August 26, 2024 • 40 mins
According to a Report in the Wall Street Journal, the Medicare System got ripped out by private insurance companies, which is one of the reasons why the cost of healthcare keeps going-up.
Red Meat Can Raise YOUR Risk of Developing DiabetesIt's sugar-free, unprocessed and comes from an animal. Yet according to top scientists at Harvard, eating red meat can increase your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Eating just 2.5 ounces of beef every day, the rough equivalent of one single patty at your favorite burger joint, was associated with a 26 percent higher risk of being diagnosed with diabetes. The beef industry and fast-food burger joints are praying you never learn about this important finding.
Red Meat Can Raise YOUR Risk of Developing DiabetesIt's sugar-free, unprocessed and comes from an animal. Yet according to top scientists at Harvard, eating red meat can increase your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Eating just 2.5 ounces of beef every day, the rough equivalent of one single patty at your favorite burger joint, was associated with a 26 percent higher risk of being diagnosed with diabetes. The beef industry and fast-food burger joints are praying you never learn about this important finding.
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special guest next hour. Stick around for that, and we
begin this hour with the discussion of a dilemma that
everybody knows about, and that is the high costs related
to sick care in America. Now some people call it healthcare.
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I don't because it really is not dedicated to that.
It's about fixing stuff when it breaks. And we do
a very poor job in the United States of educating
people about how to stay healthy and not get sick
in the first place, and basically hopefully helping a person
to die at a very very old age in their
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sleep with a smile on their flap face. That's not
what typically happens. So health insurance and the cost of
doing insurance, sick insurance is the highest on the planet.
Here in the United States, we spend the most on
sick care healthcare, and we get the least for it.
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Because when you look at the longevity tables, you look
at the cost of illness, treating illnesses, it's sky high
in America. Why is that? What is wrong with this picture? Well,
here's a classic example of what's wrong with this picture.
Health insurance companies are overcharging you, the citizen via Medicare.
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The government. You're paying for that through your taxes, et cetera.
Healthcare companies are ripping off Medicare by over fifty billion
dollars for fake illnesses that they're padding it for. This
is not me saying it. This is out of a
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report from the Wall Street Journal finding that private health
insurance companies running Medicare advantage programs have overcharged the federal
government by up to fifty billion with a b fifty
billion dollars by claiming that their patients are worse off
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than they actually were, in other words, making up problems
so that they can get larger checks from the government
from the Medicare fund, from the slush fund, if you will.
Medicare advantage, also known as Medicare Parts C. You may
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recognize it as that you may have it. You may
have somebody in your life that has maybe a parent
that has Medicare Parts CY or Medicare advantage that's being
ripped by private insurance companies. It's a program in which
private insurance or insurance companies provide supplementary Medicare approved health
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insurance plans that, in theory, are intended to incentivize insurers
to provide healthcare to patients with complex medical conditions. So
it's one of those extra extras on top of what
you have, just in case you get something exotic, something
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a little more off the beaten path of normal illnesses
and you don't want to go bankrupt or be out
on the street or become homeless. It's one of those
plans you pay some extra for and that's fine, but
they're being ripped off by the insurance companies who are
billing them. The government pays insurance companies, the government pays insurers.
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I should say, a base rate of three thousand, seven
hundred and thirty five dollars for each member that's actually
enrolled into this Medicare advantage Medicare Parts C health insurance
companies are entitled to extra payments when their patients are
diagnosed with certain conditions that are costly to treat. For example,
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insurance receive an additional twenty three hundred dollars plus for
Medicare Advantage members the Medicare Parts C for morbid obesity,
meaning that the person is like maybe three hundred pounds
or more. Yes, that case becomes more complicated, and yes
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they require additional care. They receive these private insures an
additional two thousand, five hundred dollars for a trial fibrillation,
which can be complicated. They also receive an additional on
top of the Medicare Parts C or Medicare Advantage, an
additional two thousand dollars if someone has a stroke. And
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the list goes on and on, so if you get
prostate cancer, you have seizures or kidney disease. This is
one of those nets, one of those insurance plans that's
on top of the one you already have the standard Medicare.
Let's call it Part A or B. One is for drugs,
the other ones for hospitalization, et cetera. This is an
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extra one so that when a complication ensues, a complication
becomes necessary to treat beyond what the insurance company would
typically pay. You're covered. Well. Now we see that these
insurance companies are overcharging Medicare fifty million dollars for fake
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illnesses that they're generating by looking at the paperwork and
generating it themselves. Medicare Advantage was created assuming that private,
for profit health insurance companies could use the program to
provide healthcare more efficiently, and instead the system has given
insur as an incentive to search their patients for additional
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diagnosises they could stick them on, leading to patients seeming
sicker on paper. This has led Medicare Advantage spending to
get out of control, to balloon way beyond its means.
Now it cost taxpayers more than four hundred and fifty
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billion dollars, and spending in the program now accounts for
more than half of all Medicare spending and has proven
to be more expensive than the regular Medicare system. It
has ended up supplanting. So you have these insurers looking
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at that, going, oh, there's bank for us. Let's get
a hold of the patient records and comb through that
and see the doctor's notes on these patients who are
going in with full Medicare ABC and find some diagnosis
or some illness or some notes somewhere on that doctor's
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chart that then we can put another diagnosis on that
patient and then send Medicare a bill for that diagnosis
and then they write checks. I kid you not, this
is going on. Check it out for yourself. The reporters
in the Wall Street Journal. I'll continue this because this
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is important to understand why these kinds of tactics drive
up insurance and make it unaffordable for everybody in the system,
why it needs to be reined in. We'll come back
with that and stay with us. You're tuned into the
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not know about and not have answers to these questions,
why our health insurance companies billing so high? Why is
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health insurance so high? To begin with? Why are so
many people going bankrupt trying to manage healthcare costs? Well,
here's a classic example of it. Health insurance companies are
overcharging the government that would be us in the Medicare
system by over fifty billion dollars by finding these fake
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illnesses within the patient's charts and in sending bills to
the Medicare system to get paid. Over the last decade,
insurance have exploited the higher earnings they can receive in
the Medicare Advantage or Medicare Parts program, leading to more
than half of the sixty seven million seniors and disabled
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people on Medicare being enrolled in Medicare advantage plans one
health insurance company. One way that these companies do this
is by adding diagnoses to the ones the patient's own
doctors submit. In other words, let's example, a doctor submits
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a bill to Medicare let's say Medicare Part A or
Medicare Part B, and the insurance company gets a hold
of that. Let's say it's for a knee injury, and
the private insurance company, because they have Medicare Part C,
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gets a hold of that, and they start looking through
the notes and they notice on the patient's history or
something that the doctor has noted which is not part
of the diagnosis of the injury and the knee they
just happen to have XYZ complaint or history, and suddenly
that insurance company is out of whole cloth, making up
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a diagnosis beyond the doctor's diagnosis of an e injury
and sending that out to Medicare parts see so they
can get a large check cut to themselves. Not kidding
on this check it out. Medicare claims this option is
necessary as it allows health insurance companies to catch conditions
that doctors failed to diagnose and record. However, the Wall
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Street Journal's analysis notes that many of these diagnoses were
added in contradiction to doctors' views for which patients received
no treatment. In other words, for example, that person with
the knee injury, yeah, the doctor treated their knee, but
they also had a rash. They said, well, I get
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this rash. I get this groin rash from time to time,
No big deal. Doctor didn't even deal with it on
that visit, didn't worry about it. But yet they found
it in the records and they build Medicare for the
rash or whatever code was connected to a rash that
didn't even get treated. Another word, service for no service rendered. Wow.
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Here's what one of the people say about it. The
insurers make new diagnosis after reviewing medical charts, sometimes using
artificial intelligence AI, and sending nurses to visit patients in
their homes. That's what the Wall Street General wrote. And
they're a four person investigative team led by reporter Christopher
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Weaver and senior editor Mark Mehermont. They go on to say,
and I quote they pay doctors for access to patients
records and reward patients who agree to home visits with
gift cards and other financial benefits close quote. In other words,
this is all a system which is bilking, fraudulently bilking
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and bribing its way to Denaro, to chiching these private
insurance companies. We wonder why our insurance company are charging
so much these day? Why are insurance in general in
the United States is so high and we get so
little here it is being ripped off again. Here's a doctor,
doctor Howard chen an ophthalmologist in Goodyear, Arizona, noted that
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insurers these are private insurance outside of Medicare that are
participating in that Medicare part ce insurers. Ad added diabetic
cataract diagnosis to one and forty eight of his patients,
even though he saw at most one or two such
cases a year. Doctor chen charge insures forty dollars per
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patient to cover his costs for providing them with the
medical charts. In other words, they get a bill from
doctor Howard chen over he's an Ophthalmologist's an e doctor
in Goodyear, Arizona, and they spot that the person has
a diabetic cataract diagnosis, and so they start billing for
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it even though they're not being treated for it. Unbelievable.
If they are just making stuff up, he says, why
they even need or want my charts? Just make it up. Well,
they've got to have some paper trail their doctor Chen
so that just in case somebody calls them on it
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like this radio show anothers like it, they'll at least
have a chart in their hands. What was in your chart? Doctor?
It said it right there. You didn't You must have
forgotten to diagnose that condition. We did it for you, folks.
I'm not kidding on this. This is not I'm not
making this. This is incredible. Medicare does not provide insures
additional pay for Medicare advantage members with cataracts. It doesn't,
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But yet these private insurance companies are billing Medicare for
it just because they found it in a doctor's chart
chart that they requested and they figured it out. Whoever,
patients with diabetic cataract net insurers an additional two thousand,
eight hundred and sixty three dollars. That's why they were
combing doctor Howard chen the ophthalmologist in Goody, Arizona's chart,
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because they wanted to get a check for an additional
two thousand, eight hundred and sixty three dollars that goes
to the insurance company, not to doctor Chen. Wow. Between
twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one, the government paid all
Medicare advantage assurers more than seven hundred million for diabetic
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cataract diagnoses patients signed up for Medicare advantage were fifteen
times more likely more likely to be diagnosed with diabetic
cataracts than patients enrolled in the traditional Medicare. Yeah, of
course they're going to be diagnosed more often because the
insurance company is going to find something in a file
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somewhere and look at it and go, oh, there's money waiting.
Let's not leave that money on the tape. Well, let's
go for that money. It's in the chart. Yeah, the
doctor didn't diagnos it, but we're doing it for him.
We want to get paid more. Other diagnoses diagnosises were
also more likely for patients with Medicare advantage, including morbidobeit, obesity,
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heart failure, depression, and emphysema. Some diagnoses claimed by insurers
were demonstrably false, like over sixty six thousand of the
Medicare advantage patients who were diagnosed with diabetic cataracts. Wow,
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you talk about fraud, you talk about I mean, they're
not even not even try to hide it, just they're
billing for it. These tens of thousands of patients had
already gotten cataract surgery, by the way, so they'd already
paid out money through the other Medicare programs Part A,
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Part B, and another thirty six thousand did not receive
any medical services or prescription drugs related to diabetes, but
yet they're being charged the government is Medicare parts see
the advantage program an additional amount just because the insurance
company found some note about a condition and they thought,
oh there's bank, let's go. Incredible, folks. So now you
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have an understanding of how and why the sick care
system in the United States is failing. This is just
another part of it, another piece to the puzzle. And
if we don't do something about it, it's going away.
I mean, it's people are suffering because they cannot afford
to deal with healthcare or sick care. All right, stay
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that the importance, the critically, the important area in your
body to take care of is the first portal of entry.
That would be your oral cavity. We often take it
for granted until we have trouble with it. That's not
a good thing. And I think we're doing a better
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job of teaching people today versus fifty years ago and
even twenty five years ago, that you must floss, you
must brush your teeth, You must take good care of
your oral health or you won't have any oral health
to take care of it. And beyond the oral cavity,
your oral health affects the entire rest of your body.
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That's true. If you have a low grade simmering infection
in your mouth, you have ginger vitis, periodonal disease, you
have some tooth problem. That infection convade deeper into your
body and impact other parts of your body. It's connected
to your bloodstream. It can go to your heart and
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create inflammation. It can inflame your joints, it can cause
rashes in your body, and the list goes on and on.
That's why I am a stickler when it comes to
encouraging people to do self care at home and take
good care of their dental health and then periodically go
in to see the dental hygienis for a deep clean
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or a dentist, of course, but take good care of yourself.
And to do that, I personally and my family and
my colleagues use the Spry Spry toothpaste and Spry mouth rints.
They also have gum and mints, and I do that
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I've been using it over twenty years now. You look
at the side columns of these toothpaste on the boxes,
the ingredients and some of the more common big box
toothpaste name one, Colgate, Crest, whatever sense you read the
side label. The chemicals that are in there, you can't
spell them. You don't know where they're from. They're not
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of nature, and that's a problem. I want what's going
into my body because it's if it's in my mouth,
it's in my bloodstream. It happens, folks. I want the
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We all accumulate it. That's why I use the Spry
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zero six eighty eight twenty two. We go to the
first caller here is run in castle Virginia.
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My name is Ronnie. I'm from Castlewood, Virginia. I have
had a rib pain for three years in my left side.
No doctor can tell me why. I've had all kinds
of tiss. Do you have any ideals to continue to
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find out what's bothering me? Thank you?
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Oh, you're welcome, Ronn. I'm sorry I got your city,
Roman's Castlewood, Virginia. Okay, Well, I'm glad that you have
gotten a second opinion on this rib pain that doesn't
seem to be abating and nobody can figure out Sometimes
it's just a matter of getting a second opinion. But
it sounds like you've had many of them. However, you know,
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sometimes these things are very tricky, very mysterious, these pains
why they come, and if the doctor is not whoever
checks you the doctor or doctors are not familiar with
how to train that down. Let's say that those doctors
are all in the same healing art, let's say conventional medicine,
and they go, well, no, I don't see anything, nothing broken.
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I don't see any lesions there, and they can't find it.
They determine it to be well, don't know, don't know
what to tell you, and then you're just roaming around
trying to figure it out. Maybe it's time for a
change in health care providers, a different system. You see,
there are different systems of health care. You have conventional medicine,
and then you have other forms of medicine like nature
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pathic medicine. You have homeopathic medicine. You have chiropractic care
and all kinds of other you have acupuncture. You have
all these different systems that do different forms of analyzes
and different forms of delivery of care to address certain
underlying problems. It may be in your case, Ron just
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a bad fit. You don't have a broken rig. You
don't have a bullet hole, you don't have a lesion,
a cut, or a tear there. Therefore medical care may
not make sense. But you still have a problem which
is still there, and your body's telling you that. What
I would do, if you haven't done so already, is
find a chiropractic physician who can examine that, because you
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may have some type of intercostal neuroritis there that your
other doctors cannot treat or even diagnose or figure out.
Because there are different forms of treatment that can be rendered.
If you do have a malaligned rib. Those ribs connect
to your spine and some to your stern them and
if there's any misalignment there, they need to be fixed adjusted.
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Conventional medical doctors can't do that. You may also benefit
through a rib brace or maybe acupuncture or massage therapy.
Consider all of those in the plight to get to
the bottom of this. This pain may be related to
something internally. All right, take care.
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I'm so.
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I'm most stoppable to do and I welcome you or
welcome you back to this hour. Of the Doctor Bob
Martin Show. Thank you for tuning into the program, And
as you just heard in the last segment, we answered
the question of a caller into the program, Ron from Castlewood, Virginia,
about a pain he was having in his left rip
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cage area. Been to multiple doctors that can figure it out.
The key there, I guess the take as we ran
out of time there is don't give up. Your body
is your best doctor. Your body is not wrong that
there's a pain there. There's a reason for that pain,
and just because a doctor can't figure it out doesn't
mean it's not so doesn't mean it's not there. Don't
talk yourself into believing that you're a hypochondriac or you're
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faking it. No, no, no, your body is right on.
It's telling you correct information. You just got to have
somebody figure out what it means. Sometimes these things are
hard to nail down. But if you're in the wrong
healing art i e. Conventional medicine, and they've already been
you've been through the gauntlet with those guys and gals,
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then move on to another healing art. There are other
healing arts that take different approaches which may unlock the
cause of the pain you're having ron So don't give up,
all right, and again I appreciate your phone call. It's
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before we run out of time this hour, why did
you get to this interesting information about how diabetes, oh
Man is it on the rise? Blood sugar problems huge
rise in it over the last couple of decades.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
At least.
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The latest information might surprise you. A surprising food item
that actually causes diabetes despite having no sugar in it.
We're talking about type two diabetes. There's four different types
of diabetes, by the ways, type one, type two, type three,
type four. I'm talking here about type two, the most
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common one, the one that's on the biggest rise right now.
The surprising food item that causes diabetes having no sugar
in it. Because we've all heard, oh, you got to
get off sugar, you got to get off the carbs,
got to get off the white flour. Well, the Harvard
experts are now saying something completely different. It's sugar free, unprocessed,
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comes from an animal. That's jacking up the statistics about diabetes. Yet,
according to top scientists at Harvard, eating red meat red
meat folks can increase your risk of developing type two diabetes.
We used to call it adult onset, but we can't
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do that anymore because kids are getting it early and
often eating just two point five ounces of beef every day,
two point five ounces, which is hardly anything the rough
equivalent of one single patty love. Let's say, an in
and out burger or whatever your dej your choice is,
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was associated with a wopping twenty six percent higher risk
of being diagnosed with You got it, the big D,
and I do mean diabetes. It'll tear you up over time,
that disease. It's disabling, and we're going to get into
it hard and heavy next hour. So don't go anywhere now.
The researchers behind the new paper that's just outtot Harvard
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remind us that all other diet and lifestyle factors were
accounted for. Type two diabetes is normally linked to high
sugar intake in the diet and low fiber diets and
junk food and sedentary lifestyle. True, all true, But how
did red meat get in there? Well the problem? According
to the study of over two hundred thousand adults, this
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is not some small studies, some isolated study, somebody aiming
arrows at the beef industry.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
No no, no, no no.
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This is hardcore science out of Harvard, two hundred thousand
adults over thirty six years. They monitored them and the
smoking gun as to how red meat jacks up raises
your risk of diabetes, a disease you never want to
have if you value your vision, your kidneys, your heart,
your blood vessels, your immune system. Is heme iron in
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the beef, meaning the blood of the animal, and iron
in beef a type of iron found in meat and
dairy foods. That's the smoking gun. That's the cause, they're
saying at Harvard University. After all this time and study wow,
they suggest that hem iron causes inflammation in the body.
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This makes the body less responsive to insulin, a hormone
which controls blood sugar, and together these two factors could
raise your risk of developing type two diabetes. Now, these
findings suggest that eating a plant based diet could help
protect against developing diabetes. According to the study author doctor
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Frank Who and Frederick Stare, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology
at Harvard and colleagues. So, reducing the heme iron intake,
particularly from red meat, and adopting a plant based diet
can be effective strategies at lowering your risk of diabetes.
Your choice, ladies and gentlemen, what will you do? Choose wisely? Glasshoppah,
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We'll be right back. I'm doctor Bob Margineth. It's the
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doctor Bob Martin, show that it is and thank you
for tuning into the program at telling others to the
very same thing. Stick around, because boy, we have a
whole lot of important things to tell you about in
the remainder of the show. Today. We're in the final
segment of this hour, however, and we were just talking
during the break. The co pilot of the Doctor Bob
Martin Show, Phil was telling me he's still gonna have
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his steak once in a while. I said, hey, no problem,
that's not the messaging here. The messaging is people who
are eating red beef constantly, breakfast, dinner, lunch in between,
just carnivoring it up. No, no, no, I don't eat beef.
Haven't for fifty years or something. Guy was raised in
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the Midwest where beef is it? I mean, you eat
it all day every day. No, no, no, not good
for me, And so I gave it up.
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Yeah.
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I have poultry sort of a Mediterranean style diye, and
that's what I'm doing. All right, let's get let's get
back to one last question before the end of the hour.
Here's Lisa in Austin, Texas.
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My name is Lisa from Austin, Texas. I have a
niece who had HLH disease. And she needed a bone
marrow transplant. Unfortunately, her bone marrow never kicked in, so
she needs monthly blood product. She's developed a cost that
she often suppresses, but the flim still comes up and
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she swallows it. So that's my question. Is it okay
to swallow the flim? It's going into the stomach, not
the lines, of course, but that's my question.
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Thank you, okay, Lisa, thank you for your calling on
her behalf. Yes, it's okay to swallow the mucus. It's
better to get it out of lungs and swallow, which
just goes through the gest system. No big deal. I'm
concerned about this, ladies and gentlemen. Her condition, that condition
that she just mentioned, hemo phagacitic lympho histocytosis, is the
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disease we love to make things complicated in healthcare. We
get bigger checks when that happens. I guess that's the goal.
But yes, this is a chronic inflammatory disease, usually driven
by some low grade, unresolved infection. That could be an
old STD infection. It could be an old unary track infection,
could be a root canal that was never resolved in
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the mouth, could be a digestive problem and the digest
track like an old fungal or yeast infection, candidiasis, could
be lime disease. There's so many things this could be
and they're just not getting to the reason for it.
That's why she ultimately needs to see an integrative or
alternative doctor to get to the bottom of this. And
there's also a formulation for the the mucus in the
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by the name of Radiant Greens. Lung Plus by Radiant
Greens that'll help with the mucus until she can get
to somebody and get to the bottom of where this
infections coming from. That's what needs to happen, because it's
gonna tear her up for the rest of her life
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unless we get to the reason for don't give up anyway.
You can get to this lung plus formula at area
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You're looking for lung plus for her, and I appreciate
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begin this hour with the discussion of a dilemma that
everybody knows about, and that is the high costs related
to sick care in America. Now some people call it healthcare.
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I don't because it really is not dedicated to that.
It's about fixing stuff when it breaks. And we do
a very poor job in the United States of educating
people about how to stay healthy and not get sick
in the first place, and basically hopefully helping a person
to die at a very very old age in their
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sleep with a smile on their flap face. That's not
what typically happens. So health insurance and the cost of
doing insurance, sick insurance is the highest on the planet.
Here in the United States, we spend the most on
sick care healthcare, and we get the least for it.
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Because when you look at the longevity tables, you look
at the cost of illness, treating illnesses, it's sky high
in America. Why is that? What is wrong with this picture? Well,
here's a classic example of what's wrong with this picture.
Health insurance companies are overcharging you, the citizen via Medicare.
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The government. You're paying for that through your taxes, et cetera.
Healthcare companies are ripping off Medicare by over fifty billion
dollars for fake illnesses that they're padding it for. This
is not me saying it. This is out of a
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report from the Wall Street Journal finding that private health
insurance companies running Medicare advantage programs have overcharged the federal
government by up to fifty billion with a b fifty
billion dollars by claiming that their patients are worse off
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than they actually were, in other words, making up problems
so that they can get larger checks from the government
from the Medicare fund, from the slush fund, if you will.
Medicare advantage, also known as Medicare Parts C. You may
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recognize it as that you may have it. You may
have somebody in your life that has maybe a parent
that has Medicare Parts CY or Medicare advantage that's being
ripped by private insurance companies. It's a program in which
private insurance or insurance companies provide supplementary Medicare approved health
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insurance plans that, in theory, are intended to incentivize insurers
to provide healthcare to patients with complex medical conditions. So
it's one of those extra extras on top of what
you have, just in case you get something exotic, something
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a little more off the beaten path of normal illnesses
and you don't want to go bankrupt or be out
on the street or become homeless. It's one of those
plans you pay some extra for and that's fine, but
they're being ripped off by the insurance companies who are
billing them. The government pays insurance companies, the government pays insurers.
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I should say, a base rate of three thousand, seven
hundred and thirty five dollars for each member that's actually
enrolled into this Medicare advantage Medicare Parts C health insurance
companies are entitled to extra payments when their patients are
diagnosed with certain conditions that are costly to treat. For example,
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insurance receive an additional twenty three hundred dollars plus for
Medicare Advantage members the Medicare Parts C for morbid obesity,
meaning that the person is like maybe three hundred pounds
or more. Yes, that case becomes more complicated, and yes
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they require additional care. They receive these private insures an
additional two thousand, five hundred dollars for a trial fibrillation,
which can be complicated. They also receive an additional on
top of the Medicare Parts C or Medicare Advantage, an
additional two thousand dollars if someone has a stroke. And
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the list goes on and on, so if you get
prostate cancer, you have seizures or kidney disease. This is
one of those nets, one of those insurance plans that's
on top of the one you already have the standard Medicare.
Let's call it Part A or B. One is for drugs,
the other ones for hospitalization, et cetera. This is an
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extra one so that when a complication ensues, a complication
becomes necessary to treat beyond what the insurance company would
typically pay. You're covered. Well. Now we see that these
insurance companies are overcharging Medicare fifty million dollars for fake
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illnesses that they're generating by looking at the paperwork and
generating it themselves. Medicare Advantage was created assuming that private,
for profit health insurance companies could use the program to
provide healthcare more efficiently, and instead the system has given
insur as an incentive to search their patients for additional
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diagnosises they could stick them on, leading to patients seeming
sicker on paper. This has led Medicare Advantage spending to
get out of control, to balloon way beyond its means.
Now it cost taxpayers more than four hundred and fifty
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billion dollars, and spending in the program now accounts for
more than half of all Medicare spending and has proven
to be more expensive than the regular Medicare system. It
has ended up supplanting. So you have these insurers looking
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at that, going, oh, there's bank for us. Let's get
a hold of the patient records and comb through that
and see the doctor's notes on these patients who are
going in with full Medicare ABC and find some diagnosis
or some illness or some notes somewhere on that doctor's
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chart that then we can put another diagnosis on that
patient and then send Medicare a bill for that diagnosis
and then they write checks. I kid you not, this
is going on. Check it out for yourself. The reporters
in the Wall Street Journal. I'll continue this because this
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is important to understand why these kinds of tactics drive
up insurance and make it unaffordable for everybody in the system,
why it needs to be reined in. We'll come back
with that and stay with us. You're tuned into the
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why our health insurance companies billing so high? Why is
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health insurance so high? To begin with? Why are so
many people going bankrupt trying to manage healthcare costs? Well,
here's a classic example of it. Health insurance companies are
overcharging the government that would be us in the Medicare
system by over fifty billion dollars by finding these fake
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illnesses within the patient's charts and in sending bills to
the Medicare system to get paid. Over the last decade,
insurance have exploited the higher earnings they can receive in
the Medicare Advantage or Medicare Parts program, leading to more
than half of the sixty seven million seniors and disabled
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people on Medicare being enrolled in Medicare advantage plans one
health insurance company. One way that these companies do this
is by adding diagnoses to the ones the patient's own
doctors submit. In other words, let's example, a doctor submits
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a bill to Medicare let's say Medicare Part A or
Medicare Part B, and the insurance company gets a hold
of that. Let's say it's for a knee injury, and
the private insurance company, because they have Medicare Part C,
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gets a hold of that, and they start looking through
the notes and they notice on the patient's history or
something that the doctor has noted which is not part
of the diagnosis of the injury and the knee they
just happen to have XYZ complaint or history, and suddenly
that insurance company is out of whole cloth, making up
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a diagnosis beyond the doctor's diagnosis of an e injury
and sending that out to Medicare parts see so they
can get a large check cut to themselves. Not kidding
on this check it out. Medicare claims this option is
necessary as it allows health insurance companies to catch conditions
that doctors failed to diagnose and record. However, the Wall
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Street Journal's analysis notes that many of these diagnoses were
added in contradiction to doctors' views for which patients received
no treatment. In other words, for example, that person with
the knee injury, yeah, the doctor treated their knee, but
they also had a rash. They said, well, I get
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this rash. I get this groin rash from time to time,
No big deal. Doctor didn't even deal with it on
that visit, didn't worry about it. But yet they found
it in the records and they build Medicare for the
rash or whatever code was connected to a rash that
didn't even get treated. Another word, service for no service rendered. Wow.
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Here's what one of the people say about it. The
insurers make new diagnosis after reviewing medical charts, sometimes using
artificial intelligence AI, and sending nurses to visit patients in
their homes. That's what the Wall Street General wrote. And
they're a four person investigative team led by reporter Christopher
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Weaver and senior editor Mark Mehermont. They go on to say,
and I quote they pay doctors for access to patients
records and reward patients who agree to home visits with
gift cards and other financial benefits close quote. In other words,
this is all a system which is bilking, fraudulently bilking
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and bribing its way to Denaro, to chiching these private
insurance companies. We wonder why our insurance company are charging
so much these day? Why are insurance in general in
the United States is so high and we get so
little here it is being ripped off again. Here's a doctor,
doctor Howard chen an ophthalmologist in Goodyear, Arizona, noted that
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insurers these are private insurance outside of Medicare that are
participating in that Medicare part ce insurers. Ad added diabetic
cataract diagnosis to one and forty eight of his patients,
even though he saw at most one or two such
cases a year. Doctor chen charge insures forty dollars per
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patient to cover his costs for providing them with the
medical charts. In other words, they get a bill from
doctor Howard chen over he's an Ophthalmologist's an e doctor
in Goodyear, Arizona, and they spot that the person has
a diabetic cataract diagnosis, and so they start billing for
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it even though they're not being treated for it. Unbelievable.
If they are just making stuff up, he says, why
they even need or want my charts? Just make it up. Well,
they've got to have some paper trail their doctor Chen
so that just in case somebody calls them on it
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like this radio show anothers like it, they'll at least
have a chart in their hands. What was in your chart? Doctor?
It said it right there. You didn't You must have
forgotten to diagnose that condition. We did it for you, folks.
I'm not kidding on this. This is not I'm not
making this. This is incredible. Medicare does not provide insures
additional pay for Medicare advantage members with cataracts. It doesn't,
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But yet these private insurance companies are billing Medicare for
it just because they found it in a doctor's chart
chart that they requested and they figured it out. Whoever,
patients with diabetic cataract net insurers an additional two thousand,
eight hundred and sixty three dollars. That's why they were
combing doctor Howard chen the ophthalmologist in Goody, Arizona's chart,
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because they wanted to get a check for an additional
two thousand, eight hundred and sixty three dollars that goes
to the insurance company, not to doctor Chen. Wow. Between
twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one, the government paid all
Medicare advantage assurers more than seven hundred million for diabetic
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cataract diagnoses patients signed up for Medicare advantage were fifteen
times more likely more likely to be diagnosed with diabetic
cataracts than patients enrolled in the traditional Medicare. Yeah, of
course they're going to be diagnosed more often because the
insurance company is going to find something in a file
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somewhere and look at it and go, oh, there's money waiting.
Let's not leave that money on the tape. Well, let's
go for that money. It's in the chart. Yeah, the
doctor didn't diagnos it, but we're doing it for him.
We want to get paid more. Other diagnoses diagnosises were
also more likely for patients with Medicare advantage, including morbidobeit, obesity,
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heart failure, depression, and emphysema. Some diagnoses claimed by insurers
were demonstrably false, like over sixty six thousand of the
Medicare advantage patients who were diagnosed with diabetic cataracts. Wow,
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you talk about fraud, you talk about I mean, they're
not even not even try to hide it, just they're
billing for it. These tens of thousands of patients had
already gotten cataract surgery, by the way, so they'd already
paid out money through the other Medicare programs Part A,
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Part B, and another thirty six thousand did not receive
any medical services or prescription drugs related to diabetes, but
yet they're being charged the government is Medicare parts see
the advantage program an additional amount just because the insurance
company found some note about a condition and they thought,
oh there's bank, let's go. Incredible, folks. So now you
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have an understanding of how and why the sick care
system in the United States is failing. This is just
another part of it, another piece to the puzzle. And
if we don't do something about it, it's going away.
I mean, it's people are suffering because they cannot afford
to deal with healthcare or sick care. All right, stay
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with us, We're coming right back. You are tuned into
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but I want to remind you before we get to
that the importance, the critically, the important area in your
body to take care of is the first portal of entry.
That would be your oral cavity. We often take it
for granted until we have trouble with it. That's not
a good thing. And I think we're doing a better
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job of teaching people today versus fifty years ago and
even twenty five years ago, that you must floss, you
must brush your teeth, You must take good care of
your oral health or you won't have any oral health
to take care of it. And beyond the oral cavity,
your oral health affects the entire rest of your body.
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That's true. If you have a low grade simmering infection
in your mouth, you have ginger vitis, periodonal disease, you
have some tooth problem. That infection convade deeper into your
body and impact other parts of your body. It's connected
to your bloodstream. It can go to your heart and
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create inflammation. It can inflame your joints, it can cause
rashes in your body, and the list goes on and on.
That's why I am a stickler when it comes to
encouraging people to do self care at home and take
good care of their dental health and then periodically go
in to see the dental hygienis for a deep clean
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or a dentist, of course, but take good care of yourself.
And to do that, I personally and my family and
my colleagues use the Spry Spry toothpaste and Spry mouth rints.
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I've been using it over twenty years now. You look
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the ingredients and some of the more common big box
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side label. The chemicals that are in there, you can't
spell them. You don't know where they're from. They're not
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into my body because it's if it's in my mouth,
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We all accumulate it. That's why I use the Spry
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zero six eighty eight twenty two. We go to the
first caller here is run in castle Virginia.
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My name is Ronnie. I'm from Castlewood, Virginia. I have
had a rib pain for three years in my left side.
No doctor can tell me why. I've had all kinds
of tiss. Do you have any ideals to continue to
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find out what's bothering me? Thank you?
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Oh, you're welcome, Ronn. I'm sorry I got your city,
Roman's Castlewood, Virginia. Okay, Well, I'm glad that you have
gotten a second opinion on this rib pain that doesn't
seem to be abating and nobody can figure out Sometimes
it's just a matter of getting a second opinion. But
it sounds like you've had many of them. However, you know,
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sometimes these things are very tricky, very mysterious, these pains
why they come, and if the doctor is not whoever
checks you the doctor or doctors are not familiar with
how to train that down. Let's say that those doctors
are all in the same healing art, let's say conventional medicine,
and they go, well, no, I don't see anything, nothing broken.
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I don't see any lesions there, and they can't find it.
They determine it to be well, don't know, don't know
what to tell you, and then you're just roaming around
trying to figure it out. Maybe it's time for a
change in health care providers, a different system. You see,
there are different systems of health care. You have conventional medicine,
and then you have other forms of medicine like nature
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pathic medicine. You have homeopathic medicine. You have chiropractic care
and all kinds of other you have acupuncture. You have
all these different systems that do different forms of analyzes
and different forms of delivery of care to address certain
underlying problems. It may be in your case, Ron just
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a bad fit. You don't have a broken rig. You
don't have a bullet hole, you don't have a lesion,
a cut, or a tear there. Therefore medical care may
not make sense. But you still have a problem which
is still there, and your body's telling you that. What
I would do, if you haven't done so already, is
find a chiropractic physician who can examine that, because you
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may have some type of intercostal neuroritis there that your
other doctors cannot treat or even diagnose or figure out.
Because there are different forms of treatment that can be rendered.
If you do have a malaligned rib. Those ribs connect
to your spine and some to your stern them and
if there's any misalignment there, they need to be fixed adjusted.
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Conventional medical doctors can't do that. You may also benefit
through a rib brace or maybe acupuncture or massage therapy.
Consider all of those in the plight to get to
the bottom of this. This pain may be related to
something internally. All right, take care.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
So I'm.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I'm a bush of his number Simon Pncible They have
one never single minds able.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
I'm so.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I'm most stoppable to do and I welcome you or
welcome you back to this hour. Of the Doctor Bob
Martin Show. Thank you for tuning into the program, And
as you just heard in the last segment, we answered
the question of a caller into the program, Ron from Castlewood, Virginia,
about a pain he was having in his left rip
(30:54):
cage area. Been to multiple doctors that can figure it out.
The key there, I guess the take as we ran
out of time there is don't give up. Your body
is your best doctor. Your body is not wrong that
there's a pain there. There's a reason for that pain,
and just because a doctor can't figure it out doesn't
mean it's not so doesn't mean it's not there. Don't
talk yourself into believing that you're a hypochondriac or you're
(31:20):
faking it. No, no, no, your body is right on.
It's telling you correct information. You just got to have
somebody figure out what it means. Sometimes these things are
hard to nail down. But if you're in the wrong
healing art i e. Conventional medicine, and they've already been
you've been through the gauntlet with those guys and gals,
(31:41):
then move on to another healing art. There are other
healing arts that take different approaches which may unlock the
cause of the pain you're having ron So don't give up,
all right, and again I appreciate your phone call. It's
that easy, folks. If you've got an issue. Sometimes I
have a health issue and you want to bounce that
(32:03):
off of me, you may do so. Our number are
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Pass it on the number. Eight hundred six zero six
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find Instagram x, LinkedIn's all over there all right now
before we run out of time this hour, why did
you get to this interesting information about how diabetes, oh
Man is it on the rise? Blood sugar problems huge
rise in it over the last couple of decades.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
At least.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
The latest information might surprise you. A surprising food item
that actually causes diabetes despite having no sugar in it.
We're talking about type two diabetes. There's four different types
of diabetes, by the ways, type one, type two, type three,
type four. I'm talking here about type two, the most
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common one, the one that's on the biggest rise right now.
The surprising food item that causes diabetes having no sugar
in it. Because we've all heard, oh, you got to
get off sugar, you got to get off the carbs,
got to get off the white flour. Well, the Harvard
experts are now saying something completely different. It's sugar free, unprocessed,
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comes from an animal. That's jacking up the statistics about diabetes. Yet,
according to top scientists at Harvard, eating red meat red
meat folks can increase your risk of developing type two diabetes.
We used to call it adult onset, but we can't
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do that anymore because kids are getting it early and
often eating just two point five ounces of beef every day,
two point five ounces, which is hardly anything the rough
equivalent of one single patty love. Let's say, an in
and out burger or whatever your dej your choice is,
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was associated with a wopping twenty six percent higher risk
of being diagnosed with You got it, the big D,
and I do mean diabetes. It'll tear you up over time,
that disease. It's disabling, and we're going to get into
it hard and heavy next hour. So don't go anywhere now.
The researchers behind the new paper that's just outtot Harvard
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remind us that all other diet and lifestyle factors were
accounted for. Type two diabetes is normally linked to high
sugar intake in the diet and low fiber diets and
junk food and sedentary lifestyle. True, all true, But how
did red meat get in there? Well the problem? According
to the study of over two hundred thousand adults, this
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is not some small studies, some isolated study, somebody aiming
arrows at the beef industry.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
No no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
This is hardcore science out of Harvard, two hundred thousand
adults over thirty six years. They monitored them and the
smoking gun as to how red meat jacks up raises
your risk of diabetes, a disease you never want to
have if you value your vision, your kidneys, your heart,
your blood vessels, your immune system. Is heme iron in
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the beef, meaning the blood of the animal, and iron
in beef a type of iron found in meat and
dairy foods. That's the smoking gun. That's the cause, they're
saying at Harvard University. After all this time and study wow,
they suggest that hem iron causes inflammation in the body.
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This makes the body less responsive to insulin, a hormone
which controls blood sugar, and together these two factors could
raise your risk of developing type two diabetes. Now, these
findings suggest that eating a plant based diet could help
protect against developing diabetes. According to the study author doctor
(36:29):
Frank Who and Frederick Stare, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology
at Harvard and colleagues. So, reducing the heme iron intake,
particularly from red meat, and adopting a plant based diet
can be effective strategies at lowering your risk of diabetes.
Your choice, ladies and gentlemen, what will you do? Choose wisely? Glasshoppah,
(36:55):
We'll be right back. I'm doctor Bob Margineth. It's the
(37:18):
doctor Bob Martin, show that it is and thank you
for tuning into the program at telling others to the
very same thing. Stick around, because boy, we have a
whole lot of important things to tell you about in
the remainder of the show. Today. We're in the final
segment of this hour, however, and we were just talking
during the break. The co pilot of the Doctor Bob
Martin Show, Phil was telling me he's still gonna have
(37:39):
his steak once in a while. I said, hey, no problem,
that's not the messaging here. The messaging is people who
are eating red beef constantly, breakfast, dinner, lunch in between,
just carnivoring it up. No, no, no, I don't eat beef.
Haven't for fifty years or something. Guy was raised in
(38:00):
the Midwest where beef is it? I mean, you eat
it all day every day. No, no, no, not good
for me, And so I gave it up.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I have poultry sort of a Mediterranean style diye, and
that's what I'm doing. All right, let's get let's get
back to one last question before the end of the hour.
Here's Lisa in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 6 (38:19):
My name is Lisa from Austin, Texas. I have a
niece who had HLH disease. And she needed a bone
marrow transplant. Unfortunately, her bone marrow never kicked in, so
she needs monthly blood product. She's developed a cost that
she often suppresses, but the flim still comes up and
(38:43):
she swallows it. So that's my question. Is it okay
to swallow the flim? It's going into the stomach, not
the lines, of course, but that's my question.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Thank you, okay, Lisa, thank you for your calling on
her behalf. Yes, it's okay to swallow the mucus. It's
better to get it out of lungs and swallow, which
just goes through the gest system. No big deal. I'm
concerned about this, ladies and gentlemen. Her condition, that condition
that she just mentioned, hemo phagacitic lympho histocytosis, is the
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disease we love to make things complicated in healthcare. We
get bigger checks when that happens. I guess that's the goal.
But yes, this is a chronic inflammatory disease, usually driven
by some low grade, unresolved infection. That could be an
old STD infection. It could be an old unary track infection,
could be a root canal that was never resolved in
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the mouth, could be a digestive problem and the digest
track like an old fungal or yeast infection, candidiasis, could
be lime disease. There's so many things this could be
and they're just not getting to the reason for it.
That's why she ultimately needs to see an integrative or
alternative doctor to get to the bottom of this. And
there's also a formulation for the the mucus in the
(40:02):
lungs she can take called lung Plus by a company
by the name of Radiant Greens. Lung Plus by Radiant
Greens that'll help with the mucus until she can get
to somebody and get to the bottom of where this
infections coming from. That's what needs to happen, because it's
gonna tear her up for the rest of her life
(40:23):
unless we get to the reason for don't give up anyway.
You can get to this lung plus formula at area
code eight one eight five seven five seven five five
eight eight one eight five seven five seven five five eight.
You're looking for lung plus for her, and I appreciate
your call. All right, ladies and gentlemen, stand by. You're
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