November 1, 2025 • 54 mins
Very few of us receive the nutrition that we need from our diet, making proper supplementation a vital part of our health. 68% of all Americans take supplements on a regular basis. In this episode, you'll find out:
—Why Dr. Prather does NOT recommend multivitamins for most patients.
—The safety of supplements and why you need lab tests before taking any supplement. (And the shocking number of deaths per year from PROPERLY prescribed pharmaceuticals.)
—How the Structure/Function Health Care model practiced by Holistic Integration, by the FDA's own definition, truly does no harm.
—Why Dr. Prather says America has "the best Disease Care in the entire world", but "one of the worst Health Care models in the entire world".
—How "we could solve the health care crisis in America", improve patient outcomes, and reduce health care costs.
—What the first line of patient care should be for pain management. (Hint: It's not opioids.)
—The approach taken by Holistic Integration to determine exactly what supplementation a patient needs. And why Dr. Prather considers supplementation as "a very critical part" of his practice.
—How 97% of all Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease cases are AVOIDABLE.
—Why the nutritional quality of our food has deteriorated, making it "impossible to be healthy" from the food we eat.
—Plus, find out how you can attend Dr. Prather's FREE Seminar on Heart Health this Wednesday, November 5th!
http://www.TheVoiceOfHealthRadio.com
—Why Dr. Prather does NOT recommend multivitamins for most patients.
—The safety of supplements and why you need lab tests before taking any supplement. (And the shocking number of deaths per year from PROPERLY prescribed pharmaceuticals.)
—How the Structure/Function Health Care model practiced by Holistic Integration, by the FDA's own definition, truly does no harm.
—Why Dr. Prather says America has "the best Disease Care in the entire world", but "one of the worst Health Care models in the entire world".
—How "we could solve the health care crisis in America", improve patient outcomes, and reduce health care costs.
—What the first line of patient care should be for pain management. (Hint: It's not opioids.)
—The approach taken by Holistic Integration to determine exactly what supplementation a patient needs. And why Dr. Prather considers supplementation as "a very critical part" of his practice.
—How 97% of all Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease cases are AVOIDABLE.
—Why the nutritional quality of our food has deteriorated, making it "impossible to be healthy" from the food we eat.
—Plus, find out how you can attend Dr. Prather's FREE Seminar on Heart Health this Wednesday, November 5th!
http://www.TheVoiceOfHealthRadio.com
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hi, I'm Lisa Prather and welcome to the Voice of
Health with our host, doctor Robert Praither of Holistic Integration,
where lives are changed every day through the natural approach
to healthcare. Well, today we're talking about to supplement or
not to supplement? That is the question. Did I sound
(00:33):
you sounded very Shakespearean me, Yes, I can do it
in an English accent, No, I can't. You probably is
that from Hamlet, right Hamlin, That's right, our little Shakespeare.
And that is the question, Yes to supplement or not
to supplement. Let's talk about you know that word where
(00:55):
there's a lot of hype out there. Now, what are supplements?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Putting it into a practical term, The supplements are food
or nutrients package into a convenient method. So you know,
when you're talking about supplements, it's not some magic type
of thing. It is either a synthetic or a natural.
Oftentimes we use foods that are concentrated and made it convenient.
(01:26):
When I talk about people doing supplements, they say, well,
you know, one of the big questions that people always
say is well, can't I just get it from my food?
And I said, well, yes, because basically what I'm giving
you is just concentrated foods, and they go, okay, then
what do I need to do? So I write up
everything that they need to do to get the same
(01:47):
as those three little pills that I'm giving them, and
they go, oh, okay, I might just take the pills.
How many livers and you know, how many beaus and
all the different types of things. And oftentimes when you
have the supplements, if you are going to take that
in a food form, it really wouldn't taste that great.
(02:10):
It would be a little overwhelming. So when you're talking
about supplements, you know, the big thing about supplements I
like to emphasize is convenience and ease. It's a whole
lot easier, it's a lot more palatable, and it's much
more convenient than doing it maybe the old fashioned way.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Right and taking the supplement in pill form or capsule form,
versus boiling the beads, cooking the.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Liver, yes, getting everything all right, And like the liver
pills which we give are uncooked, you know, purified uncooked,
so you know you would need to one purify your
liver usually and then drain it and then get it
all paired and then eat it raw. And I had
(03:04):
one gal who was pregnant, and liver is absolutely wonderful,
you know, in a nice pure form for pregnancy. It
absolutely makes a pregnancy so much easier, healthy baby, all
those types of things. So many societies, ancient old societies,
would require pregnant women to eat liver. And she said, well,
(03:25):
you know, can't I do this naturally? So I described
what she needed to do and she said, sign me
up for the pills.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
That was easy.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes, that was an easy cell.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Well, when you.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Say concentrated foods, that makes sense right. So what are
the different categories of supplements?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
The National Organizations of Supplements basically divide them up into
four different categories. There's vitamins and minerals. Within vitamins and minerals,
there are synthetic and natural. The reason that you would
use a synthetic over and natural is because the body's
resistance and absorbing, so you kind of overwhelm the system.
(04:10):
If you're more maintaining, then you'd go more of a
concentrated food type of vitamins and minerals. The biggest category
is vitamins and minerals. The most common one, of course,
is multi vitamins. Second most common one that people take
on that as Vitamin D, vitamin C, calcium, and B
six are the most popular vitamins and minerals that people
(04:34):
take interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
How do you feel about multivitamins.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
A very good question. I'm glad you asked that multi vitamins.
I don't really encourage people to do. Now. In a
multi vitamin food type of thing, where you're combining different foods,
I do like that because that's just a natural food.
But if you're using synthetic multivitamins, the problem with that
(04:59):
is you absorb orb what you're high in and you
don't absorb what you're low.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So that defeats the purpose.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That defeats the purpose. Because we're also talking about a
balance on anything. You can get too much too little.
We talk about homeostasis a great deal, and a homeostasis
and the vitamins and minerals is very important. You can
get too much of anything and you can have too little.
And if you do a multi vitamin, an example would
be if you have a copper zinc within your multi vitamin.
(05:28):
If you're low in your copper and you're high in
your zinc, you absorb the zinc because it draws it in,
but you don't absorb the copper vice versa. If you're
high in your comper and low in your zinc, you're
going to absorb the copper and not absorb the zinc.
So interesting, Yes, multi vitamins oftentimes work along those lines.
(05:50):
That's why oftentimes synthetics can be really good just to
overcome some of the barrier on absorption because people are
having trouble with that. Once you get the levels up,
then you can maintain it more through a food grade.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Do you use multi vitamins here at the practice, We
do have.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Some multi vitamins, but the multi vitamins that we use
are more natural based, so it's more food based, so
it's an easier types of absorption. And then multivitamins are
what we oftentimes do is more for kids. We find
that more effective along those lines if they're not really
(06:25):
doing well well.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And because you do blood work and hair analysis and diagnostics,
there's no guesswork. You're knowing which vitamins, which minerals people
are low or high in.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Certainly we don't really need to guess. We know whether
people are high or low, and we bring people back
into homeostasis. That's the whole goal.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Of what we do here, Yeah, interesting.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Then some of the others. Then you have your specialty vitamins.
That's like when you get into omega three fiber, melatonin, glucosamine,
chondroit and digies of enzymes. So that's the second category.
Third category is erbals or botanicals. Some of the most
popular ones. Number one is green tea cranberry for urinary
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tractor problems, garlic gensen, echinaesia for moving the lymphatic system,
kinkobilbola for circulation, Tumerica has become a really popular one,
and milk thistle are the big ones for erbals and botanicals,
and then sports and weight management. Of course, protein is
your number one. Energy drinks, hydration drinks, garcinia, combosia for
(07:33):
weight loss, green coffee os for weight loss, amino acids
and creatiny. So those are the four main categories as
you're talking about supplementation that they divide different products into.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's great, you know, because it's neat to know those categories,
sure of them. So you have vitamins and minerals, specialty
erbals and botanicals, and sports and weight management. Those are
the four category.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Those are the four categories that as you're talking about
supplementation that you provide.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
For people that we have here at the practice, which
we'll go into more detail. Did you pray there are
supplements safe?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Supplements are extremely safe if you compare them to pharmaceuticals.
According to most of the studies that they find on pharmaceuticals,
anywhere from one hundred to two hundred thousand people die
a year from a direct cause of properly prescribed pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
What was that number? Again?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
One hundred to two hundred thousand people die from properly
prescribed per year from properly prescribed pharmaceuticals, according to all
the studies that they found, and there's two point two
million serious hospitalization adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals on a yearly basis,
(08:54):
Whereas if you compare that to supplements, there have been
directly related and really abnormally you know, what people would
take wouldn't normally take one to two a year people
die wow from a supplement, So one to two a
year versus one hundred to two hundred thousand a year.
(09:15):
So it brings about the whole idea if you can
treat something with a supplement. You know, when you're talking
about trying to get better. It's so much better. An
example would be cholesterol medicine lowering your cholesterol. I had
one gentleman came in and he was recommended that he
go on a cholesterol lowering drug, and I said, well,
(09:36):
you know, let's he didn't really want to because he
had actually done that before and had some adverse reactions,
you know, where he had some muscle aches and things
along that. And I've had three patients who came in
too late who actually died from their cholesterol medicine. So
it can be a very serious there's a lot of
serious side effects, there's a lot of things that go
(09:57):
on with that. Sometimes it is necessary. But with him,
we found that he was very low in his vitamin D,
extremely low. So we said, look, you know vitamin D.
If you're low on vitamin D, cholesterol makes vitamin D
and your body's going to pump out more cholesterol if
you are low on your vitamin D. So let's raise
up your vitamin D. See what happens to the cholesterol. Well,
(10:19):
you know it just you know, as soon as we
raised up his vitamin D levels, his cholesterol dropped down
to normal.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Wow, no one had checked his vitamin D.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
No, no, that's not something that is thought of as
something to work with. Another thing that you check on
is any type of low hormones, whether the adrenals aren't
working up to bar pituitary hypothomis. Thyroid is another cause
for high cholesterol. Had a gentleman came in again, just
(10:49):
raised his thyroid back up to par along with his
adrenals and his cholesterol balanced. Also, the most common reason
for high cholesterol is a toxic overworked liver, and you
can see that on the liver enzymes. Put a gentleman
on milk thistle, mathininge, coline and ninocytoal for his liver,
(11:10):
along with a couple of other things.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
These are supplement.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
These are supplements and bounce out the liver in His
cholesterol went away. So you know, that's just one example
of one type of medicine that you can use to
get the same effects as a pharmaceutical, which is dangerous.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
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that doctor Robert Prather of Holistic Integration, the most comprehensive
wellness center in the Midwest. We're talking today about to
supplement or not to supplement. That is the question, A
good question. Yeah, your statistics are just alarming to me,
and why do we continue to have this type of
(15:29):
healthcare with these kind of statistics.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And I don't want to give the impression that I'm
against pharmaceuticals. I do recommend people to go out and
get them at certain times and they're very, very helpful,
but you want to use the least dangerous, least invasive
type of treatment first before you go into something that
could have some really serious adverse problems. Always trying the better, safer,
(15:55):
easier type of approach. So have nothing against pharmaceuticals, but
we're using too much of them.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Kept just thinking, as you're talking, do no harm, do
no harm.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Do no harm, and make sure that you're finding the safest,
gentlest method of treatment first.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Okay, Well, who regulates supplements.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
The FDA regulates supplements. They also regulate pharmaceuticals. One of
the things that is interesting about the FDA is if
you go to the FDA and you have either a product,
or a treatment or a diagnostic, the first thing that
they do is they divide those up into two different categories.
(16:37):
One is called structure function category, the other one is
a disease category. So then they go through different processes
and the way that they divide those up are if
you're dealing with disease. The only way that you can
treat with disease is with pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceuticals are surgery, and
(16:58):
I agree with that because disease is a set of
symptoms that you put together that you come up with
a name for. So you come up with a pharmaceutical,
which is a poison, always has to be with adverse
side effects. I mean that's if they don't have adverse
side effects, then they're not into the disease category, and
(17:20):
then you treat the symptoms of the problems that are
going on. Structure function, on the other hand, is homeostasis,
where you're trying to bring the body back into homeostasis
either structurally or functionally. And what supplements what you're doing
on that is trying to rebalance the body in a
physiological means under a functional type of a process. So
(17:43):
it's balance homeostasis and homeostasis leads to health. And so
the FDA looks at the product first under a structure
function and is that product It doesn't go under structure
function unless it has a very little chance of harming someone.
(18:04):
So structure function care by its very definition, really does
no harm. Then they make sure that as they are
looking at the product, it is what you say it is,
and that there aren't any harmful ingredients in there that
could be a problem, and that it is in a
(18:26):
safe form that is handled properly by people. So that's
what the FDA is looking for, and all the supplements
that are sold out there have to go through that
process to be able to be approved by the FDA.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Interesting, Okay, so you talk about, you know, the disease
care and the structure function care.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
What is the difference the way that I look at
the disease care, we're looking at a whole model in
here that we're trying to integrate the two. And as
we can integrate the two, that is really one of
the major goals that the federal government, the FDA, that
the healthcare has really said that we need to do.
(19:11):
The reason is is we have quite frankly, the best
disease care in the entire world, but we have one
of the worst healthcare models. So what we're lacking is
the structure function component. If you're going into France and
you go to a doctor in writing a prescription, of
(19:35):
all prescriptions written by a medical doctor in France are
homeopathic why is it that we have such a problem.
It's because we're really lacking the structure function care. So
our vision is that primary care should be structure function
based and yeah, and then the secondary care, the specialist
(19:59):
is where disease care model really fits in. So if
we have someone like I had a lady who came in,
we looked at her, did a thoroughly evaluation, and we
saw that she had a tremendous number of gallstones which
were we felt we're going to be a problem soon.
So we're helping her with her functionality and her structure.
(20:20):
But that's probably a surgical case. We have people who
came in who come in with cancer. You need to
treat the cancer and go after it with the proper
treatment you know, surgery, drugs, radiation, but you need support.
So it's a matter of looking at this in a logical,
(20:42):
much more succinct type of way. This is something that
has been already proven as a very beneficial when it
has been done on a large scale. There's a sixty
percent savings and costs, there is an eighty five percent
better outcome, and there's much more satisfaction and much greater benefit.
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The doctors enjoy it more, including the specialists. The specialists
were the ones who said that they love the primary
care as structure function.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Do you imagine our health care costs too.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Our health care costs would go down, our outcomes would
be so much better. We would solve the healthcare crisis
in America. And the way that we do that is
it's not an opposition, but a integration and a cooperation
in our healthcare system that will lead to much much
better outcomes and a solving of our healthcare crisis. We
(21:41):
have a crisis, you know, we look at the.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Opiate opiated crisis.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Oh, it's just incredible. And the reason that you know,
in West Virginia they recently passed a law that a
physician cannot put someone on an opiate until they have
referred them to either a chiropractor or a physical therapist
to try to get the pain under control first.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's wonderful, it's absolutely.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
In Indiana, there's a whole push along those lines that
the governing body for pain medicine has put out that
all physicians should not be treating with pharmaceuticals first, but
all pain should be first tried to be treated with
chiropractic acupuncture or physical therapy or massage, so that should
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be the first line. And then opids are absolutely wonderful.
They're great for end of life or extreme trauma or
extreme surgery. That's the only times that they should be used.
And if you use them in chronic pain, it makes
the pain worse, so you're making the problem worse. And
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that's one of the things that we are finding with
the overuse of pharmaceuticals or not using the pharmaceuticals properly,
we are making the healthcare crisis worse for people and
having worse outcomes because of the overuse.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, and people that are addicted, they're coming to the hospital,
going to their doctors or nurse practitioners appointment and telling
them what drugs they need.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Once you're addicted, you are no longer in control. And
the huge problem is most people who become addicted to opiate,
heroin or anything else, is that the physicians put them
on that first right and the physicians believe the studies
that were given to them by the pharmaceutical companies. It
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is criminal what has occurred on this and you know,
do not let you know, always seek an alternative and
ask your doctor. You know, they have all these advertisements
on TV. Ask your doctor about, you know, the pharmaceuticals.
They should have a disclaimer on there. Ask your doctor
if there's an alternative to the pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, they're not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Well, they should have a caveat on there. Yeah, ask
my doctor, is there an alternative to a pharmaceutical for
this problem? And that's where the supplementation can really come
in because you're getting not only are you probably could
be solving the problem, but you are improving the overall
health of the individual. Pharmaceuticals are not designed do not
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improve the health. They always make you sicker. They might
be necessary, but they do not make you healthier. If
they did, then they wouldn't be pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
You know, you were talking about this disclaimer have on
these drug ads, you know, prescription medicine ads. Alternative? Do
doctors know about alternatives? You know? What are they? Are
they being taught in school?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Very good question. Right now, they've done studies and the
doctors aren't really that familiar with it. The disease doctors,
that's not their specialty. But sixty nine percent of all
physicians now are saying that supplementation is a good idea.
Whereas before they used to just poopul it. You know,
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it's something not necessary and that was completely from the
training from the pharmaceutical companies. And there's a complete realization.
I mean, we've got quite a few medical doctors, a
huge number of nurses who come in because, yeah, because
they realize that the problems that are associated with that,
(25:36):
and they know that if they can find an alternative,
that that is always the best choice.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Right And I know for you you went on to
schooling a diplomat internal diagnostics. Sometimes it takes that added
education board certification.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Does when you're talking about a structure function specialist diagnostics
are Yeah, so making sure that the structure function doctor
that you're going to is versed in the areas that
you're looking, you know, to get the help.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
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Get why it's okay for the doctor to be late.
If I have a two o'clock appointment, I want.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
The doctor looking at me at two o'clock.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
The only way I think it would be okay for
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Speaker 3 (26:58):
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Speaker 4 (27:12):
I think we might be delayed that it would be
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hear clamp noise and him saying my two o'clock is here.
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Doctors backs I'm Lisa Preyther, and you're listening to the
Voice of Health with doctor Robert Prether of Holistic Integration,
where we get to the root cause of your health issue.
We're talking today about to supplement or not to supplement
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and doctor Praither, let's talk about supplementation. That's a big
part of our practice. Now let you talk about that.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Well, it's the way that we help people to get
their function back, their physiological function. So what is it
that causes an imbalance in the system. We have certain
types of nutrient requirements, we have certain types of detoxes,
and getting those types of things from our normal diet
just doesn't happen. I mean, people are deficient in so
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many different types of things. I mean we don't find
people as we check on people because we do a
tremendous amount of blood work and a lot of checking.
People just aren't healthy.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
So a lot of people have congested livers.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Most people have congested livers. Most people have indercan system
that's not functioning right. A tremidous number of people have
poorly functioning kidneys. People don't have digestive systems that are working,
which makes it impossible to get your nutrients. If that's
what's going on, and then people's mineral balances are out
of kilter. They're toxic in some they don't have enough
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in others, and they oppose each other. So as I
go through and I read out what's going on, people go,
you know, I've been going to doctor forever and nobody's
made me feel this bad about my health before. And
I say, well, you know, we're not trying to make
you feel bad. We want to point out some of
the things that are starting to occur and that we
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need to get those things fixed. So people who have
been with us for a while, you know, we get
their blood work back and it's all right, exactly where
it should be.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
And it's amazing how quickly that can happen.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
It really is. If you get the right products, if
you're doing the right types of things, there's a tremendous
amount that can take place.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And we're not you know, we don't want to wait
till the disease correct starts. We're trying to get way
ahead of the game so that a disease never does happen.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
You know, when you're talking about cancer, cancer the number
two killer, it's pretty well acknowledged that only three percent
of all cancers are unavoidable. Ninety seven percent are avoidable
if you were doing the right things and taking care of.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Wow, I've never heard that statistics.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Only three percent of all characters unavoidable or unavoidable. Cardiovascular
disease is about the same number. So you know, the
number one and number two killers are preventable things, and
the main thing that goes into that is the improper nutrition.
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So working with those types of things, you can really
extend your life and the quality of your life and
not have most of the issues that occur.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Now, I think you kind of answered this, But why
use supplements or you know, or is diet enough?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Well, that's a very good question. And why is it
that we're having problems? The quality of our food has
decreased quite dramatically, and there's many different types of reasons.
One of the first one is our soil is depleted.
When we use fertilizer into our soil, we're only giving
it the bare minimum instead of really nourishing it. We're
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giving the bare minimum to make the corn and the
soybeans and all the different types of things grow, but
we're not really replenishing the soil, and the soil is
a living organism and we're putting not only are we
not adding the nutrients back into it as we should
and what people did. I mean, the reason that civilization's
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like in Egypt in the fertile crescents and in China
survived for long periods of time and had a high
level of civilization is because they would renew their soil.
You had the flooding, there was a whole controlled system.
You have the rice bowl in China where they have
the whole province where it's a renewal of the soil
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on a regular type of basis, and that is critical
for a healthy population. So if you're not taking care
of the soil, which we are not renewing the soil,
then you start to get food depletion. So the amount
of zinc in our fa food right now is not
the same level as our grandparents at it's just not there.
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Then we're also adding stresses to the plants. We're putting
a lot of pesticides, We're putting a lot of different
types of chemicals on that, and that further stresses the
plants so that we even get less nutrients out of it.
So you can eat more and get less foods, and
then we're adding a ton of chemicals into our system
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that weren't there before, and I mean tons of it.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
You can just see that on people, just the inflammation
right people are walking around and flamed.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
So you know, the needs have become much greater. The
amount of stress that people have is increasing, which requires
higher levels of supplementation. So yes, we are having more
and more of a problem, and there is a movement
to try to reverse that. Large agribusiness does not provide
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good nutrients. What provides good nutrients is the small, local
farmer who provides the food quickly so that it the
longer that it sits out, the less nutrients occur, the
less preservatives you have to use, and people who are
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taking care of the soil taking care of the food.
And there's a relationship between the farmer and the consumer.
And as you have that, there is a higher level
of responsibility, there's a higher level of providing food. So
we have a bad model right now and there is
a movement to change that. And if we can change that,
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then food becomes more nutritive and as the food becomes better,
you need less and less supplementation. But right now, with
the food that we're getting, with all the stuff that
we're getting along with it supplementation, I would say it's
possible to be healthy on just the food that you're
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getting nowadays. Just impossible.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yeah, unless you're growing at yourself.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah yeah, but you know, heading in that direction is
a great and I would prefer that we get all
of our nutrients from our food and all the things
that we need, but unfortunately that's not happening.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
So what are the major reasons that people give for
taking supplements.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Well, interestingly enough, sixty eight percent of Americans take supplements
on a regular basis, which is really good. The largest number,
fifty one percent said that they wanted to do it
for overall health. Thirty percent say that I need to
fill the nutrient gap, so they realize that they're not
getting everything that they need. So a large number of
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people realize that. Twenty nine percent said that you know,
it's just for energy, they feel better, twenty seven percent
that they're trying to keep their immune system. Twenty five
percent said that they don't want to develop osteoporosis, which
is a very big thing because right now it's pretty
well guaranteed you're going to have osteoporosis if you just
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eat the regular diet. And then twenty five percent takes
supplementation for heart health.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Very interesting. So overall you said sixty eight percent of Americans.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Are taking supplements. Yes, so it's the majority of you
out there. So if you're taking supplements, you can feel
like you're in the majority and not a minority anymore.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Great. So, how important are supplements at Holistic Integration?
Speaker 2 (38:41):
It's very much one of the major basis of what
we do. We couldn't provide the functional changes in the
timely manner without them, so absolutely critical to get the
results that we need in something that I recommend all
of our patients to do, to check on and to
see what their needs are. So very critical part. So
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if you come in here as a patient, supplementation is
something that we highly encourage. But of course we don't
base that on well, you just need supplements. What we
do is we basee that off of need and we
do that through lab testing and seeing what your physiology shows.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
That makes sense. So how important are supplements in preventing
the two major killers cardiovascular disease and cancer?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Again, I mean, we can reduce ninety seven percent of those.
You know, when you're talking about like I was talking
to a oncologist who is a patient here, and I
was talking to them because they actually had anemia going on.
You know, they had low iron, And I said, you know,
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we need to supplement that. That's the one you're so tired.
Matter of fact, a lot of the titaness that you
have because they were coming in for muscle skeletal pains.
A lot of the titaness that you have is coming
because your cells are oxygen deprived. And I said, you know,
you're aware in most of the cancer cases, like if
you have colon cancer or breast cancer or several other cancers,
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it has already been proven that you have a fifty
percent greater survivability if you don't become anemic.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
So if you oxygenate yourself.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
If you oxygenate, if you have good oxygenation going to
the cells, and you have cancer on most of the cancers,
they've not all, but most of the cancers, they've proven
that you have a fifty percent greater survival rate. Wow,
that's huge. Yes, Vitamin D has been shown if it's low,
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you have a sixty percent greater chance of getting certain cancers.
You know, colon cancer with vitamin D is well known.
Prustate cancer is known that if you're just low on
your vitamin D, your chances go up over fifty percent
greater chance of getting that cancer just one vitamin. So,
you know, you start to talk about those types of
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things and if we could be looking at people beforehand
and keeping those things nice and healthy and in range,
it just really cuts down on your chances for cancer.
A cardiovascular disease. Now, if you're taking clusterol medicine for
cardiovascular disease, it reduces your co Q ten in your body,
which causes your heart to fail because it's necessary for it.
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So some of the things pharmaceuticals that we're taking will
speed up our disease process that we're trying to prevent
with the pharmaceutical Wow, so you know you're talking about
really just keeping that cardiovascular disease under control. You're talking
about cancer. Huge amount of influence on that.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
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Speaker 2 (42:50):
Holistic Heart is a division of our office where we're
concentrating on cardiovascular disease. It reflects our whole model. What
our basis is holistic integration. So holistic integration has the
holistic part, which is the structure function. Homeostasis is the
basis of structure function, which is the balance and the
healing and the improvement of health in the body, and
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we look at the body in a very holistic type
of way. Integration is where we are then connecting to
the medical model that is presently dominant in the United
States to help us to get the best of both worlds.
Our philosophy is eighty percent of all treatment should be
structure function based, twenty percent disease care based, which is
pharmaceuticals and surgery. With that, we know that we will
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get the best outcomes.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
What has research shown about the common treatments for cardiovascular disease.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
The National Institute of Health did a very very thorough
study over that to find out how effective and how
much of a change it makes to have the sense
and the surgery is actually done, and their conclusion was
not so much. I was actually very surprised about that.
The only difference that it makes is if it's an emergency,
if you're having a heart attack, I would prefer you
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to go to the emergency room, not to my office,
because they actually do a much better job. However, if
you're talking about long term health of the heart, structure
function care does the best. Really the surgeries At this
point one of the biggest money makers for hospitals, so
there's a lot of pushback from it, but the research
that the National Institute of Health actually did was pretty
clear cut. The results on that were zero.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
So what diagnostics do you do for cardiovascular disease?
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Of course, we do all the standard types of tests
and we have a cardiologist who interprets them for us,
so all the different types of things that you could
possibly do. Of course, the gold standard is the echo,
which is something that we have done on our patients.
So we do all the standards, but we then also
do quite a few different types of things that most
cardiologists don't do. Paranalysis because the minerals play such a
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big role. We're much more thorough on looking at all
the different types of blood tests that could be done.
We also do a neutral valve breakdown on the deficiencies
in the body and actually know what's going on because truthfully,
eighty percent of the problems with the heart are really
nutritionally based deficiencies that leads to the heart having the
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problems that they're experiencing.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Why should a thorough cardiac workup need to be done well.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
As you're looking at heart disease, it's the number one killer.
Then also not only do you have that, but then
you also have strokes. As the number five, you also
have hypertension, and so getting a thorough cardiovascular workup is
something that we highly recommend. There's a lot of things
that we do within office that are not usually done,
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so we can actually provide a picture of what's going
on with the health of the heart in a very
detailed type of way. We've had several people say that
they got a much more thorough picture on what was
going on with their heart than even going to the
top cardiology hospitals. I had one gentleman came in he said,
you know, I've got problems with my heart and feel it.
They agree, but they don't know what it is. We
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we're talking today about to sub implement or not to
supplement and very very interesting we're going to have. I've
just decided a part two on this because we have
a lot of information here and sixty eight percent of
all Americans take supplementating supplementation right now. You imagine if
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they did it the right way, got diagnostics, got their
blood tested, their minerals checked, so that they were taking
the right I mean, when you think of vitamins and minerals,
vitamins there's some fat soluble of.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Course you're not very common thing is vitamin D. There
was a big craze there for a while where every
doctor was saying that you need to take vitamin D,
which was correct, but then they ran into a problem.
They weren't checking it.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
They weren't checking the vitamin D levels.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
So I had people who are coming there, Yes, I
had people coming in and I sit there and I said, well,
I want to check your blood test on vitamin D. Also, so, oh,
you don't need to. I'm on vitamin D. My doctor
put me on it. I said, oh great, you know
when it was the last time you had it checked? Well,
what do you mean? And I got, well, when it
was the last time you had a blood test on
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the vitamin D? Like what I told you that we
need to do? They said, well I never did. I said, well,
when you started, what were your levels? And they said, well,
we didn't do a blood test. They just told me
I needed to be on vitamin D. Yeah, and I'm going.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
And that's a fat soluble vitamin.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Right, And I'm like what. So we did the test
on it and they had toxic levels of vitamin D.
That's where you can get too much. So it's important
to know when to put someone on it first. We
don't put anyone on vitamin D or most of the
things unless we know that they needed. We don't just
willie nelly put you on supplementation. We have a willy nelly.
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That's a scientific term. And so you know when we
put you on it, we know that you need it,
and then we recheck and know when you don't need
it anymore. So, very very important along those lines to
get the benefits, because again, anything you can take too
much of and cause a problem, even vitamin C can
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it actually blocks some of your B vitamins from absorbing.
So knowing what you're doing along those lines is a
very critical type of thing, and working with that is
very important, some of them much more important than others.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
Interesting, So how many people show deficiencies or require help
you know that they don't get in their diet?
Speaker 2 (50:33):
I mean everyone, I mean people just don't come in
about the United States, right, people don't come in and
unless someone who knows what they're doing is working with them,
it's pretty well guaranteed that they're going to have something
that's not right because it just doesn't happen naturally. At
this point, we're under too much stress, and we already
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talked about some of the problems that are associated with it.
Speaker 1 (51:01):
There are soils depleting.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
And chemicals and just all the different types of things.
I mean, if the nutrients aren't in your food that
you're eating, then you're not going to just automatically produce
it in your.
Speaker 1 (51:13):
System, right. I just love going to the farmers' markets.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
Isn't that nice? It's just so refreshing feeling and.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
You have the energy of the food.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
Yeah, and the people look healthier.
Speaker 1 (51:27):
Well. Who is most likely to show dietary deficiencies The.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
People who, according to studies show most common group is
older people.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
What do you mean by older?
Speaker 2 (51:41):
The older you are, the more likely you are to
show dietary deficiencies. It's just like everything, things start to
fail as you go along. Matter of fact, one of
the main reasons people age and have all the problems
that they have is because of dietary deficiencies. So if
you're looking to stave off getting old, do supplementation, you know,
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find out what's going on. I mean, unless you like
getting old, you can you can reverse that right, not
only reverse it, but also prevent it from happening, and
just have.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
A quality of life as you grow older and conference
and correct.
Speaker 2 (52:25):
So older people are the most common ones, but there's
also pregnant women, people who are in illnesses, there are athletes,
So all of those are different types of categories that
show up along those lines.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
I know, I've started a club plates, doing a little
plug for club plates for them. Moved up a class
and my daughter was our daughter was picking us up,
and she's your daughter too, and she's a mom. There
are a lot of young people in that class. I said,
I know, I'm moving up, I'm getting stronger. Sure, it's
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a great feeling.
Speaker 2 (53:01):
Well, and as you grow older, you know, the digestive
system isn't quite up to par. The painters, the dies,
you know, digestive enzymes are no there are even not
only oftentimes you're not getting as much nutrients because people
don't eat as much. But then as you get older,
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your requirements to fight off things become higher. One of
the things that really happens that you need to look
at as an older person is free radical pathology because
the free radicals occur because of the engine just is
not working as it should for producing energy. So the
oxidative process starts to fail, and so you need have
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a greater requirements for supplements than what you would before.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
What's that book, The engine, little.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
Engine that could. As a little engine gets older, the
little engine needs a little bit more oomph.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
Right, Well, thank you, Doctor preyther Or going to call
this part one to supplement or not to supplement. We
got a lot more information We're going to cover next
week in part two. So thank you for all this information.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
Thank you Lucy.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
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doctor Robert Prather.
Hi, I'm Lisa Prather and welcome to the Voice of
Health with our host, doctor Robert Praither of Holistic Integration,
where lives are changed every day through the natural approach
to healthcare. Well, today we're talking about to supplement or
not to supplement? That is the question. Did I sound
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you sounded very Shakespearean me, Yes, I can do it
in an English accent, No, I can't. You probably is
that from Hamlet, right Hamlin, That's right, our little Shakespeare.
And that is the question, Yes to supplement or not
to supplement. Let's talk about you know that word where
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there's a lot of hype out there. Now, what are supplements?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Putting it into a practical term, The supplements are food
or nutrients package into a convenient method. So you know,
when you're talking about supplements, it's not some magic type
of thing. It is either a synthetic or a natural.
Oftentimes we use foods that are concentrated and made it convenient.
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When I talk about people doing supplements, they say, well,
you know, one of the big questions that people always
say is well, can't I just get it from my food?
And I said, well, yes, because basically what I'm giving
you is just concentrated foods, and they go, okay, then
what do I need to do? So I write up
everything that they need to do to get the same
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as those three little pills that I'm giving them, and
they go, oh, okay, I might just take the pills.
How many livers and you know, how many beaus and
all the different types of things. And oftentimes when you
have the supplements, if you are going to take that
in a food form, it really wouldn't taste that great.
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It would be a little overwhelming. So when you're talking
about supplements, you know, the big thing about supplements I
like to emphasize is convenience and ease. It's a whole
lot easier, it's a lot more palatable, and it's much
more convenient than doing it maybe the old fashioned way.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Right and taking the supplement in pill form or capsule form,
versus boiling the beads, cooking the.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Liver, yes, getting everything all right, And like the liver
pills which we give are uncooked, you know, purified uncooked,
so you know you would need to one purify your
liver usually and then drain it and then get it
all paired and then eat it raw. And I had
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one gal who was pregnant, and liver is absolutely wonderful,
you know, in a nice pure form for pregnancy. It
absolutely makes a pregnancy so much easier, healthy baby, all
those types of things. So many societies, ancient old societies,
would require pregnant women to eat liver. And she said, well,
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you know, can't I do this naturally? So I described
what she needed to do and she said, sign me
up for the pills.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
That was easy.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes, that was an easy cell.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Well, when you.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Say concentrated foods, that makes sense right. So what are
the different categories of supplements?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
The National Organizations of Supplements basically divide them up into
four different categories. There's vitamins and minerals. Within vitamins and minerals,
there are synthetic and natural. The reason that you would
use a synthetic over and natural is because the body's
resistance and absorbing, so you kind of overwhelm the system.
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If you're more maintaining, then you'd go more of a
concentrated food type of vitamins and minerals. The biggest category
is vitamins and minerals. The most common one, of course,
is multi vitamins. Second most common one that people take
on that as Vitamin D, vitamin C, calcium, and B
six are the most popular vitamins and minerals that people
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take interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
How do you feel about multivitamins.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
A very good question. I'm glad you asked that multi vitamins.
I don't really encourage people to do. Now. In a
multi vitamin food type of thing, where you're combining different foods,
I do like that because that's just a natural food.
But if you're using synthetic multivitamins, the problem with that
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is you absorb orb what you're high in and you
don't absorb what you're low.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So that defeats the purpose.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That defeats the purpose. Because we're also talking about a
balance on anything. You can get too much too little.
We talk about homeostasis a great deal, and a homeostasis
and the vitamins and minerals is very important. You can
get too much of anything and you can have too little.
And if you do a multi vitamin, an example would
be if you have a copper zinc within your multi vitamin.
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If you're low in your copper and you're high in
your zinc, you absorb the zinc because it draws it in,
but you don't absorb the copper vice versa. If you're
high in your comper and low in your zinc, you're
going to absorb the copper and not absorb the zinc.
So interesting, Yes, multi vitamins oftentimes work along those lines.
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That's why oftentimes synthetics can be really good just to
overcome some of the barrier on absorption because people are
having trouble with that. Once you get the levels up,
then you can maintain it more through a food grade.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Do you use multi vitamins here at the practice, We
do have.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Some multi vitamins, but the multi vitamins that we use
are more natural based, so it's more food based, so
it's an easier types of absorption. And then multivitamins are
what we oftentimes do is more for kids. We find
that more effective along those lines if they're not really
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doing well well.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And because you do blood work and hair analysis and diagnostics,
there's no guesswork. You're knowing which vitamins, which minerals people
are low or high in.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Certainly we don't really need to guess. We know whether
people are high or low, and we bring people back
into homeostasis. That's the whole goal.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Of what we do here, Yeah, interesting.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Then some of the others. Then you have your specialty vitamins.
That's like when you get into omega three fiber, melatonin, glucosamine,
chondroit and digies of enzymes. So that's the second category.
Third category is erbals or botanicals. Some of the most
popular ones. Number one is green tea cranberry for urinary
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tractor problems, garlic gensen, echinaesia for moving the lymphatic system,
kinkobilbola for circulation, Tumerica has become a really popular one,
and milk thistle are the big ones for erbals and botanicals,
and then sports and weight management. Of course, protein is
your number one. Energy drinks, hydration drinks, garcinia, combosia for
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weight loss, green coffee os for weight loss, amino acids
and creatiny. So those are the four main categories as
you're talking about supplementation that they divide different products into.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's great, you know, because it's neat to know those categories,
sure of them. So you have vitamins and minerals, specialty
erbals and botanicals, and sports and weight management. Those are
the four category.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Those are the four categories that as you're talking about
supplementation that you provide.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
For people that we have here at the practice, which
we'll go into more detail. Did you pray there are
supplements safe?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Supplements are extremely safe if you compare them to pharmaceuticals.
According to most of the studies that they find on pharmaceuticals,
anywhere from one hundred to two hundred thousand people die
a year from a direct cause of properly prescribed pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
What was that number? Again?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
One hundred to two hundred thousand people die from properly
prescribed per year from properly prescribed pharmaceuticals, according to all
the studies that they found, and there's two point two
million serious hospitalization adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals on a yearly basis,
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Whereas if you compare that to supplements, there have been
directly related and really abnormally you know, what people would
take wouldn't normally take one to two a year people
die wow from a supplement, So one to two a
year versus one hundred to two hundred thousand a year.
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So it brings about the whole idea if you can
treat something with a supplement. You know, when you're talking
about trying to get better. It's so much better. An
example would be cholesterol medicine lowering your cholesterol. I had
one gentleman came in and he was recommended that he
go on a cholesterol lowering drug, and I said, well,
(09:36):
you know, let's he didn't really want to because he
had actually done that before and had some adverse reactions,
you know, where he had some muscle aches and things
along that. And I've had three patients who came in
too late who actually died from their cholesterol medicine. So
it can be a very serious there's a lot of
serious side effects, there's a lot of things that go
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on with that. Sometimes it is necessary. But with him,
we found that he was very low in his vitamin D,
extremely low. So we said, look, you know vitamin D.
If you're low on vitamin D, cholesterol makes vitamin D
and your body's going to pump out more cholesterol if
you are low on your vitamin D. So let's raise
up your vitamin D. See what happens to the cholesterol. Well,
(10:19):
you know it just you know, as soon as we
raised up his vitamin D levels, his cholesterol dropped down
to normal.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Wow, no one had checked his vitamin D.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
No, no, that's not something that is thought of as
something to work with. Another thing that you check on
is any type of low hormones, whether the adrenals aren't
working up to bar pituitary hypothomis. Thyroid is another cause
for high cholesterol. Had a gentleman came in again, just
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raised his thyroid back up to par along with his
adrenals and his cholesterol balanced. Also, the most common reason
for high cholesterol is a toxic overworked liver, and you
can see that on the liver enzymes. Put a gentleman
on milk thistle, mathininge, coline and ninocytoal for his liver,
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along with a couple of other things.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
These are supplement.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
These are supplements and bounce out the liver in His
cholesterol went away. So you know, that's just one example
of one type of medicine that you can use to
get the same effects as a pharmaceutical, which is dangerous.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
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that doctor Robert Prather of Holistic Integration, the most comprehensive
wellness center in the Midwest. We're talking today about to
supplement or not to supplement. That is the question, A
good question. Yeah, your statistics are just alarming to me,
and why do we continue to have this type of
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healthcare with these kind of statistics.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And I don't want to give the impression that I'm
against pharmaceuticals. I do recommend people to go out and
get them at certain times and they're very, very helpful,
but you want to use the least dangerous, least invasive
type of treatment first before you go into something that
could have some really serious adverse problems. Always trying the better, safer,
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easier type of approach. So have nothing against pharmaceuticals, but
we're using too much of them.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Kept just thinking, as you're talking, do no harm, do
no harm.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Do no harm, and make sure that you're finding the safest,
gentlest method of treatment first.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Okay, Well, who regulates supplements.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
The FDA regulates supplements. They also regulate pharmaceuticals. One of
the things that is interesting about the FDA is if
you go to the FDA and you have either a product,
or a treatment or a diagnostic, the first thing that
they do is they divide those up into two different categories.
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One is called structure function category, the other one is
a disease category. So then they go through different processes
and the way that they divide those up are if
you're dealing with disease. The only way that you can
treat with disease is with pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceuticals are surgery, and
(16:58):
I agree with that because disease is a set of
symptoms that you put together that you come up with
a name for. So you come up with a pharmaceutical,
which is a poison, always has to be with adverse
side effects. I mean that's if they don't have adverse
side effects, then they're not into the disease category, and
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then you treat the symptoms of the problems that are
going on. Structure function, on the other hand, is homeostasis,
where you're trying to bring the body back into homeostasis
either structurally or functionally. And what supplements what you're doing
on that is trying to rebalance the body in a
physiological means under a functional type of a process. So
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it's balance homeostasis and homeostasis leads to health. And so
the FDA looks at the product first under a structure
function and is that product It doesn't go under structure
function unless it has a very little chance of harming someone.
(18:04):
So structure function care by its very definition, really does
no harm. Then they make sure that as they are
looking at the product, it is what you say it is,
and that there aren't any harmful ingredients in there that
could be a problem, and that it is in a
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safe form that is handled properly by people. So that's
what the FDA is looking for, and all the supplements
that are sold out there have to go through that
process to be able to be approved by the FDA.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Interesting, Okay, so you talk about, you know, the disease
care and the structure function care.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
What is the difference the way that I look at
the disease care, we're looking at a whole model in
here that we're trying to integrate the two. And as
we can integrate the two, that is really one of
the major goals that the federal government, the FDA, that
the healthcare has really said that we need to do.
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The reason is is we have quite frankly, the best
disease care in the entire world, but we have one
of the worst healthcare models. So what we're lacking is
the structure function component. If you're going into France and
you go to a doctor in writing a prescription, of
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all prescriptions written by a medical doctor in France are
homeopathic why is it that we have such a problem.
It's because we're really lacking the structure function care. So
our vision is that primary care should be structure function
based and yeah, and then the secondary care, the specialist
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is where disease care model really fits in. So if
we have someone like I had a lady who came in,
we looked at her, did a thoroughly evaluation, and we
saw that she had a tremendous number of gallstones which
were we felt we're going to be a problem soon.
So we're helping her with her functionality and her structure.
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But that's probably a surgical case. We have people who
came in who come in with cancer. You need to
treat the cancer and go after it with the proper
treatment you know, surgery, drugs, radiation, but you need support.
So it's a matter of looking at this in a logical,
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much more succinct type of way. This is something that
has been already proven as a very beneficial when it
has been done on a large scale. There's a sixty
percent savings and costs, there is an eighty five percent
better outcome, and there's much more satisfaction and much greater benefit.
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The doctors enjoy it more, including the specialists. The specialists
were the ones who said that they love the primary
care as structure function.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Do you imagine our health care costs too.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Our health care costs would go down, our outcomes would
be so much better. We would solve the healthcare crisis
in America. And the way that we do that is
it's not an opposition, but a integration and a cooperation
in our healthcare system that will lead to much much
better outcomes and a solving of our healthcare crisis. We
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have a crisis, you know, we look at the.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Opiate opiated crisis.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Oh, it's just incredible. And the reason that you know,
in West Virginia they recently passed a law that a
physician cannot put someone on an opiate until they have
referred them to either a chiropractor or a physical therapist
to try to get the pain under control first.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's wonderful, it's absolutely.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
In Indiana, there's a whole push along those lines that
the governing body for pain medicine has put out that
all physicians should not be treating with pharmaceuticals first, but
all pain should be first tried to be treated with
chiropractic acupuncture or physical therapy or massage, so that should
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be the first line. And then opids are absolutely wonderful.
They're great for end of life or extreme trauma or
extreme surgery. That's the only times that they should be used.
And if you use them in chronic pain, it makes
the pain worse, so you're making the problem worse. And
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that's one of the things that we are finding with
the overuse of pharmaceuticals or not using the pharmaceuticals properly,
we are making the healthcare crisis worse for people and
having worse outcomes because of the overuse.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, and people that are addicted, they're coming to the hospital,
going to their doctors or nurse practitioners appointment and telling
them what drugs they need.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Once you're addicted, you are no longer in control. And
the huge problem is most people who become addicted to opiate,
heroin or anything else, is that the physicians put them
on that first right and the physicians believe the studies
that were given to them by the pharmaceutical companies. It
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is criminal what has occurred on this and you know,
do not let you know, always seek an alternative and
ask your doctor. You know, they have all these advertisements
on TV. Ask your doctor about, you know, the pharmaceuticals.
They should have a disclaimer on there. Ask your doctor
if there's an alternative to the pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, they're not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Well, they should have a caveat on there. Yeah, ask
my doctor, is there an alternative to a pharmaceutical for
this problem? And that's where the supplementation can really come
in because you're getting not only are you probably could
be solving the problem, but you are improving the overall
health of the individual. Pharmaceuticals are not designed do not
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improve the health. They always make you sicker. They might
be necessary, but they do not make you healthier. If
they did, then they wouldn't be pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
You know, you were talking about this disclaimer have on
these drug ads, you know, prescription medicine ads. Alternative? Do
doctors know about alternatives? You know? What are they? Are
they being taught in school?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Very good question. Right now, they've done studies and the
doctors aren't really that familiar with it. The disease doctors,
that's not their specialty. But sixty nine percent of all
physicians now are saying that supplementation is a good idea.
Whereas before they used to just poopul it. You know,
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it's something not necessary and that was completely from the
training from the pharmaceutical companies. And there's a complete realization.
I mean, we've got quite a few medical doctors, a
huge number of nurses who come in because, yeah, because
they realize that the problems that are associated with that,
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and they know that if they can find an alternative,
that that is always the best choice.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Right And I know for you you went on to
schooling a diplomat internal diagnostics. Sometimes it takes that added
education board certification.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Does when you're talking about a structure function specialist diagnostics
are Yeah, so making sure that the structure function doctor
that you're going to is versed in the areas that
you're looking, you know, to get the help.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
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Doctors backs I'm Lisa Preyther, and you're listening to the
Voice of Health with doctor Robert Prether of Holistic Integration,
where we get to the root cause of your health issue.
We're talking today about to supplement or not to supplement
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and doctor Praither, let's talk about supplementation. That's a big
part of our practice. Now let you talk about that.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Well, it's the way that we help people to get
their function back, their physiological function. So what is it
that causes an imbalance in the system. We have certain
types of nutrient requirements, we have certain types of detoxes,
and getting those types of things from our normal diet
just doesn't happen. I mean, people are deficient in so
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many different types of things. I mean we don't find
people as we check on people because we do a
tremendous amount of blood work and a lot of checking.
People just aren't healthy.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
So a lot of people have congested livers.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Most people have congested livers. Most people have indercan system
that's not functioning right. A tremidous number of people have
poorly functioning kidneys. People don't have digestive systems that are working,
which makes it impossible to get your nutrients. If that's
what's going on, and then people's mineral balances are out
of kilter. They're toxic in some they don't have enough
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in others, and they oppose each other. So as I
go through and I read out what's going on, people go,
you know, I've been going to doctor forever and nobody's
made me feel this bad about my health before. And
I say, well, you know, we're not trying to make
you feel bad. We want to point out some of
the things that are starting to occur and that we
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need to get those things fixed. So people who have
been with us for a while, you know, we get
their blood work back and it's all right, exactly where
it should be.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
And it's amazing how quickly that can happen.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
It really is. If you get the right products, if
you're doing the right types of things, there's a tremendous
amount that can take place.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And we're not you know, we don't want to wait
till the disease correct starts. We're trying to get way
ahead of the game so that a disease never does happen.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
You know, when you're talking about cancer, cancer the number
two killer, it's pretty well acknowledged that only three percent
of all cancers are unavoidable. Ninety seven percent are avoidable
if you were doing the right things and taking care of.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Wow, I've never heard that statistics.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Only three percent of all characters unavoidable or unavoidable. Cardiovascular
disease is about the same number. So you know, the
number one and number two killers are preventable things, and
the main thing that goes into that is the improper nutrition.
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So working with those types of things, you can really
extend your life and the quality of your life and
not have most of the issues that occur.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Now, I think you kind of answered this, But why
use supplements or you know, or is diet enough?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Well, that's a very good question. And why is it
that we're having problems? The quality of our food has
decreased quite dramatically, and there's many different types of reasons.
One of the first one is our soil is depleted.
When we use fertilizer into our soil, we're only giving
it the bare minimum instead of really nourishing it. We're
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giving the bare minimum to make the corn and the
soybeans and all the different types of things grow, but
we're not really replenishing the soil, and the soil is
a living organism and we're putting not only are we
not adding the nutrients back into it as we should
and what people did. I mean, the reason that civilization's
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like in Egypt in the fertile crescents and in China
survived for long periods of time and had a high
level of civilization is because they would renew their soil.
You had the flooding, there was a whole controlled system.
You have the rice bowl in China where they have
the whole province where it's a renewal of the soil
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on a regular type of basis, and that is critical
for a healthy population. So if you're not taking care
of the soil, which we are not renewing the soil,
then you start to get food depletion. So the amount
of zinc in our fa food right now is not
the same level as our grandparents at it's just not there.
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Then we're also adding stresses to the plants. We're putting
a lot of pesticides, We're putting a lot of different
types of chemicals on that, and that further stresses the
plants so that we even get less nutrients out of it.
So you can eat more and get less foods, and
then we're adding a ton of chemicals into our system
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that weren't there before, and I mean tons of it.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
You can just see that on people, just the inflammation
right people are walking around and flamed.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
So you know, the needs have become much greater. The
amount of stress that people have is increasing, which requires
higher levels of supplementation. So yes, we are having more
and more of a problem, and there is a movement
to try to reverse that. Large agribusiness does not provide
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good nutrients. What provides good nutrients is the small, local
farmer who provides the food quickly so that it the
longer that it sits out, the less nutrients occur, the
less preservatives you have to use, and people who are
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taking care of the soil taking care of the food.
And there's a relationship between the farmer and the consumer.
And as you have that, there is a higher level
of responsibility, there's a higher level of providing food. So
we have a bad model right now and there is
a movement to change that. And if we can change that,
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then food becomes more nutritive and as the food becomes better,
you need less and less supplementation. But right now, with
the food that we're getting, with all the stuff that
we're getting along with it supplementation, I would say it's
possible to be healthy on just the food that you're
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getting nowadays. Just impossible.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yeah, unless you're growing at yourself.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah yeah, but you know, heading in that direction is
a great and I would prefer that we get all
of our nutrients from our food and all the things
that we need, but unfortunately that's not happening.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
So what are the major reasons that people give for
taking supplements.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Well, interestingly enough, sixty eight percent of Americans take supplements
on a regular basis, which is really good. The largest number,
fifty one percent said that they wanted to do it
for overall health. Thirty percent say that I need to
fill the nutrient gap, so they realize that they're not
getting everything that they need. So a large number of
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people realize that. Twenty nine percent said that you know,
it's just for energy, they feel better, twenty seven percent
that they're trying to keep their immune system. Twenty five
percent said that they don't want to develop osteoporosis, which
is a very big thing because right now it's pretty
well guaranteed you're going to have osteoporosis if you just
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eat the regular diet. And then twenty five percent takes
supplementation for heart health.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Very interesting. So overall you said sixty eight percent of Americans.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Are taking supplements. Yes, so it's the majority of you
out there. So if you're taking supplements, you can feel
like you're in the majority and not a minority anymore.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Great. So, how important are supplements at Holistic Integration?
Speaker 2 (38:41):
It's very much one of the major basis of what
we do. We couldn't provide the functional changes in the
timely manner without them, so absolutely critical to get the
results that we need in something that I recommend all
of our patients to do, to check on and to
see what their needs are. So very critical part. So
(39:05):
if you come in here as a patient, supplementation is
something that we highly encourage. But of course we don't
base that on well, you just need supplements. What we
do is we basee that off of need and we
do that through lab testing and seeing what your physiology shows.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
That makes sense. So how important are supplements in preventing
the two major killers cardiovascular disease and cancer?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Again, I mean, we can reduce ninety seven percent of those.
You know, when you're talking about like I was talking
to a oncologist who is a patient here, and I
was talking to them because they actually had anemia going on.
You know, they had low iron, And I said, you know,
(39:49):
we need to supplement that. That's the one you're so tired.
Matter of fact, a lot of the titaness that you
have because they were coming in for muscle skeletal pains.
A lot of the titaness that you have is coming
because your cells are oxygen deprived. And I said, you know,
you're aware in most of the cancer cases, like if
you have colon cancer or breast cancer or several other cancers,
(40:13):
it has already been proven that you have a fifty
percent greater survivability if you don't become anemic.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
So if you oxygenate yourself.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
If you oxygenate, if you have good oxygenation going to
the cells, and you have cancer on most of the cancers,
they've not all, but most of the cancers, they've proven
that you have a fifty percent greater survival rate. Wow,
that's huge. Yes, Vitamin D has been shown if it's low,
(40:42):
you have a sixty percent greater chance of getting certain cancers.
You know, colon cancer with vitamin D is well known.
Prustate cancer is known that if you're just low on
your vitamin D, your chances go up over fifty percent
greater chance of getting that cancer just one vitamin. So,
you know, you start to talk about those types of
(41:04):
things and if we could be looking at people beforehand
and keeping those things nice and healthy and in range,
it just really cuts down on your chances for cancer.
A cardiovascular disease. Now, if you're taking clusterol medicine for
cardiovascular disease, it reduces your co Q ten in your body,
which causes your heart to fail because it's necessary for it.
(41:28):
So some of the things pharmaceuticals that we're taking will
speed up our disease process that we're trying to prevent
with the pharmaceutical Wow, so you know you're talking about
really just keeping that cardiovascular disease under control. You're talking
about cancer. Huge amount of influence on that.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
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Speaker 2 (42:50):
Holistic Heart is a division of our office where we're
concentrating on cardiovascular disease. It reflects our whole model. What
our basis is holistic integration. So holistic integration has the
holistic part, which is the structure function. Homeostasis is the
basis of structure function, which is the balance and the
healing and the improvement of health in the body, and
(43:12):
we look at the body in a very holistic type
of way. Integration is where we are then connecting to
the medical model that is presently dominant in the United
States to help us to get the best of both worlds.
Our philosophy is eighty percent of all treatment should be
structure function based, twenty percent disease care based, which is
pharmaceuticals and surgery. With that, we know that we will
(43:36):
get the best outcomes.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
What has research shown about the common treatments for cardiovascular disease.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
The National Institute of Health did a very very thorough
study over that to find out how effective and how
much of a change it makes to have the sense
and the surgery is actually done, and their conclusion was
not so much. I was actually very surprised about that.
The only difference that it makes is if it's an emergency,
if you're having a heart attack, I would prefer you
(44:03):
to go to the emergency room, not to my office,
because they actually do a much better job. However, if
you're talking about long term health of the heart, structure
function care does the best. Really the surgeries At this
point one of the biggest money makers for hospitals, so
there's a lot of pushback from it, but the research
that the National Institute of Health actually did was pretty
clear cut. The results on that were zero.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
So what diagnostics do you do for cardiovascular disease?
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Of course, we do all the standard types of tests
and we have a cardiologist who interprets them for us,
so all the different types of things that you could
possibly do. Of course, the gold standard is the echo,
which is something that we have done on our patients.
So we do all the standards, but we then also
do quite a few different types of things that most
cardiologists don't do. Paranalysis because the minerals play such a
(44:53):
big role. We're much more thorough on looking at all
the different types of blood tests that could be done.
We also do a neutral valve breakdown on the deficiencies
in the body and actually know what's going on because truthfully,
eighty percent of the problems with the heart are really
nutritionally based deficiencies that leads to the heart having the
(45:14):
problems that they're experiencing.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Why should a thorough cardiac workup need to be done well.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
As you're looking at heart disease, it's the number one killer.
Then also not only do you have that, but then
you also have strokes. As the number five, you also
have hypertension, and so getting a thorough cardiovascular workup is
something that we highly recommend. There's a lot of things
that we do within office that are not usually done,
(45:40):
so we can actually provide a picture of what's going
on with the health of the heart in a very
detailed type of way. We've had several people say that
they got a much more thorough picture on what was
going on with their heart than even going to the
top cardiology hospitals. I had one gentleman came in he said,
you know, I've got problems with my heart and feel it.
They agree, but they don't know what it is. We
(46:02):
found it at our little office.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
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circulatory system for just forty nine dollars normally one hundred
and ninety five dollars value. Learn how to protect your
(46:26):
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(46:47):
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(47:34):
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(47:58):
we're talking today about to sub implement or not to
supplement and very very interesting we're going to have. I've
just decided a part two on this because we have
a lot of information here and sixty eight percent of
all Americans take supplementating supplementation right now. You imagine if
(48:18):
they did it the right way, got diagnostics, got their
blood tested, their minerals checked, so that they were taking
the right I mean, when you think of vitamins and minerals,
vitamins there's some fat soluble of.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Course you're not very common thing is vitamin D. There
was a big craze there for a while where every
doctor was saying that you need to take vitamin D,
which was correct, but then they ran into a problem.
They weren't checking it.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
They weren't checking the vitamin D levels.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
So I had people who are coming there, Yes, I
had people coming in and I sit there and I said, well,
I want to check your blood test on vitamin D. Also, so, oh,
you don't need to. I'm on vitamin D. My doctor
put me on it. I said, oh great, you know
when it was the last time you had it checked? Well,
what do you mean? And I got, well, when it
was the last time you had a blood test on
(49:07):
the vitamin D? Like what I told you that we
need to do? They said, well I never did. I said, well,
when you started, what were your levels? And they said, well,
we didn't do a blood test. They just told me
I needed to be on vitamin D. Yeah, and I'm going.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
And that's a fat soluble vitamin.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Right, And I'm like what. So we did the test
on it and they had toxic levels of vitamin D.
That's where you can get too much. So it's important
to know when to put someone on it first. We
don't put anyone on vitamin D or most of the
things unless we know that they needed. We don't just
willie nelly put you on supplementation. We have a willy nelly.
(49:45):
That's a scientific term. And so you know when we
put you on it, we know that you need it,
and then we recheck and know when you don't need
it anymore. So, very very important along those lines to
get the benefits, because again, anything you can take too
much of and cause a problem, even vitamin C can
(50:05):
it actually blocks some of your B vitamins from absorbing.
So knowing what you're doing along those lines is a
very critical type of thing, and working with that is
very important, some of them much more important than others.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
Interesting, So how many people show deficiencies or require help
you know that they don't get in their diet?
Speaker 2 (50:33):
I mean everyone, I mean people just don't come in
about the United States, right, people don't come in and
unless someone who knows what they're doing is working with them,
it's pretty well guaranteed that they're going to have something
that's not right because it just doesn't happen naturally. At
this point, we're under too much stress, and we already
(50:57):
talked about some of the problems that are associated with it.
Speaker 1 (51:01):
There are soils depleting.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
And chemicals and just all the different types of things.
I mean, if the nutrients aren't in your food that
you're eating, then you're not going to just automatically produce
it in your.
Speaker 1 (51:13):
System, right. I just love going to the farmers' markets.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
Isn't that nice? It's just so refreshing feeling and.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
You have the energy of the food.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
Yeah, and the people look healthier.
Speaker 1 (51:27):
Well. Who is most likely to show dietary deficiencies The.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
People who, according to studies show most common group is
older people.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
What do you mean by older?
Speaker 2 (51:41):
The older you are, the more likely you are to
show dietary deficiencies. It's just like everything, things start to
fail as you go along. Matter of fact, one of
the main reasons people age and have all the problems
that they have is because of dietary deficiencies. So if
you're looking to stave off getting old, do supplementation, you know,
(52:07):
find out what's going on. I mean, unless you like
getting old, you can you can reverse that right, not
only reverse it, but also prevent it from happening, and
just have.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
A quality of life as you grow older and conference
and correct.
Speaker 2 (52:25):
So older people are the most common ones, but there's
also pregnant women, people who are in illnesses, there are athletes,
So all of those are different types of categories that
show up along those lines.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
I know, I've started a club plates, doing a little
plug for club plates for them. Moved up a class
and my daughter was our daughter was picking us up,
and she's your daughter too, and she's a mom. There
are a lot of young people in that class. I said,
I know, I'm moving up, I'm getting stronger. Sure, it's
(53:00):
a great feeling.
Speaker 2 (53:01):
Well, and as you grow older, you know, the digestive
system isn't quite up to par. The painters, the dies,
you know, digestive enzymes are no there are even not
only oftentimes you're not getting as much nutrients because people
don't eat as much. But then as you get older,
(53:22):
your requirements to fight off things become higher. One of
the things that really happens that you need to look
at as an older person is free radical pathology because
the free radicals occur because of the engine just is
not working as it should for producing energy. So the
oxidative process starts to fail, and so you need have
(53:44):
a greater requirements for supplements than what you would before.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
What's that book, The engine, little.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
Engine that could. As a little engine gets older, the
little engine needs a little bit more oomph.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
Right, Well, thank you, Doctor preyther Or going to call
this part one to supplement or not to supplement. We
got a lot more information We're going to cover next
week in part two. So thank you for all this information.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
Thank you Lucy.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
Holistic Integration is located at eighty nine oh two North
Meridian Street on the north side of Indianapolis, just south
of the I four sixty five loop. If we can
help you to achieve better health, we'd love to hear
from you. Connect with our office at three one seven
eight four eight eighty forty eight. That's three one seven
eight four eight eighty forty eight. Join us again next
(54:37):
week or anytime on our website at the Voice of
Health radio dot com for the Voice of Health with
doctor Robert Prather.
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