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I am Dr Tabatha, the functional gynecologist. I'm a board certified OBY giant and functional medicine physician. I've embraced the world of functional medicine and wellness through my own personal health journey, and I'm super excited to share my wisdom and unique perspective as it pertains to women's health. So if you're struggling hormone imbalance, weight gain, period issues, anxiety and son, you name it, then you come to the right place. I want to be your functional gynecologist. So welcome. Hi, friends. I'm excited to interview Dr Christine Blanche. Today. She's known as the detox Dak, so she's the CEO of the Integrative Healing Center in New York City. Her passion is giving women and men a place where they can be heard and he'll when it comes to their health. So Dr Blanches PhD research thesis was entitled The Blanche Breast Cancer Prevention Protocol, which we're going to talk about today. She she's going to explain how you can become your own health advocate and make changes in interventions in your life to decrease your risk of developing disease. So this episode is full of empowering helpful information. But she also talks about working with 9 11 rescue workers and how she helped them detoxify and regain their health. So her story is really touching and uplifting. I want you guys to know that you can impact your health. You just have to go outside the box, dig a little bit deeper, keep asking questions and figure out your why. Why do I not feel well? Why am I sick? Then we can tackle those issues. Often times those issues are heavy toxic burden causing hormonal imbalances. So we're going to talk about that today. So Doctor Blanche has been featured on News 12 Long Island, naturally Natural Awakenings magazine, the Long Island Press Intelligent Medicine podcast in all kinds of other media sources. She's just a wealth of information. She is proud to have over 25 years of experience in her various areas of medicine and is the happy wife and mother of two amazing adult Children. So she's not losing her hair through cove, it dealing with home schooling the way some of us are. But she definitely understands the stressors of this whole situation, which we touched upon a little bit. So it's her belief that together we can change the face of medicine to be about prevention and health. So I definitely want you to stay tuned to the end of this episode because she does give tons of information about how to reclaim your health, including her girlfriend. Cleanse that we talked about her detox program and even for men, the man up D tax. So here we go. Well, welcome, Dr Blanche. Thanks for being on the functional gynecologist podcast.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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I'm super excited to connect with you ever since I met you last year in Arizona. So you are out in New York City, right?
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Yes. They have a couple locations on the island and one in New York City.
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Very nice. Okay, So I wanted you to come and talk to me about breast health and thermography because I just think it's so important for women to understand that they have the ability to impact the health, their breast and their future. And, you know, I have so many women who are nervous and worried about breast cancer, and they don't want to get it, but they aren't really proactive, you know, other than doing their yearly mammogram because I think the genetic aspect is so heavily pushed in the media like, Oh, well, I don't have that gene mutation. I'm fine. Right? And we know that as physicians, that's not true. Like you just as being a woman, you have a risk. What is it? One and eight, I think. So Talk to me. Why did you do your PhD in breast health?
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Great question. So I had spent most of my years in conventional medicine er, surgery, critical care. And honestly, I got into functional integrative medicine because my sister mom was diagnosed with cancer. So she was diagnosed at 32 years old with Hodgkin's lymphoma, and I sort of was desperate to find information to help her. So I started writing all these books and holistic cancer care and integrative medicine, and I was like, Whoa, I didn't learn any of this E. I think most of us to get into integrative
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and functional medicine. It's
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a mind blowing aspect when we realize that nutrition matters and Dotson's matter and stress because we're just not talk back. Yeah, I sort of went back to school and started studying. Really. My focus was holistic cancer prevention. To be honest with you. We had We have lost my sister in law. Like I said, she was 32 should two year old baby girl was just, like traumatic. Awful terrible. I started with myself. I was just like, Oh, my gosh, is I started to read everything. I was like, I'm doing everything wrong. I'm gonna get sick, you know? So that was my own. I have to do this for me because I can't do that to my You know, I can't leave my babies. Kind of feeling is every mother I think goes through when they think about their mortality. Um, and living in Long Island. As soon as I started my practice, it was just breast cancer after breast cancer after breast cancer, it was It's just everywhere here when we are a hot spot for breast cancer. And so I took care of so many women, you know, through breast cancer, with the diagnosis from a holistic, complementary perspective. And one day I was just like, this is not enough. We have to shift the focus to be more about prevention. Like I don't want to help more women through this. I want to help them from ever hearing those words. You know I have cancer.
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Name a meme.
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Exactly. So I had incorporated tomography into my practice years before that. And demography is just an amazing technology. It's afford Fred camera that picks up literally inflammatory patterns in the body so you can see everything from, um, you know, autoimmune disease in the thyroid to gut inflammation to Sinus inflammation and its most notably known four breasts. Because we see a very different test than mammogram or sonogram because those are more tests of anatomy, this is more of a tempest of physiology. So I get to see the breast I could see. Is the right breasts more dense than the left breast? How dense are they? You know, they mildly dense, moderately don't severely dense. And then we can see patterns, which we call neo vascular parity, which is new blood vessels coming to an area to feed rogue rogue cells. So it's much more of a preventive test. It shows me a suspicious area. They may eventually become a problem, which is in, you know, it's an action point for people. We don't just take the picture and bring them back. That would probably My biggest criticism of demography is there's a lot of places they just take the picture. We don't give the patients any ideas of what to do to change the terrain. Eso That's why did my page Do you research in it? Because, however, year after year after year of doing this with women and then doing simple things like starting vitamin D, you know, having them use anti inflammatory topic ALS on their breasts. Slight dietary changes, stress relief like yoga, meditation. We got to bring them back and they get to take another picture and see the before and after the change. They made an arrest, and we always see a change, which is just super exciting for women because they feel empowered instead of afraid they really feel like, Wow, I did that. What else can I dio? Yeah, so it's very cool. It's really it's. I think it's a technology that more practices should be using because it's just so objective, like before and after you can see the difference, you know?
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Oh, that's so empowering. That's awesome. How young do you have women? Start with demography will
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recommend age 23 you know, sort of on the breast carefully developed. Um, you know, And then I usually do your first baseline tomography, and then they'll tell you to come back and you have three months or six months for that initial. Those become your baseline. So we like to see that whatever we have, we changed. Whatever particle we implemented that it's actually working. If they're worried about an area that bringing back in three months, if they're not worried, they give you six months and then that becomes your baseline. So once a year, women can comfort mammography. They get to see if anything shifts in the wrong direction. If they've had any setbacks, it's It's a very It's a very telling test. It really does give me a lot of information.
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Awesome. Can you explain a little bit more about the topical anti inflammatories that we're talking about? That sounds really interesting.
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Yeah, so we use sacred frankincense oil, which is boswellia. It comes from a tree in the Middle East on, and this is essential oil that we dilute. Um, at first we were using concentrated oil, but Terry extensive the soil. So what we did was we found that the right solution off the oil to be able to apply to the breast and still get the same change on the mammography. So the protocol that we studied was for vitamin D, sacred frankincense topically applied. Um, you know, um, we also checked for mth Afar jeans. And if they did have a mutation in that detoxification gene, we started B vitamins, methylated B vitamins. We implemented some dietary changes, Just sort of like whole foods, anti inflammatory on and stress relief. Ah, and, um, I don was the third component for the breasts was a lot of data on. I dine for getting rid of density cystic breasts. So we actually have women topically apply the I don't directly on the breast, like 1/4 sized spot twice a week. And then we have them taken aural the oxygen water. And that was basically the protocol. So we did an initial thermography. We started the women on the protocol. We did of 36 12 24 months follow up visits. And it was like, unbelievable. Really Everybody had changed. Um, everybody had improvement on. And that's what I've been seeing in my practice, you know, for the last eight years.
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That's amazing. I mean, everybody had improvement, you know, probably to differing degrees. But like improvement, that's pretty amazing. So
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isn't seven I use? My control group was just vitamin D, so the limit had pictures, but they just took vitamin D, and I actually was surprised that they did not have. Yeah, yeah, so we nobody's so protected for the breast. We know it's so important for reducing risk for breast cancer, but yet it didn't impact the physiology of the of the breast once they were there. Okay? And I wasn't exactly expecting them.
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So yeah, so it's like it always is a combination, right? I mean, it's always multifactorial. It's never just one thing that makes you sick or gets you well. So I think it's, I think we've been
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emotionally. There's something very powerful about taking care of my breasts. I want them to be healthy. Just that decision, that choice that women make. I think that actually plays a role as well.
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Yes, for sure, as opposed to just ignoring it, not even thinking about it. You know, some women are so afraid to even do self breast exams because they're afraid they're going to find something. And I think all of that anxiety just adds to the negative development of anything that could be going on. You know, I mean,
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yeah, I totally agree.
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So I love the empowerment piece. I find it very interesting that you said, you know, New York has such a high cancer rate because I think of New York and the coast of Michigan. A lot of like because at the turn of the last century, we had so much waterway production in factory development. And I could just imagine all of the water pollution and soil pollution that we had during the Industrial Revolution, heavy in Michigan and in New York. And I know where I live. Cancer is really probably prevalent, you know, breast cancer, prostate and pancreatic. So I would love for you to talk a little bit about how environmental taxes play a role in the development of cancer what you've seen. And please, please share your story about 9 11 and working with the, you know, the people who took care of 9 11 that was That's an amazing story.
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One year for sure. So, yeah, I definitely think environmental toxins play a huge role in the development of cancer. And we were having the same high incidence of breast cancer, prostate cancer and pick out of cancer. Almost every one of my patients that has developed those cancers. I can definitely find somewhere in there history that increased toxic exposure, whether it's environmental from their job. Or maybe it was where they grew up is a kid or, you know, this definitely and and definitely in your area in my area, we just we just living in a lot of toxins from there to water. Teoh, you know, um, electrical issues as well. WiFi, all of it. It's just so congested. Um, and I definitely think for me the toxins are always, um, the finish line for my patients. So I was worked a looser immune system. Hell, there got get them optimized. And then once they're good, we work on getting rid of those toxins. Um, and that became an important piece of my treatment plans when I did work with 9 11 rescue workers, you know? So I had, um I had worked with the 9 11 detox project, and I was hired to come in and do the exam completely objective, not attached before and after they did this phone a program and you know, the beginning, I would go in and I kind of knew what they were doing. But I would do, you know, my function test so I would do vital signs, blood work, physical exam, and I would sit in It talks in these rescue workers. This was several years after 9 11 and I mean routinely, they would sit in front of me and just bawl their eyes out and I listen. I'm dying. I feel like I'm dying. I can't sleep. I can't breathe. I'm losing my relationships. They had post traumatic stress. It was just heart wrenching to hear one story after another. And then they did the program and the program included some supplementation. They got into these Big Shona. So they get on a treadmill exercise until they were sweating that go into these big rooms where it would be like 10 or 12 people in a sauna at a time, and they would sit there for about 30 minutes until they got a really good sweat. Then they would get out, pull down, shower off meat, some vegetables come to take a break and repeat that cycle 4 to 5 times a day, seven days a week until they were done, which was anywhere from 20 to 40 days. And then they were supposed to come back and see me, and these guys would bounce into the office and say, I feel like Superman and I'm looking at my chart going Wait a minute. He said he felt like he was dying and he feels like Superman. Next one comes in and says, I feel like I'm 18 again. It was just show Amazing. Yeah, If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would not have believed that it was actually cost fall. But we took 9 11 rescue workers, and with this I mean, it was intense. Don't get me wrong, but it was simple When you really think about it, um, they detoxified about 1000 people and then the date has been amazing. A reduction in cancer is the route that just the sheer improvement in quality of life was so mind boggling to me. Yeah, that that just became essential, you know, essential to help people get rid of the toxins that could lead to cancers because we know especially breast in and and prostate. There's a definitive link to successors. Doesn't hundreds and hundreds of studies to show that they're all looking at individual toxins? Nobody's really looking at the accumulative effect. All of these things were being hit with, you know? So,
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yeah, it's so important, I tried to explain to my patients, It's like your cells are a bucket, you know, they can only get so full before they overflow and create a big old mess all over your system and you can get by and live as long as that's Buck. It doesn't overflow. You might not feel very well. You might not function optimally. And then once you spell and have that mess, it's hard to get back from right. It's hard to clean that up, so I can just imagine those rescue workers, all of the smoke inhalation and the heavy metals. And I heard you somewhere else talking about the cadmium levels from the cell phone batteries, like things that average people do not think about like that is amazing to me. And so often we say, Oh, it's just PTSD or it's just anxiety or depression When no, you are physically ill. You are full of taxes that are from the environment. So it's like, heartbreaking to me.
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Yeah, it really isn't even now now that we're living through this Covad virus, you know, when people are talking about these young people who are no pre existing conditions and they got so sick and died, and I'm thinking to myself, no, they had for existing conditions a distant real life. Yeah, exactly. We're seeing impact about now, too, because the body can only handle so much. Just like you said. I used the bucket analogy all the time.
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Yeah, exactly. And I would love for people through this covert experience to start focusing. Unlike, how can I strengthen my immune system and be prepared for the next virus? That comes because masks and ST hand sanitizer are not going to cut it. And the more me sanitize, we're hurting our immune system. We're not strengthening ourselves. And so it breaks my heart, the message that is out there in the media and just the wrong information that people are getting like we need to hide from these viruses. No, we need to coexist with them. they've been here long before we were and they're gonna be here long after, right? So true. Yeah. I mean, you
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dollars being since the respirators. Some think my whole goal is to keep people out of the hospital. I don't ever want them to me that, you know, yes. It just a little bit of attention into just giving people tools to be stronger, to build their soldier. You know, it's arm their army inside them about their own body. E think that's where the message has to be, you know,
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right? And even if you have not been diagnosed with the disease, that does not mean you're healthy, right? The absence of disease is not health. I think I hear that time and time again. Oh, I'm healthy. I'm fine. Nothing's wrong with me. Except you're trending toward diabetes. You're trending toward metabolic syndrome, you know? So I think we just need to start looking at things in a different light. And that brings me back to breast health. Like we now can look at all of the metabolites of our estrogens and see, you know, what are the imbalances in the driving forces behind feeding these cancers? and lifestyle can impact that so much. So do you work with women with, you know, prevention of breast cancer, or where are they coming to you? At what point in their situation getting,
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I would say I would mostly get a sick family member. Somebody was diagnosed with something like diabetes or autoimmune disease, cancer. And then it was interesting. As I started. Take care of them. I would. Their whole family would sort of come. So it became like what family practice was supposed to be. You know, the mom combs the sister comes high blood family. It's five generations,
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so that's awesome.
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I love that because that's the whole idea is they have to live this lifestyle. This is this is a lifestyle. So the more
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of them than do
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it together and support each other the better. Um, you know, but anyone any female Breast health is always on the radar for me because for mental health is so tied with toxins. Um, you know the difficult period symptoms, you know, the hormonal disturbances that criminal symptoms are all sort of precursors to that story that I always heard from women who were diagnosed with cancer So you know, when I hear those little clues in the story and like a detective, I kind of educate the patient. Hey, do this. That and the other thing. And guess what? Your periods were just gonna be so great.
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A good turning
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point when people come back and they're like, I can't believe I had these terrible periods for 10 years.
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Yeah, I mean, we get to the point where women think it's normal toe have, like crazy PMS, symptoms and heavy periods. And no, it's just that we're also unhealthy together, that we're all suffering. But that's not normal. That's not how we were created to be right. So what?
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It's similar to fiber assistant density, Right? So fiber cystic density used to have a nice 89 code diagnosis, and they unclassified it because they can't really tell every woman in the United States that's not not ask why is it no longer? Yeah, it's unusual. Were just declassifying it.
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Oh my gosh. Look crazy. Yes. So explain to my listeners Why do they develop fiber cystic breasts? Because that is a common question I get.
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But it's a combination of things. I think it's you know dietary factors are important. I think I dined. Efficiency is a big issue in the United States. I think that's, um, something I see very commonly. There really just isn't any good sources of I don rich foods. I mean, but I can't really tell people eat a ton of seaweed because who knows what Toxins are in the seaweed, right? Nobody uses more in salt. I die assault anymore, right? They used beautiful Himalayan Sea. Really, It's just not a lot I done in the diet. It's it's honestly, it's simple, Is that and you give women back the appropriate dosage and the appropriate things that they need. Their body heals, it heals itself. So it really is just about fun, that nutrient dense, you know, nutrient deficiency to reverse the symptom. And vitamin D, I think, does play a role also in the fiber cystic disease. So I think it's like a combination of things. But women walk around with very painful, you know, rock hard breasts for years out of their lives unnecessarily.
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Yeah, for sure, and I think
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it would be that way.
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I was surprised when I learned about bromide and how that's put into so many of our processed foods, and it competes with iodine in our system. So even if you know by some miracle, we're getting enough iodine, we have other things competing with that. You know, I know that was my issue as a young girl when I developed postpartum thyroid itis like I just had so much fluoride and chlorine and all these halogen XYZ built up in my system that the Aydin couldn't even function. So I think that's a really good point that you bring up. And I think part of it is from Are Dash Diet and, you know, the low salt no so salt diet that we went through in the nineties and two thousands, like salt became this villain. And it's really something fat were just that, Yes, and they really just messed us up hormonally so bad I were still recovering, you know, we really are.
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It really is
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so sure. Yes, you don't have to suffer with painful, miserable breast. That's not normal. Oh, do you do the Dutch tests at all with your patients?
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I don't. We have a very limited in New York with a lot of the testing that we do here, So, um, it's just very restrictive. So I have to really be just a really good detective and use
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a lot of
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political history to kind of get all the information.
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It's pretty obvious when there's estrogen dominance, right, and you can tell when people start implementing those changes and they're bad symptoms. Go away, right?
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Right Side effects?
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Exactly. That isn't awesome. So do you find that women who are carrying these extra toxins and xeno estrogens and everything have issues with their weight?
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Definitely. So I kind of after my experience in the 9 11 detox project. After a couple of years of research and really delving into it, I created a three week detox program that I have. It's called the Girlfriend Cleanse. Um, and it's really designed Teoh. Mobilize the body's ability to get rid of the toxins. Get rid of the the hormone disrupting chemicals. Um, and it's I think it's very important to prepare someone's gut, um, get their gut healthy and then do the detox, and that's when I get the best results. It's very good nourishing as well as detoxification on most of my patients that have bad periods. You know I make I may give them a supplement hormone protect or something just to kind of help them with the symptoms. But once they detox, they normally don't need those supplements anymore. And I tell them, use your period is a gauge of three years from now you're feeling breast tenderness or your crepes Come back, girl. Sudden, you're crabby the week before your period and you're had I want to be going. It's trying to detox, you know, because I do find that that's the key. Um, and the women are funny because they, you know, they go into a lot of women will do a detox, and their primary objective is to lose weight. Alright, right. Yelling in, right. That's OK. Um um because that's the side effects. So once you start to let go of these toxins physiologically we store a lot of the toxins in at a position. So for women of told me for years, they're eating healthy, they're going to the gym and they're stuck. And in my mind, I was thinking, Well, they've got some toxins in there, and that's a really safe place for our body to keep those toxins until I give them a safe way to get the toxins out of the body. They're stuck at that week, and then they get that last 10 £15 they're like, the happiest
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Happy? Yes, I That's what I want everyone to understand is that if you are struggling to lose weight or you feel worse when you're trying to lose weight, that is your body's way of protecting you from this doored up talks and load that you have. So I love that you're healing the gut first, and then you're doing the detox program, I think, and
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on that note, I've had women do. These kind of crash detox is like super crazy fasting. Juicing too long, too hard, kind of grows on and they get the push of those toxins. They could get very, very sick. So I don't believe in the detox reaction. You got a reaction. Your body is trying to tell you something wrong. Yes, when you detox safely, you should feel better and better and better and better. So, yeah, I like that you brought that up to because that's something that's one of the reasons I created The program is I didn't want people doing things that were dangerous because they definitely have seen.
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Yeah, because there are supplements out there that pull the taxes out, but they don't actually bind and remove them from your system. So then they're just going and depositing somewhere else. And that feels horrible. You know, I called communication That's also for my
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hip and put it in my brain. Not exactly. You
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know, that's no you want to do It's not good. Oh, and the other you know, thing is that sometimes there were d tax gets thrown around for more simpler things, like a colon cleanse or a liver cleanse things like that that you're not really pulling taxes out of your cells and getting them out of your system. So you just have to be careful the way that word is used, right? And you guys also do the man up t tax for the gentleman, right?
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Yes. Yes. So I had so many couples the women would convince their husbands to do the front friends with them on, and they had these amazing results and they would come in and say, uh, you gotta change the name. I'm not gonna tell my friends, my friends, I lost all this weight and I feel great, but I'm not telling them. I did the girlfriend cliffs a couple years, but we got the men up detox wards, which is very similar. But men have different needs and women, so
spk_0: 28:57
yeah, exactly. That is very cool. Oh, my goodness. And so you along those lines, you are writing a book that's supposed to be coming out. Is that true?
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It is true. I'm getting a little closer now that I have a little bit more free time at home Confinement?
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Yes, exactly. Like we're all forced to do our projects. We've been putting off, right, more
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prevention plan. And it's just that years of my patients stories, my things that I've learned I learned most of what I need to know from my patients, to be honest with you. And I have a few patients that are gonna be writing chapters in the book about their own experience with their health and kind of just dabbling into lifestyle, medicine, preventive care and and how it affected them because I think that's so powerful for people to hear other people's experiences. Yes, album the biggest thing I hear is I don't understand how this was so easy to get better. Once it's done, it's always
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a little hard.
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The beginning, Yes, but the biggest thing I hear in the end it is I can't believe how easy this was. You know,
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right. I think that people just need some guidance and they need to know that what they're doing is the right thing. You know, I get so many patients that have, like, done 50 different things and none of it consistently because they're so confused about what they should be doing, right, Like all this website says, I should do this. And so it's just good to work with a functional doctor, you know, have somebody to walk you through it and say, What you are doing is okay and it's gonna work and it's going to help. And they think once you start feeling better, it's easy to stick with it, right?
spk_1: 30:36
Definitely. Once you got to get a return on your investments, Yes. Then you'll be all in.
spk_0: 30:41
Is there anything that tops the list when you talk about preventative medicine for women? Like what should every woman dio
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definitely take vitamin D. I think a really good probiotic is very important for keeping your gut healthy. Those would be really, really big ones. And then just the biggest thing is diet and stress. Really? Yeah, over this anti inflammatory on the stresses Big. I mean, I think that's one of our problems in New York is we're running on the rat race, you know, We're just go, go, go, go, go! And it really just take a toll. I mean, those adrenals are hormones that reserve eso. I think stress relief is really, really tough for women. I think that's
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yeah, because it's completely interconnected with your female hormone system, right? Like my patients have definitely had more cycle issues than ever with this covert 19 because they're so stressed. They're stuck at home with their kids or they can't, you know, make money or they can't do what they need to do. And, you know, they're calling me like, Hey, my period didn't come all right. It can't stop bleeding, you know, are I want to put my husband's head off and it's that stress hormone. It isn't even your sex hormones. It said Dionne court is all right so, so true. I know. Like people need to meditate. They need to do yoga. They need tohave, downtime and loan time. Uh, I've been taken advantage of that. Me now more
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than ever. We need it. We definitely need it, cause it's different stresses, you know, be alive. Fear. Yeah. Yes,
spk_0: 32:23
Yes, Exactly. So? Well, I'm excited for your book to come out. That's gonna be amazing. You're gonna have to come back and talk to us about it when it comes out. Very cool. So you are still unlocked down. You're still doing virtual visits in New York. Um, if somebody wants Teoh, implement your protocols, do you work with them online out of New York? Or do you have that? We have capability
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at a lot of patients all over the country all over the world. I did a webinar today, the Wellness Warrior workshop with people from Spain and Dubai and Germany. Oh, my God. Yeah, it's it's, you know, it's it's really easy to take care of people virtually on. And I think right now, more than ever, people need as much support as possible and just a sense of community to be able to talk. Talk to other people. It's so isolating to be home with just your family as much as you love
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him. Yes. Especially if they're, you know, 10 and under. I
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e I don't envy the people with two and three year old. Let's put it that way. But yeah, I think I think that, you know, if you go on our website that Dr Christine blames dot com we have options for group visits as well as individual visits and mutation work of, you know, kind of the whole functional medicine. And there's likes to our detox isas Well, so they think you look into
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that. Awesome. And that is Christine with a K right, Dr. Christine Land. Awesome. Well, I've just enjoyed talking to you so much. You're just the wealth of knowledge.
spk_1: 34:03
Oh, thank you so much.
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This is great. This was wonderful. So promise me you'll come back when your book comes out.
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E definitely will.
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Awesome. All right, take care. Thank you so much. Right. Okay. Thank you so much for staying with us today. I love Dr Christine, and I knew you would love her too. She's just full of wisdom and helpful information. for regaining your health. And didn't you love her story about working with the 9 11 rescuers? The first time I heard that I had goose bumps because it's just so life changing for them. And I don't think that we fully understand the complexity of what the environment has on our systems, the impact that it has. So don't downplay what's going on around you in your life and in your environment. It might have a huge part to do with what you're going through. So I incurred you toe work with a functional medicine physician. If you are struggling with any issues so that we can find the root cause and get you back to health, get you feeling amazing again. So if you want to check out Dr Blanche, I will put the link in my show notes. Her website is Christine blanche dot com, and also check me out on Instagram and Facebook at Dr Tabatha T A B a T h A. Shoot me your questions, you know, send me a d. M. I would love to show you out of my question of the week episodes or tell me what topics you want me to cover and I will get on it. I am here for you. I do this for you. I highly encourage you to pick one thing out from this episode that you're going to incorporate. Maybe that's getting your vitamin d level checked and upping your supplement. Because really, you wanna be up where? 50 to 70. And you probably are much lower than that. We just honestly don't get enough sun exposure and vitamin D in our food anymore. Or maybe realise that iodine might be an issue. Whatever resonated with you in today's episode, I encourage you to make one little change. Because if you do that with every episode, it's gonna add up. You're gonna see significant change. They multiply on themselves. So keep working on being the best. You and I will see you ladies next week. Go have an amazing week
I am Dr Tabatha, the functional gynecologist. I'm a board certified OBY giant and functional medicine physician. I've embraced the world of functional medicine and wellness through my own personal health journey, and I'm super excited to share my wisdom and unique perspective as it pertains to women's health. So if you're struggling hormone imbalance, weight gain, period issues, anxiety and son, you name it, then you come to the right place. I want to be your functional gynecologist. So welcome. Hi, friends. I'm excited to interview Dr Christine Blanche. Today. She's known as the detox Dak, so she's the CEO of the Integrative Healing Center in New York City. Her passion is giving women and men a place where they can be heard and he'll when it comes to their health. So Dr Blanches PhD research thesis was entitled The Blanche Breast Cancer Prevention Protocol, which we're going to talk about today. She she's going to explain how you can become your own health advocate and make changes in interventions in your life to decrease your risk of developing disease. So this episode is full of empowering helpful information. But she also talks about working with 9 11 rescue workers and how she helped them detoxify and regain their health. So her story is really touching and uplifting. I want you guys to know that you can impact your health. You just have to go outside the box, dig a little bit deeper, keep asking questions and figure out your why. Why do I not feel well? Why am I sick? Then we can tackle those issues. Often times those issues are heavy toxic burden causing hormonal imbalances. So we're going to talk about that today. So Doctor Blanche has been featured on News 12 Long Island, naturally Natural Awakenings magazine, the Long Island Press Intelligent Medicine podcast in all kinds of other media sources. She's just a wealth of information. She is proud to have over 25 years of experience in her various areas of medicine and is the happy wife and mother of two amazing adult Children. So she's not losing her hair through cove, it dealing with home schooling the way some of us are. But she definitely understands the stressors of this whole situation, which we touched upon a little bit. So it's her belief that together we can change the face of medicine to be about prevention and health. So I definitely want you to stay tuned to the end of this episode because she does give tons of information about how to reclaim your health, including her girlfriend. Cleanse that we talked about her detox program and even for men, the man up D tax. So here we go. Well, welcome, Dr Blanche. Thanks for being on the functional gynecologist podcast.
spk_1: 3:25
Thank you so much for having me.
spk_0: 3:27
I'm super excited to connect with you ever since I met you last year in Arizona. So you are out in New York City, right?
spk_1: 3:36
Yes. They have a couple locations on the island and one in New York City.
spk_0: 3:39
Very nice. Okay, So I wanted you to come and talk to me about breast health and thermography because I just think it's so important for women to understand that they have the ability to impact the health, their breast and their future. And, you know, I have so many women who are nervous and worried about breast cancer, and they don't want to get it, but they aren't really proactive, you know, other than doing their yearly mammogram because I think the genetic aspect is so heavily pushed in the media like, Oh, well, I don't have that gene mutation. I'm fine. Right? And we know that as physicians, that's not true. Like you just as being a woman, you have a risk. What is it? One and eight, I think. So Talk to me. Why did you do your PhD in breast health?
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Great question. So I had spent most of my years in conventional medicine er, surgery, critical care. And honestly, I got into functional integrative medicine because my sister mom was diagnosed with cancer. So she was diagnosed at 32 years old with Hodgkin's lymphoma, and I sort of was desperate to find information to help her. So I started writing all these books and holistic cancer care and integrative medicine, and I was like, Whoa, I didn't learn any of this E. I think most of us to get into integrative
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and functional medicine. It's
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a mind blowing aspect when we realize that nutrition matters and Dotson's matter and stress because we're just not talk back. Yeah, I sort of went back to school and started studying. Really. My focus was holistic cancer prevention. To be honest with you. We had We have lost my sister in law. Like I said, she was 32 should two year old baby girl was just, like traumatic. Awful terrible. I started with myself. I was just like, Oh, my gosh, is I started to read everything. I was like, I'm doing everything wrong. I'm gonna get sick, you know? So that was my own. I have to do this for me because I can't do that to my You know, I can't leave my babies. Kind of feeling is every mother I think goes through when they think about their mortality. Um, and living in Long Island. As soon as I started my practice, it was just breast cancer after breast cancer after breast cancer, it was It's just everywhere here when we are a hot spot for breast cancer. And so I took care of so many women, you know, through breast cancer, with the diagnosis from a holistic, complementary perspective. And one day I was just like, this is not enough. We have to shift the focus to be more about prevention. Like I don't want to help more women through this. I want to help them from ever hearing those words. You know I have cancer.
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Name a meme.
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Exactly. So I had incorporated tomography into my practice years before that. And demography is just an amazing technology. It's afford Fred camera that picks up literally inflammatory patterns in the body so you can see everything from, um, you know, autoimmune disease in the thyroid to gut inflammation to Sinus inflammation and its most notably known four breasts. Because we see a very different test than mammogram or sonogram because those are more tests of anatomy, this is more of a tempest of physiology. So I get to see the breast I could see. Is the right breasts more dense than the left breast? How dense are they? You know, they mildly dense, moderately don't severely dense. And then we can see patterns, which we call neo vascular parity, which is new blood vessels coming to an area to feed rogue rogue cells. So it's much more of a preventive test. It shows me a suspicious area. They may eventually become a problem, which is in, you know, it's an action point for people. We don't just take the picture and bring them back. That would probably My biggest criticism of demography is there's a lot of places they just take the picture. We don't give the patients any ideas of what to do to change the terrain. Eso That's why did my page Do you research in it? Because, however, year after year after year of doing this with women and then doing simple things like starting vitamin D, you know, having them use anti inflammatory topic ALS on their breasts. Slight dietary changes, stress relief like yoga, meditation. We got to bring them back and they get to take another picture and see the before and after the change. They made an arrest, and we always see a change, which is just super exciting for women because they feel empowered instead of afraid they really feel like, Wow, I did that. What else can I dio? Yeah, so it's very cool. It's really it's. I think it's a technology that more practices should be using because it's just so objective, like before and after you can see the difference, you know?
spk_0: 8:18
Oh, that's so empowering. That's awesome. How young do you have women? Start with demography will
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recommend age 23 you know, sort of on the breast carefully developed. Um, you know, And then I usually do your first baseline tomography, and then they'll tell you to come back and you have three months or six months for that initial. Those become your baseline. So we like to see that whatever we have, we changed. Whatever particle we implemented that it's actually working. If they're worried about an area that bringing back in three months, if they're not worried, they give you six months and then that becomes your baseline. So once a year, women can comfort mammography. They get to see if anything shifts in the wrong direction. If they've had any setbacks, it's It's a very It's a very telling test. It really does give me a lot of information.
spk_0: 9:03
Awesome. Can you explain a little bit more about the topical anti inflammatories that we're talking about? That sounds really interesting.
spk_1: 9:12
Yeah, so we use sacred frankincense oil, which is boswellia. It comes from a tree in the Middle East on, and this is essential oil that we dilute. Um, at first we were using concentrated oil, but Terry extensive the soil. So what we did was we found that the right solution off the oil to be able to apply to the breast and still get the same change on the mammography. So the protocol that we studied was for vitamin D, sacred frankincense topically applied. Um, you know, um, we also checked for mth Afar jeans. And if they did have a mutation in that detoxification gene, we started B vitamins, methylated B vitamins. We implemented some dietary changes, Just sort of like whole foods, anti inflammatory on and stress relief. Ah, and, um, I don was the third component for the breasts was a lot of data on. I dine for getting rid of density cystic breasts. So we actually have women topically apply the I don't directly on the breast, like 1/4 sized spot twice a week. And then we have them taken aural the oxygen water. And that was basically the protocol. So we did an initial thermography. We started the women on the protocol. We did of 36 12 24 months follow up visits. And it was like, unbelievable. Really Everybody had changed. Um, everybody had improvement on. And that's what I've been seeing in my practice, you know, for the last eight years.
spk_0: 10:40
That's amazing. I mean, everybody had improvement, you know, probably to differing degrees. But like improvement, that's pretty amazing. So
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isn't seven I use? My control group was just vitamin D, so the limit had pictures, but they just took vitamin D, and I actually was surprised that they did not have. Yeah, yeah, so we nobody's so protected for the breast. We know it's so important for reducing risk for breast cancer, but yet it didn't impact the physiology of the of the breast once they were there. Okay? And I wasn't exactly expecting them.
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So yeah, so it's like it always is a combination, right? I mean, it's always multifactorial. It's never just one thing that makes you sick or gets you well. So I think it's, I think we've been
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emotionally. There's something very powerful about taking care of my breasts. I want them to be healthy. Just that decision, that choice that women make. I think that actually plays a role as well.
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Yes, for sure, as opposed to just ignoring it, not even thinking about it. You know, some women are so afraid to even do self breast exams because they're afraid they're going to find something. And I think all of that anxiety just adds to the negative development of anything that could be going on. You know, I mean,
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yeah, I totally agree.
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So I love the empowerment piece. I find it very interesting that you said, you know, New York has such a high cancer rate because I think of New York and the coast of Michigan. A lot of like because at the turn of the last century, we had so much waterway production in factory development. And I could just imagine all of the water pollution and soil pollution that we had during the Industrial Revolution, heavy in Michigan and in New York. And I know where I live. Cancer is really probably prevalent, you know, breast cancer, prostate and pancreatic. So I would love for you to talk a little bit about how environmental taxes play a role in the development of cancer what you've seen. And please, please share your story about 9 11 and working with the, you know, the people who took care of 9 11 that was That's an amazing story.
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One year for sure. So, yeah, I definitely think environmental toxins play a huge role in the development of cancer. And we were having the same high incidence of breast cancer, prostate cancer and pick out of cancer. Almost every one of my patients that has developed those cancers. I can definitely find somewhere in there history that increased toxic exposure, whether it's environmental from their job. Or maybe it was where they grew up is a kid or, you know, this definitely and and definitely in your area in my area, we just we just living in a lot of toxins from there to water. Teoh, you know, um, electrical issues as well. WiFi, all of it. It's just so congested. Um, and I definitely think for me the toxins are always, um, the finish line for my patients. So I was worked a looser immune system. Hell, there got get them optimized. And then once they're good, we work on getting rid of those toxins. Um, and that became an important piece of my treatment plans when I did work with 9 11 rescue workers, you know? So I had, um I had worked with the 9 11 detox project, and I was hired to come in and do the exam completely objective, not attached before and after they did this phone a program and you know, the beginning, I would go in and I kind of knew what they were doing. But I would do, you know, my function test so I would do vital signs, blood work, physical exam, and I would sit in It talks in these rescue workers. This was several years after 9 11 and I mean routinely, they would sit in front of me and just bawl their eyes out and I listen. I'm dying. I feel like I'm dying. I can't sleep. I can't breathe. I'm losing my relationships. They had post traumatic stress. It was just heart wrenching to hear one story after another. And then they did the program and the program included some supplementation. They got into these Big Shona. So they get on a treadmill exercise until they were sweating that go into these big rooms where it would be like 10 or 12 people in a sauna at a time, and they would sit there for about 30 minutes until they got a really good sweat. Then they would get out, pull down, shower off meat, some vegetables come to take a break and repeat that cycle 4 to 5 times a day, seven days a week until they were done, which was anywhere from 20 to 40 days. And then they were supposed to come back and see me, and these guys would bounce into the office and say, I feel like Superman and I'm looking at my chart going Wait a minute. He said he felt like he was dying and he feels like Superman. Next one comes in and says, I feel like I'm 18 again. It was just show Amazing. Yeah, If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would not have believed that it was actually cost fall. But we took 9 11 rescue workers, and with this I mean, it was intense. Don't get me wrong, but it was simple When you really think about it, um, they detoxified about 1000 people and then the date has been amazing. A reduction in cancer is the route that just the sheer improvement in quality of life was so mind boggling to me. Yeah, that that just became essential, you know, essential to help people get rid of the toxins that could lead to cancers because we know especially breast in and and prostate. There's a definitive link to successors. Doesn't hundreds and hundreds of studies to show that they're all looking at individual toxins? Nobody's really looking at the accumulative effect. All of these things were being hit with, you know? So,
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yeah, it's so important, I tried to explain to my patients, It's like your cells are a bucket, you know, they can only get so full before they overflow and create a big old mess all over your system and you can get by and live as long as that's Buck. It doesn't overflow. You might not feel very well. You might not function optimally. And then once you spell and have that mess, it's hard to get back from right. It's hard to clean that up, so I can just imagine those rescue workers, all of the smoke inhalation and the heavy metals. And I heard you somewhere else talking about the cadmium levels from the cell phone batteries, like things that average people do not think about like that is amazing to me. And so often we say, Oh, it's just PTSD or it's just anxiety or depression When no, you are physically ill. You are full of taxes that are from the environment. So it's like, heartbreaking to me.
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Yeah, it really isn't even now now that we're living through this Covad virus, you know, when people are talking about these young people who are no pre existing conditions and they got so sick and died, and I'm thinking to myself, no, they had for existing conditions a distant real life. Yeah, exactly. We're seeing impact about now, too, because the body can only handle so much. Just like you said. I used the bucket analogy all the time.
spk_0: 18:02
Yeah, exactly. And I would love for people through this covert experience to start focusing. Unlike, how can I strengthen my immune system and be prepared for the next virus? That comes because masks and ST hand sanitizer are not going to cut it. And the more me sanitize, we're hurting our immune system. We're not strengthening ourselves. And so it breaks my heart, the message that is out there in the media and just the wrong information that people are getting like we need to hide from these viruses. No, we need to coexist with them. they've been here long before we were and they're gonna be here long after, right? So true. Yeah. I mean, you
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dollars being since the respirators. Some think my whole goal is to keep people out of the hospital. I don't ever want them to me that, you know, yes. It just a little bit of attention into just giving people tools to be stronger, to build their soldier. You know, it's arm their army inside them about their own body. E think that's where the message has to be, you know,
spk_0: 19:08
right? And even if you have not been diagnosed with the disease, that does not mean you're healthy, right? The absence of disease is not health. I think I hear that time and time again. Oh, I'm healthy. I'm fine. Nothing's wrong with me. Except you're trending toward diabetes. You're trending toward metabolic syndrome, you know? So I think we just need to start looking at things in a different light. And that brings me back to breast health. Like we now can look at all of the metabolites of our estrogens and see, you know, what are the imbalances in the driving forces behind feeding these cancers? and lifestyle can impact that so much. So do you work with women with, you know, prevention of breast cancer, or where are they coming to you? At what point in their situation getting,
spk_1: 20:06
I would say I would mostly get a sick family member. Somebody was diagnosed with something like diabetes or autoimmune disease, cancer. And then it was interesting. As I started. Take care of them. I would. Their whole family would sort of come. So it became like what family practice was supposed to be. You know, the mom combs the sister comes high blood family. It's five generations,
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so that's awesome.
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I love that because that's the whole idea is they have to live this lifestyle. This is this is a lifestyle. So the more
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of them than do
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it together and support each other the better. Um, you know, but anyone any female Breast health is always on the radar for me because for mental health is so tied with toxins. Um, you know the difficult period symptoms, you know, the hormonal disturbances that criminal symptoms are all sort of precursors to that story that I always heard from women who were diagnosed with cancer So you know, when I hear those little clues in the story and like a detective, I kind of educate the patient. Hey, do this. That and the other thing. And guess what? Your periods were just gonna be so great.
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A good turning
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point when people come back and they're like, I can't believe I had these terrible periods for 10 years.
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Yeah, I mean, we get to the point where women think it's normal toe have, like crazy PMS, symptoms and heavy periods. And no, it's just that we're also unhealthy together, that we're all suffering. But that's not normal. That's not how we were created to be right. So what?
spk_1: 21:31
It's similar to fiber assistant density, Right? So fiber cystic density used to have a nice 89 code diagnosis, and they unclassified it because they can't really tell every woman in the United States that's not not ask why is it no longer? Yeah, it's unusual. Were just declassifying it.
spk_0: 21:51
Oh my gosh. Look crazy. Yes. So explain to my listeners Why do they develop fiber cystic breasts? Because that is a common question I get.
spk_1: 22:04
But it's a combination of things. I think it's you know dietary factors are important. I think I dined. Efficiency is a big issue in the United States. I think that's, um, something I see very commonly. There really just isn't any good sources of I don rich foods. I mean, but I can't really tell people eat a ton of seaweed because who knows what Toxins are in the seaweed, right? Nobody uses more in salt. I die assault anymore, right? They used beautiful Himalayan Sea. Really, It's just not a lot I done in the diet. It's it's honestly, it's simple, Is that and you give women back the appropriate dosage and the appropriate things that they need. Their body heals, it heals itself. So it really is just about fun, that nutrient dense, you know, nutrient deficiency to reverse the symptom. And vitamin D, I think, does play a role also in the fiber cystic disease. So I think it's like a combination of things. But women walk around with very painful, you know, rock hard breasts for years out of their lives unnecessarily.
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Yeah, for sure, and I think
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it would be that way.
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I was surprised when I learned about bromide and how that's put into so many of our processed foods, and it competes with iodine in our system. So even if you know by some miracle, we're getting enough iodine, we have other things competing with that. You know, I know that was my issue as a young girl when I developed postpartum thyroid itis like I just had so much fluoride and chlorine and all these halogen XYZ built up in my system that the Aydin couldn't even function. So I think that's a really good point that you bring up. And I think part of it is from Are Dash Diet and, you know, the low salt no so salt diet that we went through in the nineties and two thousands, like salt became this villain. And it's really something fat were just that, Yes, and they really just messed us up hormonally so bad I were still recovering, you know, we really are.
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It really is
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so sure. Yes, you don't have to suffer with painful, miserable breast. That's not normal. Oh, do you do the Dutch tests at all with your patients?
spk_1: 24:25
I don't. We have a very limited in New York with a lot of the testing that we do here, So, um, it's just very restrictive. So I have to really be just a really good detective and use
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a lot of
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political history to kind of get all the information.
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It's pretty obvious when there's estrogen dominance, right, and you can tell when people start implementing those changes and they're bad symptoms. Go away, right?
spk_1: 24:50
Right Side effects?
spk_0: 24:52
Exactly. That isn't awesome. So do you find that women who are carrying these extra toxins and xeno estrogens and everything have issues with their weight?
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Definitely. So I kind of after my experience in the 9 11 detox project. After a couple of years of research and really delving into it, I created a three week detox program that I have. It's called the Girlfriend Cleanse. Um, and it's really designed Teoh. Mobilize the body's ability to get rid of the toxins. Get rid of the the hormone disrupting chemicals. Um, and it's I think it's very important to prepare someone's gut, um, get their gut healthy and then do the detox, and that's when I get the best results. It's very good nourishing as well as detoxification on most of my patients that have bad periods. You know I make I may give them a supplement hormone protect or something just to kind of help them with the symptoms. But once they detox, they normally don't need those supplements anymore. And I tell them, use your period is a gauge of three years from now you're feeling breast tenderness or your crepes Come back, girl. Sudden, you're crabby the week before your period and you're had I want to be going. It's trying to detox, you know, because I do find that that's the key. Um, and the women are funny because they, you know, they go into a lot of women will do a detox, and their primary objective is to lose weight. Alright, right. Yelling in, right. That's OK. Um um because that's the side effects. So once you start to let go of these toxins physiologically we store a lot of the toxins in at a position. So for women of told me for years, they're eating healthy, they're going to the gym and they're stuck. And in my mind, I was thinking, Well, they've got some toxins in there, and that's a really safe place for our body to keep those toxins until I give them a safe way to get the toxins out of the body. They're stuck at that week, and then they get that last 10 £15 they're like, the happiest
spk_0: 26:46
Happy? Yes, I That's what I want everyone to understand is that if you are struggling to lose weight or you feel worse when you're trying to lose weight, that is your body's way of protecting you from this doored up talks and load that you have. So I love that you're healing the gut first, and then you're doing the detox program, I think, and
spk_1: 27:10
on that note, I've had women do. These kind of crash detox is like super crazy fasting. Juicing too long, too hard, kind of grows on and they get the push of those toxins. They could get very, very sick. So I don't believe in the detox reaction. You got a reaction. Your body is trying to tell you something wrong. Yes, when you detox safely, you should feel better and better and better and better. So, yeah, I like that you brought that up to because that's something that's one of the reasons I created The program is I didn't want people doing things that were dangerous because they definitely have seen.
spk_0: 27:41
Yeah, because there are supplements out there that pull the taxes out, but they don't actually bind and remove them from your system. So then they're just going and depositing somewhere else. And that feels horrible. You know, I called communication That's also for my
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hip and put it in my brain. Not exactly. You
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know, that's no you want to do It's not good. Oh, and the other you know, thing is that sometimes there were d tax gets thrown around for more simpler things, like a colon cleanse or a liver cleanse things like that that you're not really pulling taxes out of your cells and getting them out of your system. So you just have to be careful the way that word is used, right? And you guys also do the man up t tax for the gentleman, right?
spk_1: 28:33
Yes. Yes. So I had so many couples the women would convince their husbands to do the front friends with them on, and they had these amazing results and they would come in and say, uh, you gotta change the name. I'm not gonna tell my friends, my friends, I lost all this weight and I feel great, but I'm not telling them. I did the girlfriend cliffs a couple years, but we got the men up detox wards, which is very similar. But men have different needs and women, so
spk_0: 28:57
yeah, exactly. That is very cool. Oh, my goodness. And so you along those lines, you are writing a book that's supposed to be coming out. Is that true?
spk_1: 29:09
It is true. I'm getting a little closer now that I have a little bit more free time at home Confinement?
spk_0: 29:14
Yes, exactly. Like we're all forced to do our projects. We've been putting off, right, more
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prevention plan. And it's just that years of my patients stories, my things that I've learned I learned most of what I need to know from my patients, to be honest with you. And I have a few patients that are gonna be writing chapters in the book about their own experience with their health and kind of just dabbling into lifestyle, medicine, preventive care and and how it affected them because I think that's so powerful for people to hear other people's experiences. Yes, album the biggest thing I hear is I don't understand how this was so easy to get better. Once it's done, it's always
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a little hard.
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The beginning, Yes, but the biggest thing I hear in the end it is I can't believe how easy this was. You know,
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right. I think that people just need some guidance and they need to know that what they're doing is the right thing. You know, I get so many patients that have, like, done 50 different things and none of it consistently because they're so confused about what they should be doing, right, Like all this website says, I should do this. And so it's just good to work with a functional doctor, you know, have somebody to walk you through it and say, What you are doing is okay and it's gonna work and it's going to help. And they think once you start feeling better, it's easy to stick with it, right?
spk_1: 30:36
Definitely. Once you got to get a return on your investments, Yes. Then you'll be all in.
spk_0: 30:41
Is there anything that tops the list when you talk about preventative medicine for women? Like what should every woman dio
spk_1: 30:51
definitely take vitamin D. I think a really good probiotic is very important for keeping your gut healthy. Those would be really, really big ones. And then just the biggest thing is diet and stress. Really? Yeah, over this anti inflammatory on the stresses Big. I mean, I think that's one of our problems in New York is we're running on the rat race, you know, We're just go, go, go, go, go! And it really just take a toll. I mean, those adrenals are hormones that reserve eso. I think stress relief is really, really tough for women. I think that's
spk_0: 31:23
yeah, because it's completely interconnected with your female hormone system, right? Like my patients have definitely had more cycle issues than ever with this covert 19 because they're so stressed. They're stuck at home with their kids or they can't, you know, make money or they can't do what they need to do. And, you know, they're calling me like, Hey, my period didn't come all right. It can't stop bleeding, you know, are I want to put my husband's head off and it's that stress hormone. It isn't even your sex hormones. It said Dionne court is all right so, so true. I know. Like people need to meditate. They need to do yoga. They need tohave, downtime and loan time. Uh, I've been taken advantage of that. Me now more
spk_1: 32:15
than ever. We need it. We definitely need it, cause it's different stresses, you know, be alive. Fear. Yeah. Yes,
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Yes, Exactly. So? Well, I'm excited for your book to come out. That's gonna be amazing. You're gonna have to come back and talk to us about it when it comes out. Very cool. So you are still unlocked down. You're still doing virtual visits in New York. Um, if somebody wants Teoh, implement your protocols, do you work with them online out of New York? Or do you have that? We have capability
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at a lot of patients all over the country all over the world. I did a webinar today, the Wellness Warrior workshop with people from Spain and Dubai and Germany. Oh, my God. Yeah, it's it's, you know, it's it's really easy to take care of people virtually on. And I think right now, more than ever, people need as much support as possible and just a sense of community to be able to talk. Talk to other people. It's so isolating to be home with just your family as much as you love
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him. Yes. Especially if they're, you know, 10 and under. I
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e I don't envy the people with two and three year old. Let's put it that way. But yeah, I think I think that, you know, if you go on our website that Dr Christine blames dot com we have options for group visits as well as individual visits and mutation work of, you know, kind of the whole functional medicine. And there's likes to our detox isas Well, so they think you look into
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that. Awesome. And that is Christine with a K right, Dr. Christine Land. Awesome. Well, I've just enjoyed talking to you so much. You're just the wealth of knowledge.
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Oh, thank you so much.
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This is great. This was wonderful. So promise me you'll come back when your book comes out.
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E definitely will.
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Awesome. All right, take care. Thank you so much. Right. Okay. Thank you so much for staying with us today. I love Dr Christine, and I knew you would love her too. She's just full of wisdom and helpful information. for regaining your health. And didn't you love her story about working with the 9 11 rescuers? The first time I heard that I had goose bumps because it's just so life changing for them. And I don't think that we fully understand the complexity of what the environment has on our systems, the impact that it has. So don't downplay what's going on around you in your life and in your environment. It might have a huge part to do with what you're going through. So I incurred you toe work with a functional medicine physician. If you are struggling with any issues so that we can find the root cause and get you back to health, get you feeling amazing again. So if you want to check out Dr Blanche, I will put the link in my show notes. Her website is Christine blanche dot com, and also check me out on Instagram and Facebook at Dr Tabatha T A B a T h A. Shoot me your questions, you know, send me a d. M. I would love to show you out of my question of the week episodes or tell me what topics you want me to cover and I will get on it. I am here for you. I do this for you. I highly encourage you to pick one thing out from this episode that you're going to incorporate. Maybe that's getting your vitamin d level checked and upping your supplement. Because really, you wanna be up where? 50 to 70. And you probably are much lower than that. We just honestly don't get enough sun exposure and vitamin D in our food anymore. Or maybe realise that iodine might be an issue. Whatever resonated with you in today's episode, I encourage you to make one little change. Because if you do that with every episode, it's gonna add up. You're gonna see significant change. They multiply on themselves. So keep working on being the best. You and I will see you ladies next week. Go have an amazing week
