10 Serious Body Signs You Shouldn't Ignore

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.  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 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. And now. Go watch that video to learn  about some other important signs, and if you want  

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