Hello, welcome to
Health for a Lifetime
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I'm Don Mackintosh.
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Today we're joined
with Rod McClintock.
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Welcome, Rob.
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Thanks, Don.
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We're talking today
about a very important subject.
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interesting subject, and
that is our minds, the brain.
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Why are our brains so important?
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It seems like an
obvious question but why
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are they important?
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It's a loaded question.
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A lot of people think that
the only thing a brain is for
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is to get good grades in
school or to be the smartest guy
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to make the smartest crack
at a party but really there are
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more aspects to our
brain than what we understand.
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We not only just have the
thinking aspect but we have the
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thinking aspects broken
down into sub categories.
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The thought processes of doing
mathematical calculations fall
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in one area of our brain.
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But in the battle for the mind
the area of the brain that I'm
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most interested in
and concerned with is the
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frontal lobe of the brain where
we begin to understand that we
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make our judgments, our
understandings, it's where
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we use our moral judgment
to discern between things
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that are right,
things that are wrong,
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and we know that
as Christians that we
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are in an environment where
there's a tremendous amount
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of choices to make
for things that are right
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or things that are wrong.
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If for some reason,
either through an injury or,
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more importantly for this topic,
things of our lifestyle, things
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that we eat, drink,
things we see, listen to, read,
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and those types of things,
if those things cause a negative
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impact on the frontal lobe
we will have a more difficult
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time allowing God to
bring us through to salvation.
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The decisions we make
about that are very important.
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There are good foods, there
are bad foods for our brains.
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They're all brain foods
but they have different effects
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is maybe what you're saying
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What are some things
we really need to avoid?
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We've talked earlier
about alcohol, tobacco, drugs,
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these are some things that
have a very powerful pronounced
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impact on our brain
and very few people would
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labor that point.
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But there are things that we
take into our bodies that a lot
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of people do not
realize has an effect on their
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opportunity for moral judgment.
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As a person goes around and
begins to share this type of
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information people
begin to assign a certain
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notoriety to you.
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Many people feel that
when you become health educator
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and you begin to try to share
with other people, that for some
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reason you must
have become judgmental.
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For that reason I want to be
able to share the reasons why.
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I don't want to tell
people, "Don't eat this,
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don't drink that, do
this, and don't do that.
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I'd like to be able
to share the reasons why.
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There was a man who lived
in my neighborhood a couple
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years ago who was driving down
the road and it was in his mind
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to go to a restaurant.
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He had just dropped his wife
off at the airport, and she was
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really into being
healthy and he was not.
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He said, "Great, I'm rid of
her I'm going to a restaurant
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and I'm going
to have a pig-fest.
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I am just going to eat
everything that is not good
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for me and drink everything
that's not good for me there is
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because I've got an
opportunity for a whole week
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to just really binge. "
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He was headed for the
restaurant and he met me
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on the state highway.
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I didn't even see him but
he saw me and he determined
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I must be a judgmental
person and that I must be able
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to read his mind.
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So he had to go home and be
miserable because he couldn't
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go and do that.
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He missed the point.
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I wanted people
to understand why.
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I think it's great that
we have a program like this
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where we can share why.
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Some of the foods that people
do not realize are causing them
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the negative impact, number
1 the sugary foods because of
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how they slow
down the blood flow
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to the frontal lobe of
the brain is something that
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a lot of people understand.
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But what many people do
not understand, and what I call
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animal sourced foods,
foods that either come from an
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animal or the animal
himself or in past tense
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foods that have a face,
father a face or mother a face,
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those foods can have an impact
on our capacity to think clearly
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and to make
good moral judgments.
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What would some
of those impacts be?
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Like for instance, I'm down
there for the pig-fest with this
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man and he's going to
have this huge T-bone steak
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and he's going to have a
nice cheese sauce and some chips
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and everything else
right there along with it.
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What's that doing to him?
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Ok, let's go back and digest
some of those things and find
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out what happens with him
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With the meat, the T-bone steak,
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in animal foods, and I
almost have to categorize
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human breast milk in
this same category because
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we have something called
arachidonic acid that is in
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human breast milk.
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It is something that
effects neurotransmitters.
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We have to have a balance
for neurotransmitters to think
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properly and there's a
certain level in there.
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But when you eat an animal
now you are beginning to take
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higher levels of this particular
substance in your body.
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Meat in particular is
very high in this acid.
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It effects your
neurotransmitter solutions.
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It makes a definite
impact on how the acetylcholine
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is produced.
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It retards the
amount of acetylcholine.
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What does that mean?
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You eat meat, you're
saying, animal products and then
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it stimulates acetylcholine,
but what does that mean?
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What we're talking about is
the fact that now the transfer
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of information from
one nerve cell to the next
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in the frontal lobe where
we make our judgment calls
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begins to be effected so that
the type of information that is
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being passed along
is not as reliable.
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It may change the speed
that it is being transferred at.
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Many people notice after
they eat a big meal like that,
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that their clarity of thought
just is not there anymore.
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There's another chemical
in meat that's a companion
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to this acid.
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It's a hydroxycorticosteriod.
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It has sufficient size to its
molecules to prevent them from
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being passed through
the blood brain barrier.
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People say, "What
does that really mean?"
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"What does that do to
me as far as my spiritual
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experience with the Lord?"
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They are a stimulant and
while they do not stimulate
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the frontal lobe to make
more spiritual decisions they do
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have the capacity to stimulate
the lower parts of the brain
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where the blood brain
barrier is not as intense.
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These lower parts where
our lower natures reside,
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that is where our, we'd maybe
call it our animal passions
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reside, when those are
stimulated we begin to act
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more like the
animal that we just ate.
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One health
educator semi-humorously
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said this is perhaps a
way we can begin to assimilate
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the image of the beast.
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Because that beast-like
animal propensity begins to be
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stimulated and brought out more
and it's not being overridden
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by the higher nature.
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In other words, these foods
that we eat really can have an
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effect -
processed foods of any kind.
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Well, let's go away
from meat for a time.
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When you say meat, I'm
sure you mean red meat.
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But do you mean fish or chicken?
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Would that all be
categorized as meat then?
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Primarily and I know that
some people would argue that
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point, but as a classification
you're going to find these
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substances pretty much all the
way through - higher and lower
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in certain sub-categories.
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The one that you mentioned
before, that was the cheese.
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Sometimes I go to churches
and I talk in these terms to the
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people in the churches.
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You can talk about meat
but you're not supposed to talk
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about cheese.
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I can see why.
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I think probably a
lot of people like cheese.
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You know, I grew
up loving cheese.
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I grew up in
Wisconsin the dairy state.
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I remember every time
I'd come home from school
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that was one of the first
things I wanted to do was rush
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home and get into
the refrigerator when Mom
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wasn't looking and get a little
piece of cheese before she
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caught me and run away.
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What does it do to us?
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I'm sure you're
going to tell us.
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One of the things that concerns
me is the fact that there are
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so many disease particles
allowed to be in cheese.
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We're talking in terms of maybe
equivalent to the population
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of the earth in disease
organisms in a pound of cheese
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allowable by the
federal government.
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That disturbed me a little bit
from the standpoint of health
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but for spiritual
health, what does cheese do?
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Cheese contains a number
of substances, one is called
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tryptamine and
another one tyramine.
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And these again,
begin to interfere with the
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neurotransmitters in the brain.
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And the neurotransmitters
specifically in the frontal lobe
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tryptamine effects the
brain similarly to LSD, although
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not as in large a quantity.
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I just went down hill
skiing the other day and I was
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trying to go down those
black diamond runs and keep up
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with the teenagers.
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As I was doing it I happened
to remember a man who used to
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work for me.
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One of his hobbies was to take
LSD and then go down hill skiing
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on the black diamond runs.
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Sounds like a
deadly combination to me.
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Yes, he said it was a
real challenge because little
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purple and green animals
would be going across the
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moguls in front of
him and he would have to
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dodge through them.
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He would come home and
tell me all the wild stories.
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I said, "Hey, who needs it?"
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I didn't want it.
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But yet we eat these things
that actually effect our minds
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in the same way.
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Do you think most
people even know that?
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Do they realize, those
that may be eating these things,
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I think most people watching
today are eating the very
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things you're talking
about, do they notice that?
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What is it that you
noticed that type of thing?
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How can you be so sure of that?
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One of the things that happens
to people is they say, "I eat it
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and it's never happened to me. "
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Well, when you go into a induced
state that's different than
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you normally should be mentally,
you're not aware of it.
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If you're semi-drugged and
slowed down you don't really
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recognize it.
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If you're very slowly lifted up
you don't really recognize it.
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The person who really recognizes
it is the guy who drinks 13 cups
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of coffee at once and
says, "Oh, I'm buzzed!"
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Typically we would not recognize
these things happening to us.
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When you can't think, you
don't know you can't think.
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That's a good point.
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We're talking to
Dr. Rob McClintock.
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You have shared with us
some things that I think maybe
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have stepped on a few toes.
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But I don't think
you're through yet.
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I think there's some
other things you're going to
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share with us.
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When we come back you're
going to be talking about
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the television and music.
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I can't think of some more
emotionally charged things.
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So when we come back
we'll continue this discussion.
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We'll focus on how
television and music can effect
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the frontal lobe.
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Welcome back.
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We've been talking
with Dr. Rob McClintock
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about our minds,
frontal lobes, our brains,
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what we can do to make them
healthier, what we can avoid
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so they will be healthy.
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Thanks for being with us, Rob.
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Thank you.
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We left off in our
discussion about several rather
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provocative things.
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We first of all mentioned there
are certain things to avoid,
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alcohol, caffeine,
other substances, tobacco,
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which many people are aware of.
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Then we started to meddle,
I guess is what we'd say.
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We looked at some other
things that lots of people eat
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every day, meats,
cheeses, and processed foods.
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I can almost sense that
some people that were watching
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were getting a little nervous,
although they understood
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what you were saying, too.
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Now you're going to take us
into some almost fighting areas.
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You've suggested that what
we watch on TV or what we listen
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to in terms of music also is
important to our frontal lobes.
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Why don't we
start with television.
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What's wrong with television?
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Why would we
even talk about that?
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People are watching
this show right now.
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Well, Don, I certainly
thought about that as I prepared
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for this program.
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I wondered exactly what I
dared say about television
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and what I wouldn't.
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I'm glad that we have
some Christian broadcasting
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to put some more positive
choices other than what we see
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on the run-of-the-mill TV today.
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One of the things that bothers
me about television, and has
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for a long time, is the content.
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What does
television do for the mind
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in terms of content?
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One day I began to look to
see what I could see on a TV
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when I had nothing to
do and I began to do some
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channel surfing.
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You're popping the
buttons looking for something.
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I decided to take the
New Testament direction of
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whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are pure,
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whatsoever things are true,
and of good report, on and on,
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think on these things.
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I applied that to the TV.
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I couldn't find
anything that would fit and
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pass the criteria.
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And I said,
"Well, what is on TV?"
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I began to make an analysis.
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The things that I began to
see on the TV were things that
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glorified immorality, sexuality,
human sensuality a lot.
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That was pretty heavy.
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Dishonesty was exemplified
as being a good, positive trait.
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The end justifies the means.
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I saw a tremendous
amount of violent behavior.
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It began to play on my mind
that if I was feeding this type
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of information into my mind
that this type of information
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could begin to be part
of the formative aspect
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of my character.
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And that began to upset me
a little bit about having the
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television.
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I didn't have much opportunity
with that because my wife
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decided to get
rid of the television.
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I was addicted.
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Here's another thing that I
find negative about television
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it's very, very,
highly addictive.
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When my wife took the television
and sold it in a yard sale
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I went into withdrawal.
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I literally got
depressed over the whole thing.
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I did not know what to do with
myself that was constructive.
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I got another TV and
she got rid of that one.
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Three attempts I finally said,
"I can't afford to continue
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to do this, I'll
have to live without it!"
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I began to find that my
life became constructive again
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and my productivity
went up dramatically.
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Relationships between
myself and my family members
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began to blossom and I began
to wonder what there really was
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to the physiology
of watching television.
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Recently, about a year or
two ago, I was doing a seminar
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and I asked a large
congregation of people,
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"You're all
Christians, is that correct?"
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They all raised their hands,
yes, they were Christians.
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I said, "How many of you
would go to a hypnotherapist?"
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No hands.
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I said, "Would you pay
money to get hypnotized?"
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No.
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Would you allow
someone to hypnotize you
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if they did it free?
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No.
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What if it was
for entertainment?
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No.
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I said, "Then why do you have
a television in your house?"
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You could have heard a pin drop
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pretty loud in that
auditorium that day.
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Then I began to
share with these people.
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As you watch television,
according to the information
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that I have seen where
they've actually taken and done
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brain scans on
people watching TV programs
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it's only 3 or 4
minutes into the programming
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where you get
really intent into it.
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Your mind basically, the
judgmental part of your mind
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where you have a lot of the beta
wave forms, begins to switch
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almost totally
to alpha wave forms.
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The mind now begins
to become anesthetized
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and become passive.
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We begin to assimilate
and store information rapidly
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as it hits us.
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You know if you watch a lot
of TV programs you don't watch
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a quiet, deadpan program.
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It's tons of
flash, flash, flash, flash
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different things
coming to you all the time.
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That became very pronounced
into my mind one night when
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I was trying to sleep on
an international air flight.
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I was going across the
Pacific Ocean and I had
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ear plugs in but the
lights kept flashing.
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I was trying to figure out what
was flashing - a strobe light?
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It was the TV that was overhead
of me that was flashing down
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different scenes so quickly.
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All of this
information constantly in a very
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disorganized way, not
being processed but just stored,
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and I began to realize, as
I studied, that we are storing
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the information without
passing any judgment on it.
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So what you're suggesting then
is that the very medium itself
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there's something wrong.
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It doesn't matter if
there's good programming,
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Christian programming,
scientific programming,
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the history channel, or whatever
if it's delivered in this rapid
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sort of way, is
what I hear you saying,
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that's just
negative in and of itself?
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That's as I understand
it, what is happening.
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The mind becomes in
a trance like state.
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I know people who only
watch Christian broadcasting
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but forget to read their
Bible because they feel they are
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assimilating so much information
and storing so much positive
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information that they
don't need to pray, study, read,
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don't need the fellowship
because they are getting that.
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Even too much of a good thing
because of the delivery format
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can have a negative impact.
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So is there a place at all
for television in our lives?
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Should we have any television?
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Well, I believe there
can be a positive place.
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Don, I really believe
it depends on the person.
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For me, I can't have one.
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You don't put a bar in
a former alcoholics house.
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You make no
provision for the flesh.
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For me as a
former, ardent TV addict
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I really don't care to have one.
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I enjoy the fact that where
I live I'm so far away from
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anything that
there is no TV reception.
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If I have one it really
doesn't make any difference.
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For those who have the capacity
not to be like the way that I
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was made up to be,
there are some good things.
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We have some nature
programs that are good.
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We have some programs like
the ones we're producing today
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that can provide
meaningful information.
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But I think it's something
that we have to do a very strong
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amount of
prayerful choosing with.
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Before we leave this subject
of television, you did have an
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interesting bit of research,
a graphic that undergirds this.
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One of the things it's ok
to say something but to be able
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to back it up is
even more important.
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A particular broadcast person
very blatantly told the truth
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and then again told a lie and
asked the people to discriminate
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which choice was the truth.
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The radio listeners
scored the highest with 73%,
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newspaper readers 64%,
and TV viewers about the same
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odds as flipping a nickel.
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So those who watch television
were the worst and those who
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listen, oral
presentations, were the best.
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That's correct.
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That's interesting.
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Well, let's switch gears
here looking now at music.
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We have a few more moments.
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You have two teenage daughters.
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I'm sure they have music
tastes just like anybody else.
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But what about
the subject of music?
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Is there good music?
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Is there bad music
for our frontal lobes?
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Well, music can be very, very
much like TV in the fact that
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you have a rapid transfer
of information and you have a
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tremendous
amount of music pieces.
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Music is not just music.
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We think if flows but
it actually an assembly of
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different parts of information.
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Each one of these is a stimulus
to the brain and to the mind.
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You mention taste.
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My teenage daughters, we
still have this little dialogue
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about whether Dad has a
different taste and if it's all
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just taste or if there's
actually something that is right
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or wrong about music.
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We know that
music can be hypnotic.
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You go to the Mid Eastern India
and watch the snake charmers.
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These guys have learned an art
out of being somewhat hypnotic
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with the type of music.
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How it really got to me
personally as I relate to music,
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I was into the acid rock,
the heavy metal, years ago.
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I couldn't live without it.
00:24:04.85\00:24:06.77
I was addicted.
00:24:06.80\00:24:07.77
I began to become a Christian.
00:24:07.78\00:24:10.75
The Lord began to
reveal Himself to me.
00:24:10.78\00:24:12.50
He began to reveal that I
was lost and that I needed Him.
00:24:12.53\00:24:15.03
I need to repent
and become renewed.
00:24:15.06\00:24:17.50
So I began to
pray and study a lot.
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At work I would listen to
this trashy music all day long.
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The Holy Spirit began to reveal
to me that there was a battle,
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a battle in my mind.
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The Lord said to me, "If you're
going to be praying and studying
00:24:31.86\00:24:36.39
it's incompatible with
what you're feeding your mind
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the rest of the
part of the day. "
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I struggled with that.
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So, then I went to
regular rock-n-roll music,
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the top 40 type thing, because
there was less Satanism and
00:24:43.85\00:24:48.44
drug culture lyrics
and that type of thing.
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I made that transition.
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I began to realize it
was hypnotic, number one
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it overpowered my mind, my
power of suggestion, but it
00:24:56.50\00:25:01.07
glorified sexuality,
dishonesty, and violence.
00:25:01.11\00:25:04.77
So I made the
transfer to country music.
00:25:04.81\00:25:07.58
I said, "Ok, I won't listen
to that stuff but the Lord
00:25:07.62\00:25:10.10
will be happy with country
music, yes, it's a little bit
00:25:10.14\00:25:12.99
corny sometimes, it's maybe
dumb but at least it's more
00:25:13.02\00:25:15.84
down home, the Lord
will be ok with this. "
00:25:15.87\00:25:17.59
The same thing - it went back
to being hypnotic, glorifying
00:25:17.62\00:25:20.64
sexuality, immorality,
intemperance, dishonesty, and
00:25:20.67\00:25:24.97
those things.
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I went to dentist chair music.
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But you know what?
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I knew all the words.
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So, I then went to classical
music which I didn't care for.
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But we find that in studies
that people who listen to
00:25:35.14\00:25:38.99
classical music have more
creativity and more powers
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of abstract thinking.
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In a study where they
took rodents and subjected them
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to the various types of music,
those that had been subjected
00:25:48.52\00:25:52.19
to weeks of rock music, and was
allowed chaotic tones of music
00:25:52.23\00:25:55.87
on autopsies of their brains
they actually had developed
00:25:55.90\00:25:59.15
aberrant neuropath ways in
their brains that were somewhat
00:25:59.19\00:26:02.41
permanent.
00:26:02.44\00:26:03.79
What you're saying then
about music is that there is
00:26:03.82\00:26:07.63
good music that we can
listen to in place of these
00:26:07.66\00:26:11.40
others that just feed our minds
with things that we really don't
00:26:11.43\00:26:14.27
want in them.
00:26:14.31\00:26:15.32
Correct.
00:26:15.36\00:26:16.33
We've talked a lot about
the frontal lobe and different
00:26:16.34\00:26:19.62
aspects of how we can treat
it healthfully or how we can
00:26:19.65\00:26:23.20
actually abuse it.
00:26:23.23\00:26:24.23
In the last minute we have
together why don't you share
00:26:24.27\00:26:27.05
with our listeners what
are some of the positive things
00:26:27.09\00:26:29.84
we can do.
00:26:29.87\00:26:30.84
Let's say we've been into
cheese, meat, alcohol, tobacco,
00:26:30.85\00:26:35.51
everything we've talked
about and we're coming out,
00:26:35.55\00:26:40.50
what should we do that
can re-program or make our
00:26:40.54\00:26:45.45
frontal lobes healthier?
00:26:45.49\00:26:46.86
Well, Don, I believe that
in redemption we have an aspect
00:26:46.89\00:26:51.39
of regeneration and recreation.
00:26:51.43\00:26:54.67
I believe that as we are
making more positive choices
00:26:54.71\00:26:58.91
that we should believe that
God creates us new creatures.
00:26:58.95\00:27:02.79
David in Psalm 51 says,
"Create in me a clean heart. "
00:27:02.82\00:27:06.76
I believe we are going to
be renewed by making positive
00:27:06.80\00:27:10.70
choices in faith.
00:27:10.74\00:27:12.62
So renewing our minds, making
decisions, and asking the Lord
00:27:12.65\00:27:16.82
to lead us in these decisions.
00:27:16.86\00:27:18.37
You know, I think
today has been one of our
00:27:18.40\00:27:20.66
most important programs
just talking about the mind,
00:27:20.70\00:27:24.24
talking about the brain,
decisions in the midst of a
00:27:24.28\00:27:27.78
great conflict
between good and evil.
00:27:27.82\00:27:30.78
We hope that today's
program will bring you
00:27:30.82\00:27:33.48
health for a lifetime.
00:27:33.52\00:27:36.34