January 20, 2025 • 40 mins
More than ten million women in the US take HRT (hormone replacement therapy) to relieve symptoms of menopause including hot flashes and night sweats, sleep difficulty, mood changes, vaginal health challenges and sometimes loss of bladder control. But now scientists claim HRT increases Alzheimer’s risk by 60%. Dr. Bob Martin answers callers’ health related questions on a variety of topics
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Now, before we get to phone calls a little bit
later in this hour, your calls, I wanted to start
out this hour talking about how and what we're learning
about as it relates to a problem with prescription drugs
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that are prescribed by medical doctors and celebrities who are
pushing this class of drugs. Some of you may be
taking them right now, or one of your loved ones
maybe taking these drug class and you don't realize the
problem associated with it. This class of drugs talking about
are related to hormone replacement therapy HRT prescription drug. This
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class back by these mds and celebrities could raise the raise,
raise the rate or the risk of Alzheimer's disease. Women
taking a common common medically prescribed menopausal treatment HRT hormone
replacement therapy could be at an increased risk of developing
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Alzheimer's disease. That's what the research is suggesting right now.
This is the latest breaking news out on this. Can
you imagine in a doctor's visit that a woman is
waiting to see her doctor. She's waiting in his office
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and she says, Doc, look, I I'm here because I'm
just miserable. I've got sweats, night sweats. It's just driving
me up a wall. I can't sleep, my husband tells me.
And my moods all over the board, mood changes. I've
got vaginal dryness, I have no libido, but my bladder
is going crazy at night or during the day. What
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do you have for me? What can you do for me?
And the doctor whips out his prescription pattern. He says, look,
you're going through menopause. You're fifty three, or you're sixty,
or you're sixty two. You're going through menopause. These things happen,
and we can fix you right up. Oh, thank goodness, doctor,
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I'm so glad to hear you say that.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
What do you have for me?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well, I have this hormone replacement therapy. Just go fill
this at the pharmacy and it should.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Solve all your problems.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Not only will it solve your hot flashes and your
night sweats and your loss of libido, it's also going
to help your memory. And then you read this latest
article out about how hormone replacement therapy, which uses synthetic
versions of female sex hormones like estrogen to replace levels
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lost at a certain time in a person's life. With
their age usually the average eight around fifty two, it
could be sooner than that. Some women go sooner than
that into metapause, premiopause.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Or after.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It has soared in popularity, these hormone replacement therapy drugs.
And over the years, because I've been doing talk radio
now going on forty years, there's been all kinds of
scares in this category, from breast cancer to uter and
you name it, and it quietly went away, and now
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it's enjoying a resurgence. Hormone replacement therapy under the offices
of Oh, that research wasn't that good. It was faulty,
and the benefits outweigh the risks.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Well, look, hormone replacement therapy right now is taken by
tens of millions of women in the US, and if
it has any risk or any chance of causing Alzheimer's
disease in a patient who is getting ready to take it,
they should know. There should be full disclosure, because who
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would choose to have a risk of Alzheimer's disease? Where
you lose your brain, you lose your ability to think
even who you are? Who would risk that to reduce
let's say a hot flash or a night sweat that
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may eventually go away on its own or could be
remediated by natural means. Who would ever risk taking the
synthetic version of this drug class I don't think a
single person if they were disclosed from the outset, but
most aren't. Most doctors don't have time to sit in
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the office and explain the potential adverse risks because they'd
be there all day. So we must take it upon
ourselves to perform due diligence to see whether or not
there are risks benefits and whether the risks are greater
than the benefits, and you put the brakes on it
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and say, I think I'm going to go another direction.
I don't think I'm gonna swallow that drug because I
don't want my brain going south on me. I don't
want Alzheimer's disease, and I certainly don't want the risk
of brisk cancer or blood clots or any of the
other problems that go along with taking synthetic hormone replacement therapy.
So I'm gonna I'm going to find a way to
resolve this problem on my own if it exists, or
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I'm just gonna suffer through it until I get through
it because I don't want all zhemer disease. Now that's
just to me. It would be logical. But I can't
state that I'm not a female, but I think most
women that I know would go that route.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
What say you?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
But experts say the surging demand for hormone replacement therapy
is partly due to celebrities and drug commercials on television
at nauseum hailing the benefits of and claiming that these
HRT drugs, these hormone replacement therapy drugs does everything from
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boosting your sex drive to sharpening your memory, just the
opposite of what this latest information out. Scientists from Liverpool
John Moore's University have found that women with a with
a particular genetic trait who take the HRT or hormone
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replacement drugs have a whopping sixty percent higher level of
a molecule linked to Alzheimer's disease compared to genetically vulnerable
women not on the treatment.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
So this is scary stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
When I ran across it, I thought, I owe it
to my audience to bring this up. Now, you may
not be particularly at risk of this, but and you know,
the pharmaceutical companies will always spin it. They will always
have that admonition at all. Well, it's rare, this is
so rare. Yeah, Well it's rare unless it happens to
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you where you get Alzheimer's disease from HRT or from
AUN replacement therapy. Then it's not so rare, And it's
not so rare to your family because they don't know
who you are. You don't know who you are, you
don't know where you are. We'll finish this off when
we come back.
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about how prescription drugs backed by medical doctors, the pharmaceutical companies,
and celebrities could raise the risk of Alzheimer's disease if
you take the hormone replacement therapy drug that they prescribe.
That's not what I'm saying. It's what the scientists are
saying about it.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Now.
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It has to do with a certain genetic makeup of
a particular female that it.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Can happen a gene called apo E four a POE four.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
The gene is relatively common and found in about one
in four people. How can this be rare? They call
it rare? You know, Oh, take the hormone replacement drug
for your hot flashes, for your night sweats, for your
sleeping difficulty, for your mood changes, for your drive aginal area,
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for your loss of libido, and your bladder problems. Take
this drug, You'll be fine. And somebody forgets to tell
you that one in four women who have this gene
are putting themselves at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease if
they take the homer replacement drug.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Who do that?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
That's like putting a bullet. You know, you've got a gun.
It's got four chambers. And somebody says, okay, there's one
bullet in this chamber, there's three that are not. You
want to put the gun up against your head.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I don't think so. Why not A four? Not good odds?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
There's other ways to go about helping hot flashes and
night sweats and sleeping problems. There are safer, in my opinion, effective,
in science based ways to cover and deal with these issues.
And I've treated many women with menopausal symptoms naturally and
all of their problems completely went away, even after they
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had been on hormone replacement therapy. In fact, my own wife,
and she doesn't mind me saying this on the radio,
my wife of fifty years, we just celebrated this last year,
fifty years of being married. She went through metopause, and
she didn't even know she was going through metopause. She
never had one single hot flash, no night sweats, no
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sleep problems, and we thought, well.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Maybe it's not gonna happen. Honey. Never did.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
When you have a balanced body in a balanced system,
these things are less likely to happen. Some women don't
have any hot flashes, and other women it's just hell
on earth. And I get that, and we want relief
for those people who are suffering. We don't want women
to suffer with hot flashes and night sweats and all
these issues.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
But we want to also not.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Allow you to put yourself at risk just because you
don't know about hormone replacement therapy, the synthetic versions creating
a risk of Alzheimer's disease. And I dare say most
women who are being prescribed these drugs do not know this.
It's just not being disclosed, or if it is, it's
glossed over and it's the prototypical pharmaceutical.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, yeah, it's rare. This is not gonna happen, No,
not to you.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
One out of four have this gene that's capable of
generating it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Previous research has found those with one copy of the
gene have a double or triple the chance of developing
Alzheimer's disease, though this can rise to tenfold for those
with two copies of this genetic makeup. Alzheimer's disease is
the leading cause of dementia, a memory robbing disorder that
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strips people of their independence, and that is on the
rise in America. It is the authors of the study
said the research, though in its early stages, could have
implications for deciding which women take hormone replacement therapy in
the future.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Now, I'm not saying that hormone.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Replacement therapy hasn't helped anybody, because it can, but is
it worth rolling the dice to risk blood cloth?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I mean, I'm not going to go through.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
All the risks associated with hormone replacement therapy, like all
bledder disease and blood clots and cancer and now Alzheimer's disease.
One of the lead authors in this study, doctor David Bruno,
who led the study, said, and I quote, if our
results are confirmed, they would caution against HRT use in
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women with an elevated risk of Alzheimer's disease due to
the genic susceptibility. We're talking about one in four people,
not good odds. So on the back end of this,
what do you do well? There are ways to go
about helping women with that are struggling with hormone related problems.
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There are there are effective, safe and natural ways, nonsynthetic ways.
Regular exercise we know helps reduce the risks and the
feelings of metapausal symptoms and helps to boost sleep and
reduces hot flashes and even mood. So right, and just
walking and not being sedentary. Healthy diet is important. Cutting
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down on coffee and caffeine will also help.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
In this category.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Cutting down on alcohol and spicy foods. And if you're smoking,
please that definitely increases hot flashes.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Not and only that. Lung cats are an art disease.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
If you need to lose some weight, get into the
gym or at home and do a combination of aerobic exercise, hiking, biking, walking,
playing tennis. Maybe you'll increase your strength of your bones
and your muscles and lose some weight and also help
your hot flashes. And then there's the most important category
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of them all, and that is bioidentical hormone therapy. What
does that mean, doctor Bob, Well, it's the same thing
that they're trying to get to through the synthetic, unnatural
way to go about it. Hormone replacement therapy can be
done safely, naturally through what is called bioidentical hormones, which
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are precise duplicates of human hormones that are plant based.
They're not coming from the urine of a pregnant horse,
which is what synthetic hormone replacement therapy is based on.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
That's why the side effects. These are different kinds.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
You've got compounded bioidentical hormones which are not recommended by
conventional doctors usually unless the doctor is a nature pathic
physician or has been trained in functional medicine. That could
be a DO, it could be an MD, it could
be a registered nurse or a nurse practitioner that if
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they're familiar with compounded bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, which is
made up of plant hormones that are identical to human hormones,
unlike the synthetic stuff, which is based on another animal's
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hormones coming through urine.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That's what HRT is. Then it's a whole new ballgame.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
And of course the bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is regulated
which are authorized and are seen as safe and effective
in treating menopausal symptoms. So please, if you have menopause
or premenopause and you're starting to notice some symptomatology, starting
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to get some hot sweats, some night sweats, hot flashes,
whatever you want to call them, you're not sleeping. Well,
things are starting to change and it can affect women
over the age of thirty five. I've seen it early.
I've seen it late. I've seen none of it. Speak
to your doctor. Find a doctor who knows about bioidentical
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hormones so you don't have to subject yourself to these
HRT synthetic drugs which increases your risk of Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's the latest one.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
There's many other problems with it, and consider doing complimentary
therapies and you know, helping your body on other levels.
You'd be better off doing that. But again, it's your choice,
it's your option. I'm just bringing it to you so
that you're reminded of it.
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My name is Lueta Marion, Iowa. Oh, my health question
is about impacted intestines. My grandson is nine years old.
He is severely impacted. He goes to a gastro entrologist
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drink is that you take when you're going to have
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has put together a formula called Emma that is supposed
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I think it would be beneficial for my grandson, but
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would be. So if you could get back to me,
on this product if you think it would work before
they end up doing surgery on this poor little guy.
I'd like to give this a shot, but again, he's
nine years old. All right, thank you for your input.
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Most of the time.
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All right, Lueta, thank you so much for your call.
Sweet lady. Look, I can relate to this. I have
a grandson.
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It's about that age, and.
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This is highly unusual to have a child nine years
of age having an impaction. I'd want to know why.
We got to get to the reason why. I mean,
there's ways to decompress.
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But why is this happening. It's unusual.
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If it were somebody that walked into my office, I
would be checking things out for the reasons why. There's
a valve in the lower right quadrant of the abdomen
between the small and large bowel called the illeo sekal valve,
the illio secal valve that can get blocked and obstructed
and cause this very thing. How does it get obstructed? Well,
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these children, they woof food down. They don't chew food.
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They're in a hurry.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
So if he eats let's say some meat, or he's
eating popcorn or nuts or seeds, that can get stuck
there because they're not fully masticated. Also, kids at this
age they're jumping out of high places and they're jamming
their spines. If his lumbar spine in the area where
the nerves feed out to the ball gets jarred and misaligned,
it will shut down partially the signal from the brain
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to the ball and the musculature and not have peristaltic
waves come through there. He needs to see a chiropractor
or somebody that does applied kinesiology that can check for
this ilioseco valve syndrome and spinal problems. I would also
recommend to start eating prunes and giving him liquid vitamin
C upwards of five thousand milligrams over the day in
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water to loosen him up. No dairy products please, they're constipating.
Cut back on the meat, increase the fiber, increase the mobility,
and let's hope that this young guy gets better soon.
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Lueta, thank you for calling. And here's behalf. I'm doctor
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Hi, my name is two Walla, Walla, Washington, and I
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is how important is it that they may continue going
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to a neurologists. It's such disease that is there's no
recovery from Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Well, thank you Sue for calling on your husband's behalf. Yes, uh,
he should continue seeing the neurologist. These are the areas,
the specialty area of medicine, and this doctor who he's
seeing is probably the most well equipped. Now, whether or
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for him or you know, be it pharmaceutical or otherwise,
that's a choice you'll ultimately have to make. And let's
hope that the diagnosis is accurate. And I say that
because I have personally treated you know, at least dozens
of patients who were misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's disease misdiagnosed. And
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when I say that, what we find with a good
number of people who might have symptoms of Alzheimer's disease
when they actually have a vitamin deficiency, certain vitamin deficiencies
that can absolutely mimic the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and
that includes vitamin B twelve vitamin B twelve And again,
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I don't want you to get rid of the neurologist.
What I want you to do is to consider encouraging
the neurologists to run some tests to see if in
fact there's an overlay of some nutritional component which is
mimicking or making worse. If your husband does have in
fact Alzheimer's disease, and there are ways to find that
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out through MRIs et cetera.
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Or other ways, but you need to take more of
a a kind of a.
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Conservative, proactive approach, in my opinion, not necessarily seeking a
cure because we know there's no known cure, but rather
slowing down the progression and maybe improving his quality of life.
Ask the neurologist that is seeing your husband to run
an MMA test.
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It's a blood test.
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MMA stands for methyl melanic acid. In addition to the
MMA blood test that should be run on your husband
to rule out any vitamin B twelve deficiency because if
that's there, it'll mimic Alzheimer's disease and actually make Alzheimer's
disease worse. They should also run a blood test called homocysteine.
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Homocysteine blood tests to determine if he has low vitamin
B twelve status. Do not allow anyone to rely on
a B twelve test with serum blood test only. It's inaccurate.
It doesn't work. That's why you have to have methyl
melanic acid MMA and a homocysteine test. Do not allow
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them to just run a regular B twelve serum test.
It's inaccurate for determining B T one deficiency. Meanwhile, consider
starting him on something called vin postin vin Postatin. It's
a herb that's used as a smart drug in Europe.
Works very well for memory issues. Omega three oils are
very important for him. Salmon oil at least fifteen hundred
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milligrams per day on an empty stomach. I would also
give him something called clinical glut thione by Terry Naturally Vitamins.
Clinical glue to thione, the master antioxidant and bioactive coenzyme
Q ten. Both of those are from Terry Naturally Vitamins.
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He needs to get started on that. It should help
him with his general health and may help him with
his cognition.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Don't kid yourself.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
There are ways to modulate his nutrition to benefit the
way his mind in his brain chemistry work. So we
want to rule out the B twelve deficiency by doing
the blood tests and then giving him sublingual forms of
vitamin B twelve in the form of methyl cobolman methyl
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cobolamin only. There's many different kinds of cobolomans B twelve
methyl coboloman. If the MMA or methyl bolonic acid test
is low and the homocysteine test is high, we need
to get him started on that, along with looking into
these other things like vin post it in, Omega three oils,
the clinical glutothione and bioactive coins ime Q ten by
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Terry Naturally vitamins found at health food stores.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Yes, there are ways. I've helped a lot of.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
People with dementia and even Alzheimer's disease, not claiming to
cure it, but just rather support them so that they
function optimally as possible.
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All Right, Sue, thank you for calling on his behalf.
Stay tuned. I'm coming right back. It's the Doctor Bob
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that are prescribed by medical doctors and celebrities who are
pushing this class of drugs. Some of you may be
taking them right now, or one of your loved ones
maybe taking these drug class and you don't realize the
problem associated with it. This class of drugs talking about
are related to hormone replacement therapy HRT prescription drug. This
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class back by these mds and celebrities could raise the raise,
raise the rate or the risk of Alzheimer's disease. Women
taking a common common medically prescribed menopausal treatment HRT hormone
replacement therapy could be at an increased risk of developing
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Alzheimer's disease. That's what the research is suggesting right now.
This is the latest breaking news out on this. Can
you imagine in a doctor's visit that a woman is
waiting to see her doctor. She's waiting in his office
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and she says, Doc, look, I I'm here because I'm
just miserable. I've got sweats, night sweats. It's just driving
me up a wall. I can't sleep, my husband tells me.
And my moods all over the board, mood changes. I've
got vaginal dryness, I have no libido, but my bladder
is going crazy at night or during the day. What
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do you have for me? What can you do for me?
And the doctor whips out his prescription pattern. He says, look,
you're going through menopause. You're fifty three, or you're sixty,
or you're sixty two. You're going through menopause. These things happen,
and we can fix you right up. Oh, thank goodness, doctor,
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I'm so glad to hear you say that.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
What do you have for me?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well, I have this hormone replacement therapy. Just go fill
this at the pharmacy and it should.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Solve all your problems.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Not only will it solve your hot flashes and your
night sweats and your loss of libido, it's also going
to help your memory. And then you read this latest
article out about how hormone replacement therapy, which uses synthetic
versions of female sex hormones like estrogen to replace levels
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lost at a certain time in a person's life. With
their age usually the average eight around fifty two, it
could be sooner than that. Some women go sooner than
that into metapause, premiopause.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Or after.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It has soared in popularity, these hormone replacement therapy drugs.
And over the years, because I've been doing talk radio
now going on forty years, there's been all kinds of
scares in this category, from breast cancer to uter and
you name it, and it quietly went away, and now
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it's enjoying a resurgence. Hormone replacement therapy under the offices
of Oh, that research wasn't that good. It was faulty,
and the benefits outweigh the risks.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Well, look, hormone replacement therapy right now is taken by
tens of millions of women in the US, and if
it has any risk or any chance of causing Alzheimer's
disease in a patient who is getting ready to take it,
they should know. There should be full disclosure, because who
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would choose to have a risk of Alzheimer's disease? Where
you lose your brain, you lose your ability to think
even who you are? Who would risk that to reduce
let's say a hot flash or a night sweat that
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may eventually go away on its own or could be
remediated by natural means. Who would ever risk taking the
synthetic version of this drug class I don't think a
single person if they were disclosed from the outset, but
most aren't. Most doctors don't have time to sit in
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the office and explain the potential adverse risks because they'd
be there all day. So we must take it upon
ourselves to perform due diligence to see whether or not
there are risks benefits and whether the risks are greater
than the benefits, and you put the brakes on it
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and say, I think I'm going to go another direction.
I don't think I'm gonna swallow that drug because I
don't want my brain going south on me. I don't
want Alzheimer's disease, and I certainly don't want the risk
of brisk cancer or blood clots or any of the
other problems that go along with taking synthetic hormone replacement therapy.
So I'm gonna I'm going to find a way to
resolve this problem on my own if it exists, or
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I'm just gonna suffer through it until I get through
it because I don't want all zhemer disease. Now that's
just to me. It would be logical. But I can't
state that I'm not a female, but I think most
women that I know would go that route.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
What say you?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
But experts say the surging demand for hormone replacement therapy
is partly due to celebrities and drug commercials on television
at nauseum hailing the benefits of and claiming that these
HRT drugs, these hormone replacement therapy drugs does everything from
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boosting your sex drive to sharpening your memory, just the
opposite of what this latest information out. Scientists from Liverpool
John Moore's University have found that women with a with
a particular genetic trait who take the HRT or hormone
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replacement drugs have a whopping sixty percent higher level of
a molecule linked to Alzheimer's disease compared to genetically vulnerable
women not on the treatment.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
So this is scary stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
When I ran across it, I thought, I owe it
to my audience to bring this up. Now, you may
not be particularly at risk of this, but and you know,
the pharmaceutical companies will always spin it. They will always
have that admonition at all. Well, it's rare, this is
so rare. Yeah, Well it's rare unless it happens to
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you where you get Alzheimer's disease from HRT or from
AUN replacement therapy. Then it's not so rare, And it's
not so rare to your family because they don't know
who you are. You don't know who you are, you
don't know where you are. We'll finish this off when
we come back.
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about how prescription drugs backed by medical doctors, the pharmaceutical companies,
and celebrities could raise the risk of Alzheimer's disease if
you take the hormone replacement therapy drug that they prescribe.
That's not what I'm saying. It's what the scientists are
saying about it.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
It has to do with a certain genetic makeup of
a particular female that it.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Can happen a gene called apo E four a POE four.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
The gene is relatively common and found in about one
in four people. How can this be rare? They call
it rare? You know, Oh, take the hormone replacement drug
for your hot flashes, for your night sweats, for your
sleeping difficulty, for your mood changes, for your drive aginal area,
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for your loss of libido, and your bladder problems. Take
this drug, You'll be fine. And somebody forgets to tell
you that one in four women who have this gene
are putting themselves at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease if
they take the homer replacement drug.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Who do that?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
That's like putting a bullet. You know, you've got a gun.
It's got four chambers. And somebody says, okay, there's one
bullet in this chamber, there's three that are not. You
want to put the gun up against your head.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I don't think so. Why not A four? Not good odds?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
There's other ways to go about helping hot flashes and
night sweats and sleeping problems. There are safer, in my opinion, effective,
in science based ways to cover and deal with these issues.
And I've treated many women with menopausal symptoms naturally and
all of their problems completely went away, even after they
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had been on hormone replacement therapy. In fact, my own wife,
and she doesn't mind me saying this on the radio,
my wife of fifty years, we just celebrated this last year,
fifty years of being married. She went through metopause, and
she didn't even know she was going through metopause. She
never had one single hot flash, no night sweats, no
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sleep problems, and we thought, well.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Maybe it's not gonna happen. Honey. Never did.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
When you have a balanced body in a balanced system,
these things are less likely to happen. Some women don't
have any hot flashes, and other women it's just hell
on earth. And I get that, and we want relief
for those people who are suffering. We don't want women
to suffer with hot flashes and night sweats and all
these issues.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
But we want to also not.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Allow you to put yourself at risk just because you
don't know about hormone replacement therapy, the synthetic versions creating
a risk of Alzheimer's disease. And I dare say most
women who are being prescribed these drugs do not know this.
It's just not being disclosed, or if it is, it's
glossed over and it's the prototypical pharmaceutical.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, yeah, it's rare. This is not gonna happen, No,
not to you.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
One out of four have this gene that's capable of
generating it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Previous research has found those with one copy of the
gene have a double or triple the chance of developing
Alzheimer's disease, though this can rise to tenfold for those
with two copies of this genetic makeup. Alzheimer's disease is
the leading cause of dementia, a memory robbing disorder that
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strips people of their independence, and that is on the
rise in America. It is the authors of the study
said the research, though in its early stages, could have
implications for deciding which women take hormone replacement therapy in
the future.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Now, I'm not saying that hormone.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Replacement therapy hasn't helped anybody, because it can, but is
it worth rolling the dice to risk blood cloth?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I mean, I'm not going to go through.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
All the risks associated with hormone replacement therapy, like all
bledder disease and blood clots and cancer and now Alzheimer's disease.
One of the lead authors in this study, doctor David Bruno,
who led the study, said, and I quote, if our
results are confirmed, they would caution against HRT use in
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women with an elevated risk of Alzheimer's disease due to
the genic susceptibility. We're talking about one in four people,
not good odds. So on the back end of this,
what do you do well? There are ways to go
about helping women with that are struggling with hormone related problems.
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There are there are effective, safe and natural ways, nonsynthetic ways.
Regular exercise we know helps reduce the risks and the
feelings of metapausal symptoms and helps to boost sleep and
reduces hot flashes and even mood. So right, and just
walking and not being sedentary. Healthy diet is important. Cutting
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down on coffee and caffeine will also help.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
In this category.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Cutting down on alcohol and spicy foods. And if you're smoking,
please that definitely increases hot flashes.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Not and only that. Lung cats are an art disease.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
If you need to lose some weight, get into the
gym or at home and do a combination of aerobic exercise, hiking, biking, walking,
playing tennis. Maybe you'll increase your strength of your bones
and your muscles and lose some weight and also help
your hot flashes. And then there's the most important category
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of them all, and that is bioidentical hormone therapy. What
does that mean, doctor Bob, Well, it's the same thing
that they're trying to get to through the synthetic, unnatural
way to go about it. Hormone replacement therapy can be
done safely, naturally through what is called bioidentical hormones, which
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are precise duplicates of human hormones that are plant based.
They're not coming from the urine of a pregnant horse,
which is what synthetic hormone replacement therapy is based on.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
That's why the side effects. These are different kinds.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
You've got compounded bioidentical hormones which are not recommended by
conventional doctors usually unless the doctor is a nature pathic
physician or has been trained in functional medicine. That could
be a DO, it could be an MD, it could
be a registered nurse or a nurse practitioner that if
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they're familiar with compounded bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, which is
made up of plant hormones that are identical to human hormones,
unlike the synthetic stuff, which is based on another animal's
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hormones coming through urine.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That's what HRT is. Then it's a whole new ballgame.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
And of course the bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is regulated
which are authorized and are seen as safe and effective
in treating menopausal symptoms. So please, if you have menopause
or premenopause and you're starting to notice some symptomatology, starting
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to get some hot sweats, some night sweats, hot flashes,
whatever you want to call them, you're not sleeping. Well,
things are starting to change and it can affect women
over the age of thirty five. I've seen it early.
I've seen it late. I've seen none of it. Speak
to your doctor. Find a doctor who knows about bioidentical
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hormones so you don't have to subject yourself to these
HRT synthetic drugs which increases your risk of Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's the latest one.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
There's many other problems with it, and consider doing complimentary
therapies and you know, helping your body on other levels.
You'd be better off doing that. But again, it's your choice,
it's your option. I'm just bringing it to you so
that you're reminded of it.
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get into the program now, and it would be your
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two six y two. You call that number, uh, you'll
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and the city and state you're living in. And then
your question is sacink as you can deliver it, and
I'll answer.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
That question on a future show for you.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
That number again eight eight eight five five three seven
two six ' two. It's the doctor Bob Martin listener
hotline phone number eight eight eight fifty five. And then
on your touchdown phone, doctor Bob.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
All right, we're going to go to phone.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Calls and questions momentarily, but I want to let you
know that you don't want to lose sight of one
of the most important areas to control in your life
that will reduce your risk of all kinds of health
related problems, including cardiovascular risk. We now know the oral
cavity your mouth. If you have a simmering low grade
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problem in there, whether you're aware of it or not,
you may be asymptomatic. You're not symptomatic, and yet your
gums may be a little puffy, or your gums may
bleed a little bit, or you've got some irritation deep
down in there and you you don't even recognize it.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You just go on with life.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
And that inflammation puts you at risk of cardiovascular problems
and inflammation and the rest of the body. Yes, I'm
a big fan of seeing your dentist and your dental
hygienist on a regular basis for maintenance. You got to
do that, but on a daily basis, once to twice
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(24:37):
and using the proper oral care products that will optimize
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The one I use is called Spry Spry Spry toothpaste
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Speaker 2 (25:08):
How about you?
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Speaker 2 (26:27):
We love them all right, Let's.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Go right to your phone calls now and questions. First up,
we say hello to Luetta in Marion, Iowa.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
My name is Lueta Marion, Iowa. Oh, my health question
is about impacted intestines. My grandson is nine years old.
He is severely impacted. He goes to a gastro entrologist
who continually discuss him. Enema's still softeners and whatever. That
(27:00):
drink is that you take when you're going to have
a scan, supposed to make you poop, but it doesn't.
It makes you puke instead. He goes in periodically and
they put into that and all he does is cry
and puke. When he's done, they announced he's still impacted,
and it goes on. Doctor sam agastro entrologists from New York,
(27:23):
has put together a formula called Emma that is supposed
to relieve impactions and restore the gut. I've looked at
the ingredients. They appear safe. I'm familiar with some of them.
I think it would be beneficial for my grandson, but
because he is nine, I don't know what your suggestion
(27:44):
would be. So if you could get back to me,
on this product if you think it would work before
they end up doing surgery on this poor little guy.
I'd like to give this a shot, but again, he's
nine years old. All right, thank you for your input.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
I love you.
Speaker 8 (28:06):
Most of the time.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
All right, Lueta, thank you so much for your call.
Sweet lady. Look, I can relate to this. I have
a grandson.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
It's about that age, and.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
This is highly unusual to have a child nine years
of age having an impaction. I'd want to know why.
We got to get to the reason why. I mean,
there's ways to decompress.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
But why is this happening. It's unusual.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
If it were somebody that walked into my office, I
would be checking things out for the reasons why. There's
a valve in the lower right quadrant of the abdomen
between the small and large bowel called the illeo sekal valve,
the illio secal valve that can get blocked and obstructed
and cause this very thing. How does it get obstructed? Well,
(28:51):
these children, they woof food down. They don't chew food.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
They're in a hurry.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
So if he eats let's say some meat, or he's
eating popcorn or nuts or seeds, that can get stuck
there because they're not fully masticated. Also, kids at this
age they're jumping out of high places and they're jamming
their spines. If his lumbar spine in the area where
the nerves feed out to the ball gets jarred and misaligned,
it will shut down partially the signal from the brain
(29:17):
to the ball and the musculature and not have peristaltic
waves come through there. He needs to see a chiropractor
or somebody that does applied kinesiology that can check for
this ilioseco valve syndrome and spinal problems. I would also
recommend to start eating prunes and giving him liquid vitamin
C upwards of five thousand milligrams over the day in
(29:39):
water to loosen him up. No dairy products please, they're constipating.
Cut back on the meat, increase the fiber, increase the mobility,
and let's hope that this young guy gets better soon.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Lueta, thank you for calling. And here's behalf. I'm doctor
Bob Martin.
Speaker 9 (30:05):
I'm a bush of number signcible, the one never single
days up. I'm stop love today.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
All right, doctor Bob marching back with you. Thank you
so very much for tuning into the program. Remember the
extension of this radio show where you can stay in
touch with you gs truly always my website doctor Bob
dot com spelling out the word doctor doctor Bob dot com.
The toll free number you just heard Lueta, she called
into the program, and I want to give you the
(30:52):
toll free number that we're using currently our normal number.
They're working on it to get it back in order.
But that way you you have a second number just
in case you'd need it. But if you have a
health question, call this number right now. You'll hear me
answer the phone. I'll ask you to state your first name,
city and state you're living in, and then your question
(31:14):
or your health related comment that number eight eight eight
five five three seven two six ' two eight eight
eight five five three seven two sixty two or one
triple eight fifty five and then on your touchtone phone.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Doctor Bob.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Dr Bob right right back to your telephone calls and
questions on the topic of health. Next up is Sue
in Walla, Walla, Washington.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Hi, my name is two Walla, Walla, Washington, and I
am calling because my husband has Alzheimer's and I think
he's getting close to them he's either in the middle
stages or close to the middle stages. So my question
is how important is it that they may continue going
(32:00):
to a neurologists. It's such disease that is there's no
recovery from Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Well, thank you Sue for calling on your husband's behalf. Yes, uh,
he should continue seeing the neurologist. These are the areas,
the specialty area of medicine, and this doctor who he's
seeing is probably the most well equipped. Now, whether or
not you do whatever the doctor's recommending that you do
(32:31):
for him or you know, be it pharmaceutical or otherwise,
that's a choice you'll ultimately have to make. And let's
hope that the diagnosis is accurate. And I say that
because I have personally treated you know, at least dozens
of patients who were misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's disease misdiagnosed. And
(32:57):
when I say that, what we find with a good
number of people who might have symptoms of Alzheimer's disease
when they actually have a vitamin deficiency, certain vitamin deficiencies
that can absolutely mimic the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and
that includes vitamin B twelve vitamin B twelve And again,
(33:19):
I don't want you to get rid of the neurologist.
What I want you to do is to consider encouraging
the neurologists to run some tests to see if in
fact there's an overlay of some nutritional component which is
mimicking or making worse. If your husband does have in
fact Alzheimer's disease, and there are ways to find that
(33:42):
out through MRIs et cetera.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Or other ways, but you need to take more of
a a kind of a.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Conservative, proactive approach, in my opinion, not necessarily seeking a
cure because we know there's no known cure, but rather
slowing down the progression and maybe improving his quality of life.
Ask the neurologist that is seeing your husband to run
an MMA test.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
It's a blood test.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
MMA stands for methyl melanic acid. In addition to the
MMA blood test that should be run on your husband
to rule out any vitamin B twelve deficiency because if
that's there, it'll mimic Alzheimer's disease and actually make Alzheimer's
disease worse. They should also run a blood test called homocysteine.
(34:35):
Homocysteine blood tests to determine if he has low vitamin
B twelve status. Do not allow anyone to rely on
a B twelve test with serum blood test only. It's inaccurate.
It doesn't work. That's why you have to have methyl
melanic acid MMA and a homocysteine test. Do not allow
(34:55):
them to just run a regular B twelve serum test.
It's inaccurate for determining B T one deficiency. Meanwhile, consider
starting him on something called vin postin vin Postatin. It's
a herb that's used as a smart drug in Europe.
Works very well for memory issues. Omega three oils are
very important for him. Salmon oil at least fifteen hundred
(35:16):
milligrams per day on an empty stomach. I would also
give him something called clinical glut thione by Terry Naturally Vitamins.
Clinical glue to thione, the master antioxidant and bioactive coenzyme
Q ten. Both of those are from Terry Naturally Vitamins.
(35:37):
He needs to get started on that. It should help
him with his general health and may help him with
his cognition.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Don't kid yourself.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
There are ways to modulate his nutrition to benefit the
way his mind in his brain chemistry work. So we
want to rule out the B twelve deficiency by doing
the blood tests and then giving him sublingual forms of
vitamin B twelve in the form of methyl cobolman methyl
(36:12):
cobolamin only. There's many different kinds of cobolomans B twelve
methyl coboloman. If the MMA or methyl bolonic acid test
is low and the homocysteine test is high, we need
to get him started on that, along with looking into
these other things like vin post it in, Omega three oils,
the clinical glutothione and bioactive coins ime Q ten by
(36:34):
Terry Naturally vitamins found at health food stores.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Yes, there are ways. I've helped a lot of.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
People with dementia and even Alzheimer's disease, not claiming to
cure it, but just rather support them so that they
function optimally as possible.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
All Right, Sue, thank you for calling on his behalf.
Stay tuned. I'm coming right back. It's the Doctor Bob
margin Show.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
This is my Sun Sun not pos.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
All right, Doctor Bob Martin, back with you. We've got
just a few minutes left in this segment of the program.
But We've got a lot to talk about, so don't
go anywhere. Coming up later is the Health Alternative of
the week, the Health Outrage of the week. We've got
a product recall to tell you about, and we'll have
the health mystery of the week, also teed up and
(37:43):
ready to go for you. Now, last week we had
a little technical difficulty in the area of our toll
free number into our Doctor Bob Martin Show caller hotline,
and we want to make sure that you have our
secondary number just in case, because once in a while
this sort of thing happens, an ice storm happens somewhere,
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equipment work doesn't work. We have redundancy UH in the
backup just for this very same reason until we can
get our normal number back in order.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
So jot down this number for safekeeping.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Passing on to your sick friends who need to call
into the program to ask a question about their health
or make a health comment. The number eight eight eight
five five three seven two six two.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
This is a way to call in.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
You'll hear me answer the phone and ask you to
give your first name, city and state only, and your question,
and then you'll hear your question all the air and
me answering it eight eight eight five, five, three seven
two six two or one triple eight fifty five doctor Bob.
And of course the website doctor bob dot com. There
(38:47):
you'll have to spell out the word doctor docto r
bob dot com. All right, let's get another phone call
in before the end of the hour. Next is Bernice
in San Manuel, Arizona.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
Hi, doctor Bob, This is Bernie from someoneo Arizona. I
have a question about strokes and heart attacks. I have
a friend who had a stroke and she does eat
a lot of vegetables because she didn't like too much
meat or meat, just a lot of vegetables. Anyway, they
didn't put her on anything for her stroke. Should she
(39:17):
be on something to prevent a stroke or a heart attack? Again?
And also had a question about heart attacks. After you
have a stroke, you're more likely to have a heart attack.
Is there something called not toe canaise I'm not sure
you pronounce it not toe canaise that can prevent or
clean out your arterial plaque. And also, Sarah pep piece
(39:41):
do they work? And how many can you do that?
If just as a precaution, like a lot of people
don't even know they're going to have a heart attack.
With this work to help clean their arterial plaque out.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Thank you all right, Bernice, thank you for your phone call.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Yes, stroke and hearting. When you have a stroke, usually
you damage the heart anyway, so it's already there. So yes,
what you have to do is you have to take antioxidants.
They're important, control blood pressure, find ways to exercise, lower stress,
don't smoke. There's a book that she should get and
read and start on this diet called The Hawaii Diet
(40:15):
by doctor Terry Shintani. He's a Harvard trained medical doctor.
The Hawaii Diet excellent book for people needing a lifestyle
change or help in this area.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
And the supplement is called vascular Defense.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
It's got the Sarah pept sid at the NATO Kaines
Eelembro kondites Vascular Defense for her at sunnutrition dot com.
Sunnutrition dot com for vascular Defense. Thank you for the
phone call.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
We'll drive back.
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