There is a gland in the body
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that's nicknamed
the "butterfly gland."
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Do you know what gland that is?
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Well, here's another clue
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which is also
today's program entitle,
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"The Master Gland."
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We'll be right back.
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Hi, welcome to Abundant Living.
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This is Curtis
Eakins, the co-host
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and this is my
beautiful bride of 20 glorious,
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wonderful years of holy
matrimony, Paula Eakins.
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Praise him.
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It's been a wonderful
20 years, will you say?
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Absolutely. Absolutely.
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You want to expound
on that a little bit?
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No, I think that we're
good. Okay, I just want to hear.
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Because I know,
I know for fact--
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You know for fact.
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You start off this
year with butterfly gland.
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The butterfly gland.
And then the master gland.
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The master gland. Okay.
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Just let them stew
in for little while.
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You call them stew?
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Well, we can't too much
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because we got
to tape this show.
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We got to tell them what it is
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but-- it could be any
gland or all the glands.
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Now it's called a butterfly
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that's a clue
also the master gland.
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Oh, that's heavy. That's heavy.
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It's not the master
man because the master--
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Is Jesus Christ. Right.
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So this is the master gland.
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Okay. Right, okay.
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So let's let the cat out the bag
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so we can start
talking about it.
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What do you think we
are talking about, baby?
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Do you have any idea? We
are talking about thyroid.
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We are talking about the thyroid
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and there's a lot of people
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that got some
issues with the thyroid.
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It really does and
now those who remember
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I guess back 30-40 years ago
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was a guy name
Rodney Dangerfield.
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He said no one gives me respect.
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I need some respect.
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This gland gets no
respect and we did this program
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I guess many years ago,
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but we're gonna talk about
the thyroid, it's in two parts.
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This is part one
and then part two
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would be
hopefully next time we meet.
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But the thyroid gland
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is sometimes
called the butterfly gland
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because it's
shaped like a butterfly
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but also the
master gland as well.
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Okay, so I guess the
question that people are asking
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and that is it's a small gland.
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But the question
is what is actually
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responsibility
of a thyroid gland?
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Okay, well, let's back up
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before we talk
about the responsibility,
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let's talk about why is
it called the master gland.
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So you want to go there
first and then go back--
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Yeah, and then we'll
go over to responsibility.
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Okay, let's do
that. Let's do that.
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Number one, there are two glands
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in the back
brace-- base of our brain
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that's called the
hypothalamus and the pituitary.
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Those two really monitors
or regulate the thyroid gland.
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So therefore this thyroid gland
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is based on how these two glands
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in the base of the brain
regulate the thyroid gland
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and produce two main hormones.
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Okay. T4 and T3.
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These two main
hormones control every gland,
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every tissue in a body.
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Stimulate every
tissue in a body.
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These two hormones
within a thyroid gland.
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Therefore that's why
it's called the master gland.
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Now most people think that--
done with the responsibilities.
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Oh, thyroid, yeah that
regulates my metabolism.
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And, you know, and that's just
really scratching the surface.
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Everybody knows that
we gonna go more into
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just regulate metabolism,
also regulates calcium balance.
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If the thyroid gland
is not working properly
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then have a
risk of osteoporosis,
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brittle bones,
breakage, fracture.
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So I mean,
that's the thyroid gland
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regulating
calcium balance as well.
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It regulates heat,
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it regulates
growth, repair of tissues.
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Remember it stimulates
every tissue in our entire body.
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The thyroid gland is connected
to many other glands as well
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and so has awesome
responsibility of doing
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those major things along
with other things as well.
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Go ahead, honey.
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Oh, I guess though I mean,
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who would think
of solving all that?
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Let's say for instance
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when you are talking about
the type of thyroid problems--
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But looking at that
then because obviously
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with the thyroid
being so powerful,
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there has to be certain problems
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other than what
you are saying to me,
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you are giving
me different ideas.
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There actually is a part,
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a problem of the thyroid itself.
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Yeah, the number one
dysfunction of the thyroid
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most people know
is hypothyroidism.
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Okay. Okay.
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Hypo, low active, okay. Okay.
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Now, we're gonna
be talking about hyper
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which is not as common as hypo.
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But let's talk about hypo.
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Hypo, now of course
women is ten to one,
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women to men, hypo.
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Lower active. Why is that?
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Well, we get into that as well
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because it deal with
some estrogen issues as well.
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So the hypothyroidism
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and one of main issues of
that is Hashimoto's disease.
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It's about 40
million people get that
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where the immune system actually
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attacks the
cells of the thyroid,
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Hashimoto's disease, all right.
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So, but again hypothyroidism
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is the main
dysfunction of the thyroid
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in about 40 million people
and it's climbing in a ratios
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about ten to one, women to men.
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So that's the main
dysfunction of the thyroid
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and because of that
you have a lot of symptoms,
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a lot of problems as well.
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What are some of
the contributing factors
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so then for that?
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Well, some of the
contributing factors,
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let's go to the screen,
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I think we have a
picture of the thyroids.
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Look at the
thyroid first of all.
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Did you have this,
the thyroid gland there
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and that's why
it's called sometimes
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you look at it closely,
the butterfly gland, all right.
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You know, if we use imagination
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but it's just around the trachea
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and just below the larynx and so
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and you can
actually feel it too.
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Before the show is over
we're going to show people
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how to actually do a self test
of the thyroid gland as well.
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So, but again,
thanks for the graphic,
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but a lot of
times you see a person
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who may have a
goiter may be enlarged
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and that's one of the
symptoms of a under active
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or thyroid gland
being dysfunctional
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and it can really wreak havoc
in the whole entire system.
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So contributing factors
then are going to be... what?
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Okay.
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Well, let's go to
screen, let's talk about some--
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because there are lot of factors
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that will contribute
the dysfunction of thyroid.
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Number one, head
and neck radiations.
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Now I remember
when I worked in surgery
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where sometimes we're
doing surgical procedures
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which work in the neurosurgery
with brain and spinal cord.
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Lot of times they x-ray
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the person's neck
or the hair region
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and we have something
that goes around our neck
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to guard us against radiation.
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So a lot of times if
people have radiation
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around the head or neck region,
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it's going to also
affect the thyroid.
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So that's number one.
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Number two,
exposures to pesticides,
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particularly DDT.
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And so what that
does is it also prevents
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the release of the
thyroid stimulating hormone,
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DDT a pesticide, all
right, that's another thing.
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Contraceptives,
hormone replacement therapy.
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That's why it's ten to one
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because those who take
those type of medications also
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it's going to
affect the thyroid.
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Contraceptive and
hormone replacement therapy,
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so that's why for women
it's more prevalent than men
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as far as the thyroid being
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a dysfunctional
gland in the body.
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That's just one
some of the factors.
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There are some others as well.
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Let's go to the screen
about the other factors as well.
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The next one in our next group
is the hormone-based foods.
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Now we talk about
the bovine growth hormone
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that's found in milk.
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Hormones fed to the chickens
now, the animal kingdom,
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people feeding the
animal kingdom more hormones,
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so that they can
produce more milk, fed them up
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so they can go to the
market faster in half the time.
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But and those hormones
will affect the thyroid.
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So that's one thing.
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Cancer therapies,
there are some cancer drugs.
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When people have cancer
and diagnosed with cancer.
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A lot of drugs that
cancer therapies have
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will also affect the
thyroid function as well.
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Municipal water, now to
me people now drink water
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right out of the falls
but those who still do that,
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it will displace
the hormone the thyroid,
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so therefore municipal water
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also affect
that thyroid as well.
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So we encourage people to
if they are gonna drink water
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the bottle
water or filter water,
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but not municipal water
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because that can
really affect the thyroid.
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So those are some of
the contributing factors
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to thyroid not
functioning properly.
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I know we're gonna talk
about you said, hyperthyroidism
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and you talked
about hypothyroidism.
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So I guess my question would be,
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the next question would be,
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tell us what would be the
symptoms of hypothyroidism.
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Okay.
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The symptoms of
hypothyroidism is many.
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As I mentioned
before it has almost
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by one estimate
effects 47 medical conditions
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if their thyroid is not
working properly, all right.
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So you have gain
weight, weight gain,
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lethargy, fatigue,
always feeling tired,
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you have of course calcium loss
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or you may have
also osteoporosis,
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increase of
fractures, cold extremities,
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the hand, the
feet, constipation,
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bowel movement, depression.
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Remember, this
is the master gland.
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So if this gland
not working properly
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as I said
before by one estimate,
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some 47
conditions can be associated
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with this gland
not working properly.
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So that are some of the
things that an under active
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or hypothyroid can
do to the whole body.
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Okay. That's a lot. Yes, it is.
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And you said 47, so I
guess how would a person then--
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I mean, if I'm
tired all the time,
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is that mean
that I got a problem
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with my thyroid or you know,
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how is it tested, how
am I tested to find out
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whether I'm having a
issues with my thyroid?
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Okay.
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There are several
tests, one test in particular--
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many tests you can take
but one is called the testing
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the thyroid stimulating hormone,
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the T4 and the antibody,
anti-thyroid, antibody test
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but more or less the TSH
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stands for Thyroid
Stimulating Hormone.
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Now this test has
need to be adjusted
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as far as the
range is concerned.
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Let's go to the screen,
and let's talk about this test.
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I'm gonna talk about the ranges
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because the range has
been adjusted back in 2003.
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Okay.
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Now, we gonna
leave this on the screen
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just for little while.
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Oh, you got little
smiley faces, little sad faces.
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That was good the graphic
guy did that for me, all right.
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Number one, okay
now, currently years ago
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to be in a
normal or optimal range
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you have your
thyroid, this is the TSH,
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Thyroid Stimulating Hormone,
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that's the low end
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and if it's high 5.0 or higher.
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So if you are in that white bar
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at the top of the screen there,
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you are in the
normal or the normal range.
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Let me say this
the normal range,
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that white bar, all right.
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Now, the Association
of Clinical Endocrinology
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discovered that really
there's a lot of people
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may be not in a lower
range but near the lower range.
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Okay.
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They may have
problems with their thyroid
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but since it's still
in the "normal range"
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that white bar,
there's no medication
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or no treatment
options for that person
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although they are
in the normal range.
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So back in 2003,
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the American Clinical
Endocrinology decided that
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that range need to be
smaller to the optimal range.
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Let's go back to our screen,
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let's look at the optimal range.
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There the optimal range
or zone is the yellow bar,
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the second bar there
right under the white one.
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Therefore, if a
person is in the optimal zone
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range 0.3 to 3.0
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then they are in
more of a optimal range
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for that as
opposed to the normal range
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at the top white bar.
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Therefore when you do that,
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then you have about
20 million more people
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who are now not outside--
outside of that optimal range.
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And so therefore that
range was narrow slightly,
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therefore with those people
outside of that optimal range
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here and there, top and bottom,
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therefore they need to
have some type of treatment
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as far as the
thyroid was concerned.
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Okay, so the range was
wider which was capturing more--
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Well, the range was wide
in the fist place, all right.
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Which is
capturing more individuals.
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Yeah, 0.5 to 5.0. Okay.
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But realize those
people at both full range
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just close to it
still they are normal ends
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but close to it they
won't do nothing with them.
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But you still
having those symptoms
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they realized back in 2003
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that range to be
more in the optimal zone,
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0.3, 3.0.
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In that range that's the range
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that we want to be in
and even a lot of your labs
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today still have that
normal range 0.5 to 5.0
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and labs are different.
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Labs are based on locality,
based on different counties
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or sections of the country,
so all labs are not the same.
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So realize that that
range need to be smaller,
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0.3 to 3.0, that's the
range we want to be in,
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that's the optimal zone
that we want to stay in.
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Now you said a comment
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in the first part of the program
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and that was
that you could tell us
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how we could
actually check the thyroid.
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You know, and that
will be a good one.
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Let's-- can you-- let's do that.
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You want to come over
here I can check you right now?
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No, I'll stay
here and you stay there
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and then you just discuss it
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and wherever you say I'll do it.
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Okay, well, for you to do
you have to drink some water.
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I got water
right here. Okay, yeah.
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Now let me say
this, now this is--
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okay, I didn't do
this, this is not--
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I didn't make this
out folks, all right.
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But the Association
of Endocrinology where,
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this is like a self
test of the thyroid.
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Because remember now,
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lot of people have
under active thyroid
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or may have nodules, all right.
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And so first we
need to determine
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where your thyroid is located.
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So if you put two
fingers all right,
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and just go ahead and swallow.
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All right, when you
swallow you see that--
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you feel a knot
there, all right.
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Your thyroid is
right under that lump
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and what you want to do,
you want to take some water.
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Now really have to
take-- talk this out.
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I can't have water in
my mouth and still talk.
00:16:53.09\00:16:55.09
You talk it out. Okay, yeah.
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So what you want to do is
you want to take some water,
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take a sip of water,
you don't swallow it.
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Take sip of water now
just hold in your mouth.
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Okay, you can put the glass down
00:17:04.83\00:17:07.37
and now you have a mirror.
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You don't have a mirror
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but just think we have a mirror.
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Okay, that's a good
mirror too by the way.
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Tilt your head back, all right.
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Well, look into
mirror too, honey.
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Yeah, there you go.
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Now when you
swallow you look and see
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if there is any nodules
on either side of the neck,
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when you swallow.
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Look into the mirror at
your neck when you swallow.
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You can do this maybe
one or two times, all right.
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If there is any nodules
either left or right side
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more unlikely you need
to talk to endocrinologist
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if you see if those
nodules-- it may be cancers,
00:17:39.80\00:17:42.36
all right it may be goiter
enlarge thyroid, all right.
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And these are some of the things
00:17:46.75\00:17:47.78
that's a problem
with the thyroid,
00:17:47.81\00:17:49.18
so you got the nodules,
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you got may be
cancer of the thyroid.
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So that's just like a self test
that a person can take at home,
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that kind of give
you an idea as far as
00:17:56.79\00:17:58.57
whether or not the
thyroid may have nodules
00:17:58.60\00:18:01.24
or may be
cancers or may be goiter
00:18:01.27\00:18:04.11
and may have to have a treatment
00:18:04.14\00:18:05.55
as far as that's concern.
00:18:05.58\00:18:07.16
Okay, so you got these
different symptoms going on
00:18:07.19\00:18:08.80
but well, that's a good test.
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That's a good test to try.
00:18:10.98\00:18:12.01
Okay, well, we're
gonna continue this, right.
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Because this is not
over. This is not over.
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This is not over,
because you want to know
00:18:18.93\00:18:19.98
more about what's
going on hyperthyroidism,
00:18:20.01\00:18:22.38
hypothyroidism.
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So we come back the next
time we are gonna talk about
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something as we are
going in the kitchen
00:18:25.86\00:18:27.29
because we are
going in the kitchen
00:18:27.32\00:18:29.02
and we are going to be doing
some cranberry maple scones.
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Get your paper and your pencil
and meet us in the kitchen.
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