Evaluation Basics - Part 1

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hey it’s me again in this video we’re going to talk about another example of evaluation again evaluation is analyzing the data to come up with a reason why something is the way it is um it’s Sol it’s the technology of solving problems I think it’s one of the biggest thing that’s missing in healthcare and it’s the most valuable thing because if you don’t have a good evaluator you solve the wrong problem you treat the symptom which just makes the problem persist or camouflage the problem um so let’s just take a look at this 59-year-old female she works swing shift uh can’t sleep craves sweets neck stiff not satisfied after meals pre-diabetic allergy sleep apnea she bloats constipation indigestion acid reflux low tolerance of stress low vam D level weak legs when she climbs or does incline ulcer she had a history of an ulcer excessive thinking analyzing so this is a very uh it just jumps right out is she has a lot of adrenal symptoms so right there we’re going to write adrenal so let’s just take a look at if they all relate to adrenal or if not now working swing shift is going to totally disrupt her sleep cycles um our bodies are not designed to rotate the sleeping they’re designed to help you go to uh help you sleep or make you go to sleep when it gets dark out and wake up when it gets light so if you’re working against gravity that can really throw off your internal clock so over years of night uh night you know working at night it’s going to throw you off your your Circa in rhythms which allow you to get in sleep so that could be what created the stress on the adrenal I’m not sure sweet Cravings the hormone one of the hormones that the adrenal gland makes is called um cortisol another name for cortisol which is a stress hormone is glucocorticoids gluco meaning sweet it’s because it regulates blood sugars so uh a lot of diabetics are diabetics because of the adrenal overacting but this could be adrenal and then look at she’s a pre-diabetic so we know it’s adrenal other symptoms are adrenal would be um stiffness and inflammation because all of the anti-inflammatories are controlled by the adrenals think about what they give you for pain they inject you with a steroid shot what’s a steroid an prazone those are anti-inflammatories that’s adrenal hormones also allergies are adrenal because some of the treatments um involve epipens that’s epinephrine that’s adrenaline well why why would that fix an allergy because there’s something related with allergies to adrenal uh if you take the adrenal glands out of dogs in different experiments they all end up with allergies so why wouldn’t we just take that and use that and try to improve the adrenal to see if we can improve the allergies and a lot of allergies occur after you know years of stress as well um but there’s other causes sleep apnea that is really not a sleep problem it’s a sinus swelling in the back of the nasal ferial uh area behind the pallet back there um there’s a nerve that controls that and it’s comes out of the brain stem and it’s the 10th cranial nerve and that can be influenced by high levels of adrenal stress so Bingo right there that’s adrenal too not satisfied after meals one thing that this would be is is a gallbladder problem but think about it the gallbladder is influenced when you have high stress that will shut down the bile recycling of bile on the gallbladder and give you these symptoms right here okay so even know this could be a low bile if we look deeper it could be an adrenal issue because the adrenal could cause that again we’re trying to pull a string and see how far we can go back indigestion that is really low stomach acids that’s low acid in the stomach and again one of the characteristic things of adrenal do relate to that in a way that you have alkalosis so when your body is too alkaline what can cause it is high level of adrenal um hormones cortisol um there’s this huge myth going around that everyone is too acid well maybe they their urine is but I’m talking about the blood if that blood becomes excessively too alkaline and you can read this in the physiology books on the adrenal High cortisol I’m not just coming up with this for no reason and your body is too alkaline a lot of things will happen you’ll get indigestion you won’t be able to transport minerals that’s why you’ll get cramps in your legs you’ll have breathing problems at night you’ll crave salt at night um and allergies just from being alkaline and that’s why some of the remedies back in the 30s for allergies was to take something called ammonium chloride ammonium chloride is an acidifier that they used to use as a binder in allergy medications and they took it out that was the active ingredient so ammonium chloride um is not a harmful thing you can take it and to acidify your pH and rid allergies one of the ways you know you’re excessively to alkaline is if you consume like citrus orange or grapefruit or even lemon an hour later you will have pain in your joints that would be a good indicator of alkaline too you’re too alkaline you can’t really tell by your urine or saliva if your blood is too alkaline and the problem if you take the blood out of the um the blood vessel and test the pH it gets exposed to oxygen so fast it it’s very difficult to test for an alkaline blood you have to really use these other indicators but Citrus oxidizes it breaks down and it goes very very alkaline so when you drink any type of citrus it’s actually even though it’s a citric acid it turns into an alkaline substance wors worsening this state right here and the point I’m making is I’m just trying to give you the background of what can happen with adrenal with your pH and how that can relate to this as well and even oxygen um all right so now we have that can explain in digestion because you’re going to have a your you’re going to lose your stomach acids in the uh as well uh and then acid reflex is really um that’s a caused by not enough acid because if you don’t have enough acid you won’t be able to close that valve that that separates your stomach from your esophagus and because you need a really strong acid and if that’s not there you’ll get acid reflex so really acid reflex is not enough acid and the way to fix it is to take an acid not to take an antioxidant so if you take an acid like theane hydrochloride that will help that but the fact is that this is one of the symptoms of adrenal too not just you know not enough acid so if we go deeper I think most of these symptoms that this person has is adrenal adrenal adrenal right down the list so that’s the most likely thing that we’re going to support low tolerance of stress that’s adrenal low vitamin D that’s adrenal symptom weak legs climbing that’s definitely adrenal because it affects the lower extremities ulcer that’s a symptom of adrenal excessive thinking adrenal so it’s classic adrenal so I’m going to go with that and see if she gets better if you if she supports adrenal and it doesn’t work then we have to relook at things but I like to go with the most likely logical thing that makes Common Sense I’ll see you in the next video