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Craving Chocolate? Discover the Nutrient Deficiencies Behind It! · 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. There's this interesting thing
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  Speaker 3: that I keep hearing around women's cycles where they crave chocolate. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: if you know you've got a girlfriend and she's really upset,
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  Speaker 3: throws some chocolate in the room and run. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you hear these kind of silly jokes and things, which
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  Speaker 3: is crass, I'll admit, but it has some validity because
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  Speaker 3: chocolate does contain magnesium and copper, and most of the
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  Speaker 3: time we're going to pick on magnesium, but I want
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  Speaker 3: to at least give my two cents worth about the
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  Speaker 3: possibility of there being some copper issues as well. And
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  Speaker 3: when we look at it, let's say that we're wondering, well,
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  Speaker 3: maybe it really is magnesium. Okay, Well, one of the
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  Speaker 3: tests that we would do is we would take a
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  Speaker 3: blood pressure cuff and we'd put it around your calf
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  Speaker 3: and we would start pumping it up. Now, while I'll
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  Speaker 3: use this for calcium specifically, it can be an indicator
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  Speaker 3: of pretty much any mineral deficiency, So it's not a
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  Speaker 3: bad test to do. Most people win pumping up a
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  Speaker 3: blood pressure cuff around their calf. Should be able to
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  Speaker 3: hit two hundred millimeters of mercury on that little device
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  Speaker 3: and not have a cramp or pain. It's not totally
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  Speaker 3: uncommon to find people that can go to two hundred,
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  Speaker 3: but it's more the other way that they don't make
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  Speaker 3: it to two hundred and two point forty is ideal.
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  Speaker 3: But I will caution if you're going to do this,
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  Speaker 3: if you have any kind of blood clots, you'll want
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  Speaker 3: to stay away from that particular test. Now, the other
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  Speaker 3: way that I will test minerals, which also can be
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  Speaker 3: used to test blood sugar, which would be the other
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  Speaker 3: factor with craving chocolate, and we'll get to that in
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  Speaker 3: a moment. But blood, or rather salivary pH is an
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  Speaker 3: excellent test because to balance saliva or to balance the
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  Speaker 3: pH in our mouth, it requires good amino acids. It
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  Speaker 3: also requires trace minerals, calcium and trace minerals being the
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  Speaker 3: most important, phosphorus being not far behind. But magnesium is
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  Speaker 3: part of that because us magnesium and chocolate both are
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  Speaker 3: they're very integral in blood sugar management. So when we
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  Speaker 3: see that pH of mouth, of the mouth which is
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  Speaker 3: often low, every once in a while, very rarely will
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  Speaker 3: I see pH high and neutral. pH for those of
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  Speaker 3: you that don't know, is seven, and if anything is
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  Speaker 3: above seven that's alkalin, and anything below seven that's acidic.
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  Speaker 3: Most people come in acidic around a five point five
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  Speaker 3: to a six point zero, and they're tearing down their teeth.
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  Speaker 3: Those that finally start really working on digestion and are
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  Speaker 3: able to get good amino acids into their bloodstream as
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  Speaker 3: well as minerals which require good strong digestion, all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden we see the mouth pH go into that
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  Speaker 3: seven point two seven point four range, and that would
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  Speaker 3: be ideal so that we don't tear down our teeth.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, we consider the mouth the one part of
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  Speaker 3: the elementary canal that is legitimately everybody else is acidic,
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  Speaker 3: the stomach massively acidic, the small intestine mildly acidic, and
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  Speaker 3: the large bowl a little bit more acidic, but not
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  Speaker 3: by much. So next, what if it's blood sugar that's
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  Speaker 3: why I'm craving chocolate around my periods. Well, there's some
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  Speaker 3: things that we can check, so if you wish, I
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  Speaker 3: will explain how we check. So we would look for
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  Speaker 3: some Chapman points. Now, Chapman was a gentleman who discovered
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  Speaker 3: that there were certain spots on the body that correlated
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  Speaker 3: with certain organ dysfunction. So if you look for tenderness,
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  Speaker 3: it's a liver gallbladder point located over the sixth intercostal
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  Speaker 3: space on the right. So what's an intercostal space in
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  Speaker 3: the front of your chest. If you feel at the
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  Speaker 3: very top of your chest, right by your neck is
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  Speaker 3: the collarbone. It's also known as the clavicle. Right below it,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to feel a little spot like right at
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  Speaker 3: the sternum or the center of your breastbone. Just off
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  Speaker 3: to the side. You're gonna feel a little indent. When
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  Speaker 3: you go below that, you're gonna feel another bump that's
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  Speaker 3: the second rib. Then you're gonna go a little bit
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  Speaker 3: lower and you're gonna feel now the inner space between
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  Speaker 3: the second and the third rib, that is the second
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  Speaker 3: intercostal space. You're gonna keep counting down six spaces until
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  Speaker 3: you get to the sixth one and push in and
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna feel like, hey, that's a bit tender. That,
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  Speaker 3: indeed is a liver gall bladder point. We're also going
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  Speaker 3: to check for tenderness over the liver point, which is
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  Speaker 3: the third rib three inches right of the sternum. So
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  Speaker 3: this particular junction is called the costochondrial junction. So if
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  Speaker 3: we go to the sternum and we go to that
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  Speaker 3: third rib and we go three inches over, it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of right in the middle of the breast. But you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna be pushing and like, when I feel mine, it's
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  Speaker 3: like just the slightest hint of tender. But those that
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  Speaker 3: have fair, fair liver issues, it's gonna be quite tender
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  Speaker 3: to palpate. Now, next thing is sometimes you'll get people
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  Speaker 3: that we'll talk about. You know what, I have pain
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  Speaker 3: on the right side of my chest or lower chest.
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  Speaker 3: And if you reach up under your ribs on the
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  Speaker 3: right side, on the side of your body and it
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  Speaker 3: feels tender, that's the liver. And so if it's tender,
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  Speaker 3: the liver is not happy. Why is a liver important
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to blood sugar. Well, the liver's job
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  Speaker 3: is to take fat off the body and convert it
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  Speaker 3: to sugar and put it in the blood so that
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  Speaker 3: blood sugar stays stable. And if it's if it's tender,
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  Speaker 3: if it's not working right, well, then we have issues.
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  Speaker 3: Next as we check for tenderness or a nodularity, and
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  Speaker 3: they call it nodularity because there might be slight nodules
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  Speaker 3: on the right fenar eminence. So if we look at
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  Speaker 3: your hand, your right hand, and in between your thumb
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  Speaker 3: and index finger, there is skin. If you go a
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  Speaker 3: little bit further deeper towards your wrist, you're gonna get muscle.
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  Speaker 3: We don't want the muscle, we want the skin that
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  Speaker 3: is basically connecting your thumb and your index finger. So
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  Speaker 3: that's the theen ar pad, and you're going to feel
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  Speaker 3: that to see if there's some tenderness or some nodules
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  Speaker 3: like little grains of sand or something that's a pancreas indicator.
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  Speaker 3: Now why it's on the right side, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: because the pancreas is on the left, but that's the test.
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  Speaker 3: So just so you're wondering, I wonder why it's right,
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  Speaker 3: I was too. Tenderness over the Chapman reflex point for
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  Speaker 3: the pancreas is the seventh intercostal space on the left. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this one's kind of a little easier to find because
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  Speaker 3: it's just practically below the nipple, and so if we
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  Speaker 3: look on a man's body, it's a bit easier to
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  Speaker 3: find it. But right at the where the breast meets
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  Speaker 3: the chest wall underneath is about where you're going to
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  Speaker 3: find it, underneath where the nipple would be. And so
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  Speaker 3: if it's a woman who has fairly large breasts, it's
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  Speaker 3: obviously going to be above that. But where the breast
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  Speaker 3: tissue meets that chest wall at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 3: breast is kind of where we're looking in the middle. Now,
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  Speaker 3: next tenderness at the head of the pancreas itself. So
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  Speaker 3: if you find your belly button and you find the
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  Speaker 3: edge of your ribs kind of oh, almost to the
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  Speaker 3: side of your body, about two thirds the way between
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  Speaker 3: the umbilicus to the angle of the ribs, so it's
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  Speaker 3: closer to the angle of the rib away from your
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  Speaker 3: belly button. You're going to find a possible tender spot. Now,
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  Speaker 3: interestingly enough, I found that mine was just mildly tender. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you that diabetes runs in my family,
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  Speaker 3: and so does alcoholism. And I can tell you that
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  Speaker 3: I used to have hypoglycemia. My blood sugar is much
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  Speaker 3: more stable because my diet is just better. Does it
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  Speaker 3: mean my pancreas is awesome. No, it just means that
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  Speaker 3: I'm more careful with my diet and so I don't
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  Speaker 3: have those issues. But when I palpit that spot, it's
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  Speaker 3: ever so slightly tender. So this is all to do
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  Speaker 3: with blood sugar regulation. These are kind of the easiest
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  Speaker 3: things to oh to find, or at least to give
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  Speaker 3: you some idea if indeed you have some blood sugar
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  Speaker 3: irregularity that may be causing you to crave chocolate during
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  Speaker 3: your cycles. Now, for some of you out there that
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  Speaker 3: are a little bit advanced, you might decide to lay
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  Speaker 3: down check your blood pressure if you have a blood
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  Speaker 3: pressure machine, and then immediately stand up and let out
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  Speaker 3: that blood pressure again and see if it drops ten
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  Speaker 3: points when you immediately stand. If you have more than
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  Speaker 3: a ten point drop in blood pressure going from a
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  Speaker 3: laying to a standing position, you have adrenal insufficiency. Now,
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  Speaker 3: adrenal insufficiency is a bit more of a copper issue
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  Speaker 3: and a zinc issue than it is a blood sugar issue,
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  Speaker 3: but it's still going to complicate the whole thing. How
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  Speaker 3: many women have adrenal issues about the same number of
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  Speaker 3: men too, because not many of us have a decent
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  Speaker 3: diet that has enough copper and zinc in it. And
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  Speaker 3: it's one of the reasons that we do a zinc
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  Speaker 3: test in the office to see how how badly does
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  Speaker 3: your body want zinc. When you swish zinc around in
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  Speaker 3: your mouth, if you can't taste it, it means all
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  Speaker 3: the cells of your mouth are actually absorbing the zinc
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  Speaker 3: in the fluid and you can't taste it at all.
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  Speaker 3: But if you have enough zinc, it does not taste pleasant,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, So we would definitely start doing some
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  Speaker 3: calcium and magnesium for this type of a condition. So
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  Speaker 3: that all of a sudden, you notice, Hey, I haven't
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  Speaker 3: wanted chocolate very much anymore. I've noticed those things in
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  Speaker 3: myself because I used to like chocolate quite a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: and now it's just enjoyable. I don't feel like I
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  Speaker 3: have to have it. We would also want to do
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  Speaker 3: a full complement of trace minerals and vitamins, and I
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  Speaker 3: love things like kelp and alfalfa for that. And then
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  Speaker 3: finally anything that would support adrenals, which anything that's going
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  Speaker 3: to do immune work that has whole vitamin C. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't even like using the term vitamin C because
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  Speaker 3: people are going to think, hey, I can go to
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  Speaker 3: the grocery store and buy vitamin C and I'm getting
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  Speaker 3: what that doctor talked about, and that is not true
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  Speaker 3: at all. If it says vitamin C on the front
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  Speaker 3: of that bottle, I can guarantee you that it's probably
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  Speaker 3: not vitamin C. It's a scorbic acid, so real vitamin
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  Speaker 3: C that has the five hundred components that comes from nature.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to want to read the ingredients of that
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  Speaker 3: said vitamin C and you should be able to see
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  Speaker 3: foods in there that are high in vitamin C and
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  Speaker 3: the ascorbic acid content should actually technically be low, because
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  Speaker 3: a scorbic acid is point zero five percent of the
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  Speaker 3: vitamin C complex. So we should see a lot of
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  Speaker 3: food in there and very little ascorbic acid because we
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  Speaker 3: want the five hundred things or the four hundred and
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  Speaker 3: ninety nine things that make vitamin C what it is,
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  Speaker 3: the core of which is copper, and so we want
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  Speaker 3: to definitely do some type of decent plants that have
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  Speaker 3: high vitamin C content. I will recommend definitely doing some
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  Speaker 3: beats and a good protein like eggs or some complete
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  Speaker 3: protein that you can diget just easy enough because you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna need it to repair. And then you might even
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  Speaker 3: consider some herbs that are liver supportive, things like milk
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  Speaker 3: thistle and dandelion root, and oh even blue plurium if
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  Speaker 3: you want to get a little crazy. So I hope
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  Speaker 3: this was helpful. If you're craving chocolate during your cycle,
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  Speaker 3: there is help and there are reasons why. And as
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  Speaker 3: we begin to feed your body better, it will do
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  Speaker 3: marvelously and you'll notice those cravings go away, your blood
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  Speaker 3: sugar more stable, and you handle your cycles much much easier.
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  Speaker 3: Until next time. I'm doctor Troy and remember there is
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