Hello Health Champions. Today we're going to talk
about 10 serious body signs that you really need to know. The first one is chest pain or pressure
across the chest and this could be something as serious as a heart attack but it could also be a
lesser version of heart disease called angina and that's not where the heart is damaged but angina
is when it's not getting enough blood supply and it's kind of fighting to produce energy and it
starts cramping and you get that pain shooting out oftentimes into the arm another thing could
be simply indigestion or gerd gastroesophageal reflux disease and that could also manifest
as chest pain we could also have anxiety or panic attacks a lot of people with severe
anxiety or panic they will sense that pressure across the chest and the pain could also be from
an infection in the lungs called pneumonia or more serious would be a pulmonary embolism which means
there's a blood clot that's formed somewhere and then it's dislodged it comes loose and it travels
and it gets stuck in the lung if that happens in the brain that's called a stroke if it's in the
lung it's called a pulmonary embolism either way the blood vessel is blocked off it's clogged
and no more blood can flow and the tissue around there is damaged so if this was a heart attack
or a pulmonary embolism then you have to really get to the ER as soon as possible if it's any
of the other things now it's not as urgent and you can start looking at resolving the root cause
and breathing exercises can be hugely beneficial because most of these other things have to do with
stress and there are some products though that can help and one thing we find in our Clinic is cardio
plus anyone that needs some heart support cardio Plus usually comes in very useful and if you have
the angina if you have those cramps in the heart then what you're looking for is some vasodilation
and there's a product called cataplex E2 also from Standard Process now cataplex E2 there's
a percentage there's a portion of that in the cardio plus already so if you need more General
support cardio plus is great if you need some extra help with evasive dilation then you could
get the cataplex E2 or maybe both so that you can get some extra cataplex E2 and that can really
help dilate those blood vessels and help get that heart a little bit more blood and if your problem
turns out to be indigestion or gerd then what you actually need is a little more acid so apple cider
vinegar is acidic or zypan is a product that has hydrochloric acid in it which is a little more
powerful even than apple cider vinegar because it's not that gerd is too much acid like most
people think it's that you don't have enough so the body can't complete the digestive process
in the right way you add some acid and now things work better and most of that gerd goes away in
most cases number two is shortness of breath and what that simply means is the body's not getting
enough air or oxygen so it tries to compensate by breathing more and the first thing we want
to think about is anemia that means lack of blood so you don't have enough oxygen carrying
capacity you don't have enough red blood cells or enough hemoglobin in the red blood cells and
then you can't distribute that oxygen properly now in my blood work course I talk about which
scenarios you could benefit from Iron because most people just think anemia you need iron but
there's some cases where iron will actually hurt you you already have enough but you still can't
make those red blood cells and in those cases you might need some other micronutrients shortness of
breath could also be something called COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease so either there's a
lot of resistance in the lungs or the heart is a little too weak to pump blood through the lungs
either way we don't absorb that oxygen we can't distribute that oxygen properly and another one is
called emphysema that usually happens to smokers after many years of smoking their lung tissue
starts breaking down and is destroyed so you don't have the same surface area and you can't
absorb the oxygen either and there's no simple fix for this but you can try breathing exercises
especially with steam If part of this problem is that you have mucus and buildup then that can help
dissolve some of that and breathing exercises can also help relax and dilate the tissues a little
bit and if you do have some destruction or stress to the lung tissue or some irritation then
you could use emphaplex or something called pneumotrophin PMG both of those products show up
a lot in our office for people who have any sort of lung issue and this could also be very helpful
after a severe infection like a pneumonia or even covid or a serious cold where the tissue has had
some stress number three is a severe headache and a lot of people anytime they have a severe
headache they call it a migraine but actually migraine refers to half a brain so typically with
a migraine you're only going to have it in half the head but it doesn't mean it's any less severe
but all other types would be tension headaches and cluster headaches so those are just descriptions
of different types of headaches but you could have different causes also so you could have one from
a stroke if it comes on very suddenly and it's a type of headache you've never had before you want
to take that very very seriously that could be a stroke which again is either a bleed in the brain
a ruptured blood vessel or a clot in the brain it could be sinusitis meaning an infection in the
sinuses and sinuses are small caverns in the bone in the front of the head and if they get filled
up with fluid they can put pressure and create headaches pressure can also be created by brain
tumors obviously or we could have something called a hypertensive crisis which is a sudden very high
blood pressure and this is not your average 150 160.
This is when something gets completely out
of control and your blood pressure is 180 200 or above that type of blood pressure can create
serious headaches and that is also a hypertensive crisis it's also a medical emergency so with
anything that happens suddenly and something that's worse than you've ever had before you want
to go visit the emergency room but if it's not that urgent then you want to figure out what
the root cause is and address that root cause obviously some of the first things that you want
to try are some Diet changes some eliminations because a lot of times there are triggers that
people are sensitive to different foods and the top foods to avoid would be wheat with gluten
in it chocolate alcohol especially red wine is a trigger for a lot of people and also caffeine
can be a trigger number four is a sudden weakness on one side of the body and this is pretty
serious and you want to think stroke again but it could also be a transient ischemic attack
a TIA which is not a full stroke but it looks the same in the short term whereas a stroke is a
permanent damage to brain tissue a TIA is a temporary cutoff of blood it's where you have a
spasm where the blood isn't getting the oxygen support and it seems like a stroke but it goes
away after a few minutes or maybe up to an hour and then you're back to feeling normal but you
want to take this very very seriously because it means that there's something not working right and
you're probably much more likely if you have these repeatedly you're much more likely to actually be
at risk for stroke the weakness could also be from a disc herniation and we're talking a severe disc
herniation where the disc ruptures like a donut you squeeze out the jelly out of the donut and
it puts pressure on a nerve and if this happens on one side of the body which typically it's
going to be more on one side then you could lose muscle function in that side of the body but you
would also have severe pain associated with that either way if you lose muscle function it's pretty
serious and you want to go to the emergency room however it'd be much better to prevent this
altogether and then we need to understand where most of these problems come from and
cardiovascular disease and stroke are primarily caused by metabolic problems metabolic syndrome
and insulin resistance so the way to avoid it to reduce your chances you can never eliminate risk
entirely but you can reduce chances very much by eating right and not becoming insulin resistant
and there's no substitute for lifestyle changes but if you'd like a couple of products to assist
you as you're making Lifestyle Changes there's a product called cataplex gtf and gtf stands
for glucose tolerance factor and another one is diaplex from standard process and both of
these will help your body utilize glucose better and regulate that blood sugar a little bit better
number five is loss of bowel and bladder function and this is really serious it relates to what we
just talked about which is severe disc herniations the difference here is it's happening a little bit
further down and it's happening at a place called The Kata equina and Coda equina means horse's tail
so down at the bottom of the spine the spinal cord comes to an end in the lower back and then from
above that we have these nerve roots coming off of the spinal cord but then at the end they just
start traveling further down and at the end we don't have the spinal cord we just have these
nerve Roots going on for a few inches and this is called the cauda equina or the horse tail now
if you have a severe disc herniation this is a place where you can affect both sides of the nerve
roots and if this happens to a serious degree you could lose bowel and bladder function another
thing you'll probably notice is a loss of muscle function and a classic sign is called foot drop
that means if you set your heel down normally you smoothly put the rest of the foot down but with
foot drop you put the heel down and the foot just flops straight down and you can't lift the toes
off the floor anymore and if any of this happens you definitely want to get to the emergency room
as soon as possible number six is difficulty speaking or understanding speech and the first
thing we want to think about here is stroke if it comes on suddenly but it could also be some other
type of brain trauma like a severe concussion or even a tumor that's growing in a specific place
face if this happens slower more gradual onset now we're thinking degeneration which would be
something like a frontotemporal Dementia or it could also be the other types of dementia like
Alzheimer's or also Parkinson's all of which are neurodegenerative the brain breaks down over a
period of time and as far as whether it affects the speech or the understanding depends on where
in the brain this is so if we have the brain here and we have the frontal lobe we have the occipital
lobe we have the parietal lobe and the temporal lobe then the frontal lobe is the motor that's
the output the speech and there's an area there's a cut off here between frontal and posterior so
motor is in the front sensory is in the back and the speech area is sitting right here it's called
brocus area so if that is affected by a tumor or a stroke now you would lose the speech you can still
understand but you can't speak and these people oftentimes they think that they're speaking they
know the words they want to come out but nothing's happening however if it's the other way around you
can't understand what people say then it would be an area back here in the sensory portion called
Wernicke's area and now these people can make sounds they can speak but they don't understand
what people are saying so fronto-temporal dementia tends to affect speech more than also Alzheimer's
because frontotemporal is going to affect the frontal and the temporal but because that includes
the frontal then the speech the motor function is affected the Alzheimer's is going to be more in
the temporal occipital not so much the frontal at least at first so they would have more of a
loss of understanding speech rather than speaking and of course Parkinson's has a problem with
motor function not just speech but all sorts of movements so they would also have trouble
more so with speaking than understanding so if there's a sudden onset then you want to get to the
emergency room if it's more of a gradual onset now we want to do prevention we want to get healthy
and what does that mean it's all the things we talk about on this channel we address the chemical
structural and emotional stresses of life and one of the biggest ones again that causes degeneration
is insulin resistance so we want to learn where we are on that scale of insulin resistance by
measuring the right blood markers and then taking the right action and there's not like a
magic pill that's going to solve all these issues but if I was to pick just one that most people
are deficient in it would be fish oil and if we're talking brain then we want to think DHA and
the product I have in mind is called tuna Omega because it's very easy to take it is inexpensive
for what you get normal fish oil most fish oil sold has a certain ratio of EPA to DHA and both
of these are good but DHA is mostly the building material of the brain the cell membranes and
most fish oil has a three to two ratio where it has more EPA but the tuna Omega has a five to one
ratio where it has more DHA so both of these are good but if you're looking for that brain support
then tuna Omega would be the one number seven is loss of consciousness also known as fainting or
syncope and when you pass out it's because the brain does not get enough fuel and this could be
low oxygen or low glucose or even ketones but most people aren't in ketosis so if this would happen
because of low glucose it is really difficult to get your glucose that low standard hypoglycemia
is not going to do that but if you're a type 1 diabetic meaning you depend on insulin so every
time you eat you take some insulin you each blood sugar goes up you take insulin to bring it down
but if you mismanage this and you don't eat but you still take the insulin now you're going to
push down that already low glucose into levels where you can actually pass out but when it comes
to blood supply there are two mechanisms and one is called vasovagal syncope and Vaso means blood
vessel and vagal refers to the vagus nerve or the parasympathetic nervous system so if we have
an over activity usually from an emotional shock of some sort something emotionally very
upsetting then people tend to pass out and what happens it with that over activity is that we
slow down the heart we decrease the pumping strength of the heart and we dilate blood
vessels all at the same time so the blood follows gravity and goes away from the head and we
pass out now the beautiful thing of course is that when we pass out then gravity pulls equally so now
the Blood starts flowing in the body more easily without so much blood pressure and the blood
returns to the brain the other way is called orthostatic hypotension and this is kind of the
same but sort of opposite and what happens here is we start laying down or sitting up and then
we stand up very quickly because what happens now then is gravity is going to start pulling
the blood down away from the head and we need to compensate very quickly we need to create
increased blood pressure with vasoconstriction and the body part that handles that is called the
adrenal gland so if we have adrenal insufficiency if they don't respond quickly enough or forcefully
enough then we don't get enough of a response to keep the blood in the head and we feel a little
light-headed or dizzy and in severe cases we can actually pass out so all of these are going
to have different solutions that can be pretty complex but if it is orthostatic hypotension most
of the time it's going to be adrenal insufficiency and a great way to support the adrenals long term
is with a product called drenamin we find that most people with adrenal fatigue are going to do
really well with drenamin over a longer period of time number eight is unexplained weight loss and
sometimes this is because of cancer especially toward the later stages of cancer where the
body is getting really tired of fighting this cancer and it doesn't even have enough resources
anymore to absorb to digest absorb and make new tissues because that's very expensive offensive
with energy and these people also after so long of having cancer they don't have much of an
appetite and it could also be hyper thyroid or Graves disease and these people are going to
have a huge appetite they're going to eat all the time but because the thyroid is overactive
then it's just burning off everything you eat it's like your furnace is running at Double speed
and your heart rate is high everything is moving faster in the body you're just burning off that
energy like a wildfire it could also be that you have undiagnosed type 1 diabetes and this is one
that most people don't realize because most people think diabetics are overweight but with type 1
diabetes just in the face that you're getting it you're going to go from having some insulin and
over a period of time it drops down to where your body can't make any insulin and as you're getting
really close to zero your blood sugar is going to rise that's why it's called diabetes but because
you don't have any insulin none of that Sugar can make it into the bloodstream and you can't absorb
any fuel any calories so you lose weight no matter how much you eat all you do is you urinate and
you pee out all that Sugar that's why type 1 diabetes used to be called starvation in the midst
of Plenty and people used to die from this usually at a fairly early age or so many years after they
got it today it's pretty simple we have insulin and it's very easy to figure out if you just
measure the right thing so if you do regular blood work and you actually measure both glucose and
Insulin then you will quickly figure out if this is happening because your glucose will be super
high and your insulin will be almost non-existent you could also lose weight from severe depression
and now the mechanism is that you're so depressed you don't really want to do anything and you don't
even have an appetite and one more cause for this would be IBD inflammatory bowel disease so unlike
IBS which is irritable which is more about stress inflammatory means that there's a fire going
on and the plastic cases of this are celiacs and Crohn's disease and when the tissue is so
Disturbed then it can not do its job of absorbing nutrients so now we eat things but we can't absorb
the nutrients and we just flush it straight out so all of these are very serious and they're very
different so obviously you just need to figure out what's causing it and work from there number
nine is swelling of the legs ankles and feet and swelling is also called edema and this is where
fluid leaks out of the blood vessels and into the tissue so they look puffy and this could be
caused by heart failure meaning that the heart is not strong enough to push the blood all the way
through so it pushes it weakly and now it's not strong enough to return the blood from the legs up
back into the heart so we it leaks out because we have too much fluid pooling in the lower part
of the body it could be kidney disease if the kidneys are not filtering the waste products and
the electrolytes properly now those can build up those waste products and they bind fluids so again
we have more fluid in the body a really damaged kidney can also start leaking albumin which is
your main blood protein and this protein acts as a sponge to keep the fluid in the blood vessel
and that also relates to the liver so if you have liver disease because the liver manufactures this
albumin so if the liver is really damaged now you can't make enough albumin and you can't keep the
water and the blood so there's a couple things you can do to manage the symptoms you can Elevate the
feet if you lift the feet up then gravity is going to help pull the water back to the heart or you
can use compression stockings you can add pressure and that's also going to push the fluid back
to the heart and avoid that excessive pull But realize both of these are not really going to make
you any healthier they're just going to handle the symptom they're going to improve the symptoms so
they're definitely worthwhile doing but what you really want to do is you want to start a lifestyle
to heal your heart kidney and liver hopefully there'll still be time to do that and like we
said before prevention involves reducing insulin resistance because metabolic poor health is the
cause the primary cause and we want to understand it's not 100 of the cause it's not for a hundred
percent of the people so when we say the vast majority that's what it means but there's still
other things that can cause this but for the vast majority insulin resistance causes heart disease
kidney failure and liver disease so by making sure you're metabolically healthy and insulin
sensitive that's going to be your best bet to avoid these things and again there's no substitute
for lifestyle changes but there are some products that can help these organs so if your heart kidney
and liver need some help we find that cardio plus Renafood and livaplex work really great they're
whole food products they're safe and they can support this tissue over quite some time number 10
is weakness or fatigue that simply won't go away so if you're working too hard if you don't get
enough sleep for a period of time then it's normal to be tired but if you rest you should bounce back
if this doesn't happen then that's a problem very often they simply call it chronic fatigue syndrome
and chronic simply means you have it you're tired all the time and syndrome means they can't figure
out where it's coming from and it can be very difficult because there are many different reasons
but some of these would be anemia again a lack of blood if you can't distribute oxygen you can't
make energy but it would take a pretty severe anemia Mia to cause this chronically and severely
it could also be a sleep disorder meaning that you have sleep apnea or insomnia so sleep apnea means
that you stop breathing sometime during sleep so a lot of people they can't regulate their breathing
patterns during sleep and they shut down the breathing for 30 40 50 seconds at a time and then
the brain kicks in even without them waking up and they start panting and then they start breathing
and they go through these cycles and this interferes with the quality of sleep the brain
can't really get through all those stages of sleep that helps it recover and insomnia is basically
any form of poor sleep either you can't fall asleep or you fall asleep fine but you wake up
multiple times and you're right fully awake during the night so you're not getting that quality or
amount of sleep and fatigue can also be caused by chronic stress and this is why it's so difficult
this is why chronic fatigue syndrome is so common in my opinion because chronic stress what that is
it's an ongoing sense of overwhelm and how many of us can't relate to that that no matter how much we
work there's always more stuff to do and it's hard to feel good and energetic and look forward to
that it drains us when we feel We're Never Enough so what we can do there is first of all to
identify the cause if there is an organic cause but I believe a lot of this is emotional
and psychological so if we practice feeling good then we can make it a big deal we can set a goal
I want to feel better so we pick some good books uplifting books whatever they are to you and you
start practicing mindfulness and paying attention more to the good things in life than the stressful
things in life and what can happen there is your mind can shift very very quickly I bet you that
if you're feeling really tired and somebody calls and says you just won a million dollars then I
think you'd perk up for a little bit so when we have something to look forward to we feel good
about life when we have joy and a purpose then we also have more energy now because all these
issues are super common and they're becoming more common one of the most common prescriptions is
for antidepressants a form of Psych medication and if you want a more natural verb version of that
there's a whole food product called mintran and we find this in the office when people have some
need of brain support and anxiety issues or mood issues then this can help in most cases but with
all that said you don't want to catch it early and now you're thinking have I gone completely
crazy no catching it early is better than catching it late but even better is not to
have to catch it because you never get it at all that's called prevention now in medical
circles very often they confuse the two terms they think that prevention is the same thing
as early detection but it's not early detection means you already have it prevention means you
do something to never get it and that's why I have all these videos on this channel to explain
how that works and that's also why I created the blood work course that I mentioned because if you
start understanding the body well enough and you get that blood work every year anyway but if
you understand what it means really well now you can start reading between the lines you
can understand your body and you catch things so early that they never become a problem you
see when the this markers start slipping just a little bit out of control and you understand
how they relate to each other now you really know what's going on and you can take charge
make some changes for the right reasons in the right way.
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