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How to Get Rid of Leg Cramps

9/5/24 - Dr. Jack Stockwell, NUCCA Chiropractor and GAPS Practitioner (jackstockwell.com forbiddendoctor.com forbiddendoctor.org | Phone: 866-867-5070), is here to address your health concerns. Dr. Jack not only has advice for your overall better health, he’s also created nutrients to help, like the LongLife Energy Enzymes and the Ageless Thyroid. Other discussions include the continued fight over raw milk, and questioning why it’s illegal if it’s truly so beneficial, and the effects of pasteurizing has on the nutritional value of milk. Together, Doug and Dr. Jack cover leg cramps and how to alleviate the uncomfortable muscle contractions, what nutrients are nonnegotiable for your body and the real importance of magnesium.

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Duration:: 36m
Broadcast on:: 05 Sep 2024
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Not to mention myself and many, many, if not thousands of my patients. A couple of products I created nine years ago for very, very specific reasons. The ageless thyroid would address your ability to handle stress, mood swings, depression, the ability to just sit still in the midst of fire in the sense of an emotional overload. That so many people today just, you know, jump to all kinds of conclusions and kinds of activities that if they could just sit still long enough and figure things out, they would find out that they're making mountains out of molehills. That's the only thing I can compare it to, really, in the lives of my patients that I deal with because their diets are lacking very important micronutrients that will not allow the brain to settle down, will not let what's called the HPA axis, hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal axis, that is the center of your ability to handle stress, your ability to handle fight or flight moments in the sense that, you know, five seconds of deep breathing can possibly do for somebody. And then the other product, long life energy enzymes for pancreas support and the ability to better handle digestion, it's probably the most powerful packed enzyme product that I've ever seen out there because I made it myself and I made it to be the most powerful enzyme-packed product. There are so many enzyme products out there that are just, I don't know that they could digest water when I look at the labels of these particular products. So I've mentioned them in the past on the show and now I have a couple of videos of me personally, they're at forbiddendoctor.com, explaining these things in a little bit better detail and what you can expect from them as I have been able to do this at the request of patients. Now, there's another thing that patients have asked me about again and it's an ongoing controversy that's not just resident to my area where I live in Utah in the inner mountain west, but it's throughout the country and that's again the issues over raw milk. And the last thing the American Dairy Association wants is for raw milk to become popular in the public eye. When's the last time you heard of a mother with her breastfed baby once she pumps, if she's pumping the milk from her breasts, pasteurizing the milk before she gives it to her baby. I know that sounds absolutely absurd. Well, I want you to keep that in mind while I talk about what happens when we pasteurize house milk. And because most people simply have never researched the subject or looked into why the American Dairy Association pushes pasteurize milk, a lot of information that is vital to the health, not just of your children, but yourself as well, a lot of the ingredients for a good sound health is destroyed by the pasteurization process. So I'm gonna go through a few vitamins that are resident in cow's milk or sheep's milk or goat's milk or camel's milk or wherever you might be getting milk and what the pasteurization does to it. Now there was an article published in the Journal of Food Protection back in 2011 and the article begins with this, pasteurization of milk ensures safety for human consumption by reducing the number of viable pathogenic bacteria. And quote, "Now according to the authors of the study, "one argument against pasteurization "is its association quote, "with destruction of selected vitamins present in raw milk." Now that statement's not completely accurate, but I'll come back to it. Nonetheless, the direct effect of pasteurizing what pasteurization does to the levels of vitamins in the milk is absolutely important to know. These researchers looked at studies that measured vitamin A, B1, B2, B6, B12, vitamin C, vitamin E and folate. And in eliminating many for various reasons, some of which seem very frivolous, such as well not published in English, not reporting sample size, not including standard deviation, not reporting mean values, all the different things that seem to be really important with a good study. But nevertheless, even after leaving out over half of the studies that we're looking at vitamin levels published between 1936 and 2003, these researchers came up with some very interesting results. Now if you're just tuning in, I'm Dr. Jack Stockwell at forbiddendoctor.com. And again, I'm answering listeners' requests for a little bit more specific explanation as to what happens to the important vitamin content of raw milk and what happens when we pasteurize it. Now starting with, now why do we pasteurize? Let me ask you that, let's just say that right now. A hundred years ago when the pasteurization of milk really started to pick up was because the raw milk wasn't taken care of properly. Raw milk has all the ingredients in it that if you fed a newborn calf, nothing more than mama's milk, you're gonna turn it into a very strong, very powerful, very healthy animal. There's no issue about that. There's been plenty of studies done at state colleges where they experimented with feeding calves different forms of milk, even down to low fat milk, pasteurized milk, condensed milk, different kinds of milk that's in the public domain. And in every one of these cases, the calves barely survived two to three months before they died, getting anything other than mom's whole milk. And so why do we pasteurize? We pasteurize because a lot of people got sick back then because the milk, raw milk, like any, the milk that comes from a cow, whether it's been pasteurized or not, has to be immediately cooled. They go through these super cooling equipment that takes the milk from mama's body temperature, which isn't all that different than ours, and immediately cools it down to the low 30s, just barely above freezing to stop the natural effect of bacterial populations in the milk. Now, it's not that there's bacteria in the milk and there's not bacteria anywhere else. The bacteria is everywhere. You can't get away from bacteria, as I've said before, any more than a fish can get away from water. The issue isn't so much the bacteria and what we eat because there's bacteria in almost anything that you eat, unless it has been super treated and then locked away from oxygen. And it's not so much the bacteria as the strength of your immune system. So you are under a constant barrage of viral elements, you're under a constant barrage of bacterial, a fungi, parasites, you can't get away from these things. The fact that you can't see them, it doesn't mean they're not there, but it's your immune system that makes the difference. Now, back to the milk issue. They pasteurize milk back then because there were problems with raw milk not being handled correctly. That's not the problem today. These super chillers that mama's milk or mama cat or cow's milk goes through takes it down to a temperature whereby law, it has to get to pretty, pretty quick. Within minutes, it's got to be down to that temperature. Once it's kept at that temperature, you have one of the most healthiest formulas on the face of the planet. And so today, they still pasteurize milk not to protect you though it does to some degree from the way milk is handled. They pasteurize milk today because not all of the dairy producers are very careful hygienically with the kind of milk they release into the marketplace. In other words, you could have 10 dairy producers say in a state that's supplying one source of milk to the public domain, to the supermarkets. Out of those 10, nine of them could be very careful as to how they treat that milk in the sense of not exposing it to pathogenic problems. And one of them, it just isn't quite as careful as they should be and some pus or some blood or some kind of infected material ends up in the milk supply that would spoil the good milk from the other nine producers once it gets mixed together. So they make sure that everybody pasteurizes so that that doesn't happen. And you think, well, that's good. I'm glad they're watching out for us. I feel a little bit safer by drinking this, but there's a price to pay. And starting with the fat, soluble vitamins, studies on vitamin A were somewhat inconsistent with two studies reporting a reduction. And strangely, one report said there was an increase in vitamin A after pasteurization. And the suspicion, of course, is that vitamin A was added to the pasteurized milk. But the available data didn't allow the researchers to make important conclusions about vitamin E. Though, quote, from the study here, pasteurization appeared to qualitatively reduce concentrations of vitamin E. And they didn't bother examining vitamin D because they said secreted bovine milk again from the study's deficient in vitamin D based on human needs. Vitamin K2 wasn't on the radar screen either until very recently. And then you look at the water-soluble vitamins. The researchers found a significant decrease in vitamins B12, B2, folate, vitamins B1, B6, and vitamin C, where there was a numeric decrease in vitamin C was found after heat treatment. So what does all this mean? Well, I want to tell you, I mean, these results are pretty shocking as to what happens when you take some raw milk, you pasteurize it and let's left. So anyway, the results of this study, every water-soluble vitamin decreased some significantly. But not to worry, says the researchers, because, quote, "milk is not an important source of vitamin C and folate, nor of vitamin B12." Interestingly enough, and they say only the reduction of B2 had them worried, quote, "With the exception of vitamin B2, pasteurization does not appear to be a concern in diminishing the nutritive value of milk because vitamin or because milk is not is often not a primary source of these studied vitamins in the North American diet, but another way. The effect of pasteurization on the nutritive value of milk was minimal because many of these vitamins are naturally found in relatively low levels." Now, the word often is the thing that caught my attention. Milk is often not a primary source of these studied vitamins. Well, for someone who doesn't drink milk, or for someone who drinks very little milk, that might be true. But what about babies? What about toddlers? I mean, milk is often a primary source of these nutrients for that age group. And what about a mom who's worried about all the junk food habits or the pickiness that their kids are starting to develop, who wants to make sure their children at least get the basics of what they need? I mean, raw milk can be a primary source of these nutrients for children. And what about the vegetarians who depend on milk for vitamin B12? I mean, the destruction of B12 by pasteurization can be disastrous for vegetarians. Because B12 is, you only get B12 from an animal. And why do you need B12? You need B12 for the maturing process of red blood cells and people who are low in B12 are almost always anemic. That's why some people light up to go get their vitamin B12 shots because they don't have any energy left. But I want to go back to the premise that people are opposed to pasteurization because it destroys vitamins and the milk. Well, that's only half the story because what pasteurization completely destroys are the enzymes. And after all, I mean, the test for effective pasteurization is the destruction of the enzyme phosphatase. I've talked about that before. And many of these enzymes act as carriers for the vitamins and the minerals that's in the milk. It's not enough. Let's just say a raw salad. And you've got several different colored orange and green products that are present in your salad. And they're raw. You'll get more nutrition from vegetables if you cook them than eating them raw because you break down the cellulose fibers. But when you eat a salad, it's not just the vitamins and minerals that's in these plants. It's the enzymes that are present in these plants that take those vitamins and those minerals and get them into absorption, into your bloodstream. It's not enough just to have the vitamins present. There has to be a transport mechanism that mother nature included. Now, when we get back, I want to talk about that in relation to raw milk. - When you need meal time inspiration, it's worth shopping king supers for thousands of appetizing ingredients that inspire countless mouth-watering meals. And no matter what tasty choice you make, you'll enjoy our everyday low prices, plus extra ways to save, like digital coupons worth over $600 each week. And up to $1 off per gallon at the pump with points. So you can get big flavors and big savings, king supers, fresh for everyone, fuel restrictions apply. - Where do infant humans and infant animals get their vitamin D? I mean, the fact is that vitamin D is very difficult to measure in foods. There's no doubt about that. And also vitamin D levels vary widely, depending on the diet of the mother, whether the human mother or a cow mother, presumably depending on the diet that's available to them. Mama's milk, human milk, can't produce any more nutrition in her milk than is in the food that she eats. And Mama knows she needs to improve her diet if there's problems with it before she starts, or at least during the nursing of her baby. And we know that cows that are not given the quiet kind of food that they need to produce, good quality milk, end up with sick calves. And so when you pasteurize milk, you're destroying the enzymes, you're destroying the carrier proteins that are necessary to absorb calcium and folate, B12, B6, vitamins A and D and iron and a lot of other minerals. And to absorb these nutrients and pasteurize milk, the body has to produce its own enzymes, which takes a lot of energy to do, especially in amounts to try to get 100% assimilation. So vitamin, different studies here, vitamin C, and this is from pediatrics back in 2001, the peer-reviewed pediatrics. Raw milk, but not pasteurize, can resolve scurvy. Without doubt, the explosive increase in infantile scurvy during the latter part of the 19th century coincided with the advent of the use of heated milk. We know that ascorbic acid will not cure scurvy. And we're told that ascorbic acid is vitamin C, but we do know that whole food vitamin C will cure scurvy. Even the discoverer vitamin C, Cventgorni. In Eastern Europe, said ascorbic acid was not vitamin C, but it's destroyed in the pasteurization process. Calcium is needed for longer and denser bones, and they got, and they get that from raw milk, not pasteurize milk. And then folate, the carrier protein, is inactivated during pasteurization. Vitamin B12, the binding protein that takes the B12 from raw milk and gets it into your long bones, is inactivated by pasteurization. Vitamin B6, I could go through the rest of them. Vitamin A, vitamin D, iron, minerals, all these things that transfer chemicals that take these vitamins and get them into your bloodstream are destroyed by pasteurizing. Not to mention the fact that many of these vitamins themselves are simply destroyed by pasteurizing. And so these desperate assurances by apologists for pasteurization, hate treating nature's perfect food. Absolutely does have a negative effect on the amount of nutrients in their availability, a profoundly negative effect. And one more thing, most of the studies the researchers had available were for regular pasteurization, not for ultra high temperature pasteurization. And you see a lot of this now in the dairy section of the grocery store, where it says ultra high or a UHT pasteurization. And most milk today, even organic milk, is ultra pasteurized. Pasteurization usually occurs at 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Only for a few seconds of time. It's not that the milk sits there and boils. Of course, it's not gonna boil at 160, but I think you know what I mean. It's only for a few seconds as it passes through a pasteurization process. The ultra high pasteurization takes that milk to 180 degrees. So I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that the ultra high pasteurization process of taking this milk to 180 degrees pretty much kills everything else that might have gotten it through at 160 degrees. And what emerges from this is a story of the most colossal waste. I mean, just think of the nutrients that our growing children are not getting, which should be getting because we pasteurize. And we pasteurize because people just expect that to happen because the average American does not research this. Now there are some, if you will, go to the website, realmilk, R-E-A-L, realmilk.com. You can find where raw milk is available for those who participate in it. Now, unfortunately, half of the states in our union will not legalize the sale of raw milk. Some states have some loopholes where you can own a cow or a share of a cow or a part of a cow on a farm. And you can go there and go to the farm itself and get the raw milk from your own cow or the share of that cow. Some states won't even allow that. And so raw milk is at the crossroads again because of recent event that happened in Salt Lake County. And I live in Salt Lake County in Utah. It's where you find Salt Lake City, obviously, but the Salt Lake Valley is bordered by mountains all around and there's no room for expansion. It just gets more crowded and more crowded and there's only one freeway north and south and one freeway east and west. And so land is getting more and more valuable that has not been developed for residential housing and living. And so there is this cattle farm in the western part of Salt Lake Valley that had a large cattle herd and sitting on land that was extremely valuable in the sense of development, but the people who own this farm produce, oh, I think they had over 100 head of cattle and they were producing a lot of milk. So all of a sudden the Utah, the Salt Lake County Health Department shows up and says, oh my gosh, there's campylobacter bacteria in the milk and shut them down. And it took the process of several weeks to a few months of investigation and extreme legal costs on the part of the farm where they had to sell off almost half of their herd to make them off money to cover the legal costs that in the end, the Salt Lake County Health Department came out and said, well, I guess we were wrong. We couldn't find any really campylobacter. Campylobacter bacteria can cause a lot of problems to the human digestive system, let alone the body. And it has presence in milk. And when raw milk is kept at cold temperatures, just like the pasteurized milk people will buy in the grocery store, keep them at low temperatures, you know, it keeps it under control. But as a result of this little mistake, half the herd is gone. And obviously it was an attempt to put them out of business. So they'd end up having to sell the land and then land developers could move in and start building massive residential construction. Well, thank goodness they're still in business because that's where I buy my raw milk. And the important thing about their raw milk is that their cattle are fed grass exclusively, either grass or alfalfa. They do not get any grain, cows are not intended, mother nature never intended for cows to eat grain. Now, there's another source of raw milk in the Salt Lake Valley that uses grass, but they also, because of their large herd have a hard time supplying them all of what mother nature intended and will supplement their diets with some grain. What's the difference? The 100% grass fed is the creamiest tasting, most delicious milk because they're fed what mother nature intended. In fact, if you take a gallon container of their milk and let it sit for two or three days in the fridge, you'll end up with three inches to four inches of cream sitting on the top of that milk. You shake the bottle up a little bit, cream mixes with the milk and you get that creamy taste for milk. And you know, and this is my own experience. I'm telling you, I could drink a glass of pasteurized and I can drink a glass of raw, and I can tell you which one was which, because when I drink that glass of raw milk, I feel like I am drinking life into my body. Loaded with enzymes, loaded with minerals, loaded with the vitamins that are necessary, the same as mama's milk for her newborn baby when she breastfeeds her baby, who does not take the time to pasteurize her breast milk before she gives it to the baby. But interestingly enough, there are a lot of mothers who no longer breastfeed their babies 'cause their babies are past that age, but they still milk from their breasts and donate it to the local birthing centers because they know how important mother's milk is. But here's the caveat, they pasteurize the milk. The mother, the local mothers who will donate breast milk to the birthing center for these newborn babies where either the obstetrician or the mother of the newborn baby does not want the cow's milk, they want mama's milk. The hospital or the birthing center will not offer that milk until the milk is pasteurized. And if you pasteurize human milk, you've done the same thing that you've done when you pasteurize cow's milk. And so some patients will say, "Yeah, but Dr. Jack, aren't you better off "just drinking pasteurized milk than no milk at all?" No. No, no, not at all. I mean, you'd be better off not drinking pasteurize milk because it causes allergies, it causes great food sensitivities, it causes a muckiness that begins to build up in the gut because your body has a very hard time digesting pasteurize milk to the point where a lot of parents just realize they can't give their kids milk at all, but the kids still want breakfast cereal, one of the most unhealthy foods you can possibly feed a child. And so they go get milk alternatives. Oat milk, oh, there's no milk in a note. Almond milk, there's no milk in an almond. They just call it that because once they ultra process this stuff, including pasteurization, they end up with a milky product. And so somehow without studying this, without researching this, the profoundly negative effect of cooking your foods past the point where you destroy amino acids, you destroy the carrier mechanisms that take vitamins from that food and put it into your bloodstream, you destroy enzymes, never occurs to anybody because it's tasty and it's delicious. And why are these milks tasty and delicious? The almond, the oat, and whatever, or soy is because they're loaded with sugar. If they didn't load these things up with sugar, you or your children, neither you nor your children would drink this stuff. So I just ask that you research this, two places to go to, the Weston A Price Foundation, Google that, and realmilk.com, Weston A Price Foundation and realmilk.com, if you want more information on this, because this is absolutely vital to the health of your children. And I have a very large pediatric practice in my clinic and the children who are fed raw cow's milk from being weaned off of mama's breast are some of the healthiest children I have ever seen. It's something to be joining Doug. It's a pleasure and a privilege for me to be a part of the Doug Stephan Good Day Health Show team. - When you need meal time inspiration, it's worth shopping king supers for thousands of appetizing ingredients that inspire countless mouthwatering meals. And no matter what tasty choice you make, you'll enjoy our everyday low prices, plus extra ways to save, like digital coupons worth over $600 each week and up to one dollar off per gallon at the pump with points. So you can get big flavors and big savings, king supers, fresh for everyone, fuel restrictions apply. - Jack does an extremely good job, otherwise I wouldn't let him do it by himself. I'm going through the issues that are before us. When it comes to your health and well-being, he's a nook, a chiropractor in Salt Lake City, but then hopefully most of you knew that. Gaps practitioner means he knows all about your gut. And he's here to address the concerns you may have about diet and activity and stuff. So, and by the way, we're brought to you, in part by Calitrin, world famous way to lose weight and keep it off the simple way 'cause it's not toxic, no drugs, no stimulants, none of that stuff, there's really good healthy ingredients that are aimed the science behind this is really cool, although sometimes I wonder about science and Jack does too, right? Is science what it's cracked up to be? I think it depends on-- - Yes, it depends on who's paying for it. - That's right, thank you. All right, so leg cramps, I have 'em, you have 'em, these painful muscle contractions that are common, how do we alleviate from your perspective? So I had a couple last night while I was sleeping, can be excruciating, painful, these are involuntary muscle contractions, are they not? - Well, it's one of the easiest things dug in the world to get rid of. And it's brought on by a lack of certain things that need to be in the diet that the American, the standard American diet just does not provide. And that's enough vitamin D, enough calcium, and enough fatty acids. Now, what I mean by that is I have a podcast at forbiddendoctor.com on restless legs, and it goes into great detail about how you can stop 'em within 24 to 48 hours. Involves three products from a standard process that's available at forbiddendoctor.com. - Yeah, and they are. - And calcium lactate, calcium lactate, 'cause you need calcium for muscles to contract and for muscles to relax, cataplex F and cataplex D. Cataplex D to make sure you've got enough D because your body will not absorb calcium without enough D. Enough calcium for the muscles to relax, and cataplex F is what drives the calcium out of the bloodstream into the tissues. Same thing we recommend for heat stroke, for restless legs, for other forms of problems for calcium deficiencies. So easily addressed diaterally, go ahead. - Well, one of the things about standard process is there are a number of calcium products, whether it be calcium lactate, there's calma, plus there's regular calcium capsules. I take all of those things and I still have cramps, and that's not maybe I'm not taking enough. - Well, you need cataplex F then. If you're not cataplex F as a certain portion of the essential fatty acids that are necessary to get the calcium out of the bloodstream into the tissues. What vitamin D does is it gets calcium out of your gut from your dietary intake and puts it into the blood, but you gotta get the calcium out of the blood into the tissues, and that's the role of certain essential fatty acids that are concentrated in a cataplex F product. So, well, I tell people, go ahead. - Well, I've seen some recommendations using vitamin B12 as well, do you subscribe to that? - Well, vitamin B12 is mostly for red blood cell maturation. Vitamin B12 is for people who are just dragging and have no energy, and they usually don't have an energy because they're facing anemia, and they're facing anemia to, you know, two little red blood cells to carry the oxygen because they don't have enough B12 in their diet. And B12 only comes from an animal source, and so people who do not eat enough animal products are gonna be deficient of B12. So, and I have patients who just don't want to eat animal products, or at least one of them to mount. So, I tell them to take cataplex B12. It's derived from an animal source. It gives you the B12, but it doesn't really have a whole lot to do with muscles. It's mostly red blood cells and energy, and DNA. - What about magnesium? And that's something I've heard about. - Magnesium, the body doesn't need much. It needs magnesium, but it doesn't need very much, and a lot of people just overdo it all the time. But magnesium really doesn't have a whole lot to do with muscle contraction or muscle relaxation. It's primarily a calcium job. So, but I recommend magnesium in different forms, like easy mag to get certain forms of magnesium across the blood brain barrier into the brain for better brain function. - There it is. - But not a whole lot to do with muscles. - You heard it here first on the Good Day Health program. Dr. Jack Stockwell here brought to you in part by Calitrin. 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