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Understanding and Managing Prostate Health: Insights from Dr. Troy... · Revealing Wholeness with Dr.Troy

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Speaker 2: Now Here is doctor Troy.
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Speaker 3: Hello and welcome. I'm doctor Troy. We just did our
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Speaker 3: roughly thirteen part series I believe on female hormone issues.
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Speaker 3: And while women have seemingly a lot more moving parts,
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Speaker 3: so to speak, when it comes to the women only
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Speaker 3: kind of questionnaires that you'll get at a doctor's office,
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Speaker 3: and the men seem to be kind of anemic or
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Speaker 3: lacking in a lot of hormone issues, and ultimately, instead
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Speaker 3: of having a uterus, cervix, vagina, things like that. Men
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Speaker 3: we simply have a prostate and a penis and some desticles.
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Speaker 3: And so that being said, it falls upon a lot
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Speaker 3: of male type issues are prostate related. While that may
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Speaker 3: be somewhat true, we're going to at least shed some
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Speaker 3: light on a bit more of the truth that it's
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Speaker 3: just not always the prostate though. Of these conditions, I
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Speaker 3: will be talking about things like, oh, interruption of stream
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Speaker 3: during urination, like you're having trouble or difficulty to start
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Speaker 3: or stop your an. You might even have pain or
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Speaker 3: burning when urinating. You might have difficulty urinating in general,
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Speaker 3: or dribble. You might have or at least have been told, hey,
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Speaker 3: you have prostate issues directly. And of course the possibility
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Speaker 3: of waking up at night can be prostate related. And
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Speaker 3: then a weird little one which can be pain on
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Speaker 3: the inside of the legs or even the heels, which
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Speaker 3: can be prostrates, so referral patterns. So those are the
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Speaker 3: biggies that we're going to be covering today, and look
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Speaker 3: for the next time of feeling of incomplete bowel evacuation
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Speaker 3: that can be prostate, but more often than not that's
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Speaker 3: liver as well, so we'll get to that in the future.
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Speaker 3: And then of course the biggie that everybody wants to
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Speaker 3: know about, because men tend to be sexually driven, is
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Speaker 3: we want to know what happens when we have decreased
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Speaker 3: sexual function? What do I do about that? And what's happened?
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Speaker 3: Can I get some understanding so I can figure out
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Speaker 3: what I need to do with that, and that we're
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Speaker 3: going to be working on as well, but not this
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Speaker 3: particular podcast. So this is going to be directed mostly
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Speaker 3: at the prostate, but we're going to get a little
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Speaker 3: bit into that burning or painful urination as well towards
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Speaker 3: the end. So prostate issues in general will find that, oh,
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Speaker 3: there's some serious statistics out there that say that, you know,
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Speaker 3: certain men over the age of forty will experience some
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Speaker 3: form of prostate issues already, like a high amount sometimes
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Speaker 3: upwards of even sixty percent. Now those above age eighty
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Speaker 3: goes up to like ninety percent of the time, you're
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Speaker 3: going to have some sort of prostate symptoms. Now that's
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Speaker 3: not very comforting for some of you out there. Maybe
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Speaker 3: if you're forty two, forty three and already starting to
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Speaker 3: experience some of this and you're thinking, what do I
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Speaker 3: have to look forward to now? When I tell you this,
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Speaker 3: this is kind of a kicker they I should say,
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Speaker 3: they met experts say that any man that simply dies
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Speaker 3: of old age, natural causes, you know, gets to the
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Speaker 3: end of his life, so to speak, and not not
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Speaker 3: thrust there by being hit by a bus or something,
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Speaker 3: but just simply dies of natural causes will have prostate cancer.
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Speaker 3: So let that kind of sink in. It doesn't mean that, hey,
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Speaker 3: prostate cancer is a killer, because ultimately it really isn't.
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Speaker 3: Now do I know people who have died of prostate cancer, Yes,
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Speaker 3: but they are few. And so some of you out
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Speaker 3: there that are kind of freaking out that you're a
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Speaker 3: bit fearful of prostate cancer, just know that it's a
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Speaker 3: very very small percentage of people that it actually kills.
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Speaker 3: And so one of the things a medical profession is
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Speaker 3: pretty good about these days is not treating prostate cancer.
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Speaker 3: And so they know that it's not something they typically
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Speaker 3: are going to do because it just creates a whole
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Speaker 3: host of other problems that men really don't want. So
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Speaker 3: if you can and you can do things, die sitarily
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Speaker 3: and begin to calm down your prostate great, and we're
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Speaker 3: going to talk about strategies to do that as well,
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Speaker 3: and things that you could do no matter what the
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Speaker 3: condition of your prostate is, whether you have benign hypertrophy,
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Speaker 3: or you have something else going on like an infection
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Speaker 3: or prostatitis, or you have full blown prostate cancer. And
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Speaker 3: so with that in mind, this is the beginning of
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Speaker 3: understanding the prostate. Now, for those of you that don't know,
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Speaker 3: maybe there's a woman listening to this and like, I
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Speaker 3: isn't that like the gland somewhere up there. Yes, it
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Speaker 3: is directly palpated through the anus, and so roughly two
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Speaker 3: inches up and towards the penis, you're going to feel
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Speaker 3: that there's a bump. And most doctors that are going
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Speaker 3: to do some sort of practological examination where they insert
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Speaker 3: their finger into the rectum, they're going to feel for
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Speaker 3: the prostate to make sure that it doesn't have nodules,
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Speaker 3: doesn't feel weird, is it painful, feels the normal size,
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Speaker 3: and so that's kind of the general area. Now do
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Speaker 3: they recommend that you do it once a year? Well, yes,
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Speaker 3: And so what exactly does our prostate do for us?
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Speaker 3: And why is it so darn important? Now, the prostate
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Speaker 3: is analogous to the uterus and a woman's body. And
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Speaker 3: so those of that have been around my female hormone
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Speaker 3: talks heard me say, hey, the uterus and a woman,
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Speaker 3: the analogous organ in a male's body is the prostate.
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Speaker 3: And that is true. The prostate itself is a conversion site.
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Speaker 3: So as a man, we convert testosterone into dihydroxy testosterone,
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Speaker 3: which is ten times more potent than testosterone. Now, if
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Speaker 3: we do that too readily, because you can overdo it,
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Speaker 3: you will find that oftentimes you'll have baldness. And so
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Speaker 3: we've started to realize that, hey, men that are bald,
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Speaker 3: they may have an overactive or at least their enzyme
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Speaker 3: capacity to convert testosterone into a higher form of testosterone
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Speaker 3: is a bit much. And so it can be thyroid, really,
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Speaker 3: and I'm sure there's thyroid indications, But interestingly enough, what
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Speaker 3: the prostate wants most is iodine. It also needs good fats,
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Speaker 3: not any fat. It really needs good butter fat, like
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Speaker 3: grass fed butter fat. And if you have access to that,
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Speaker 3: which can be rather difficult to get to. But let's
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Speaker 3: say you actually know the cows that are being grazed
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Speaker 3: on grass and they're allowed to roam around, and you
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Speaker 3: can get milk from said animal and get that cream
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Speaker 3: and make butter from that cream, you're gonna get a
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Speaker 3: lot of alphal analytic acid, and so ala oil is
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Speaker 3: what the prostate most wants. Now. It's also found in
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Speaker 3: flaxed oil, but fla seed oil tends to have a
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Speaker 3: little bit of estrogens in it, So I'm not big
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Speaker 3: on doing that for men unless it's fermented and the
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Speaker 3: estrogen is denatured, so to speak. And there are products
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Speaker 3: out there that have that. And so iodine and good
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Speaker 3: oil are a paramount. Now where the prostate itself it's
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Speaker 3: location is something where we're going to be looking directly
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Speaker 3: at tailbone issues, at low back issues, and at lower
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Speaker 3: mid back issues chiropractically speaking, So if you have issues
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Speaker 3: with your prostate already, I recommend that you start getting
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Speaker 3: some regular chiropractic care to help, at least neurologically. Everything
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Speaker 3: that you can do besides adding things like iodine and
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Speaker 3: good oil and good fats and a better diet and
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Speaker 3: a less stressful diet, meaning a diet lower in sugar,
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Speaker 3: lower in carbs so that you're not swelling and irritating tissues,
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Speaker 3: So darn much. Now, as we go through this, you're
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Speaker 3: going to find that there are some points that we
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Speaker 3: could actually figure out do you have a prostate problem?
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Speaker 3: So let's jump there right now. So you're like, what
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Speaker 3: do you mean points, Well, just as I went through
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Speaker 3: through my female hormone issues and mentioned you know, there
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Speaker 3: are points that will be tender on the body if
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Speaker 3: it's a liver problem, there are points that will be
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Speaker 3: tender on the body if it's an ovarian problem. And
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Speaker 3: so much like the ovarian and I bring it up
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Speaker 3: is because we talked about the pubic bone and a woman. Well,
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Speaker 3: if you go from your belly button down roughly six
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Speaker 3: inches or so, depending how big your frame is, you're
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Speaker 3: going to get to the pubic bone in the front,
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Speaker 3: just above where your penis basically attaches to your body.
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Speaker 3: There is a bone there and that bone is your
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Speaker 3: pubic bone, and it is two halves of your pelvis
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Speaker 3: in between, which is a disk. But up on top
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Speaker 3: of the pubic bone it can be tender. And even
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Speaker 3: just lateral or to the side of the pubic bone
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Speaker 3: can be tender, and that is considered a tender point
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Speaker 3: for the prostate. Now an interesting tender point as well
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Speaker 3: is if you go to your hip right on the
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Speaker 3: outside of your leg bone at the top of your
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Speaker 3: leg bone or at the top of your leg, you're
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Speaker 3: gonna feel a bone sticking out that is your hip
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Speaker 3: bone or side hip bone. Now, if you go halfway
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Speaker 3: down to your knee, there can be a tender spot
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Speaker 3: right in the middle portion of that what we call
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Speaker 3: the illeal tibial band. That is another indicator of prostate.
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Speaker 3: If it's tender, you can look at creatine or creatinin
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Speaker 3: levels in your blood and you'll see that if you're
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Speaker 3: over one point two, you may be developing a prostate
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Speaker 3: issue and so could be benign prosthetic hypertrophy, benign meaning
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Speaker 3: not cancerous, but it's enlarging. It's important to understand that
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Speaker 3: any tissue that is enlarging is searching for something. So
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Speaker 3: any kind of system a tissue, any kind of enlargement
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Speaker 3: like a goiter on a thyroid, or a prostate that
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Speaker 3: is enlarging, you have a tissue that is trying to
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Speaker 3: process more blood. And because as it's trying to process
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Speaker 3: more blood, it is looking for things. And like we said,
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Speaker 3: the prostate is looking for namely it's iodine as well
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Speaker 3: as good fats. But again, it probably needs a whole
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Speaker 3: host of trace minerals like zinc and copper specifically, because
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Speaker 3: I'm just assuming, since we know that the uterus wants
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Speaker 3: some of those things too, that it is likely that
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Speaker 3: the prostate does too, and so as a conversion we
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Speaker 3: have enzymatic activity going on in the prostate. And I
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Speaker 3: talk about conversion, I'm going to back up to the
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Speaker 3: beginning of this podcast and say, Okay, remember I said
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Speaker 3: it's a conversion of testosterone to die hydroxy testosterone. So
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Speaker 3: anytime we have a conversion site for hormones, we likely
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Speaker 3: have to have enzymes, and those enzymes need cofactors, which
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Speaker 3: are minerals. They may need other things too, So that's
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Speaker 3: why a full complement of trace minerals, good protein, and
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Speaker 3: good fats is wise here. Now, could I say, hey,
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Speaker 3: run out and make sure you get a PSA test
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Speaker 3: or a PAP test and figure out whether it's things
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Speaker 3: are going on? Well, yes, would it be wise to
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Speaker 3: do a zinc test, Yes, it would be because zinc
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Speaker 3: is hugely important. So those are the main things that
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Speaker 3: I'm going to do for the prostate at the get go.
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Speaker 3: But let's say that we're a little bit further down
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Speaker 3: the road and I've already got that benign hypertrophy. Okay,
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Speaker 3: well then you've probably heard of saw palmetto. It's an herb,
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Speaker 3: and so it's helpful to try and control the swelling
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Speaker 3: within that prostate, as well as maybe even help shrink it.
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Speaker 3: Bathing the prostate and a lot of good oils and
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Speaker 3: good minerals and iodine and zinc would be a wise
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Speaker 3: thing too, And then reducing anything in your diet that
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Speaker 3: you would be allergic to or that would feed infection,
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Speaker 3: like sugar bread, pasta, crackers, chips, all of that, and
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Speaker 3: so it Once you've got the problem, you've now got
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Speaker 3: to figure out Okay, I've got to undo years of abuse.
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Speaker 3: How many years you would know? You've been in your
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Speaker 3: body for how many years? So if your diet's been
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Speaker 3: pretty good for a while and you're having issues, okay,
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Speaker 3: let's step it up and do things a little bit better.
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Speaker 3: But if you've been not taking care of it for
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Speaker 3: quite some time, you're like, yeah, it's too much work,
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to do it. That would be great
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Speaker 3: to count the costs, because maybe it's too much for you,
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Speaker 3: and you're like, I'm not willing to do that, but
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Speaker 3: could you take a little extra zinc? Could you take
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Speaker 3: some iodine? Could you try and get some decent fats
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Speaker 3: in your body? You could? And so all this stuff
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Speaker 3: is possible supplement wise, What are you willing to do?
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Speaker 3: Becomes the question how important is a well functioning prostate
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Speaker 3: to you? It's each person has their own answer, and
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Speaker 3: it's yours, not somebody else's. So as you do this,
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Speaker 3: it is something that least you can kind of say, Okay, well,
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Speaker 3: I'm willing to do some of these things. How much iodine? Well,
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Speaker 3: I will tell you that medical standards of iodine like
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Speaker 3: recommend a daily allowance. The RDA that we seem to
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Speaker 3: so blindly follow says one hundred and fifty micrograms. Well,
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Speaker 3: that was done by the Wolf Tchaikovsky experiment where they
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Speaker 3: fed radioactive iodine individuals, and if it was under one
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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty micrograms of radioactive iodine, it seemed to
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Speaker 3: be not affecting the thyroid, and so therefore they said that, hey,
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Speaker 3: anything over one hundred and fifty micrograms of iodine is bad. Well,
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Speaker 3: that's a krack of crap because most modern day estimates
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Speaker 3: put it at around three to five milligrams, not micrograms milligram.
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Speaker 3: So as we look, do I have clients that do
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Speaker 3: milligrams of iodine? Yes, they do, and we work with that.
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Speaker 3: But iodine requires B vitamins, vitamin E, selenium, namely in
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Speaker 3: the vitamin E complex, calcium, other trace minerals to use
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Speaker 3: correctly and process. Now, in a man's body, a male body,
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Speaker 3: the thyroid is the one tissue that concentrates iodine. In
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Speaker 3: a female body, it's the thyroid and the breast tissue.
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Speaker 3: Since we as men don't have breast tissue because we
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Speaker 3: don't nurse, we don't get that site. But the brain
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Speaker 3: uses iodine, the prostate uses iodine. Obviously, the thyroid uses iodine.
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Speaker 3: Almost every tissue uses iodine. It's incredibly important in the
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Speaker 3: human body and very much important to the prostate. And
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Speaker 3: so as we begin that process of doing iodine, we
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Speaker 3: don't want to just willingly only do iodine because it
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Speaker 3: requires other nutrients. So if you ever hear of somebody saying, hey,
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Speaker 3: you just need this one nutrient, there are rare occasions
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Speaker 3: that is true, but ultimately they need a whole host
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Speaker 3: along with it. So could you do small amounts of
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Speaker 3: iodine with a normal diet and trying to watch the
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Speaker 3: amount of sugar that you're eating and at least getting
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Speaker 3: in more whole, good for you raw foods. Yes, you could,
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Speaker 3: and that would be excellent. And so with that, you know,
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Speaker 3: it's not not a difficult thing. So from that standpoint,
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Speaker 3: we're covering just basic prostate issues. Urination difficult, you're dribbling,
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Speaker 3: even starting or stopping or interrupted stream, you know, the
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Speaker 3: waking up to pee in the middle of the night,
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Speaker 3: even pain on the inside of the legs and heels.
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Speaker 3: So that's mostly prostate and those are the things that
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Speaker 3: we're going to be doing to help that. Now we
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Speaker 3: talked a bit about burning or pain with urination. Now
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Speaker 3: it can be that you don't have enough sex. Strangely enough,
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Speaker 3: that can be one of the reasons, but it can
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Speaker 3: also be prostate and it can also be a urinary
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Speaker 3: tract infection. So if you find it happening once in
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Speaker 3: a while, may be a slight infection going, could be
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Speaker 3: a little bit of prostate issue, could be not cleaning
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Speaker 3: the pipes out often enough with sex. Interestingly enough, but
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Speaker 3: I want to cover just briefly a UTI, just to
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Speaker 3: make sure that we're at least checking. So what's the
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Speaker 3: easiest way to check if we're having a possibility of
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Speaker 3: having a urinary tract infection. Well, checking a ur analysis
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Speaker 3: is the easiest way because you're going to find lymphocytes
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Speaker 3: and other white blood cells. You might even find nitrites
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Speaker 3: in that urine culture, and so that's an easy way
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Speaker 3: to do it. We've already talked about palpating the prostates
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Speaker 3: on the synthesis of the pubis to see if it's tender.
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Speaker 3: Also the ille tibial band. But again a zinc test
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Speaker 3: would tell us a lot. And if you're low on zinc,
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Speaker 3: how good is your immune system? Not so good because
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Speaker 3: the immune system uses a lot of zinc. But if
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Speaker 3: you lack copper, which is real vitamin C, your immune
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Speaker 3: system is not so great. So these are some ideas.
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Speaker 3: So let's say that you have said urinary tract infection, Well,
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Speaker 3: then it's time to go to work on working specifically
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Speaker 3: with infections in the body as a whole, not just
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Speaker 3: your urinary tract infection, because your kidneys and bladder are
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Speaker 3: allowing that infection to run, which means you probably have
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Speaker 3: other issues in your body with infection as well, and
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Speaker 3: for you to take a good hard look at your
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Speaker 3: diet and starting to reduce sugar bread carbs and start
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Speaker 3: getting Actulu real whole food in your diet, this would
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Speaker 3: be a good time to do it. So with that
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Speaker 3: in mind, I would say that's a good place to
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Speaker 3: begin when it comes to prostate issues. If you have
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Speaker 3: other concerns or if you're like, hey, I've already done
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Speaker 3: all this and I'd like somebody to work with me
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Speaker 3: and at least guide me, I would be happy to
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Speaker 3: do that or find somebody in your area that can
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Speaker 3: do that. But I have clients all over the United States,
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Speaker 3: so I'm not daunted at all by having a phone
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Speaker 3: conference with you and putting things together and looking at
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Speaker 3: blood work that can be sent to me through email,
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Speaker 3: and that we can put together a program that begins
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Speaker 3: to work for you and try to figure out how
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Speaker 3: we can effortlessly and with the least amount of pain,
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Speaker 3: upgrade your lifestyle and your dietary choices while helping you
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Speaker 3: have a well performing body, including your prostate. So hope
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Speaker 3: that was helpful. Until next time, I'm doctor Troy, And
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Speaker 3: remember there is way more right with you than there
19:34
Speaker 3: is wrong with you.
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