Episode 126: You Are What You Eat

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to When Your Health Matters. Your host is doctor
Richard Huntoon of Advanced Alternative Medicine Center located right here
in Pool of Georgia. Doctor Hantoon has been practicing alternative health,
utilizing chiropractic and many other health techniques for the past
twenty seven years. To support you when your health matters.
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Speaker 6 (01:27):
Welcome to this week's show, When Your Health Matters, the
show designed to empower you to better health through knowledge
and education. And I'm your host, doctor Richard Untun from
Advanced Alternative Medicine Center. And here's my partner for the show,
your health advocate, Mark Saban.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Great to be back with you, Doc. You know, one
of the things we all have heard, probably most of
our lives is that you are what you eat. So
can you explain from your perspective how diet contributes to
health and well being?

Speaker 6 (01:57):
Well, that's true, Mark, You are what you eat. If
you eat like crap, your body's going to work like crap.
If you eat like good things, then your body will
work better. And so the diet is the fuel that
makes the car go. So what you put into your body,
based on the quality will directly influence the result, which
is your health experience. And so the diet is the

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fuel that makes the car go, and if you're putting
quality fuel in, then that should give your body the
building blocks necessary in order to function better.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
So what are the most important principles having a healthy body.

Speaker 6 (02:33):
Well, it's kind of like what we learned in kindergarten.
You want to eat quality food, you want to drink
plenty of quality water. You want to breathe clean air,
plenty of it. You want to get plenty of exercise
and proper amounts of sleep. And so those basics that
we learned in terms of what it means to be
healthy or those are the things that we learned at

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a very young age, and those are the things that
are the rules for how to be healthy, and you
apply them every day for the rest of your life
if that's what you're interested in being.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
So, if you were to apply to all those things,
why would you ever have any kind of health issue?

Speaker 6 (03:10):
Well, that's just it, you wouldn't really So what does
that say about society, Well, no, I wouldn't be out
of a job, because people are still going to have
physical problems being physical people in a physical world with
the effects of gravity, So people are always going to
have misalignments, and so my job is to get rid
of the effects of those misalignments by making sure that

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you're properly aligned. And when you teach people how to
keep themselves properly aligned in a physical world, they're still
going to end up having some level of physical imbalance.
But if you eat quality food that makes your muscles
function the way that they're supposed to, the likelihood of
you developing physical imbalances is greatly reduced. But you're always

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you know, you could you could keep your car running
perfectly and change the oil and give it a tune
up every so often, but there's going to be a
certain amount of maintenance that's required in order to keep
that car running efficiently for a long period of time.
And the body's no different.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
So really, so from that perspective, if you were to
do everything as well as you possibly could, you might
still need to be able to maintain your body, and
that would be a reason I might want to come
see you, even if I'm perfectly healthy.

Speaker 6 (04:26):
Yeah, hopefully you're going to maintain your body, but you
always want to go in for a checkup just to
make sure that what you think is true is actually true.
And the challenge is, and we've mentioned this just about
every show, is the fact that you have to lose
sixty percent of normal functioning in order to become aware
that there's a problem. Well, what happens before you've lost

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sixty percent?

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well, so you're actually working your way into that sixty percent,
but you can't tell that you.

Speaker 6 (04:54):
Don't have any indicators that tell you there's a problem.
So do you want to wait until you've lost sixty
percent or functioning at forty percent? Or would you rather
go in periodically just to make sure that you're not
heading in the wrong direction, that you're always moving in
the right direction.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, clearly, I mean we all have all heard that
you know, prevention is worth you know, an ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
Right, So that's a reason why somebody would want to
come see me, even if they don't have any active
condition going on.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Oh. Interesting, So when we're talking about food, because I
wanted to talk to you a lot about this food
and this idea that you are what you eat, how
do you define a balanced diet.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
A healthy amount of food that provides all the necessary
ingredients required to maintain a balance functioning body. That would
be what is considered a balanced diet. And for each person,
it's going to be a little bit different because each
person has different requirements in.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Order to support their body's ability.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
To heal and maintain their energy function. And so the
one size fits all diet or the general diet outline
that doesn't apply to everybody, which is, you know, the
food pyramid or whatever other little cheat sheet that they
have out there to convince people to eat in a
certain way. You want to have this number of servings

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of fruits and vegetables, you want to eat this number
of servings of nuts and seeds, you want to eat
this number of servings of any meat based products, and
you want to have this number of servings of whatever
other things that they promote. You need to appreciate that
every person responds differently to food specific to what their

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body requires and how their body is functioning. And so
we know that children need different food than adults do,
and the amount of food that a growing child needs
is significantly more than a senior citizen who's in the
twilight of their life.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Well, that's really interesting that you're saying that this universal
diet idea that everybody needs the same thing is not
really appropriate.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yes, it's flawed.

Speaker 6 (06:59):
There's so much of out healthcare that's completely flawed, but
this in terms of the one that we're talking about today,
as far as food choices, that's one of the ones
that's easy to see this.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
So how would you know what to I mean, clearly,
if you had, say a food allergy or some kind
of you know, bad reaction to certain foods, you would
want to avoid them. But how would you know what
your dietary needs might be specifically for you.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
Well, let me go back and cover that first part
of your example before we get to the second part
of the example. If you have some kind of sensitivity
to something and you said that you would learn how
to avoid it, and my thought is is, why don't
you just fix the fact that you have a sensitivity
so that you don't have to twist your life up
into a pretzel to try to avoid things because you

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don't necessarily know what is creating the problem for you.
So my thought is is, why don't you just simply
come to me with your concerns. We'll check you for
what we need to check, and whatever problems we find,
we're going to fix them, and then you don't need
to have that as a problem anymore. And then you
don't need to worry about it. I can't eat certain
foods and this, that and the other thing. It's no

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identify the problem, find the cause of the problem, fix
the cause of the problem.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Then you don't need to have a problem.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, that's a whole different approach to what my question was. Right, So,
and in terms of the rest of the question, you know,
what do you do how do you determine what it
is that an individual needs in their diet versus the
universal diet.

Speaker 6 (08:26):
Well, I have the person come in and do an
evaluation and find out where they're deficient nutritionally, compare that
to the diet history that they provide as part of
their intake forms, and then see where the holes in
their diet are that are leading to the deficiencies that
their body's manifesting, and then offer them a solution to
fill in the holes, and then offer them a chain

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in their dietary habits in order to keep those holes
filled and to make sure that everything stays full moving forward.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
So, in terms of those dietary habits or or even
the mistakes you might be making, dietary mistakes you might make.
How do you determine what those are? And are there
some that are like the most common ones that you
would see?

Speaker 6 (09:10):
Well, I can tell you that every person on this
planet has a sensitivity or an allergy or a dysfunction
associated with processing white refined sugar.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Which is pretty ubiquitous everywhere.

Speaker 6 (09:24):
It is, and which is why everybody has problems everywhere.
And it's because that is the main fuel that helps
to sponsor all sorts of health imbalances. And so when
somebody comes into my office and I want to demonstrate
to them that they have some level of weakness, it
doesn't matter who they are, it doesn't matter what level
of health they are, It doesn't matter what their confidence

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level is, it doesn't matter what their health level is.
If I have them hold white refined sugar, it's going
to shut off their nervous system every time with no
effort at all.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Wow. So if if you can't eat or you shouldn't
eat refine sugar, but yet your taste buds are so
attracted to the sweet taste.

Speaker 6 (10:07):
Then you're going to constantly be putting your body in
a defensive posture. And you're not giving it the ingredients
that it needs in order to repair, rebuild, replenish, and
maintain a healthy bond.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
But aren't sugars fuel?

Speaker 6 (10:24):
Which kind of sugars are you talking about the crap sugars?
Are you talking about the natural sugars?

Speaker 3 (10:28):
And there's a difference.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Ah, So what's the difference between.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
Those crap ones are completely refined and processed and have
no nutritional value to them whatsoever. They're being consumed for
the flavor enhancement that it provides versus natural sugar actually
has a nutritional value to it.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
So what do they do to refine? What does it
mean to refine the sugars?

Speaker 6 (10:51):
Well, where does sugar come from?

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Well, either from sugar beets or sugar cane right now.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
So if you take sugar cane and you process it
to refine and strip all the juice out of the
sugar cane itself and leave the carcass and the fiber
that's associated with sugar cane in one barrel and all
the juice of the sugar cane in another barrel. And

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then you take that sugar cane and you boil off
any of the impurities and in the process of boiling
it off, you deplete it of all its mineral and
vitamin content and trace mineral content, and so what's left
is just pure sugar with no nutritional value to it
other than it being an enhanced sweetener, a concentrated sweetener.

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So when you put that into your body and it's
missing all the cofactors, all the enzymes, all the vitamins
that the body needs as a source of fuel for
the body, in order to process that stripped down, completely
refined and process sugar, it's going to need other components
so that the body can process it as a food.

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So where does it get to be vitamins and the
minerals and the trace minerals and the enzymes that it
needs in order to process the large amount of white
refined sugar that you're consuming.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
From somewhere right in other things you eat?

Speaker 6 (12:20):
Pulls it out of your tissues, out of your tissues,
And so what happens to your tissues over time if
you're emptying out all of their vital ingredients necessary to
process the depleted crap food that you're consuming regularly, what
happens to your tissue values?

Speaker 1 (12:37):
So they must decline.

Speaker 6 (12:38):
They decline, And when your tissue values decline. What's another term.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
For that, is that aging just aging, that's just aging.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
That's not even a disease state.

Speaker 6 (12:52):
Well, it is a disease state. It's a disease state.
Is the fact that you're missing the ingredients that your
body needs in order to maintain its health. And when
you're putting in artificial crap, depleted ingredients, you're not maintaining
your health. You're actually tearing your health down more. And
the doctors will tell you, well, it's normal for somebody

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your age to have that, and they'll even make you
think that how you function and how you feel is abnormal.
I'll give you an example. My dad has always been
a physical fitness freak. He's eighty five years old now,
and when he was about eighty, he was at his
doctor's office and his doctor was saying, you know, you're

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eighty now, you need to start to wind down your
physical activity.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
And my Dad's like, I don't want to do that.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
I've always worked out it's what gives me purpose at
what makes me feel vibrant, and I like to be
able to continue doing things. So the doctor couched his
question in this fashion, how many of your peers exercise
as much as you do. And my dad very proudly said,
none of them. And the doctor said, maybe you should

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think about that, like, why there's none of your peer
groups exercising or even exercising at the rate that you do.
Maybe because that's not what you should be doing. Well,
that's a cultural thing, that's not a health thing. If
not exercising is more stressful to my dad because he

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feels likes he's missing something because he's done it every
day his whole adult life, then don't discourage him from
doing it. Maybe ask him to turn the volume down
on it. Instead of running six miles a day, why
don't you.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
Just go for one or two.

Speaker 6 (14:43):
Don't turn the exercise off because you think I'm too
old to exercise. No, just reduce the intensity or the
volume of the exercise that you're doing. But if you
want to maintain a young body, you got to keep moving.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, movements critical.

Speaker 6 (15:01):
Absolutely, But we teach people to be sedentary, We give
them food that causes them to be sedentary. Because your
bones and your joints don't replenish and repair themselves the
way that they should, and so what ends up happening
based upon the crab food that you're.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Eating, you age faster.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
That's a problem.

Speaker 6 (15:21):
It is, so you look at the results you're getting
and understand what we started the show off with, You
are what you eat.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (15:29):
If I look in the mirror and I'm standing. When
my wife and I went to my thirtieth high school reunion,
we're walking back to the car and I said, did
you have a good time? She's like, yeah, that was interesting.
I said, well, what did you find interesting about it?

Speaker 3 (15:40):
And she's like, you went to high school with all
those people.

Speaker 6 (15:43):
I said, well, some of the spouses that we didn't
go to high school with, but all the people that
we sat around that big table and laughed about. Okay,
those were all the people that I went to high
school with.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Why do you ask? She's like, well, you must feel
pretty good about yourself. Like why is that? She's like,
there were some old people in that room, yet everybody
the same age.

Speaker 6 (16:02):
So people age at different rates based upon how they
treat themselves. And in terms of maintaining your health, that
has everything to do with what you're putting in your
pie hole.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, I think we've seen over the years. You know,
people who are smokers tend to have you.

Speaker 6 (16:16):
Know, eight age terribly, you know, and it's just like, yeah,
but if you're so focused on what you're doing and
what you're doing that's destroying you, actually makes you feel alive.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
For whatever reason.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
I don't understand how inhaling smoke makes the person feel good.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
I don't get that.

Speaker 6 (16:36):
Well, it's because of the drugs and that the the
ingredients that they put in the tobacco that stimulates your
nervous system and your immune system to actually crave it. Okay,
so you don't want to smoke, but you want the
ingredient that you get from smoking because that's what your
body is now addicted to.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Same thing with sugar.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
So a lot of this has to do with the
fact that we have addictive substances that we're then using
but essentially out of control.

Speaker 6 (17:06):
As artificial colors, artificial flavors, artificial ingredients, you know, fake ingredients,
faue whatever, and you know, they sell it and the
average consumer, I know, this is how the human mind thinks.
The average consumer thinks that if it's for sale on
a shelf in a public grocery store, it's got to

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be safe. Well that's not the case at all. There's
no rules there's no laws that are trying to protect
you from people selling you food that is bad for you.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Candy bars. Go into a candy store. That shouldn't be legal,
yet it is.

Speaker 6 (17:50):
Oh, Rick, you're just putting a wet washcloth on our
excitement here, because everybody likes to have candy every once
in a while. Well, you got to ask yourself question,
why why do you need a little bit of poison
to your system every once in a while? Oh, because
it tastes so good. Yes, they're going to make poison
taste good so that you take it. What was the

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phrase that you told me about that medicine is medicine
is bitter and poisonous, and poison is sweet.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah, So what do they do.

Speaker 6 (18:22):
They put all sorts of sweetener on top of the
depleted food so that we're not even aware that what
we're eating is depleted. Why because it gives us a
feel good experience in our mouth while it drains our
body of all the vital ingredients that it needs to
maintain health. And aging is the consequence of that.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Well, this is really fascinating, And now that I think
we have a pretty broad understanding of what not to
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Speaker 1 (19:35):
So, Doc Grig, now that we're getting back into the
part of the conversation about what foods you should eat too,
since you are what you eat, what are some of
the top superfoods that you would recommend to people listening.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Superfoods?

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, the ones that would do the most for your health.

Speaker 6 (19:53):
Okay, So I was gonna say there are no such
thing as superfoods. There are high value foods like an egg,
which has all the protein and amino acids the body needs.
It's got high quality fruits vegetables which provide the ingredients
like vitamins and minerals trace elements necessary for health and function.

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The term superfood is a marketing gimmick. It's in an
effort to get people to say, oh, I want superfood,
or I want enhanced food, or I want something that
is going to give me a leg up over just
the whole mundane food that the normal food. I want
the superfood. It's just a marketing gimmick. There's really no

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such thing. But what I'd like to say is that
they're trying to apply that term to high value, high
nutritious food.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
So in terms of high nutritions food, you mentioned fruits
and vegetables, you mentioned eggs. What about are there grains
that would be fit into that category.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
Well, whole grains do not exist anymore, so process refined grains,
the non traditional ones like quinoa, amaranth, millet, those are nutritious.
But corn, wheat, barley, soy, all of those are problematic
as they've all been genetically modified and bastardized in some way,
shape or form, and they're not best to consume anymore.

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You know, people have so many gluten sensitivities because of
what we've done to modify wheat, So now our bodies
can't process the gluten aspect of that portion of the wheat,
But you also get gluten in.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
The other types of grains, the barley's.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
And the.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
I can't think right now, but.

Speaker 6 (21:39):
More than if you do a deep dive and you
ask Google to tell you what.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Foods include gluten.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
Okay, people who are gluten sensitive have to avoid all
those types of foods because it's insidious.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
But if you.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
Were to take digestive enzymes, or if you were to
come to me and it's your gluten sensitivity fixed, then
you would no longer need to be gluten sensitive and
you wouldn't need to avoid those things. But I think
it's it's God's way of getting us to stop eating
these things because at the end of the day, they're
not healthy for us. They have a tendency to get
converted over to fat and store it as fat, and

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it's one of the main reasons why we have obesity.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
You had mentioned before, I think you mentioned nuts and.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Seeds.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Seeds.

Speaker 6 (22:30):
Nuts and seeds are quality fat and protein with minimal
carbohydrate concentration. Unless you're talking about peanuts, which isn't actually
a nut, it's a bean. Peanuts are actually fifty percent sugar. Wow,
but you wouldn't know it because you don't taste the
sweetness in it. Well, in a peanut, it isn't unless

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it's a roasted peanut. Then it's refined because then you
destroy all the oils in it and you destroy the enzymes,
which is going to make you have difficulty digesting it,
which is what leads to a peanut allergy. But yeah,
I mean, in a perfect world, we should be able
to digest all these things, but yet we can't. Why
because of what we've done to the food and what
we've done to ourselves.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Now, there are a lot of talk about and we
talk about probiotics quite often, and one of the ways
to get probiotics into your diet is to eat fermented foods,
things like yogurt and kimchi and sour crowd and pickles.
Are those foods valuable in terms of this healthy diet?

Speaker 6 (23:35):
Oh? Absolutely, They're vitally important to provide the necessary probiotics
as you mentioned, plus the probiotics for a healthy digestive
system and a healthy microbiome. So yeah, those are vital,
which is why each culture has its own type of probiotic.
Whether it's kimchi and Japan, whether it's sour krout in German,
whether it's Greek yogurt and Greece. It's so each culture

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has its own form of probiotics.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
And that was something that.

Speaker 6 (24:05):
We didn't really establish in our country because our country
is made up of a whole bunch of different cultures
that already had their probiotics. So it's not like there's
an American probiotic. My thought is is you want to
have an American probiotic that's actually going to the store
and getting a probiotic.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Okay, all right, that's you know. I mean, I think
that when you think about doing something like probiotics, that
you need to be able to incorporate them into your system.
And you mentioned prebiotics. Now we've talked a lot about probiotics,
but I'm wondering, can you explain to us what prebiotics
are and why they're important for probiotics.

Speaker 6 (24:44):
Well, the probiotics are the fibery aspect of fruits and vegetables,
and the probiotics that is the fibery aspect actually helps
to create the foundational basis for which to have the
probiotic grow. It's something for the probiotic to feed off
of in an effort to populate the area and reproduce
appropriately and develop the whole microbiome within the body. So

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the prebiotics is what the.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Food source is for probiotics to feed off of.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Okay, so that supports the probiotics.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
We talked about sugar, but what about salt. Is salt
important to your diet or is this something you should avoid.

Speaker 6 (25:26):
Salt is vitally important for the diet. You need sodium
in order for the cells to function properly aerobically, and
its counterbalance within the body is potassium. So you got
a sodium potassium pumped. Sodium gets pumped into the cell,
Potassium gets pumped out of the cell unless you're functioning anaerobically,

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and then you're going to need potassium in order to
maintain that type of metabolism. But sodium is vital, and
we've been misled to believe that sodium causes high blood pressure.
Sodium doesn't cause high blood pressure in sodium sensitive people,
it can contribute to high blood pressure but sodium, if
your body's functioning properly, gets put into the bloodstream along

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with water, which increases the pressure within the tubes that.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Are your blood vessels.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
And as you increase the pressure within the tubes, that
drives up the blood pressure as a whole. And so
they looked at the equation and said, well, it's the
sodium that causes the retention of fluid which must drive
up the blood pressure, when in reality, your body has
a hormone from the adrenal glands that called aldosterone that

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hells you to conserve sodium.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
But when the stress is.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
Over, you should get rid of that hormone that causes
you to bring the sodium levels back down to normal. Typically,
why people have sodium excess is because they have a
deficiency in potassium. You up your potassium intake while you
maintain your sodium intake, then sodium will no longer be

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a problem.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
So how do you get that potassium through fruits and vegetables?

Speaker 6 (27:11):
The most common fur potassium would be bananas.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh okay, I'll just eat some bananas.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Eat some bananas.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Now, I know that you sometimes use different remedies that
involve herbs. What about herbal teas, are those beneficial for
your diet.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
They can be beneficial assuming that the herbs are actually
in the teas and are a high quality herb. And
some herbs are problematic for some people depending upon their constitution,
and so you want to get proper advice. You know,
they put out herbal teas with different symptoms that they treat,

(27:50):
you know, your vitality, they treat your energy and all
this kind of stuff. And you know, you drink green
tea for this purpose, you drink black tea for that purpose,
you drink chai tea for another purpose. And it's like, okay,
all of that may be true, but it always, always
always goes back to quality ingredients, not the quantity of

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the ingredients.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
And so if you're.

Speaker 6 (28:16):
Starting with a high quality herbal source, then you're gonna
get the appropriate benefit. We represent a supplement line called
medi erb and all the herbs that are used in
the medi Herb line are one hundred percent organic, the
most active portion of the herb itself to give the

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herb function within the remedy. And you know, going to
GNC or one of these other supplement stores, vitamin stores
and just buying this one because it's packaged in a
particular way, you really don't know what you're getting herb wise,
and so you may be buying the part that gets

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discarded from the active and then the manufacturer takes the
part that they're throwing out and repurposes it and brands
it under a different type of naming or whatever, and
they're still selling it. But you think you're getting one thing,
when in fact it's already no longer in the product.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Okay, So one of the things that's important in your
diet is protein. Now you can get protein from different
plant substances, but also for meat. Is there a balance
that you need to strike between those two.

Speaker 6 (29:32):
Well, that actually depends ideally, the answer is yes. And
some people are vegan or vegetarian and they prefer no
animal products. And I have never found a healthy vegan
or vegetarian in thirty seven years of helping people, and
so maintaining a balance with a certain amount of plant

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based protein versus a certain amount of animal based protein.
I can tell you that you have essential amino acids,
these amino acids that you have to get through your
diet because your body can't manufacture them. And one of
those essential amino acids is the one called methionine. Now, methionine,
the only way that you can get methionine in a

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usable form is by eating red meat. So if you're
a vegan or a vegetarian who's averse to eating meat,
then you're going to develop an essential amino acid essential
meaning it's required. You're gonna no longer have that required
amino acid, which is going to lead to various health

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problems because you don't have that vital building block mm hm.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
So that is important to strike a balance there.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Now another thing that's gone on I think over the
last number of years that you hear about these high
protein diets. Are those diets safe for everyone?

Speaker 6 (30:55):
Well, it's interesting if you've been on the carbohydrate excess
for such a long period of time and your body
is really deficient in protein, if you go on an
all protein diet, you're not going.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
To possibly just eat protein.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
But if you go on a high protein diet, your
body may respond very favorably because it hasn't had any
high quality protein because you're too busy eating carbohydrates because
you like the way they.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Feel and taste in your mouth.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
So for a period of time, you may get beneficial results,
but human beings, the body requires more than just animal
based protein.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
But we talked about plant based proteins as well. Yeah,
do those have those carbohydrates in it that your body needs.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
Well, if they've taken off the carbohydrate portion and they've
concentrated the protein portion from the vegetable, then they may
have some carbohydrates in there, but the product is being
sold specifically for the protein content, not for the carbohydrate.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
proNT protein bars.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
All vegetables are primarily carbohydrate. All fruit is primarily carbohydrate.
All grains are primarily carbohydrate. And if those are the
main staples that we have in our diet, then you're
probably getting excess amounts of carbohydrate. And if you have

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the dysbiosis with the overgrowth of the yeast and candidia
and your bowel, that's going to ultimately cause you to
crave the sugars.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
So the fact that you have an excess actually causes
you to.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Want more, want more of the sugar, Yes sir.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Wow, Okay, So the other component of a good diet
are fats, and a lot of times people think, well,
I need to be eating a low fat diet, but
actually we've talked about it before, and there are it's
very important for you to have fats in your diet.

Speaker 6 (32:53):
But vitally important for you to have fat. Fat is
the source of energy for the body. It's also a
precursor for developing normal hormones within the body that regulate
how the body functions. So if you don't have enough
high quality fat in your diet on a regular basis,
you're going to develop energy issues, and you're going to
develop hormonal issues, which is going to further enhance your

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energy issues.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
And so.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
There are quality fats, there are non quality fats, But
fat actually is the highest source of energy within our diet.
Proteins give you four calories per gram. Carbohydrates also give
you four calories per gram, but fats give you nine
calories per gram, which is two hundred and twenty five

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percent more energy from the same amount of substance. So,
since your body requires fat as its primary form of fuel,
then your brain requires sugar as its primary form of fuel.
If you're eating a lot of sugar and you're not
getting any fat, and you have the dispy, then all

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the sugars being eaten in your belly never gets to
the brain, which shuts the brain off and you have
no energy because you don't have any fat in your diet. Therefore,
you become a slug. And there are lots of slugs
out there, and I would like to help you no
longer be a slug by teaching you about the value
of food and what food does and what food doesn't do,

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and help to dispel all the myths that are out
there that fat is bad for you. No, fat is
an essential ingredient. Within fats, you have essential fatty acids,
so you have essential amino acids in protein. You have
essential fatty acids from fats, and there is no essential
anything in a carbohydrate.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
So yeah, when you talk about fatty acids, I mean
just from my non medical perspective. When I think about
I think about acid is dissolving fat. So what are
fatty acids and how do they differ from like are
they the same thing as a fat or are they
some component of a fat?

Speaker 6 (35:03):
Well, fatty acid is a component that makes up fat,
So it's like a carbohydrate. You have a bunch of
glucose molecules that combine with other glucose molecules or lactose
molecules or.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Galactose molecules or.

Speaker 6 (35:23):
So when you get monosaccharides in carbohydrates, you combine two
monosaccharides together, you get a die saccharide. And you put
a bunch of die saccharides together and you get a polysaccharide.
So those are chains of carbohydrates, whether it's an individual,
whether there's a pair, or whether there's a whole chain.
That's how carbohydrates work.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Well. Fats work the same way. Okay, So you.

Speaker 6 (35:49):
Get two components to your fat, and part of the
fat is the fatty acid aspect of it, and then
the other part of the fat is the transportation part bit,
which is typically made up of ultimately molecules of protein.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
I see, I see. And so when you hear about
omega three fatty acid, which is one of the things
you hear a lot in nutritional you know blogs and websites,
what's the importance of omega three and is it special?

Speaker 6 (36:19):
Well, omega threes are special. They're found in foods like salmon, tuna, anchovies, oysters,
and herring. Plant based are chia seeds, flax seeds, walnuts, soybeans,
and hemp seeds. The other type of fat that's out
there are omega sixes, and then the third type is
omega nines.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
And so.

Speaker 6 (36:41):
We have a tendency to get too many omega sixes
and not enough omega threes, which is why they started
promoting the omega threes because we were all suffering from
an excess in omega six.

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Speaker 1 (37:52):
So we've been talking a lot about the foods that
you eat and the natural foods. Now, I know one
of the things that you do in your practice or
practice members is that you offer them things to supplement
their diet, and most of those are food supplements. Are
the food supplements necessary for good health.

Speaker 6 (38:11):
In today's world. Absolutely without them, you can expect disease
to grow due to the lack of the proper ingredients
that have been refined out of our food, making the
food the crap food, meaning completely refined and processed. And
so as long as they've refined our food in an
effort to create more profit and longer shelf life, you
are always going to have to put back the ingredients

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that have been stripped out of that fake food that
you're eating thinking that you're getting regular food. So everybody
has nutritional deficiencies. The evidence of that is the fact
that they have disease, because all disease is nutritional deficiency.
And so when you give somebody the proper ingredients that
their body needs specific to them, then their health returns

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because they're no longer lacking the ingredients that body needs
in order to just simply stay healthy.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
So are there risks to taking too many supplements?

Speaker 6 (39:06):
Well, only if what you're taking is chemical crap ones
versus the whole food ones, and if the whole food
ones are not appropriate for your specific health, then if
there's a possibility. But what I do in my office
is I evaluate you for need, and if there is
a need, then we evaluate you for dose amount and
then we recommend the dosage that's specific to you that

(39:30):
your body's going to need. Now, most people that come
into my office are going to need a preventative dose,
which is the dose necessary to help re establish balance
and prevent disease from happening. And then once they filled
in the holes and have done it long enough to
increase their stores, then at that point we modify the

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amount that they're taking and reduce it to a what's
called a maintenance dose, which just keeps your stores full
while you're using the maintenance dose to maintain and run
your body.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Are there specific supplements that are common amongst most people
that you see.

Speaker 6 (40:09):
Well, yeah, most people are going to need to take
an anti yeast supplement because of the excess yeast and candidia.
That's overwhelming their bowel system due to antibiotics and the
fourteen other digestive system disruptors we went over, I think
last week. So a probiotic is something that they should take.
They should take an anti yeast supplement to help bring

(40:31):
that dysbiosis back into normal balance. We recommend that people
take a good, high quality whole food multi vitamin. If
you have specific health imbalances, then we will help you
understand what are the whole food supplements necessary to support,
eliminate and get rid of your health imbalance. Because all

(40:52):
health imbalances are nutritional deficiencies. And so when we fill
in the holes with the necessary ingredients, then the effect
of having those holes goes away because you no longer
have the holes, and the effects also goes away. And
so you can get rid of a health problem simply
by feeding the body.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
Now, what is the story about antioxidants and how do
they contribute to health and what do you get them
from food?

Speaker 6 (41:20):
Yes, antioxidants are found in fresh fruits and vegetables and
help to scavenge the oxidation effects of poor food, household items,
and industrial materials that we're all exposed to. You can
find them in glutathione, vitamin E, vitamin C, vitamin A.
They're found in cranberries, peaches, grapes, raspberries, strawberries, figs, pears, cherries,

(41:45):
and I like to say this word guava.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Now, one of the main things that we're seeing about
people's health is inflammation. So are there specific foods are
anti inflammatory that you can use as a way of
reducing the inflammation.

Speaker 6 (42:04):
There's definitely things that you can do fats if you
take your vegetable fats or your nuts. There's three types
of fats, and we can call them A fats, B fats,
and C fats. The A fats are from vegetables, the
B fats are from animal sources, and the C fats
are from nuts and seeds. If you eat more A

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and C fats and less B fats, that will help
to temper your inflammation. The other thing that you need
to be aware of is that your B fats immediately
get broken down and turned into inflammation. Your A and
your C fats need various ingredients in order to break
them down in a two step process, whereas the B

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fats is just a one step conversion. There's more that
goes into getting value out of your vegetable fats and
your nuts and seed fats versus just your plain old
animal fats.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Now we're talking about eating, but what about fasting? And
I know there's a big push for intermittent fasting is
a way toward itself. What do you think about that?

Speaker 6 (43:11):
Intermittent fasting is fine because if you're always putting crap
food that causes your whole digestive system to be stressed
twenty four to seven, then giving it a break by
not putting any food in there for a period of
twelve to eighteen hours, that's going to take the stress.
It's going to give the body an opportunity to recover.
It's going to give the body an opportunity to detoxify.

(43:32):
It's going to give the body the opportunity to catch
its breath. But what you want to do is, if
you're going to do that, you want to make sure
that what you're putting in before the fast and after
the fast are quality foods. Otherwise you're just stressing the
system out because you've gone a certain amount of time
without food.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Now you mentioned detoxifying. I know there are programs that
you offer in the springtime and again in the fall
for detoxifying. What's the value of the talks fighting and
should everyone do it? Well?

Speaker 6 (44:04):
You ever change your filter on your air conditioner? Sure,
you ever change the filter on your heating system. You
ever change the filter in your car, either an air
filter or a gas filter or an oil filter.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
They get dirty, They get dirty there you go.

Speaker 6 (44:20):
So the filters inside your body with all the crab food,
they get dirty too. So you want to take the
time to clean those filters every period of time so
that your body starts to function more efficiently because it's
not being blocked due to all the toxins that are
trapped into system. And your filters like your liver and
your kidneys and your spleen or your lungs or your

(44:41):
large intestine or your skin don't function efficiently and that
ends up leading to sickness in those different organs.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
Now, if you were eating correctly, would you be able
to avoid like the common illnesses, the temporary illnesses like
colds and.

Speaker 6 (44:57):
Flus, Yes, having a cold or a flu. Most don't
understand that. We do not educate people on how not
to get sick, and so sickness is very very common.
It's not normal, but it's very very common. And if
we were to maintain the integrity of our diet and

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live more managing our stress levels so that we're not
always stressed out, that we're not always killing ourselves to
get things done, then we wouldn't have to worry about
these viruses or bacteria getting in and creating minor skirmishes
within our immune system causing things like a flu or
a cold or something like that.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Now, speaking of the kinds of fighting off sicknesses, are
there foods that you can eat to support your immune system?

Speaker 6 (45:49):
Oh? Absolutely, Any kind of natural fruit or vegetable is
going to support your immune system. Whole foods will support
your immune system. If you want to deplete your immune
system and tear it down and create problems and weaknesses
within it, then keep going to the store and keep
buying the completely refined and processed crap foods, and you'll

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be growing that weakness within yourself, and then you'll manifest
other sicknesses as a result of having turned off your
immune system.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Now there's your immune system, but then there's also generally
your feeling of vitality, your energy, and people suffering from fatigue.
I mean a lot of people are tired in the
midday and grab a cup of coffee, or are there
foods that are good for your energy? I mean, I
wonder about you might get energy from an energy drink,

(46:39):
but you're going to get.

Speaker 6 (46:41):
A crash after that energy drink. And that's a Jedi
mind trick. And it should be illegal in our society
for them to even sell that crap on the market.
But guess what, there's no interfering with free enterprise in
our country, and so they sell that stuff and people
buy it, and people develop consequences with their health as
a result. So foods that are real and high in fat,

(47:05):
because fat gives you nine calories per gram, carbohydrates only
give you four calories per gram. If you want to
help somebody that's got low energy and lots of fatigue,
then you want to eat the real foods and the
foods that are high in fat, and then you want
to do some exercises to turn the fat on to

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actually produce the energy that your body can benefit from.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Now from everything we're saying, I wonder, can you eat
yourself eat your way back to health?

Speaker 6 (47:35):
Well you can. I have patients do it all the time.
I certainly did it with myself back in my twenties,
and I was smart enough to just continue to maintain it.
So here I am, you know, be sixty in a
couple of months, and I don't have any health problems,
and haven't had any health problems since I repaired my
health way back in my twenties.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
What'd you do to repair your health in your twenties?

Speaker 6 (47:59):
Eight real food and exercised and took quality supplements and
stopped eating the crap and you drank plenty of water
and took care of myself and just tighten up everything
that needs to be tightened up in order to run
a you know, lean ship, lean operation. And I don't
partake in all the general things that are considered normal

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in our society because that just promotes more disease and sickness.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
Well, one of the things that people are challenged with
is time management and the amount of time it takes
to prepare healthy food, fresh food, organic food, things like that.
Are there any quick, healthy meals that you can recommend
that people who are very busy might be able to
use as part of their diet.

Speaker 6 (48:45):
Well, there are services out there that make these kinds
of things available to you. I've never really looked into them.
My wife and I have a pretty good system down
where she'll either stop at the market on our way
home and pick up some fresh things that we can
then you know, make into our meal, or you know,

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vice versa. I'll do the same thing whatever happens. We
try to maintain high quality food in our house. We
don't bring crap into the house. And it's just you
have to make the commitment. You have to make it
a priority, and you have to understand that if you
make it a priority, it's going to pay off in
spades in terms of how you feel and how you

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function and how you view the world. But if if
you're putting garbage ingredients into your body, your body's going
to run like garbage, it's going to communicate like garbage,
your thinking is going to be poor. And once you
start putting in quality ingredients, you will feel the difference
in your energy, and you will feel the difference in
terms of how your body functions and it then it

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just becomes a question of how much how many different
ways can I add to.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
What it is that I'm doing and in order.

Speaker 6 (49:54):
To improve even to a higher level than how I'm
already feeling, just simply by eating quality food.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
Now, what about do you need to eat only fresh
ingredients or what about frozen foods.

Speaker 6 (50:09):
Frozen foods are a substitute for fresh foods. You know,
it's hard to eat certain foods that you would normally
eat fresh in the dead of winter. So it's okay
to take the food that you have that you know
is healthy, and it's okay to freeze it because you're
not going to lose any.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Of the nutritional value.

Speaker 6 (50:30):
You're actually going to lock the nutritional value in and
then when you thaw it out, and then when you
prepare it, okay, the nutrients will still be intact.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Now, in all of this, one of the things that
plagues a lot of people is weight gain. So what
about using the way you eat to lose weight?

Speaker 6 (50:49):
Well, yeah, if you need to lose weight, it's because
you've been eating the wrong foods. If you want to
eat the right foods, you don't need to diet anymore.
You don't even need to exercise. If you put the
right foods in with no exercise at all, you will
find that the body gets rid of the access that
it no longer needs, and your body will naturally slim

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down and trim down as a result of eating quality food.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
So along with the process of going about changing your
diet so that you're eating the right ingredients, if you
were just a shift to eating to taking out the
sugars and the processed foods, would you see a result
in terms of weight loss. Oh?

Speaker 6 (51:32):
Absolutely, because now you're not storing everything. Now you're going
to have to burn things because you're not suppressing your
energy production system by putting in the refined sugar. So
if you pull that out of your diet, I promise
you you're going to start losing weight, and you're going to
have more energy, and you're going to have more clarity
of thought. But if you keep the diet, if you

(51:52):
keep the sugar in your diet, then you can expect
that nothing's really going to change and that your brain
is going to get shut off.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Well, I really think that this has been an informative show,
doc Ric. It's been a really good conversation. I know
that there are a lot of questions that people have
that we didn't answer because we can only talk about
things in a very broad scope. So if somebody is
out there listening to the show and wants to get
the answers to their particular situation, their particular health issues.

(52:20):
Maybe they have some dietary issues that they need to address.
What are the best ways to reach out to you
and get the information directly from the source so that
they can actually turn their health around.

Speaker 6 (52:31):
Well, the best thing to do would be to call
me directly at area code eight four to five five
six one two two two five again eight four five
five six one two two two five. That is my
cell phone. I'll be the one answering that phone so
that I'll give you the direct line to me so
that we can have a conversation. Uh, if you want
to text that number, just expect it. If I am

(52:54):
going to get back to you, it may take several days,
just because I'm not that That's not how I do
my life, so it's not really important for me to
look at my texts.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
But you can email me.

Speaker 6 (53:05):
I look at my email all day every day, and
I will get back to you definitely within twelve to
twenty four hours, sometimes even as quickly as an hour.
And so I just want to have a conversation with you.
So calling me is the best, Emailing me is the
second best. Texting may not be good at all, but

(53:26):
stopping into the office. That's a good way to get
a hold of me and give you an opportunity to
ask your questions. And I'll probably do an evaluation out
of my own curiosity with what it is that you're
asking about. So those are the ways to get a
hold of me. I would encourage you to call me
so that we can have a conversation. I just want
to help you with your health, and that's what we'd

(53:48):
ask you to do. So I believe we're out of
time right just about out of time, okay, So I
would like you, the listener, I'd like to say thank
you the listener for tuning into this week's show. I'm
going to ask you to tune back in next week,
same health time, same health station. I want to thank
you Mark for putting this show together and for help
facilitating another successful show, UH, so that we can help

(54:11):
the people in the world. And uh tune back in
next week and I look forward to speaking with you
at that time when you're health managed.

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Speaker 3 (54:28):
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Speaker 1 (54:29):
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Speaker 2 (54:31):
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Speaker 1 (54:35):
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Speaker 2 (54:36):
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Speaker 1 (54:43):
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Speaker 3 (54:44):
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