold double the 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.219 risk of autism in children compared with the 00:01:10.219 --> 00:01:12.180 offspring of women who had normal thyroid function. 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:15.000 So this is a Dr. Minosh and co -authors wrote 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.060 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and 00:01:17.060 --> 00:01:20.140 Metabolism. Longer periods of combined chronic 00:01:20.140 --> 00:01:23.280 and gestational hypothyroidism exposure during 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.739 pregnancy increased the risk of autism in their 00:01:26.739 --> 00:01:29.340 children. So what is gestational? What is chronic 00:01:29.340 --> 00:01:32.500 and gestational hypothyroidism? So chronic hypothyroidism 00:01:32.500 --> 00:01:35.230 is the most common form. Chronic just means something 00:01:35.230 --> 00:01:37.109 that's been around for a long time. Acute means 00:01:37.109 --> 00:01:38.909 something recent. Chronic means something that's 00:01:38.909 --> 00:01:40.769 been there for a while, weeks, months, even years. 00:01:41.189 --> 00:01:43.950 So the most common form of hypothyroidism is 00:01:43.950 --> 00:01:45.870 always chronic because most people don't even 00:01:45.870 --> 00:01:48.349 know they have it until they've had it for a 00:01:48.349 --> 00:01:51.349 long time and it gets bad enough to warrant or 00:01:51.349 --> 00:01:54.030 trigger someone to order the proper test to actually 00:01:54.030 --> 00:01:56.170 diagnose it. And it's one of the most common 00:01:56.170 --> 00:01:59.170 things that women with fatigue, difficulty losing 00:01:59.170 --> 00:02:02.189 weight, brain fog, high cholesterol, a whole 00:02:02.189 --> 00:02:05.109 host of other things. just very commonly have 00:02:05.109 --> 00:02:07.510 and never know they have it. It just never gets 00:02:07.510 --> 00:02:10.129 properly diagnosed until it's really severe. 00:02:10.810 --> 00:02:13.610 And then when they do finally get it diagnosed, 00:02:13.750 --> 00:02:17.330 the standard solution is here. Just take levothyroxine, 00:02:17.430 --> 00:02:21.810 Synthroid, pharmaceutical. T4, thyroxine for 00:02:21.810 --> 00:02:24.169 the rest of your life and will increase the dose 00:02:24.169 --> 00:02:26.629 as you get older, by the way. Well, that's not 00:02:26.629 --> 00:02:28.770 the best way to do it. Sometimes it's necessary, 00:02:28.930 --> 00:02:30.830 but there's so many better ways to do that, especially 00:02:30.830 --> 00:02:33.389 if you start early. And obviously, really important 00:02:33.389 --> 00:02:35.389 reasons to do that, preventing those symptoms, 00:02:35.789 --> 00:02:39.210 cold hands and feet, dry skin, hair loss, difficulty 00:02:39.210 --> 00:02:44.659 losing weight. puffiness, high cholesterol, normal 00:02:44.659 --> 00:02:46.939 cholesterol maintenance requires healthy functioning 00:02:46.939 --> 00:02:49.599 thyroid hormone, whole host of symptoms, brain 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:52.960 fog, fatigue, but now even worse, well, particularly, 00:02:53.180 --> 00:02:56.900 the new information is if a woman has hypothyroidism 00:02:56.900 --> 00:02:59.500 during her pregnancy, it can double the risk 00:02:59.500 --> 00:03:03.039 of their child getting autism if they have both 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:06.520 the typical chronic hypothyroidism and the very 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:09.439 common temporary hypothyroidism that occurs. 00:03:10.219 --> 00:03:12.840 during pregnancy. So gestational means, refers 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:16.099 to pregnancy. So gestational hypothyroidism is 00:03:16.099 --> 00:03:19.199 a common deficiency of normal thyroid production 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:21.379 that happens in pregnancy and then often goes 00:03:21.379 --> 00:03:24.919 away. But if you combine the common hypothyroidism 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:28.740 before you get pregnant, usually, with the additional 00:03:28.740 --> 00:03:31.360 reduction in hypothyroid function during pregnancy, 00:03:31.460 --> 00:03:34.060 then that can double the risk. of autism spectrum 00:03:34.060 --> 00:03:36.840 disorders in that woman's children. And the longer 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.740 you have it, the worse it gets. So any one trimester 00:03:39.740 --> 00:03:42.180 of exposure, if it's only one trimester, the 00:03:42.180 --> 00:03:47.039 increased risk is 1 .35 increased risk. Two trimesters 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:50.300 of exposure, it's doubled. Three trimesters exposure, 00:03:50.620 --> 00:03:54.860 it's almost tripled. 2 .87 times the risk of 00:03:54.860 --> 00:03:57.919 a child of getting any kind of autism spectrum 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:01.840 disorder if their mother has hypothyroidism during 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:05.400 pregnancy. So the dose -response pattern was 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:08.599 the novel finding and came as a surprise, according 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:11.340 to Dr. Minosh, one of the authors of this study, 00:04:11.500 --> 00:04:14.099 because it basically proves that it is the actual 00:04:14.099 --> 00:04:16.959 thyroid hormone imbalance during pregnancy and 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:19.860 not the chronic condition per se that is associated 00:04:19.860 --> 00:04:23.439 with the autism spectrum disorder in the offspring 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:26.259 of that mother. This adds to mounting data that 00:04:26.259 --> 00:04:28.279 suggests that maternal thyroid dysfunction in 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:32.160 pregnancy may affect fetal neurodevelopment. 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:35.540 Thyroid hormones are essential for fetal neurogenesis, 00:04:35.579 --> 00:04:38.120 the development of nerves, and maturation, so 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:40.600 both the building and maturing of nerves in a 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:44.000 fetus. And they rely largely on maternal -derived 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.790 hormones. hormone by a transfer through the placenta, 00:04:46.810 --> 00:04:50.410 particularly in the first trimester. So consequently, 00:04:50.689 --> 00:04:52.769 disruptions in maternal thyroid levels during 00:04:52.769 --> 00:04:56.449 pregnancy have had various adverse developmental 00:04:56.449 --> 00:05:00.009 outcomes, including lower IQ scores, delays in 00:05:00.009 --> 00:05:03.069 expressing language, and nonverbal cognition. 00:05:03.509 --> 00:05:07.230 This is a study that analyzed live births at 00:05:07.230 --> 00:05:09.769 Socorro University Medical Center in Israel from 00:05:09.769 --> 00:05:13.620 January 2011 to December 2017. And the median 00:05:13.620 --> 00:05:15.839 age, average age at which the autism spectrum 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:18.500 disorder showed up in the child was 4 .6 years, 00:05:18.620 --> 00:05:21.360 so four and a half years old. This was 51 ,000, 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:24.480 over 51 ,000 women included in the study. And 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:28.620 of them, 44 ,000 ate. 8 .6 % were diagnosed with 00:05:28.620 --> 00:05:30.879 abnormal thyroid function. So all of these women, 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:33.019 they tested their thyroid levels each trimester. 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:37.879 And 1 ,100 of them had chronic hypothyroidism. 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:41.399 1 ,600 had the gestational hypothyroidism, the 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:43.759 hypothyroidism during pregnancy that usually 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:46.339 goes away after the pregnancy. And 1 ,000 of 00:05:46.339 --> 00:05:50.240 them had both, the common chronic hypothyroidism 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:52.720 and the gestational hypothyroidism of pregnancy. 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:54.339 So these are the ones that they were basing these 00:05:54.339 --> 00:05:56.529 findings on, 1 ,000 roughly. A little less than 00:05:56.529 --> 00:05:58.949 a fourth of the women that had abnormal thyroid 00:05:58.949 --> 00:06:01.170 function of these 51 ,000 women they studied. 00:06:01.269 --> 00:06:04.089 A little over a thousand of them had both chronic 00:06:04.089 --> 00:06:07.129 and the hypothyroidism related to pregnancy. 00:06:07.449 --> 00:06:10.250 So the takeaway is having hypothyroidism during 00:06:10.250 --> 00:06:13.730 pregnancy can double the risk of your child getting 00:06:13.730 --> 00:06:16.310 autism. And that's really important to know about. 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:19.139 because it's often preventable and reversible. 00:06:19.379 --> 00:06:21.399 And interestingly, this risk in the offspring, 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:24.439 the risk of autism in the children of women with 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:27.060 thyroid function, if they just had the gestational 00:06:27.060 --> 00:06:29.540 thyroid dysfunction alone, just the relatively 00:06:29.540 --> 00:06:34.639 common hypothyroidism during pregnancy, those 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:36.540 women that just had that but not the chronic, 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:40.139 even more common hypothyroidism that millions 00:06:40.139 --> 00:06:42.620 and millions of women get, that didn't change 00:06:42.620 --> 00:06:46.459 the risk at all. So just having temporary hypothyroidism 00:06:46.459 --> 00:06:48.939 during pregnancy did not increase the risk of 00:06:48.939 --> 00:06:52.240 giving birth to a child with autism. So obviously, 00:06:52.339 --> 00:06:54.560 if you know someone who is pregnant or is planning 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:57.100 to get pregnant soon, please tell them to make 00:06:57.100 --> 00:06:59.379 sure they get their thyroid test. But also tell 00:06:59.379 --> 00:07:02.459 them to email me because the standard way most 00:07:02.459 --> 00:07:05.980 doctors test the thyroid is with one single test 00:07:05.980 --> 00:07:09.100 called TSH. That stands for thyroid stimulating 00:07:09.100 --> 00:07:11.620 hormone. It's not even a thyroid test. It's a 00:07:11.620 --> 00:07:14.620 pituitary test. Your pituitary gland, the master 00:07:14.620 --> 00:07:17.600 gland that controls all of the other endocrine 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:20.800 glands, sends thyroid stimulating hormone to 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:23.230 tell. your thyroid to make more. if it's not 00:07:23.230 --> 00:07:25.430 making enough. So if your thyroid is low, your 00:07:25.430 --> 00:07:27.389 TSH will go up because your pituitary is saying, 00:07:27.490 --> 00:07:29.389 hey, you're not making enough thyroid, make some 00:07:29.389 --> 00:07:31.730 more. And that's a really useful test. It's very 00:07:31.730 --> 00:07:33.769 sensitive. It's a very accurate test. It's very 00:07:33.769 --> 00:07:37.629 inexpensive. And so most doctors will test that 00:07:37.629 --> 00:07:40.850 if someone is pregnant. But only that, they often 00:07:40.850 --> 00:07:44.949 don't test the actual thyroid T4 levels and they 00:07:44.949 --> 00:07:50.170 almost never test free T3, the active form of 00:07:50.170 --> 00:07:52.610 thyroid. So really, if you want to be proactive, 00:07:52.649 --> 00:07:55.110 if you really want to reduce your risk of having 00:07:55.110 --> 00:07:57.629 a child with autism because of this connection, 00:07:57.930 --> 00:07:59.689 then I strongly recommend you get a much more 00:07:59.689 --> 00:08:02.389 comprehensive assessment of thyroid function, 00:08:02.529 --> 00:08:04.870 including the active form free T3 and perhaps 00:08:04.870 --> 00:08:08.269 even thyroid antibodies, which measures the most 00:08:08.269 --> 00:08:14.089 common autoimmune condition, Hashimoto's thyroiditis. 00:08:14.129 --> 00:08:17.730 It's where your body's overproducing immunoglobulins, 00:08:17.810 --> 00:08:21.259 antibodies that attack your thyroid. creating 00:08:21.259 --> 00:08:23.899 inflammation and eventually scar tissue that 00:08:23.899 --> 00:08:27.519 displaces the healthy tissue, reducing your thyroid's 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:30.339 ability to produce adequate thyroid hormone. 00:08:30.930 --> 00:08:33.190 So I've had thousands of women with underactive 00:08:33.190 --> 00:08:36.049 hypothyroidism. We had a discussion about this 00:08:36.049 --> 00:08:39.230 last week in my office on hypothyroidism. I shared 00:08:39.230 --> 00:08:41.210 some case histories of some of the many people 00:08:41.210 --> 00:08:43.649 I've treated with this. And I've had so many 00:08:43.649 --> 00:08:46.350 women that were just amazed to find out that 00:08:46.350 --> 00:08:47.889 this was part of their problem. This was causing 00:08:47.889 --> 00:08:49.970 their brain fog, their fatigue, their inability 00:08:49.970 --> 00:08:52.129 to lose weight, their cold hands and feet, etc. 00:08:52.830 --> 00:08:56.899 And nobody even told them they had that. Or as 00:08:56.899 --> 00:08:59.580 common, perhaps, I would say probably maybe half 00:08:59.580 --> 00:09:00.940 of the people that come to me for this already 00:09:00.940 --> 00:09:03.240 know they have hypothyroidism. They're being 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:05.159 treated, but they still have thyroid symptoms 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:06.820 because they're not getting adequate amounts. 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:10.350 And here's the most common thing. Most women 00:09:10.350 --> 00:09:14.090 are only treated with T4, Synthroid, Levothyroxine. 00:09:14.289 --> 00:09:16.590 And that does nothing in your body. It's the 00:09:16.590 --> 00:09:18.750 carrier form that circulates throughout your 00:09:18.750 --> 00:09:21.110 body. It's the most common form. Easy to measure. 00:09:21.629 --> 00:09:24.590 But it has to be converted into T3. And then 00:09:24.590 --> 00:09:27.850 that T3 has to be unbound from its carrier protein, 00:09:28.110 --> 00:09:29.870 the thing that shuttles it around your bloodstream, 00:09:30.009 --> 00:09:33.870 into free T3. So free T3 is the active form. 00:09:33.990 --> 00:09:37.389 If you haven't been tested for free T3, then 00:09:37.389 --> 00:09:40.480 you have no idea how well. your thyroid gland 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:42.519 and the system that makes thyroid hormone work 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:45.779 is working well or not. So I presented several 00:09:45.779 --> 00:09:49.399 case studies on this in my office last Wednesday 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:53.240 for my monthly talk I do on safe, effective natural 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:55.639 solutions to almost any health challenge live 00:09:55.639 --> 00:09:58.639 at Binkley Healing Center, my office in downtown 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.610 Ventura. Well, for years, people have been asking 00:10:01.610 --> 00:10:04.289 me to do more of these, and I finally decided 00:10:04.289 --> 00:10:07.570 to go for it. I'm making it a regular thing every 00:10:07.570 --> 00:10:10.149 month in the office on the first Wednesday in 00:10:10.149 --> 00:10:13.070 my office, downtown Ventura, 961 East Main Street 00:10:13.070 --> 00:10:16.490 at 6 p .m. On a Wednesday evening, the next one 00:10:16.490 --> 00:10:18.750 is going to be January 7th, first of the year. 00:10:18.769 --> 00:10:20.889 Great way to start off the year by learning how 00:10:20.889 --> 00:10:24.669 to reduce and reverse diabetes. Who do you know 00:10:24.669 --> 00:10:28.350 that's a little bit overweight? either has diabetes 00:10:28.350 --> 00:10:30.490 they already have or they have a family history 00:10:30.490 --> 00:10:32.090 of it, they want to make sure that they don't 00:10:32.090 --> 00:10:34.210 end up getting diabetes. If they've already been 00:10:34.210 --> 00:10:36.649 diagnosed, if it hasn't been too long, if they're 00:10:36.649 --> 00:10:39.610 not already on a high dose of insulin, even sometimes 00:10:39.610 --> 00:10:42.149 if people are already on insulin, but especially 00:10:42.149 --> 00:10:43.929 if they're only taking metformin, they've just 00:10:43.929 --> 00:10:45.669 been recently diagnosed, that's the most common 00:10:45.669 --> 00:10:49.490 drug they give you. That's usually... Completely 00:10:49.490 --> 00:10:52.909 reversible, mainly with diet and exercise, sometimes 00:10:52.909 --> 00:10:55.690 with a few supplements. The most important thing 00:10:55.690 --> 00:10:58.210 is diet and exercise with that. But, well, okay, 00:10:58.269 --> 00:11:00.590 if it's that simple, why doesn't everybody do 00:11:00.590 --> 00:11:03.149 it? Well, because a lot of people don't really 00:11:03.149 --> 00:11:05.750 get all the testing they need to determine all 00:11:05.750 --> 00:11:07.649 of the facets. There's a lot of other things 00:11:07.649 --> 00:11:10.070 that go along with that, fatty liver disease, 00:11:10.389 --> 00:11:12.950 other things that contribute in addition to the 00:11:12.950 --> 00:11:15.610 diabetes that cause fatigue and brain fog and 00:11:15.610 --> 00:11:17.509 a whole host of other symptoms that when you 00:11:17.509 --> 00:11:19.029 find out about all of that, these things. That's 00:11:19.029 --> 00:11:22.330 why I never just test your glucose and your A1C, 00:11:22.429 --> 00:11:24.289 for example, to see if you're diabetic. I test 00:11:24.289 --> 00:11:26.929 a whole host of things on everyone because everything 00:11:26.929 --> 00:11:29.190 affects everything else. One of the most common 00:11:29.190 --> 00:11:32.110 things, risk factors, if you have diabetes is 00:11:32.110 --> 00:11:34.269 most diabetics die of a heart attack or a stroke. 00:11:35.509 --> 00:11:37.529 A lot of people know that you tend to become 00:11:37.529 --> 00:11:40.230 overweight. You can damage your eyes. You can 00:11:40.230 --> 00:11:42.370 damage the blood vessels and nerves to your feet, 00:11:42.429 --> 00:11:45.129 even end up horrifically with amputations of 00:11:45.129 --> 00:11:48.009 the feet and the lower leg. But it also dramatically 00:11:48.009 --> 00:11:50.090 increases your risk of heart attack and stroke 00:11:50.090 --> 00:11:52.230 because of the inflammation it creates. So we're 00:11:52.230 --> 00:11:53.690 going to be talking all about that and how you 00:11:53.690 --> 00:11:55.929 can prevent that or reverse it if you've already 00:11:55.929 --> 00:11:57.980 started getting it. I'll start out with a 30 00:11:57.980 --> 00:12:00.580 -minute keynote presentation and we'll have some 00:12:00.580 --> 00:12:03.460 light refreshments and we'll have plenty of time 00:12:03.460 --> 00:12:07.059 for questions and answers. I always love talking 00:12:07.059 --> 00:12:09.269 about... diabetes, how you can prevent and reverse 00:12:09.269 --> 00:12:12.129 it around this time of year, because a lot of 00:12:12.129 --> 00:12:15.269 people have maybe overindulged in cakes and pies 00:12:15.269 --> 00:12:17.750 and candy and cookies and all that kind of stuff 00:12:17.750 --> 00:12:20.409 during the holidays. You know who you are. And 00:12:20.409 --> 00:12:23.190 so this is the perfect time to, you know, get 00:12:23.190 --> 00:12:25.370 tested. The only way you really know if you've 00:12:25.370 --> 00:12:27.250 overdone or not, maybe you feel fine. Maybe you're 00:12:27.250 --> 00:12:28.830 not overweight. Maybe you're still getting away 00:12:28.830 --> 00:12:31.269 with overindulging at that. Or if you're like 00:12:31.269 --> 00:12:32.970 a lot of people, you already know you're overdoing 00:12:32.970 --> 00:12:35.289 it and you don't want to know if you have diabetes 00:12:35.289 --> 00:12:37.070 or not. You don't want to know how bad it is. 00:12:37.129 --> 00:12:39.730 because then something bad is going to happen. 00:12:39.769 --> 00:12:41.190 You're going to have to do something you don't 00:12:41.190 --> 00:12:43.809 want to do. Well, you want to know. You should 00:12:43.809 --> 00:12:46.149 want to know, especially if you can do the type 00:12:46.149 --> 00:12:48.210 of testing that I'm talking about where you can 00:12:48.210 --> 00:12:50.330 identify ways. We'll figure out something that 00:12:50.330 --> 00:12:54.009 you can do that will be less painful, that definitely 00:12:54.009 --> 00:12:55.929 won't require you to take a bunch of drugs, for 00:12:55.929 --> 00:12:59.070 example. They have a whole host of side effects 00:12:59.070 --> 00:13:02.149 and other issues sometimes. But most importantly, 00:13:02.230 --> 00:13:05.450 are more effective. The most effective way to 00:13:05.450 --> 00:13:09.509 prevent and reverse diabetes is to identify all 00:13:09.509 --> 00:13:12.269 the things that are, you know, assess your general 00:13:12.269 --> 00:13:14.649 health, not just your blood sugar, but your general 00:13:14.649 --> 00:13:16.389 health. What's going on with your liver and your 00:13:16.389 --> 00:13:18.909 kidneys and your digestive system and your immune 00:13:18.909 --> 00:13:21.950 system. And give your body all the nutrients 00:13:21.950 --> 00:13:25.350 it needs all at once to heal everything. You 00:13:25.350 --> 00:13:27.750 start out with your body. Your bloodstream is 00:13:27.750 --> 00:13:30.750 a river of life. Imagine this river of life. 00:13:30.769 --> 00:13:32.509 That's your bloodstream. And there are crews, 00:13:32.750 --> 00:13:34.950 construction crews, waiting on both banks of 00:13:34.950 --> 00:13:37.029 the river, sitting there, twiddling their thumbs, 00:13:37.129 --> 00:13:38.970 waiting for the materials to show up that they 00:13:38.970 --> 00:13:41.990 need to do that job. So if you have, if your 00:13:41.990 --> 00:13:45.590 nutrient stream, if your river of life is flooded 00:13:45.590 --> 00:13:47.909 with all the nutrients every part of your body 00:13:47.909 --> 00:13:50.370 needs to heal and repair, then the guys that 00:13:50.370 --> 00:13:53.029 are there waiting to do that job do their job, 00:13:53.090 --> 00:13:57.620 and healing occurs. But if your river is just 00:13:57.620 --> 00:14:01.080 depleted, if there's very little of the nutrients 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:04.539 you need all the time there, then those healing 00:14:04.539 --> 00:14:07.539 and repair jobs just get put on hold indefinitely. 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:11.320 And that's largely what causes chronic disease. 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:15.240 Your body gets chronic diseases, diseases that 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:19.950 slowly percolate over time. and eventually manifest 00:14:19.950 --> 00:14:22.990 into severe life -threatening conditions that 00:14:22.990 --> 00:14:25.509 require medication and other surgery and other 00:14:25.509 --> 00:14:27.850 horrible medical interventions because you waited 00:14:27.850 --> 00:14:30.149 too long. But if you start early enough, you 00:14:30.149 --> 00:14:32.409 can identify all the places where your body just 00:14:32.409 --> 00:14:34.950 needs a little bit of help. And then healing 00:14:34.950 --> 00:14:38.029 will occur. Normal, natural healing and repair 00:14:38.029 --> 00:14:40.750 that you took for granted when you were in high 00:14:40.750 --> 00:14:44.070 school, when you're young, in your 20s, all of 00:14:44.070 --> 00:14:46.149 that stuff. You could eat whatever you wanted 00:14:46.149 --> 00:14:48.049 back then and your body just took care of it. 00:14:48.169 --> 00:14:50.149 Well, you can get back some of that function 00:14:50.149 --> 00:14:52.809 if you identify the specific places where it's 00:14:52.809 --> 00:14:55.299 missing. And then just do a few things differently. 00:14:55.419 --> 00:14:57.440 Take a few supplements maybe. Tweak your diet 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:59.120 a little bit. Maybe do a little bit more exercise. 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:02.539 Get something to track that. It's a combination 00:15:02.539 --> 00:15:04.539 of things. It's never one thing. A lot of times 00:15:04.539 --> 00:15:05.940 people come in and they say, oh, I just want 00:15:05.940 --> 00:15:07.940 to figure out. Or they think. People, we want 00:15:07.940 --> 00:15:10.539 to think. Something's bothering us. We want to 00:15:10.539 --> 00:15:12.700 think. I just need to identify that one thing. 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:16.539 I don't want to hear about how good the health 00:15:16.539 --> 00:15:18.179 of my whole body is. I just want you to get rid 00:15:18.179 --> 00:15:20.440 of this. Doc, just fix this one thing. Well, 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:22.500 I don't do that. Don't come to me if you want 00:15:22.500 --> 00:15:25.230 that. Because that doesn't work. Everything affects 00:15:25.230 --> 00:15:27.769 everything else. If you want a natural solution, 00:15:27.929 --> 00:15:30.610 if you want a long -term lasting solution to 00:15:30.610 --> 00:15:33.409 heal yourself and not end up on drugs and surgery, 00:15:33.549 --> 00:15:35.490 needing surgery or end up on drugs for the rest 00:15:35.490 --> 00:15:37.990 of your life, then you need to look at everything 00:15:37.990 --> 00:15:40.820 and address everything. all at once, and then 00:15:40.820 --> 00:15:43.220 you slowly take things away one at a time. Take 00:15:43.220 --> 00:15:45.320 things away one at a time when you no longer 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:47.960 need them and you get back to just a core regimen 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:50.399 of good food, reasonable amount of moving your 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.179 body to get your heart rate up, get your blood 00:15:52.179 --> 00:15:55.039 pumping, circulating nutrients to your brain, 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:57.519 and maybe a few basic supplements. There are 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:00.259 three basic supplements that I recommend to everyone. 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:02.490 We'll come back to that. But first, I want to 00:16:02.490 --> 00:16:04.210 say for those who just tuned in, you're listening 00:16:04.210 --> 00:16:07.009 to Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions to Almost 00:16:07.009 --> 00:16:10.009 Any Health Challenge. I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, and 00:16:10.009 --> 00:16:11.909 I'd love to hear your questions so that we can 00:16:11.909 --> 00:16:13.509 come up with more material for the show. I'd 00:16:13.509 --> 00:16:15.490 love to hear what you'd like to hear more about. 00:16:15.649 --> 00:16:17.789 And last week, I had a couple of questions about 00:16:17.789 --> 00:16:20.470 how can you reduce high blood pressure? What 00:16:20.470 --> 00:16:23.730 are some good ways, some more good ways to reduce 00:16:23.730 --> 00:16:25.490 blood pressure without drugs? Well, I talk about 00:16:25.490 --> 00:16:27.509 this a lot on the show. And speaking of that, 00:16:27.590 --> 00:16:29.590 you can get past episodes if you like what you're 00:16:29.590 --> 00:16:33.139 hearing. You can listen to almost 100 now, past 00:16:33.139 --> 00:16:37.679 episodes. This is episode 98, I believe. A lot 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:39.960 of past episodes you can listen to on demand 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:43.059 anytime you like, on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, 00:16:43.179 --> 00:16:46.179 or YouTube, anywhere you find your podcasts. 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:48.759 Just punch in Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:52.120 in my name, and you'll see a bunch of episodes 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:53.759 that you can listen to about a whole host of 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:55.559 different health topics. So blood pressure comes 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:57.259 up a lot. I talk about it a lot. But here's a 00:16:57.259 --> 00:16:59.679 new study that just came out in the medical. 00:17:03.599 --> 00:17:07.500 So this was actually an article in the mainstream 00:17:07.500 --> 00:17:10.839 press that cited two medical journal articles. 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:13.000 The first one was published by Current Pharmaceutical 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.059 Design. Its conclusion was pomegranate juice 00:17:16.059 --> 00:17:19.539 possesses antioxidant... antihypertensive, meaning 00:17:19.539 --> 00:17:22.859 lowers blood pressure, and anti -atherosclerotic 00:17:22.859 --> 00:17:26.359 properties, meaning it can actually reverse. 00:17:26.500 --> 00:17:28.839 It reduces your risk of and can reverse plaque 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:30.839 formation in your arteries. The other article 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:34.200 more recently was published in Phytotherapy. 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:36.940 Phytotherapy means using plant -based nutrients 00:17:36.940 --> 00:17:40.240 therapeutically. Phytotherapy research in 2024 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:45.279 reviewed 22 eligible randomized controlled trials, 00:17:45.539 --> 00:17:47.980 and the results demonstrated that... Pomegranate 00:17:47.980 --> 00:17:51.160 consumption significantly lowered both systolic 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:53.400 and diastolic, the top number and the bottom 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:57.339 number, blood pressure in adults. So what makes 00:17:57.339 --> 00:18:00.000 pomegranate? And this is not news. Well, it's 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:03.740 news that they're continuing to confirm in robust 00:18:03.740 --> 00:18:07.650 studies. numbers of them and thousands and thousands 00:18:07.650 --> 00:18:10.170 of patients how well it works because a lot of 00:18:10.170 --> 00:18:12.329 people still don't maybe don't know about it 00:18:12.329 --> 00:18:15.650 or how many of you are taking or drinking eating 00:18:15.650 --> 00:18:18.130 pomegranates or taking or drinking pomegranate 00:18:18.130 --> 00:18:21.430 juice As with, if you've listened to any of my 00:18:21.430 --> 00:18:23.349 past episodes, I don't recommend drinking many 00:18:23.349 --> 00:18:27.170 fruit juices. If you go buy pomegranate juice 00:18:27.170 --> 00:18:29.630 at a supermarket, it's usually going to have 00:18:29.630 --> 00:18:31.130 some kind of sweeteners in it because it's a 00:18:31.130 --> 00:18:33.789 little tart by itself. But if you have a good 00:18:33.789 --> 00:18:36.829 farmer's market, which we do here locally in 00:18:36.829 --> 00:18:38.970 Southern California, go to farmer's market and 00:18:38.970 --> 00:18:42.900 get the fresh. unadulterated, just 100 % pomegranate 00:18:42.900 --> 00:18:45.059 juice, fresh squeezed from your local market. 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:47.200 That is the best. There's no better place to 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:49.240 get it because that's fresh squeezed juice and 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:51.619 it spoils in about a week. You got to drink it. 00:18:51.660 --> 00:18:53.759 I used to go get it every week at my local farmer's 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:55.940 market. I'm reminding myself that I should start 00:18:55.940 --> 00:18:59.190 doing that again. I prefer just to get the pomegranates, 00:18:59.190 --> 00:19:00.650 but it's hard to get them. They're not in season 00:19:00.650 --> 00:19:02.589 all year round, and sometimes it's hard to find 00:19:02.589 --> 00:19:04.950 them. It's a little work. We'll come back to 00:19:04.950 --> 00:19:07.789 that. But the juice is fine as long as it's 100 00:19:07.789 --> 00:19:09.990 % pomegranate juice and not mixed with a bunch 00:19:09.990 --> 00:19:12.569 of sweeteners or even apple juice, grape juice. 00:19:12.650 --> 00:19:14.529 They usually mix it with some really sweet fruit 00:19:14.529 --> 00:19:18.190 juice that is just too much sugar, too much sugar 00:19:18.190 --> 00:19:20.759 for most people. So the whole point. is to reduce 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:23.880 inflammation in your cardiovascular system, which 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:26.619 is caused by sugar consumption. So you want to 00:19:26.619 --> 00:19:28.539 just get the straight pomegranate juice or eat 00:19:28.539 --> 00:19:30.339 pomegranate fruit. I'm going to come back to 00:19:30.339 --> 00:19:33.619 how you can, it's kind of a pain to get the little 00:19:33.619 --> 00:19:35.799 juicy seeds out of the pomegranates. I'm going 00:19:35.799 --> 00:19:38.480 to come back to that. But let's continue with 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:41.400 why it's important. Why is it so important? What 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:43.519 makes pomegranates so powerful for lowering blood 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:46.779 pressure? Well, Dr. Carol Watson, MD, PhD and 00:19:46.779 --> 00:19:49.099 attending cardiologist and professor of medicine 00:19:49.099 --> 00:19:51.859 at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 00:19:51.859 --> 00:19:55.220 explains that pomegranates are rich in antioxidants, 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:57.720 which, among other things, minimize oxidation 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:01.819 of cholesterol because cholesterol, when oxidized, 00:20:01.819 --> 00:20:05.240 damages cells and triggers inflammation. And 00:20:05.240 --> 00:20:08.220 I'll just add that inflammation also oxidizes 00:20:08.220 --> 00:20:11.440 cholesterol. It's a circle. So this increases 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:14.319 the inflammation. And if you listen to previous 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:16.240 episodes of my show, you'll know that cholesterol 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:18.039 itself doesn't really cause heart disease. It's 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:19.920 inflammation that causes heart disease. But they 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:23.299 go hand in hand. It goes both directions. One 00:20:23.299 --> 00:20:26.119 can increase the other. So the antioxidants in 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:29.059 pomegranates help protect against this, especially... 00:20:30.199 --> 00:20:32.859 Anthocyanins, these are phytonutrients, nutrients 00:20:32.859 --> 00:20:35.140 from plants that create the beautiful color, 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:38.740 the rich red colors in pomegranates and other 00:20:38.740 --> 00:20:40.640 fruits. So these are natural chemicals that give 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:43.420 pomegranates their bright color and tangy taste. 00:20:43.700 --> 00:20:47.359 And in addition to reducing oxidation of cholesterol 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:50.480 and reducing inflammation, they also ramp up 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:53.200 your body's production of nitric oxide, a really 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:56.359 important molecule that helps relax your blood 00:20:56.359 --> 00:20:59.400 vessels. widen and relax, and this improves flow 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:01.940 that reduces the constant pressure and wear on 00:21:01.940 --> 00:21:04.380 artery walls, keeping them more elastic and less 00:21:04.380 --> 00:21:07.839 likely to get stiff and damaged over time. This 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:10.880 article also quotes cardiologist Asmin Chima 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:13.819 reminding everyone that leafy greens are an especially 00:21:13.819 --> 00:21:16.380 beneficial food to also eat regularly if you 00:21:16.380 --> 00:21:18.420 want to lower your blood pressure. Leafy greens 00:21:18.420 --> 00:21:20.839 like leafy green vegetables like spinach and 00:21:20.839 --> 00:21:24.859 kale are artery superheroes because they are 00:21:24.859 --> 00:21:27.539 high in dietary nitrates to convert into that 00:21:27.539 --> 00:21:30.440 nitric oxide to widen the arteries and relax 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:32.539 them that pomegranates also does. But they're 00:21:32.539 --> 00:21:36.000 also full of vitamin K and vitamin K is really 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:39.119 important for. among so many other things, guiding 00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:42.339 calcium into your bones where it belongs and 00:21:42.339 --> 00:21:45.039 away from the walls of your arteries, contributing 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:47.279 to plaque formation. So have you ever heard that 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:49.900 calcium supplements, have you ever heard this, 00:21:49.940 --> 00:21:52.440 that calcium supplements can increase your risk 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:55.519 of plaque in your arteries? Well, that was a 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:57.680 kind of a flawed and grossly misleading study 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:00.740 because like so many studies on calcium in the 00:22:00.740 --> 00:22:02.960 medical press, they only use, they only always 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:06.180 use calcium carbonate, the cheapest form of... 00:22:06.220 --> 00:22:08.759 ground up rocks and seashells calcium. And that 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:10.440 was the real reason that that increased the risk 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:13.380 of plaque. But it is also true, just basic physiology. 00:22:13.539 --> 00:22:15.940 If you've got, you want to keep calcium in circulation 00:22:15.940 --> 00:22:17.740 so you can keep your bones healthy and strong. 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:20.039 And because your muscles use a lot of it all 00:22:20.039 --> 00:22:22.019 day long, calcium has many, many functions in 00:22:22.019 --> 00:22:23.359 the body. So you always want to have adequate 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:26.299 amounts in circulation. And in circulation means 00:22:26.299 --> 00:22:28.099 it's going to be bouncing against the walls of 00:22:28.099 --> 00:22:30.619 your arteries all day long as well. And if you 00:22:30.619 --> 00:22:33.559 have a lot of incipient plaques, new little scar 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:35.759 tissue plaques forming from inflammation, and 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:37.680 stress and all the things that damage and start 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:40.500 the plaque formation process, then those plaques 00:22:40.500 --> 00:22:42.819 are formed initially by stress and inflammation, 00:22:42.859 --> 00:22:47.420 and then they grow. The constituents that make 00:22:47.420 --> 00:22:51.200 them grow are cholesterol, calcium, and fibrin, 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:53.640 which is the scar tissue -like connective tissue 00:22:53.640 --> 00:22:57.759 that forms the scaffolding of plaques and clots 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:01.480 that the cholesterol and calcium become embedded 00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:04.339 in and grow. So it only makes sense to have adequate 00:23:04.339 --> 00:23:07.740 vitamin K at all times as well, which most people 00:23:07.740 --> 00:23:11.019 do not. Most people do not get enough vitamin 00:23:11.019 --> 00:23:14.259 K in those two forms, K1 and K2. That could be 00:23:14.259 --> 00:23:17.200 a whole other talk. You need to get both forms 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:21.440 to keep calcium available for your bones and 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:24.799 away from the walls of your arteries. to prevent 00:23:24.799 --> 00:23:27.519 them from becoming hard and calcified. So green 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:30.819 leafy vegetables do this for you. So we're just 00:23:30.819 --> 00:23:33.809 about out of time here. I promised I would mention 00:23:33.809 --> 00:23:38.750 an easy way to get the juicy seeds from a pomegranate. 00:23:38.769 --> 00:23:41.109 So there's great videos on this. Just Google 00:23:41.109 --> 00:23:44.450 how to easily, quickly remove the seeds from 00:23:44.450 --> 00:23:46.029 a pomegranate. But basically, as you cut a little 00:23:46.029 --> 00:23:48.490 circle near the top, cut that off and then cut 00:23:48.490 --> 00:23:50.769 several slices down the sides around the edge, 00:23:50.829 --> 00:23:53.069 kind of like you might slice an apple along the 00:23:53.069 --> 00:23:55.589 veins of where they all come together. And then 00:23:55.589 --> 00:23:57.730 you can break those things apart and then take 00:23:57.730 --> 00:23:59.789 each one of those pieces, put them over a bowl 00:23:59.789 --> 00:24:02.589 and whack them with a wooden spoon. And it just 00:24:02.589 --> 00:24:05.089 knocks all the stuff that you want out, all the 00:24:05.089 --> 00:24:07.930 little red seeds out into a bowl. And if there's 00:24:07.930 --> 00:24:09.869 some pulp still in there in the bowl with the 00:24:09.869 --> 00:24:11.730 seeds, you can fill that with water and the pulp 00:24:11.730 --> 00:24:13.490 floats to the top. You can scoop it off and then 00:24:13.490 --> 00:24:15.430 you've got the stuff that you want, the super 00:24:15.430 --> 00:24:18.630 nutritious, antioxidant -rich juice. We are out 00:24:18.630 --> 00:24:20.549 of time as always. Thank you for tuning in. I 00:24:20.549 --> 00:24:22.809 look forward to speaking with you here next Friday 00:24:22.809 --> 00:24:26.369 at 2 p .m. 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