Body Symptoms And Diagnosis - User Manual For Humans S1 E09 - Dr Ekberg

Good evening and welcome once more to user manual for humans part 9 and for

those who have missed the previous eight parts they are all on my website and

YouTube so you can the easiest place to find them is my website today we will

talk about symptoms and body responses are they intelligent are they stupid or

are they random chance because most of the diseases if you go to the hospital

or you check a Merck Manual or you check the list of diseases and syndromes about

half of them or so they're gonna call them primary or essential and that means

that they have no cause that is what they mean they say essential

hypertension means we have no idea where it came from and we've talked about that

earlier in a lot of detail but we'll touch on it today as well everything in

the body happens for a reason we have to believe and understand that so we will

go through and show you whether symptoms and body responses are an intelligent

stupid or random chance we'll cover what health is we'll cover what diseases we

will talk a little bit about ecosystems we'll talk about adaptation homeostasis

and aloe stasis so big words but don't worry they're pretty simple we've talked

a lot about these in previous previous talks and if it seems like we're

repeating some things yes we are and that's on purpose because the more that

you understand the common theme of something the more

that you will see a common thread that things will repeat in in physics they're

trying to find the unified field theory they're trying to find one x one

equation that explains everything because once you've found that one thing

that explains everything then you don't have to look much further and that's

basically what we're doing we're finding the the unified field system in the body

if you will and the biggest problem that we have in healthcare today is the

illusion of materialism and that illusion is that everything that is

solid is more real than things that are not so that means we believe in in

matter and molecules and and tissue more than we believe in signals and

information and magnetism and so forth if materialism is basically when what

they're doing in healthcare is they're looking at the physical parts and trying

to understand function and they're looking at effects to try to

determine causes instead of understanding will cause and effect us

they're starting at the wrong end because they're looking at the physical

body and the physical body is an effect it's an end result of something else so

here's a question for you how many would here would look at the

parts of a computer to try to understand why the program is doing what it's doing

it makes no sense right you won't do that and yet when it comes to health and

the body we always start at the wrong end so to

disperse some of these these misconceptions that's why we do all

these these different series and that is the common theme and that that we're

dealing with so what is health the simplest way of explaining health is

it's when everything works makes sense right

it's so simple that we miss it because the opposite of that means that disease

is when something doesn't work and we'll get back to this and I'll repeat myself

a lot but I'm trying to drive home some really really fundamental points so what

is it that we want to work well you have all these variables to have this

biochemistry you have physiology in the body pH blood pressure blood sugar

minerals muscle tone hormones and enzymes they all have to be maintained

within very strict limits if your pH varies even by a percentage point you'll

be dead I don't remember the exact values but it's very very narrow range

of values same holds true for all of these blood pressure blood sugar

minerals they all have to be made and something is maintaining those for

you they're not happening by random chance there's something monitoring and

making that happen and when everything works and is maintained we call this

homeostasis that simply means it's a big word that means keeping things the same

and that is the most important thing about health and when things like blood

pressure and blood sugar start leaving that ideal range that's when we have

diseases we have cardiovascular disease and strokes and diabetes and so forth

the first part is the body's ability to maintain these variables the second part

is to vary those in a controlled way so blood pressure and rest should not be

the same as blood pressure when we exercise but once we stop exercising we

want the blood pressure to come back down and if it doesn't that is a problem

and that means the body can't tell the difference between stress and rest and

we have to help the body relearn that so let's talk about some things here and

once your once what we're trying to show you is basically that there is no such

thing as disease and bear with me before you laugh me out of here because

although you say oh well of course disease exists we're going to look at it

a little bit differently and we'll see that disease is really nothing more than

the body adapting to your environment it is normal adaptive physiology so it's

not the body that's wrong but it's something in the environment so let's

look at exercise its normal during exercise for your blood pressure and

your heart rate to increase but if the blood pressure stays up when without

this stress work then that's called hypertension and it

leads to all sorts of problems so on the one hand it's a normal physiological

function on the other hand it becomes a disease State you have decreased immune

function during stress that's normal because if you have something chasing

you your immune system is not going to help you against whatever is chasing so

your body shuts it down but if it does it when there's no danger around now you

have a depressed immune system and you're more susceptible to things like

colds and flus and pneumonia and even cancer because all of those are immune

immune system problems what happens during stress is that the body will stop

making as much stomach acid and that again makes sense because stomach acid

is not going to help you against whatever's attacking you but if you

can't make stomach acid when there's no external danger now you can't digest

food properly because there's a purpose that you have stomach acid stomach acid

is not a stupid mistake on Nature Park it is there to digest food so if you

can't make stomach acid now you start having things like ulcers and leaky gut

and malnutrition and allergies and all sorts of things so a normal

physiological response on the one side becomes a disease or a health problem

when it's out of context what if you go to high altitude then

your body will start to increase the number of red blood cells so you have

more oxygen carrying capacity and that's a normal response this it'll start

within a few minutes but it'll take a few weeks for it to to complete and then

find that the proper level for that altitude yet if you have if you make

those red blood cells without having the altitude without being at high altitude

now that's called polycythemia and it's a serious health problem because your

blood gets too thick and it loses some other properties that it's supposed to

have you will have more blood clotting your blood clotting ability like we

talked about when you're being chased by something your blood clots easier so

that you can close a wound but if your blood clots easier when when you're not

having any any reason now you've become more susceptible to strokes and and and

blood clot so obviously if your insulin sensitivity goes down during stress

that's a normal response because you want your blood sugar up so you can run

away but if you do this at the wrong time you're setting yourself up for

diabetes if you can't get an erection where the bullets flying around you

that's perfectly normal because that's not gonna help you much right but if you

maintain the same level of stress when the bullets aren't flying now it's

called erectile dysfunction and you have a problem with procreation

so are you seeing how everything I've talked about is a normal physiological

response given a stressful or a certain circumstance but when we maintain that

response in a different context it becomes a serious health problems and

even accounts so far we've covered about 99% of all the diseases that people

suffer from okay so I've said this stuff before but saying it from a slightly

different viewpoint to help you see that these are perfectly normal responses and

the problem is not in the body it's in the environment and it's in the body's

perception of the environment hands up everybody on all the responses that I

described are they due to intelligence stupidity or random chance

let's see hands up for intelligence

nobody's passing all right so it is intelligence it's not stupidity it's not

random chance these things don't happen for no reason

okay so let's see a little more class participation next time so we're

throwing in a cartoon here business doctor talking to his patient and he

says we can't find anything wrong with you so we're going to treat you for

symptom deficit disorder I love this guy now let's talk a little bit about

ecosystems what what is an ecosystem an ecosystem is could be really really

small it can be an amoeba in a pond that amoeba is a tiny ecosystem in itself

your body is an ecosystem a fish in a lake the fish is an ecosystem and the

lake is a bigger ecosystem and our whole planet is a very large ecosystem so

ecosystem is a place where there's different variables cooperating and all

participating in making something happen and all those variables are necessary to

complete the picture to a degree so now let's say that we have a lake and for a

few decades we've been dumping petroleum and heavy metals and pesticides and

toxic waste into this lake and now the fish are dying so we can't enjoy our

little sport fishing and pull the legs out over the fish now because they're

they're dying away how many people here think that we can make we can help the

fish in that lake by adding some chemicals

to the lake okay you think we should just we'll throw in a ton of aspirin or

Tylenol in the lake that should do it right there they're sick they need

tylenol obviously or maybe they need blood pressure medication right or maybe

we can invent some really really specific chemical that can suppress

their symptoms or the fish gonna get healthier no because they're part of a

unhealthy ecosystem and they're not going to get any healthier until we

start reversing the factors that brought the problem in the first place so why

when we laugh I talked about the fish and throwing chemicals in the lake and

everybody laughs why don't we laughs when we suggest that for humans how come

we think it's a good idea for humans to add chemicals to their toxic ecosystem

isn't that amazing and we do it all the time and we have a two trillion dollar

health care system that thinks the problem is you don't have enough

chemicals there's not enough chemicals in your body we need to add a few to get

you healthy it's ludicrous how do you heal an ecosystem you reduce or remove

the factors that interfere with the function in the first place if it's

toxins to get the toxins out if it's stressed with humans you get the stress

down if it's too much sugar too much pesticides too much heavy metals you

reduce all of those that's the first then you restore the function to that

prior to degeneration so you have to get the body cells up and working the brain

cells the muscle cells all of the organ cells they need to be helped back up and

that's what we talked about what chiropractic does we talked about that

in other sessions that you nervous system need rebuilding and that's what

we help with then you need to provide conditions that support the ecosystem

you need nutrients water light oxygen carbon dioxide you need biodiversity and

symbiosis and all those good things which happens by the way both in the

lake and inside us you have as many bacteria in your gut as you have cells

in your body there's hundreds of trillions of cells bacteria in your gut

and they're working with you for the most part if you eat proper food and

don't take antibiotics so it's all about it's all about balance now let's just

talk real quick about homeostasis Alice basis and adaptation homeostasis is

simply the ability of the body to maintain values within a narrow range

from number seven here so an example would be blood pressure at rest we want

to have a blood pressure of 120 over 80 we want to have a heart rate of about 55

to 65 beats per minute and we want to have a body temperature of 98.6 degrees

give or take a couple of tenths that's normal homeostasis physiology at

rest then a low stasis talks about the ability to change

these values temporarily quickly and temporarily so that we can deal with

what's going on around us so if we're exercising our heart rate could go up

our blood pressure could go up to 200 over 150 that's they addressed

that's a lethally high blood pressure but during exercise it's normal you're

supposed to have it you have to have it in order to get the blood to the body

parts that during the work your heart rate might go up to 120 or 180 beats per

minute even and your body temperature would also go up a degree or so I put

98.6 to 104 that's not during exercise that's during making an infection so a

bacterial infection could be a temporary condition that allows your apple stasis

to raise your body temperature to 100 and 203 not any higher than hundred for

because then that becomes lethal too to deal with that situation and then

adaptation that's a more long-term process so in homeostasis and aloe

stasis you're not really changing your DNA you're not changing your body

structure you're just changing a few variables around but in adaptation now

you're changing your body physically - you're expressing your DNA

me to adopt to a new environment so that means if you go to the gym and lift

weights you're going to put on more muscle so that you body can deal with

that stress better in the future if you go to high altitude you increase your

red blood cells if you start putting more weight on in the weight room you'll

start building stronger bones so that they can deal with it and so forth let's

see a show of hands is this any of this random chance if any of this stupid is

any of this intelligent yes good class

good so now we go to slide number eight and this is the we'll spend some time

here I'm repeating myself but we're going to talk about it from a little bit

different perspective again so this is the order of responsiveness and the body

and we'll tie this into what will will end it a little bit differently so you

see the point of this so if you do exercise what's the first thing or even

if you just you're standing at the bottom of the stairs and you know in

five seconds I have to climb the stairs then your brain reacts to that reality

it perceives that reality and it says we will need more blood it activates the

reticular activating system in the brain that starts this cascade of events and

we need more blood so we activate what's called the HPA axis that's your

hypothalamus your pituitary and your adrenal glands to make more adrenaline

so that you can change your physiology incline

the stairs and this adrenaline causes vasoconstriction it makes your blood the

muscles in your blood vessels contract so that your blood vessels get thinner

and your blood starts going faster and your blood pressure goes up and the

blood goes out to the muscles that's the whole sequence of what happens from the

the awareness that you need to exercise until your body has responded with the

appropriate physiology let's do the one about high altitude you get to high

altitude what do we know about high altitude if the air is thinner there's

less oxygen what did you say those nosebleeds there you go you're good yeah

yeah and because there's less oxygen we're gonna have less saturation of

oxygen on our red blood cells so that's gonna create a deficiency in oxygen

saturation so now the body needs to compensate what does the body do it

perceives the need for more oxygen it starts a neuro the nervous system

talks to the endocrine system and starts a cascade they release a hormone called

erythropoietin and it's a hormone that you release all the time because blood

cells only live about 3 to 4 months so you need to make new ones all the time

you make billions every day trillions every day but at high altitude

you need to make a little more so your body releases more erythro bleeding to

stack the odds in your favor so now you make more red blood cells than normal

and you increase your oxygen capacity your oxygen carrying capacity so we have

we have a condition of high-altitude that leads to a physiological change

- an adaptation to a different expression of your DNA if you will let's

look at one more gravity so gravity causes deformation of tissues it pulls

stuff down and this gives us the need for bones if we didn't have gravity we

wouldn't need bones or not nearly as much of them rather we start this neuro

endocrine activity and we release something called calcitonin calcitonin

is a hormone that shows the calcium into the bones it makes calcium deposits in

bones and it makes the bones stronger we increase the bone density in response to

the gravity so again all of these things are normal physiological responses the

body is just perceiving a need and it's responding to that need but if it

perceives this out of proportion or inappropriately now we have a so-called

disease on our hands if we don't have enough bone density then that's called

osteoporosis because we haven't put enough bone we haven't put enough weight

on our bones and we may have some calcium imbalances not so much

deficiencies but rather just ineffective use by the body to deal with it and it

can go the other way - if we have too much of this response from this gravity

response then we have other diseases where we make the bones too thick and

then they get brittle and they actually don't work very well either

that's called osteopetrosis and Paget's these and things like that so everything

is about balance in the body it's about perceived need and about physiological

adaptations and your body is only responding to what it believes that you

need given the situation is any of this random chance is any of this stupid is

all of this intelligence very good

barely barely leading you on at all because no one hears here's the kicker

here's the whole point of this slide you see that that dashed line across the

bottom this is when you take a drug when you take a medication this is where the

drug has its effect if you take a drug for against blood pressure it goes in

right between the adrenaline and the receptor that causes vasoconstriction so

you can block if you have high blood pressure and you take the drug and the

doctor tells you oh don't worry about the high blood pressure we'll just give

you this pill and your blood pressure will be normal no problem anymore

they are not telling you the truth that should be malpractice because they're

not fixing the problem they're not changing the body's perceived need

they're not changing the stress response they're not changing the imbalance all

they're changing is from the dotted line and down they're blocking the expression

meantime your body is just as unbalanced and in as much stress as it was before

and this problem will express itself somewhere else

it is exactly like you're driving in your car and the oil light comes on and

you say well I don't like that oil light I'm going to put a little piece of tape

on it or I'm going to click snip the wire the oil light wasn't the problem so

if you block the oil light if you block the indicator then the problem will get

worse and show up somewhere else always okay so the same thing was true for all

of these a dotted line is right between the hormone and the receptor that causes

the body response that's the place where drugs work and therefore drugs are

appropriate in the emergency room if you have excruciating pain if you have

broken bones take some drugs get out of pain but the drugs cannot get you

healthy the drugs can only block the expression they cannot change your

physiology for the better okay now number nine we will talk about light and

dark anybody know what light and dark is

the point I'm trying to make is light is something that has measurable properties

okay you turn on the lights you can bring out a light meter you can measure

the intensity you can measure how many photons are coming off you can measure

the frequency the color the wavelength you can measure all sorts of things

about this light because it has properties now you go into a dark room

and you turn on that light meter or any other instrument and with darkness there

is nothing to measure darkness does not exist we talk about darkness we believe

there's such a thing as darkness but darkness doesn't really exist

darkness is nothingness it's only a absence of light so this is really

crucial it's it's really basic analogy but it's so crucial to get this health

and function has measurable properties there's things about health that we can

measure there is there's brain output there's electricity brainwaves there's

signals there's communication there's all sorts of things happening as a

result of proper function there's a facilitation there's inhibition things

turning on and off this is function when all of that works we have health

therefore health is something that is measurable but just like darkness is

nothing more than the absence of light disease is nothing more than the absence

of function so disease is a made-up thing it doesn't just like darkness it

doesn't really exist if only shows up when something isn't working

just like darkness is only present when there's no light there and this is so

key to understand that if you're chasing diseases you're chasing shadows they

don't exist you can never get to the source of the problem by looking at the

disease you have to get to the source so down at the bottom this this is so

important I hope you put this somewhere and frame it to blow it up you cannot

create health by removing symptoms anymore than you can brighten the room

by removing darkness I mean when you look at it that way it's so obvious and

yet there's not one in a thousand people in this society that understands what I

just said well that that knows that before they came here

all right so brings us to the last part tune and glass Bergen is wonderful guy

looking at a television set that says the commercial says ask your doctor if

placebos are right for you and that is the only doctor that I would go to that

prescribes placebos if you enjoyed what we talked about

please let someone know about this I enjoy doing this but the greater purpose

of this is to provide a community service to let people know because most

people in our society today die and suffer because they don't understand

what we talked about they don't understand health they don't

understand stress and they think that pills can do something good

and because of this they suffer and they die by the millions so getting this word

out even if you are healthy right now you know 50 people that need to know

this stuff so share the information with them and that concludes our presentation

thank you all very much for coming and I'll be happy to take any questions