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Speaker 0 00:00:00 Welcome to aim for health root cause conversations with dr. James Biddle, all content from the conversations in this podcast are created and published for informational purposes. Only. This is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice and should not be relied on for personal medical decisions. Always seek the guidance of your doctor with any questions you have regarding a medical condition now onto the show. Enjoy.
Speaker 1 00:00:30 Hey joy. Welcome back. Welcome back, dr. Tim Bob. So, uh, we're listening to ask dr. Jim Bob I'm James Robert Biddle MD. I run Asheville integrated medicine and our new patient coordinator joy Lamber is here. We're doing part two of diabetes podcast on, uh, July 23rd, 2020. And part one covered. What is diabetes? What, how do people get diabetes and what are conventional treatments for diabetes? Now we're going to talk about how do you get rid of type two diabetes,
Speaker 0 00:00:59 Right? Because you loved us with the hope.
Speaker 1 00:01:01 Yeah, this is reversible that's right. So what are we going to do? Right. Well, since the last time we talked about was medications, I'm going to just reiterate that we do like Metformin. Okay. Uh, and there's a, uh, a group called life extension foundation that Panetta magazine, and they sell supplements and they sell, do it yourself labs. Um, and they usually don't like any prescription medications, but they wrote a 10 page article a couple of years ago in favor of Metformin, really, for the same reasons I'm in favor of it. And that it decreases, uh, obesity helps you lose weight, decreases insulin resistance, and helps you recover from diabetes at the same time as decreasing cancer risk sound like good things. That's right. And we talked about some people don't tolerate Metformin because it gives them gut irritation and loose stools. Uh, and the major side effect.
Speaker 1 00:01:50 You gotta watch out from it for them, and it can make you be 12 deficient. She had to watch out for B12, besides that it's extremely inexpensive and most people tolerate it well in lower dosages. So we use that a lot, but the fundamentals before that is diet and exercise is lifestyle. Absolutely not stress response. We talked last time about testing for sleep apnea. So we're not going to go into that again, but we do an overnight pulse oximeter on people. We have to teach them how to eat. And we talked about the fundamentals of that is you need adequate protein. You need healthy fats and to know a healthy fat from an unhealthy fat, right? And, uh, you need, uh, lots of fiber and they need less carbs. And that's all an individual kind of a calculation for people based upon what they weigh. How much of that is muscle versus fat, how much insulin resistance they have, how much they exercise, how old they are.
Speaker 0 00:02:46 And this is something we ha we can help all of our clients figure it out
Speaker 1 00:02:49 As we can help our clients figure that out. That's right. I mean, the fundamentals are eat less sugar and starch eat more fiber. I'll say more about fiber is, you know, the American eats about 15 to 20 grams of fiber a day. Is that enough? No, not nearly there. The recommendations are about a 30 grams of fiber a day. Uh, what's really good is about 40 to 50 grams of fiber a day. What indigenous cultures eat is about 80 to 100 grams of fiber a day and fiber, uh, stabilizes blood sugar. Cause it slows down how fast we absorb the sugar. It is the, uh, substrate for your, your good gut bacteria, your probiotics, right? Right. Everybody's talking about the, the, the biome, right? The microbiome that's right. And the only two things that actually have been shown to change your microbiome are how well you eat, meaning how much fiber you eat and how well you avoid pesticides, like Roundup in your diet and how well you exercise.
Speaker 1 00:03:52 Um, so that does that. And then fiber binds toxins. So you poop them out rather than constantly reabsorbing them in your colon wall. Uh, so fiber decreases your risk of diabetes, heart disease, many types of cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer. So we're big fans of fiber. And I particularly like ground flax seeds. Yes. Most people tolerate them. They have healthy fats. We want you to grind them up fresh, not getting pre-ground cause they go rancid quickly. Once you grind them, if you want to grind a big batch, just to put them in a Mason jar and put them in the freezer
Speaker 2 00:04:23 Where I keep mine is in the freezer. And then it's super easy. I just mix them in water and drink it with food or put it in soups or put it on food.
Speaker 1 00:04:31 Yep. Our allergy nurse, Jan likes hers on salads. I like mine and smoothies or an oatmeal. Uh, but there's lots of ways you can get your flaxseeds in. Usually about two tablespoons. A day is good. If you don't tolerate that for one reason or another, uh, then we use Acacia fiber and it's a brand called Heather's tummy fiber because it's purely soluble fiber. And therefore it does not cause the gas and bloating, which is why people don't tolerate the flak seeds sometimes as guests.
Speaker 2 00:04:59 And it really is a completely tasteless. You mix it in water. I've tried it before. You can't even tell that it's in there. So give it to kids easy way to get fiber. And just because we cannot stress this enough. Um, how many times a day, since we're talking about fiber and all the good things it does in our gut, how many times a day should we be pooping?
Speaker 1 00:05:19 How many times a day do you eat? Three. Yeah. About three. Yup. Right. You know, food in food out. Exactly. Otherwise you're FOS.
Speaker 2 00:05:30 Yes.
Speaker 1 00:05:33 All right. Uh, so back to, what do we use to treat the diabetes? Well exercise, right. And there's three types of exercise. We talk about one is general activity. How much are you just moving during the day that that can be strolling, that can be picking weeds, doing yard work. You know, when you go to the store, don't find the best parking place. Find the parking place in the shade and walk, uh, take the stairs rather the elevator, you know, take every hour, get up from your desk and take a little walk around and do some sink squats. You would describe sink squats.
Speaker 2 00:06:04 Yes. So same squats. Um, you basically get near any counter or sink countertop and you can put your hands on it to stabilize yourself. And you just start with doing some gentle squats. You lower your bottom and you don't want your knees to go out past your feet. And you just do a few st squats and eventually you get stronger and you can go deeper and do more. Right.
Speaker 1 00:06:28 I like to actually hold onto the sink and kind of lean back against the squat and then keep your weight in your heels, especially when you're pushing up and that'll save your needs. Okay.
Speaker 2 00:06:37 And then they ask you a question you've asked me before, when I asked you what's the best type of event I should do.
Speaker 1 00:06:44 Best type of what movement, the one you will do the next one, the next one. Yeah. Well that's your best position. Yeah, but the most important exercise is the one you're actually going to do. Uh, so that's all very individualized and it's great to have an exercise, buddy. That's always a great strategy to get you to show up. Uh, you know, exercise is much more challenging right now with the pandemic, obviously. So there's general activity. The next type of exercise is a aerobic exercise. And for this we want, uh, interval training. So we want to spike the pulse and the beauty of spiking, your pulse is it changes as you get in better shape. So as you're out of shape, you start to exercise and your pulse goes up really quickly, right? And then you stop and then you rest until your pulse is down and then you hit it again.
Speaker 1 00:07:33 And so a classic thing here, we want your pulse to get to 200 minus your age. So at 58, my current target weight or my weight to my current target pulse is 142 beats per minute, right? This is what I should be hitting. And then everybody says, well, how long do you keep it there? You don't, you just get there, you get there. And then you stop and rest. So I can do this in three minutes with wind sprints or a, you know, an exercise machine, a treadmill rowing machine StairMaster, whatever, and about three minutes. But when I'm going, I'm really going. And then you rest for about three minutes until it comes down to around a hundred. And then you go again and it takes me about two minutes and then your rest. And then it go again and takes about 90 seconds. So my entire aerobic workout was about seven minutes of activity spread out over about 15 to 20 minutes, including the recovery.
Speaker 1 00:08:28 And that's all you need to do. That's all you need to do, do that three times a week. And you're really now, as you get healthier, you get to push it harder to get your pulse up, but that's easy to do. And the last type of activity is muscle building. In order to build your muscles, you got to rip your muscles in order to rip your muscles, either got to lift more weight, or you got to move slower. And I recommend moving slower because we tried to lift more weight. You're going to hurt yourself. Uh, so you, you do just, if you're over 50, you do this just a once a week per muscle group. If you're under 50, you can do it twice a week. Uh, but you just move really slowly through the exercise until you really can't do it again,
Speaker 2 00:09:10 Right? You're supposed to be pushing yourself to exhaustion, not just how many reps can I get in in 30 seconds.
Speaker 1 00:09:16 Right? And those reps are usually somewhere between eight to 20 to achieve this. You only need one set, but for example, if you want to do those things squash rather than just popping them out real quick, you just grab onto that sink and go really slowly. And I bet by the time you get up to 20, your legs will be shit.
Speaker 2 00:09:33 Oh yeah. I mean, just trying to hold a sink, squat and seeing how long you can hold it. That's a totally different burn than just letting yourself bounce up and down with it. Right.
Speaker 1 00:09:42 So there's, you know, we have, we have a whole exercise class. There's, you know, a lot more, you can say about exercise, but that's, that's the overview is general activity aerobics, and then muscle building, because here's the kicker for every pound of muscle. It said that you put on, it's like doing an hour a week of aerobics. So if you can carry more muscle, you don't have to exercise as much. So building, if I, if, if you had to give me the choice, you know, should this patient go out and do a robotics or build muscle? I would say build muscle. Definitely. Cause muscle is 24, seven metabolically active,
Speaker 2 00:10:19 Right. Muscles are hungry. That's right. Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 1 00:10:23 All right. Then we use, uh, supplements. Uh, and one supplement, a lot of people have heard about is berberine. Berberine. Berberine is often used as a substitute for Metformin. It does many of the same things. It doesn't have to be a substitute. It can also be an add on, you can use them both together and they support each other. But there's many, many studies that show that, uh, berberine can help with the insulin resistance and improve how well your insulin receptors work. So you stop making quite as much insulin.
Speaker 2 00:10:56 Okay.
Speaker 1 00:10:57 Uh, the next is basic nutrients, magnesium, and you know, almost everything we talk about. We talk about
Speaker 2 00:11:03 Magnesium, all goes back to magnesium
Speaker 1 00:11:06 Because it runs over 400 known enzymes in the body. Two thirds of Americans are deficient in it and you need to have it to chill out. You gotta have it to make your neuro-transmitters to relax your muscles and to run your insulin receptor.
Speaker 2 00:11:21 Right? And we talked during the podcast about stress, about how things can burn up our magnesium, which may be part of why we're deficient like sugar.
Speaker 1 00:11:30 Every diabetic is deficient in magnesium because every time you eat sugar, you waste magnesium. And that causes a lot of anxiety, uh, and muscle cramps, uh, constipation. So, you know, lots of problems with magnesium deficiency. And so what's been shown to help start to control blood sugar is 300 milligrams a day. We recommend you spread that out. Especially at first, the main limiting factor to magnesium is loose stools. And we've talked about this before on the phone
Speaker 2 00:12:02 Or podcast, right? So you'll know when you're taking more than your body can use it that time.
Speaker 1 00:12:07 Right? And then there's three main types of magnesium. Magnesium oxide is the least, well, absorbs it use that if you're constipated magnesium, citrates middle of the road. And then the magnesium key lates many is hooked onto an amino acid. The one we use is magnesium glycinate. I took Darren to glycine is the best absorbed and the least effect on the bowels. So that's where we're usually gonna get people. It'd be a hundred milligrams, preferably three to four of them a day. All right, next is chromium and vanadium and chromium and vanadium are both minerals that work at the insulin receptor site. We look at these on a hair analysis and see if you need them. You can use them even if you don't need them, but if you're deficient in them, they're even more important to take. Okay. And then after that is zinc, uh, half of Americans are deficient in zinc. Uh, some common things that zinc does is run your immune system. So right now it's essential with the pandemic that people will be taking zinc usually about 30 milligrams a day, maybe 50 milligrams a day with food, never on empty stomach, very hard on the stomach lining. Um, but zinc is also again important for helping insulin work at the receptor site.
Speaker 2 00:13:20 And if I've learned correctly, if I'm remembering correctly, don't we have a sabotage we might not even know about in terms of how much zinc we have, uh, when it comes to metals and the receptors that they bind to blocking our zinc
Speaker 1 00:13:35 Mercury, uh, mercury sits right underneath zinc on the periodic table of elements. So if you have mercury from dental fillings or eating fish, then it pushes the zinc out of your body. A one clue to a bad zinc deficiency is losing your sense of taste and smell. Really an earlier problem is losing your stomach acid because you had to have zinc to make hydrochloric acid in your stomach lining. And then once you're deficient in zinc, you can't absorb any of your minerals or B12 or zinc because you have to have stomach acid to absorb B12 and zinc. So that then you get into this terrible cycle. It sounds like really right, but other specific, um, nutrients we like to use, uh, vitamin E can be important. It helps control blood sugar, uh, biotin, biotin. Most people think about it for their hair and their nails.
Speaker 1 00:14:32 It's a variation on a B vitamin and we're over on the diabetic protocol. Uh, but high dose by attendant like five, five milligrams, which is 5,000 micrograms once or twice a day can actually help control, uh, both blood pressure and blood sugar. Here's a caveat to biotin. You got to stop for three days before you get your lab testing done for your thyroid. Cause it'll artificially lower your TSH reading. Oh, that's good to know. That's right. You got to stop by for three days before getting your TSH thyroid stimulating hormone shift. There's an herb called gymnema Sylvestre, and this actually helps your pancreas recover. So if you're on the tail end of type two diabetes, and you're getting to where your pancreas has exhausted, the Jimmy mills Sylvester, uh, at about 400 to 500 milligrams twice a day, you can help repair those insulin producing cells in the pancreas. Um, so those are the, the usual supplements we use directly for the diabetes. Uh, cinnamon helps drusen artichokes can help cause they have a compound called inulin. Then there's supplements for specific complications for diabetic neuropathy. Uh, of course we want B12 and lipoic acid lipoic acid can also help control the blood sugars, alpha lipoic acid. The usual dose is 300 to 600 milligrams twice a day.
Speaker 1 00:16:05 And then essential fatty acids, both fish oil and Primrose oil and Primrose oil. I'm a big fan of it's a classic female oil that helps fiber cystic breast disease and uterine cramps and uterine fibroids, uh, because it has this specific short chain fatty acids. You don't find any place else called GLA gamma linolenic acid. And this is the closest to what's in mother's milk is DGL. And so women, especially in to build up their GLA, uh, but it's very good for preventing diabetic neuropathy
Speaker 2 00:16:38 With the B12 recommendation. Does it matter what type or is there a preference between methyl versus Cyanna Kabbalah?
Speaker 1 00:16:46 You know, it depends upon your genes. If you are good at methylating then the Santa cobalamin is fine, cause you'll methylated. Unfortunately 41% of the population has MTHFR defects and they don't methylate very well. So for those people, you want to take pre methylated B12 or mythical element instead in the usual doses that is anywhere from 1000 to 5,000 micrograms a day in a, in a, like a chewable or something, go for it.
Speaker 2 00:17:15 All right.
Speaker 1 00:17:16 Uh, for the eyes vitamin C with bioflavonoids is important. One of the ways to get that as bilberry and blueberries, uh, and L Tarin L taurine is an amino acid that helps us use magnesium at the cellular level. So, uh, that's probably why that works. The B12 and the magnesium are of course important for the eyes. And then for the kidneys, uh, recent daddy shows data shows that thiamine thiamine can save your kidneys a hundred milligrams, two or three times a day can reverse early diabetic nephropathy. Uh, thymine is also the classic thing you need. If you're drinking alcohol regularly makes you waste the time.
Speaker 2 00:17:55 Hmm.
Speaker 1 00:17:57 If you're a diabetic, who's also drinking alcohol, Fireman's particularly important for you. That's very good to know. That's vitamin B one. It's B two that makes your, uh, your glow yellow. That's the riboflavin.
Speaker 2 00:18:13 Um, so, so then now that we know about these supplements, uh, how do we then reverse the diabetes?
Speaker 1 00:18:27 Right. And I do think diabetes is reversible up until the bitter end. I have, I have seen people reverse their diabetes, uh, as long as they not too far into complications and they still have a healthy pancreas. If you bring yourself down to normal weight, replace all your nutritional deficiencies. We also like to measure toxicity, especially heavy metal toxicity is like lead and mercury. Cause that sabotage things, uh, you can reverse your type two diabetes. For sure. Now you'll always be more prone for coming back. If you lose your diligence, right? The price of freedom is everlasting vigilance. Yes, exactly. Right.
Speaker 2 00:19:06 So just because you lose the weight, doesn't mean you can go back to eating cookies.
Speaker 1 00:19:10 That's right. And what I'm going to look at is our weight control protocol we have in our weight control protocol, one, two, and three is how you eat. Number four is how you exercise. And then there's all the sabotages. And we call these sabotages. Cause these are things you can't really know that you have, unless your doctor helps you figure it out. Exactly. So the first we talked about is sleep apnea, right? The next is thyroid. If you have overt hypothyroidism, that obviously has to be corrected, but you can also have subtle hypothyroidism, meaning that you make enough thyroid hormone, but you don't use it. Right. Right. And we talked about this on our thyroid talks. It's about the conversion of T four to T three. And then you have the reverse. And then if you go to the reverse T three and your temperatures are chronically low, then you got this problem called Wilson syndrome and you got to fix that.
Speaker 1 00:20:04 Then there's gender hormones. So did you know that one out of four women after menopause go hypothyroid? No, I did not know that. Yeah. And a lot of that's because you need the right gender hormones to not get Hasimoto's and you need the right gender hormones to convert T four to T three and specifically getting low on progesterone. So women after menopause they'll their fat cells will still make estrogen, but they got no progesterone. And this causes an imbalance in the immune system, which is why women get a lot more autoimmune disease than men do. And it causes an inability to activate, can utilize your thyroid hormone.
Speaker 2 00:20:42 Did not know that.
Speaker 1 00:20:44 So we've got to figure out the gender hormones and for guys, if their testosterone, which basically take your, your generation of age and that's your percentage. So right now at, you know, in my 50 is about half, my peers are low in testosterone. Uh, but by age 70, it's going to be 70%. And, uh, you know, there's a few that can still have normal testosterone in their eighties. Like Jacqueline Lane. He had good muscle mass too. He had good muscle mass. He ate right. He had a good attitude, probably didn't have sleep apnea, probably not. Uh, but otherwise, you know, you gotta have your testosterone fixed, uh, then heavy metals. Uh, so lead mercury, cadmium, arsenic, aluminum, all of those poison our systems cause insulin resistance, thyroid dysfunction, hormone deficiencies, we've got to clean those up. Right.
Speaker 2 00:21:35 Right. And these are all things we can check for here in various,
Speaker 1 00:21:37 In various ways. Yeah. And we'll do a whole show on heavy metals. So we're not going to go into how we check for them. But, uh, let's just say that conventional medicine completely ignores the topic. Right. And you gotta, you gotta think about it and look at it. Food allergies, most people would not think about food allergies, but in our experience, uh, food allergies, especially in women can help contribute to insulin resistance and weight gain is certainly causes a lot of chronic constipation, right. Uh, and is often related to yeast overgrowth. When we do food allergy testing, which we do by blood testing, we find women being allergic to their own candida as our top reactor followed closely by eggs and then Wheaton dairy. Uh, and what we do for food allergies, uh, is not avoidance we've. We have found that avoidance does not work to handle food allergies.
Speaker 1 00:22:32 It can reduce your symptoms. Sure. But does not make the food allergies go away. So what we use is oral drop desensitization. So it's just like getting the shot in the arm with pollen extract, if you're allergic to ragweed. Right. But instead you put it in a bottle and squirt it under your tongue two or three times a day. And so my own, uh, four and a half year old daughter had terrible rashes and eczema. We tested her, found out that she was allergic to eggs, dairy, and wheat, and some other stuff took her off of egg, dairy and wheat for a while, put her on the drops, gradually work them back in the last being eggs. And her rashes went away. Now she can eat everything. That's wonderful because of the desensitization. Right? So that's our approach to that. Um, other toxicities, I got a great article, uh, with the hypothesis that chemical toxicities are the leading cause of obesity worldwide. And if you think this through chemical toxins are all fat soluble, and if you have a fat soluble toxin, the way to dilute that is to put on more fat
Speaker 2 00:23:44 Kind of creating like the oyster with the Pearl. Yeah. Encapsulating it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:23:49 Yeah. But you just dilute it out. Like if you take a, a cup of dye and put it in a gallon bucket of water, that's going to be a certain, you know, vivid color. Right, right. But if you take that gallon of water and pour it into a, uh, you know, 20,000 gallon pool, you won't even see it. You hardly see it. So that's what our body does with the toxins is they expand our fat volume to dilute out the fat soluble toxins. So you're talking about solvents, pesticides, petrochemicals, plastics, all these things, guess what we can measure those, not all of them. There's 80,000 of them. We can measure the top, like 160, I believe, but the test that we have, uh, and then help people get rid of those. Um, and then interestingly, chronic infections that can be a sabotage, uh, towards weight control and blood sugar control.
Speaker 1 00:24:45 Uh, so mano, we're going to do a, uh, a show soon about reactivated motto. We're seeing is a hot topic right now, a lot more of it since all the stress of the COVID-19 and the political unrest, people are getting their motto, reactivated, uh, you know, to walking pneumonias and Lyme disease and things like that, uh, can be a sabotage as some specific things. We talked about fiber, I'm also a big fan of coconut oil. Why is that? Well, because it's a way to get more of those fat, uh, calories into your diet. Uh, but also because it has two other things going for it. One is, it has a short chain, fatty acid called Lorich acid, L a U R I C. And Lorac acids suppresses herpes viruses, including motto. Really? It does.
Speaker 2 00:25:36 Yeah. Well, it's a good thing. I already love coconut oil. It's delicious too.
Speaker 1 00:25:41 And the other thing it does is that even though it's a saturated fat, you know, saturated fats have a bad rap, uh, and animal fat, the saturated fat they're very long molecules. And they do tend to store easier than they burn. But coconut oil has medium chain and short chain saturated fats, and they tend to want to burn rather than store as fat in our bodies. So it's a great source of energy to put you over into that fat burning mode that we want to be in. So I love coconut oil. And then as far as sweeteners, we don't want all the toxic sweeteners and we don't want the sugar. So if you want the sweet taste, then there's a combination that we like. And it's the combination of Stevia and xylitol. Now Stevia is a wonderful herb from South America. It's very sweet. It has no calories. It's very good for your immune system. People use it to treat Lyme chronic Lyme disease. Really? I didn't know that. Yeah. Uh, it's easy to grow yourself for that type of purpose. You can grow it in pots, in your house as a house plant and harvest it. Uh, but Stevia has the unfortunate, uh, little after taste that people don't like.
Speaker 2 00:26:53 Yeah, yeah. It's hard to describe, but everyone knows what that tastes like.
Speaker 1 00:26:57 Yeah. Prone to it right now. The other one is xylitol, which is a tree alcohol, sugar, uh, and xylitol has the limitation. Uh, the way it works is it actually is a sugar, but only a third of it absorbed. So two thirds of it goes through you. Now that's a limiting factor because if you eat too much of it, you're going to get the runs good to know, or gassy bloody diarrhea. So what we have as a combination of Stevia and zealots all together, and that gets rid of the bad effects at both of those and makes a wonderful combination where you don't have that aftertaste. You don't have bowel dysfunction, but you can get the suite that you want, but I'll tell you what better than artificial sweeteners is retraining your taste buds to not expect the sweet stimulus all the time. And it only takes about two to three weeks. If you just cut out all the sweeteners, stopped drinking soda, stop sweetening, your coffee and tea, you know, stop using all the sweeteners. You're going to start to appreciate the flavor of foods naturally.
Speaker 2 00:27:54 And then you get to the point where even just fresh fruit
Speaker 1 00:27:57 Tastes, overpower and sweet, really sweet. You really sensitize yourself again to the natural flavors of things. So that's the best thing to do.
Speaker 2 00:28:08 And then of course, with sweeteners, we always want to avoid artificial sweeteners, things like aspartame and
Speaker 1 00:28:14 Right. Great.
Speaker 2 00:28:18 So, dr. Middle, why do you think that diabetes cases are rising in the United States?
Speaker 1 00:28:25 Well, obviously, uh, it's a combination of lifestyle and toxicity, I think. Uh, so we're eating worse, we're eating out more and you know what the secret of all shifts is what's that more salt and more sugar they'll put sugar on your steak.
Speaker 2 00:28:43 Wow. That seems really unfair,
Speaker 1 00:28:46 But, but it works. It makes it your, your, your taste budge light up with the combination of salt and sugar. So the more you eat out, the more salt and sugar you're getting without even knowing it. So eating more at home and cooking at home, uh, you know, really helps. And Americans are eating out more and more and more and cooking less and less and less up until four months ago. Right. And, uh, you know, what's gone away in the last four months. Premies just saw an article where all the preemies preterm labor has gone down dramatically with people eating at home.
Speaker 2 00:29:20 What does that mean? What does one have to do with it?
Speaker 1 00:29:22 Cause you get more magnesium when you prepare your own food at home. And magnesium deficiency is the main cause of preterm labor, because when you may need some deficient, your muscles are all irritable and they start to your uterus starts to contract prematurely. That's incredible. So eating at home really helps. Uh, but all the toxicity, you know, the sabotage, as we mentioned, the unrecognized sleep apnea, the toxicities, the food allergies, food allergies are going up at 5% per year, even in classic medicine, much less the under-recognized food allergies that we treat. And so all of these sabotages are going up. Uh, and then, uh, people, uh, you know, I'm going to say, they're exercising less. There is a category of people in United States who are exercising more, right. You know, we're kind of in this 80 20 split, we're about 20% of the population is getting healthier and healthier and 80% is getting worse and worse.
Speaker 1 00:30:14 Uh, so, you know, there's that, uh, and then the rising obesity and prepared foods. So that's really why diabetes is increasing. There's all those sabotages we talked about and the changes in our dietary patterns and exercise patterns. It's so much to keep in mind and to consider and to just wrap our minds around. But I'm just so encouraged to know that this is reversible. There's a lot we can do for this. And you know, we've seen the results. We've seen it here day in and day out. We think we can handle, we've seen the results so much. I get excited when I see a person on my schedule, a new patient with diabetes, because I think, Oh my gosh, this is a person we can help. And then they've not been getting the help they need because you know, all these things we've been talking about, what's the commonality of why they're not using conventional medicine.
Speaker 1 00:31:06 There's no profit in them for big pharma, right? And that's what, unfortunately, all the doctors I know are great. People who want to help their clients, but they're all in these golden handcuffs. Then I'm in know that they're locked in a paradigm box and all they do is prescribe the next expensive pharmaceutical drug. And they're not really helping people change their lifestyle and they're not using supplements to reverse nutritional deficiencies. And they're not looking at sabotages and toxicities and what I'm really hearing with all of this and understanding more deeply, even as we're talking right now, is that there's so much here. There's so many sabotages that people don't know and they don't know what they don't know. And so it's not your fault. It's just theirs. There needs to be more education. There needs to be more training. There needs to be more accountability that this is something we can tackle that's routine. That's right. And we're here for you. Uh, call up, go to our website. It's doc biddle.com. That's doc B I D D L e.com and get signed up and we're happy to help you out. Look forward to talking with you. Bye.
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