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What to do with Eczema instead of scratching... · Revealing Wholeness with Dr.Troy

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Revealing Wholeness, podcast dedicated to revealing the profound
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  Speaker 1: connections between body, mind, and spirit, where we believe that
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  Speaker 1: true wellness arises from addressing the root causes of our
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  Speaker 1: health challenges, not just masking the symptoms. Here we dive
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  Speaker 1: deep into how holistic approaches such as advanced chiropractic care,
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  Speaker 1: Now here is Dr. Troy.
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  Speaker 2: Hello and welcome. I'm Dr. Troy. This is going to
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  Speaker 2: be an interesting talk on eczema. Now, I have done
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  Speaker 2: lots of skin things in the past, but this particular
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  Speaker 2: article that I read kind of spurred me to give
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  Speaker 2: a lot more background and what to do for something
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  Speaker 2: like eczema. Now, again, if you have eczema, it itches.
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  Speaker 2: And when you have an active flare-up, you can have
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of interesting discharges, interesting puffiness, fluid coming out.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it can be quite annoying and awful. And
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  Speaker 2: of course, as things try to heal, it can be
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  Speaker 2: very itchy. But it can even itch just randomly, day
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  Speaker 2: to day, for seemingly no reason at all. Now, for
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  Speaker 2: some of you out there, if you want to experiment
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  Speaker 2: that you have eczema, that you have some issues with
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  Speaker 2: your skin, I want to be a little bit sensitive
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  Speaker 2: here because it's not necessarily like a contact dermatitis. That's different.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a rash. It's not psoriasis. They're not synonymous.
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  Speaker 2: Each one has their own issues, though they may have
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  Speaker 2: some crossover. But when we talk about eczema, I found
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  Speaker 2: it interesting that this one article that was shared with me,
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  Speaker 2: as I get articles, that these are the things that
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  Speaker 2: they said to do instead of scratching or itching. You
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  Speaker 2: could put cold on it. You could do mirror scratching,
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  Speaker 2: which I found very interesting, that you would look in
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  Speaker 2: a mirror and your right arm, let's say your left
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  Speaker 2: arm was itchy, and you're looking at your right arm,
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  Speaker 2: which looks like your left arm, and you look in
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  Speaker 2: the mirror and it's your right arm and it helps,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, that's interesting, okay. You could put pressure on it.
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  Speaker 2: You could even do some moisturizer, which I definitely don't recommend.
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  Speaker 2: As most moisturizers, if it says softening, it likely has
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  Speaker 2: estrogens in it, and that will over time just cause
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  Speaker 2: more problems. Now, you could put, this was interesting, I
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  Speaker 2: was expecting this to be way down on the list,
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  Speaker 2: but they said you could use some seed oils and
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  Speaker 2: especially like coconut oil, which as long as it's expeller
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  Speaker 2: pressed and it keeps all of its nutritional value and
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  Speaker 2: it's not destroyed by heating and even mention that, that
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  Speaker 2: that was a good thing. And that olive oil typically
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  Speaker 2: will not do that. Now, I would hazard a guess
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  Speaker 2: that fresh olive oil would probably be okay. It's just
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  Speaker 2: very difficult to get. We think we're getting fresh olive oil,
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  Speaker 2: and that's probably not the case. And of course, they
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  Speaker 2: do list the things like hydrocortisone. They do list things
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  Speaker 2: like methanol and all kinds of creams and weird things.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, I suppose that's one thing we could is
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  Speaker 2: do some medical creams. You could do some moist heat,
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  Speaker 2: which I thought was interesting, but then they recommend doing
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  Speaker 2: a type of lotion or moisturizing lotion after. I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not so into that. But now they also mentioned
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  Speaker 2: wet wraps, and I'm like, wet wraps? That would be fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's say that you have some knowledge, and perhaps
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  Speaker 2: maybe you have some herbs around your house. Rather, around
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  Speaker 2: your yard, but you could have them in your house too.
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  Speaker 2: Comfrey is an excellent poultice that you could put on,
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  Speaker 2: or at least topically, on the area that's most itchy. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there are other things herb-wise that you could use as well.
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  Speaker 2: In addition to comfrey, you could use things like chamomile,
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  Speaker 2: interestingly enough. For those of you that might have it around,
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  Speaker 2: you could do licorice, even oat seed. Now, some people
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  Speaker 2: do know which hazel leaf well enough, and some people
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  Speaker 2: have yarrow in their yard. I have yarrow in my yard.
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  Speaker 2: All of these could be used as a topical kind
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  Speaker 2: of making a poultice, and if you have not made
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  Speaker 2: a poultice before, it's just a small amount of water,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes oil, depends on the herb. and you crush it up,
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  Speaker 2: it makes this nice paste that you could put on
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  Speaker 2: the skin. So in addition to comfrey, you could use
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  Speaker 2: things like calendula, which some people get, or at least
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  Speaker 2: have familiarity with, chamomile, you could do some chamomile, even
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  Speaker 2: some licorice, oat seeds, you know, could be helpful, as
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  Speaker 2: well as some people are familiar enough with witch hazel leaf,
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  Speaker 2: and as if you're like myself, you may have yarrow
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  Speaker 2: in your yard. and therefore you could make a poultice
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  Speaker 2: out of these critters, if you will, or these plants.
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  Speaker 2: And now, how would you do that? Now, some things
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  Speaker 2: require a little bit of moisture like water. Others don't
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  Speaker 2: require anything at all, and as you kind of mash
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  Speaker 2: it up, it has its own... moisture in the leaf,
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  Speaker 2: and therefore it now becomes kind of a meshy mass
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  Speaker 2: of green that you're just going to put right on
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  Speaker 2: the sower as a poultice. Some require a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of oil, and so, you know, whatever works best with
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  Speaker 2: your particular herb, you may want to look that up
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  Speaker 2: and do a little bit more hunting for that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what are we going to do instead of trying to
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  Speaker 2: just prophylactically trying to help a... itchy spot, if you will.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to go after antihistamines and all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of things. We're simply going to do what the skin
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  Speaker 2: is lacking. Now, one of the things that I find
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  Speaker 2: interesting is that if I look in old literature on nutrition,
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  Speaker 2: is that the number one for dermatitis, eczema, things of
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  Speaker 2: that nature, is vitamin E, the real vitamin E. Not
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  Speaker 2: running out to a health food store and and getting
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  Speaker 2: a little caplet that has some type of orange liquid
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  Speaker 2: on it, and we look at the ingredients and it
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  Speaker 2: has mixed tocopherols, which are synthetically derived preservatives of the
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  Speaker 2: vitamin E complex. So if that is confusing to you,
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  Speaker 2: very briefly, most of the vitamins that are on the
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  Speaker 2: shelf of most every store, including health food stores, where
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  Speaker 2: we would ultimately try to trust what they are giving us,
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  Speaker 2: But the problem is that they may not know either,
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  Speaker 2: because this information has been hidden for more than 60, 70,
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  Speaker 2: 80 years, and sometimes even longer. And so, vitamin E
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  Speaker 2: is not mixed tocopherols. Now, the government said, we don't
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  Speaker 2: mind that mixed tocopherols how much we find those mixed
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  Speaker 2: tocopherols in a food. We just know that if we
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  Speaker 2: find those mixed tocopherols, the D-alpha tocopherol, whatever you want
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  Speaker 2: to have, delta, gamma, it really doesn't matter. But those
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  Speaker 2: mixed tocopherols, they signify that the food that you have
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  Speaker 2: has the whole vitamin E complex in it. And so
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  Speaker 2: what companies did is they said, well, we could manufacture
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  Speaker 2: those mixed tocopherols And we could sell them to the
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  Speaker 2: public as vitamin E. Is that okay? The government said,
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  Speaker 2: I don't care. We just want to know that if
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  Speaker 2: there is a food that has mixed tocopherols, we know
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  Speaker 2: that it has vitamin E in it. And that would
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  Speaker 2: be the whole complex. Over 1,000 things that make vitamin
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  Speaker 2: E what it is. So in the milling of grain,
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  Speaker 2: in the heating process of everything we do with food
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  Speaker 2: tends to destroy those delicate complexes. And now we try
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  Speaker 2: to fortify with a synthetic like mixed tocopherols. Instead of
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  Speaker 2: going after the natural vitamin E in all of its glory,
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  Speaker 2: we tend to take this very sad alternative. So the
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  Speaker 2: skin needs vitamin E. I'm just going to let that
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  Speaker 2: be known. And so what it also needs, though, is
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  Speaker 2: good vitamin A. and not necessarily beta-carotene, though we can
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  Speaker 2: convert beta-carotene in retinol palmitate, or into retinol palmitate, which
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  Speaker 2: is what we want in our body that helps repair skin.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, the itching and stuff of the skin
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  Speaker 2: and some of the outbreaks or boils or exudates or
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  Speaker 2: expression of that eczema, that's when we have an active
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  Speaker 2: infection going on, and vitamin A gets its name as
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  Speaker 2: active anti-infection. And so vitamin A is very important, especially
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  Speaker 2: in acute phases. But overall long-term stuff, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be more so a calcium deficiency as well as the
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  Speaker 2: necessary vitamin F, as we like to call it, but
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  Speaker 2: essential fatty acids and namely alpha-linolenic acid that would be
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  Speaker 2: in butter and flaxseed oil. And so calcium is hugely,
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  Speaker 2: hugely important in keeping the skin strong because calcium is
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  Speaker 2: a tissue strengthener. So it keeps those tissues strong and
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  Speaker 2: ported and not breaking down as basically kind of destroying itself.
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  Speaker 2: And so eczema is a twofold event. It's a weakness
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  Speaker 2: of the skin tissue, but it's also that the vitamin
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  Speaker 2: E that is not present in our food tends to
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  Speaker 2: not protect our DNA. And when our DNA becomes unwrapped,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, or exposed, it tends to become warped,
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  Speaker 2: it tends to be damaged, and then all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden our body starts reacting to our DNA itself, and
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  Speaker 2: we call that an autoimmune condition. So where psoriasis is
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  Speaker 2: definitely autoimmune, eczema is right along its merry way to
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  Speaker 2: becoming an autoimmune if not an autoimmune already. And how
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  Speaker 2: we protect that is things like real vitamin E, the
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  Speaker 2: whole aspect of the vitamin E complex. The xanthines and
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  Speaker 2: everything else that are in vitamin E that make it
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  Speaker 2: what it really is. The selenium at the core of
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  Speaker 2: the vitamin E complex. And then we have the good
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  Speaker 2: fats that help carry the calcium from which then gets
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  Speaker 2: into those tissues and now makes those tissues strong so
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  Speaker 2: that they can heal and not continue to have this
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  Speaker 2: rashy eczema outbreak. So there is a lot that goes
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  Speaker 2: into simply healing eczema, but ultimately we have to go
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  Speaker 2: back and look very deeply at our own diet. And
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  Speaker 2: this is a tough thing. I'll have people come in
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  Speaker 2: and they're doing quite well. They're like, my gosh, my
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  Speaker 2: skin is clearing up. And then they'll have these outbreaks
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  Speaker 2: and I'll ask the most painful question of all. What
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  Speaker 2: did you eat? And of course, they know what they ate.
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  Speaker 2: And it's crappy. I'm in your boat. Nobody gets to
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  Speaker 2: escape this boat, so to speak. If I eat a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of stuff that I shouldn't, I'm going to pay
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  Speaker 2: for it. I'm going to pay for it in different ways.
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  Speaker 2: Different ways than you. Just because I don't get eczema
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean that I don't have reactions to what I eat.
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  Speaker 2: I do. And so will you. And so with that
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  Speaker 2: in mind, okay, if we're going to fix something like
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  Speaker 2: eczema and you're really... desperate or really at a point
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  Speaker 2: where you're like, I'm willing to do whatever it takes. Great.
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  Speaker 2: You're in an awesome spot. Let's begin to clean up
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  Speaker 2: your diet. Let's begin to remove empty calorie foods and
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  Speaker 2: sugar and crap that you shouldn't be eating. Let's begin
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  Speaker 2: to eat real foods and start saying no to all
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  Speaker 2: the fast foods that you've been eating and the convenience
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  Speaker 2: foods that you've been eating. And then let's begin to
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  Speaker 2: supplement your diet with real vitamin E, with real vitamin A,
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  Speaker 2: with good absorbable calcium, not the garbage that's on most
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  Speaker 2: shelves of most grocery stores and health food stores, and
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  Speaker 2: good fats that can carry that calcium as well as
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  Speaker 2: other minerals into your body to start healing naturally like
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  Speaker 2: it was designed to do. It cannot heal if you
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  Speaker 2: do not have the material present so that it can
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  Speaker 2: be healthy. It's just as simple as that. So those
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  Speaker 2: of you with eczema, I would recommend that we start
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  Speaker 2: looking at your diet first. And once you've kind of
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  Speaker 2: tilled the soil of a good diet and you're like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is how I'm going to be eating for the
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  Speaker 2: rest of my life. This is not a diet. This
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  Speaker 2: is my lifestyle. And you're still having trouble with that eczema,
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  Speaker 2: come talk to me and we will get you on
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  Speaker 2: the right step to repairing more deeply those tissues and
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  Speaker 2: getting them better and better so that you can have
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  Speaker 2: the skin you've wanted forever. So until next time, I'm Dr. Troy.
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  Speaker 2: And remember, there is way more right with you than
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  Speaker 2: there is wrong with you.
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  Speaker 1: educate the listener and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure,
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  Speaker 1: or prevent disease.