Friendly fire.
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That's what took place in
Judges chapter 7 and verse 22.
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The Bible says: "And
the 300 blew the trumpets
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and the Lord set every man's
sword against his fellow...
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even throughout all the host. "
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Oh... imagine
that! Gideon and his army
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had instilled so
much fear in the enemy
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that they turned on
themselves with the sword.
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In a military battle when
the army fights against itself
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and wounds its fellow soldiers
it's called friendly fire.
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Hello and welcome to
From Sickness To Health.
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I'm your host Rico Hill
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and this is the blue guy.
So what's wrong with a little
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friendly fire? If it's
friendly, what's the problem?
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Well... when it's
a battle people die.
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And when it's with your health
well people get a little sick...
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Sick... Go on and say it!
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They end up with me: Sickness.
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AND... who's friendlier than me?
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Well I can think of
about a few thousand people
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but that's not the point.
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The point is today's
topic is autoimmune diseases:
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when the body
begins to attack itself.
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You mean the body
keeps attacking itself?
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This is genius!
Like rheumatoid arthritis
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and lupus and type 1 diabetes.
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Oh... so amazing.
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Ah... a perpetual
state of sickness.
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Yeah... just think
about it. I mean, it's like
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you get it started
and it keeps going...
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you just back
away. Rico: back away.
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It's like the gift
that keeps on giving.
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Just back away.
Well I tell you what:
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we're not going to
have any friendly fire here!
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You stick around. We're
going to show you how you can
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return that gift and
get your health back.
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Just back away... Roll it!
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If you have just joined
us here in the studio of
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From Sickness To
Health, welcome. We're glad that
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you're here. We have a
wonderful program for you today.
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I'm going to share with you
some of the wonderful people
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who are joining us to
talk about autoimmune disease.
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But before we do
that we want to say hello
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to our friend, our
colleague, our co-host Sickness
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who is somewhere. He's
remote. How are you today?
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Still backing
away. All right... OK.
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We're going to turn to...
We're not going to back away
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from you guys. Dr.
Yvonne Lewis is here with us.
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She's a naturopathic
doctor, also the general manager
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here of Dare to Dream
network. And we welcome you
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back to the program.
Great to be here! Thank you.
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Dr. Thomas
Jackson: you're here again.
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We're happy to have you here.
Now Dr. Jackson is a doctor of
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natural health sciences and
he is also the speaker/director
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of M.E.E.T. Ministry
in Huntingdon, Tennessee.
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Thank you for being here again.
Oh, it has been my pleasure
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to be here. Ah, good,
good, good. My pleasure.
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And sitting to his
right is Dr. Camille Clark.
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Dr. Camille Clark is
a... she's specializing in
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internal medicine, and she
is here to help us out on this
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topic. Thank you for being
here. Thank you for having me.
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Wonderful, wonderful.
Now... before we get started
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we're going to talk about this
subject of autoimmune disease.
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We heard a little bit
about it in the introduction
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and we saw that the
body begins to fight itself.
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Now this means that your
body is functioning fine.
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The immune system is working
but it has, as we're going to
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find out, it has targeted
the wrong thing - your own
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organs and tissues - and it
brings terrible inflammation
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and issues for a lot of people.
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But we want to get
some help for you today
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and I think our expert
panel is going to do that.
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But let's go to Sickness and
hear what he's got cooked up.
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Thanks Rico. I'm
here in the kitchen
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in a fierce battle.
This is not a drill.
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I repeat: this is NOT a drill.
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You do not want to be here.
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You see, it all started
with a few friendly games
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here in the kitchen but now
it's turned into a deadly war.
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This guy really
wants to take me out.
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And here's the
thing: he's so evil.
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He's pure evil.
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Oh hi Rico. As you can
see I'm in an all-out war
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but I've got this guy
right up against the ropes.
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You see, a little game
of friendly fire is going to
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bring him to his knees.
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And there's a secret weapon
I've got. You see, mentally
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he's already
beat. He thinks genetics
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determines
destiny... but that's not true.
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You see, a lot of people
think that just because your mom
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and dad had the disease
you're going to get it too.
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Not true at all!
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The secret is:
genetics loads the gun;
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lifestyle pulls the trigger.
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So let's take for instance
something like not getting
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enough sunshine,
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not sleeping,
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not exercising,
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or not getting enough water.
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But you know there's one
more thing that's absolutely
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my personal favorite.
It's when we think we can eat
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whatever we want
as often as we want.
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Well that is definitely an
interesting way to look at that.
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Well, he makes a
good point. He does!
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He talked about the lifestyle
disease or autoimmune disease
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coming from the very
basic and simple things that
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we neglect every day
like water, sunshine,
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exercise, getting
enough rest, right?
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And, which leads to...
Oh, how about the nutrition?
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That's a big one, right?
We've got to talk about that.
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It was a big gun! It's a big
gun. That's a big gun! Right.
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All of the other ones are
important too, but that's a
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really big gun because mentally
people don't think their food
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affects them in
that way. That's right.
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So I want to hear from
you guys; talk about that.
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I want to get a little greater
perspective, though, because
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there's a video - a newsclip
- that really gets into this
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and I think it lays
out the foundation of this
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in a really special way.
So let's take a look at that
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video clip as well.
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So for example
with type I diabetes
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you're going to see our
immune system will go after
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the pancreas and
that's how you get diabetes.
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But autoimmune disease...
I think it should be changed
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to syndrome because
it's not one disease.
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Between celiac
disease, ulcerative colitis,
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thyroiditis, and on and
on. Fibromyalgia, lupus,
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rheumatoid arthritis. There's
a whole series of autoimmune
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that everybody wanted to hear
and that's why we're doing this.
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The ideology and cause
behind this could be viral.
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People have talked
about Epstein-Barr virus
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could be bacterial. Could
be some of these heavy metals
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that we have in lipsticks
and all these other things.
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Or it could be the toxic food
that we have... that we use.
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We'll talk about some of
this. What do doctors do?
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When they come to me - I don't
see a lot of them - but Mark,
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they usually give
steroids and they want to reduce
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the amount of inflammation.
That's temporary. That's only
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taking care of the symptoms.
But the truth is that our diet
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is not so healthy
and we talk about sugar.
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I made a list of the
things that people need to know,
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so I'll go through this really
fast. Just so... New treatments:
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you need to get rid of dairy
foods. Dairy: cheese, milk,
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and other things causes
endotoxin, causes increase in
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autoimmune. Get
rid of trans fat.
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Mark has talked about this.
No gluten... which I know Jamie
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agrees with
that. Get rid of sugar.
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No red meat and no processed
food, fast food... you know,
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fried food. But
what we want to stick to
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is healthy vegetables and
fruits. Add turmeric to your
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diet which reduces inflammation
and go to olive oil. And finally
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vitamin D. Wow! This is
probably new information
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to a lot of you. So
we're going to turn to our
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distinguished panel of experts
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and we're going to
make some sense of all this.
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One of the things
that... you notice what he said.
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He said: "It treats
the symptoms. " Um-hmm.
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Now you don't normally
hear doctors say that. Yes.
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Right doctor? Doctors?
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So what do you think
about this? This is some truth
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that's just come out
here! That's true. Um-hmm.
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So, you don't normally
treat... So have we gotten into
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this perpetual thing of
treating symptoms and not
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dealing with the
issue? Right. Exactly.
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Not looking at the core...
not looking at the cause -
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um-hmm - but
managing the symptoms. Right.
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And if we can get to
the root cause of the issue
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then we can... The symptoms
are going to fall in line
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once you get to the root cause.
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And I love the fact
that he was bringing out -
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there's hope - lifestyle
changes that you can make
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to actually get to the
root cause of the issue.
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There's an expression I have:
"the cure is in the cause. "
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Oh, come on... I like that.
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The cure is in the cause
because Proverbs 26:2 says:
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"The curse causes
should not come. "
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So that means for every effect,
every symptom, there's a cause.
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So where is the
cure? It's in the cause.
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We find the cause, remove
the cause, we have the cure.
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Oh, isn't that
simple? It's great.
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You're not really just
giving something that is his own
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thought, that's really
the Bible. That's right.
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Notice he went to
Proverbs 26 verse 2 which says:
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"Disease does not come
without a cause. " That's right.
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Brilliant. The Bible
is brilliant, isn't it?
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Amen! That's why I'm smart...
'cause I read the Bible.
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'Cause you read the Bible.
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You know, because you know
what? Not because of the school.
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Some people can read it,
but making application...
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that's absolutely
true... making application.
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"My people perish for lack
of knowledge. " That's true.
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And using that knowledge that
comes from God. That's true.
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So it's the symptom
that we've been focusing on,
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but this doctor... he
laid it out on television
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and said: "You know what?
We're dealing with symptoms
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rather than the cause. " And the
big thing that he pointed out
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was the diet. The diet.
And he listed a few things.
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Now if we were to
let that continue on
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the anchor said: "Hey,
do you agree with him? "
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And the other doctor was a
little like: "Well, you know. "
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Because it's really difficult
to tell people that not only
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is it dairy,
cheese, milk. Not only is it
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red meat or processed food
but it's all these things that
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we love! That's right. Right?
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So what are some of the
other things? Oh, by the way,
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I know you have a testimony
because rheumatoid arthritis
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was mentioned there. That's
right. But there are some people
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out there who are
watching this program
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and they're suffering.
They're suffering from colitis;
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they're suffering from
Crohn's disease, celiac disease,
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and they cannot find relief.
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And mainly because they
are just getting the steroids.
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That's right. Right? I
just want to put a little bit
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of a backdrop on this whole
discussion about autoimmunity.
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So as was kind of mentioned
your immune system is your
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body's defense mechanism.
It will fight diseases
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and then autoimmunity comes
when you're fighting against
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yourself. And there are a
lot of different examples.
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So as was mentioned before
you may have thyroid problems -
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we actually see this a
lot in females and then
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in minorities as well - but like
Hashimoto's or Graves' disease.
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Lupus was mentioned as well
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and celiac and all
of these type of things.
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So while the genetic
component exists, and that's why
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we definitely ask someone:
"What is your family history?
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Did your mom have this?
Did your brother have this? "
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so that we can get a bit of a
backdrop as to what they may be
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predisposed to there
are these other factors.
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So as he mentioned in the
video you can have the viruses
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that can trigger that.
You can have a lifestyle that
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actually propels it. And
so there's this interesting
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phenomenon of epigenetics,
and that's things outside
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of your genetic DNA that
can influence the expression
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of things that may already
be there... already exist
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and kind of propel it so
that it starts this reaction
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of inflammation. Yeah.
Now you're absolutely right:
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I think this is one of
the fields in medicine where
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we're learning, we're
growing and all the answers
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definitely are not
there. So in terms of treatment
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steroids kind of mask and calm
down a lot of the inflammation
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so that you can live. However,
when you're talking about
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getting over the illness
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and going back to a
better state of life
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because it's so complicated
you can do immunomodulating
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therapies where you're trying
to depress your body's immune
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reaction so
that... Is that healthy?
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So it's a set up. I
mean, you're trying to do that
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so you're not attacking
yourself but you're also
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putting yourself at increased
risk. Risk of other things!
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Yes. And that's why these
other things are so important.
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For instance, people
with multiple sclerosis...
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what do you tell
them? Well... the exercise.
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Your food. Things
to stay away from.
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All of these lifestyle factors.
Just to kind of put into
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perspective what is being
done. Why it is being done.
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And also the other elements
that we need to keep in mind
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so that we're not just
masking an inflammatory process
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but actually
dealing with the cause.
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And you used a
word there: epigenetics.
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And looking into some of that
we see that that's how the genes
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themselves express themselves
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based on things that we
introduce into the system.
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Epigenetics. It's really
kind of the scientific term
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for genetics or
heredity loads the gun
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but your lifestyle
pulls the trigger, right?
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So that's the
scientific term for that.
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Rico, I have a
comment on that. OK.
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I just want to say
that I completely agree:
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it is all about your genetics.
I agree with both of you
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so people can stop
stressing out. It's all genes.
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No, no, no... that's
not what we said, is it?
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No! Now you gave a
very balanced perspective.
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Epi comes from the Greek
word which means outside of
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your genes, so...
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Thank you for that; thank you
for that. We have to get into
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a word study. I think
Sickness has selective hearing.
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But you know, when people are
sick... It's interesting: when
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people are sick and they're
sick as a result of their diet
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and their lifestyle they
tend to have selective hearing.
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Because you can share wonderful
information - that's true -
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and they continue to go
about things that are actually
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harming them. That's right.
Is that right? That's right.
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So we want to really give
a real balanced perspective.
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So thank you for that...
for giving that perspective.
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So we see that you have to
look at that family history.
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You've got to understand
what may be in your genes.
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But I have seen that something
like 75% of a lot of the
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lifestyle diseases are
preventable. Um-hmm. 75%.
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So there is that 25%
where it is solidly in
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your genetics, right?
Predisposition you might say.
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Yes, yes. Where
we understand unless
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definitely there is an
abnormality where it might cause
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structural brain damage.
But with this autoimmune...
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With my situation when I was
clinically diagnosed at the age
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of 17 moving to rheumatoid
arthritis. As I always share
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this story. So from 17 to 27
that condition really escalated
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when I went to college
then when I was pursuing
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a professional career. And
so the doctor said definitely
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there was no known
cause. No cause? No cause!
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That's #1. Number
2: there is no remedy.
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And #3: you have to be on
drugs for the rest of your life.
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So there was also no hope -
there was no hope - according
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to his diagnosis...
to his understanding.
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And so there I'm taking drugs...
anti-inflammatory drugs...
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and my body became
so desensitized to them
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they lost their
effect on my body.
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So there were other things I had
to resort to just to deal with
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that situation. My
condition was so worse
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it not only stopped my career
as a professional basketball
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player but it kept me
out of the Vietnam War.
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So during that time -
which I was elated over that -
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and because hey, you
know... the Army didn't want me,
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I sure didn't want them either.
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But I'm going to
tell you believe it or not
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when I began to just go
through the Word of God...
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When I mentioned
about the curse caused it...
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When we deal with autoimmune
as was already stated, the body
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immune system begins
to turn on its own tissue
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and we find
inflammatory reaction.
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And one of the things
that I find, too: that the body
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has to deal with
metabolizing a lot of protein.
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If the body does not metabolize
protein, the protein becomes
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offensive.
Um-hmm. You follow me?
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And then I remember
reading some inspired writing
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and it says: "Digestion
is the foundation of the
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human... of the body. "
And so digestion - the way
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we process food,
the way we digest food -
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also will either prevent
these autoimmune reactions
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or can also help to
deal with these autoimmune
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because #1, when we talk
about virus/bacteria we also
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talk about the body's
inability to deal with protein.
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Then we're dealing with inner
city. We're dealing with people
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of color also: African
descent - lactose intolerance.
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You know, dealing with
cow's milk... which basically
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none of us were designed to
drink cow's milk in the first
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place. Wait a minute.
That's a big statement, Doc!
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Well, we go on. You take
that... You know, human...
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The best milk
is mama's milk, OK?
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And you find the protein
percentage in mama's milk is
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probably 1.3%. Cow's milk is
three times larger than that.
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And so it takes a baby 120
days to double its birth weight.
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In a calf it only takes 47 days.
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So therefore it needs
more protein! Because it's
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the protein within that species
designed for that species.
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And it makes sense. Logically
that calf needs to get up
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and "run with the herd...
" otherwise it's going to be
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preyed upon. So our
food chain has changed
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in a high consumption of
protein foods not able...
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After a certain period of
time hydrochloric acid decreases
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in our body.
Um-hmm. And a new phenomenon
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comes up: what they call
the "leaky gut syndrome. "
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You've probably heard of that.
But the fact is, when I read
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these statements... Our
digestive systems can become
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so inflamed, so irritated,
that where protein leaks out,
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leaks into our
bloodstream. Um-hmm.
00:19:02.04\00:19:04.17
And the fact is we
talk about here MS.
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You know, I work
with people with MS.
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We find that
essential fatty acid...
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we're talking about not
getting - some breast fed -
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we're talking about
vaccinations. These factors
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definitely overpower the body
to the point where the body's
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trying to defend itself
so it attacks the tissue.
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Now what happened
to me... one thing.
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This has been over... Now I
don't have rheumatoid arthritis
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no more. No more? A 10-year
battle ended within one year.
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Why? What made a
difference in you?
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And I was not a Christian.
I'm saying this very clear:
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I was not a Christian, but
because I grew up with a mother
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who believed in God,
and after my career ended
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I became so depressed and angry
that I thought about the Bible.
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So I picked up the Word
of God looking for hope.
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But I went on a journey through
the Bible, not only finding
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Christ in the Bible
but I found the cause of
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my rheumatoid
arthritis. What was the cause?
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#1 we go back: the
curse cause should not come.
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You remember
that? Proverbs 26:2.
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Joel 29:16 says: "A cause I
knew not; I search it out. "
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And so one of my favorite
texts: "The life of the flesh
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is in the blood. " Um-hmm. OK?
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Then I read in Leviticus
7: "No fat... no blood. "
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No fat... no blood. OK?
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Genesis 9:3-5: "Every
animal whose life you take
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I require your life. "
So I said: "Well why not...
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Why do you prohibit blood? "
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"Why do you prohibit fat? "
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And so... Remember,
I'm not a theologian
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but I began to do some research
and I found within the blood...
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Bringing out a point:
within the blood of the animal
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I found this protein or
this chemical called purine.
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Purine. The byproduct
of purine is uric acid.
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So the body's got to get
rid of that. And so the fact is
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I began to create
inflammation in my body.
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All right? And so I began to do
a little more studying on this
00:20:52.98\00:20:56.38
this protein molecule. And I
found out that my body was not
00:20:56.58\00:21:00.12
metabolizing... so I
really needed to get rid of that
00:21:00.32\00:21:01.92
purine. And so I began to
eliminate all of the animal
00:21:02.12\00:21:04.99
protein out of my body.
00:21:05.19\00:21:06.80
I found I was dehydrated.
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Isaiah 44:12; Ezekiel 4:6.
00:21:08.70\00:21:10.87
I was not drinking enough water.
00:21:11.07\00:21:12.40
I found out number one: all
the dairy, all the cheese...
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Cheese contains tyramine.
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You find that that even affects
the central nervous system.
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And so as I began to remove and
replace those things out of...
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replace those
things with better food -
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more plant-based diet -
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more water... The
dairy: I eliminated that.
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I was a
sugarholic. A sugarholic?
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I used to eat sugar sandwiches.
00:21:33.42\00:21:35.52
I would take "Wonder
dead... " I mean white bread...
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and I would take butter and
put it in a skillet - uh-huh -
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and put sugar. And
if you're rich you put
00:21:42.83\00:21:45.20
a little cinnamon on the
white bread... sugar sandwiches.
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Um-hmm. So once I
followed those principles
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I began to find the
cause... Eliminate the protein
00:21:50.37\00:21:54.18
that was
causing my problem here.
00:21:54.38\00:21:56.08
I began to do... I
was exercising already.
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I was not... I was stressed out.
00:21:59.08\00:22:00.55
So once I began to
apply these principles...
00:22:00.75\00:22:03.65
My wife, when I told her...
00:22:03.85\00:22:05.19
like I told you, we've
been married over 42 years...
00:22:05.22\00:22:07.06
when I told my wife I'm
making these changes she said:
00:22:07.26\00:22:08.89
"You're gonna
die; you're crazy! "
00:22:09.09\00:22:10.79
So for two years we
ate out of separate pots.
00:22:11.19\00:22:14.90
But within 6 months to a year
00:22:15.10\00:22:16.87
my condition was
totally reversed.
00:22:17.27\00:22:18.80
I used to predict the weather.
Because of the barometric?
00:22:19.00\00:22:22.30
The barometric pressure would
affect. Diet, to me... my...
00:22:22.50\00:22:26.47
my folk had rheumatoid
arthritis. My PEOPLE had this.
00:22:26.68\00:22:30.71
Go back down the
chain... they have this.
00:22:30.91\00:22:33.48
Goes back to the diet,
etc... the lifestyle. Um-hmm.
00:22:33.68\00:22:36.95
And so once I dealt with that
lifestyle and began to replace
00:22:37.15\00:22:40.26
those type of foods
and dealt with my stress
00:22:40.46\00:22:43.29
my condition was
totally reversed as of today.
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Wow! That's autoimmune.
I've seen people with MS.
00:22:48.66\00:22:52.37
Not all cases. I've seen people
in a wheelchair get up and walk
00:22:52.57\00:22:56.20
as a result of the
plan. Fibromyalgia.
00:22:56.40\00:22:58.61
So you're saying
to someone out here
00:22:58.81\00:23:01.18
that if they make
these lifestyle changes
00:23:01.38\00:23:04.48
they too can overcome
whatever the autoimmune
00:23:04.68\00:23:08.95
issue is in their
life? I'm saying this:
00:23:09.15\00:23:11.52
that again... search out the
cause... search out the cause.
00:23:11.72\00:23:15.16
Leave this up to
God but I'm saying
00:23:15.36\00:23:16.83
that they have
greater advantages
00:23:17.03\00:23:21.23
either to reverse it
or reducing that problem.
00:23:21.43\00:23:26.17
With cases I've dealt
with I've seen allergies.
00:23:26.57\00:23:29.87
We've worked with lupus.
Now I'm working for a young...
00:23:30.07\00:23:32.94
See lupus normally used to
affect women - black women -
00:23:33.14\00:23:35.78
and now I've just
seen three men with lupus
00:23:35.98\00:23:40.25
and now one is a
14-year-old young man.
00:23:40.65\00:23:43.82
Wow... wow! And
when I trace his diet
00:23:44.02\00:23:47.09
and his lifestyle it's the
cow's milk; it's the sugar;
00:23:47.29\00:23:49.89
it's the cheese. The whole...
And doctors continue to treat
00:23:50.09\00:23:53.50
him with anti-inflammatory
drugs and that's all. It masks.
00:23:53.70\00:23:56.83
All I'm saying: that
lifestyle is important.
00:23:57.03\00:23:59.20
Whether... I cannot predict
the fact, hey, that's what God's
00:23:59.40\00:24:03.17
going to do for
you, but I do know that
00:24:03.37\00:24:04.97
you do not have anything to
lose in following this program.
00:24:05.17\00:24:09.61
So... Go ahead, I'm
sorry. Yeah, I was just saying
00:24:09.81\00:24:12.21
what I love about your
story is that it offers hope.
00:24:12.41\00:24:15.35
And I think that's what
lifestyle medicine is all about.
00:24:15.55\00:24:18.15
Because often we think: "Oh,
I was born into this family.
00:24:18.35\00:24:22.46
I have the genetics
and it's all downhill.
00:24:22.66\00:24:25.46
It doesn't matter;
whatever I do is not going to
00:24:25.66\00:24:27.30
make a difference. " But here
we have a real-life example!
00:24:27.50\00:24:30.23
And not just yours... there
are so many people who have made
00:24:30.43\00:24:32.97
changes in their lifestyle
and their diet and seen
00:24:33.17\00:24:36.00
positive results. One
thing: when you mention
00:24:36.20\00:24:38.81
hope... In Job
chapter 14 verses 7 through 9-
00:24:39.01\00:24:42.91
and you're probably familiar
with this text - the Bible says:
00:24:43.11\00:24:45.28
"There's hope for a tree.
00:24:45.48\00:24:47.05
Though it be cut down yet
its roots wax old in the earth.
00:24:47.45\00:24:51.62
At the scent of water
it shall sprout again. "
00:24:51.82\00:24:54.86
So you can cut a tree down
but if its roots are intact
00:24:55.26\00:24:58.89
and you couple that
with Ecclesiastes 9 verse 4.
00:24:59.09\00:25:02.70
It says: "A living dog is
better than a dead lion. "
00:25:02.90\00:25:05.40
Where there's life there's hope.
00:25:05.60\00:25:06.94
And so this
program is about hope!
00:25:06.97\00:25:08.77
It's hope... and you found
the hope in the Word of God.
00:25:08.97\00:25:12.34
You know, what's so
beautiful about this is that
00:25:12.54\00:25:15.28
he talked about there's
hope in a tree in its roots.
00:25:15.48\00:25:18.68
So what we're saying
then: if there is an organ
00:25:19.08\00:25:22.35
that still has the
flow of blood - Amen! -
00:25:22.55\00:25:25.35
you've got some blood flowing
to that organ - That's it!
00:25:26.59\00:25:29.16
then it actually can live again!
00:25:29.36\00:25:31.33
Oh wow... that's a
beautiful thought. And I hope
00:25:31.56\00:25:33.63
this has given
you some hope today.
00:25:33.83\00:25:35.46
I want you to go and
think about what may be
00:25:35.86\00:25:38.40
the cause for you.
What may be the thing that's
00:25:38.60\00:25:41.84
in your lifestyle that's
causing these inflammatory
00:25:42.04\00:25:46.21
responses. You
search out the cause.
00:25:46.41\00:25:48.31
If you need to...
In fact, I suggest:
00:25:48.51\00:25:50.85
go to the Word of God and maybe
you'll find your answer there.
00:25:51.05\00:25:53.62
May God bless you.
Thank you for joining us.
00:25:53.82\00:25:55.68
Proverbs chapter 11
and verse 17 states:
00:25:57.59\00:26:00.76
"The merciful man
doeth good to his own soul
00:26:01.02\00:26:04.83
but he that is cruel
troubled his own flesh. "
00:26:05.03\00:26:09.63
Wow! Today we learned
about autoimmune disease
00:26:10.27\00:26:14.40
which essentially is when the
body begins to attack itself.
00:26:14.60\00:26:18.47
We called it friendly fire.
00:26:18.87\00:26:20.81
However, we also learned that
when we are actually putting
00:26:21.01\00:26:24.81
things in our bodies that
cause an autoimmune response
00:26:25.01\00:26:29.32
and it troubles your own flesh
00:26:29.72\00:26:32.05
well, according to
the Bible, that is cruel.
00:26:32.25\00:26:35.69
No, you know
what's cruel? What's that?
00:26:35.89\00:26:38.29
When some people - i.e. YOU
- try to mess up a good thing.
00:26:38.49\00:26:41.90
Well what good thing
am I trying to mess up?
00:26:42.30\00:26:45.83
Don't you remember?
You're messing up my good thing
00:26:46.23\00:26:49.10
of getting something
started and then just back away.
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Oh... yeah,
yeah, I remember that.
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The whole thing of...
Your method of getting people
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sick and then backing away.
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Oh, I just have to ask you
this: what harm has it done?
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Are you kidding me?
You're going to let them in
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on my secret that
if they stop doing this
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and start doing that
they could become health...
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Go ahead...
Health... Just say it! Heaa...
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That's been our program
for today. Oh, no, no, no.
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That's not our program
just yet. Not just yet.
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Why don't you just back away?
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Just back away.
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Look: "Beloved, I
wish above all things that
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thou mayest
prosper and be in health. "
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I'm Rico Hill, and
Sickness has backed away.
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Maranatha... stay healthy!
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