Episode 124: Bladder

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Speaker 1 (01:42):
So, Doc Rick, we've made it into February in this
new year, and as we continue to focus on the
water element, which is kind of the second organ that
is related to the water element is the bladder, the
urinary bladder. So can you tell us a little bit
about what the bladder's role is.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well, the bladder obviously is the storage container for your
urine between trips to the bathroom, and it acts as
a counterbalance to the kidneys, which we covered last month
in the month of January.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
So how does that work in conjunction with the kidneys.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
As the bladder is linked to the kidneys, it can
be used to support the kidneys in treating fear. When
the bladder itself is out of balance, there may be
negative emotions such as jealousy, suspicion, the inability to let
go of grudges, et cetera. So ultimately that lines up
with fear, fear of somebody spending time with somebody else

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and not including you, you know, just an inability to
to let go of grudges because you are holding on
to these kinds of things from your past instead of
allowing things to move forward. And so that ultimately the
relationship between the kidney and the bladder. The kidney is

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the main processor of all that, and the bladder is
the one that helps you let go of all of them.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Well, it's interesting, I mean, because you know, I would
think that the bladder is really more of a receptacle
than anything else, but you've just brought a lot of
different kinds of emotional qualities to it.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, So the bladder is a receptacle as far as
that goes. It supports the kidneys deal with the consequences
of the emotions of things like fear, paralyzed will, feeling
a sense of wishy washiness not really grounded, a sense
of dread or a sense of impending doom, like something
bad is going to happen. These are all the emotions

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that impact how the kidney bladder system functions, and those emotions,
primarily with the paralyzed will, etc. Are bladder emotions.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Interesting. Interesting? How much urine can to bladder? Actually old?

Speaker 2 (03:57):
How can it hold well? They say in the literature
that it holds one and a half to two cups.
But I can tell you I personally have experienced more
than half a gallon when drinking, lots of water come.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Out of my bladder.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
You know, you're standing in front of the toilet for
better part of a minute and a half with a
steady stream coming out. That's more than a cup and
a half to two cups.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well, I would say so. I mean, so one of
the things that happens with your bladder is you have
that urge to go. And is that a problem if
you ignore that? Is that why you end up with
you know that much you're in in your bladder?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, Like, I'm the kind of person that like when
I get in the car and I drive from my
home and pooler up to my office in Newburgh, New York.
For me, that's a fourteen hour, thirteen and a half
fourteen hour car ride. And for me, I'm the kind
of person that just wants to get it done, so
I don't stop until I have to get gas. So

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I will hold my urine for as much as six
or seven hours before I need to go get gas.
Whereas my wife when she drives to visit her parents,
who also happen to live in New York, she'll do
it over two days, so she'll do a seven hour
stint where she stops plenty of different times to use

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the bathroom, to get something to eat, to get gas,
to do all of those kinds of things, and so
she spreads it out over two days. I'm the kind
of person I just want to get things done, so
I'm going to sit and hold whatever I need to
sit and hold on too until it's an appropriate time
to release. And for me, it is my two stops
of filling my tank up with gas.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
That's interesting. I mean, I know that one of the
things that we've talked about is how much water you
should drink, and you need to drink that much water
because your kidneys are filtering out your blood, the liquid
elements out of your blood, and then when they store
in the bladder, do they need to be I guess

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in a very dilute form or does it get more
concentrated by sitting there.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, it all depends.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
I mean, at the end of the day, if the
kidney is a filter, it's one of your primary filters.
It's actually questionably the most important filter because, as we
learned last month, if your kidneys fail, then the person
isn't going to be here all that long. So your
kidneys are a filter, and what they filter leaves the kidneys,

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goes down the urriters and into the bladder.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
And in the bladder it.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Is a collection, as we talked about, and depending upon
what's getting through the kidneys and coming into the bladder,
there could be trace amounts of things that shouldn't get
through the kidneys that ultimately end up accumul landing within
the bladder and that can create bladder issues. That could

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create inflammation of the middle wall of the bladder itself.
It could interfere with the nerve endings that could either
cause you to have an overactive bladder or an even
an underactive bladder where you don't get any sense that
it's time to use the toilet or what have you.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
And so there's a.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Lot that goes on, which I'm sure we're going to
get into as the show progresses, But what we want
to understand is that the bladder does hold liquids, and
hopefully when it's convenient for us with having a certain
amount of control of our bladder, then we can avoid

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that bladder on our own terms, as opposed to there's
a whole bunch of senior citizens that have to get
up several times throughout the night because their bladder just
won't hold the fluid, so they got to get up
to urinate several times.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
I mean, isn't it's such an interesting term, you void
your bladder?

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, that's an interesting term. You know, what's the derivative derivation? Avoiding?
I personally think that there are words that we use
in our society that are there just to make you
sound smart, you know, to avoid your bladder. Why wouldn't

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you just say empty?

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah? I mean I think it's not just void, but avoid.
If you want to avoid something, you don't get away from.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
It, right, So it's ultimately to sound important and educated.
Empty the bladder is easy and communicate versus using the
term void, which means to empty.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
So it's just you.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Know, yeah. So does the bladder ever actually do any
of the filtering itself or is it just for storing.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's primarily for storing there there isn't a lot of
I mean, the bladder can reabsorb if your body is
in desperate need of liquid. Okay, your body is going
to reabsorb fluids through the bladder back into the circulation
system to put it back into the system if you're
really really desperate for water. And then what you'll see

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ends up happening is is whatever urine does come out,
it's really really dark and concentrated because it's retaining the
fluid aspect of it, but it's getting rid of the
things that are not It's getting rid of the solids,
the trace solids as opposed to the liquid itself.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Okay, So is there a prescribed amount that you should
use the toilet or is that just simply whatever your
personal needs are.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, it's what your personal needs are. But in a
healthy body, it's every few hours or like what you
just said, as the need arises, and that is also
tied to your fluid intake. If you're not drinking fluids regularly,
then you're not processing those fluids and then you won't
have much in your bladder in which to empty.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
So don't some different liquids actually cause you to urinate more?
Like what is the term for that? There's a term
that there's used for liquids that actually cause you to
urinate more.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Well, Uh, that's interesting, I'm having a brain fog right now.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
In terms of.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Diuretics, the diuretic, Yeah, the diuretic approach.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Right, So so there are people who are put on
diuretics as part of their blood pressure treatment because they're
trying to eliminate the fluid that causes high blood pressure
in an effort to help stabilize a person's blood pressure
and also helps to take the pressure off the kidneys,
which is your most important organ. And so what you
just mentioned salt sodium helps the body retain fluid. But

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there's a mechanism within your body body that it works
through your adrenal glands adrenal meanings sitting on top of
the kidneys, they secrete a hormone called aldosterone, which causes
one when they're stressed to conserve sodium, which causes them
to conserve fluid, which allows their body to be functioning

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more efficiently because the fluid can circulate easier and in abundance.
But when the stress has passed, then the adrenals will
send a signal and it's known as aldosterone escape, which
causes the body to dump the excess fluid and the
excess sodium.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
I mean, you'll see somebody that gets so frightened that
they pee themselves.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, that's what typically happens with little kids, or when
people get excited as senior citizens and they get bladder
leakages and so yeah, that's essentially being so excited or
being so fearful or what have you that the stress
of the cay bladder system doesn't hold on to the
fluid the way that it's supposed to, and then the

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person may need to start investing and depends under garments.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
So what if it's leaking. But what happens if you
can't fully empty your bladder? What's going on there?

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Well, that's a completely different circumstance where you could have
a spasm in your lower bladder sphincter which doesn't allow
the opening of the bladder itself.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
To allow the liquid out.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
In men, you can get a problem with your prostate,
which sits right at the base of the bladder, and
the urethra of the bladder that empties out into the
toilet passes straight through the center of the prostate, and
so when you get prostate inflammation, that can actually choke
off the opening and the uratter to allow urine to escape,

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which will cause you're into back up. So an inflamed
or an enlarged prostate may influence a person's ability to
urinate in a timely fashion and urinate and completely empty
the bladder fully.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
That sounds like it could be a painful process.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Well, it could be a painful process, and that's why
we're talking about it because we want the listener to
be aware of the fact that we're discussing the bladder today,
and if they have bladder issues, then I want them
to understand the anatomy, et cetera of how the bladder's
supposed to function, and if it's not functioning according to
what is considered normal and healthy, then I want you

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to actually consider calling me so that I can help
you with your bladder issues and not put you on
prescription medications for the rest of your life.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Well, that would be a good outcome if you could
do that. I mean, you mentioned the sphincter, So are
there other muscles that control the bladder.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
There are three main ones that control the bladder. There's
the detrucer muscle that surrounds the bladder to help squeeze
out urine. There's the bladder sphincters, which are two valves,
one at the neck of the bladder and one at
the urethra. And finally we have the pelvic floor or
that supports the bladder itself, the large intestine and the
uterus in women.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Now that's the sort of the anatomical physiological effect. What
about the energetic component of the bladder and what effect
that has on you.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, the energetic function of the bladder is it's the
counterbalance to the kidneys and maintaining the vital chi within
the body. We talked last month with the kidneys, we
talked about the vital chi, or the energy that you're
born with that helps to sustain you through life. And
so you want to maintain the proper balance and maintenance

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within your vital chi in an effort to sustain you
throughout the life. So the energetic function is trying to
help you to understand are you depleting your energy through
things like indiscriminate sex. Are you retaining the energy by
living in a balanced way where you don't have a

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lot of fear, you don't have a lot of paralyzed will,
you don't have a lot of of impending doom. Because
those are the emotional reasons that stress the kidney bladder out.
And so we want to maintain a highly functioning pair
of kidneys.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
We want to maintain a highly functioning.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Bladder, and you want to make sure that they have
the nutrition that they need to constantly replenish and maintain
and rebuild themselves. And if not, you're going to ultimately
end up being somewhere between sixty and eighty percent of
people in the United States develop chronic kidney disease.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
What percentage did you say?

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Somewhere between sixty and eighty percent?

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Wow? And is that what leads somebody to have to
need dialysis?

Speaker 3 (15:46):
That would be correct.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
And the sad part is is the fact that they
understand that statistically, but they're not doing anything to change
the outcome in society because they're more motivated by the
money and having a whole bunch of people that need
their services instead of teaching people how to not end
up having end stage kidney disease.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Well, yeah, so when the kidneys start to fail, is
that like they shut off completely or is that a
gradual process.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
It is a gradual process, and if you get in
front of it, then it doesn't have to become some big, long,
chronic problem to where you ultimately end up needing dialysis
and develop kidney failure.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Now, I know you said that, you know, emptying your
bladder and holding onto your bladder, those seem to be
things that might be attached to some of these emotions
you were talking about, like paralyzed will. Like if you're
clutching onto something and you can't move and you can't
use the toilet.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Right, you can't do things the way that you want
to do them. That's the definition of paralyzed will. But
then there's the other emotions of feeling miffed. There's the
emotion of being timid or shy. There's the emotion of contemplation,
meaning that you're ruminating on something and you're thinking about it,
but you're not actually moving things forward. That's also aligned

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with the other bladder, which is the gallbladder feeling inefficient
or taking an approach of meaning like whatever or what
their French call comes see comsa meaning what will be
will be kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yep. So I mean, with these with bladder problems that
you might end up having, how come they manifest for
so many people? I mean it seems like you see
the advertisements for the depends and things like that, it
does seem to be pretty much a pretty common problem
for a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Well, it is a pretty common problem. And what we
need to appreciate is that's done primarily from a marketing standpoint.
They want to create an awareness within society to where
if they have any kind of those symptoms that they'll
come in and get evaluated. And that's a good thing,
but at the end of the day, what they're offering
is just going to be more treatment and more medical

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intervention instead of actually teaching people what they need to
do to never have the problem to begin with. And
it all starts with our food and as they continue
to refine and modified and bastardized and genetically modify our foods,
we're going to continue to develop these kinds of health
issues and it's not normal to have any of them,

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but it's becoming quite common for everybody to have them,
which is why you're so aware of the number of
commercials that they have for these kind of conditions. The
end of the day, they have a product that they
want to sell, so in order to sell that, they
have to advertise to the population do you have these things?
And I remember from way back when I was about
five years old, walked into the kitchen of our house

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because my mom always listened to the news radio, and
there was a commercial it said, are you waking with
the normal morning headache? What part of that sentence sounds
any where's remotely rational. It's not normal to wake up
with a headache, but they're saying that are you waking

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with the normal morning headache? And if you are, then
you need bear aspirin. So the positioning of the question
was to peak your curiosity in an effort to make
you aware of their brand, and if you are having headaches,
then you want to take their stuff. So it's all
marketing in an effort to shape your mind into believing

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that you have an issue. So if they keep advertising
a certain health condition, the people out there that could
potentially have that condition. Maybe not, but could. They're going
to go in and they're going to start asking their doctor,
and that just opens the door to more income and
more patience.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Well, we all have to have a little bit more
of this conversation after we take a short commercial break,
because I want to talk to you more about some
of the issues people are facing with their bladders. But
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Speaker 1 (20:42):
Well, as we go along on this conversation about bladder health,
I wonder what are the most common bladder issues that
people are facing.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Problems in the bladder. Ultimately, is up to the individual. Ideally,
they stem from many different bounces within the body that
because of chronic emotional holding, will lead to weakness within
the bladder.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
So if you have.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Issues with some of those emotions, the paralyzed will, the myth,
the timid, the shy, the contemplation, the inefficiency, the can
seek then saw, the fear, the dread, the bad memory,
all of those kinds of emotions. If you lead lead
a life that is filled with that, then you have
energetically created pressure in your bladder. And if you don't

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have the proper nutrition, you're going to have issues with
repairing and restoring and maintaining your bladder. And so your
bladder over time is going to slowly weaken and then
eventually it's going to spring a.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Leak, so to speak.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
So it's all health issues, and we say this every
single show. All health issues mark are nutritional deficiencies and
as what they've done to our food and the types
of foods that we eat, and they've been stripped of
all of their vital nutrients in an effort to give
them a shelf life so that they look good and

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they smell good and they even taste good. Because of
all the additives and the preservatives that they've put in
the food to make it look beautiful for I don't
know years when in nature, if the second it falls
off the vine, it starts to degenerate. You know, as
long as we're changing what our food is, we're always

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going to develop nutritional deficiencies. And depending upon where and
how you store your stress, that ultimately influences developing weakness
within that part of your body because you don't necessarily
have the right ingredients to maintain it.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
You know what I find so curious about even though
you're saying that all health conditions are related to what
we're having in terms of the food that we're eating,
and yet we're you begin that response was looking at
the emotions that set you up for particular problems, So
where the problems manifest in your body, which is very

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different than what's going on in the medical community, where
they just simply look at physical symptoms.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
And present they look at the outcome of the problem.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, and you're talking about, well, if you have these emotions,
that's going to tend to lead you towards problems in
this area of your body. Can you talk a little
bit more about that relationship and why you approach it
from that perspective more than you do from what the
symptoms are. Right.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Well, at the end of the day, we need to
understand that we are tryune beings. We are a spirit
who occupies a physical body and has mental emotional reactions
and responses due to how we interact with our environment.
So we're triune beings where a body, we're a mind,
and we're a spirit. And how we go about processing

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our interactions with our environment. If we process them in
a balanced, harmonious way, no problems. You just keep going
and as long as you have fuel in the car,
the car will keep driving. Once you start to run
out of fuel, the car is going to sputter and
eventually not work the way that it's supposed to. Well,
your body's the exact same way, based upon the stress

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that you have and your body to have enough resources
in which to manage that stress. If you don't have
enough of the right resources, your body's now going to
have to compensate and it's eventually going to develop problems
as a result of running out of the fuel that
it needs.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
But this is about where that those problems land. So
you mean you could have the same person or or
you know two people who have the same diet, the
same everything, but they're manifest their problems differently.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Right, And it has to do with how we process
the input that we experience from life. And so we
have five main senses. We have visual, we have auditory,
we have smell.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
We have taste, and we have touched.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
And those five main senses is what offers feedback to
us based upon the external world and how we compare
to it and process it internally. And the thing of
it is is that all health issues are an inside job.
What goes on inside your body determines whether you're healthy
or whether you're not healthy. And what influences your body's

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ability based upon what's going on inside is you can
be influenced by the emotions associated with the particular organ
or gland. In today's episode, we're talking about the bladder itself,
and so the emotions of the bladder. If you live
under chronic stress of I don't know, not being able

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to do the things that you want to do because
you have a boss both at home and at work
that you understands who you are as a person, so
they control you because you're good at what you do,
whether it's at home or whether it's at work, and
so you're always under the pressure of trying to meet
the needs of somebody that has control over you, and

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so you're constantly not being able to do the things
that you want to do. That translates emotionally as paralyzed will.
And so if your will is paralyzed to do the
things that you want to do, that energetically will create
stress in the bladder. And then if you don't have
enough of the proper nutrition in lit in your diet
and in your life, then over time, the stress and

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pressure that you store in that organ emotionally is going
to start to affect how it functions physically.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
So that would be why you would be able to
look at somebody's health much earlier than when somebody develops
a full blown symptom.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Right to have a full blown symptom, you have to
lose greater than sixty percent of normal functioning. With the
tools that I use in my office, the main tool
being manual muscle testing, I can pick up a three
percent deficiency as opposed to a sixty percent deficiency, So

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I can find things that there are some times where
I'll find an imbalance, and i'll and i'll I've learned
over the years to just keep exploiting that weakness until
the patient says, what's that weakness that I have? Why
is every time you touch here, if my arm goes weak,
and then you put something in my hand and I
touch the same area and now it's strong. Why is

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there a difference?

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Well?

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Good, Now they're reaching. Now they're trying to understand. And
then I have an open audience who wants to learn
what their body seems to be indicating, and then we'll
educate them on what's going on and why it's going on,
and more importantly, what we have to do to remedy it.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
So that's a great for my next question as an
alternative healthcare practitioner, what do you do to somebody who
presents with a weakened bladder?

Speaker 2 (28:16):
We're going to find what are the nutrition that's missing
out of the body that ultimately has led to the
bladder weakness. What are we going to have to do
in order to feed the body so that the bladder
weakness can recover it no longer be weak.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
I mean, it's so interesting. You would feed, You would
give nourishment that allows the body to self correct rather
than give it a medication that's going to actually suppress
whatever the problem.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Is, right, And I understand that perspective, But why is
that fascinating?

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Well, it's fascinating that you are able to approach it
prior to that level of ill health.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
Right.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
And if you think about it, if you're one of
the people that believes in the Bible, and I believe
in the Bible, but if you're one of the people
that believe in the Bible, you know, we understand that
God has provided everything that we need in order to
maintain our function and our health through the food that
we eat. But man has become money motivated. And so

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if I'm going through all the trouble to find the food,
to cultivate the food, to process the food, to package
the food, to shift the food, to make it convenient
for you so that you can just simply roll out
of bed and grab whatever kind of food that you want. Okay,

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what ends up happening is is people start to lose
sight of and companies start to try to figure out
how they can monopolize and monetize and create the greatest
amount of profit for themselves to create their own freedoms
to do the things that they want to do. And
so what we've seen in the food industry is the

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fact that through the growing and refining and shipping process
that a certain amount of nutrition is lost in that process.
And so then what we're getting when we go to
the store, even if it looks beautiful, may not actually
be full of nutrition. And then if we come to
eat that on a regular basis because of the imbalances

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that we have and the cravings that develop, then we're
feeding our imbalances and our cravings instead of feeding our health.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
So what kind of specific dietary changes do you suggest
for somebody that has a bladder.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Issue, Well, I would ask for people who have problems
with the bladder itself. We have three very specific bladder
health supports supplements, one to feed the bladder, one to
repair the bladder, and one to detoxify the bladder. And
after being on those for a period of time, bladder

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health typically returns. And then it just becomes a question
of Okay, if you have a propensity towards a weakness there,
what are you going to have to do to maintain that?
In terms of how you internalize your stress, if you
store your stress through that particular circuit, in this case
the bladder, then you're always going to have a tendency
to have bladder issues. So if we support and feed

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your bladder regularly, and we detoxify it, and we maintain it,
and we give it the nutrition that it needs to
repair it, then your bladder should never be an issue
for you ever again going forward.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
But we also want to.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Help you understand how to look at your world so
that you're not feeling a sense of paralyzed will, You're
not feeling a sense of dread, you're not feeling a
sense of impending doom, all of those emotions that are
the stress components of what causes the bladder to develop
weakness over time.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Anyway, So are there other daily habits besides using those
kind of supplements to get your bladder back into health.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Well, regular water intake, using the bathroom regularly, and support
the emotional reality of the person not to feel stuck
or paralyzed in any way, shape or form.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Are there are there common foods that might be irritants
for the bladder that you might want to.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Avoid, anything with sugar or added artificial sweeteners, antibiotics, prescription
or over the counter medications. I mean, there's there's many things.
There's chemtrails, there's the pollutants that are in our environment.
You know, there's the additives and the preservatives that are

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put into our food. There's things like plastics. There's the
forever chemical the BPA, besphenol A and other forever chemicals
that as processed through the body. Ultimately, it's either going
to come out through the large intestine by defecating, or
it's going to come out through your bladder through urinating
or through your skin through sweating.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
But your body's going to continue to excrete.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
And it's just a question of supporting the body so
that it can do that in a way that isn't
going to lead to a health problem.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Now, what about things like alcohol and caffeine for coffee drinkers,
do those have a negative effect on the bladder?

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Alcohol will disrupt the microbiome of the bladder and the
whole urinary system. Caffeine will simply be an irritant to
the whole system. And so if you can avoid alcohol
and if you can avoid caffeine, then you'll be stopping
the destruction of the microbiome and you'll be stopping the
irritation to the system.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
So, in terms of overactive bladder, which I guess is
one of the common problems that people have, do you
just treat that the same way that you were saying
that you would use the same supplements or are there
other things that you might approach.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Well, I always look at a person holistically, but supporting
the bladder to function normally, make sure that we feed
it to strengthen it and make sure that it has
what it needs in order to maintain that function would
be important, and we will have to deal with the
underlying emotions that cause the overactivity to begin with.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
So now, some people I think have had a history
of frequent urinary tract infections and those are often treated
with antibiotics because they are bacterial infections. What do you
recommend for somebody that suffers from that sort of.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Well, we use a whole food supplement that acts as
a natural antibiotic without all the disruptive effects that remove
and eliminate the bacterial problem. Yeah, the medical perspective is
to use an antibiotic without any concern for the consequences
that is left as a res result of destroying the
good microbes that are there. Because antibiotics don't discriminate. Antibiotics

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just destroy all the bacteria, the good, the bad, and
the ugly. And so what we want to appreciate is
the methodologies that we use with the whole food nutritional concentrates.
They help to get rid of the infection without disrupting
the microbiome associated with that part of the body.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Are there ways that you can help somebody identify what
might trigger a bladder problem that might set one off.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
You want to pay attention to any symptoms or issues
that happen and begin to relate behavior and choices with
the results, so that you can modify your behavior and
change your results.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Okay, well, this has been a good portion of our conversation,
Doc Rick. We need to take another short commercial break
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Speaker 1 (36:48):
And we're back and we were talking about bladderhealth, Doc,
and you know, you talk about different ways that you
can approach treating somebody with the bladder bob, And I'm wondering,
are there any risks that would be associated with the
kind of alternative treatments that you're discussing?

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Any risks? None that I've seen of over the last
thirty seven years of helping people. There are no risks
of what I do because what I do is based
in supporting the body to do its.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Job the way that it's supposed to.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
When you add a toxic chemical known to have harmful
side effects, also known as medication, that's when you're dealing
with risks of creating a negative outcome in my office,
we don't create negative outcomes because we work with how
the body functions and we do what the body is
asking for. And when you give the body what it's

(37:43):
asking for, the body runs very well for a very
very long time.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
And giving it.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
What it's asking for could be food, it could be herbs,
it could be you know, what we need to do
to address analogy, what we need to to address an
emotional imbalance, what we need to address a person's physiology.
So it's it just as a question of what are
the components that go into a person's problem. And if
we're talking bladder, we're always going to look at the

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emotions associated with it because it is the chronic based
emotional imbalances that ultimately lead to stressing the bladder out,
which over time is going to cause bladder weakness.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
So if you're working with somebody, I mean, I think
a lot of people that might come and see you
are not seeing you before the problems developed. They're seeing
you after a problem has already manifested itself. So is
there a journey that a patient has to take to
come back from having a problem to being back into

(38:47):
restoring their health.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Well, yeah, every health issue in order for a person
to have a symptom, they've lost greater than sixty percent
of normal function in the aspects of the body that
is producing the symptom. Obviously, you don't go from functioning
at less than forty percent to being one hundred percent
by like turning on a light switch. That's just not

(39:10):
how the body functions. The body has to heal. That's
going to take time. You need to invest in the time.
If you are somebody that has had chronic symptoms, then
you've had a problem for a long time to where
the functioning is significantly less than forty percent of what
it should be. I don't want that for you. I'm

(39:31):
pretty sure that you don't want that for you. So
your job is to take responsibility for your condition, get
a proper counseling by finding the right practitioner who I'm
doing this radio show in an effort to help people
understand how to help themselves. And if you employ me

(39:52):
and hire me to help you get over whatever condition
it is that you have, you're not just going to
get treatment. You're going to get an education, and you're
going to be given back the ownership of your body.
And then you decide if you want to improve it
and maintain it and never have.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
The issue again.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
I have a patient right now whose mom used to
be a patient of mine. She's over one hundred and
one years old. I got sent a picture of her
by her son on her one hundred and first birthday,
where she's sitting in the home that she's in and
she's blowing out the birthday candle and her son is

(40:31):
a static over the fact that his mom's one hundred
and one. You could be one hundred and one and
have no function at all, or you could have died
significantly earlier than that, or you could be somebody that's
fully functional and still engaged in life at.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
One hundred and one.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
And that's how I would choose to live my life
and what I'm looking for as a result of all
my efforts. And I think the average person wants to
live as long as they can as long as they're healthy.
So you should focus on being healthy and then let
the longevity take care of itself. But you shouldn't be
constantly battling with health issues because of your lack of

(41:12):
understanding of why you keep having these health imbalances. Medicine
is never going to do anything to fix your problem
because that undermines their ability to stay in business. We
talked earlier that the roughly sixty eighty percent people who
are going to experience chronic kidney disease over the course
of their lifetime. Well, that's a wonderful statistic. That sounds important.

(41:37):
But the next question begs, naturally, is okay, so what
are we doing to change that statistic, because that's retarded
that that many people are going to suffer that life
altering chronic disease that ultimately causes people their lives.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
When you have a chronic disease, is that time you
would need to get medical intervention that would go beyond
the scope of what you're able to deal with.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Well, that all depends. It depends on what your willingness
is to try to address the cause. You know, we've
talked about in the past former patient than I had
who ultimately died of complications of his condition. He had
advanced stage four pancreatic cancer that's at most to thirty

(42:28):
second life expectancy, I'm sorry, thirty day life expectancy. I
helped him live seven and a half months, and he
died of complications of a surgery that was unrelated to
his pancreatic cancer. And so when I sent him back
to his oncologist, and I've mentioned this before, as oncologist

(42:49):
was absolutely static to see him because when he referred
him to me, he didn't think he was ever coming back.
He sent him to me because there was nothing more
that he could do to help my patient. Well, if
there's an off chance that this guy who does these
natural things can make a difference, then there's nothing more
I can do, So let's give it a shot. And

(43:11):
in reality, he should have been in my office before
he did all the medical intervention. But that's not the
way that we look at our healthcare system.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
We unfortunately, we don't.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Do things to prevent problems. We deal with things when
they're a crisis, and that we need to change that.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
It's a different perspective that you're bringing now. I mean,
it's being of different perspectives. Are there differences between the
way a woman or a man might have a bladder issue?

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Yeah, because there's a lot of differences between the plumbing
that goes on in a woman's body versus the way
that it goes on in men's body. Men's body is
very straightforward. You have your two kidneys that have two
eurotors that empty into the one common bladder, and then
from the one common bladder you have a urethro that
empties urine out into the toilet. In women, because of

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the dynamics of of being a female who reproduces, okay,
you have a uterus that sits right behind the bladder,
that sits right in front of the large intestine. So
when a woman has a uterine occupant known as a
baby that's growing inside the uterus, the uterus is going

(44:21):
to grow forward, and what that's going to do is
that's going to put pressure on the bladder, which is
why women have to empty their bladder more frequently, especially
when they have a pregnancy, because the bladder is reduced
significantly in size, So they're going to get an urge
significantly more frequently and they're going to have to use
the toilet more often.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
So does that be turned back to normal after the pregnancy.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Is over, hopefully, And again that depends on their nutritional status.
If they have nutritional deficiencies, then they just went through
a pregnancy and put a lot of pressure on the
bladder and their resources to help maintain normal pregnancy and
maintain normal bodily function. If all those resources get depleted
in the process of growing a child, then when the

(45:05):
child is out and you look at your shelves to
see what kind of stock you have left on your
shelves and what kind of inventory you have, you may
find that you don't have any inventory. And then at
that point then the people don't bounce back the way
that nature would intend them. Why, because they're dealing with
the deficiencies of the nutrition.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Well, a lot of times with birth childbirth, there are
c sections where there's some issue that can't be done
as a vaginal delivery. What effect does that have on
bladder health going forward?

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Well, going in and having to cut into the uterus
in order to extract the baby, and the uterus and
the bladder having they share a ligament that helps to
keep them properly supported and in the right position within
the pelvis. Sometimes that that ligament itself can become problematic

(46:02):
and that ultimately causes a bladder weakness or a bladder sagging.
Any woman who's had a hysterectomy, that ligament.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Has been compromised. So as a reward for having.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
A hysterectomy, you don't have to worry about getting pregnant,
but you're going to want to sit close to where
a bathroom is because you're going to develop bladder weakness
because now the ligaments that's supposed to support the bladder
don't support the bladder the way that you're supposed tom.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Now, one of the things that we have looked at
in terms of other bladder issues that people have, one
of the ones that seems to be common as yeast infections,
are those a bladder condition.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
No, yeast conditions are primarily a intestinal issue because inside
your large intestine are yeast, candidia and good bacteria. And
when you get a deficiency in the bacteria due to
things called digestive system disruptors, which we'll have to do
a show on that. Maybe we can do a show
on that next week. When you've disrupted the balance between

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the good bacteria, the good yeast, and the good candidia,
then you're going to start to get a YaST overgrowth
and you'll get yeast infections. And so you can get
a yeast infection in the birth canal or a vaginal
yeast infection.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
You can get a.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Yeast infection in your mouth, which is called oral thrush
or you can get an overgrowth of yeast and candidia
in your bowel system, which affects your immune system and
your body's ability to get value out of food, ultimately
leading to deficiency issues.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Another one that I've heard about is lamytia. What is clamydia.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
That's a bacterial imbalance. It's a sexually transmitted disease. It's
something that people don't want to have. But if you
do have it, the typical treatment for that is antibiotics,
and you need to make sure that you follow up
that treatment with a pro probiotic. But even more important
than that, you need to follow up with understanding why

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was your immune system so weak that it allowed a
pathogen that doesn't belong not only to get into the system,
which is possible, but not have the resources in which
to remedy it to the point where it now mass
produced and developed an infection.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
What is interstitial cystiitis.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
That's inflammation of the middle layer of the muscle wall
of the bladder. And so when the bladder expands, the
muscles involve. When the bladder contracts, the muscles definitely involved.
And when you get inflammation within that middle muscle layer,
then the person with interstitial sostiitis. Typically women, they have

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pain in that area just by existing because as the
bladder is filling with fluid or even emptying with fluid,
you're stretching or contracting that middle layer and that's the
area that's in flame. So any active activity associated with
that muscle is going to be painful for the person
who has that issue.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
And that sounds like is that something you have to
treat with an antibiotic.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
That's one of the ways that they attempt to go
after it. But my thought is, you don't need an antibiotic,
you need an anti inflammatory. You need to put the
nutrition in there for the bladder itself, and we've got
some whole food quality nutrition for repairing and restoring balance
to the bladder, but you also want to put an
anti inflammatory in there to stop the inflammation.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
Now, bladder cancer is something that I don't hear about,
is one of the more common cancers, But there is
a bladder cancer.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
There is a bladder cancer.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Is that caused by the same nutritional deficiencies that we
were talking about for all these other aspects.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Well, in a manner of speaking, that's absolutely true, because
if you have all the necessary ingredients to maintain high
integrist body functioning, then you don't develop disease. All disease
is a result of a nutritional deficiency. And so combine
the nutritional deficiency the weakness with a particular imbalance that

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I've seen associated with every type of cancer. If it
happens to focus in the bladder itself, okay, then we
need to address the underlying relationships that cause cancer to develop,
and then you have an opportunity to heal the bladder
of cancer and to help the person restore their health.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
Is cancer from the perspective that you look at it,
that all cancers have that commonality to them, but then
where they've targeted their effect is what really differentiates.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
That's one hundred percent correct.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
I have seen the exact same cause to every type
of cancer that's.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
Come into my office. And you name a can answer.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
I have seen it, I have treated it, I have
helped it. And every last type of cancer, regardless of
the name that's associated with the cancer comes with.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
This underlying imbalance.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
And when you address that underlying imbalance, then the cancer
seems to magically improve. And that's even for advanced stage
pancreatic cancer.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Well that's really interesting. Well, we're almost out of time
for today's show, but before we go, I'm sure that
this has piqued the interest of some of our listeners
out there who might be thinking about maybe I should
give Docric a call and find out more about what
my health condition is and whether I can get the
help that I'm looking for from him. What are the
best ways to reach out to you?

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Well, I would just appeal to the listener to say,
if you have any health issues that you're tired of
having and you would really like to get back on
the road to health, then yes, you do need to
reach out to me and I will help you restore
your health. And the best way to do that would
be to call my cell phone directly at area code
eight four five five six one two two two five

(52:04):
again eight four five five six one two two two
five That is my cell phone. If you leave a
message with your phone number, I will call you back.

Speaker 4 (52:16):
UH.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
For those of you who don't like to leave messages,
you can text me.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
UH.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
I don't always check my texts every day, so it
may take a couple of days before I get back
to you, just because that's just not how I live
my life. If you want to text me. I would
ask for you to text me via email and send
me an email to Doc Rick d oc Ri c
K at spineboy dot com.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
I check my email probably every twenty minutes and so,
and I'm seeing what emails are coming in and so.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
You know, maybe it'll take me an hour to get
back to you, but typically I'll be aware of the
fact that you're emailing me, but it may take several
days before I even noticed that you texted me. But
you can call me, you can email me, you can
text me, or you can stop into my office and
ask me some questions. Our office address is one thirty
eight Canal Street, that's in Pooler Park. That is in Pooler,

(53:13):
Georgia three one three two two. It would be my
pleasure to have a conversation with you, to shake your
hand and introduce myself and help you with your health.
So I want to thank you for tuning in this week.
I'd ask you to tune back in next week, same
health time, same health station. This is doctor Richard on

(53:34):
tune from Advanced Alternative Medicine Center saying Happy New Year
to you and I look forward to supporting you when
you're health.

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