Speaker 1: Welcome to July twentieth, twenty twenty six. July is almost
Speaker 1: gone already, kids will start to school real soon. Got
Speaker 1: an interesting study to talk about today.
Speaker 2: It's intriguing.
Speaker 1: I wish I could give it a topic, but it's
Speaker 1: basically what your blood work's telling us, and I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be important things to listen to.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned, Hi, and welcome to.
Speaker 1: Health Talk with Doctor Lynn your daily dose. The information
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Speaker 1: to diagnose or treat any disease. Any kind of complete
Speaker 1: health conditions must be checked out and discussed with your
Speaker 1: primary care physician.
Speaker 2: Get ready for the good news of the day. God
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Speaker 1: Is doctor Lynn Our daily devotional today, July twentieth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six comes from the Book of Psalms, chapter forty two.
Speaker 1: Seek my face and you will find all that you've
Speaker 1: longed for. The deepest yearnings of your heart are for
Speaker 1: intimacy with me. I know because I signed you to
Speaker 1: desire me. Do not feel guilty about taking time to
Speaker 1: be still in my presence. You are simply responding to
Speaker 1: the tugs of divinity within you. I made you in
Speaker 1: my image, and I hid Heaven in your heart. Your
Speaker 1: learning from me as a form of homesickness, longing for
Speaker 1: your true home in heaven. Do not be afraid to
Speaker 1: be different from other people. The path I've called you
Speaker 1: to travel is exclusively for you. The more closer you
Speaker 1: follow my leading, the more fully I can develop your gifts.
Speaker 1: To follow me wholeheartedly, you must relinquish your desire to
Speaker 1: please other people.
Speaker 2: However, your closest.
Speaker 1: To me will bless others by enabling you to shine
Speaker 1: brightly in this dark world.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Seven two seven nine one six four to two one
Speaker 1: five to reach me off air. Last winter, a man
Speaker 1: named David sat down in my office and told me,
Speaker 1: in careful, measured ways of someone who has rehearsed a
Speaker 1: sentence during your drive over, that he believed he was
Speaker 1: developing dementia. He was sixty one and a retired civil engineer.
Speaker 1: David had stopped going to restaurants because he could no
Speaker 1: longer follow a conversation across the table due to difficulty hearing.
Speaker 2: He had given up driving in the.
Speaker 1: Evenings because oncoming headlights smeared his halos. Once a month
Speaker 1: or so, when he stood up from his desk, the
Speaker 1: room would tilt have to grab the door frame. His
Speaker 1: primary care doctor sent him to a specialist who ran
Speaker 1: a series of tests and told him these events were
Speaker 1: simply you're getting older. David came to me because the
Speaker 1: answer received didn't feel right, but he was afraid of
Speaker 1: what the answer might be.
Speaker 2: I told him I didn't believe he had dementia.
Speaker 1: The pattern he was describing was one I've seen many times,
Speaker 1: and rarely in patience who turned out to have what
Speaker 1: he feared. The eyes here and vestibular apparatus responsible for
Speaker 1: our sight, hearing, and balance among the first organs in
Speaker 1: the body to register with something has gone subtly wrong
Speaker 1: over years before anything shows up in the blood worker imaging.
Speaker 1: When caught at this stage, the decline in most patients
Speaker 1: is reversible. His window, I told him, was still open.
Speaker 1: In thirty years of medical practice, I've come to believe
Speaker 1: that no single specialty, Western or Eastern, conventional or alternative,
Speaker 1: can on its own slow the loss of hearing, sight,
Speaker 1: and balance. Each specialty looks at one part of a
Speaker 1: much larger picture. What I found useful is to look
Speaker 1: at multiple dimensions at the same time. I call this
Speaker 1: approach the Ace's model anatomy, chemistry, energy and soul. The
Speaker 1: structural ought anatomical integrity of the body houses the senses
Speaker 1: that biochemistry feeds them. The sleep and vital energy restore
Speaker 1: them in the unmetabolized weight of life. The grief, conflict,
Speaker 1: and fear we never fully process, can year after year,
Speaker 1: teach the senses to look away from what they don't
Speaker 1: want to see. David needed care across all four dimensions,
Speaker 1: as do most patients in this situation. First thing I
Speaker 1: want to know is something that few general practitioners mention
Speaker 1: to their patients. Your eyes, ears, and sense of balance
Speaker 1: all live inside your skull, supplied by blood, vessels and
Speaker 1: nerves that travel up through your neck and reach them.
Speaker 1: When that pathway is even slightly compressed or irritated, These
Speaker 1: senses suffer long before anything shows up on a skin.
Speaker 1: The neck does more for your hearing and vision than
Speaker 1: most people realize. Three patterns repeatedly appear in my examroom.
Speaker 1: First pattern is what I call screen bound neck. Forty
Speaker 1: years at a drafting table, fifteen years at a computer,
Speaker 1: or hours spent looking down at a phone each day.
Speaker 2: Can gradually pull the head forward.
Speaker 1: Tighten the muscles at the base of the skull, and
Speaker 1: restrict the blood float to the very tissues to power
Speaker 1: your senses. None of this is dramatic, None of it
Speaker 1: announces itself.
Speaker 2: It just happens.
Speaker 1: When he asked David to fully turn his head to
Speaker 1: the right, he couldn't something he had not noticed before.
Speaker 1: Second pattern involved old injuries the body never finished healing
Speaker 1: a rear in collision twenty years ago, a concussion from
Speaker 1: college football, or a fall in the ice that went untreated.
Speaker 1: Patients almost always tell me these are ancient history. However,
Speaker 1: the effective tissues disagree. Whiplash and similar trauma can leave
Speaker 1: behind subtle restrictions that throttle circulation and nerve signaling for years,
Speaker 1: sometimes for life. Third pattern involves the jaw. I cannot
Speaker 1: remember the last time a patient came to me with
Speaker 1: tentatus or vertigo whose dentist or physician had thought to
Speaker 1: look at their afterbite. However, dysfunction of the temporo mandibular joint,
Speaker 1: the hinge connecting the lower jawt of the skull in
Speaker 1: front of the ears. Nighttime grinding, an old bridge that
Speaker 1: had shifted an orthodonic correction has slowly relapsed. Any of
Speaker 1: these can distort the structures of the head under daily strain,
Speaker 1: year after year, in a way that affects hearing and
Speaker 1: balanced directly. The good news is that the anatomical misalignment
Speaker 1: is usually reversible. When the obstructed channel is opened, the
Speaker 1: function turns to return. I've seen patients walk out of
Speaker 1: an osteopathic cranial treatment, ATLAS correction, or an acupuncture session
Speaker 1: telling me with some surprise that the world had becomes
Speaker 1: sharper or quieter. Next thing I want to look at
Speaker 1: and the patients, they're blood because this is where the
Speaker 1: most actionable findings live. There's a reason for the shortfall.
Speaker 1: Standard Blood testing was designed to diseases and flag patients
Speaker 1: who have already fallen outside of their reference range. Was
Speaker 1: never designed to catch the slow erosion that precedes disease
Speaker 1: for years that produces the symptoms daily that David and
Speaker 1: many others experience. The first is B twelve deficiency. Hidden
Speaker 1: within the normal range. The nerves that carry signal from
Speaker 1: your eyes and ears are wrapped in protective insulation, begins
Speaker 1: to break down.
Speaker 2: When B twelve levels are low. David was one of them.
Speaker 2: His serum be twelve appeared reassuring.
Speaker 1: However, two more sensitive markers, methylmolonic acid and homocystin did not.
Speaker 1: Both are metabolic byproducts of the bodies normally clear with
Speaker 1: the help of itamin B twelve for patients with sensory
Speaker 1: or neurological symptoms often recommend testing MMA and homocystin. Second
Speaker 1: issue is sluggish cellular energy. The retina and the inner
Speaker 1: ear among the most energy demanding tissues in the entire body,
Speaker 1: which is why they're among the first of faulter. When
Speaker 1: cellular energy production declines. A surprising number of common factors
Speaker 1: can affect us. Certain collect cholesterol owering drugs, some antibiotics,
Speaker 1: chronic and some resistance and long term toxic exposure. Although
Speaker 1: this cellular energy production cannot be measured directly on a
Speaker 1: routine panel, its decline can be mitigated. Several well studied nutrients,
Speaker 1: including coenzyme Q ten, alphalopoic acid, and acetylel carnatine, have
Speaker 1: strong evidence. Third is blood shirt. Diabetes is well known
Speaker 1: to damage the eyess. Less recognized is that same damage
Speaker 1: to the small vessels feeding both organs begins long before glucose,
Speaker 1: ever enters the diabetic range.
Speaker 2: Hemoglobin A one c.
Speaker 1: The three month average of your blood SHIRER is part
Speaker 1: of a physical A reading that is still in range
Speaker 1: but creeping upwards year after year is already a signal
Speaker 1: worth acting on, particularly of people with sensory symptoms. The
Speaker 1: fourth issue is heavy metal exposure. Lead, mercury and cadmium
Speaker 1: have a particular affinity for the auditory and visual systems.
Speaker 1: Heavy metal testing is not part of a routine physical exam,
Speaker 1: and most physicians don't.
Speaker 2: Order it unless a patient requested. Anyone with unexplained vertigo,
Speaker 2: hearing loss, or.
Speaker 1: Visual disturbances, particularly with occupational environmental exposure risks, benefits from
Speaker 1: having one before being told the cause is simply aging.
Speaker 1: The third dimension of the ACES model for health and
Speaker 1: medicine is the body's energy. By energy, I mean two
Speaker 1: things at once, the modern measurable sense of cellular oxygen,
Speaker 1: blood flow, and rhythm of sleep. In the older, deeper
Speaker 1: sense of what classical medicine calls ki or ying. From
Speaker 1: the perspective of medic western medicine, the eyes and ears
Speaker 1: do not switch off when you sleep. Blood continues to
Speaker 1: flow to them and oxygen continues to arrive.
Speaker 2: The brain's nightly.
Speaker 1: Cleansing system what researchers now call the glymphatic system, keeps
Speaker 1: flushing out the metabolic waste of the previous day. The
Speaker 1: senses depend on all of this housekeeping. When it fails,
Speaker 1: even partially, the eyes and ears of the first organs
Speaker 1: to suffer untreated sleep batany is one of the most common,
Speaker 1: most overlooked. The overlap between the disciplines is exactly why
Speaker 1: no single specialty has been able to successfully slow sensory
Speaker 1: aging on its own. The fourth dimension is the hardest
Speaker 1: to measure. It's also the one I take more seriously
Speaker 1: of all four dimensions of this model.
Speaker 2: The body's not separate from the life. It's living. Patients
Speaker 2: who describe themselves as.
Speaker 1: Not wanting to see what is happening in their marriage, career,
Speaker 1: and family come into my own office with disproportion of
Speaker 1: visible decline. Visual decline more often than purely biological model
Speaker 1: would predict. Patients who have lost his spouse or received
Speaker 1: a hard diagnosis, or watching a child struggle in ways
Speaker 1: they can't fix. Patients who feel, in other words, the
Speaker 1: ground shifting beneath them develop vertigo and in balance that
Speaker 1: no inner ear pathology fully explains the biology behind. This
Speaker 1: is real and well documented. Chronic stress reduces blood flow
Speaker 1: to the inner ear. Sustained high cortisol dulls the brains
Speaker 1: processing of visual information. Trauma that has never been worked
Speaker 1: through changed to the way the nervous system interprets signals
Speaker 1: for balance.
Speaker 2: If a physician.
Speaker 1: Addresses the patient's structure, biochemistry, and energy, but leaves the
Speaker 1: emotional load untouched, the senses return only in part. David
Speaker 1: had retired six months earlier than he had planned after
Speaker 1: a long professional dispute that had not gone his way.
Speaker 2: He had not wanted to talk about it.
Speaker 1: When he finally did, he told me Elvinson passing that
Speaker 1: he had spent the last year fe like the ground
Speaker 1: and moved from underneath me. It was a phase I
Speaker 1: had heard in one form or another from hundreds of patients.
Speaker 1: His vertico was not only mechanical. Once he began addressing
Speaker 1: the emotional toll of the final working year through psychotherapy,
Speaker 1: personal closure, and reconnection with his faith, the last of
Speaker 1: his vestibular symptoms quickly resolved. Listen to that again. It's
Speaker 1: good stuff, all right, Share it with others. Please, God,
Speaker 1: bless you.