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Uncovering Depression Causes During Women's Cycles with Dr. Troy... · 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: Now Here is doctor Troy.
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  Speaker 3: Hello and welcome, I'm doctor Troy. For the next couple
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  Speaker 3: of podcasts, we're going to be doing a series on
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  Speaker 3: female conditions and it may get rather lankly. I don't
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  Speaker 3: necessarily want to name how many we're going to do,
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  Speaker 3: like this is one of ten, because it may be
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  Speaker 3: more than that. And I want to get into some
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  Speaker 3: of these things or conditions and at least give them
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  Speaker 3: their due. And much like this one, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: talk about depression during a woman's cycle. Now, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of great literature out there in the nutrition realm
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  Speaker 3: like I'm in, or the natural healing holistic realm, and
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  Speaker 3: I would say that there's a fair amount of agreement
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  Speaker 3: that if we're just getting depression around your cycle, this
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  Speaker 3: is not for those that are depressed constantly, feel like
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  Speaker 3: they're going to not ever live again, and want to
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  Speaker 3: lay in bed for three days straight and feel like
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  Speaker 3: you're in the hole, a hole that you can never
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  Speaker 3: get out of. There are those out there, and there's
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  Speaker 3: even hope for you as well, But this is specifically
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  Speaker 3: for those women that tend to lean towards depression around
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  Speaker 3: their cycle, and that consensus is one of, hey, you
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  Speaker 3: likely have a thyroid issue and possibly some mineral deficiencies
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  Speaker 3: of the most important magnesium, and you can't really go
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  Speaker 3: and talk about magnesium without talking about calcium. They're very
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  Speaker 3: closely related with each other. In fact, in the blood
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  Speaker 3: we want a rough four to one ratio. If you
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  Speaker 3: look at blood tests or hair analysis, you'll often see
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  Speaker 3: that rough ratio. So if we're looking at a magnesium deficiency,
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  Speaker 3: while that is fine to take magnesium. I will caution
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  Speaker 3: you that magnesium needs just a little bit of calcium
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  Speaker 3: in order to be absorbed correctly. So a lot of
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  Speaker 3: companies out there, I'll look at their magnesium product and
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  Speaker 3: they don't really have any calcium whatsoever. It doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: that you can't absorb it. It just is assisted or
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  Speaker 3: helped by a little bit of calcium. And so product
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  Speaker 3: that has a small amount of calcium in essence a
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  Speaker 3: five to one ratio five parts magnesium to one part calcium.
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  Speaker 3: So let's say you have two hundred milligrams of magnesium,
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  Speaker 3: you would need forty milligrams of calcium with that particular
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  Speaker 3: product that would at least enhance its absorption. We don't
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  Speaker 3: take calcium and magnesium together in equal portions. They tend
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  Speaker 3: to resist, believe it or not. And so when we
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  Speaker 3: look at even something like blackstrap molasses has a lot
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  Speaker 3: of calcium little bit of magnesium just to assist absorption
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  Speaker 3: in all the trace minerals. So other minerals that would
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  Speaker 3: be highly sought after in a depressive state would be potassium.
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  Speaker 3: I've often had team members that have reported that when
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  Speaker 3: they take potassium, they cannot believe the amount of energy
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  Speaker 3: in their brain clarity, and so with that you may
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  Speaker 3: find that super helpful. But iodine is another very important
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  Speaker 3: one because there is implications of thyroid issues when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to depressive states, especially around a woman's cycle, and
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  Speaker 3: so there's things that we could, oh test. How would
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  Speaker 3: I know if I'm mineral deficient or I'm a thyroid case.
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  Speaker 3: One of the fun quick ways just to know whether
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  Speaker 3: your mineral deficient is to put a blood pressure cuff
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  Speaker 3: around the calf. Now, I will caution to you if
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  Speaker 3: you tend to lean towards blood clots, which is not
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people, but the caution should still be there.
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  Speaker 3: You may not want to do this. Could it do
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  Speaker 3: something like breaking loose a clot. I suppose we might
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  Speaker 3: have some medical doctors out there freaking out that you
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  Speaker 3: can't tell people to do that, though the vast majority
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  Speaker 3: of people will have no problem. And when I say
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  Speaker 3: vast majority, it's well over ninety five percent. So if
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  Speaker 3: you're a younger woman and you play sports and you
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  Speaker 3: have a decent diet, you probably don't have to worry
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  Speaker 3: about blood clots. But if for some reason you do,
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  Speaker 3: then you'll want to stay away from this. So squeezing
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  Speaker 3: the calf with the blood pressure cuff would tell us
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  Speaker 3: if you do not reach two hundred on that blood
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  Speaker 3: pressure cuff and you start to cramp, we would say, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you're probably mineral deficients. So as you wrap the calf
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  Speaker 3: with the blood pressure cuff and start squeezing it slowly,
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  Speaker 3: if it starts to pinch or be painful or cramp,
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  Speaker 3: you would stop and immediately reduce the pressure and take
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  Speaker 3: it off. But note, at least the pressure you got to,
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  Speaker 3: you should be able to go well over two hundred.
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  Speaker 3: I am routinely surprised when I will do this on somebody,
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  Speaker 3: expecting them to be like a one twenty, that they're
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  Speaker 3: a mess, and they'll go right over two hundred to
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  Speaker 3: two forty. I'm thinking, Wow, that's impressive. So I've obviously
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  Speaker 3: got something else. Now, why is thyroid implicated in depression?
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  Speaker 3: Because the thyroid is one of its main jobs is
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  Speaker 3: to make sure calcium stays at a certain level in
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  Speaker 3: the blood, and when calcium stays at a certain level
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  Speaker 3: in the blood, magnesium tends to go with it. So
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  Speaker 3: if we say, okay, well I've figured it out, I'm
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  Speaker 3: mineral deficient. The blood pressure cuff is not the funnest
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  Speaker 3: thing in the world. Got it? Then will want to
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  Speaker 3: do something that is a calcium magnesium support, or you
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  Speaker 3: want to eat more greens or blackstrap molasses or something
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  Speaker 3: of that nature to get more minerals in you. Now,
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  Speaker 3: why would women be mineral deficient in our day and age? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: only because since the nineteen thirties we've knowing that our
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  Speaker 3: soil has been mineral depleted. Since then, now that's been
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  Speaker 3: almost one hundred years. Do we think it's getting any better?
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  Speaker 3: There are those practices out there that are working on
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  Speaker 3: soil and how to crop rotate, and how to even
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  Speaker 3: have animals in paddocks where they move them around and
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  Speaker 3: actually the soil becomes more and more rich. It's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: And so I'll see these videos on farmers that are
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  Speaker 3: talking about, hey, it's been a drought, and they show
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  Speaker 3: their crops and they're like green and tall and healthy looking,
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  Speaker 3: and the neighbor just over the barbed wire fence is
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  Speaker 3: completely desolate and has no produce and they don't even
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  Speaker 3: know if they're going to get a crop this year.
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  Speaker 3: So I see these things and I realized there's really simple, easy,
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  Speaker 3: good practices for farming that would enhance mineral soil repletion
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  Speaker 3: and actually help the health of all of us. It's
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  Speaker 3: out there and it's known, but it's just slow moving.
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  Speaker 3: So what do we do if we think it's thyroid. Well,
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  Speaker 3: if it's thyroid, you could do an iodine patch test.
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  Speaker 3: And it's anecdotal, and I'm not a big fan of it,
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  Speaker 3: but you could. And so you can get potassium iodide
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  Speaker 3: in a solution that's kind of like a dark dark
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  Speaker 3: brown yellow kind of undertones, and put a three inch
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  Speaker 3: patch on the side of your stomach and let it
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  Speaker 3: dry and watch it. If it's not there after twenty
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  Speaker 3: four hours, then your body tried to absorb all of
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  Speaker 3: that iodine so that it could use it. And when
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  Speaker 3: the patch went away, let's say it went away at
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  Speaker 3: eight hours, which I have seen people do. Your body
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  Speaker 3: is trying to absorb iodine in massive ways, and so
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  Speaker 3: iodine would be a wise thing to be doing for you.
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  Speaker 3: What else could we do. We could do a burn's
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  Speaker 3: axillary basal metabolic you know test. You just put a
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  Speaker 3: thermometer underneath your arm in your armpit. The moment you
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  Speaker 3: wake up, you don't get up. You have it well
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  Speaker 3: within your reach. You just kind of reach over to
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  Speaker 3: your nightstand, you grab the thermometer, you put it in
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  Speaker 3: your armpit, and you just wait. And if your temperature
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  Speaker 3: is below thirty six point six degrees fahrenheit or roughly
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  Speaker 3: ninety seven point three degrees fahrenheit celsia, sorry for the
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  Speaker 3: thirty six point six, then you likely have a thyroid
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  Speaker 3: issue because you're not able to maintain hot cold cycles.
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  Speaker 3: You can't keep your body warm enough, and so like
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  Speaker 3: cold hands cold feet common. We would also want you
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  Speaker 3: to do a thyroid panel, a full thyroid panel, and
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  Speaker 3: if we saw that there was suspect there, we would say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: an antibody test might be quite nice too, to make
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  Speaker 3: sure that we don't have something even more majorly wrong
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  Speaker 3: with your thyroid, a hypothyroid situation, especially like in Hashimoto's hypothyroiditis.
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  Speaker 3: We would definitely want you off of all gluten and
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  Speaker 3: so a little notation there for you. Other quick things
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  Speaker 3: you could do if you understand a reflex. So each
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  Speaker 3: muscle in the body has a reflex. If you tap
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  Speaker 3: a muscle on a tendon, the muscle will immediately try
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  Speaker 3: to pull away from it, a reflex. Many of us
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  Speaker 3: have seen the cartoons where they tap a knee joint
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  Speaker 3: like a doctor in a cartoon and he gets kicked.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's something comical. Well similar to that, but
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  Speaker 3: we would do the achilles. So your calf muscle, if
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  Speaker 3: you tap the tendon right by your heel in the
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  Speaker 3: back of your heel, just above where the bone is,
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  Speaker 3: and you have a very weak reflex, so you might
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  Speaker 3: have to do a couple people to see what a
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  Speaker 3: normal reflex feels like. But if yours is weak, then
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  Speaker 3: you likely have a thyroid condition. So those are some
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  Speaker 3: ideas about, Hey, how do I know there are some
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  Speaker 3: points on the body that you could palpate and see
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  Speaker 3: if they're tender. There's intercostals, which is the space between
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  Speaker 3: the ribs, So on the front of the chest, just
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  Speaker 3: below the collarbone on the right side, if it's tender
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  Speaker 3: in between the bumps or the ribs, that's an intercostal space.
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  Speaker 3: We would say, yes, you have some possibility of having
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  Speaker 3: some thyroid concerns. So let's say you do the blood
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  Speaker 3: pressure around the calf and you go above two hundred
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  Speaker 3: and we're now leaning more towards the thyroid issue for you.
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  Speaker 3: For depression, Now, what's fascinating is I've read things from
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  Speaker 3: way back over over eighty years ago that talk about depression,
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  Speaker 3: and it's interesting that it has been semi well known
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  Speaker 3: that niacinamide is one of the main things that we
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  Speaker 3: would use for depressive states. I'm like, that's hilarious because
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  Speaker 3: that isn't common knowledge. And these b vitamins that we
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  Speaker 3: would want to get in our diet, they come from
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  Speaker 3: using things like the whole the whole molasses, or the
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  Speaker 3: whole part of sugar. And yet we refine sugar and
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  Speaker 3: we strip out all the nutrients and we just leave
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  Speaker 3: behind the white granulated sugar because what makes sugar brown
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  Speaker 3: that blackstrap molasses doesn't necessarily taste that great in food.
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  Speaker 3: It changes the flavor and so therefore it's irritating. The
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  Speaker 3: germ on most grains is now milled off and thrown away,
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  Speaker 3: where most of the bee vitamins are that help protect
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  Speaker 3: the body in so many ways from psychiatrics or psychological
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  Speaker 3: dysfunction that we find in our society, like depression, like oh,
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  Speaker 3: aberrant thoughts, suicidal thoughts, fatigue mania which would be like
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  Speaker 3: a bipolar condition, anxiety, all these conditions that we see
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  Speaker 3: with mental aberrations, as we call them, are often B
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  Speaker 3: vitamin deficiencies. And what's interesting is a nasotol, which is
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  Speaker 3: a B vitamin, but they don't call it a BVI
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  Speaker 3: them in anymore taste sweet, and we think that's possibly,
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  Speaker 3: just possibly why people are going after sweets is because
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  Speaker 3: their body is looking for enocetol. Now here's a quick
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  Speaker 3: factoate about enocetol. In way back, I say, way back
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  Speaker 3: in the seventies, eighties, nineties, two thousands, they would cut
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  Speaker 3: cocaine with inocetol, and so we would sometimes in our
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  Speaker 3: health food store see enocetol fly off the shelf and
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  Speaker 3: being bought by individuals that would roll a lot of
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  Speaker 3: bills off a very big wad of bills and buy
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  Speaker 3: all the anocetol in our health food store. We didn't
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  Speaker 3: know why this was happening, but we were suspect and
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  Speaker 3: then we found out what they were doing with it.
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  Speaker 3: So it is kind of an interesting little thing there.
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  Speaker 3: So for those of you that are cocaine addicts, you
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  Speaker 3: may not have an anocetol deficiency, just to let you know,
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  Speaker 3: but we would want to say, hey, you probably have
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  Speaker 3: an increased in refined carbohydrate usage in your diet. If
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  Speaker 3: you find that you have depression or these states around
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  Speaker 3: your period, you will probably find that you're a little hypoglycemic,
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  Speaker 3: meaning that you may feel like you're going to pass
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  Speaker 3: out at times or you get shaky if you do
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  Speaker 3: not eat. So, besides doing magnesium and calcium, there are
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  Speaker 3: multiple nutrients that the hormone glands need, and so a
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  Speaker 3: full multi mineral from a natural source might be a
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  Speaker 3: wise component, and of course iodine would be awesome, and
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  Speaker 3: then last we would want the carrier of all of
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  Speaker 3: those minerals. So minerals in the human body are not
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  Speaker 3: just allowed to flow freely in our blood. They need
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  Speaker 3: an omega three to carry them around, and flaxied oil
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  Speaker 3: or real butter oil, ala oil alphalanolinic acid is what
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about that carries those minerals around and delivers
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  Speaker 3: those minerals to the tissues or our cells so that
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  Speaker 3: we don't develop these nice stones within our blood vessels sour.
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  Speaker 3: The body is very protective about what it lets in
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  Speaker 3: the blood, and so we do need good fats to
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  Speaker 3: carry those minerals around. So if you're thinking, hey, I
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  Speaker 3: need magnesium, well you might, but you might just be
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  Speaker 3: lacking omega three fats that are what actually carry it
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  Speaker 3: to its destination. So a little information there on the
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  Speaker 3: whole depression idea around women's cycles. I did not necessarily
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  Speaker 3: go into the neurotransmitters heavily, though they have implicated serotonin
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  Speaker 3: deficits with depression around cycles, and serotonin is I think
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  Speaker 3: ninety percent last I checked, made in our gut and
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  Speaker 3: then goes to the brain. So you might be wise
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  Speaker 3: to do some things like some keifer or some type
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  Speaker 3: of probiotic to begin to fix your gut. And if
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  Speaker 3: you're like, how would I know if I have about
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  Speaker 3: that gut? Have you ever had antibiotics? Well, most people have.
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  Speaker 3: I think two hundred million people a year to antibiotics
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  Speaker 3: in America. That's more than half of us. So the
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  Speaker 3: likelihood that you had antibotics is high, and the likelihood
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  Speaker 3: that your gut is not so good is high as well.
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  Speaker 3: And so the more antibiotics, the worst your gut is
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  Speaker 3: going to be. To try to produce those neurotransmitters that
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  Speaker 3: make us feel stable. So just another kind of tidbit.
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  Speaker 3: So every condition isn't just simple. Your history becomes hugely,
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  Speaker 3: hugely important and quite valuable when we start looking at
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  Speaker 3: what could we be looking at. What is the biggest
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  Speaker 3: issue that we have with your particular system that we
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  Speaker 3: need to correct in order to have you feel well
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  Speaker 3: and be healthy once again? What is the deficit? Is
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  Speaker 3: it gut bacteria? Is it magnesium? Is it iodine? Is
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  Speaker 3: it trace minerals? Is it calcium? Is it be vitamins?
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 3: And so it's not just this cookie cutter, cut and
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  Speaker 3: dry thing that you can just say, Oh, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to do magnesium and I'm going to do a couple
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  Speaker 3: of bees, and I'm going to be right as rain.
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  Speaker 3: There are more suspecs to each condition that we know,
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  Speaker 3: but this is just kind of getting our mouth kind
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  Speaker 3: of the Salver saliva going so that we know where
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  Speaker 3: we're heading at least. So I hope this was helpful.
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  Speaker 3: Until next time, I'm doctor Troy, and remember there is
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  Speaker 3: really way more right with you than there is wrong
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  Speaker 3: with you.
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  Speaker 1: or prevent disease.