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Understanding Male Bowel Issues: Prostate and Liver Connections... · Revealing Wholeness with Dr.Troy

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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Revealing Wholeness podcast dedicated to revealing the profound
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  Speaker 2: Now Here is doctor Troy.
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  Speaker 3: Hello and welcome. I'm doctor Troy. Now this is our
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  Speaker 3: second in our three part series on male hormone issues.
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  Speaker 3: And while there are obviously many issues that can be
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  Speaker 3: hormone related in the male gender specifically, there are kind
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  Speaker 3: of three groupings. And while the first one we did
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  Speaker 3: was on a whole host of irritating symptoms that men
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  Speaker 3: may have and most of them really centered around the prostate,
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  Speaker 3: while this one as well is and can be prostate related.
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  Speaker 3: It is probably a bit more frequently a liver issue. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the older a man gets and has issues of feeling
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  Speaker 3: like their bowel is not completely emptying, well, that's probably
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  Speaker 3: more and more a prostate issue, but we're still going
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  Speaker 3: to have some liver tie ins as well. And like
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  Speaker 3: we talked about on the first one is that the
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  Speaker 3: prostate needs a lot of good fats, namely ala oil
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  Speaker 3: or alphalanelinic acid. It needs a compon implement of trace minerals,
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  Speaker 3: but most notably, it needs a lot of iodine. And
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  Speaker 3: your thyroid uses a lot of iodine, and the liver
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  Speaker 3: is what activates sixty percent of our thyroid hormones. All
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  Speaker 3: that circuitous root is to say that yes, it can
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  Speaker 3: be the prostate itself because of iodine, but it can
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  Speaker 3: also be the liver because it's not activating thyroid hormones,
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  Speaker 3: and that means the liver is dysfunctional, which ends up
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  Speaker 3: having a lot more across the border, across the entire
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  Speaker 3: body symptoms than simply just not having balel evacuation. It
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  Speaker 3: can be the fact that you don't feel good, your
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  Speaker 3: skin doesn't look good, you don't digest foods very well.
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  Speaker 3: You don't digest fats very well. You can't get minerals
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  Speaker 3: into the body, you can't make hormones. I mean, the
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  Speaker 3: liver is a huge organ that its job is massive.
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  Speaker 3: It does a lot of things. And one thing that can,
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  Speaker 3: or at least that can be a symptom of manifest
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  Speaker 3: station of a liver issue is you go to the
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  Speaker 3: bathroom You're like, I know that it feels like there's
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  Speaker 3: more that has to come out, but I'm not going.
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  Speaker 3: And so I have been on the receiving end of
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  Speaker 3: this particular symptom when I was working on my liver
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  Speaker 3: way back probably ten years ago, when I finally stopped
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  Speaker 3: eating carbs and realized how detrimental they were for me.
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  Speaker 3: I realized, hey, I have a liver that's not functioning,
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  Speaker 3: and I now understand what slow moving bowels are like.
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  Speaker 3: And so when you eat carbs all the time and
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  Speaker 3: you have lots of inflammation in your gut, your bowels move.
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  Speaker 3: Now They're not pretty, but at least they move. And
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  Speaker 3: once you pull back on all that basic sugar and
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  Speaker 3: form of bread, pasta, crackers, chips, and all kinds of carbohydrates,
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  Speaker 3: they don't seem like bad foods, but if your body
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  Speaker 3: really doesn't like them, it really doesn't like them. And
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  Speaker 3: so when all of that inflammation leaves your bowels and
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  Speaker 3: now it's not moving at all because you're flowing bile
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  Speaker 3: because your liver doesn't work, you'll now understand what constipation
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  Speaker 3: is like, and it can be dealt with. It's just
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  Speaker 3: trying to get your liver to heal so that you
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  Speaker 3: can produce bile, which is supposed to lubricate the bowels.
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  Speaker 3: And once you do that, it's like, wow, this is
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  Speaker 3: what real bowel movements were always supposed to be. Like,
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  Speaker 3: this is amazing. And so there is light at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the tunnel for anybody who is working on
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  Speaker 3: liver stuff, not just men, but women as well. And
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  Speaker 3: so we're speaking to the men here about, Hey, you
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  Speaker 3: feel like you're just not voiding the bowels and that
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  Speaker 3: can be liver congestion and it can be prostate, and
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  Speaker 3: so we would look for some possible tender spots for
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  Speaker 3: if it is prostate. And so the first thing we're
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  Speaker 3: going to look at is a tender spot basically on
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  Speaker 3: the side of the symphesis pubis. So if you're not
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  Speaker 3: familiar with your own body. The symphesis pubis is the
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  Speaker 3: pubic bone right down above where the penis connects to
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  Speaker 3: your body. So you're going to feel a hard bone
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  Speaker 3: right there off to the side. If it's tender, just
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  Speaker 3: pushing on it, you'll find that, hey, that's a possibility
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  Speaker 3: for a prostate issue. We'll also have a point in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of the illeal tibial band. Now, what is
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  Speaker 3: an illeal tibial band, So your quad or your upper
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  Speaker 3: leg muscle, the big muscle that's basically your thigh, the
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  Speaker 3: side of it, so the side of your leg, between
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  Speaker 3: your hip and your knee. That central point location on
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  Speaker 3: the side of your leg is the illeal tibial band
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  Speaker 3: location of another prostate point. And if it's tender, it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of tender. Well, that could be definitely prostate. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if we do a comprehensive metabolic panel and we look
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  Speaker 3: at creatin levels and you're you're greater than one point two,
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  Speaker 3: you could have some prostate issues. Now, could you just
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  Speaker 3: go get a PSA or a PAP test and see
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  Speaker 3: if you have elevated you know, enzymes or whatever those
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  Speaker 3: blood tests are looking at specifically for the prostate yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you would find oh, okay, I've got some prostate issues
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  Speaker 3: here I need to address. Or you could even look
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  Speaker 3: at zinc. So zinc is commonly deficient in many folks.
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  Speaker 3: We'll do a zinc taste test in the office. Is
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  Speaker 3: just an easy thing to do. And some people when
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  Speaker 3: they do it, they're like, what am I supposed to taste?
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  Speaker 3: Because it tastes just like water. Well, yes, you should
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  Speaker 3: be tasting something. And so if you don't have enough
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  Speaker 3: zinc in your body, the cells are deficient. And so
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  Speaker 3: when you have a solution of zinc, your cells will
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  Speaker 3: pull it in very quickly and you won't taste anything.
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  Speaker 3: But if you have plenty of zinc, it will taste
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  Speaker 3: literally nasty. And so sometimes it'll do is I'll have
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  Speaker 3: people chew a zinc keylate and they'll just chew it
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  Speaker 3: and they'll hold it in their mouth for a good
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  Speaker 3: ten seconds. It's not great tasting stuff, but at least
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  Speaker 3: we can fill up those cells of their mouth and
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  Speaker 3: just kind of oh, what is it? Artificially? Notice now,
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  Speaker 3: what is it we expect when you taste zinc? And
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  Speaker 3: so then they'll clear their mouth out, wash it with water,
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  Speaker 3: and they're like Okay, it tastes fairly normal. Now great,
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  Speaker 3: and so then we'll have them do a zinc taste
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  Speaker 3: test and they're like, oh my gosh, this is awful. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: that is what we expect it to taste like the
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  Speaker 3: moment that you do a zinc taste test. Now, if
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  Speaker 3: you pretend that it tastes office awful so that you
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  Speaker 3: can actually look like you're actually taking your supplements, that's
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  Speaker 3: on you. But you ought to be honest with yourself
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  Speaker 3: and say, yeah, I really don't taste anything, even though
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  Speaker 3: I know I should be tasting something. And so that's
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  Speaker 3: a zinc taste test. That's all for determining whether or
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  Speaker 3: not it's benign prosthetic hypertrophy or not. Now, what do
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  Speaker 3: we do for liver congestion? Now, if you've been through
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  Speaker 3: some of my female hormone stuff, which maybe your wife
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  Speaker 3: had you listen to it, if you're listening to this,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe you're a woman who's listening to this because
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  Speaker 3: your man has complained about it. Well, on the Female
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  Speaker 3: Hormone podcast, we talked a lot about liver so the
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  Speaker 3: men don't get away with it either. So what are
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  Speaker 3: some tender points that we would look for when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to liver, we would look for the sixth intercostal points. Now,
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  Speaker 3: intercostal points are in between the ribs, and so you
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  Speaker 3: feel the front of your chest right below your collarbone,
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  Speaker 3: right kind of right at the base of your neck,
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  Speaker 3: your collarbone that comes across and you push right near
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  Speaker 3: the sternum, and so about an inch and a half
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  Speaker 3: away from the center of the chest, right underneath the
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  Speaker 3: collarbone where its edge is right at the neck. That's
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  Speaker 3: the first intercostal space between the first and second rib.
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  Speaker 3: Right below it is a bump. That's the second chondro
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  Speaker 3: costal ridge, if you will. And then the next point
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  Speaker 3: you drop into a hole that you drop into is
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  Speaker 3: the second intercostal space. Keep counting down those intercostal spaces
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  Speaker 3: until you get at the six to one. The sixth
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  Speaker 3: to one now separates a little bit out to the side,
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  Speaker 3: because it doesn't we're now kind of below the sternum,
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  Speaker 3: if you will, and so if it's tender for you
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  Speaker 3: on the right side only then that is a liver point. Now,
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  Speaker 3: just where we were going with that first intercostal space
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  Speaker 3: below your collarbone, right next to your breastbone, the rib
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  Speaker 3: right below it. So the raised portion right below that
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  Speaker 3: is the rib, and then go to the next raised
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  Speaker 3: rib and that's the third rib. We're going to go
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  Speaker 3: out about three inches from the center of your chest,
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  Speaker 3: maybe three and a half, and that's where the rib
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  Speaker 3: and the cartilage bond together. And if it's tender, that's
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  Speaker 3: another liver point. Next is you're going to reach up
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  Speaker 3: under the rib cage itself. Now the rib cage on
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  Speaker 3: the right side. All these are on the right, by
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  Speaker 3: the way that last one was on the right, and
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  Speaker 3: so when you reach up under your rib cage kind
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  Speaker 3: of just above your hip bone, if you will, like
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  Speaker 3: where your abdomen is on the side of your body
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  Speaker 3: on the right side, you can reach under that rib
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  Speaker 3: cage and that's actually you're going to feel liver. If
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  Speaker 3: it's tender, you have yet again, a third liver point
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  Speaker 3: that could be tender. Then we're going to look at
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  Speaker 3: the tenderness on the web of the right hand between
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  Speaker 3: the thumb and first finger. So if you feel between
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  Speaker 3: your index finger and your thumb, not the muscle, but
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  Speaker 3: the webbing. So the webbing is where it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: very thin and you're just feeling the skin. Now, some
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  Speaker 3: people actually have little nodules. But if you'll tenderness squeezing that,
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  Speaker 3: that's yet again another liver point. And then finally we
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  Speaker 3: would typically use or listen to the heart, and we
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  Speaker 3: listen to the heart, we're gonna be listening to d
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  Speaker 3: aortic and the pulmonic valve, and so we do that
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  Speaker 3: in office. In my office, we have a heart sound
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  Speaker 3: recorder that listens to the mitral, the tricuspid, aortic, and
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  Speaker 3: the pulmonic valves. We have four valves in the heart
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  Speaker 3: and those two lower valves they if they're second sound,
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  Speaker 3: we call it like in school, if you remember in biology,
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  Speaker 3: they may have taught you the lob dub love dub
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  Speaker 3: lob dub where you have the heart sound that second
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  Speaker 3: love dub. The dub part is the smaller valves closing.
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  Speaker 3: And if there is significant higher sounds than that, then
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  Speaker 3: we know that there's pressure back pressure, and that's liver
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  Speaker 3: congestion that will do that. And so we'll typically see
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  Speaker 3: that with liver as well as with adrenal or high
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  Speaker 3: stress lifestyles. And so we're going to be looking very
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  Speaker 3: specifically at that. Could we do a blood test and
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  Speaker 3: a comprehensive metabolic panel. Look at an ALT enzyme, we
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  Speaker 3: could that particular enzyme blood test tells us how your
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  Speaker 3: liver's doing. Now, we don't ever want that ALT to
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  Speaker 3: be zero, and yet labs will routinely have from zero
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  Speaker 3: to fifty five as the normal range for an ALT
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  Speaker 3: on a comprehensive metabolic panel. Now, if you're like, I
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  Speaker 3: don't understand. If you have my chart and you've ever
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  Speaker 3: done blood work with your doctor, he probably did a
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  Speaker 3: comprehensive metabolic panel. It's fourteen different markers like calcium, oh, sugar, glucose.
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  Speaker 3: It just as a bunch of different markers to look
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  Speaker 3: at kidney, liver, digestion, blood. I mean, there's a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of different stuff and it can tell us all kinds
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  Speaker 3: of things. But in there is an enzyme called an ALT.
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  Speaker 3: There's also an AST that's all tissues. An ALT is
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  Speaker 3: specifically to liver, kidney, and so we'll look at an
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  Speaker 3: ALT and if it's elevated, we're like, hmm, this could
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  Speaker 3: be some liver issues like an infection. And they'll say, well,
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  Speaker 3: when it's really high, then it's like cirrhosis of the liver.
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  Speaker 3: We've got tissue destruction. Well, yes, that's true, and if
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  Speaker 3: it's really low, they don't think anything about it. But
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  Speaker 3: what I tell people is that that's actually liver congestion.
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  Speaker 3: And so I'm looking for a low alt like below fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: and you'll routinely find people at nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
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  Speaker 3: They'll all be down there very congested. And so I
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  Speaker 3: mean you can ask, hey, do you lend towards constipation?
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you let people like, now, are your bowels often loose? Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they can be loose. Uh huh, So stop eating carbs
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  Speaker 3: for two weeks and let me know how your bowels
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  Speaker 3: are doing. And they come back in three days and
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  Speaker 3: they're like, I am really constipated. I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: to do. Ah. So okay, so we have liver congestion,
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  Speaker 3: got it. So there's a couple different things when it
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  Speaker 3: feels like we're not voiding the vowels. Now, the problem
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  Speaker 3: is that these are not necessarily easy things to fix.
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  Speaker 3: The prostate needs a lot of nutrition. It's not just
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  Speaker 3: this easy thing I'm just going to do saw palmetto
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going to be happy as you know all
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  Speaker 3: get out. They need really good fats and so ala
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  Speaker 3: oil are awful. Lennolinic acid becomes in super important. Real
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  Speaker 3: butter is where you get that from, so essential fatty
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  Speaker 3: acids is awesome. Flaxied oil is also something you can do,
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  Speaker 3: but it has estrogens in it, and most men don't
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  Speaker 3: need any extra estrogens, so if I do flaxied oil
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  Speaker 3: with a man, it's usually fermented so that that's not
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  Speaker 3: the case. Extra zinc would be awesome, and trace minerals
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  Speaker 3: would be a shoe in. But iodine would be very,
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  Speaker 3: very very important. Did I say very yes, very important.
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  Speaker 3: Now if it's liver, what in the world do we
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  Speaker 3: do for the liver? I mean what don't we do
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  Speaker 3: for the liver? So for the liver, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: be doing things like beats and beet greens Number one.
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  Speaker 3: Eating liver would be phenomenal. Most people are not going
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  Speaker 3: to do that. But zinc is also very helpful for
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  Speaker 3: the liver, so is b vitamins. So things like nutritional
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  Speaker 3: yeast and liver once again, or blackstrap molasses would be
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  Speaker 3: an excellent thing to do. Making sure that digestion is good,
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  Speaker 3: so raw apple side or vinegar. If you cannot handle
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  Speaker 3: rapp a side of vinegar because you're a type a
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  Speaker 3: blood type, then you're going to have to be doing
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  Speaker 3: some digestive enzymes of some import and so those are
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  Speaker 3: all things that are doable. Could we do milk thistle
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  Speaker 3: for the liver, Yes, we could. It's liver protective. There's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of other great herbs out there that are
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  Speaker 3: very liver protective. And we want digestion occurring because we
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  Speaker 3: want to rebuild the liver, and the liver takes about
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  Speaker 3: two to four years to rebuild, depending on how bad
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  Speaker 3: it is. So don't just think I'm gonna do this
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  Speaker 3: for two weeks and I should be just fine. And
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  Speaker 3: when you don't have results after six weeks, don't be
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  Speaker 3: discouraged because you've got some things you've got to repair.
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  Speaker 3: Now there are things that I can help that will
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  Speaker 3: make this go faster or at least the symptoms be
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  Speaker 3: much less, and so we can do things to actually
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  Speaker 3: move bile a little bit. We can even take some bile,
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  Speaker 3: but I also be very cautious taking bile because your
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  Speaker 3: liver will literally say, my gosh, where did all this
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  Speaker 3: wonderful bial come from. I don't have to produce this anymore,
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  Speaker 3: and that's not generally what we want to have happen,
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  Speaker 3: So we want to be careful when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: things like aux bile, even though it will help you
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  Speaker 3: go to the bathroom. And so as we we can
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  Speaker 3: to heal the vascular system and the prostate and your liver,
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  Speaker 3: we should find that relatively soon. Hey, I'm having some
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  Speaker 3: good bowel movements. Finally, I feel a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: normal as things get better and better, more good days,
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  Speaker 3: less unhappy days. But it's still months and months of
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  Speaker 3: care and work and a good diet without a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of crap in it. So if that's not your goal
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  Speaker 3: is to just change things and now have a lifestyle
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  Speaker 3: that reflects the health that you want. And you're just
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  Speaker 3: trying to eat well for two or three or four
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  Speaker 3: years and then eat like crap again, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: why you would start down the road. Just go get
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  Speaker 3: some medication that might help deal with the situation and
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  Speaker 3: limp your poor body along. But I mean that's just
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  Speaker 3: my thinking. It's you know, you either want a change
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  Speaker 3: or you just want to address symptoms and not ever
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  Speaker 3: fix anything. And that's okay. That's not going to judge
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  Speaker 3: you for it. Just count the costs and then do
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  Speaker 3: what you know to be right for you. Just because
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  Speaker 3: somebody doesn't want to go through the work of eating
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  Speaker 3: well and take a medication and live their body along
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  Speaker 3: until they die is not We're not going to call
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  Speaker 3: that bad. We're not going to shame people or say
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  Speaker 3: that's awful. You can totally do that. There's nothing wrong
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  Speaker 3: with that. We all have a finite amount of time
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  Speaker 3: on this planet. I'm not interested in being here any longer,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm interested in functioning at a high rate of
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  Speaker 3: speed so that I can enjoy the time that I
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  Speaker 3: do have. That's me, you do, you all do me,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll all be happy. So if that's helpful in
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  Speaker 3: at least kind of trying to figure out this botwel
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  Speaker 3: issue and could it be livered, could it be prostate?
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  Speaker 3: Could it be both? I hope, but this was helpful.
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  Speaker 3: Until next time, I'm doctor Troy, and remember there is
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  Speaker 3: way more right with you than there is wrong with you.
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