Episode 160: Lg Intestine

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
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the nurse. I've seen worse than the doctor. Just gave
me a pill. Take one of those three times a day.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
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some side effects you mean, probably will well. Limits of fact,
you can't come. I'll give you one of the film.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
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of that, on top of that, on top of that,
on top of that, and.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Then he showed me his bill. I've popped another pill.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
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.
It's his intention to offer practical advice every week for

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you to consider and to apply in your own life
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Speaker 4 (01:23):
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Speaker 5 (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 Safell.

Speaker 6 (01:41):
Now that we're in November, it brings us to the
second organ. It's linked to the metal or the metal element.
And why metal this time of year.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
Well, the metal element is called in traditional Chinese medicine
because it uses the characteristics of of the substance metal,
such as strength, purity, and ability to be refined, as
a symbolic representation of qualities in nature and within the

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human body. These qualities include clarity, organization, structure, and the
ability to let go of what no longer serves one,
which are associated with the autumn season, and the lungs
and the large intestine organs.

Speaker 6 (02:27):
So I guess that would mean that really the organ
we're going to talk about today is the large intestine, yes, sir, okay.
So what is the role of the large intestine in
terms of that Chinese five element theory.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
The role of the large intestine within traditional Chinese medicine
is to physically and emotionally let go of anything that
no longer serves the body, okay.

Speaker 6 (02:51):
And now the large intestinies to work in partnership with
other organs of eliminations. So we've talked about the liver,
We've talked about the kidneys, and the skin, the lungs.
Those are all organs that actually help get things out
of the body.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Right, Yeah, And so specifically for the metal element, you're
dealing with the lungs and the skin that associates with
the large intestine, okay.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
And what is it about this time of year that
makes it the best time for that kind of elimination.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
The energy is naturally shutting down in preparation for the winter,
and so getting rid of those things that are no
longer necessary for the body during winter is prudent.

Speaker 6 (03:36):
In the last month when we were talking about the
lungs and breathing and that had to do with grief
and things like that, and now the large intestine which
is dealing with food and things like that. So how
does it actually fit into that same metal element that
the lungs do well.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
Eating the food that are harvested during the harvest season
helps the body to digest and recycle what nature has
made and the body has taken in. As we mentioned
at the top of the show, the metal element is
called such in traditional Chinese medicine because it uses the
characteristics basically to help the body let go of things.

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So we mentioned strength, purity, and the ability to be
refined as a symbolic representation of the qualities within nature
and of the human body.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
And these qualities.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Include clarity, organization, structure, and the ability to let go
of what no longer serves one which is associated with
the autumn season and the lungs and the large intestine
and the skin. And so the lungs and the skin
are the other part of the metal element that pair

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up with the lungs, and each one of those are
an external filter, meaning they filter things that keep them
from getting into to the body. Proper. The lungs filters
the air things in order. It's what we breathe in.
It has to cross into get into the bloodstream. The

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skin helps to keep things from getting in. And if
you penetrate the skin and get into the blood, then
your body bleeds as a result of that penetration. And
in the large intestine things should get digested into the body.
But if you have that condition called leaky gut, then
that ultimately is going to create an imbalance there. But

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the lungs, large intestine, and skin are all part of
the energy of this time of year. And in the
Chinese five element theory that's called the metal element.

Speaker 6 (05:44):
Well, interesting that both the lungs and the large intestines
they take things into the body, but they keep things
out of the body. It's kind of a different kind
of synergy going on there.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
Well, yeah, it's a filter, and the filter allows what
is allowed to come in and it keeps out the
things that don't belong in.

Speaker 6 (06:03):
That makes sense, Okay, So what is actually the primary
role of the large intestine.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
The primary role of the large intestine is to absorb
water and electrolytes from indigestible food material, compacting the remaining
waste into feces that ultimately is prepared for elimination.

Speaker 6 (06:21):
Okay, does it do more than receive and transport the
waste material from the small intestine.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
Well, it also produces and absorbs vitamins through the action
of resident bacteria, helps to form and propel stool towards
the rectum, and it plays a role in the enteric
nervous system, which is the second brain that the body
has that lines the whole digestive tract.

Speaker 6 (06:44):
Mm hmmmm hm. And so what role does the large
intestine have in extracting those essential nutrients in the fluids?

Speaker 5 (06:53):
So it takes in Well, it's the last bastion of
the body to be able to absorb anything it may
need based on how things have changed in the body
from the moment to moment requirements to be healthy, and
so before the body let's go of something once and
for all, the large intestine has the opportunity to recall

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any of the vital ingredients that are within the intestinal
system that may be being called upon through the kidneys
because they need more of a certain ingredient, or the
liver because it needs more of a certain ingredient. And
so again it's the last bastion of the body to
be able to absorb anything it may need based upon

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how things are going at the time.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
M hm. And now it Well, if it can absorb
electrolytes and liquids into the body, what's the role that
it plays in maintaining the moisture content of your body?

Speaker 5 (07:54):
Well, well, the hell of the kidneys, it maintains the
balance of water through absorption in those final stages before
final elimination.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
Okay, what's the difference between the kidneys and what the
kidney's doing what the large intestine doesn't.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
With fluids, Well, the kidneys regulate fluids and the large
intestine responds to what the kidneys are asking it to do.
So the kidneys are the CEO and the large intestine
is the employee, and the kidneys inform the large intestine
of what it needs, if it needs more water or

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if it doesn't, and the large intestinees job is to
do the work under the direction of the kidneys.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
So how does the large intestine separate the solids from
the fluids, and so you can continue that elimination process.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
By absorbing the fluids and eliminating the solids. That's the
filtration characteristic the large intestine. It's designed to do just that.
So it absorbs the fluids to be considered by the
kidneys primarily, by the liver secondarily, and that's the filtration
of the large intestine. But then it passes it off

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to two of the internal filters, the liver and the kidneys,
and they get to understand, you know, what is based
upon what's been absorbed, what is appropriate for letting go.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
Yeah, well, I guess you know. One of the problems
you might end up having with your large intestine is
either things are too fluid to too liquidity or or
like if you're constipated there, they're not liquidy enough. What's
going on with that? And why would that be a
consequence of that balance of fluids in the body.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
If we don't feel confident about what we receive from
the universe, and so we tend to hold on to
things we don't feel we will be able to replace,
and therefore we don't eliminate enough. That's the reason for constipation.
And it's such a big problem for so many because
most are lacking in resources to eliminate constipation. And so

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if you don't have enough quality probiotics, if you've destroyed
your microbiome as a result of the lifestyle that you lead.
It gets rid of the good probiotics. Then it makes
it hard for the large intestine to do its job
and move things through. And if it's having hard digesting
and moving things through, that's going to lead to a backup.
And that backup is called the condition of constipation.

Speaker 6 (10:22):
Well, is that I mean, is it just because you're
not drinking enough water? Is that what's causing that to happen?
Or you're saying there's actually more to it than just
your water fluid intake.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
Well, there's more to it than just water and fluid intake.
It has to do with emotions, It has to do
with resources, It has to do with your perspective on
if you have enough or if you don't have enough.
Constipation can be caused by dehydration, it can be caused
by poor diet, It can be caused by a lack

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of fiber. And so my thought is is make sure
that you have plenty of all three, eat quality food,
drink plenty of water, and learn to belly breeze to
help the process along.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
So when you talk about resources, is that predominantly the
fiber you're talking about, because I hear a lot about
getting fiber. There are these different products you can get
that supposedly add more fiber to your diet. Is that
what we're talking about?

Speaker 5 (11:23):
Well, yeah, you know that fiber is considered a prebiotic.
Insists the stage for the probiotics to work by having
things to feed off of that are not digestive disruptors.
And so it's important to make sure that you have
adequate resources. And that's why you want to make sure

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that you drink plenty of water. You want to eat
a quality diet, and you want to make sure that
in that quality diet, by eating greens that are high
in fiber, that you're getting enough of those in order
to maintain proper balance within your intestinal system so that
your body can process food and ineffective in a timely manner.

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We offer a transit time test that helps people to
understand how long it takes food to go from their
mouth to the toilet, and healthy time frame is between
twenty and twenty four hours. If it takes less than
twenty hours for your body to process food, you have

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food goes through you faster than it should and therefore
you don't retain a lot of the nutritional value. And
the opposite end of that is if it takes too long,
then things stagnate within the system and then you have
a tendency to reabsorb, and that creates toxins and other imbalances.
And so we have people do a simple salad on

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a day that they don't have to go anywhere or
do anything, and in that salad or three large, health
healthy boiled chopped up red beats. And so when you
eat the salad with the three red beats in the salad,
you will know when the that particular meal comes out

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of you because it'll look like you aborted something into
the toilet bowl. And so you'll see how your body
is absorbing and processing and transiting things from the mouth
to the toilet, and you'll get an understanding. If you
do it Saturday at noon and you're done eating by

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noon thirty, then by noon or twelve thirty the following day,
you should have seen that show up within the toilet.
If it doesn't show up for two days or three days,
then you know you have a transit time problem, and
you know that your body's not eliminating the way that
it's supposed to and you know that gives you the

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understanding that you need in order to go talk to
a healthcare practitioner similar to me, because I can advise
you on what it is that you need to do
and return yourself back to balance.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
Why wouldn't you be able to eliminate for two or
three days like that? Because lengthy.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
It is lengthy, and there are people out there. I
have people that when they initially come to me, they
have a bowel movement.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
Once a week.

Speaker 6 (14:19):
Really, yeah, people just.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
They don't know that what their body's doing is abnormal
because they don't ever take the time to pay attention
to it, or they don't take the time to understand
what is normal or what is abnormal, and how they
compare to what is normal or abnormal. If you're eating
three times a day, you should be moving your bowels
three times a day roughly at the same time that

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you're eating, and it should be roughly twenty to twenty
four hours later. If you eat once a day, then yeah,
you'll be going once a day. But if you're not
eliminating the same number of times that you're ingesting, you
have a problem.

Speaker 6 (14:58):
So it sounds like most people might have a problem.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
Then I wouldn't say most people. I would say just
about all people, because everybody that comes into my office
has this as a problem, and they're completely oblivious to
the fact that it's a problem. And sometimes they don't
even they're not even willing to hear what I have
to say. It's fascinating. I try to understand the human

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mind at this particular time in our country's evolution, because
people come to me for help. I show them what
I can do to help them, and then they don't
want to do that. It's like, well, why did you
ask for help that you don't want to partake him?
Why are you letting things get in the way of
you getting the help that you need? And you know,

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large intestine is a whole big part of that because
you're large. Intestine is that organ that helps you let go.
So when a person doesn't choose to accept help, they're
actually screaming from the mountaintop that they have an intestinal
issue and they're not digesting food properly.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
Huh, Well, it seems like a pretty common promise is
constipation the same thing as having a bowel obstruction.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
No, a bowel obstruction is something that's physically in there
that's obstructing the bowel's ability to move things through. Now,
you can have constipation that can create a condition that
looks like you have an obstruction. But when we're talking
an obstruction, we're talking about something that's abnormal, that's literally

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hindering the opening in your intestine from allowing things to
pass all the way through in a timely manner.

Speaker 6 (16:42):
And now I guess on the other side of the
equation from being too stuck would be diarrhea, where things
are just moving through what way too quickly. What causes that.

Speaker 5 (16:54):
Well, diarrhea is when the stool doesn't eliminate enough water
from the intestinal contents and results and liquidity waste versus
the more formed waste. This actually is a gallbladder issue,
since the gallbladder is what regulates this process. And so
if you're large intestine isn't eliminating properly, there is a

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lot of times where it's coming from another part of
the body. And so everybody's heard the commercial for the
pink liquid that they want you to drink called Pepto bismol,
and they say, with their wonderful jingle, if you have nausea, heartburned, indigestion,

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upset stomach, or diarrhea, all of those stem from the gallbladder.
And because the gallbladder is what regulates all of that,
and so in an advanced example of nausea is where
the body would actually throw it out and you would
throw up. That's the strongest response a gallbladder can have,

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and all the other responses are a weakened response to
the gallbladder having. And so when a person has, you know,
loose bowels, when they have irritable bow when they have
inflammatory bowel disease, when they have alternative colitis, all of
these things are all stemming from an imbalanced in your glawbladder,

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but they manifest in terms of symptom wise in the
large intestine.

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Speaker 6 (19:23):
Network another dot Great. We're talking about the large intestine today,
and before the break, you were mentioning a number of
different conditions that might be affecting somebody with that's having
some kind of issues with their large intestine. So I
wanted to go through some of them. One of the
ones is a condition called ulceoid alterative colitis. What exactly

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is that?

Speaker 5 (19:46):
All sort of colitis or u C as it's called
on the pharmaceutical commercials, is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease
that affects the large intestine. It causes inflammation and ulcers
in the lining of the large intestine, leading to the
various symptoms that one could have.

Speaker 6 (20:06):
And what are ulcers.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Ulcers are.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
Basically exposed tissue that has lost the surface of the tissue,
and so you're dealing with the underlying tissue below the
surface that shouldn't be exposed. So when you get an ulcer,
you lose the surface of the skin. It's kind of
like what happens when one gets a blister on their finger.

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You pull the surface skin off and then the underside
is all raw and exposed. And that's what happens inside
your large intestine.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
Oh, that sounds painful, can be? Now? What is irritable
bowel syndrome?

Speaker 5 (20:49):
Irritable bowel syndrome or IBS is a common chronic condition
that affects the gastruline testinal tracts, not specifically the large intestine.
Is characterized by recurrent abdominal pain, bloating gas, and changes
in vowel habits, where one can either have diarrhea or

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they can have constipation, or they can have both.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
Wow. Another thing you mentioned was diverticulitis.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
Yes, diverticulitis is a condition where small pouches also known
as diverticula, in the wall of the large intestine become
inflamed or infected and it's the small pouches that form
as a result of the person not being able to
get enough value out of their food. And what I

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have seen is if you increase the amount of probiotics
that a person has, then that can actually help make
a positive impact on the condition itself.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
Really Okay, now we talked about ultra coliitis, but is
there a different kind of colitis beyond the alternative colitis?

Speaker 5 (22:05):
Well, there's just your general colitis, which is general inflammation
of the large intestine and can be caused by infections
or conditions like inflammatory vowel disease. Then we have a
thing called Crone's disease, which is a specific type of
irritable vowel disease. It can affect any part of the

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digestive tract from the mouth to the anus. The key
differences are in their location, where chrons can appear anywhere,
but all sort of colitis is limited to the colon
and the rectum, the depth of inflammation where crones can
go through all layers of the bowl wall, but all

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sort of colitis only affects the innermost lighting and patterns
of inflammation as crones has patchy inflammation, where all sort
of colitis is continuous inflammation.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
You mentioned the rectum that's generally where hemorrhoids are. And
what are hemorrhoids and can they be internal as well
as external.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
Hemorrhoids are a weakness in the wall of the rectum
and causes the wall to form an out pocketing within
the internal wall or the external opening of the rectum.
This is the difference between internal versus an external hemorrhoid,
and it is always due to too much pressure and
the lack of tissue calcium, specifically within the rectum.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
Now what you hear a lot about colorectal cancer and
the reason that people seem to be getting it. So
you have all these tests now and one of the
things is getting a colonoscopy. It used to be after fifty,
but I think maybe they're changing the age and there
are other things that people do to test their colon
for cancer. What's going on there?

Speaker 5 (23:54):
Basically it's a money grab, but they also know that
they're not doing the right thing as our foods go
et cetera. And so people are developing these conditions at
a younger and younger age, and so basically they want
to get it before it becomes a huge problem. So

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early intervention and under the guises of asking people to
come in sooner rather than later. You know, and they've
got that cool test called the cold Guard where you
can have the test sent to your house and you
do what they ask you to do in the cold

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of Guard test, and you send them back samples of
your fecal material and they analyze it to see if
there's anything in there that would indicate that you could
be potentially at the beginning stages of some kind of
colorectal cancer, so that they can get on it sooner
rather than later.

Speaker 6 (24:56):
Well, wouldn't getting it on sooner rather than later be
a good thing?

Speaker 5 (25:00):
Would be a good thing. But if you're asking people
who don't have the problem to spend money on a
test and to come in and have colonoscopies. And what's
important for the listener to understand is, unfortunately the healthcare
industry doesn't care about you anymore. You're a means to

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an end, and so if they can come up with
guyses in an effort to get you into the office
so that they can look at results and order you
tests and put you on the treadmill of treatment and
testing and coming back for tests and sending you to
another specialist for a specialized test and just keep you

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locked into that situation. Then they're getting paid all along
the way, and they're not giving you good, sound advice
and an effort of what you need to do in
order to help yourself. And I see it every day
in my practice. People are being misled. The advertisements on

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the television, the advertisements you get in your email, the
advertisements that you see in magazines, although there are not
a lot of magazines out there anymore because everything is online,
and just the marketing that they do is in an
effort to create a problem and under the guises that
they care about you, which is why we're going to

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create all these convenient ways for you to get the
testing done. And the sooner we can have you do
the testing, the safer that you're going to be. But
at the end of the day, it's just about them
screening as many people as possible so that they can
make a big return on the other end of the equation.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
But I mean, when you get a colonosity, I mean,
aren't they looking for something going wrong?

Speaker 5 (26:53):
They mean they're looking for anything that appears to be
abnormal and will most likely biopsy at when it's there.
Polyps are an out pocketing of the wall of the intestine,
and I believe it is a chronic result of the
person's intestine having the inability to process foods efficiently, and

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so the intestine increases the surface area of the intestinal
wall in an effort to solve the issue. And that's
ultimately what a polyp is. And so if you have
normal bowel movements. We talked about transit time earlier on
in the previous segment. If you take the time to
understand what your transit time is, and your transit time

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is between the twenty to twenty four hour window, and
it's like clockwork every day of your life, there's nothing
that you would think you would need to have any
of these procedures done, but they will talk you into
it anyway because you're of a certain age category and
they're applying the same thing to all people in that

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age category because from there understanding, you're in the gene
pool that they can take these samples from. And at
the end of the day, if you do the kinds
of things that I'm asking you to do, then you
can avoid all those tests. You can avoid all those
problems you can avoid all of those conditions and you

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don't have to have any of them. Now, the challenge
is is that most people aren't proactive with their health,
and so they already have these conditions. And when you
have these conditions, the concern is is if you don't
treat them properly, that they can evolve into having some
kind of colorectal cancer. And so they want to do

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all these kinds of screenings to make sure that people
aren't having colorectal cancer, and yes, out of concern for
wanting to help the person. Under the guises of being concerned,
they will send you these specialized tests to your house
and then you know, but the commercial even says you
can have false positives and false negatives, so it's not

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really an accurate test, but it's okay, we're going to
market it anyway because we don't care. We're just trying
to make money.

Speaker 6 (29:11):
Well, not only that, are there dangers that are associated
with the procedure of colonosco.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
Well, having a colonoscopy, there's a higher degree of likelihood
that they're going to perforate your bowel and create a
serious problem. There's a higher degree of likelihood a larger
percentage that they're going to perforate your bowel then find
a problem that would require you to have care. There's

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a five percent chance that they're going to find that
you have colon cancer. There's a ten percent chance that
they're going to perforate your bowel.

Speaker 6 (29:47):
That's a pretty risky.

Speaker 5 (29:49):
And when they perforate the bowl, guess what good surgery? Right,
And they don't apologize for it. They've just simply increased
their revenue.

Speaker 6 (30:01):
Now, there are conditions that can lead to or arise
from a large intestine imbalance. Those are the kinds of
things that you're treating at that level, right.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
Conditions of the large intestin including inflammatory conditions like we
mentioned the ULC of colitis and the chrome's disease, infections
causing diverticulitis and appendicitis, functional disorders like irritable bowel syndrome, constipation,
growth such as polyps and cancer, and structural problems like

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intestinal instructions. These conditions can lead to symptoms such as
a dominal pain, changes in bowel habits, bloating, rectal bleeding.
All of those things can arise from a large intestine imbalance.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
So, and are you able to treat all of those things.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
Yeah, I'm able to treat all of them. I'm able
to help that person come back into balance and pack
into normalcy for themselves. Absolutely.

Speaker 6 (31:00):
Now, the large intestine regulates what your body holds onto
and eliminate and what it eliminates, right, correct, And inside
that whole digestive track are the living organisms of the microbiome.
They're in your large intestine as well. Correct, So do
those microbes actually affect other things like your sense of

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well being?

Speaker 5 (31:25):
They definitely. They are directly related to your sense of
well being. And it's why we always mention taking probiotics
to help maintain your digestive system, especially if you're prone
to sickness and partake in any of the fourteen different
digestive disruptors that most people take.

Speaker 6 (31:42):
Pardon, and why is that enteric nervous system which you
mentioned in the first segment, why is that considered the
second brain?

Speaker 5 (31:51):
Well, it actually contains nervous system tissues similar to the brain,
but it's not inside your head. It's actually lining your
whole digestive too.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
Now, I remember you talking at some point in the
past with me about the iliosecual valve and why that's
sometimes associated with low back pain. Can you tell us
a little bit about what that valve is and what
it does and why it would be associated with back pain. Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
The iliosecual valve is the junction between the small and
the large intestine, and it helps to regulate what passes
from the small to the large intestin when properly functioning.
When it doesn't function properly, toxins will accumulate in the
area of that iliosecual valve and they are then absorbed
by the low back muscles, leading to low back pain.

(32:41):
So the area if you stick a finger in your
belly button and then you locate the point of your
right hip that sits just before your thigh starts halfway
between the two points, there is the area where your
illiosecual valve is, and it also happens to be right

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in the similar area where your appendix is. And so
a lot of times people will get irritation of their
iliosecual valve. It'll create tenderness underneath the area on your belly,
and you may also get low back pain if you
put pressure on that area in your lower right quadrant

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of your belly and it creates a radiation of pain
or a referral of pain someplace else in the abdomen.
That typically means that your appendix is irritated. But whether
it's your iliosecal valve or whether it's your appendix, the
appendix is a more serious issue. The first thing that

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I would ask anybody to do is to apply a
cool pack to their lower right belly in the area
of that valve halfway between your belly button and the
point of your hip. If you apply a cool pack
there for twenty five five minutes and then push, you know,
half a gallon of water, and the pain doesn't decrease,

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it actually begins to increase. Then at that point I
would ask you to go to the emergency room to
see if you're having some kind of appendicitis. But if
it goes away, you just know that you had an
iliosecual valve imbalance and the cool pack helped to make
it go away and reset the whole system.

Speaker 6 (34:27):
Now you mentioned as back pain, though as a chiropractor,
do adjustments influence your digestion and elimination.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
Absolutely, They remove the nerve interference from the nerves that
control the digestion and an elimination system, thus allowing the
digestion and elimination system to function more efficiently.

Speaker 6 (34:47):
So the things that you're doing in your life that
cause stress that they are part of the lifestyle choices
you make. Do those affect your large intestine? And how
do they affect it?

Speaker 5 (34:58):
Well, it can affect the large intestine. It directly impacts
what we hold onto versus what we limitate and what
we can let go of. And since the large intestine
is in charge of what we hold on to versus
what we let go of, obviously those stresses and lifestyle
choices will impact your large intestine, and if they are,

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then the solution to that is about helping you to
figure out how to let it go.

Speaker 6 (35:24):
Well. I would think one of the things that you
might be able to do is increase your physical activity.
I mean, doesn't that play a role in your ability
to eliminate?

Speaker 5 (35:32):
It does, and the expanding and contracting of the diaphragm
in a proper way helps to promote peristalsis and the
movement through the intestines for release from the body. So
exercise is quite important.

Speaker 6 (35:46):
And so it's posture play a role in this and
your spinal health overall. I mean, we've talked about getting
an adjustment, but what about the overall condition of your spine.

Speaker 5 (35:58):
Well, yeah, you want to keep your spine properly aligned
and have the various curves that it's supposed to have
so that proper communication between the brain and the body
continue very efficiently, and in this case for your low back,
and make sure that the communication to the large intestin
also works efficiently.

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Speaker 6 (37:12):
Well, today we're talking about the large intestine health and
which is an organ of elimination. Are there breathing exercises
that support both the lungs which we talked about last
month and the large intestine as mental helmet organs.

Speaker 5 (37:27):
Yeah, and the easiest, most natural one is to belly
breathe versus the all too common chest breathing. And so
when you're belly breathing during exercise, hopefully aerobic exercise, and
you're expanding your diaphragm fully and the abdominal contents are
moving out of the way and your belly comes out

(37:49):
when you take a full breath in. It's not that
your shoulders go up when you breathe in. Your belly
should move out when you breathe in, because if your
shoulders are moving up when you breathe in, then you're
holding your diaphragm stationary and you're becoming a chest breather
as opposed to a belly breather. And so focusing and

(38:13):
having intention to belly breathe versus the chest breathing is
very very important to help with the natural movement in
and out of the lungs and in and out of
the large intestine.

Speaker 6 (38:28):
Now, we talked earlier about probiotics, and one of the
ways I hear you can get probiotics in your diet
is by eating fermented foods. So are those helpful for
the large intestine microbiome?

Speaker 5 (38:39):
The fermented foods feed the microbiome and support their health
and balance. Yes, so fermented foods are a good thing
to do, and taking a probiotic is a good thing
to do if you're not eating fermented foods all the time.

Speaker 6 (38:54):
Now, another thing, it seems to cause a lot of
these intestinal issues that we were talking about, Like wheat
and gluten. Are those major culprits and large intestine issues.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
Gluten definitely is, and wheat is a major contributor to
the gluten issue because wheat is a major grain where
one gets their gluten from. You can be gluten sensitive,
you can have a gluten analogy, you could have various
issues when you get exposed to too much gluten. And

(39:29):
with what they've done to the grains that we are using,
to make the kinds of breads and other baked products.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
That we eat.

Speaker 5 (39:38):
Wheat and gluten are major culprits as far as large
intestine goes, And there's a way to fix all of that,
and you should take the time to fix it, and
therefore you don't have to feel like you're walking on
a type rope through your own life.

Speaker 6 (39:52):
Wow. Okay. What the other one that would be is
that I hear a lot about is people struggling with dairy.

Speaker 5 (39:58):
That's typically because they like the enzyme's necessary to process
the milk sugar known as lactose, so they lack the
lactase enzyme necessary to process the lactose. And you know,
you could get lactaid milk which is free from lactose,
which is kind of oxymoronish because lactose is milk sugar.

(40:22):
And why would you be drinking milk that has had
the milk sugar removed from it and still call it
milk because it's not at that point?

Speaker 6 (40:32):
That's interesting. Now, along with all these foods and things
like that, do your muscles affect what's going on with
your large intestine? Are there specific muscles that are associated
with the large intestine?

Speaker 5 (40:44):
Yeah, your hamstrings at the back of your thigh. There's
another muscle on the lateral aspect of your thigh called
your tents or fasci lotta. It starts at the lateral
hip and the tendon of the muscle itself continues down
the lateral aspect of your thigh all the way below
the knee joint. There's a four sided muscle that's in

(41:06):
your back called the quadratus lumborum and attaches from your
pelvis to the twelfth rib at the end of your
thoracic spine.

Speaker 6 (41:18):
And so it's a.

Speaker 5 (41:21):
Four sided muscle hence the quadratus, and it expands your
whole lumbar spine, hence the lumborum.

Speaker 6 (41:30):
Now, if you're having some kind of difficulty releasing those
kind of muscular issues, could that be related to your
larger intestine or the other way around.

Speaker 5 (41:41):
Well, it's a question who came first to chicken or
the eggs. So when you develop toxins due to the
accumulation from the lack of letting go, the intestines will
send those toxins to some of the muscles associated with
the holding on, and those specific muscles will become dysfunctional
and inflamed, so those muscles will typically be your low

(42:04):
back muscles.

Speaker 6 (42:05):
What emotions are associated with the large intestine, Well.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
The primary emotions are being dogmatic or rigid in your
way of thinking. You can have the emotions of crying,
the one that's called compelled to neatness. Things have to
be a particular way in order for you to relax.
The last one is being defensive. And the secondary emotions
that we mentioned last month when we talked about the

(42:29):
lungs are grief, sadness, yearning, cloudy thinking, and anguish and
all of those things. Ideally, if one wants to be
balanced and harmonious, they have to figure out how to
let go of them.

Speaker 6 (42:42):
So is there some way you can help with what
you're doing with the large intestine to actually release some
of those unwanted or backed up emotions. Oh. Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (42:51):
We use a wonderful technique that's very very powerful and
it's very very effective, and that's called neuro emotional technique
or any tea for short. And we will locate the emotion,
we will locate the organ, we will link the two
of them together and have you breathe through that emotion
as you run the film in your mind's eye, and

(43:12):
you run the film until it no longer seems to
create a hold on you, and then we'll just check
to make sure that it's fully gone.

Speaker 6 (43:21):
Now, the two things you can do is you can
hold on to your emotions. You can suppress your emotions.
What happens to your health when you do those.

Speaker 5 (43:30):
Two things, Your overall health over time will begin and
continue to fail if you are holding on to those
feelings and suppressing them. Ideally, when you feel them, you
should deal with them and ultimately release them out of
you instead of holding onto you and allowing them to
create imbalances wherever you happen to be stuffing those emotions.

Speaker 6 (43:52):
Well, how do you, I mean, how do you release them?

Speaker 5 (43:56):
You breathe into your belly, feel the emotion instead of
suppressing them, and handle them until they're fully resolved.

Speaker 6 (44:05):
Now a while, with emotions, the foods we eat and
the medicines we consume, those are all impacting your digestive
health and your large intestine.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
That is correct, good quality food feeds the digestive system
and the body to be balanced and healthy. Medications and
all the completely refined and processed or what I call
the crap foods lead to digestive system disruption and then
health concerns follow over time.

Speaker 6 (44:31):
When it comes to releasing your emotions, are there safe
ways to do that? Acceptable ways that you can find
to get them, especially if you have some really backed
up emotion.

Speaker 5 (44:41):
Absolutely, you want to breathe and you want to feel them.
Exercise in an aerobic fashion will help this, so walking, running, swimming, cycling,
the elliptical, the staremaster, anything that gets you belly breathing
for a minimum of thirty minutes will start that process,
and it's up to you to continue the process and
to do it regularly. It's important to take the time

(45:09):
to help yourself to let go of the things that
you don't need and no longer need to hold on to,
and to create space for the things that you do need.
If you want your life to change, then you got
to take the garbage out, and in this case, you
got to let it all go.

Speaker 6 (45:26):
Now, since you are able to deal with people who
have some of these health conditions, somebody that may come
into you that might have a Crohn's disease or might
have irritable balance syndrome, what do you do to help them?
And how would that process look to.

Speaker 5 (45:41):
Them well, we address the underlying cause and handle the
imbalance until it goes back into balance instead of being
out of balance. And so for every person it's different.
I mean, we look at their emotional we look at
their toxicity, we look at their nutrition, we look at
if there's any sensitivities, We look at their structure, their physiology,

(46:04):
we look at potential spiritual levels. Whatever the case happens
to be, to help bring that person back into balance.
And if it's affecting the large intestine, we help them
to let go of that.

Speaker 6 (46:17):
Are there herbs or supplements that you can use to
help with things like constipation or diarrhea?

Speaker 5 (46:22):
There are mark we recommend both depending on the circumstances
and what will support the person's best and we do
that by making sure that their body resonates with what
it is that we're going to give them prior to
them taking it as a remedy.

Speaker 6 (46:39):
And if you use these, I mean, you have a
lot of different therapies that you use and a lot
of grim tools that you use to address the symptoms.
Is there a preference You obviously have a preference to
doing that versus using a medical intervention. Can you work
in conjunction with a medical evaluation that somebody has gotten well.

Speaker 5 (47:03):
You absolutely can, and that's entirely up to the person
with the issue. Just appreciate that one is more about
restoring health and function and the other is about repressing
and suppressing the imbalance. That's the difference between the natural
therapies versus the medical evaluation. And you know, I'm happy

(47:23):
to work with any medical practitioners. What I have found
over the years is the fact that even if we
share a patient, if I even reach out to their
medical doctor in an effort to help make them aware
of what it is that we're finding and what we're
dealing with so that they can update the patient's file
the next time that they come in, I don't get

(47:46):
a lot of positive feedback from the other doctors and
their office staff, etc. And you know, I don't take
any of it personally, But at the end of the day,
we're both part of the team that helps the patient.
The patient is the boss, and if I'm doing what

(48:06):
I can to support my patient by communicating with their
medical practitioner, that's all I can do.

Speaker 6 (48:14):
Mm hmmm. Now, just in terms of daily habits, are
there specific things you can do to keep your large
intestine healthy for the long term.

Speaker 5 (48:23):
Absolutely, eat quality food, drink quality water, belly breathe exercise,
get quality sleep. Adding a probiotic and avoiding sugar are
quite helpful. And if you know you have a problem,
address that at the source versus treating the symptoms. And
that would mean coming to somebody like me who's going

(48:44):
to get to the bottom of the situation and help
to rebuild your health from the inside out.

Speaker 6 (48:50):
To what kind of warning signs should people look for
the not ignore when it comes to a large intestine health.

Speaker 5 (48:56):
Well, we've kind of already talked about them. Constipation, diarrhea
or any irregularity, and eliminating as often as you take
food in. So if you eat three times a day,
you should be eliminating three times a day. And if
you're eating three times a day or more and you're
not eliminating three times a day or more, then you
have a problem. And you know you have a problem,

(49:18):
and you need to take the time to actually go
figure that out sooner rather than later, because I promise
you this, problems only get bigger the more you try
to avoid them.

Speaker 6 (49:29):
No, okay, So to put this aside, the avoidance idea.
What's the one thing that most people could change today
that would improve their ability to eliminate and their overall
gut health.

Speaker 5 (49:43):
One thing I would ask people to make it a
priority if there is a problem and get professional help
instead of attempting to do it yourself proper guidance. You know,
what's the phrase an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound to cure. So it takes the time to be
on top of your health and be on top of
how your body's functioning, and become acquainted with what is

(50:05):
considered healthy and normal, not necessarily what is considered your normal,
because your normal may not be normal at all.

Speaker 6 (50:13):
Well, that's an interesting point that your normal may not
be normal. How would you know? And is it just
advisable to go in and have that sort of checked out.
So if there's somebody out there listening that would think,
I'm not sure if it's normal or abnormal, I can't tell.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
Well, you need to have a conversation, and you probably
need to have an evaluation. And if you're thinking that
may or may not be abnormal, then that's the you know,
spirit is asking you to go get that looked at
and do it sooner rather than later, because I can
tell you that the more you put it off, the
bigger the problem gets.

Speaker 6 (50:48):
So, as we are just about to wrap up our
show today and somebody's been listening to what we've been
talking about, has maybe some concerns about their large intestine,
the health of their ability to eliminate, or maybe they
have a different health care problem altogether. What would the
best ways to go out reach out to you and

(51:08):
see if you could get get an answer to their
problem that maybe is different than anything they've heard before.

Speaker 5 (51:14):
Well, they should pick up the phone and call me
directly at area code eight four five five six one
two two two five again eight four five five six
one two two two five. That is my personal cell
phone number. I will be the one answering the phone.
If I don't answer the phone, please leave a message
with your name and phone number and I will call

(51:36):
you back. Some people are very intrusive. I don't know
them from a hole in the wall, and they will
send me a text. They won't identify who they are,
They'll just put it in the form of a question.
And until I know who I'm talking to, I'm not
going to give anybody an answer. I need to know
what the circumstances are, so I would encourage you to
call me. If you want to do the text thing

(51:58):
and you want to get a more personable response, then
send me an email at doc Rick d oc ri
c K at spineboy dot com. I'm happy to communicate
you through email. If you give me permission to call you,
I will call you.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (52:15):
The best way to really get a true understanding of
what's going on is take the time to stop into
the office and introduce yourself and tell me what you're
dealing with. And I promise you I will help you
get to the bottom of whatever it is that you're
dealing with. And so I want to thank you the
listener for tuning in. I want to thank you Mark
for putting this show together. I'm going to ask the

(52:37):
listener to tune back in next week, same health time,
same health station. This is doctor Richard Untune from Advanced
Alternative Medicine Center saying, I look forward to supporting you
when you're health matters.

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