Hello and welcome to the
program. My name is Rico Hill
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and I'd like to begin
this program with a quotation
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from Jesus
Himself in Matthew 11:28.
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He says: "Come unto
Me all ye that labor
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and are heavy laden
and I will give you rest. "
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Wow! What a powerful
and precious promise.
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Isn't it? Hello? Hello?
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HEY! What're you
doing? We're taping a program.
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Ah, go on without me. I didn't
get much sleep last night.
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Why? What were you
doing? You know how I roll?
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I was out on the
town having some fun.
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You know, lack of sleep
is one of the leading causes
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of sickness. Why do you
think they call me Sickness?
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I know what I'm doing. I
know about late-night TV.
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I know about
partyin' at the club late.
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I know about
eating spicy food late.
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I know what I'm doing.
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Well, as you
have probably guessed
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today's topic for
our program is sleep.
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Today we're going to
share information with you
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about the benefits of just
sleeping AND the difference
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between sleep and rest.
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Sleeping... I'm so tired.
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Roll it.
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Well hello, and thank you for
joining us here in the studio
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of From Sickness To
Health. And I am Rico Hill
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as you already know. I'm
glad that you've joined us.
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There are others who are
joining us today, so we're
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excited about this program.
Now, I'm here because I want to
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stand in between the sickness
and health, and help you to
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go from sickness to
a healthier lifestyle.
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And joining me to help do
that are a couple of doctors.
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They are friends of mine
and I know that you are going to
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enjoy the things
that they have to say.
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We have with us Dr. Schubert
Palmer, who is the chair of the
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Cardiology section of
White Memorial Medical Center
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in Los Angeles, California.
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But that's not all he does.
I don't know how he does it,
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but he is also a husband and
he is an author and he is one
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who loves
sharing the Word of God
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and has a beautiful ministry.
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I'm sure he'll
tell us more about that.
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But our old
friend... not that he's old
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but he is someone who has
joined this program many times
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before, Dr. Jim Said,
who is a board-certified
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chiropractor and a
naturopathic doctor.
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He is with us also, and we're
excited to have you both here.
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Welcome to the
program. Thank you so much;
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Thank you very much. So
today we're going to talk about
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a subject that is guaranteed
to not put anybody to sleep,
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right? We're going
to talk about sleep.
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So you want to stay awake to
hear what's going to be shared
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today. But before
we get into the program
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we're going to turn
to our friend Sickness
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who has some
things to say about sleep.
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So let's hear
what he has to say.
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This man's trying to get
some sleep. Let's see how that
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works out for him. Last
night I had him up all night
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on his computer. The
night before his boss
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kept him late and tonight
we enjoyed some nice spicy food
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to keep him tossin'
and turning all night.
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But hey, let's see
this: if all else fails
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re-ignite the football injury!
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Little arthritis or
how about a whooping cough?
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Beautiful! You know, a lack
of sleep will make you sick.
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This guy's not doing well.
When all else fails, though,
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I go to my move. Grrr! Uh... uh!
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The nightmare!
Back to you, Rico.
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I certainly wouldn't
want to be that guy, right?
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Well, sickness does come
and, you know, it is really
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a tragedy when we're trying
to sleep and we're suffering
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from some pain or
if there's a cold or
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you know, just some
illness. It's really bad because
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the body actually needs
the rest for it to recover.
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Is that right? Exactly.
What we want to do today
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is we want to talk about sleep
but not just getting, you know,
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snoozing... taking a
good dose... but we're talking
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about the difference
between just sleeping
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and resting...
because God wants us to rest.
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In fact, gentlemen, I think
the Bible in Genesis begins with
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"the evening and the
morning were the first day. "
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So there was something
important about the evening
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being first. What do you
all have to say about that?
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Our bodies
require rest AND sleep.
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I want to make a distinction
about what happens at night.
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We have a system in the
nervous system called the
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parasympathetic nervous system -
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yes - which is a
system for rest and recovery.
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The Lord designed it
that it's active every night
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to repair our bodies.
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And some of the things
that happen during that time
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occur in the brain
that triggers sleep.
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One thing that occurs is
we have brain hormones...
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or neurotransmitters
they're also called.
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One in particular that people
have heard about is serotonin.
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Serotonin creates
another hormone called melatonin
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that allows the body to go
into a deep state of sleep.
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Now one of the things
that happens during that time
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is we have another kind of
cell structure in the brain
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called glial cells
that actually open up spaces
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in the brain by 60%
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allowing the fluid
that circulates in the brain
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called cerebrospinal fluid
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to actually cleanse the brain.
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And that then circulates
the toxins out of the brain
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into the liver to be detoxified.
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And that occurs between the
hours of 10 o'clock at night
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and 2 o'clock in the
morning. Wait a minute, now.
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So this suggests...
This suggests for us that
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there is some sort of
rhythm that is taking place.
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There is some hardwiring
that God has done in our bodies
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that is at play.
And when we are not
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following that rhythm we
can suffer from sickness?
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Yes. What happens then is the
brain never fully detoxifies.
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As a consequence, it
stays in the state of
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chronic stress
just from that alone.
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Again with the stress. Yes.
Um-hmm. Again with the stress.
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So stress is a
killer - a silent killer.
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And a lot of the
things that we're doing
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are causing this
stress to be activated. Yes.
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I want to just check
in with Dr. Palmer here
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because we're looking at this
whole idea of rest and sleep.
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And you know, they're
really kind of the same...
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but we want to make
that distinction between what
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the two of them are, but what
are some of the common things
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that are preventing us from
getting a good night's sleep
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or rest? God wants us to rest.
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It's interesting as you
look over the course of time
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going back say to 1925
teenagers were getting 7 to 9...
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well, actually 8 to 9
hours of sleep every night.
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Um-hmm. Nowadays that average
is below 7 hours for teenagers.
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Things have come along.
The society that we are in...
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you know we have work. Um-hmm.
Of course the #1 sleep killer
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if you will is
television and the Internet
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which is out there. We have some
of the medicines that we take.
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Um-hmm. Alcohol is
also a big sleep killer.
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But there are a lot of
things that are out there.
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And some people might
not even think about it, but
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as you look at the
cycle that Dr. Said mentioned
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the pineal gland, which
is responsible primarily for
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making melatonin, the fix
it and rejuvenating hormone...
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The way this process
works: the daylight's important.
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The sunlight is very important
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because the way serotonin
- he mentioned serotonin -
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and that's a feel-good
neurotransmitter. Um-hmm.
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It needs tryptophan, which
directly relates to the food
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we eat. And so the
food we eat is important
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even to help us sleep.
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And there are certain foods
we know WILL keep you awake
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and things that we...
certain stimulants that we have
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that will keep us awake. Coffee.
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Coffee being a very big one.
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Soda pop? Another big one. Yes.
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So the food we eat
also contributes to...
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to how good of sleep we
have and WHEN we eat the food
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makes a big difference, too.
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So if we have a nice, large
cheese meat-lover's pizza -
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uh-huh - just before bed
we're probably not going to have
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a good night's rest. Oh,
that's a good thing to have
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at night because it
means that I as a cardiologist
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will have a lot of work.
Because it's going to have some
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impact and repercussions
on you heart health, isn't it?
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It's going to have a lot
of repercussions on your heart
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health. It's not going to have
you get a good night's sleep.
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That's going to throw your
entire system out of "whack. "
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You keep doing this
over a period of time
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and it's only a matter of
time before I see you in my ER.
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Well, you know what?
We always want to be fair
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and balanced on this
program so we hear from you.
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And you know some people say:
"Well that's what doctors say. "
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And sometimes they believe
what the six o'clock news says
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more than anybody. So
let's go to what the news says
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and see if they have some
insights... if they corroborate
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what we're saying
here. Let's take a look.
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Dr. Josiane Broussard of
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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was one of the researchers
who found that not enough sleep
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can increase the risk of
obesity and type II diabetes.
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What it could mean for people
who are trying to lose weight
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is that you might have
more success if you are getting
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adequate sleep. They studied
the cells of healthy people
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who got 8-1/2 hours of sleep
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and then compared the
results to a night of half that.
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They found that after 4
nights of 4-1/2 hours of sleep
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the subject's fat cells
acted like those of someone
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fifty pounds heavier.
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What this study shows
is that you can really have
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metabolic defects
at the tissue level
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after not getting enough sleep.
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Proving that being well
rested isn't just beneficial
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for cognitive function
but for overall health.
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The good news is after two
nights of 12 hours of sleep
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the subjects were able to
reverse their risk for diabetes.
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Diabetes? Hmm.
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Are you serious? I mean,
we're talking about not getting
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enough rest or sleep
and a person can become
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a type-II diabetic. You'd
better believe it. In fact,
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there is a study by
SPEGO - Impact of Sleep
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and Sleep Loss - that shows
that there is a 30% reduction
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or lowering of the amount
of insulin into the pancreas
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or released from the pancreas.
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And then there is a 40%
drop in the sugar uptake
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into the tissues, so these
are all things that signal to us
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that there is something
going on on the metabolic level,
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something dealing with the
insulin and getting into the
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tissue and so forth. And
these are things associated
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with type-II diabetes, right?
Isn't that a scary thought?
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Who would have "thunk" it? Not
having sleep could contribute
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to so many conditions... of
which diabetes is one of them.
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And we see this woman in this
newsclip. She is getting the
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exercise, right? So
she's thinkin' healthy.
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She's teaching healthy.
But what she didn't know
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was that because she
wasn't getting enough rest
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she could actually become
a type-II diabetic. Right.
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So, I mean, let's talk
about that a little more.
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And then I want to go back
to the foods because, you know,
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this is the one that people
have a real hard time with:
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food as it relates to
getting rest. Um-hmm. Right?
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Getting sleep. And I want to
go look at the rhythm of rest.
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So why is this happening?
What the concern is here
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is what's called
metabolic syndrome - um-hmm -
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which includes the tendency
toward diabetes, obesity,
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heart disease...
and high blood pressure.
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And high blood pressure!
Hypertension accommodating
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that same pattern. And so
one of the triggers to that
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around sleep is the
issue of how the body reduces
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inflammation when we sleep.
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We mentioned 10 PM to 2 AM
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is when the body cleanses
the brain through the liver.
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Secondly... by
cleansing the blood.
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Secondly, from 2 AM
to 6 AM approximately
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is when the
cortisol... 2 AM to 6 AM...
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2 AM to 6 AM, thank you,
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is when the cortisol
rhythm begins to rise.
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And as it rises it starts
to reduce the inflammation
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through the body. If the body
doesn't get that full resting
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phase sleep then the
inflammation can't reduce.
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So we become progressively
more and more inflamed
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from previous stress affecting
the cardiovascular system,
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the joints, tissues in general.
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So this is all contributory
to metabolic syndrome,
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diabetes, heart disease,
hypertension, and obesity.
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So it sounds to me like
getting back to, you know,
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God's original plan, His design,
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man was to rest. Once
the sun would begin to set
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it was time to go to
sleep. Why? Because when
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it's dark, there are
changes that take place - yes -
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because the sunlight has
gone. The serotonin, I guess,
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is... well, it's
synthesized into melatonin.
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And melatonin is the
sleep hormone that only happens
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when it is dark. Is that
correct? That's accurate.
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And there's one other hormone
I want to mention in the brain
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called GABA. GABA? G-A-B-A.
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GABA. That's
gamma-aminobutyric acid. Yes.
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Oh! That's GABA: the
technical name. Um-hmm.
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And GABA is the only
inhibitory neurotransmitter
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that's purely inhibitory...
it relaxes the brain.
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It relaxes the brain.
When GABA is in short supply
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from chronic stress, then
the body tends toward a state
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of anxiety and a person
can't shut down their brain
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from thinking. I see this
in many many patients who are
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sleep deprived. They try to
go to sleep but the brain won't
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shut down. This is especially
in postmenopausal women.
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So we work to
create high levels of GABA.
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Part of that is by
having the last meal
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three hours before bed.
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Oh boy. So you're saying that
one of the... the most effective
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ways of dealing with that
issue with the GABA - um-hmm -
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is to regulate when
the last meal is "had"
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so that there is no
disruption or interference?
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Is that what we're
saying? So that the brain is not
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triggered with
reduction of GABA.
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With reduction of GABA?
Yes. So when we eat plays a part
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as we were talking about just
before we moved to the clip.
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So as a
cardiologist - um-hmm - what?
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What does it? Because the heart
is all about rhythms, isn't it?
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The heart is all about rhythm
and the heart's also about rest.
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Do you know that by the
time you are 70 years of age
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your heart will have opened
and closed 2 billion times
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with a B. Is that
with a B? With a B. Wow!
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How could anything
work so hard for so long
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without resting? It doesn't!
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Because when you look at
the heart there are two cycles
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if you will. We call
it systole and diastole.
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Systole when it contracts;
diastole when it "relaxes. "
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So every other
moment it is relaxing.
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Every other
moment it's relaxing.
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That's how it gets to get two
billion beats in and then some.
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So there's resting and
relaxing... that same pattern
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that we see - um-hmm -
that's, you know, almost like
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in the microcosm.
But on a macro level
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our bodies need
that same rhythm.
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That's the exact point: your
body is designed on a rhythm.
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We call it... There are several
rhythms that are going on.
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The one that most people are
familiar with is daily rhythm.
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The evening and the morning.
Is this the circadian rhythm?
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Circadian rhythm. And
that's regulated by the...
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takes its signals from
the daylight and night.
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Sunlight is very important.
The sunlight itself...
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how does it actually
work on a physiologic level?
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That serotonin we
are talking about?
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It's made in three phases
and one of the critical phases
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is the sunlight. Not
just light but natural light
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from the sun. So
artificial light won't do?
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It will not do. It
does not help that process.
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Big lights? I mean
like the kind in stadiums
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where they create
a daytime... almost?
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Not going to work.
Not going to work... OK.
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It has to be the
sunlight. Sunlight. And that has
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a critical step for the
serotonin and then that goes on
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to melatonin. Now
what some folks say: "Well,
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forget all of that. I'll just
take some melatonin pills. "
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It's not the same.
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Aah... now you've just
introduced an idea here
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because there's
that supplementation.
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A lot of people are going
to lean upon supplementation
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rather than going to the
source. Yes. That's right.
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We need to go to the
source. OK... all right.
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So it's the circadian rhythm.
But I hear there are 5 rhythms?
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Yes. Five rhythms in chrono-
biology, the study of cycles
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in life. The first is
ultradian... less than a day.
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The second is
circadian... daily.
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The third is a septadian
system which is a 7-day cycle.
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Septadian? Yes... a 7-day cycle.
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Seven day cycle? Affecting
especially the immune system.
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That's why it takes a cold,
for example, a week to recover.
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And along those same
lines around seven days you have
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the point for organ rejection
- yes - and tissue edema.
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It's a very
physiologically-based cycle.
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And when you
try to disrupt it...
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Remember they tried in
the French Revolution to go to
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a 10-day cycle? And
it didn't work, did it?
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It says that the
asylums were filled.
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Crazy people!
We're talking about that.
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Well we don't like to use the
word crazy, but there were some
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serious mental disorders -
yes - mental issues. Um-hmm.
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You know, this is fascinating.
Hold the thought because
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we want to go and see what
people think on the streets
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and then we'll come back.
We'll get our point of view,
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get the news, and now we
want to get it from the street
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and then we'll come
back and we'll wrap it up.
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Let's... let's take a look.
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All right, now sleep. A
lot of people these days
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are worried about sleep.
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Do you ladies
sleep? Yes. It depends.
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Like in the daytime? In the
daytime. A little power nap?
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I have classes daytime...
I don't have time to sleep.
00:19:42.48\00:19:44.98
She does not have time
to sleep! Neither do you!
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Life is way too
important for sleep.
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Yes. You go to sleep
you don't make no money.
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You don't make the
money. Ladies and gentlemen,
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if you want to pay your
bills, you have to work...
00:19:55.52\00:19:57.09
so don't ever
sleep. Good advice!
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Do you like
staying up late at night
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watching your favorite show?
00:20:02.33\00:20:04.03
Eating on some nachos? Yummy!
00:20:04.23\00:20:06.43
Not too much. I'm still
usually asleep by 10:30-11 PM.
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10:30 PM? Then the
day is just beginning.
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Hmm. The best shows
come on after 11 PM.
00:20:12.61\00:20:16.18
I only sleep when
I have nothing to do
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or like when it's late
at night. There you go.
00:20:18.48\00:20:20.62
There you go. If I
have something to do, then
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I'm awake. Stay awake! Just
keep burning the midnight oil.
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Burning it 3 AM, 6 AM, 9 AM.
00:20:26.72\00:20:28.62
Stay awake. Max knows
what he's talking about here.
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Most people say they want
sleep but they really don't.
00:20:32.79\00:20:36.63
They'd rather be out partying
and hanging out with friends
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at night. You know,
sleep isn't that important
00:20:39.70\00:20:43.00
when you're having
fun. Back to you, Rico.
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As we can see, rest is not all
that important to the general
00:20:49.24\00:20:53.68
population, is it? I mean
people are spending their time,
00:20:53.88\00:20:57.42
they're doing things at night,
they're on their computers,
00:20:57.62\00:20:59.69
they're, you know... they
just don't place much value
00:20:59.89\00:21:03.32
on rest. And just
before we went to them
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we were talking about
there is a weekly cycle
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and Dr. Palmer, you pointed
out that in history we saw
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that, you know, our
traditional 7-day week
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which God instituted at
the beginning of creation
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was attempted to
somehow be circumvented.
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And it was a
10-day week. Imagine that?
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A national
experiment: the 10-day week.
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It went very poorly, didn't
it? Did not turn out good.
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And no one has tried it
since. But in spite of that
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most people don't appreciate
that there are wonderful things
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that take place in
this seven day cycle.
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And I want to just kind
of bring those out because
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rest is a cycle...
there's a rhythm there.
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We looked at it all the
way down to the heart level.
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And you were
mentioning just before we broke
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that there is a 7-day cycle
in terms of the immune function.
00:21:54.78\00:21:59.55
Um-hmm. Let's talk about
that just a little more because
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I think people need to
hear because we believe that you
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should go seven days
and then rest on the seventh
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and follow that cycle.
00:22:09.09\00:22:10.43
So people need to see
that there is more than just
00:22:10.46\00:22:14.40
"Oh, we think
it's a good idea. "
00:22:14.60\00:22:15.96
But physiologically
something's happening, right?
00:22:16.16\00:22:18.43
That's very correct.
Something is happening that
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goes to the core of
who we are as human beings.
00:22:22.67\00:22:25.44
We were designed for
the daily rest and also for
00:22:25.84\00:22:29.68
the weekly rest. And
when we get away from this
00:22:29.88\00:22:33.15
something happens to us
physiologically. Um-hmm.
00:22:33.35\00:22:36.08
Wow! So what we
have seen here is
00:22:36.28\00:22:38.72
that there are things that are
taking place not only on the...
00:22:38.92\00:22:42.02
on the physiological level,
not only as we look at the
00:22:42.22\00:22:45.93
daily sleep cycle but
there's a weekly cycle.
00:22:46.13\00:22:49.76
And there were some thoughts
that you were sharing also
00:22:49.96\00:22:51.83
about the
cortisol and the insulin.
00:22:52.03\00:22:54.40
Because we saw in a newsclip
that there's something with the
00:22:54.60\00:22:57.71
insulin that's
affecting peoples' health
00:22:57.91\00:23:02.21
and turning people into
diabetics. That's right.
00:23:02.41\00:23:04.41
Then there's also the two
other rhythms: lunar and solar.
00:23:04.81\00:23:07.52
But I want to focus on
this circadian pattern.
00:23:07.72\00:23:09.72
At night as the
cortisol levels are rising
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they are supposed to rise slowly
00:23:15.12\00:23:17.03
to reduce inflammation.
00:23:17.23\00:23:18.69
The problem occurs when
the adrenals start to exhaust
00:23:18.99\00:23:21.66
over time and a life of stress
and poor sleep and poor diet
00:23:21.86\00:23:24.80
and no exercise, etc.
00:23:25.00\00:23:26.57
Then what occurs is the cortisol
starts to surge at night
00:23:26.97\00:23:30.97
and it triggers
the release of sugar -
00:23:31.27\00:23:34.64
glucose - by
tearing down protein.
00:23:34.84\00:23:37.15
Then insulin has to surge
behind it so that that excess
00:23:37.85\00:23:41.55
glucose is taken up by the
cells. Otherwise it circulates
00:23:41.75\00:23:45.52
and does damage to the
cells of the vascular system
00:23:45.72\00:23:48.39
especially. When we get
this cortisol then insulin surge
00:23:48.59\00:23:53.43
we're as if we're in a
sympathetic dominant mode
00:23:53.83\00:23:56.36
which is fight or flight.
00:23:56.56\00:23:58.03
Like if a bear is
chasing us. Exactly.
00:23:58.23\00:23:59.97
As if we're being chased by a
bear in the middle of the night.
00:24:00.17\00:24:02.04
We wake up with a
start from 1:30 AM to 2:30 AM
00:24:02.24\00:24:04.87
typically and we
say: "What happened? "
00:24:05.07\00:24:07.01
Um-hmm. And we
can't get back to sleep
00:24:07.21\00:24:09.01
because the adrenals are
fatigued and the cortisol
00:24:10.05\00:24:12.71
doesn't ramp back down.
So recovery is important.
00:24:12.91\00:24:16.62
Sleep is ESSENTIAL to
that adrenal recovery.
00:24:16.92\00:24:20.12
So, though, in all
this people are wondering:
00:24:21.16\00:24:23.86
"Well when should I sleep? "
00:24:24.06\00:24:25.63
So why don't we take the
last few moments that we have,
00:24:25.93\00:24:27.73
in fact we have a
short amount of time,
00:24:27.93\00:24:29.43
but let's look at very briefly
00:24:29.63\00:24:31.83
what's a good
time to get to bed?
00:24:32.03\00:24:33.84
Asleep by 10 PM. No
later than 10 o'clock.
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No later than 10 PM. And
how many hours should we get
00:24:37.41\00:24:40.04
to sleep? How many
hours should we sleep?
00:24:40.24\00:24:41.84
What's the latest in science?
00:24:42.04\00:24:43.95
The scientists will be
saying seven to eight hours.
00:24:44.15\00:24:46.35
But actually the curve
goes if you get less than six
00:24:46.55\00:24:49.55
you're... shorter lifespan.
00:24:49.75\00:24:51.29
If you get greater
than ten... the same.
00:24:51.49\00:24:53.76
So it's important to get
to bed before midnight then?
00:24:54.06\00:24:56.42
Yes. Which a lot
of people don't do.
00:24:57.26\00:24:58.89
And as you are pointing out
really an hour's sleep before
00:24:59.09\00:25:01.66
midnight is worth
two hours afterwards.
00:25:01.86\00:25:04.33
Really? Please say that again
because that's... that's...
00:25:04.63\00:25:07.80
How does that go?
Now how does that work?
00:25:08.00\00:25:09.34
For every hour of
sleep we get before midnight
00:25:09.64\00:25:12.11
it's equivalent to two
hours of sleep after midnight.
00:25:12.31\00:25:15.04
And in fact, that
sleep is unrecoverable.
00:25:15.24\00:25:19.15
Wow! So if you
go to bed after...
00:25:20.05\00:25:22.82
'Cause people will say:
"Well I need to sleep today
00:25:23.02\00:25:25.02
because I have to make up for
all the sleep I didn't get. "
00:25:25.22\00:25:27.26
You can't make it
up? Can't make it up.
00:25:27.46\00:25:28.92
You can't make it up.
No. But as we get sleep
00:25:29.12\00:25:32.03
the body takes
full advantage of that.
00:25:32.23\00:25:33.96
That's how we're designed
by our Creator so that we can
00:25:34.16\00:25:36.87
recover from the issues
we've created in our life prior.
00:25:37.07\00:25:40.60
So He has given us rest not
only daily but He has given us
00:25:41.00\00:25:45.47
a weekly rest - yes
- to recover. Um-hmm.
00:25:45.67\00:25:48.34
Oh friends, we should be
looking to get the rest that
00:25:48.54\00:25:52.31
God has given us every night.
00:25:52.51\00:25:54.22
We should be looking for
the rest that He gives us
00:25:54.42\00:25:56.58
every week. In
summary, it is important
00:25:56.79\00:26:00.12
for us to rest in Him.
00:26:00.32\00:26:02.52
You know, we've
learned a lot of things today
00:26:07.83\00:26:10.30
including just how
important rest is to God
00:26:10.70\00:26:14.90
and to the human
body. We've learned that
00:26:15.10\00:26:17.94
God designed the body
that it should actually go into
00:26:18.14\00:26:21.34
a rest... whether that
is daily or even weekly.
00:26:21.54\00:26:25.61
In fact, He's placed something
inside of the human body
00:26:26.41\00:26:29.65
called their circadian rhythm.
00:26:29.85\00:26:31.89
Now this is a rhythm that
takes its cues by day and night.
00:26:32.09\00:26:36.56
So God wants us when
the sun sets to be sleeping.
00:26:36.76\00:26:42.03
Did you know that only the
beasts according to the Bible
00:26:42.66\00:26:45.87
are actually walking around
looking for prey at night?
00:26:46.07\00:26:49.70
You know, while we're sleeping
00:26:49.90\00:26:52.14
the body does amazing
things detoxing the body
00:26:52.34\00:26:55.74
and repairing and actually
refreshing the entire system
00:26:55.94\00:26:59.81
for the next
day. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:27:00.02\00:27:02.28
Come on... you're making
my people sleepy with all this
00:27:02.48\00:27:05.05
boring knowledge. You're
taking away all their fun.
00:27:05.25\00:27:07.86
You don't want them
to stay up at night?
00:27:08.06\00:27:09.39
Why do you think we
invented light bulbs?
00:27:09.56\00:27:11.99
Well I have to say I
believe that because of
00:27:12.19\00:27:15.26
the evidence and the clear
information that has been shared
00:27:15.46\00:27:17.93
in this program today I
think we're going to see
00:27:18.13\00:27:19.87
some changes. Ah,
ha, ha! You are so naive!
00:27:20.07\00:27:23.77
Maybe so. People live
their lives. That's why we have
00:27:23.97\00:27:26.27
light bulbs so we
can stay up at night.
00:27:26.47\00:27:28.94
That's why my people
work the graveyard shift
00:27:29.24\00:27:32.15
and then they
sleep all day long.
00:27:32.45\00:27:34.02
I actually know
that what we have shared
00:27:35.15\00:27:38.12
in terms of how God
desires us to have a rest -
00:27:38.32\00:27:42.16
not only a daily
rest but a weekly rest -
00:27:42.36\00:27:46.76
is going to make a
difference in somebody's life.
00:27:47.06\00:27:49.80
God wants us to be healthy.
00:27:50.10\00:27:52.03
You know, He's promised us that
if we would follow His blueprint
00:27:52.43\00:27:57.11
none of the diseases
that He put on the Egyptians
00:27:57.31\00:28:00.28
would affect us. And did
you know? They had diabetes.
00:28:00.48\00:28:03.55
By not getting enough
sleep we've shared today
00:28:03.85\00:28:06.92
you can actually
become a diabetic.
00:28:07.32\00:28:10.39
Well... that's
our program for today.
00:28:11.45\00:28:14.16
And as always I
leave you with this:
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Ill John 2: "Beloved, I
wish above all things that thou
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mayest prosper
and be in health. "
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I'm Rico Hill...
and I'm the blue guy.
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Maranatha. Be well.
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