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Well, You're invited to set your expectations high. If you want better energy, mental clarity, optimal physical function, and the absence of disease. If that's what you want, well, then you've come to the right place. Welcome, Welcome everyone to this hour of the Doctor Bob Martin Show. I'm Doctor Bob and I'm here to help you to become your own best doctor most of the time. Coming up this hour, we have the Health Alternative of the Week, the Health outrage of the Week. We have a product
recall to talk about. We've got a top ten obese cities in America list. Oh boy, wonder if the city you're living in is on the list. And we'll finish off the hour with the health mystery of the week. So stay tuned and we'll get two phone calls and your health questions coming up as well. We begin, however, this hour talking about DCLF coffee. Are you sitting down why DCALF coffee is linked to the Big C and I
do mean cancer? Well. Surveys show that twenty six million Americans report drinking DCLF coffee on a regular basis, Whether it's due to a desire to limit caffeine try to avoid sleep disturbances which full throttled caffeine and coffee and energy drinks can create, or you try to get away from coffee full throttled caffeine because you have stomach problems with it or loose stool. Well, here we go with this health advocacy group having petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to remove a
chemical used to produce decaf coffee from the food supply. The chemical is called methylene chloride. Methylene chloride has been linked to cancer in humans and animals. With its minimal caffeine content, dcaf coffee is often touted as a better for you alternative than traditional full throttle caffeine coffee, but in recent months, concerns have cropped up over this chemical used to get the caffeine to extract the caffeine
from the coffee bean, and some experts are saying it's dangerous. We're talking about methylene chloride, which is what's being used to get rid of the caffeine off the decalf. The conversation over the potential health risks of decaf coffee began six months ago or so when a number of health advocacy groups, including the Environmental Defense Fund, petitioned the Food and Recdministration FDA to ban the use of
this chemical called methylene chloride. It is frequently used in the production of decaffeinated coffee. Their petition states that methylene chloride, in addition to three other substances, has been shown to cause cancer in humans and animals, and is therefore unsafe to include in the food supply. Currently, the FDA permits concentrations of methylene chloride below ten parts per million in decaffeinated beans, but is considering the
group's petition to prohibit the use of its additive entirely. Further, just in April, the Environmental Protection Agency EPA banned most chemical or most commercial uses of this methylene chloride that's in these decalf beans that to take the caffeine out to protect worker's health. Now, this methylene chloride is bad news, folks. It's colorless. It's a liquid that has a range of uses when it come comes to food production. Specifically, the FDA allows methylene chloride use in three
different circumstances. One is in decalf coffee production. The chemical is used to remove the caffeine as I mentioned, and coffee beans are first boiled in hot water and then rinsed with this methylene chloride, which selectively bonds to caffeine and methylene chloride gets this caffeine out of the bean. From there, coffee beans are dried and roasted at approximately four hundred degrees or higher, which removes basically
all of the remaining methylene chloride minus the residual amount. It's the residual amount that's left in there that researchers are worried about. It's still in there. It's sort of like being a little pregnant. There is no such thing. Either have it in there or not. Now, if that were the only thing you were exposed to in a day, a small amount of methylene chloride in your decalf coffee, that would be one thing. But that's not the
only thing you're exposed to. We're exposed to a thousands of chemicals. That just adds to your burden of toxicity that you don't eat or want taking wrists down the road. Why do it? The FDA also permits small amounts of methylene chloride residue in hops extract, which is used in the manufacture of certain beers. The chemical is also sometimes used in spice production. Can't tell you which one. Beyond this, methylene chloride is mostly widely used in an industrial
solvent and paint stripper. Oh my gosh, they use this as an industrial solvent. This methylene chloride that's being used at Decaf Coffee. They use it as a way to get crusty old paint off of wood as a paint stripper, or off metal yuck. The chemical can also be found in aerosol products, spray paints, car cleaners, and can be used to manufacture camera film. Oh my gosh, methylene chloride, folks is dangerous to choose more mentally
processed foods. You probably heard the admonition not to consume ingredients you don't recognize, so it's understandable if methylene chloride's name and function as a paint stripper make it sound like something to avoid, you might want to think about that. And the Environmental Defense Funds petition mentions methylene chloride and how it's been linked to
cancer. It's considered a probable human carcinogen, which means it can start cancer, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA also states that workplace exposure to methylene chloride can lead to an increased risk of cancer and problems with your heart,
your liver, your central nervous system, and your skin. And this exposure can happen via inhalation or contact with skin while people are working the FDA has set a limit of ten parts per million of the methylene chloride to decalf coffee, which equates to ten drops of water to ten gallons of water. So, yes, there's a minuscule amount of methylene chloride you're being exposed to if you drink decalf coffee. But that's not the only chemical you're exposed to.
Remember, we get hit with tens of thousands of these things on a daily basis. Past reports, including a twenty twenty three report from Clean Labeled Project, have highlighted elevated levels of methylene chloride in certain coffee brands and decalf products. However, if you're concerned about your exposure to methylene chloride, some
companies use a decaffeinating process that avoids the chemical entirely. I get that you don't want to go back to caffeine, full throttle coffee or energy drinks to keep your eyes open so you don't fall asleep driving that heavy machine called a car or a truck. I get it. But on the other hand, you don't want to drink something that's got a cancer of potential cancer causing agent in it, like methylene chloride either. Well, well, maybe this is
the answer for you. You may want to opt for decaf coffee brands that use the Swiss water process or carbon dioxide method for decaffeination, both of which do not involve methylene chloride, the toxin that we're talking about, which unbeknownst to you prior to now, And that's why the Doctor Bob Martin Show exists to bring this information to you, because, let's face it, there are tens of millions of people twenty eight million, twenty six twenty seven to twenty
eight million people who are using dcalf and are being exposed to this methylene chloride whether they know it or not. A typical cup of decaf coffee contains only about two milligrams of caffeine. Yeah, it contains a little bit of caffeine compared to a regular cup of coffee, which is about ninety five milligrams or more of caffeine. But you certainly don't want to add anything to your already existing toxic burden load which most people are exposed to on a daily basis.
Get the methylene chloride out of your diet and stay tuned for the health alternative of the week, because when we talk about problems like this, I'm going to offer up a really good and easy solution that's healthy for you detail these decaf coffee users, So stay tuned for that. You are tuned into the Doctor Bob martinshow add a healthy welcome or welcome back to the Doctor Bob Martin
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Week. All right, Well, I understand that the first segment of the show, I Scared the beujibis out of those people who are decalf coffee drinkers, because well, I stated the latest information out about a chemical that is used to take the caffeine off the coffee bean, which is a known carcinogen. So there's the problem. But I'm gonna also offer up a solution beyond just the Swiss process, which you can remove through water. That's expensive.
The coffee costco way up, and I don't know where to find it anyway, But here's a way to extricate yourself from coffee all together, so that there's zero caffeine and there's zero methylene chloride, the known carcinogen that decaf coffee drinkers are getting into every day. The health alternative of the week is called
Tichino roasted ground herbal coffee. Have you heard of it? Tichino roasted ground herbal coffee, a dark brew made with herbs, roots, fruits, nuts, known as tichino, is a blend of naturally caffeine free herbs, roots, fruits nuts that are roasted and ground to brew, and they taste almost exactly like coffee really good tasting. One morning in nineteen ninety three. This is how this Tichino spelled te te ci or cci n o tsino came to
be. Caroline McDougall. She awoke from a dream with a vision to create a bold, robust coffee from roasted herbs. Propelled by her own sensitivity to caffeine and the acidity that caused her to have digested problems, Caroline designed Tichino to satisfy both coffee and tea drinkers alike, with a rich, full body taste with health benefits and array of flavors and blends such as French roast, Mexican chocolate, hazelnut, orange, dark chocolate, and dandelion coconut. Those
are all the different flavors you can try in the Tichino line. Every cup of tichino is brimming with nutritious, healthful benefits that are naturally released during the brewing and are quickly absorbable because the nutrients are suspended in liquid, so digestion isn't needed to remove them from fiber. It's a satisfying, warm drink that will give you all the pleasure of coffee without the toxins of the methylene chlorid if you're a decaf drinker, or the negative effects of caffeine as a drug
on your central nervous system because it's caffeine free. So if you're looking to reduce caffeine, quitting coffee, maybe losing weight, going on a clans, rebuilding your digestion, or improving your overall health, you'll find in encouragement with
this week's health alternative of the week called Tchino roasted ground herbal coffee. Today, Tichino is the number one brand of coffee alternative with over thirty five organic and gluten free blends, so you have a lot of different choices to choose from in the Tichino roasted ground herbal coffee stuff's amazing. Often people ask is it coffee or is it tea? Well, the simple answer is it's Tchino
and you might look for it in your own health food store. It's spelled t ee cc i n o tchino And if you can't find it in your health food store, you can certainly go to the website and look for it at natural grocers dot com. Natural grocers dot com. You're looking for this week's health alternative of the week called Tchino roasted ground herbal coffee the health alternative of the week. All right, let's get right back to work with your
telephone calls and your questions. Next up, we say hello to Lashan in fort Worth, Texas. Good even. My name is Lashawan, calling from Fort Worth, Texas, and I thank the Lord that I found your program just this year. But it has been such a great help for me. I have a question for my husband who has vision loss because of the nerve optic nerve. I believe the doctor said. The doctor pretty much states that there's nothing that they can do about it. I was wondering if because it's
a nerve damage, is there any help force someone with nerve damage. My number is listen to your program tomorrow and hopefully you get an answer or get some kind of direction. But thank you so much for all that you do. And it has just been a blessing that I found your program this year. Thank you, You're very welcome. Such a sweet lady. Thank you Lashawn for calling in Fort Worth, Texas area. Look, yes there is something. Just because your doctors say there's nothing that can be done doesn't mean
there's nothing that can be done. They just don't know what can be done. Therefore, patients say, well, I guess not that that's the gospel. Can't do anything. No, no, it's not true. Nerve tissue can be often regenerated. Retinal damage is serious. What I would suggest is we start with something called saffron extract. You can get this at health food stores. This is stuff is amazing, saffron extract. It's the latest,
greatest stuff at helping rehabilitate damage nerve tissue. Retinal damage, nerve tissue. Now, let's just hope that this can be repaired, and I think it can. Saffron extract, Vitamin He needs to be on a good supply of vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, E, and zinc, and you can get all of those in an antioxidant formula at your local health food store. In addition to that, the I supplements that all have to be
included in every I formula need to be lutian xiaxanthon bill berry. And then you want a form of B twelve which causes nerve growth factor called methyl colbaloman B twelve methyl colbaloman B twelve and lastly, alphai poic acid. You give him this full regiment of nutrients over the next three to six months, and let's hope that we can improve his vision because I've seen it happen. And if you missed all of that, go back and listen to it in the
podcast library. Stay tuned. I'm doctor Bob. Margin anybody's called a fay mistakes, but everybody's got a choice to make. Everybody needs a leave of faith. When are you taking you money? You in funds? All right, doctor Bob marching back with you. Thank you so very much for tuning into the program today and telling others to do the very same thing. We
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com Call her hotline eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two. Now, before we get to the health outrage of the week, which is lengthy but important, I want to remind you that you might be doing a lot of good things for yourself. And I like that when I hear people that are exercising regularly, that are eating well and staying away from the standard American
diet and eating more of a more of a Mediterranean style diet. People that are working on their stress levels by lowering their stress somehow someway, by keeping a positive metal attitude, by surrounding your social circle with positive people, taking
nutritional supplements. All of that's good, but you also need to make sure you don't miss out on the opportunity to keep inflammation low in your oral cavity, because so much inflammation begins in the mouth, in the gums area, in the teeth, in your oral microbiome in the mouth, and it invades deeper into your body and it sabotages and undermines your overall health with all these good things you're using, So you should use what I do, and that
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You know they're not right. Spry toothpaste and mouthrints. The stuff's amazing. Now. I don't know about you, but I get a little uptight and stressed when I have to visit my dental hygienas for a biannual cleaning. I don't want the dentists coming in after she looks in there or he looks in there and saying, oh, you have the need for a tooth filling or a crown or no. I don't want any of that, and that's why
I use Spry Spry tooth based mouth rents. I even chew their gum and their mints, suck on their mints because it is important to keep the bad germs out of the oral cavity. And that's what Spry does. It tricks the germs into believing there's food there when it's really not. Now, this stuff is delicious too. It comes in peppermint, cinnamon, and spearmint.
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System. All right, it's time now for the health outrage of the week. She's come on each time for the health outrage because it's nothing bullet it's outrageous. It's not only a health outrage of the week, it's an outrage of the month. It's the outrage of the year, it's the rage of the decade. The health outrage of the week is check that. How about the year? The broken healthcare system here in the US ranks dead last compared
to other high income countries. And if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention. Despite spending far more on healthcare than any other nation, the US continues to have the worst health care system. And when you have these television announcers announcing that we have the best healthcare system in the world, as soon as you hear that come out of their pie hole, know that they're not credible, and they're not doing their homework or they're just bamboozled. Don't get
bamboozled. When you compare our system to other similar high income countries, we are dead last. Why is that when we spend the most out of any country on the planet. There's something wrong with this picture. It needs to be changed up. When you see countries like Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Swede, and Switzerland topping the United States, and even the United Kingdom topping the United States, we've
got trouble. That was very disturbing for a lot of people to learn about. But it's an unsurprising finding of the Commonwealth Funds Mirror Mirror reflecting poorly that the healthcare in the United States is bad news compared to other high income countries that are doing it for a lot less, getting better results, and spending
a lot less money. For each of the countries ranked in the Commonwealth Fund report, researchers analyze seventy one indicators across the key domains of healthcare systems, performance, access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity, and healthcare outcomes. The US ranked dead last on these domains except one care process
in which it ranked second, resulting in an overall ranking of last. Now, the sad part of this is when you look at this list, it's embarrassing to believe that countries are kicking our booty when it comes to healthcare. The US similarly ranked last among the same peer countries in the Commonwealth Funds several years ago worth of healthcare systems ranking reports. Remarkably, the US spends more on healthcare as a proportion to gross domestic product GDP, approaching eighteen percent.
Ladies and gentlemen, of our GDP goes to not healthcare, but sick care, because that's what we do. We fix stuff when it breaks. Now, granted, we have an emergency medical system in the country that can save lives, there's no question about that. But when it comes to teaching people how to be their own best doctors most of the time and prevent this stuff from happening in the first place, No, no, no, there's not
enough denaro there. There's not enough money. There's not enough profitability in that. So we fix stuff when it's broken. It's really sad. The Commonwealth Fund report considers access to healthcare to be good when people can obtain affordable care in a timely manner. The US ranked last on affordability of healthcare and ninth on timeliness, which resulted in an overall last place ranking for access to healthcare. All right, stay tuned, coming up the top ten ob cities in
America. I'm doctor Bob Martin, so I'm a bush of number simon, they have one never single minds up. I'm most today. Well, if you think other people could benefit just like you by tuning into the radio show here, why keep it such a big secret already? I mean, we are growing by leaps and bounds thanks to you. We are, after all, the largest radio health talk show in America in large part thanks to you
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I ask no, That's why I'm here doing this. All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's now time for the product recall of the week. Well, ice cream recalled. I hate to tell you this full list of brands impacted. A wide range of ice cream products have been recalled due to a potential contamination of Listeria. Listeria not good. Numerous brands are included in this week's product recall the week announced by the Food and Or Administration and Manufacture Totally
Ink. That's the company, Totally Cool Ink that's got the recall going on of the potential listeria, including their Hershey's, Friendlies, and the Frozen Farmer. The issue was discovered after the FDA sampling found the presence of Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that can cause food poisoning. Here's a breakdown of the across
thirteen brands that this company distributes that are subject to the recall. The company being Totally Cool Ink and their brands include Friendlies, Alvin's Frozen Bakery, Hershey's ice Cream, Yellow Marco, Jenny's, Cumberland Land Farms, The Frozen Farmer, chip Witch, Taharka told Zina, Gelato, and Lasal those are the brands. Listeria infections can cause food poisoning, which can lead to unpleasant symptoms
and can sometimes result in serious illness. Signs of listeria infection include high fever, severe headaches, stiffness, nausea, and abdominal pain and diarrhea. So if you were eating an ice cream cone or a bowl of ice cream and you started to develop these symptoms, you might have it. Call you doctor and stop eating the ice cream. After all, In more vulnerable individuals, such as the very young, elderly, and those with weakened immune system,
these infections can be much more serious and even deadly. So that's product recall the week. We move right from the product recall of the week to the top ten list of obese cities in America. Are you wondering if you're in one of these cities where it has been tagged as one of the plumpest or most obese cities in America? Maybe you've been watching your neighbors, or you've got friends or co workers, and you're wondering that. Anyway, any direction
you look, you see people who are massively overweight or obese. So the researchers set out to look at where these cities are located in America the most obese ones. And here we go with the top ten obese cities in America. Number ten on the list, Chattanooga, Tennessee, number nine, bet and Rouge, Louisiana, Number eight on the list of the top ten most
obese cities in America, Lafayette, Louisiana. Back to Tennessee we go number seven, Memphis, Tennessee coming in at number six, Knoxville, Tennessee, number five on the list of top ten most obese cities in America, Little Rock, Arkansas. We move over to Alabama, number four, Mobile, Alabama, coming in at number four in the top ten most obese cities in America. Number three on the list is Shreveport, Louisiana. Man oh Man, Louisiana. In that on this list a lot? What are they eating
down there or doing? Number two on the list of top ten most obese cities Jackson, Mississippi. And can anybody guess the number one obese city in the United States? According to these surveyors who go out and gather these data set points? Can you guess it? Is it? The city you live in? Are you living in the most obese city in the United States? Not something to hang your head or to brag about if you live there. But and I'm not making fun of people, but I tell you what McAllen,
Texas is on top. I guess if you want to call a gold Medal for obesity, that's where it's at in McAllen, Texas, where apparently the most obese people in America reside. I guess if I had a weight loss center, I'd probably open up multiple offices there, and perhaps there they are located there. I don't know. There you have it, the top ten most obese cities in America and of course the product gree Call of the
Week. We'll be right back. You're tuned into the Doctor Bob martinshow and he said, Sunday out of you in the chambers to live like you again? What's your gift? And you got eternity to think about what you do with it? What did you do with it? What did I do it? All right? Had to wait for the payoff there with Tim McGraw. Thank you so very much for tuning into the program today, ladies and gentlemen, we just have a few minutes left. I thought I would dedicate it
to the health mystery of the week. Here we go. You might ask the question, when your brain is going through all of its metabolic processes, where does the waste products go? I need? I mean, your blood is clean through your kidneys and detox through your liver, and you gotta live phatic system and your skin and everything. But where does the brain waste go?
Scientists think they finally figured how the mystery. Scientists are beginning to understand how the brain flushes out waste products in order to stay healthy and fend off these neurological diseases that we so often hear about that are tragic. Two teams of scientists from Washington have uncovered signs that a slow wave of electricity that pulses through the brain during sleep pushes waste products, including the protein closely associated with
Alzheimer's disease, from deep in the brain to its surface. A vein passing through the brain then acts as a pipe to carry waste products out through the barrier that separates the brain and the rest of the body. This deposits them into the bloodstream to be filtered out by the kidneys. But if the disposal system stops working correctly, which can occur with aging. In cases of traumatic brain injury and chronic stress, those waste products can accumulate in the brain and
pull you down hardcore. It may also it may also allow immune cells to penetrate the organ, leading to inflammation linked to degenerative brain disorders. Now, this study that they figured this out in this mystery was conducted in the animal model, but researchers believe their findings match up with research on potential causes of
Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. This last February, scientists led by doctor Jonathan Kipness, a neurologist at Washington State University in Saint Louis, answered the question of how the brain gets waste out through the rapid protective barrier without using the body's lymphatic system, a network of drains and fluids throughout the body. The brain is not part of that system, and its waste disposal pathway is known as the glymphatic system. Did you even know about that? I never heard
about it until I read this. The glymphatic system it clears out waste generated by energy consuming metabolic processes. All the chemical processes that continually working in the body to ensure functions correctly, such as carbon dioxide, damage by proteins and dead cells. So I finally unraveled the mystery of how the brain gets rid of its waste through the glymphatic system. Amazing. It's the health mystery of the week. I want to wish you a healthy day and a healthy week
until we talk again. You've been listening to the Doctor Bob Margin Show. Be Well,