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All right guys. The next one I want to talk about, I love this. I use a lot of this, have really good luck with my patients with this herb. I use it in a form called black cumin seed. The actual product name is black cumin Seed Forte. You can get it as an oil, you can get it as a dry herb, which is the one that I use. But if you've ever heard of black seeded oil and all of the amazing things that it does, black cumin seed or black cumin seed forte that I'm using is the whole herb. It includes the oil, it includes all the other co-factors that are in there, and it has been used for well over 2000 years. You can find documents about it being used. Ngel Satia is the kind of Latin name of the plant for black coen seed.

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It's rich, it's active ingredient, it's rich in something called quinone that has nothing to do with your thyroid, but quinone. Sometimes you'll see it abbreviated as tq, but quinone is what it's called. So if you've seen my blog post on berbe...

We've got lots of people taking statin drugs these days. Arguably one of the most frequently prescribed classes of medications out there. I know they're right up there with acid blockers. You've got statin drugs, like it's millions of doses or millions of prescriptions every year without a doubt, at least here in the us. So one of the things you need to understand is that sometimes the statin drugs you're taking are just draining your energy and you take 'em, you're on 'em for a while, everything's fine, and then you just start getting more lethargic. You're crashing in the afternoon, you're not making energy like you normally do. Eating doesn't fix it. It's not low blood sugar. It just doesn't seem to make much sense. Sometimes it's because of your statin drug. Now, that doesn't mean you have to go stop your statin drug. That's not what I'm trying to say.

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But one of the things that statin drugs do is they drain your energy, but they do it for a specific ...

I had a patient come in a couple of weeks ago with an interesting situation on his blood work that I wanted to share. And this is all surrounding blood sugar, type two diabetes, A1C, that kind of stuff.

So he had had blood done at his previous doctor's office and came in for some general wellness work. And in going through reviewing his labs I noticed that there were some tests that I normally like to see that were not included in his labs. And he was told by his previous doctor that he was pre-diabetic and they had put him on metformin. So in looking through his labs and getting the new ones to fill in the blanks he had already shown up with a fasting blood sugar of about 106 and his hemoglobin A1C was sitting at 6.0. That's why he was told he was pre-diabetic.

So in doing our labs I looked at a few other things. His triglycerides were 165, which indicates that there's probably some problem with blood sugar and we already knew that, but we looked at his fasting insuli...

I want you to understand when you were born, you were little bitty. I don't know. Your mom will tell you. Five, six, seven, eight, nine pounds, something like that. Now you weigh considerably more. Let's say, I'm guessing, let's say you're 115, 120 pounds, something like that. That's a difference of over 110 pounds from when you were born. That 110 pounds did not come out of thin air. You didn't photosynthesize it. It's not sunlight. That 100 plus pounds is from what you ate. Those were the building blocks to build who you are today.

Moving forward, you need to understand and ask yourself regularly when you see your food on the plate, "Do I want to build my body out of what's on that plate? Do I want to build my body out of steak and vegetables, or do I want to build my body out of mac and cheese and some crackers? Do I want to build my body out of McDonald's or Wendy's or Taco Bell, or do I want to build my body out of chicken and vegetables?" Those are questions we al...

Magnesium deficiency is probably the second most common nutritional deficiency in the industrialized world, right? Definitely in the us. Um, it, it kind of goes back and forth with vitamin D depending on who you talk to, but that's how it made its way onto our foundational five. We find magnesium deficiency in, I probably, I would say 50 or 60% of the patients in which we test magnesium. If they're not already supplementing with it, they end up being deficient in it. Um, vitamin D is probably a little bit higher than that. Um, and, and I don't know if that's just because more people are supplementing with magnesium, but it's an issue. So real quick testing for magnesium, uh, very specific test. You will get a magnesium test a lot of times in your regular lab work, but it is a serum magnesium test. The normal range will be somewhere between probably one and three, something like that.

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Um, and, and that's not an appropriate test for magnesium. It's accurate...

Next on our list of the foundational five is vitamin D. I've done videos on vitamin D in the past. Please go find them. Um, they're gonna have more information than I can put in this video here, but I'm gonna give you kind of a, a, a rapid overview on vitamin D. So, vitamin D, anti-inflammatory, anti autoimmune, immune regulating, anti-cancer, um, not directly, but helps our body do all these things, right? It supports our body's natural mechanisms for doing all these things. Um, so very important to have. It's generally considered the most, if not in the top two. Uh, magnesium being the other, uh, nutritional deficiencies in our bodies. Uh, we make vitamin D from the sun. Sun has to hit our skin, not really showing your skin there and interact with cholesterol. And that makes the first conversion that it has to go to the liver, get converted to the kidneys, get converted, then you finally get active vitamin D.

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So it's a multi-step process. Um, and there'...

So next on our list of the foundational five, we've already talked about multivitamins, we've talked about fish oil. This video, we're gonna talk about probiotics. And the next couple of videos we'll handle vitamin D and magnesium. So probiotics, those are the good bacteria that are supposed to be in our gut. Now, a couple of misconceptions about probiotics. Many people feel that when you take a probiotic, you are trying to colonize the gut with what you're taking. I mean, it wouldn't be bad if that happened. I think probably a little bit of that happens. But by and large, the reason you take a probiotic is that on its way through your system, while it's temporarily in there, it changes the environment somewhat. Those bacteria that you put in there, and sometimes nutritional yeast that you put in there, they ferment your food on their way through, and the byproducts of that fermentation set up an environment that's advantageous for your normal flora to kind of gro...

Continuing the foundational five series. The last video I did was on multivitamins. If you didn't catch it, look around wherever you're seeing this video and you'll find it. Today. I'm talking about the second component of the foundational five, and that's ul. So it as a recap, the foundational five generally supplements that I think everybody would benefit from. Same disclaimers I did on the last video. I'm not giving you medical advice. Take notes on what I'm telling you. If some of this is of interest or you think you want to take one of these, if there's any question about whether it's relevant for you or not, or safe for you or not, speak to your functional medicine practitioner, um, your nutritionist, somebody that understands supplementation. Alright? If you ask your regular family doctor about supplements, they may or may not have any knowledge at all about supplements in the information yet may be less relevant than what you're getting here, even though I...

To me, there are five main supplements that, that I kind of call my foundational five that almost everybody would benefit from taking. Now I say almost everybody, so understand real quick disclaimer, I'm not giving you medical advice. I don't know your specific situation, so take notes on what I'm gonna say and know that these are generally good for everybody, but there may be some special circumstances for you. So discuss that with your functional medicine doctor or your clinician practitioner who's knowledgeable about nutrition and supplementation. Your regular family practice doctor might not know much of anything about supplementation and they're not always the best, um, resource for whether or not you should or can be taking something, find someone knowledgeable about supplementation. So that being said, the foundational five for me, uh, it's gonna consist of number one, a multivitamin of some sort, fish oil, probiotics, vitamin D, and magnesium.

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