Leviticus chapter 17
verses 10 and 11 says:
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"And whatsoever man
there be of the house of Israel
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or of the strangers
that sojourn among you
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that eateth any manor of blood
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I will even set My
face against that soul
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that eateth blood and will cut
him off from among his people.
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For the life of the
flesh is in the blood. "
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Wow! Hello and welcome
to From Sickness To Health.
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I'm your host Rico
Hill and I'm Sickness. Yes.
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And let me guess. The topic
of today's program is blood.
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Yes... blood. I
love talking about blood.
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That figures. Yeah!
Because there's that song:
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"What can wash away my sins?
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Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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What can make me pure within?
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Nothing but the
blood of Jesus. "
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It is so important
to have clean blood
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to have good health. Rico,
clean blood is boring blood.
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I've got to give up my
party blood, probably eat your
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boring food? No thanks.
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Well I'm just curious.
Can I ask you a question?
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Sure. What color is your
blood? Do you have blue blood?
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What? I'm not going
to answer that question.
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You always ask me
questions on the program.
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Do you have blue
blood? It's a simple question.
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Roll the program!
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Oh, so you don't
want to answer my question
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about your blue
blood! Fine. Roll it.
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Exit... stage right.
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Well hello there and welcome
to From Sickness To Health.
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Thank you so much for joining us
right here in the studio here.
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And I'm joined by my
good friend the doctor:
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Dr. Schubert Palmer.
And today we are going to be
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talking about blood...
something he knows a lot about.
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In fact, Dr.
Palmer is a cardiologist.
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In fact, he's the chairman
of the cardiology section
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of the White Memorial Medical
Center in LA, California.
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But he does so
much more than that.
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And it's a wonder, it's amazing,
that he can make time to come
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and share with us good
information about how we can be
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healthy. His
specialty is the heart,
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but blood pumps through
the heart. Welcome, doctor.
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Thank you. Delighted to be here.
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Now there are about eight
pints of blood that just pump
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through our bodies, moving
through from the head to the toe
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in about a minute. Um-hmm.
That's about 3 miles per hour
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in the average
human being? Um-hmm.
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So important is this blood,
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yet most people don't
know anything about it.
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Today we want
to really bring out
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the importance, the power -
the cleansing power - of blood.
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But you've gotta
have healthy blood.
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Before we get into
our discussion today
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let's go and hear what
Sickness has to say about blood.
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Hey Rico. This is
how we roll in Hollywood.
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This is my sports car.
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And according to the owner's
manual they tell me to change
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the oil every 3,000 miles.
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The reason being it keeps
the engine from seizing up
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from all that dirty oil.
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And I want to pay attention to
that because, hey, if you have
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dirty oil you could
ruin the engine of your car.
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You hear the similarities
with the human body?
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You've got a liver
and kidneys to filter out
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the old dirty blood, but people
don't care about that stuff.
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But they care about their cars!
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They change the oil
filter, they change their oil
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and they keep it nice and clean
so that pretty car can keep
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running. That's what
I do. Back to you, Rico.
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I'm outta here.
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Well... I don't know
what to say about that.
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Let's go ahead and
get into our discussion.
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I think there are some good
points about what goes through
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an engine and the fuel and the
oil that goes into an engine,
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but you know what?
Blood is even more important.
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Good blood is even
better than good oil in a car,
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so let's talk about good blood.
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Can I start off,
doctor, by reading a statement
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that I think is
just so powerful?
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This is found in a book that...
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that I love and enjoy. It says:
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"In order to have good
health we must have good blood
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for the blood is
the current of life.
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It repairs waste
and nourishes the body
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when supplied with
the proper food elements
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and when cleansed and vitalized
by contact with pure air
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it carries life and vigor
to every part of the system.
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The more perfect the circulation
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the better this
will be accomplished. "
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And that is from a book
called Counsels for the Church
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page 218. Wow!
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What is blood being
applied to the church for?
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Well, as a physician and a
scientist, I can validate that
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statement to the "T.
" I mean, my life's work
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has to do with trying
to correct folk who've had
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"bad blood. " Bad
blood... I like that!
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Yeah, and there is...
You won't find that in a
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scientific textbook...
bad blood... I guarantee that.
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But if we can get
our circulation right,
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99% of our
problems - at least 90% -
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would disappear.
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And when you think about
this amazing body that we have -
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yes - did you know
that you have over 60,000
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miles of blood vessels? It
sounded like you said miles
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but I think you
meant 60,000 feet, right?
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It sounds that way, but
no. 60,000 to 100,000 miles
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of blood vessels. This
could go around the planet!
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Just three of us and
we could reach the moon!
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That's the amount of
circulation. Now they range
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in size from the large arteries,
you know, like the aorta -
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like an inch size.
Yeah. And they will get down
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to the size of the arteriole
which is 2/100 of an inch
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down to the capillary
size where they are so small
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that the red blood
cells have to squeeze through
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these little
capillaries one at a time.
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Whoa! So if you can keep
your circulation free and clear
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you've gone a mighty long
way to having good health.
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So... the key to
really good health
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is having pure blood,
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and that pure blood
needs to be uninhibited
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or impeded by anything
so that it is circulating
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at the rate of speed
because it's taking things.
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It's... Blood is not
just blood. It's actually
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sort of a transportation,
sort of, mechanism. Isn't it?
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Um-hmm. What is it
moving through the body?
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In fact, you can consider
it like the current of life,
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the river of life.
The river! Bringing...
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bringing nutrients - um-hmm -
and probably the most important,
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they're all important...
but oxygen... Oxygen!
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in those red blood
cells. When you look at blood
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55% or 54% is
liquid or plasma. Yeah.
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And then the other
45% are solid material,
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the majority of which
are the red blood cells
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that are responsible
for carrying the oxygen
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in the
hemoglobin molecule. Um-hmm.
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And then bringing the "waste"
back, or the carbon dioxide.
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Maybe 70% of the carbon dioxide
just is in the blood itself.
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A percentage of it
gets in the red blood cells
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but most of it is just
within the blood system itself.
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So you have the
oxygen/carbon dioxide exchange.
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But that's only the beginning.
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Now we have to
look at the nutrients.
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What are some of the... the hor-
mones you have running around?
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The body communicates by
hormones and the brain will
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send some hormones by the
blood to the different organs.
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If they are in trouble,
they will send their signals
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by the blood. So
it's communication.
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Communication network.
Transportation; communication.
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And the list goes on. OK.
And then the immune system
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is vitally
dependent on the blood.
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You have this array
of white blood cells
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that are designed to
detect foreign invaders,
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whether that is bacteria,
viruses, or even cells that have
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gone astray...
the cancer cells. Aah!
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And every one of
us the thinking goes
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during the course of
our lifetime will have
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anywhere from...
hmmm... up to 250 cancer cells
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that might form. Now your
body has 100 trillion cells.
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A hundred trillion? And
trying to detect problems
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in only 250...
how do you do that?
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The blood system is set up
along with the lymphatic system
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and so on to detect those cells
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and to literally
gobble up those cancer cells
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before they cause trouble.
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Diet is going to play a big part
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in... because of the
statement that I read...
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the food that we eat
is pretty much converted
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to blood. Um-hmm. That's
where our blood comes from.
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That's how we make blood.
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Good nutrition in...
good, pure blood. Right?
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But we're finding in
a lot of communities,
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certainly the African-American
community and some others,
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we have a higher incidence of
hypertension and heart disease
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and these kinds of things
because our blood is not pure.
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So we're talking about...
we're still talking about
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blood, though, because
really we're told in Leviticus
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chapter 17 and verse 11:
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So the life of the
flesh is in the blood.
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Now I don't know if
people would consider this to be
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science, but in the Bible it
says that the life of the flesh
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is in the blood.
When a person goes in for
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a routine doctor's visit
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what are they
going to check and why?
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They will do a
physical examination. Of course,
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a careful history,
but usually they will do
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a blood test.
And you need to see
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an inside view as
to what's happening.
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And one of the best ways
to do that is to get some
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blood tests done and
you can get the answers
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to many things. And
nowadays it's even more fancy
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with different tests
that we have available.
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So, if I want to know
if someone might be...
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On the other end of that
video you were talking about
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immune function and, you know,
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we have trillions of blood cells
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but at the same time
250 could be cancerous!
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Right? So if we're going to be
able to detect whether there is
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cancer in the
blood, are we saying that
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through a blood test we
can detect things like cancer?
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By the time we
detect cancer in a person
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on the best science
that we have right now
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it's usually been
around for five years or more.
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So no... Blood tests
are good for screening
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but they're picking up the
damage after it's been way gone.
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So the old adage is
true: a pound of prevention
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is... or an ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure.
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Aah! So this is
what it comes down to.
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Again we're seeing that
no matter what you may be
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genetically predisposed to
- that means, you know, having
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something passed
down from mama or daddy
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or grandpa. But it
really comes down to
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how... or what measures
are you taking to prevent
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sickness and disease, right?
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For the majority
of cases that is true.
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The majority of cases?
There are like 70% I've read.
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Um-hmm... yes. Or even more!
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Or even higher. So I
like this expression...
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maybe you can expound
upon it a little more...
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and that is: "genetics
loads the gun" - um-hmm -
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"but your lifestyle pulls the
trigger. " Pulls the trigger,
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yes. Let me give you an
example: for the heart disease
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there are what they call
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single nucleotide polymorphisms.
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Big word, but these
are genetic mutations
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in the DNA - um-hmm -
that lead to abnormalities
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that predispose you
to, say, heart disease.
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And so we've
figured out a lot of them.
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And one of them in particular
that they found out that's
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pretty common, and they found
that things like "fish oil"
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can actually help that one.
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But that's just one.
And each of these mutations
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has their own baggage with them.
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Now... if you come down
with a mutation problem,
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and we all are damaged goods...
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No matter what we do? Yes,
and you can't change your genes.
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Right. But the research is
confirming that even though
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you may have had bad genes -
and there are a few exceptions
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like people that have
one called progeria in which
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10-year-old kids
get heart attacks
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because they age so rapidly.
One in 20 million people.
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Very rare. Very rare.
So the majority of problems
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that we are seeing today
cannot just be laid at the
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"excuse" if you
will of having bad genes
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because the lifestyle that we
develop will directly affect it.
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And I have a good
example of Mr. I Hate Beans.
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Aah... OK.
Well... Mr. I Hate Beans.
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You just heard that.
We're going to talk about
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Mr. I Hate Beans. Tell
us about Mr. I Hate Beans.
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So this gentlemen
walked into my office... OK.
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Actually, I first saw him
in the emergency room again.
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Most of my people I see
in the emergency room first.
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And so he's
having a heart attack.
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We rush him to the cath lab.
We went ahead and did a stent,
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opened up the blocked artery.
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And I talked to him
about changing his lifestyle.
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He didn't. He was smoking,
eating at all the fast food
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places. Every bad habit he had.
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Around 2 or 3 heart attacks
later and another 4-5 stents...
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Two or three heart attacks?
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Um-hmm. So then he comes
in and we have to do a bypass
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surgery. OK... so he
got the bypass surgery
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and now it's around five years
from the first time I saw him.
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And now he is saying:
"I am having this severe
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chest pain. I am using 100
nitroglycerine tablets a day. "
00:15:10.21\00:15:13.58
The pills you put under
your tongue when you have chest
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discomfort. Yeah. And he says:
00:15:16.08\00:15:18.01
"I can't walk to my bathroom
unless I take a nitro. "
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And so he comes into
my office and he says:
00:15:22.35\00:15:24.85
"So Dr. Palmer...
am I going to die? "
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And I looked him in
the eye and sadly said:
00:15:27.69\00:15:29.92
"Yes, you are going to die.
" You had to be that honest?
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I had to be
straightforward with him.
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And he says: "So can I? "
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"Every time you come in, " I
said, "your lifestyle changes.
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I mean, a simple
thing is eat your beans
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and lentils, you know.
Stay away from a lot of the food
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that you are having and
have more of the food as grown."
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Plant-based diet versus the
high-fat, saturated fried food.
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Yes. And he just
said: "I can't do it. "
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OK. And so what happened
over this time: now he's having
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100
nitroglycerine tablets a day.
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He is going to die.
Yeah, I did an angiogram.
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The surgeon said: "I would not
touch that man with a 20 foot
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pole. He would
die on the table."
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I couldn't do any
more angioplasties.
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There was nothing there
when I did the angiogram.
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No arteries that you could see.
I knew that we were in trouble.
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So I told him:
"Yes, you can go back home
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to your country to
say goodbye to your folk.
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You know, since you are not
listening to me, just prepare
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to die. " I prepared
him. You know, we had a prayer
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and my heart was...
You prayed with him?
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I pray with a lot of my
patients when they allow me to.
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Absolutely. Praise God!
And so when I said goodbye
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I knew I would never see
him again. Three months later
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this man walks through the
door with the picture of perfect
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health on him.
You've gotta be kidding me!
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I said: "Mr. I Hate Beans! "
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That's what you
called him? Well...
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That's what you were thinking.
00:16:52.21\00:16:53.68
I said: "You are
alive? What happened?
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You're supposed to be dead. "
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And then he said... His wife
was with him and she confirmed
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the story. She said: "I cannot
keep up walking with this man. "
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And I said: "So sit
down; tell me what happened. "
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He said: "Well, I went
back to my home country
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up in the hills where we live. "
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And he said: "Where
we live we are so poor
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the only food that
they had for me to eat
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were lentils and beans. "
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And then he said: "We
are so poor, I couldn't walk
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anywhere. I mean, I
couldn't take a taxi.
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I couldn't afford... "
They couldn't afford taxis.
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So he had to walk.
"So I HAD to walk. "
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And then he
said: "We are so poor
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we didn't have a TV, so I
had to go into the backyard
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and garden to spend time. "
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What? So there was
time out in the fresh air
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in the sunshine
and he was walking!
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He was walking. And this
turned his situation around.
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Turned his situation around.
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Wow! I'm sorry... go ahead.
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What happened is
when you look at an artery
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the inside lining of the artery
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there are special cells
called endothelial cells.
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They make their
own nitroglycerine.
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And to make their nitroglycerine
for this inner lining of the
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arteries they need to have...
L-arginine is the building block
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from which they
can make nitric oxide.
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Um-hmm. And nitric oxide is
the most potent basal dilator
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and also one of the
most potent chemotherapy,
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cancer-fighting
chemicals known to man.
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So fighting the cancer but
also keeping the blood vessels
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and the veins and arteries open.
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All natural. Just
naturally! Um-hmm.
00:18:30.37\00:18:32.24
From beans? Beans and lentils.
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And these are high
in the L-arginine foods
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that your body uses
to make nitric oxide.
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Let's see if the people
on the street know about
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the goodness of beans and
good blood and a good heart.
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Let's turn to that.
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Let me ask you a
question. We're going to get all
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"sciency" here. How
fast does blood flow?
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Very fast. Very fast? Very fast.
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She didn't get good
grades in school. I need some
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specifics here. How
fast does blood flow?
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You know what? I was not
very good in my science class
00:19:07.31\00:19:12.28
so... The answer is: too fast.
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Blood needs to slow
down because you know what?
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It needs to slow down a little.
All these people talking about
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good circulation? You gotta
let blood just do what it does.
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Just do what it
does. Coagulate... yes!
00:19:25.03\00:19:29.00
Do you like happy blood? I
don't know what happy blood is.
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Look, the way to
get happy BLUE blood
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is to sit on the couch, put your
feet up, eat whatever you want
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as often as you want
and don't go to sleep.
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See, that's the thing.
Blue blood - slow blood -
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is good blood. You
see what I'm saying?
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I think you see what I'm
saying. You guys: you have good
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blood flow? Yes.
You have blue blood?
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Yes. OK... circulation:
how fast do you think in the
00:19:54.16\00:19:57.83
human body is circulation?
How often does that happen?
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How fast does it go?
00:20:00.50\00:20:02.06
I'm gettin' a little "sciency"
on you... I'm pretty smart.
00:20:02.26\00:20:04.33
Hmm... I don't know.
00:20:04.73\00:20:07.60
He doesn't know. But
you're smart... you look smart.
00:20:07.80\00:20:10.14
I have no idea. No idea.
00:20:10.34\00:20:12.37
You? No idea. No idea.
00:20:12.57\00:20:14.41
Do you like the sight
of blood? The sight of it?
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I mean, you like to
look at blood itself. Nah.
00:20:16.64\00:20:19.21
No? Nah. I mean,
you don't like blood.
00:20:19.41\00:20:21.58
I don't like blood. I
mean, there's all this confusion
00:20:21.78\00:20:24.15
out there about
blood. I think in concept
00:20:24.35\00:20:27.06
people like clean blood but in
reality people like party blood.
00:20:27.26\00:20:33.16
They like the buzz,
so don't be a buzzkill.
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Clean blood sounds good
but people would rather have
00:20:37.07\00:20:40.17
party blood, happy
blood. Back to you, Rico.
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Whoo! What can you say?
00:20:47.78\00:20:49.51
What can I say?
People have their own ideas.
00:20:49.71\00:20:51.78
Um-hmm. But you know, what
we like to do on this program
00:20:51.98\00:20:54.88
is really give, you
know, really good science
00:20:55.08\00:20:57.95
and give you the truth. Dispel
the myths and misconceptions
00:20:58.15\00:21:01.12
of these things and
also go to the Word of God.
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And, you know, at one
point our doctor mentioned that,
00:21:04.09\00:21:07.96
you know, when we have good
blood we're also transporting
00:21:08.26\00:21:11.80
these white blood cells
which is our immune function.
00:21:12.00\00:21:15.20
And it says in Isaiah
chapter 59 and verse 19
00:21:15.40\00:21:18.84
it says: "So shall they
fear the name of the Lord
00:21:19.04\00:21:22.21
from the west and His glory
from the rising of the sun.
00:21:22.41\00:21:25.45
When the enemy shall come in
like a flood, the Spirit of the
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Lord shall lift up a
standard against him. "
00:21:30.52\00:21:33.92
So when the enemy - that
is any type of pathogen or
00:21:34.12\00:21:38.43
bacterial/viral
infection comes in,
00:21:38.63\00:21:41.13
God has a standard, doesn't He,
that He raises up in the body.
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But not only that, He's
already given us a standard.
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He's given us a healthy diet and
all the things from the garden.
00:21:48.20\00:21:52.44
The fruits, the vegetables and
the things that are good for us
00:21:52.74\00:21:56.04
to eat and will give us
pure blood making good life.
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Is that right? That's
an awesome thing to know.
00:22:00.15\00:22:02.78
And to think that your
best medicine can be found
00:22:03.08\00:22:06.86
in the produce
section of the supermarket.
00:22:07.06\00:22:09.59
You mean not in the middle
aisles where you can go and find
00:22:09.79\00:22:12.93
the things that are at eye
level and that have lots of
00:22:13.13\00:22:16.33
descriptions and ingredients
that you can't pronounce?
00:22:16.63\00:22:19.57
Not those? Not those.
OK... so, you know, I want to
00:22:19.77\00:22:22.54
look at these things
because this is a stent.
00:22:22.74\00:22:25.37
This is a stent that you
often have to put in someone.
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Is this? This has
become almost commonplace.
00:22:29.71\00:22:32.71
In fact, our president...
president. I mean our president.
00:22:32.91\00:22:37.15
He's former
president, but Bill Clinton
00:22:37.35\00:22:38.99
he had one of these
placed in him, didn't he?
00:22:39.19\00:22:41.22
He did. Not just
one... he had several.
00:22:41.42\00:22:43.06
And when he saw his cardiologist
at the time they told him
00:22:43.26\00:22:45.86
"Well, you're growing old
and this is just a natural
00:22:46.06\00:22:48.46
process for growing old. "
00:22:48.66\00:22:50.87
That's what they told him?
Unfortunately. They were wrong!
00:22:51.03\00:22:54.67
Well, I don't like to say
anything about my colleagues
00:22:55.07\00:22:58.51
but just... The
information was that...
00:22:58.71\00:23:01.04
We are able in a program
like this to tell the truth.
00:23:01.24\00:23:06.51
The whole truth... and
nothing but the truth...
00:23:07.35\00:23:09.15
and nothing but the truth. Amen!
00:23:09.35\00:23:10.69
So he had to get
several of these in,
00:23:10.99\00:23:13.12
but that wasn't enough.
And maybe some time on a later
00:23:13.32\00:23:17.29
program we'll show
exactly what he said.
00:23:17.49\00:23:19.46
Because everyone was
interviewing him and asking
00:23:19.66\00:23:23.20
"How did you
overcome your issue? "
00:23:23.40\00:23:26.30
Um-hmm. And he tells the story.
00:23:26.60\00:23:28.37
He had to get several
stents but his doctors told him
00:23:28.57\00:23:31.44
"You've got to change... " What?
00:23:31.64\00:23:32.97
You have to change your
lifestyle... which the diet was
00:23:33.14\00:23:35.98
very critical.
Diet was a part of it.
00:23:36.18\00:23:37.95
And now he's
what we call a vegan.
00:23:38.15\00:23:43.02
And a vegan is
basically someone who just has
00:23:43.22\00:23:45.32
a plant-based diet. Um-hmm.
So we can avoid this thing.
00:23:45.52\00:23:49.52
Now is that
painful? Well, of course not.
00:23:49.82\00:23:54.00
It is radical
but it's not painful.
00:23:57.07\00:23:59.20
Well it is... sometimes.
Let me tell the truth.
00:23:59.40\00:24:02.10
The whole truth and
nothing but the truth!
00:24:03.17\00:24:05.27
We use local anesthesia
and you're a little sedated.
00:24:05.47\00:24:08.04
And sometimes I
will sing for my patients
00:24:08.24\00:24:10.48
if they really
need the big anesthesia.
00:24:10.68\00:24:12.71
But after you have it in
and you're walking around
00:24:12.91\00:24:15.08
you don't notice it
but... No you don't.
00:24:15.28\00:24:17.15
For a while, though, you
would feel some discomfort?
00:24:17.35\00:24:19.25
Would you?
No... not necessarily.
00:24:19.45\00:24:21.22
If it's doing
it's job it will be OK.
00:24:21.42\00:24:23.76
However, if your
lifestyle hasn't changed
00:24:23.96\00:24:26.13
the process is starting to
start up again or in another
00:24:26.33\00:24:30.17
area. And if you have
to have a big surgery,
00:24:30.37\00:24:33.47
the bypass surgery, that one
you will feel for quite a while.
00:24:33.67\00:24:37.34
Aah, well I tell you Dr.
Palmer, thank you so much.
00:24:38.57\00:24:41.74
We're running out of
time but we could just go on
00:24:41.94\00:24:44.48
for days and days.
But here's the thing:
00:24:44.68\00:24:46.65
we know that there's a
simple solution to this problem.
00:24:46.85\00:24:51.49
Let's eat better.
Let's eat a diet that is...
00:24:51.69\00:24:54.59
or eat a diet that is
going to be heart-healthy
00:24:54.79\00:24:58.39
and promote good
blood and good health.
00:24:58.59\00:25:00.43
Because that is the river
of life, and we want life,
00:25:00.63\00:25:04.50
don't we? Absolutely.
00:25:04.70\00:25:06.03
We'll see you next time
here on From Sickness To Health.
00:25:06.30\00:25:08.64
Thank you, doctor.
Appreciate it. My pleasure.
00:25:08.84\00:25:10.87
Today we have learned that
in order to have good health
00:25:14.74\00:25:17.41
we must have good blood
00:25:17.61\00:25:19.61
for the blood is
"the current of life. "
00:25:19.81\00:25:23.02
If you have a blood
that is more acidic,
00:25:23.22\00:25:26.76
you have a garden where disease
and sickness will thrive.
00:25:26.96\00:25:31.83
I go to places like the desert
and everything is dry and dead.
00:25:32.03\00:25:35.63
But when there's a river
there you'll see the green trees
00:25:35.83\00:25:39.17
and everything is flourishing.
00:25:39.37\00:25:40.70
That's what the blood is
referred to: an actual river
00:25:40.80\00:25:44.51
of life. Wow! When
you have good circulation
00:25:44.71\00:25:48.58
you'll have good
health. It's amazing to me that
00:25:48.78\00:25:52.35
whatever we eat is
converted to blood.
00:25:52.55\00:25:56.52
You eat an apple... it's
going to turn into blood.
00:25:56.72\00:25:59.15
Eat a candy bar?
Well... I'm not so sure.
00:25:59.35\00:26:02.12
But here's the thing: God
desires us to have pure blood.
00:26:02.52\00:26:06.09
God designed this
incredible organism
00:26:06.29\00:26:09.86
to be able to live
because of this current of life.
00:26:10.07\00:26:14.00
I understand. I get it.
00:26:14.20\00:26:16.27
Look... you saw my
sports car. I take care of it.
00:26:16.47\00:26:19.41
I understand that with good
oil I have a good healthy car.
00:26:19.61\00:26:22.94
With dirty oil the
engine will seize up.
00:26:23.35\00:26:25.08
I understand that, just
like I understand all this stuff
00:26:25.28\00:26:27.65
you were talking about
with the blood and the body.
00:26:27.85\00:26:29.45
That's not the issue.
You're trying to take the fun
00:26:29.65\00:26:32.85
out of life. And people want
to have a little party blood.
00:26:33.05\00:26:36.02
They want to have some fun
in life, not eat all these leaf
00:26:36.22\00:26:38.86
things and gross
stuff you've got to eat.
00:26:39.06\00:26:41.13
I'm sorry. I hate to cut
you off but I heard you say
00:26:41.33\00:26:43.57
people want to have
a little life. Well,
00:26:43.77\00:26:46.50
actually Leviticus 17:11 says
00:26:46.70\00:26:50.27
that "the life of the
flesh is in the blood. "
00:26:50.47\00:26:54.18
Without good
blood you have no life.
00:26:54.44\00:26:59.11
Aah! Let's listen
to what God has said
00:26:59.31\00:27:01.92
to us regarding the life of
this flesh being in the blood.
00:27:02.12\00:27:06.72
Well, that's our
program for today.
00:27:06.92\00:27:08.59
I leave you with this
as always: III John 2 says:
00:27:08.79\00:27:11.69
"Beloved, I
wish above all things
00:27:11.89\00:27:14.16
that thou mayest
prosper and be in health. "
00:27:14.36\00:27:16.87
I'm Rico Hill... I'm Sickness.
00:27:17.17\00:27:19.20
Maranatha.
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