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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to July twentieth, twenty twenty six. July is almost

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<v Speaker 1>gone already, kids will start to school real soon. Got

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<v Speaker 1>an interesting study to talk about today.

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<v Speaker 2>It's intriguing.

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<v Speaker 1>I wish I could give it a topic, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>basically what your blood work's telling us, and I think

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<v Speaker 1>it's going to be important things to listen to.

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<v Speaker 2>Stay tuned, Hi, and welcome to.

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<v Speaker 1>Health Talk with Doctor Lynn your daily dose. The information

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<v Speaker 1>you hear on the show is informational. It's not meant

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<v Speaker 1>to diagnose or treat any disease. Any kind of complete

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<v Speaker 1>health conditions must be checked out and discussed with your

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<v Speaker 1>primary care physician.

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<v Speaker 2>Get ready for the good news of the day. God

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<v Speaker 2>bless you, folks, And here.

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<v Speaker 1>Is doctor Lynn Our daily devotional today, July twentieth, twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty six comes from the Book of Psalms, chapter forty two.

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<v Speaker 1>Seek my face and you will find all that you've

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<v Speaker 1>longed for. The deepest yearnings of your heart are for

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<v Speaker 1>intimacy with me. I know because I signed you to

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<v Speaker 1>desire me. Do not feel guilty about taking time to

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<v Speaker 1>be still in my presence. You are simply responding to

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<v Speaker 1>the tugs of divinity within you. I made you in

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<v Speaker 1>my image, and I hid Heaven in your heart. Your

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<v Speaker 1>learning from me as a form of homesickness, longing for

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<v Speaker 1>your true home in heaven. Do not be afraid to

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<v Speaker 1>be different from other people. The path I've called you

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<v Speaker 1>to travel is exclusively for you. The more closer you

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<v Speaker 1>follow my leading, the more fully I can develop your gifts.

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<v Speaker 1>To follow me wholeheartedly, you must relinquish your desire to

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<v Speaker 1>please other people.

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<v Speaker 2>However, your closest.

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<v Speaker 1>To me will bless others by enabling you to shine

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<v Speaker 1>brightly in this dark world.

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<v Speaker 2>Stay tuned.

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<v Speaker 1>Seven two seven nine one six four to two one

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<v Speaker 1>five to reach me off air. Last winter, a man

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<v Speaker 1>named David sat down in my office and told me,

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<v Speaker 1>in careful, measured ways of someone who has rehearsed a

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<v Speaker 1>sentence during your drive over, that he believed he was

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<v Speaker 1>developing dementia. He was sixty one and a retired civil engineer.

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<v Speaker 1>David had stopped going to restaurants because he could no

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<v Speaker 1>longer follow a conversation across the table due to difficulty hearing.

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<v Speaker 2>He had given up driving in the.

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<v Speaker 1>Evenings because oncoming headlights smeared his halos. Once a month

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<v Speaker 1>or so, when he stood up from his desk, the

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<v Speaker 1>room would tilt have to grab the door frame. His

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<v Speaker 1>primary care doctor sent him to a specialist who ran

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<v Speaker 1>a series of tests and told him these events were

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<v Speaker 1>simply you're getting older. David came to me because the

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<v Speaker 1>answer received didn't feel right, but he was afraid of

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<v Speaker 1>what the answer might be.

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<v Speaker 2>I told him I didn't believe he had dementia.

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<v Speaker 1>The pattern he was describing was one I've seen many times,

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<v Speaker 1>and rarely in patience who turned out to have what

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<v Speaker 1>he feared. The eyes here and vestibular apparatus responsible for

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<v Speaker 1>our sight, hearing, and balance among the first organs in

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<v Speaker 1>the body to register with something has gone subtly wrong

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<v Speaker 1>over years before anything shows up in the blood worker imaging.

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<v Speaker 1>When caught at this stage, the decline in most patients

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<v Speaker 1>is reversible. His window, I told him, was still open.

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<v Speaker 1>In thirty years of medical practice, I've come to believe

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<v Speaker 1>that no single specialty, Western or Eastern, conventional or alternative,

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<v Speaker 1>can on its own slow the loss of hearing, sight,

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<v Speaker 1>and balance. Each specialty looks at one part of a

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<v Speaker 1>much larger picture. What I found useful is to look

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<v Speaker 1>at multiple dimensions at the same time. I call this

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<v Speaker 1>approach the Ace's model anatomy, chemistry, energy and soul. The

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<v Speaker 1>structural ought anatomical integrity of the body houses the senses

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<v Speaker 1>that biochemistry feeds them. The sleep and vital energy restore

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<v Speaker 1>them in the unmetabolized weight of life. The grief, conflict,

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<v Speaker 1>and fear we never fully process, can year after year,

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<v Speaker 1>teach the senses to look away from what they don't

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<v Speaker 1>want to see. David needed care across all four dimensions,

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<v Speaker 1>as do most patients in this situation. First thing I

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<v Speaker 1>want to know is something that few general practitioners mention

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<v Speaker 1>to their patients. Your eyes, ears, and sense of balance

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<v Speaker 1>all live inside your skull, supplied by blood, vessels and

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<v Speaker 1>nerves that travel up through your neck and reach them.

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<v Speaker 1>When that pathway is even slightly compressed or irritated, These

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<v Speaker 1>senses suffer long before anything shows up on a skin.

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<v Speaker 1>The neck does more for your hearing and vision than

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<v Speaker 1>most people realize. Three patterns repeatedly appear in my examroom.

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<v Speaker 1>First pattern is what I call screen bound neck. Forty

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<v Speaker 1>years at a drafting table, fifteen years at a computer,

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<v Speaker 1>or hours spent looking down at a phone each day.

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<v Speaker 2>Can gradually pull the head forward.

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<v Speaker 1>Tighten the muscles at the base of the skull, and

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<v Speaker 1>restrict the blood float to the very tissues to power

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<v Speaker 1>your senses. None of this is dramatic, None of it

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<v Speaker 1>announces itself.

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<v Speaker 2>It just happens.

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<v Speaker 1>When he asked David to fully turn his head to

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<v Speaker 1>the right, he couldn't something he had not noticed before.

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<v Speaker 1>Second pattern involved old injuries the body never finished healing

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<v Speaker 1>a rear in collision twenty years ago, a concussion from

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<v Speaker 1>college football, or a fall in the ice that went untreated.

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<v Speaker 1>Patients almost always tell me these are ancient history. However,

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<v Speaker 1>the effective tissues disagree. Whiplash and similar trauma can leave

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<v Speaker 1>behind subtle restrictions that throttle circulation and nerve signaling for years,

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes for life. Third pattern involves the jaw. I cannot

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<v Speaker 1>remember the last time a patient came to me with

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<v Speaker 1>tentatus or vertigo whose dentist or physician had thought to

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<v Speaker 1>look at their afterbite. However, dysfunction of the temporo mandibular joint,

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<v Speaker 1>the hinge connecting the lower jawt of the skull in

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<v Speaker 1>front of the ears. Nighttime grinding, an old bridge that

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<v Speaker 1>had shifted an orthodonic correction has slowly relapsed. Any of

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<v Speaker 1>these can distort the structures of the head under daily strain,

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<v Speaker 1>year after year, in a way that affects hearing and

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<v Speaker 1>balanced directly. The good news is that the anatomical misalignment

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<v Speaker 1>is usually reversible. When the obstructed channel is opened, the

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<v Speaker 1>function turns to return. I've seen patients walk out of

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<v Speaker 1>an osteopathic cranial treatment, ATLAS correction, or an acupuncture session

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<v Speaker 1>telling me with some surprise that the world had becomes

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<v Speaker 1>sharper or quieter. Next thing I want to look at

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<v Speaker 1>and the patients, they're blood because this is where the

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<v Speaker 1>most actionable findings live. There's a reason for the shortfall.

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<v Speaker 1>Standard Blood testing was designed to diseases and flag patients

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<v Speaker 1>who have already fallen outside of their reference range. Was

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<v Speaker 1>never designed to catch the slow erosion that precedes disease

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<v Speaker 1>for years that produces the symptoms daily that David and

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<v Speaker 1>many others experience. The first is B twelve deficiency. Hidden

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<v Speaker 1>within the normal range. The nerves that carry signal from

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<v Speaker 1>your eyes and ears are wrapped in protective insulation, begins

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<v Speaker 1>to break down.

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<v Speaker 2>When B twelve levels are low. David was one of them.

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<v Speaker 2>His serum be twelve appeared reassuring.

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<v Speaker 1>However, two more sensitive markers, methylmolonic acid and homocystin did not.

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<v Speaker 1>Both are metabolic byproducts of the bodies normally clear with

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<v Speaker 1>the help of itamin B twelve for patients with sensory

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<v Speaker 1>or neurological symptoms often recommend testing MMA and homocystin. Second

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<v Speaker 1>issue is sluggish cellular energy. The retina and the inner

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<v Speaker 1>ear among the most energy demanding tissues in the entire body,

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<v Speaker 1>which is why they're among the first of faulter. When

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<v Speaker 1>cellular energy production declines. A surprising number of common factors

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<v Speaker 1>can affect us. Certain collect cholesterol owering drugs, some antibiotics,

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<v Speaker 1>chronic and some resistance and long term toxic exposure. Although

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<v Speaker 1>this cellular energy production cannot be measured directly on a

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<v Speaker 1>routine panel, its decline can be mitigated. Several well studied nutrients,

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<v Speaker 1>including coenzyme Q ten, alphalopoic acid, and acetylel carnatine, have

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<v Speaker 1>strong evidence. Third is blood shirt. Diabetes is well known

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<v Speaker 1>to damage the eyess. Less recognized is that same damage

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<v Speaker 1>to the small vessels feeding both organs begins long before glucose,

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<v Speaker 1>ever enters the diabetic range.

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<v Speaker 2>Hemoglobin A one c.

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<v Speaker 1>The three month average of your blood SHIRER is part

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<v Speaker 1>but creeping upwards year after year is already a signal

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<v Speaker 1>worth acting on, particularly of people with sensory symptoms. The

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<v Speaker 1>fourth issue is heavy metal exposure. Lead, mercury and cadmium

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<v Speaker 1>have a particular affinity for the auditory and visual systems.

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<v Speaker 1>Heavy metal testing is not part of a routine physical exam,

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<v Speaker 2>Order it unless a patient requested. Anyone with unexplained vertigo,

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<v Speaker 2>hearing loss, or.

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<v Speaker 1>Visual disturbances, particularly with occupational environmental exposure risks, benefits from

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<v Speaker 1>having one before being told the cause is simply aging.

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<v Speaker 1>The third dimension of the ACES model for health and

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<v Speaker 1>medicine is the body's energy. By energy, I mean two

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<v Speaker 1>things at once, the modern measurable sense of cellular oxygen,

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<v Speaker 1>blood flow, and rhythm of sleep. In the older, deeper

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<v Speaker 1>sense of what classical medicine calls ki or ying. From

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<v Speaker 1>the perspective of medic western medicine, the eyes and ears

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<v Speaker 1>do not switch off when you sleep. Blood continues to

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<v Speaker 1>flow to them and oxygen continues to arrive.

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<v Speaker 2>The brain's nightly.

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<v Speaker 1>Cleansing system what researchers now call the glymphatic system, keeps

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<v Speaker 1>flushing out the metabolic waste of the previous day. The

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<v Speaker 1>senses depend on all of this housekeeping. When it fails,

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<v Speaker 1>even partially, the eyes and ears of the first organs

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<v Speaker 1>to suffer untreated sleep batany is one of the most common,

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<v Speaker 1>most overlooked. The overlap between the disciplines is exactly why

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<v Speaker 1>no single specialty has been able to successfully slow sensory

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<v Speaker 1>aging on its own. The fourth dimension is the hardest

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<v Speaker 1>to measure. It's also the one I take more seriously

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<v Speaker 1>of all four dimensions of this model.

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<v Speaker 2>The body's not separate from the life. It's living. Patients

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<v Speaker 2>who describe themselves as.

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<v Speaker 1>Not wanting to see what is happening in their marriage, career,

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<v Speaker 1>and family come into my own office with disproportion of

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<v Speaker 1>visible decline. Visual decline more often than purely biological model

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<v Speaker 1>a hard diagnosis, or watching a child struggle in ways

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<v Speaker 1>they can't fix. Patients who feel, in other words, the

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<v Speaker 1>ground shifting beneath them develop vertigo and in balance that

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<v Speaker 1>no inner ear pathology fully explains the biology behind. This

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<v Speaker 1>is real and well documented. Chronic stress reduces blood flow

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<v Speaker 1>to the inner ear. Sustained high cortisol dulls the brains

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<v Speaker 1>processing of visual information. Trauma that has never been worked

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<v Speaker 1>through changed to the way the nervous system interprets signals

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<v Speaker 2>If a physician.

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<v Speaker 1>Addresses the patient's structure, biochemistry, and energy, but leaves the

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<v Speaker 1>emotional load untouched, the senses return only in part. David

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<v Speaker 1>had retired six months earlier than he had planned after

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<v Speaker 1>a long professional dispute that had not gone his way.

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<v Speaker 2>He had not wanted to talk about it.

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<v Speaker 1>When he finally did, he told me Elvinson passing that

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<v Speaker 1>he had spent the last year fe like the ground

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<v Speaker 1>and moved from underneath me. It was a phase I

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<v Speaker 1>had heard in one form or another from hundreds of patients.

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<v Speaker 1>His vertico was not only mechanical. Once he began addressing

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<v Speaker 1>the emotional toll of the final working year through psychotherapy,

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<v Speaker 1>personal closure, and reconnection with his faith, the last of

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<v Speaker 1>his vestibular symptoms quickly resolved. Listen to that again. It's

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<v Speaker 1>good stuff, all right, Share it with others. Please, God,

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<v Speaker 1>bless you.