10 Signs Your Body Is Crying Out For Help

Hello Health Champions. Did you know that  signs and symptoms can be your best friend.  

I mean your body is amazingly smart, so signs and  symptoms don't appear for no good reason. If your  

body was really stupid then it might just get  a little bit out of balance and then completely  

shut down sort of like a car might do. One day it  starts and the next day it doesn't. But your body  

doesn't do that it keeps going and going and along  the way it gives you little hints called signs and  

symptoms to let you know when it's time to change  something. When it would like a little help. So  

these signs and symptoms are warning signs. They're  trying to tell us something and the first step is  

to recognize them but if that's all we do we can  still get in trouble because a lot of people they  

just recognize it and now they're fearful. They  worry what does this mean but they don't take  

the time to understand it and if that goes on  now they get paranoid and they start looking for  

every little sign and symptom and that's called  a hypochondriac you're looking for disease and  

that's obviously not what we want. In general the  responses to my videos are overwhelmingly positive,  

but there's also some people who don't take the  time to watch them all the way through, and some of  

these people call me a fear mongerer. They say my  life was perfectly fine until you came along and  

explained how I can improve it. Well the problem is  that if we don't understand these things, then it  

can lead to fear, and that's why I do my videos  the way I do, with some context and explanation,  

because once you understand the context of things  now you start trusting your body. You understand  

that it has the mechanisms to turn these things  around and over time you develop a confidence  

in your body and that's one of the most  powerful things that you can have because now  

you understand that not only can it reverse the  sign and the symptom in the vast majority of cases  

but you can get it up to an even better level than  it was before. Pale skin and nails. And there's a  

million things that can cause pale skin but if  it also happens to be with brittle nails now we  

start looking a little bit extra and if this also  happens with pretty consistent chronic fatigue  

now we want to start thinking and what do  these things have in common? And in this case  

very commonly we would suspect anemia and that  means lack of blood. "Emia" means blood and "An" means  

lack of, or not enough of. So the color of the  skin comes from two things it comes from pigment  

but it also comes from oxygenated blood. When your  blood carries a lot of oxygen it gets a deeper  

red than when it's lower in oxygen so then  does that mean that the pale skin is simply  

that there's less oxygen in the blood. No   it goes one step further than that because when  

we have anemia when we don't have enough oxygen  in the blood now the body has to reprioritize.  

This super intelligent body realizes that you  have some vital organs like your heart and your  

liver and your kidneys and your pancreas that  you would die really quickly if they didn't work.  

So it shunts the blood toward these vital organs  and it causes something called vasoconstriction  

and into the vital organs. So now you have pale  skin because the blood doesn't reach the skin  

and if you understand this mechanism then you  see why this would also cause the common cold  

hands and feet in people who are anemic. So we want  to learn to think about these mechanisms a little  

bit so what causes lack of blood? Well, either  you're not making enough or you're losing too much  

and the primary causes for not making enough is if  you don't have enough iron because the red in the  

blood cell comes from hemoglobin which is an iron  containing compound, but if you're also missing b12  

or folic acid then you also cannot make these red  blood cells properly, so then you're not making  

enough. But there could also be a number of other  things dozens hundreds of things like autoimmune  

diseases, infection, medication, chemotherapy and  a vast array of other diseases that are just  

interfering with the normal metabolic processes in  the body. The most common reason for losing blood  

is heavy periods which obviously is for  females only. In males the number one cause  

is ulcers and these can be caused by stress  that can be caused by medications things that  

increase the permeability of your digestive  tract and then you can lose blood through  

your digestive tract but you could also lose  them from excess destruction and this would be  

things like sickle cell anemia or thalassemia or  other inborn errors where you're not making normal  

blood cells. There's something wrong with them  they're irregularly shaped and if they're not  

normal they don't live as long so they get taken  out of circulation much faster and that's another  

reason why it's very difficult to make enough when  they're being destroyed very quickly. Here's a very  

serious one so if you're getting vision problems  suddenly if you get something like double vision  

if you get blind spots or even if like a half  or a quarter of your visual field is different  

or even absent. If you have sudden big changes  like numbness you lose sensation in a whole  

limb if you get weakness or even paralysis in a  whole limb then that's obviously a huge problem  

and it could also be that you have loss  of balance or you could have confusion  

and irritability. So what do all of these have  in common? It is that they affect the brain  

and the brain is low in oxygen but it's not just  low it is basically completely deprived of oxygen  

in certain areas so these are dramatic changes  with quick onset. And now we want to think of a TIA 

or a stroke. And TIA  stands for transient ischemic  attack. Transient means it's short-term or  

temporary ischemic means that there's a loss of  oxygen supply because a lack of blood circulation.   

So what happens here is that a blood vessel might  have an obstruction of some sort or a narrowing  

already and then we have a lump of something  called an embolus that gets stuck and that can  

mostly or completely obstruct the blood flow  so now there is an area of the brain that has  

a complete loss of blood supply and oxygen. And if  we're fortunate then this is transient and that  

means it's short term that by some mechanism this  blockage comes undone and the blood starts flowing  

again and now we can have a complete recovery. So  if the blockage is only for a few minutes or if  

it's partial and only for an hour or a few hours  now there's a chance of full recovery, but we still  

want to take this very very seriously because  a TIA  is also called a pre-stroke. They know  

that the mechanisms that lead up to a TIA  are  the same ones the circumstances are the same  

that eventually lead to strokes so if people  start having transient ischemic attacks  

very often they'll start happening more often  and eventually there will be a full stroke.  

And a stroke is basically the same thing but it  creates permanent damage so now we have a blockage  

that either stays there and doesn't go away or  there's a rupture of a blood vessel so that the  

blood can't get where it's supposed to. And while  this damage is permanent these cells that are  

damaged and die they don't come back. There's  still some potential for improvement because  

through very very patient rehab we can actually  rewire the brain. The brain can start sending these  

synapses and these pathways to other healthy areas  that can start take over that function. But we want  

to understand that both of these are medical  emergencies because even if you're fortunate  

enough that it is transient you do not have time  to sit around and figure out if it's going to get  

better. You want to get into an emergency room  immediately and of course the best thing is to  

prevent this to make it never happen and the way  to do that is to do everything else that I talk  

about in my videos. I talk about how to assist the  body in restoring the best possible health and the  

biggest challenge that we have is sugar, insulin  and metabolic syndrome. These result in diabetes  

and high blood pressure which is the number  one cause of stroke and the way to prevent it  

is to reduce sugar, insulin and get nutritious food.  Sign number six is called pitting edema. So edema  

is swelling and pitting edema means that you push  into the swelling and when you take your finger  

away it leaves a big dent that doesn't go away  for a few minutes. Number seven is rapid heartbeat  

and what might these have in common. Well if  you see both of these then you want to suspect  

low albumin and albumin is the main protein in  the bloodstream. And why is it there well primarily  

to act as a sponge because blood has blood  pressure and if there wasn't something to pull  

the fluid back into the blood vessel then it would  leak out of the blood vessel because of the higher  

pressure inside the arteries. And if we're losing  the albumin now that water just starts leaking out  

into the surrounding tissue causing edema. But how  then would it also cause a rapid heartbeat? Well  

if we're losing fluid if the water that's  supposed to be in the bloodstream now ends  

up in the surrounding tissue then our total blood  volume goes down and the body has to compensate by  

increasing the heart rate to work harder to pump  that blood around because it simply has less  

volume. So just like with anemia we have to ask are  we not making enough or are we losing too much. So  

if we are low on protein it could be because  we are insufficient in protein in the diet, but  

that is extremely rare especially in the western  world where we see most of the edema. You could  

actually have a poor digestion if you're eating  enough protein but you're not breaking it down  

then it never ends up where it's supposed to go  and the first step in digesting protein is called  

hydrochloric acid. Hypochlorhydria is when  you don't have enough hydrochloric acid and  

interestingly even with millions and millions of  people who have heartburn meaning the sensation  

of too much stomach acid, they're actually low  in stomach acid because if they had enough then  

they would digest the food and it would move on  and would never have time to start burning and  

irritating. But then we really want to start  appreciating how the body is connected how  

everything works together. So one of the causes  of low hydrochloric acid is if you're hypothyroid,  

because your thyroid is like your thermostat.  It's your metabolic driver and if the thyroid  

slows down everything else in the body slows down  including the production of hydrochloric acid. And  

now if the thyroid is low that could be because  your pituitary is low because the pituitary makes  

something to stimulate the thyroid to do what it  does. So those are reasons we might be low on the  

intake but we could also not be making enough  so the liver is who makes this albumin and if  

the liver has too much trouble with other things  like fatty liver or liver cirrhosis or hepatitis  

or some other severe stress now it's going  to be too busy with other things to be making  

proper amounts of albumin. We could also be  losing albumin through the digestive tract  

called protein-losing enteropathy so enteropathy  simply means sick on the inside. So your digestive  

tract is supposed to absorb protein you take the  big proteins you break them down into small amino  

acids and then you absorb them, but if you have  some severe digestive disorders like Crohn's  

disease, Celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease  where there's just basically a war zone and  

lots and lots of inflammation now you're going  to get so much intestinal permeability that  

some of this albumin can actually leak the other  way. It's supposed to go from the digestive tract  

lumen into the bloodstream but if your digestive  tract is really shot it can start leaking  

the other way and now we're losing protein that  way. So here we're basically talking about severe  

cases of leaky gut which i've talked about in  other videos and also what drives this a lot are  

food allergies food sensitivities food intolerance  and one of the top contenders there is grain  

so one more reason to avoid grains and sugar  and eat the best whole food you can. Number eight  

is brain fog and that is getting so common  that a lot of people think that well maybe  

that's just supposed to be there maybe we're not  supposed to function any better than that. A lot  

of people come into my clinic with brain fog and  they're going to also complain of low motivation  

of poor focus of low energy and anxiety that  they can't control. So what do these have in  

common is the frontal lobe the frontal portion  of the brain is responsible for motivation  

for keeping you on track for forward planning.  And therefore it's also responsible for focus. 

When your energy is low it's very often  because you don't have focus you're not sure  

what to do you don't have the motivation and that  affects energy as well and the reason that your  

anxiety is poorly controlled is that your brain  is primarily inhibitory. 80-90%  

of what the frontal lobe does is to turn things  off to inhibit them to silence the noise. So  

lack of focus is basically that you can't control  the noise. All of the distractions are getting  

louder and the brain can't silence it. Same thing  with anxiety anxiety is basically noise it's  

unwanted thought and when the frontal lobe can't  silence it, now it is uncontrolled. Now if we want  

to understand the causes of a weak frontal  lobe we have to ask what are the needs what  

are the requirements of a functioning frontal  lobe and it needs three things. It needs fuel,  

oxygen and stimulation. So stimulation is basically  making the brain do something. Use it or lose it.  

And if we make it do something now it's going  to require some fuel and it's going to need  

some oxygen to turn that fuel into energy. But if  we have anemia - see how these things come around  

again? If we don't have enough healthy red blood  cells to deliver the oxygen now we can't turn that  

fuel into energy and now we are not firing on all  cylinders so this stimulation is actually going  

to break down that frontal lobe instead of rebuild  it now it's going to stress that frontal lobe. And  

another reason we're not making enough energy here  could be that we also have a hypothyroid so it  

really makes you appreciate how all these pieces  work together. But assuming that we have a proper  

fuel delivery then the number one thing that we  can do for the frontal lobe is to stimulate it.  

And the stimulation we're talking about comes from  movement movement provides 90 percent or more of  

all stimulation, all the signals all the juice  that keeps the brain alive. Use it or lose it.  

And that is why I will talk about exercise and  movement as a part of health every chance that  

I get. Now it starts to get really interesting.  number nine is insomnia and I can't tell you  

how common this is there's virtually nobody that  gets proper quality sleep or enough sleep anymore.  

And number 10 is stretch marks what could they  possibly have to do with each other? Well, let's  

talk about it. So insomnia has to do with the  hormone called melatonin, and stretch marks have  

to do with the hormone called cortisol, and bear  with me we're going to get this totally clear.  

You're going to love it. And melatonin regulates  your circadian rhythms - your sleep rhythms, whereas  

the purpose of cortisol is to raise your glucose.  And cortisol is a stress hormone so any time that  

you have stress your body perceives a challenge of  some sort and in order to rise to that challenge  

it anticipates the need for more fuel and the  quickest form of fuel is glucose. Now the way these  

two hormones work together is that cortisol pretty  much completely shuts off the effect of melatonin  

so for example in the morning there's something  called dawn phenomenon that a couple of hours  

before you're supposed to wake up in the morning  while you're still asleep, your body makes a little  

extra cortisol to raise the glucose to get you  ready for the day. To alert you a little bit. But  

at the same time this increased cortisol inhibits  counteracts the melatonin so that when one goes  

up the other goes down and now you can't sleep  anymore. So there's two ways this affects your  

sleep because when you're stressed very often that  manifests as racing thoughts you can't shut your  

mind down. You have too many things to worry about  and now you can't get into a state where you can  

fall asleep. But that stress also that racing  thought that also increases cortisol so not  

only can you not get into a proper state but this  cortisol also shuts off melatonin. So what about  

stretch marks how can that fit in? Well, cortisol  as we said has the purpose of increasing glucose  

but if you're not eating anything right now where  does that glucose come from? It's being made from  

something else, and in this case protein.  And one of the proteins in the skin  

is called collagen. So with high cortisol you're  going to break down more collagen, turn it into  

glucose to deal with that stress response, and now  you get the stretch marks because the skin loses  

its integrity. So the stretch marks could be  from an increased breakdown from high cortisol,  

or again we want to think about what if it is that  we're not making enough. Just like the albumen what  

if we're not eating enough protein? What if  we're not digesting enough protein? What if  

we are low in hydrochloric acid? What if we're low  in hydrochloric acid because we have hypothyroid?  

Maybe that hypothyroid is because the pituitary  isn't working right and maybe that pituitary  

isn't working right because cortisol blunts  it makes the pituitary a little desensitized

to the different hormones in the body. So you can  see how everything in the body fits together and  

that's why we're talking about holistic health and  that's why it's so silly to just look for a list  

and say here is the symptom. What do I take for  that? That's a short term idea and it's getting  

more and more irrelevant as we're getting more  toxic more stressed than those simple cookbook  

solutions just don't work anymore. If you enjoy  this video you're going to love that one, and if  

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