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Rethinking Supplements: The Risks of Synthetic Vitamins... · Revealing Wholeness with Dr.Troy

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  Speaker 1: This is a disruptor's podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Revealing Wholeness podcast dedicated to revealing the profound
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  Speaker 2: connections between body, mind, and spirit, where we believe that
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  Speaker 2: true wellness arises from addressing the root causes of our
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  Speaker 2: health challenges, not just masking the symptoms. Here we dive
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  Speaker 2: deep into how holistic approaches such as advanced chiropractic care,
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  Speaker 2: personalized nutrition, and natural healing practices can transform your life.
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  Speaker 2: Now here is doctor Troy.
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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome. I'm doctor Troy. Now, while I am
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  Speaker 1: definitely not one to pull punches when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: supplements and synthetics and drugs and all that, this particular
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  Speaker 1: article was interesting because I thought, Okay, well here's you know,
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  Speaker 1: let's see what MSM is going to tell us about
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  Speaker 1: the four risks of taking too many supplement And while
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  Speaker 1: I was hoping for something a bit I guess more realistic,
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  Speaker 1: it was actually quite funny that the first thing that
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  Speaker 1: they thought was the worst thing that could cause problems
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  Speaker 1: is that your supplements could interact with drug And I thought,
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  Speaker 1: now that's funny. And so they said heart disease, Vitamin
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  Speaker 1: K reduces the effectiveness of blood thinners, thinking hmm, if
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  Speaker 1: you had a full natural diet, you probably wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: on blood thinners and you're probably not taking vitamin K
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  Speaker 1: if you are. But I thought that's pretty funny that
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  Speaker 1: they would list that. Now what was fascinating is the
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  Speaker 1: next one is cancer vitamin C and vitamin E. It
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  Speaker 1: may interact with cancer treatments. Now, while real vitamin C
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  Speaker 1: is excellent for the body, synthetic vitamin C, which is
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  Speaker 1: a scorbic acid, is not so great. And synthetic vitamin E,
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  Speaker 1: which is mixed to kopherols, well, they're really good preservatives,
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  Speaker 1: but not much more. And most drug companies they make
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  Speaker 1: all these synthetic vitamins. If you've listened to any of
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  Speaker 1: my podcasts for any any length of time, you've probably
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  Speaker 1: caught something of me talking about how most drug companies
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  Speaker 1: make all the supplements for supplement companies and sell them
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  Speaker 1: the raw materials that they then combined into what they
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  Speaker 1: think is going to be the right dosages or that
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  Speaker 1: will sell a product, and then of course sell it
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  Speaker 1: to you and I. And while that might come as
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  Speaker 1: a shock to you, there are a few companies that
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  Speaker 1: do manufacture their own synthetic vitamins in house. But most
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  Speaker 1: are going to buy them in drums from you know,
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  Speaker 1: these huge pharmaceutical companies and then just mix them and
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  Speaker 1: sell them to the public. And so years ago there
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  Speaker 1: was this outcry I can remember I was just just
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  Speaker 1: starting in practice, mid mid nineties, and they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: pass a law that says that you had to have
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  Speaker 1: a prescription to get vitamins. I'm like, that's absurd, And
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  Speaker 1: of course back then, I didn't know what I know now,
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  Speaker 1: And of course, if the drug companies were making these vitamins,
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  Speaker 1: for all of these supplement companies, then why not have
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  Speaker 1: to have a prescription. I mean, technically, all a synthetic
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  Speaker 1: vitamin is is a less possible side effect drug, but
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  Speaker 1: ultimately they're not real good for us. And anybody out
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  Speaker 1: there taking supplements, I'm going to encourage you to be
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  Speaker 1: cautious because most supplements are just massively overdosed synthetic drug
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  Speaker 1: company made toxins that we believe were taking for our health,
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  Speaker 1: and so be very very cautious. Now. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was fascinating that depression taking Saint John's work can affect
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  Speaker 1: your body's processes or how your body processes antidepressant medication.
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  Speaker 1: Well of course, because Saint John's Wort is liver protective
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  Speaker 1: and your body doesn't want any drugs or medications in it.
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  Speaker 1: They are foreign. And so if you take a herbal
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  Speaker 1: supplement that's going to boost the clearing effect of the
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  Speaker 1: liver to clean your blood, your antidepressants are going to
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  Speaker 1: go along with it, and any other medications that you
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  Speaker 1: are currently taking. So Saint John's Wort is an excellent
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  Speaker 1: example of why we would want to know, hey, what
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  Speaker 1: are you taking supplement wise and what drugs are you taking,
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  Speaker 1: because ultimately, if you're taking a drug that you need
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  Speaker 1: to do something in your body, you had better be
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  Speaker 1: taking the nutritional component to treat. And I don't like
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  Speaker 1: the word treat to supply the nutrients of the deficiency
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  Speaker 1: that you have and why you're expressing the disease condition
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  Speaker 1: that you're expressing. When we have to have a medication,
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  Speaker 1: it's almost always due to a deficiency. And so if
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  Speaker 1: we haven't supplied that deficiency and now we're we're using
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  Speaker 1: let's say, an herb like Saint John's Wort to help
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  Speaker 1: with my depression, which it does make the blood cleaner
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  Speaker 1: and so my brain feels better. But there are other
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  Speaker 1: things at play here that you don't have in your brain,
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  Speaker 1: and so depression is going to continue to run rampant,
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  Speaker 1: even though better controlled by Saint John's Wart, which is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're going to go into an antidepressant, now
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  Speaker 1: we've got to ask some other questions. So for those
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  Speaker 1: clients that I have on Saint John's Wart, which I've
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  Speaker 1: had them on Saint John's Wart, it's interesting testing them
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  Speaker 1: because their body actually is like, hey, I really like it. Great.
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  Speaker 1: It's wonderful for the liver, it's wonderful for cleaning the blood.
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  Speaker 1: It's wonderful for making sure that as we detox, as
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  Speaker 1: we improve our health, that the liver has a better
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  Speaker 1: capability of assisting us with all that. So we're not
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  Speaker 1: paying for it in the terms of feeling like crap,
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  Speaker 1: feeling like we have cold or flu symptoms, and just
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  Speaker 1: overall not doing well. So when it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: heart disease of vitamin K, I get it. Everybody pretty
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  Speaker 1: knows that. And then answer the vitamin C and vitamin
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  Speaker 1: E in their natural forms would be very anti cancer.
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  Speaker 1: So they certainly don't want you to take anything natural
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  Speaker 1: that is actually food based. Vitamin C that would have
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  Speaker 1: the five hundred components of the vitamin C complex and
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  Speaker 1: vitamin E, which the core is selenium that is definitely
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  Speaker 1: anti cancer. If you go look up selenium and cancer,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to pull up some articles and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's effective against thirty three percent of cancers. It'll make
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  Speaker 1: them go into remission. Well, I'm not saying that so
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  Speaker 1: that drug companies come after me all mad because I
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  Speaker 1: just told them what studies are out there on vitamin E.
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  Speaker 1: It just is what it is. Selenium is awesome, and
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  Speaker 1: selenium being the core the vitamin E complex. When you
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  Speaker 1: take natural vitamin E from a food, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get something very potent that is going to be effective
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  Speaker 1: for your immune system and helping it reregulate itself and
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  Speaker 1: literally being anti cancer if you will, or just we
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  Speaker 1: should probably just label it correctly restorative. It's not that
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  Speaker 1: it's anti cancer, it's simply that it's body restorative. Now,
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  Speaker 1: vitamin toxicity, this is where I thought they would begin.
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  Speaker 1: And so vitamin toxicity can occur when and excessive amounts
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  Speaker 1: of vitamins build up in your body. Well, vitalin means
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  Speaker 1: are one thing, Synthetic vitamins are quite another thing. So
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  Speaker 1: it'd be really nice if this article said is synthetic
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  Speaker 1: vitamin Toxicity can occur when excessive amounts of synthetic vitamins
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  Speaker 1: do in fact build up in your blood. So B
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  Speaker 1: six is a prime example. B six we definitely need.
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  Speaker 1: It is important. It is kind of a beginning point
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  Speaker 1: to pull in zinc and other minerals into the body
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  Speaker 1: that are super helpful but can become very quickly toxic.
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  Speaker 1: And when we're taking something like paradox and hydrochloride, which
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  Speaker 1: is B six synthetically from coltar, you are taking something
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  Speaker 1: that you really don't want to put in your body.
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  Speaker 1: And so a natural B six is hard to get
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  Speaker 1: in any supplement form, but it is where you would
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  Speaker 1: find B vitamins, much like things like liver, nutritional yeast,
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  Speaker 1: egg yolks, and the like. So if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: do something B vitamin wise, it is water soluble. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be very cautious about those just running
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  Speaker 1: out and willingly buying B vitamins. If you're going to
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  Speaker 1: find buy a complex B vitamin, then I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: recommend that you take very low dose because they're likely synthetic,
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  Speaker 1: and if you take a high dose you're likely going
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  Speaker 1: to feel nauseous, which they list several times in year.
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  Speaker 1: So those that they talk about that are are good
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  Speaker 1: at causing toxicity are vitamin A, which is a fat
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  Speaker 1: soluble vitem, and fat soluble vitamins are indeed have the
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  Speaker 1: ability to become accumulative and toxic, though it's usually the
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  Speaker 1: crappy vitamin A that does it. And so when I
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  Speaker 1: have somebody that's that's on vitamin A, I do want
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  Speaker 1: to know because I want to know what they're taking.
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  Speaker 1: Classic example I've listened to another podcasts is when you
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  Speaker 1: have a young child, I say young, okay, a teenager
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  Speaker 1: who has acne and wants to go on acutane, which
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  Speaker 1: is simply a synthetic vitamin A, and they monitor them
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  Speaker 1: just like every month because they're making sure that they
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  Speaker 1: don't have liver and kidney damage because it's so high
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  Speaker 1: dose and so rough on the body to have that
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  Speaker 1: synthetic vitamin A. Next is calcium, and of course calcium
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  Speaker 1: in most of its store Bots brands, it has calcium carbonate,
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  Speaker 1: which is limestone, and of course it's going to cause
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  Speaker 1: problems with the body. Vitamin D people will take a
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  Speaker 1: lot of excess vitamin D and do it for long periods.
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  Speaker 1: If I do a fairly significant dose of vitamin D,
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  Speaker 1: it's for a very short period of time, not long
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  Speaker 1: at all. And then of course iron, most synthetic iron
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  Speaker 1: is as ferrisulfate, which is garbage, and of course it's
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  Speaker 1: going to cause constipation, nausea, stomach pains, could be even
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  Speaker 1: causing ulcers because iron tells everything to to replicate, and
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  Speaker 1: if you have h pylori, it's just gonna have it,
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  Speaker 1: just replicate and go wild. Next is zinc, and of
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  Speaker 1: course if you don't have enough B vitamins, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have zinc pile up in the intestinal tract, and it's
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  Speaker 1: usually a zinc oxide, which is garbage. Zinc is difficult
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  Speaker 1: to absorb at best, and it requires a lot of
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  Speaker 1: stomach acidity, which by the time we're fifty, as I've
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  Speaker 1: mentioned in prior podcasts, we have about twenty five percent
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  Speaker 1: digestive potency, which leads right into the third issue with
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  Speaker 1: synthetic vitamins or taking too many supplements gastrointestinal discomfort and
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  Speaker 1: what are they lists thereas or vitamin C again, but
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  Speaker 1: also zinc. Now you can take folic acid too much
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  Speaker 1: and that's also a big detriment follic acid. Man, I
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  Speaker 1: hear that too much of that can actually increase cancer.
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  Speaker 1: I've not nailed down the mechanism yet, but I have
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  Speaker 1: seen it written, so we will get back to you
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  Speaker 1: as I learn more and more that they figure out
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  Speaker 1: how or what the mechanism is. Iron of course, gastrointestinal problems.
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  Speaker 1: And then last, but not least, magnesium. So if you
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  Speaker 1: have constipation and you take milk of magnesia, I think
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  Speaker 1: a dose of milk of magnesias like fourteen hundred milligrams
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  Speaker 1: of magnesium hopefully flushing the bowels. But as your body
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  Speaker 1: tries to flush, if you've got constipation, it may not
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  Speaker 1: feel very good, and gas discomfort is definitely on your doorstep.
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  Speaker 1: Last and final of the four things is kidney damage. Well, yes,
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  Speaker 1: kidneys are now processing water out of the blood and
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  Speaker 1: they don't like extra synthetics in there by any stretch
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  Speaker 1: of the imagination. So for kidney stuff, beware. And we've
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  Speaker 1: already talked about vitamin C being problematic, so I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was interesting that the one thing that they listed
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  Speaker 1: was basically vitamin C, but they also talked just briefly
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  Speaker 1: about liquorice root and again Saint John's what it may
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  Speaker 1: cause damage. Now, I want to also point out that
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  Speaker 1: each of these comments that they said may upset your stomach,
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  Speaker 1: may cause damage, may affect your drugs, may do this,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't say it does. And of course each person's
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  Speaker 1: going to react differently. But if you're out there taking
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  Speaker 1: handfuls of things and you're not sure what they are,
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  Speaker 1: you may want to have a conversation with me. All
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  Speaker 1: have clients come in and where they'll bring their supplements
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  Speaker 1: and we'll simply test them directly on them. Does your
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  Speaker 1: body like this or doesn't it? It's not a difficult test,
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  Speaker 1: and people think it's all woo woo, but ultimately when
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  Speaker 1: you ask the body yes or no, it's pretty smart.
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  Speaker 1: It does know what it wants and what it does
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  Speaker 1: want and what stresses it out and what doesn't stress
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  Speaker 1: it out. And so they had talked about vitamin C
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  Speaker 1: may may increase the risk of kidney stones. Well, yes,
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  Speaker 1: if you're taking high ascorbic acid, you have no idea
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  Speaker 1: what did that high scorbic acid is going to be
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  Speaker 1: doing in your body. And so that ascorbic acid, if
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  Speaker 1: it were to get into your bloodstream. Calcium is the buffer,
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  Speaker 1: So the more increase in acidity of the blood has,
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  Speaker 1: the more calcium's going to be pulled into the bloodstream
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  Speaker 1: to help. Also, amino acids are going to try to
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  Speaker 1: buffer as well. Even phosphorus will do it. So could
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  Speaker 1: you be producing a significant amount of kidney stones? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: what would be the ultimate fix? Well, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to say the ultimate fix, even though it's probably the
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  Speaker 1: most needed thing in a kidney stone situation, which is
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  Speaker 1: natural vitamin a. Vitamin A has been known for many,
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  Speaker 1: many decades to be four specifically kidney stones and of
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  Speaker 1: course night blindness. I mean there are papers back in
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties and forties that just show unequivocally that
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  Speaker 1: vitamin A natural source vitamin A fixed night blindness almost immediately.
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  Speaker 1: So those are some ideas, at least when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to supplements, I recommend that you don't go for the
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  Speaker 1: run of the mill supplements. And if you're spending the
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  Speaker 1: least amount of money in your supplements because they're the cheapest, you,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, need to beware because that would be garbage,
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  Speaker 1: and so you don't want to put that stuff in
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  Speaker 1: your body. In fact, I wouldn't put any synthetic products
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  Speaker 1: in my body. And beware of those companies that say
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  Speaker 1: whole food, please do read the at least the nutritional information.
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  Speaker 1: I was telling a client the other day that I
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  Speaker 1: was walking through a store, probably ten years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the health foo section, just perusing because I'm interested,
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  Speaker 1: and I see this product. This says whole food vitamin.
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  Speaker 1: I said, get out. Somebody's producing a whole food vitamin.
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  Speaker 1: That's fantastic. And so I look on the back and
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  Speaker 1: I see like all these different vitamins and they're at
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent. I'm thinking, how how'd you get a
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  Speaker 1: food that had one hundred percent of all these different vitamins.
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  Speaker 1: No food does that. I looked at the ingredients, said
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  Speaker 1: blue green algae. I'm like, that's impossible, And so then
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  Speaker 1: I start doing some research and lo and behold, I
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  Speaker 1: found that they take blue green algae and spray chemical
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  Speaker 1: vitamins on them, and they're allowed at ten minutes of
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  Speaker 1: having them on the blue green algae that they can
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  Speaker 1: harvest the blue green algae and call it a whole
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  Speaker 1: food supplement. And therefore they have all these exact measurements
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  Speaker 1: of one hundred percent of all these different crappy synthetic
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  Speaker 1: vitamins that they put on the blue green algae and
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  Speaker 1: they can call it a whole food supplement. I'm sorry, folks,
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  Speaker 1: this is out there. It's just sickening it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if any of you would would have or work
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  Speaker 1: at an environment where everybody wanted to cut corners, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe you already do, and maybe you're out there. I
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  Speaker 1: can't imagine if you're listening to this that you would
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  Speaker 1: cut corners. But let's say that you cut corners, or
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  Speaker 1: that you see people cut corners, you would think, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's just crap, and yet here they do it all
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  Speaker 1: the time in supplements. It's like so frustrating because you
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  Speaker 1: have all these people, these well meaning people that want
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  Speaker 1: to be healthy, and they're just getting duped left and right,
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  Speaker 1: and just their health is suffering and they don't realize.
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  Speaker 1: And so for most people, I tell them, look, take
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  Speaker 1: very few supplements. If you've read about it, don't overdo them.
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  Speaker 1: Take them with your biggest meal and small amounts and
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  Speaker 1: call it good. You know, hopefully if you eat something
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  Speaker 1: that has lots of B vitamins naturally and you take
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  Speaker 1: a synthetic cyanic cobalamine, which is B twelve, hopefully you
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  Speaker 1: can you can process that cyanic coblamine with the B
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  Speaker 1: vitamins that you have in your food, and hopefully hold
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  Speaker 1: on to that synthetic B twelve as best as you
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  Speaker 1: can with your biggest meal. I mean, that's the best
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  Speaker 1: way to do it. So when I give out a
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  Speaker 1: supplement and people read the ingredients and it has all
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  Speaker 1: these foods in it, and they look at the amounts
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  Speaker 1: of vitamins and things, and they see that they're like
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  Speaker 1: seventeen milligrams and it's like fourteen percent, and it's one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixteen milligrams and it's forty two percent of ideal.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, that is a whole food supplement that's as
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  Speaker 1: best as we're to get. And so with that kind
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  Speaker 1: of understanding, now begin to look a little bit better
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  Speaker 1: at your supplements and have a bit better iye, about
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  Speaker 1: choosing what is right and perhaps maybe what is cutting corners.
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  Speaker 1: I hope this hits you well and that you're thirsty
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  Speaker 1: for more information and to do things better for your health.
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  Speaker 1: Until next time, I'm doctor Troy, And remember there really
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