Hello and welcome once
again to Coronavirus Report.
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I'm C.A. Murray, and I'm
joined by Pastor Stephen Bohr,
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the principle speaker and the
president of Secrets Unsealed.
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Pastor, good to
have you here as always.
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We know you've
got a lot of questions
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and a lot of
things to talk about.
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So good to have you here.
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Amen. Good to be here.
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And our principle resource
person happens to also be
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the chairman of our board.
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So he tells us all what to do.
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And that's Dr. Milton Teske.
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Doctor, good to
have you here once again.
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It's good to be here.
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As we mentioned some time
ago, he is the health office
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for Kings County.
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- Is that correct? - Yes.
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Which is the next county
over or two counties over?
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- Next one over. -
Next one over, alright.
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And he also works with the
CDC and a number of doctors
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and other healthcare
practitioners across this state,
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and really across the country.
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They put their heads together
and try to do the very best
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they can to keep us healthy
and to give us information.
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And that's what this
program is all about.
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It is about disseminating
information to try to keep
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you healthy if you are healthy,
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try to keep you
well if you are well,
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and if you're a little under
weather, maybe try to get you
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back on board and
back in good shape.
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So that's why we're here.
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We want to have
a word of prayer,
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then we're going to launch
right out with not too much ado,
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because we've got
a lot to talk about
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and a lot of
information to share with you.
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Shall we pray?
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Father God, we thank
You for Your Word, which is
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a lamp unto our feet
and a light unto our path.
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We thank You for
the healing processes
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that You have put in our body.
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We thank You for men and women
who have dedicated their lives
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to sharing good news, who
have joined hands with You
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in the healing ministries
and the healing hearts.
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So we ask that you
will be with us today,
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make the information clear
and give us an understanding
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of what to do and how to do it
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so that we can live
the best lives that we can.
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In Jesus' name, amen and amen.
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Pastor, I know you've
got a bunch of questions,
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I have one or two,
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so why don't you lead off.
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Okay, Doctor Teske, we who
watch television, the news,
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see lots of reports about
what's happening in the nation,
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mainly certain epicenters like
New York City, Florida, etc.,
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but you're the health
officer of Kings County.
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Can you tell us
basically how things are going,
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not only in Kings County,
but also the other adjacent
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counties here in this particular
area in the Central Valley?
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Yeah, here we're fortunate.
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We are some distance
from the large urban centers,
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and everything is quite a bit
delayed coming and getting here.
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The counties all through the
Central San Joaquin Valley here
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have very minimal
cases compared to some of the
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real hot spots
in the country here.
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They are picking up,
though, and more and more cases
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are being reported through here.
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Kings County where I am at,
we're only five cases so far.
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But we're a very small
and small population county,
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very rural, and so
you would expect it
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to get to those places later.
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But the real big difference
I think we're going to see
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in this country, you
know, between places,
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is going to have to do
with how well we adhere
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to those public health measures
that help us to slow down
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the spread of this disease.
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Because what we find is,
those places that did not
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do that up front, and
they got infection coming in
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from wherever,
it started spreading
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without anything to control
it, and they got too many cases,
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and now it's
spreading out of control.
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And now it's far enough
down the course of the disease
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that the death toll is
really starting to rise.
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The ERs and
ICUs are overwhelmed,
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they're using all
kinds of other facilities
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to be temporary hospitals.
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They're really in big trouble
in the big places right there.
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They're now trying to put
in, of course, those measures,
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but it's a little bit late.
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But better late than never.
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At least we're
trying a little bit.
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Here we sort of have
the advantage of time;
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being, it came there first.
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And so, we can start
to put in those measures
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before it spreads here.
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And so we have been doing
here and throughout California,
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including the Central
Valley here, stay at home,
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where we have people
just stay in your home unless
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you essentially have to
get out to get some food,
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or you're an
essential healthcare worker
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or something that we
really need you there.
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Stay at home.
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And that's going to
make a huge difference.
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When you are out,
keep your distance.
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And most recently we
have all been adding to that,
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cover your face.
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You know, there's been
quite an amount of controversy
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you'll see on wearing masks.
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They started out
telling us, "Don't wear masks.
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It won't do any good.
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But we need to save all the
masks for the healthcare workers
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because they really do work."
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The bottom line,
if you think about it,
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every respiratory
illness spreads in the air.
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And when you have an infection,
whether it's a common cold
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or the COVID, every time
you breathe or cough or sneeze,
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it comes out into the air.
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And if you're near that person,
or even a little ways away,
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it's floating there.
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And you have to breathe
as well, and you inhale,
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and those microscopic
particles that you can't see
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carry those
little seeds of death.
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You know, those little...
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And they're going to
go in, attach to your
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respiratory epithelium
up in the nasal passages
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or even down into the
lungs and the tissue there,
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and then they infect a cell.
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And once that cell
gets infected, then it
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releases thousands more that
infect all cells around them,
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and you're infected.
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You've got the
infection going on.
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So wearing a
mask, covering the face,
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does a couple of things.
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You know, it's going to help
block those particles there.
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None of the masks are perfect.
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You know, our homemade mask
maybe even a little bit less so,
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but not necessarily.
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They're all going to give
you some degree of protection.
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But most everyone is in
agreement, their best thing is
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they're going to keep you from
spreading it to someone else.
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They're going to really catch
the droplets as they come out
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of you very effectively.
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And most people understand
that to be a very effective
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way of stopping the spread.
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One of the first things
we do when someone comes in
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the ER or any health facility
that's had any kind of symptoms,
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we put a mask on them.
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Because we know
that's the best protection,
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is to mask the source.
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And if you just think about
it, if everybody wears a mask
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this thing is going
to stop spreading because
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we don't know who is infected.
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We used to say 25% of
the people were asymptomatic.
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Now as we look at some of
the places where they have done
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extensive testing like
one of the cruise ships
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and some places like
that, suddenly they're realizing
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50% of the
people are asymptomatic.
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And so, there is a lot
of well people that are
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carrying the virus out there.
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But if every well
person put on a mask,
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even if they think they're
doing it to protect themselves,
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and the bottom line
is, if everybody does it
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we're going to be protected.
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We're going to slow
down the spread of this.
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And even if we can't
prevent it from hitting here,
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if we slow it down and spread it
out, like we talked last time,
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we can, you know, avoid being
overwhelmed in the hospitals
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and the death toll going up
so rapidly because we don't have
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the resources to
save everybody's life,
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we don't have enough
ventilators to keep everybody
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breathing that needs one.
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Yeah, doctor, before we
leave this, here's a mask.
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~ Yes.
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Single use? Can we
use it several times?
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That question seems
to be floating around.
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Have a new one every day?
Can we use it two days in a row?
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What's the best policy?
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Yeah, we're realizing
that under the circumstances,
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we're going to have
to reuse this stuff.
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There's
guidelines in the hospitals
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for cleaning and reusing the N95
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even in that high
use, high risk situation,
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and out here in the community,
yeah, we can reuse them.
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We can use them over.
It's better than nothing.
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The cloth ones that people
sew up, those you can just
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throw in the laundry every day
and, you know, have a clean one.
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Or you can have a
couple of them and throw them
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ultimately in the laundry.
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So they can be reused.
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Ideally, you know,
in a healthcare setting
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we're going to try
to be a lot more careful
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about it because we definitely
have viruses going right there.
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And so we're going to be as
careful as we possibly can be.
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But even there we're running
out of resources in places
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and we've got to make
the best with what we can.
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And it seems like even reusing
is better than no mask at all.
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Just a little academic question,
why is it called, COVID-19?
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~ COVID-19.
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"Covid," stands for,
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"coronavirus
infectious disease."
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And, "19," is because that's the
year they first discovered it.
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It sounds like the first
case we know of was in November.
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And then in December, it was
really spreading through Wuhan
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and spreading out.
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Before we started locking
down things here, I think,
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nearly 500,000
Chinese had come to America
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through various
ways or whatever.
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So it's
spreading around the world.
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And of course, people
spreading it everywhere,
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and we see it
popping up everywhere now.
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But COVID-19 is the
official name is was given.
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You know, in the
past we often named them
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by geographic locations.
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Ebola is the name of a
river, Marburg there in Africa.
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Many of these diseases
are named by their locations.
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But they felt that in
today's climate, that would
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be not acceptable and
it would be much safer
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to just give that name.
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They didn't even want to
name it, you know, after the
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bats or the pangolins or
the other things, because, well
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that's not good either.
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So just they gave it some
name that couldn't be tied
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to anything else, and
figured that was a safe name.
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And so they gave it the
official name of COVID-19.
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Following on Pastor
Bohr's question, coronavirus,
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the coronavirus'
are a family of viruses?
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Give us just a
little explanation of that.
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"Corona," actually
describes the structure.
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If you look at the pictures
of it, they look like a ball
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with little spikes
sticking all out of it.
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And when you look under
one of these microscopes,
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you sort of see the silhouette
of it, and you basically see
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this ring with the little
spikes sort of like a crown.
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And so they're
called, corona, because
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you look under the
microscope and you see
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all these little
crown everywhere.
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So it was named the coronavirus.
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Coronavirus is a
whole family of viruses.
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They've been
around for a long time.
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Most of the
coronaviruses cause symptoms
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similar to the common cold.
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Nothing real serious until
we came up with SARS, and MERS,
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and now the COVID-19.
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And these, of course, have
become much more infective.
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These spike proteins
are altered, and they really
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easily infect cells and
cause a severe level of disease.
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Well, you know, the ideal
of course, would be to find
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a vaccine for COVID.
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~ That would be great if
we had one of those right now.
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I guess that's going
to be way down the road.
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So, you know, I've heard
about a lot of alternative
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things that would
help in this case.
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So if I can mention
some of them, maybe you can
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help us understand whether this
is really worthwhile or not.
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~ Sure, yeah, let's talk about
some of these alternatives.
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First of all, garlic.
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~ Garlic.
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Yeah, garlic has been known
for its antibiotic, antiviral
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properties for a long time.
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And most anybody you talk
to about natural remedies,
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if you've got an
infection of some kind,
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let's put garlic on it, or let's
eat some garlic, or take garlic.
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Lots of different ways of using
garlic because it seems to help.
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And I think...
And it probably does.
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I'm all in favor of garlic.
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It tastes great.
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I love food made
with lots of garlic in it.
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But I think maybe look back
at the underlying principle.
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If you think about it,
God has put in our food
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so many things that are
really essential for life.
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And not just basically to stay
alive, but to keep us healthy,
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and to help us fight disease
and help us fight infections.
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And you know, blueberries
have, like, over 600 different
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bio-active molecules in
them; meaning, molecules of
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all these different
bioflavins, and phytochemicals.
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Just all these
different substances.
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And they're active.
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They go into cells,
and the cells pick them up,
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they stick inside
cells and do things there.
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And we don't even
know what they all do.
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But we're beginning to
learn what a lot of them do.
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And a lot of them interact
with the body's immune system
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in ways that really enhances it,
allows it to function better.
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And garlic, I
mentioned blueberries have 600,
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garlic have over 900 of
these bio-active substances
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of some kind in there.
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Some of them we
know what they do.
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Most of them we
don't know what they do,
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but they seem to go into cells.
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And I'm sure God put
them there for some reason.
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And just because we
don't totally understand it
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doesn't mean that
it's not important.
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Every little piece
of importance helps.
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I mean, there's one thing
that correlates with health
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of all kinds; and that is
a diet that's almost entirely
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of fruits, vegetables.
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In other words,
food the way God made it.
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And you can pick out
one piece like the garlic,
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and wow, this
really works great.
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But it probably
all works really great.
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And I think the most important
thing is that we go for
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the whole thing, you know.
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Live on the food
the way God made it.
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But garlic, I've heard
only good stuff about it.
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It's certainly not
going to hurt anything.
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Use it.
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Can you overdose on vitamin C?
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Vitamin C is very interesting.
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We know that vitamin C is
anti-viral in its properties.
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It's really good
for fighting infections.
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You come down with infections,
load up on the vitamin C.
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Vitamin C is water soluble.
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And so, if you take and
say, "Wow, man, I feel like
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I'm coming down with something,"
and you take, you know,
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three or four or
five grams of vitamin C,
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it's water soluble, and
it all comes out in the urine
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over the next few hours.
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And you can take it
again in a few hours,
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and it'll come out again.
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And you can take it all again.
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So you're not really hurting the
body by taking extra vitamin C.
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Does extra vitamin C of
the really high mega doses
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make a difference?
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There's a lot of
different opinions in there.
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Certainly if you're not on a
diet of fruits and vegetables,
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you're running
very low on vitamin C.
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And there's a lot of
evidence that suggests that
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more vitamin C than most people
get is probably the ideal.
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You know, we're not
living continuously on fruits
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and stuff that are
so high in vitamin C,
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and so our vitamin C is probably
a lot lower than would be ideal.
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And particularly since we know
it, you know, has properties
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that help us fight infections.
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You know, at this time
when there's viruses around
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we want our immune
systems on optimum.
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You know, using
some extra vitamin C
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is probably quite reasonable.
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And certainly, if
you're one of those at home
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with, you know, no
access to any other therapies
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or treatments, taking vitamin
C would be quite valuable
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in helping to fight this.
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And it's certainly
not going to hurt you.
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You know, it's easily cleared
by the kidneys in the urine.
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So, yeah, take the vitamin C.
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~ What about zinc?
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Yeah, zinc.
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Zinc is an
element, a trace element.
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The body needs zinc.
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And many of the various enzymes
or proteins that function in the
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body's immune
system require zinc.
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Now a protein, an
enzyme, some functioning protein
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that's doing a certain
job needs zinc or manganese.
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Whatever it needs there.
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It needs it to function.
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And if you don't
have that piece in there,
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the tool is useless.
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It has no function at all
without that key piece in there.
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So if you've got an
enzyme that needs zinc,
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and you don't
have it in there...
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Well there's hundreds of
different ones in the body
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that need zinc.
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And many of the key ones in the
body's immune system needs zinc.
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In the U.S.
population in general, about 25%
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are deficient in zinc.
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And they're going to be
deficient in all of these
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functions because
they're deficient in zinc.
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And interestingly, when we
look at it, frequently we find
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that vegetarians and
vegans may be deficient in zinc?
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And so, adding a trace element
supplement that has zinc in it
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would certainly be a
reasonable thing to do.
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And you know,
many people are saying,
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"Oh yeah, I take
zinc and I got better."
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Well, it's probably because now
everything was working better
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that wasn't working
before because you were actually
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running deficient in zinc.
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And so, yeah, making sure
you're up on the zinc by taking
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a trace element supplement.
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Now I would say about zinc,
or any of the other elements,
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you know, supplements, the right
amount is the right amount.
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And I would
follow the instructions
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for the dosing and stuff.
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It's not like vitamin C; if
some is good, more is better.
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No. Most of these, whether it's
zinc, or copper, or manganese,
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or whatever, you can be
deficient, and then you can
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have the right amount,
or you can become toxic.
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And many of these things will
become toxic in higher doses.
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And so, don't take extra.
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Take the recommended amount
on the various supplements
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that you're looking at.
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I want to return just
for a moment to vitamin C,
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and maybe some of
these other things also.
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What do you recommend?
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And my question is, is the
supplement a tablet or the pill
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or the gel cap equal
to getting it from...
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I mean, in California we
have an abundance of oranges,
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we have an abundance of
lemons, we have an abundance of
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a number of things, including
leafy greens that you can get
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vitamin C from.
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If you're out in
Iowa or some place in the
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middle of the country and
can't get access to the store,
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you may not be able to
grab fresh fruit very easily.
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How effective is it
in a supplemental form
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vis-à-vis the natural form
off the tree, off the vine?
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Many people have found
that it's very effective
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to go ahead and
take the supplements
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whether you're getting the
powder or whether you're taking
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it in pills or capsules.
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Obviously, when God made
oranges, He put in not only
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vitamin C, but hundreds of
other things that you need too.
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So again, I'm always partial
to the way God packaged it
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rather than the
way some pharmaceutical
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company packaged it.
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But to the degree that,
hey, you're not living on
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orange juice, you
know, then yeah, go ahead and
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use the supplements.
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They're using it, some people
in China, they've been using
00:21:04.86\00:21:07.80
the IV vitamin C quite
extensively very favorably
00:21:07.83\00:21:12.20
in the results
they're reporting in that.
00:21:12.53\00:21:15.04
Their staff, they have
them all on the oral vitamin C
00:21:15.24\00:21:18.67
trying to help protect them.
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So, you know,
it's got a role there.
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Here in this country, most
of our health establishment
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is very anti IV vitamin C.
00:21:27.75\00:21:32.02
You know, if you can find a
doctor or a system that will
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give it to you, that's probably
good if you're quite sick.
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On the other hand, don't
be surprised if they are not
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planning on
treating you with that.
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But another thing, you
know, when we talk about
00:21:45.23\00:21:47.44
the advantage of IV vitamin C
where they put really high doses
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in the IV and run it right in,
00:21:51.84\00:21:53.17
it's supposed to
work really good,
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vitamin C is very
well absorbed orally.
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Unless you're intubated on a
ventilator and there's no way
00:21:59.21\00:22:02.22
you can take anything by mouth,
a high dose of oral vitamin C
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is still going to be
very readily absorbed.
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It's going to go
right into the bloodstream.
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It's going to
circulate in the blood the same
00:22:12.69\00:22:14.46
as the IV vitamin C.
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And like the IV vitamin C,
it will be cleared in the urine
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and disappear from the body
and you'll need another dose,
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you know, in
another 4 to 6 hours.
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You know, I have on my
desk two bottles that were
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sent to me by someone.
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The bottles contain iodine.
00:22:32.41\00:22:34.25
And it comes with a dropper.
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It says, "Put a drop
of iodine on your tongue,
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and that will be
helpful in preventing
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you getting the coronavirus."
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Is...
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It's true, iodine kills
germs, bacteria, viruses.
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In the hospital we use a
substance called Betadine.
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It's an iodine solution,
and we use it to sterilize
00:22:59.31\00:23:02.54
skin before surgery.
00:23:02.58\00:23:04.55
We put it on different
instruments to sterilize
00:23:05.05\00:23:08.15
and clean them.
00:23:08.18\00:23:09.52
We put it in certain
soaps to clean things.
00:23:09.92\00:23:12.45
So yeah, iodine kills things.
00:23:12.49\00:23:14.39
How effective
putting it on your tongue is?
00:23:14.72\00:23:17.03
Well what if you breathe
in the germ through your nose?
00:23:17.06\00:23:19.39
- I guess you'll have
to put some in your nose.
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You don't want to take,
you know, overload on iodine
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and get too much in
there, again, you know.
00:23:27.47\00:23:30.24
So I'm not real
excited about those,
00:23:30.27\00:23:34.24
but it's true that
iodine kills germs.
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If you've got a germ on
your tongue and you put the
00:23:37.05\00:23:38.81
iodine on it, it will
kill that germ on your tongue.
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I think the more systemic
and things of general health
00:23:43.59\00:23:48.99
principles are
probably much more important.
00:23:49.02\00:23:51.39
Stay hydrated, drink lots of
water, fresh air and sunlight,
00:23:51.43\00:23:56.63
a simple diet and
staying away from junk food
00:23:57.40\00:24:00.74
is probably your best defense.
00:24:00.77\00:24:03.24
You know, it's often
when we find a substance,
00:24:03.54\00:24:06.21
whether it's iodine or
whatever, some little thing,
00:24:06.24\00:24:09.38
we look at it, "Oh, I've
got this, and now I'm safe."
00:24:09.41\00:24:11.88
And then it's sort of
like we did that instead of
00:24:12.48\00:24:14.85
all of the other stuff
we should have been doing.
00:24:15.05\00:24:17.45
And that's such a
mistake when we make
00:24:17.49\00:24:19.35
that transition, you know.
00:24:19.39\00:24:21.02
You know, in Latin America,
of course I grew up down there,
00:24:21.82\00:24:25.46
lemon or lime cures everything.
00:24:27.03\00:24:29.96
Are lemons and limes
good mainly for the vitamin C
00:24:32.03\00:24:36.54
or do they have other
properties that are beneficial
00:24:36.57\00:24:40.14
that you would not, for
example, find in an orange?
00:24:40.18\00:24:42.38
As far as I know,
they're very high in vitamin C,
00:24:44.38\00:24:47.58
like the other citrus.
00:24:47.62\00:24:49.22
And like the other
citrus, they have all of those
00:24:49.25\00:24:51.99
other substances in
them that are beneficial.
00:24:52.02\00:24:55.02
And whether a lemon has
something that an orange didn't,
00:24:55.32\00:24:58.49
or a grapefruit or a pomelo,
generally my approach has been
00:24:58.53\00:25:04.53
we don't usually
know for sure that stuff.
00:25:05.00\00:25:07.37
And a variety is always better
than a mono-diet, you know.
00:25:07.47\00:25:14.31
Living just on
lemons or just on this.
00:25:14.34\00:25:16.98
Lemons, you know, throughout
history have had a place
00:25:17.38\00:25:20.72
in the medicine cabinets,
and particularly in places...
00:25:20.75\00:25:25.59
You know, it's like they're a
magic cure for so many things.
00:25:26.72\00:25:29.62
I mean, if you go back a
century or two, the British
00:25:29.66\00:25:33.73
became known as limeys
because somebody discovered
00:25:33.76\00:25:37.07
that scurvy, which plagued
all of the ships at sea...
00:25:37.43\00:25:41.20
You go out there at sea so
much without any fresh fruits
00:25:41.40\00:25:44.74
that people got scurvy.
00:25:45.27\00:25:46.61
And somebody figured
out, oh the substance in these
00:25:46.64\00:25:49.01
limes, if you just...
00:25:49.04\00:25:50.38
And they would start
packing limes, and every sailor
00:25:50.41\00:25:53.25
had to have half
a lime every day.
00:25:53.28\00:25:55.22
And suddenly nobody on
the British ships got scurvy.
00:25:55.32\00:25:58.42
So yeah, that was
a magic pill there.
00:25:58.85\00:26:01.92
And again, the more
deficient we become in things,
00:26:01.96\00:26:06.03
the more magical a single
piece of something God made
00:26:06.56\00:26:11.93
is really good for us.
00:26:11.97\00:26:13.44
While we're on
the... I'm sorry, pastor.
00:26:13.64\00:26:15.64
I want to mine
this just a little bit.
00:26:15.94\00:26:17.64
Because when we
think about vitamin C,
00:26:17.67\00:26:19.21
we naturally think citrus.
00:26:19.24\00:26:21.31
But aren't leafy greens a fairly
decent source of vitamin C also?
00:26:21.61\00:26:26.45
Oh yes, and as a matter of
fact, when we're talking about
00:26:26.48\00:26:28.82
the immune system,
it's not just vitamin C.
00:26:28.85\00:26:32.32
There are so many
other vitamins in there.
00:26:32.52\00:26:35.09
The basic vitamins, you
know, that we need that are
00:26:35.12\00:26:38.16
found in there.
00:26:38.19\00:26:39.53
And beyond that, again,
there's a whole other range
00:26:39.56\00:26:42.16
of these various phytochemicals
that are found in the greens
00:26:42.20\00:26:47.20
that aren't in some of
the fruits right there.
00:26:47.24\00:26:49.67
Someday when we've
got a couple of hours
00:26:51.47\00:26:53.31
we'll go over
those lectures on greens.
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And there are so many
things found in greens.
00:26:55.84\00:26:59.15
You know, when Adam and
Eve left the Garden of Eden,
00:26:59.51\00:27:02.48
one of the things that God
gave them right that first day
00:27:02.72\00:27:06.12
as they left
was, eat the greens.
00:27:06.15\00:27:09.52
You're going to
need these greens now.
00:27:09.56\00:27:11.43
And don't forget that.
00:27:11.73\00:27:14.53
It was so important
that He added it right at
00:27:15.00\00:27:17.73
the very beginning.
00:27:17.77\00:27:19.10
Not down the road, but
right there at the beginning.
00:27:19.13\00:27:21.24
He says, "You guys got
to eat the greens now."
00:27:21.27\00:27:23.64
And it's still
true. Eat your greens.
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~ That's right. Good.
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Well, time has
almost run out, C.A.
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Yeah, I didn't see the clock.
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You have a better angle on it.
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But it goes
away very, very fast.
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And maybe when next we
meet we can talk a little bit
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more about lifestyle.
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Which we intended to get
into this program, but sometimes
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other things
kind of jump in there
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and you don't get a
chance to cover it all.
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You want to close with a text.
Do we have time to do that?
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Well, I don't
think we have time.
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So why don't you
just wind it down.
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Okay.
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Well again, hopefully this
program has been of value to
00:27:54.90\00:27:59.37
you, it has said something that
can help you and allow you to
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prepare yourself
and fortify yourself,
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and help those
that you love also
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to do the very best
that we can to stay healthy
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and to stay on the Lord's side.
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