Hello and welcome to
Health for a Lifetime.
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I'm your host Don Mackintosh.
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Today we're joined
with Rob McClintock from
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Washington state.
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Welcome, Rob.
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Thanks.
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Today we're going to be talking
about a rather interesting topic
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that is the mind,
more specifically the
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battle for our minds.
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First of all tell me what does
it mean when you say the mind?
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What do you mean by that?
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Well, really we're talking
about a very complex organ,
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the brain, where we find
the seat of our emotions,
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our abstract thinking,
our cognitive thinking,
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our practical thinking,
our ability to determine what's
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true and what's false.
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In terms of the battle we're
really looking at one thing
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and that's
called our allegiance.
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The battle for the mind is
something that's been going on
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for millenniums.
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So what I picture then when
you're saying this is there's
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the practical things
that our mind helps us do,
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there are abstract thoughts,
there are all of these different
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things that's
going on in their mind.
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What you're suggesting is
that there are people that are
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or not maybe people but forces
that are trying to be active in
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those processes.
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What do you mean?
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What is this battle?
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When did it begin?
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What does it have to do with us?
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The battle for the
mind, as I understand it,
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started in heaven.
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At one time in the universe all
the created and divine beings
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were in harmony.
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Satan was not known as
Satan then, he was Lucifer.
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He was in harmony with
Christ and with the Father.
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Everything was happy
and harmonious in heaven
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Somehow Satan's mind began to
wander in channels it shouldn't.
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He began to have doubts
and began to have jealousy.
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Little by little he
began to plot against the
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divine government.
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We understand from what the
Scriptures tell us that there
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was war in heaven.
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War does not take place
unless you have more than
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one combatant.
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You don't just have one.
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You don't have one side.
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You have more than
one side, at least two.
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We are told from Scripture
that Satan took quite a number
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perhaps a third of
the angels with him.
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He didn't just indiscriminately
go out and round up a third of
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the angels and force
them out of heaven with him.
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Because they would
have stayed with the Father
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who they were loyal to.
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But evidently, somehow, Satan
found a way to gain control of
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their minds so that their
allegiance then was given over
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to his service.
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I see that not staying in
heaven but actually coming down,
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in more practical and
recent terms, right here
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on this planet.
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Why would you say that?
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You're saying, on the basis
of Scripture of course, there's
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this war that's
been described there.
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What are some things that we
can see that indicate that it's
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down here on this level?
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The very first beginning on
this earth was when Adam and Eve
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were created and placed here.
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They were given the opportunity
to choose whether they would
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continue serve God as
God has intended for them
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or were they going to follow
Lucifer's plans and surrender
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the sovereignty of the
Holy Spirit the Creator over to
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another master.
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We see Satan using a number of
sophistries, beguiling agencies,
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in order to tempt
Eve's mind and deceive her.
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I see today so many instances
where people are being deceived
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into surrendering
the sovereignty of the
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seat of their heart.
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We talk in terms of our heart
but we're really talking about
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the frontal lobe of our
mind where our thought processes
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and moral judgment live.
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I see people surrendering that
somewhat against their will.
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Explain that a
little more to me.
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What does that mean when you
talk about the frontal lobe and
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surrendering the will?
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What happens in the mind
and how do we surrender that?
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In the brain we have all the
different regions of the brain.
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You've got the occipital
lobes where the more calculatory
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things we do will take place.
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We've got our temporal
lobe and then the frontal lobe
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up in our foreheads, in the
beginning, up in the very top.
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That is where scientists tell
us that our abstract thinking
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where we analyze things,
where we make decisions between
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one thing in lieu of another,
we make our moral judgments.
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Those emphasis
are all placed there.
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The concern that I have is
I see so many things that are
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in our environment, things
that surround us, things that we
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see, things that we hear,
and primarily a lot of the
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things that we eat or drink,
take into our bodies have a
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physical effect
on the frontal lobe.
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Many times by depleting
the brain blood flow where the
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blood flow is decreased
or a certain chemical is now
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interfere with the processes.
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Our capacity to be loyal to
God, our capacity to tell the
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difference between truth
and fiction begin to diminish.
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Give me some examples of
what you're talking about.
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Well, I think most
people can relate to alcohol use
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having some effect on the brain.
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I remember as a teenager
hearing daring young bucks say,
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"Let's head out to the
bar, let's go kill some
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brain cells. "
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They are quite brash about it.
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It doesn't seem
to bother them any.
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They feel impervious to it.
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When you're young you
feel immortal and invincible.
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But they're
speaking in real terms.
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They are going out and
they are killing brain cells.
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Alcohol does a number of things.
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Number one, it does decrease
the amount of brain capacity
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that you have by
killing some of the brain cells.
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Also decreasing some of the
neurotransmitters solutions,
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changes the blood flow, and
we can see impairment in people
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who drink alcohol.
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Recently the state of Washington
just changed the blood alcohol
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legal limit for the highways
for whether you're drinking
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or driving or not based on
new research that's coming out
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that they feel people are
intoxicated at lower limits
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than they did before.
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I notice you have a
graphic here for us to look at:
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One of the things that
was studied recently...
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So many people feel that it's
drunks who cause the problems
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on the highways, it's drunks
who cause problems socially,
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but for me personally,
if I drink once a week as a
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social drinker I'm causing
no menace to society and I'm
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causing no menace to myself.
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But on the graphical studies
that we're shown indicated that
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people who had only one drink
per week, perhaps, still showed
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via scientific testing - some
of those are through PET scans
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and others are where they
actually measure the amount of
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glycogen used in the
front part of the frontal lobe.
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The indicators were that there
was still mental impairment
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even 24 hours after
even a mild use of alcohol.
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So a little wine is
perhaps not so good for us?
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I don't think so because if
you have impairment that means
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number one you're a menace to
other people physically because
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of your lack of capacity
to operate an automobile or
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an airline pilot certainly
we hope he hasn't been drinking
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within the last
24 hours or week.
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But I'm not so concerned
about the physical things as car
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accidents, they are certainly
bad because we know that
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we're loosing quite a number
of people to alcohol related
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accidents.
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Alcohol related accidents
and illnesses combined take a
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100,000 people out of the
United States alone in death
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every year.
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But I'm thinking more in
terms in the battle of the minds
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is what it does to people's
capacity to discern between
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truth and error.
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Because I really believe that
in this last days when Satan
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we're told in the book of Peter
he's a roaring lion seeking to
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deceive us.
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He wants to take our
eternal salvation from us.
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More now than ever in history
we need our mental capacity
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to be 100 percent.
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The alcohol, I think probably,
some of our viewers would have
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a little problem with what you
said, but most of our viewers
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on a Christian program would
probably say, "Hey, I'm not
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that involved in alcohol, I
don't get involved in something
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like that, I've
heard about that. "
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Are there other things;
however, that maybe they
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would be involved in?
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Things that you could share
with us that impact the brain,
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the things
you're concerned about?
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We know that
tobacco can have some
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negative influences as well.
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Anything that will decrease
the amount of blood flow
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to that particular part of
the organ will decrease our
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capacity to make good
judgments and good decisions.
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Alcohol, as you know,
is a vassal constrictor.
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It will cause the
blood vessels to narrow.
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They will constrict.
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A smaller dimension in a blood
vessel will mean that there's a
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corresponding restriction
and a decrease in the flow.
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We rely for our thought
processes on the blood making
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a fresh transfer of
oxygen molecules and also taking
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out some of the waste products
from the brain as it goes
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through its processes.
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If that slows down our mental
capacities go down as well.
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What does it mean when someone
says, "I just had a cigarette
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and I think more clearly
now, I immediately get a rush
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and I seem to have more
perceptive thought after I
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smoke"?
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Are they not
understanding what's happening?
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Explain that for us.
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Well, to the best that I can
understand it, that's actually
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almost an induced fantasy.
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Maybe it did give them a
little bit more focus initially
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but over the long term
they actually have less
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discriminatory processes
then they would have had before.
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So alcohol is something we're
wanting to avoid in terms of our
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frontal lobe.
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Tobacco is something
we're wanting to avoid.
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What should we do in
place of those things?
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Well, why do people drink?
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Most people drink because
they're looking for an escape
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from something.
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Some people feel
like they're too up tight.
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They need to relax.
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A lot of people are socially
inept, at least they perceive
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themselves to be.
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They think that if they have
a drink they can loosen up, they
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can have more fun,
they can be happier people.
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We simply need to understand
that as Christians we're
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God's creation.
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It does not matter
what people think of us.
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What most matters is
what God thinks of us.
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Smoking - why do people smoke?
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Why do people drink?
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They are crutches
when you're limping.
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A Christian
shouldn't be limping.
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Christians can be a
whole person because they are a
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whole new creation.
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Yes, I hear what you're saying.
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Let's say I'm watching today
and I do smoke and I do drink,
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and I just can't seem to get
through the day without that.
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What kind of counsel do
you have for someone like that
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struggling.
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Just give us an
indication what should they
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put in place of that?
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It's quite easy to say,
"Well, I don't think you should
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be doing that. "
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But what do I do?
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That's a really good opportunity
for us to share some of the
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better things in life.
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If you are stressed out a
lot of people drink and smoke
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because of stress.
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A really good, vigorous exercise
a lot of times can be a far
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better stress beater then any
of these sedatives could ever
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hope to be.
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If you feel like you need
something to make you feel
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better about yourself go
for a walk in the sunshine,
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eat better food.
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A lot of people who
drink and smoke don't have
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the greatest diet.
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When you have a lot of poor
dietary choices in your program
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they leave a vacuum because of
the good things not being there.
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We begin to develop cravings
and urgings for some thing,
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some outside stimulus that
we wouldn't normally crave.
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We're talking
with Rob McClintock.
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When we come back we're
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isn't that right, Doctor?
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When we come back we're
going to learn some other things
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that we can do to
enhance the functioning of
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your frontal lobe.
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Welcome back.
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We've been talking
with Rob McClintock.
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We just were in an interesting
discussion about ways you can
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increase your
grade point average
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by what you do,
decisions you make.
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Dr. McClintock,
help us with that.
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One of the things we
are discovering with diet
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that has been an
interest for a long time,
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is that there is some
correlation between your diet
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and what your
mental acuity would be.
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Now we're not able to measure
that in terms specifically
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in terms of your IQ, but
we can find that what you eat,
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what you drink, what
you listen to, and see,
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and those types of things
does effect to some extent
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your capacity to do abstract
thinking, your attention span
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can be varied.
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There was a study
with school aged children
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that I thought was quite
interesting where the children
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were given an opportunity
for a period of time to have
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the type of diet that
kids normally would like.
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You know, the sugary
cereals, candy bars, soda pops,
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deserts and on and on and on.
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These kids seem to have that
sort of lifestyle because that's
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what their parents
have been providing them.
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These poor kids are
having a tough time in school.
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They are failing,
pulling C's, D's, F's
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and that type of thing.
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In the study these kids were
given an opportunity to where
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nutritionists came in
and they changed their whole
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dietary program.
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One of the major things
they took out of their diet
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was the refined sugars.
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They didn't provide
them with special teachers,
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they didn't give
them any special tutoring,
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they didn't make
them stay home at night
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instead of going
down to the arcade,
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they didn't make them burn
their skate board or anything
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these kids just had the one
major factor where they got a
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decent diet with less sugar.
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It was not very long in
the course of several weeks
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these kids were
doing better in school.
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In fact by the end of the
term they actually were pulling
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at least one letter
grade higher than what they had
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come up with before.
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I'm sure if someone were getting
a C it would probably bring them
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up too, wouldn't you think?
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That's right, Don, and you
know it's not just for the kids.
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You know we always like to apply
this to somewhere other than our
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own life, but as adults we need
to understand that sugar affects
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us the same way as it
does the young people.
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Just because you and I may
not be in school doesn't mean
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that we are not needing the
mental capacity that we need
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and were created to have.
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There's a lot to why the sugar
does what it does for the kids
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and also for us as adults.
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If you were to eat a large meal
of carbohydrates like oatmeal,
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toast, some fruit, and these
types of things, for a really
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good breakfast.
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If you don't like oatmeal
use some sort of a cereal
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or that genre of food.
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You are taking a fair amount
of fiber and a lot of other
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material with it.
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It takes the body a while to
digest those items and during
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that time you're having a
sustained release of the sugar
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that's being
released into the system.
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The body then has an opportunity
to have a sustained release
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of matching insulin and all of
this in turn provides the brain
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with the proper amount of
glycogen which is brain fuel.
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The brain only has at any
given time 2 minutes or maybe a
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little less of this
brain fuel on reserve.
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What happens when a kid eats a
candy bar or drinks a soda pop -
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or an adult, either one
- you have a rush of sugar
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and the body says, "Wait a
minute, there must be a lot
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of food that's going to enter
my system right now, I'll have
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to put out a lot
of insulin now. "
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And so it begins to burn
up all of that extra sugar.
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Now we end up with blood sugar
lows and we begin to come down.
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There is less capacity to have
the right amount of fuel for the
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brain to function right.
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So our brain has to
slow down to match the fuel.
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So it's really not so much
the sugar but how it's released.
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It's the difference between
a high octane fuel and a diesel
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I guess, or something that
unpacks itself slowly vs. fast.
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That's correct.
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What I hear you saying is
that every food in a sense
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is a brain food.
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It can be.
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It just depends how we balance
them as we put them into our
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dietary program.
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In other words, what I mean, it
could be negative or positive.
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Everything effects it somehow.
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It's either going
to add or take away.
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That's one of the things
that we need to take a look at.
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The things on my plate - is this
going to enhance my capacity
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to think and tell the
difference between God's Words
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and Satan's words?
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Or are these things going
to actually detract from what
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I'm doing?
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So the sugar, you've said, it's
not so much bad, it's just how
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it's delivered.
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And you're saying the best
way to deliver that is through
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carbohydrates or those things
that unpack themselves slowly.
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That's correct.
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What about fats?
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Is there
anything good about fats?
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Or is there anything bad
about fats in terms of how it
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effects the brain?
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Well, fats and sugars can do the
same things in some respects.
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One of the things that sugar
does in addition to causing
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the lows when we eat
too much in the wrong form,
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it actually acts to congeal
or jell the serum of the blood.
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So now we're having to
move blood through those
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fine blood vessels
in the frontal lobe.
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Now that the syrupy, thickened,
jelly type blood is trying to be
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forced through - again it cannot
be forced through as fast as it
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would like to.
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Our oxygen transport and
our fuel transport to our brain
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slows down - slows our brain
down, slows our judgment down.
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Fat can act in the same way.
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The fat can actually
begin to stick our blood cells
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together.
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Our red blood
cells begin to clump up.
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If 100 of us held hands and
tried to walk through a door
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somebody is going to have
to let go sooner or later.
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That's one of the things we see
inside of the brain that these
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cells are having to actually
to be forced apart to flow
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through the brain.
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And again you've
slowed down the opportunity.
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So, I have my big sugar-rush
in the morning and I'm on my
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way to work and I stop by
the fast food restaurant of my
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choice and I get
my big sugar-rush.
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I also have a
nice big Egg McMuffin,
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not to bring any
particular person into this,
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but I have this big fatty
meal along with the sugar.
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Then I decide what I'll do
is I'll just have maybe a Pepsi
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or Coke to go along
with it to pick me up.
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because I'm
feeling a little sluggish.
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Is that a good idea?
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Probably not a real
great idea because as you
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have hinted to and eluded
to those first two things are
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actually going to cause
you to be suffering from
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oxygen deprivation.
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When I used to fly airplanes
they used to tell us not to
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spend too many minutes above
a certain elevation because once
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you would go past your limit
you would begin to feel very
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happy.
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You'd be tired and
things would be moving great.
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A lot of people feel that way.
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They say they feel better when
they eat these types of foods
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because of the
oxygen deprivation.
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But adding caffeine is
not necessarily going to do
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the greatest thing for you.
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Caffeine has substances in
it that will interfere with your
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neurotransmitters.
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In neurotransmitters each nerve
cell is going to have to be
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releasing a certain amount
of certain neurotransmitters
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solutions - handing it over to
the next one, to the next one,
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to the next one, and
that's how the impulses from one
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nerve cell to the
other are transmitted.
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Caffeine releases
certain substances
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that upset the balance.
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We have one neurotransmitter
acetylcholine, which is kind
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of like the gas pedal and
the adenosine is like the brake
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and together they move things
through traffic in the right
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sequence and at the right speed.
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When you begin to add these
substances from the caffeine
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to try to pick you up and make
you feel better you're doing
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some wild things to your body.
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If you took one cup of coffee
and took the caffeine out of it
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about 120-125 mg and put
it into a needle and shot it
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in your arm you
would be dead in minutes
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because it is that toxic.
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But putting it through your
stomach and the digestive track
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you release it a
little bit slower.
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The body says, "Wait a minute,
here's a poison, I've got to
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burn it off. "
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So up with the metabolism in
releasing tons of adrenaline.
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In terms of the body
that's not a great thing
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but in terms of the mind
what bothers me is you'll see
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somebody who's really, really
angry - they've got tons of
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adrenaline or they're very, very
afraid - tons of adrenaline.
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People who are very angry
and people who are very afraid
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do not think rationally and
they do some pretty wild things.
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Increasing the amount of
adrenaline to try and burn off
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the toxicity of this caffeine
is not going to cause us to
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have clarity of thought.
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So, so much for my good idea.
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It wouldn't really be
a happy meal, would it?
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No.
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Well, we have just a
few minutes left here.
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We've talked about some things
that can be damaging - alcohol,
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tobacco, caffeine, fat
and the effect it can have
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on our frontal lobes and how it
can really cause some problems.
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In the rest of our time together
in just the few moments we have
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what are some real positive
things our viewers can do?
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What can they do to feed
that frontal lobe what it needs?
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To do a real positive thing
for your brain and for your mind
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we need to cover
all of our bases.
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We need to be
putting in natural foods,
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not chemically derived
foods, but good natural foods,
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produce, fruits, vegetables,
grains, nuts, the complex
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carbohydrates rather
than the refined carbohydrates
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so we have a sustained release
of the sugar one that the body
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can keep up with.
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Anybody can now today knows
that fat is probably not that
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good for you but they're
thinking in terms of their
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arteries for their heart.
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We're thinking in
terms of our mind.
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Lot's of exercise to get that
blood moving so that you have
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the oxygen there
that you need to think.
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Sufficient water so
that you can bathe your mind
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so that your brain cells
are pure and are clean so that
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you can make the proper synapse
transfers of information.
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So what you're saying is a
lot like what our mothers' said
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which was drink your water,
have a healthy balanced meal,
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avoid those things that are
not so good for you - things
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you mentioned: caffeine,
alcohol, smoking - really have
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a more balanced
approach eating foods as grown.
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Well, thank you very
much, Dr. McClintock,
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for being with us.
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I know that as a
result of being together today
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we're going to have better
grades, we're going to feel
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better and we will
have health for a lifetime.
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