Hello and welcome to
"Health for a Lifetime"
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I'm Don Macintosh, your host,
and today we're joined with
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Dr. Kevin Bryant
from Wichita, Kansas
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He is a specialist
in family practice,
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and focuses on helping the older
adult or geriatric concerns,
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and one of his special
things that he likes to study
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are natural remedies for
many different concerns...
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and also with those who are
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getting older,
isn't that right, doctor?
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That's right since my area
of practice is for the elderly,
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in the geriatric
population, looking at something
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in the area of natural remedies,
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has always been
an interest of mine.
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Now, natural remedies, when
we talk about natural remedies,
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some people probably
get a little frightened...
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that sounds
alternative, sounds kind of,
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you know, maybe on the fringe.
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You are a
medical doctor, correct?
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That's correct, and we do want
to say right at the beginning,
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that any of the things
we're going to be talking about
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...if someone listening says,
"That sounds like something
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I'd like into further,"
it's important that they
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do talk to their physician,
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because some of the
herbal preparations that we're
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going to be talking
about may interfere or interact
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with medications
they're on, and they need to
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be sure that their
physician is aware of that.
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You literally see hundreds of
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patients a
year... isn't that right?
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You have many nursing homes,
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and many patients you see. Right
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And many of them
are on medications,
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but what's the difference
between pharmaceutical,
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or a medication that's made
and then sold in a pharmacy,
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and a natural remedy?
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Well, one thing that
has been interesting to me
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as I've looked at this area
is looking at the difference
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the way plants
produce chemicals,
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and the way they're
produced in a chemistry lab.
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When they're
produced in a chemistry lab,
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the chemical
compounds that are made there,
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the drugs, the
pharmaceutical agents,
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have what we call
left and right-hand forms.
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They're like our
hands, and they can't be
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superimposed on each other,
but they're mirror images.
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So, in any given
drug, there's a right hand,
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there's a left hand...
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Right... left and
right hand form of that drug.
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So you have a
right-handed aspirin,
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and you have a
left-handed aspirin... whatever
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Now, the importance of
that is that our bodies
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ONLY interact with
the left hand form.
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And so, pharmaceuticals
produced in the lab,
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produced a
mixture, a 50:50 mixture
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of left and right
hand, so half of the drug
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is not interacting with the
body and producing the effect
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that it's designed to
produce; only the left hand.
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So what... I mean, to use
a simple, you got this pill,
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only half of it is
working, is what you're saying,
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and what's the
other half doing then?
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The left hand form is the
one that's actually active
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and producing the effect
that the drug is designed to do.
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In the plant kingdom,
when plants produce compounds,
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that are effective in
our body, they only produce
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the left hand side 100%
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Some people think that
may have something to do with
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a difference that we see
in the amount of side effects
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that are evident.
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You only have to pick up
a Physicians' Desk Reference
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which is the manual that
goes over all the pharmaceutical
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drugs and look through the
section on adverse reactions,
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or side effects to realize
that they do cause side effects.
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So that pill, whatever it
is we take from the pharmacy,
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half of it really works;
the other half we're not sure
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what it's doing, but it's that
right hand versus left hand.
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That doesn't mean
you're saying to people...
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Do away with your medicines,
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or stop them, or
anything like that. No
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It's just kind of a way
of thinking... Understanding
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Understanding why it is
that the herbal preparations,
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by and large, seem to have
a less number of side effects.
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What are some of the
things you're going to
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talk to us about today?
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We're going to talk about
some of these natural remedies.
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What are some of the things
you're going to be covering?
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Well, we want to look at
some of the concerns that our
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geriatric population are facing.
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And, we've talked
about the difference between
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pharmaceutical agents,
and herbal preparations.
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We want to spend a
few minutes looking at
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some natural remedies for
ophthalmology or eye concerns.
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Many of the elderly
population are facing cataracts,
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or blindness due to
macular degeneration.
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We're going to spend a little
bit of time on prostate problems
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And then something that many
of the older population fear
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is the diagnosis
of Alzheimer disease.
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What can we do to
maybe prevent or treat it
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with natural remedies.
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And then lastly,
focus on osteoporosis.
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Sounds very interesting.
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I know my grandfather
lived with me the last
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3-1/2 years of his life.
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I was able to... had the
privilege of taking of him.
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And he did have problems
with cataracts and whatnot.
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What can you tell us about
natural remedies for cataracts,
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and the other big
word, I think you used, was
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macular degeneration, right.
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Let's talk about
cataracts first... Okay
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Some researchers in
Baltimore did some interesting
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studies on a
geriatric population where they
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did something simple as
looking at the amount of
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fruits and vegetables
that were in their diet,
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and then they followed
them to see how many of them
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developed cataracts.
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And what they found was
that if they divided the group
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into 2 groups; one group
eating 3.5 or more servings
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a day of fruits and vegetables,
versus the group that
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ate less than 3.5 servings
of fruit and vegetables a day.
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The difference between those
2 groups in developing cataracts
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was incredible!
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In fact, the group that ate
less than 3.5 servings a day
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had 13 times the risk
of developing cataracts.
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So development of cataracts
is not necessarily just
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something that's
in a person's fate.
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Something as
simple as eating more than
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3.5 servings of fruit
and vegetables a day can help
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reduce that risk.
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So if you don't have cataracts,
and you're watching today...
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Hey, start eating
those fruits and vegetables,
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and you're going to
avoid those... Right!
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That's good news... I mean,
I thought you were going to say
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that it was helpful, but I
didn't know it was THAT helpful.
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That was a phenomenal
finding in that study.
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Now the other
aspect they looked at was
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macular degeneration.
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Which means...
what does that mean?
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That's a
deterioration of the retina.
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And they found, again...
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Just a minute,
what is the retina?
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What does the retina do?
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The light comes in
the eye, and then what...
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And it is focused on
the back of the eye...
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So these are the cells
on the back of the eye that
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the light is focused on.
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And the area that's most
important is called the "macula"
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The macula is part of the retina
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where the light
focuses on. Right
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And deterioration of that
area causes a considerable
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amount of the
blindness in America.
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They found a similar type
of thing where those that were
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low in the fruits and
vegetables had twice the rate
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of this disease
process occurring.
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So fruits and vegetables...
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Was mother
right? Eat your carrots?
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They do help! They really do.
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So maybe if you're watching,
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you'll want to go and get a
carrot, that would be great!
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Let's go on and ask what
kind of things can help in
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these other areas you mentioned.
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I think the other one
you mentioned was prostate.
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Yeah, for men, by the
age of 75 in America today,
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50% of men are having
problems with their prostate,
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and one of the newest
herbal preparations that is
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finding some real help in
this area is one called...
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"saw palmetto"
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As the name might indicate,
it's taken from an extract
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from the berry of a palm tree...
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And they found that in various
studies where they compare it
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against a drug, a pharmaceutical
agent called "Proscar,"
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the studies looking at
those 2, comparing them,
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we find that it's
just as effective.
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Just as effective,
but less side effects,
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although it does have some
small amount of side effects
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with headaches,
nausea, dizziness.
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One other thing we
have to mention about this
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it does affect what
we call "PSA" level.
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What's that? A fancy name for...
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"Prostatic assay"
which is measuring for
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the possibility
of prostate cancer.
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So if you take this,
it could mask a problem?
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It can mask a problem. Right
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So that's again coming
back to the reason why it's
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important to let
your physician know if
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you are taking some of
these herbal medications
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because of the effect
they can have on lab tests,
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and it's also
important to mention here that
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saw palmetto is
really only to be used for
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prostate enlargement problems;
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it's not really
useful for prostate cancer.
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All right, many of these things
you can get over-the-counter,
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in a health food
store, or some place...
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How do you now whether
or not you're getting a good
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source of palmetto.
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And that's an important point.
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In Europe, herbal medications
are used extensively.
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In Germany, 90% of the
prescriptions written by
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physicians are
for herbal medication.
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Is that right,
90%! Of medical doctors!
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Of medical doctors in Germany
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are writing for
herbal preparations,
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and so they've developed a
much better regulatory system
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for making sure that it's
standardized in quality control.
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We don't have that
yet here in America,
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and so there is some
concern that some preparations
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may not be as
quality controlled.
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One important
helpful point on that is if
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on the bottle, and
you're looking at the
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active ingredient portion,
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if it says "standardized"
in the dosage area,
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that this is standardized,
then that is indicating
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that they've had
some quality control,
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and that you can be
a little more sure that
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that's the
amount that's in there.
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Another question about that
over-the-counter business...
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You find out it's
standardized and whatnot,
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but REALLY, what you're saying
is, you could help yourself,
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but you could also
endanger yourself if you're not
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communicating with
your physician. Correct
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Well, we've talked about
saw palmetto for prostate.
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We've talked about
fruits and vegetables
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for cataracts and
for macular degeneration.
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We've been talking
with Dr. Kevin Bryant,
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he's a specialist in family
practice from Wichita, Kansas
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He has a real interest
in using natural remedies
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for the things that
affect older Americans
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and we hope that
if you joined us,
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you'll come back and
listen after the break.
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We're going to be
talking about some other
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fascinating
discoveries, and things that we
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think can be of help to
you, and perhaps your physician
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as you work together,
and we hope that you join us!
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Welcome back, we've been
talking with Dr. Kevin Bryant
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from Wichita, Kansas
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He's a specialist
in family practice,
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and he focuses
especially on the older adult,
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and different health concerns...
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And he's NOT telling
you to go away from your
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normal doctor in any way,
but to work with your doctor
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and to look at some natural
remedies that can address
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some of the problems that
older Americans deal with.
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Doctor, we've
talked about cataracts...
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We found out that if someone
eats fruits and vegetables,
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they can decrease their risk
of having a cataract by 13%.
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You've talked to
us about macular...
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Or 13 times
the... that's amazing!
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And then we talked
about macular degeneration.
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If you eat those same
fruits and vegetables,
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it's 2 times... 2 times, right,
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and then we also talked
about prostate enlargement;
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not prostate
cancer, but enlargement,
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and we found out this
herb called "saw palmetto"
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can help us not
have that enlargement,
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and all the
problems that come with this.
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But you also said, "Hey,
be careful it can throw off
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your PSA test, and those
of you that have experienced
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or know someone
that's had prostate cancer,
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know what that's all about.
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We've come back now,
we're going to talk a little bit
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about another problem
that many older Americans face,
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and that's Alzheimer's.
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What is Alzheimer's, just to
give us an idea of what it is,
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and then what
can you do to help us
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from a natural
remedy standpoint?
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Okay, some
interesting things here...
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In Alzheimer
disease, it's simply put as a
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brain degenerative disease
that affects one's memory,
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and ability to make judgments
and process information.
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For many elderly in this
country they would almost rather
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hear the word "cancer"
than Alzheimer disease.
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I think for most
people, that's true.
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And so, a couple of
things that we want to look at
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that are very
interesting, and in the area of
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natural remedies;
and in this area of
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Alzheimer disease, there
is mounting evidence that
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what we call "free radicals"
are causing some of the
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damage to the brain
cells leading to this disease
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we call Alzheimer disease.
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So, just a
minute before you go...
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to finish with that,
when you say, "free radical"
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I mean, that sounds like some
weird person running around,
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but what does that mean
exactly, a free radical?
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Well, in our body's
metabolism, energy metabolism
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...sometimes oxygen is
metabolized into free radicals
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and our bodies
generally, for the most part,
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are able to correct any
of the damage that occurs
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from free radicals.
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And a free radical, what
does it do, just bounce off
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everything and injure things,
is that what you mean? Right
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It's almost like a loose
cannon firing away in our cells.
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I didn't mean to
get you off your point,
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but what you were
saying, I believe,
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was Alzheimer's...
they theorize that these
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molecules that are banging
off everything can lead to
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actually Alzheimer's.
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Okay, go ahead, what next...
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one of the herbal
preparations is ginkgo biloba.
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Now this comes to us
from China, the Orient Japan,
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and, in fact, it's from a
sacred tree in China and Japan.
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It's been used
medicinally there for centuries,
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and the extract is actually
a free radical scavenger.
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Looks for the bad
guys... Looks for those people
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that are bouncing off the
walls ... And neutralizes them.
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Now there's some interesting
studies that have been done
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in the recent years in
the "Archives of Neurology"
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they reviewed
all of these studies,
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and they found 4 studies
that met strict scientific
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criteria that they could use.
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And they found that using
120-240 mg a day of ginkgo
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showed a very
significant effect over
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a 3-6 months'
treatment period of actually
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improving the person, or slowing
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the progression of the disease.
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Another research
journal called, "Brain Research"
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I found this very interesting...
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They reported in March 1996...
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These researchers were taking
nerve cells and exposing them
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to hydrogen
peroxide which is a very
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strong free radical
producer that causes oxidation.
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That's a good way to describe
free radicals, isn't it?
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If you've had hydrogen
peroxide, you know what it does
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...that's a free radical!
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To put and exposing
normal nerve cells to that
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causes a
significant amount of damage.
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When they pre-treat it
with ginkgo, those nerve cells,
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and then exposed them
to the hydrogen peroxide,
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found a marked decrease in the
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damage that the
hydrogen peroxide was causing;
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another indication that
the ginkgo was protecting
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the nerve cells from that
damage by these free radicals.
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Again, probably this ginkgo,
you said it in the first section
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of our program today, maybe
some people just joined us;
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this needs to be that
standardized ginkgo...
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In other words, you know,
the type that's really good.
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Look for it to say
"standardized" on there.
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Right... finding the best
brand out there that you can.
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Another thing, I think that
I don't want people to miss,
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but I heard it...
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You did a lot of
research on this;
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and you didn't just look at any
study that was off the wall...
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You said, "Hey, there's
this group that looked at all...
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and looked for those really
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scientifically well-researched
claims. Exactly, right.
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What other good news do you
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have for us
concerning Alzheimer's?
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Well, back to something we
talked in previous programs is
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vitamins... the
vitamin C, and vitamin E
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There are vitamins that we
know have antioxidant effects
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that are powerful antioxidants,
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and they've looked at the
Rush University in Chicago,
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studied a group
of patients, 633,
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and they found that those that
were using vitamin E supplements
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and vitamin C supplements
had a marked reduction
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in the number of
Alzheimer dementia or disease
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development
among those patients.
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So in other words,
they gave them these things,
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they thought they were
going to develop Alzheimer's,
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and then they didn't
because they got these things.
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It seemed to
protect these users.
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When you say, "a marked,"
I mean what, they studied 20,
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and only... What happened?
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Well, in a group of 27
that were using vitamin C,
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none of them developed it,
as were it had been predicted
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...They use models to predict
how many they would expect
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to develop the disease...
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They were expecting
approximately 4 to develop it
00:22:14.52\00:22:17.58
out of 27, but NONE
developed it during the study.
00:22:17.61\00:22:22.02
So their conclusion
was that vitamin C and E
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appears to be able to
lower the risk of development
00:22:25.58\00:22:28.60
of Alzheimer disease...
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Another researcher, called
Dr. Sano, looked at vitamin E
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in a study where they
were looking at patients that
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already had Alzheimer disease,
were in the early stages,
00:22:44.17\00:22:47.89
and they were wanting to
look to see if they could
00:22:47.92\00:22:49.99
slow the
progression of the disease down.
00:22:50.02\00:22:54.29
And what they found it
was using 400 IU a day,
00:22:54.32\00:22:59.70
of vitamin E, slowed
the progress of the disease
00:22:59.73\00:23:04.33
by nearly two-thirds. Wow
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Now you might say,
two-thirds of a year...
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But that's still
probably significant.
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It was a significant difference
between that, and a placebo pill
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Dummy pill, sugar
pill or something. Right.
00:23:17.51\00:23:20.50
So in other words, what
you are saying with that is...
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Any time is valuable
time if someone is losing
00:23:23.45\00:23:25.80
their ability to
remember something.
00:23:25.84\00:23:26.87
Right, because the
things they were looking at was
00:23:26.90\00:23:29.45
the progression of the
disease was someone that
00:23:29.48\00:23:33.01
could do all of their
activities of daily living,
00:23:33.04\00:23:36.24
now lose that ability, or have
to be moved into a nursing home.
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So these were
looking at significant events
00:23:41.51\00:23:44.57
in the progress of the disease,
00:23:44.60\00:23:46.94
and those things were
pushed off down in the road.
00:23:46.97\00:23:53.52
One question for you...
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When you talk about
vitamin C and vitamin E,
00:23:54.80\00:23:57.16
does this mean the actual
supplements in this case...
00:23:57.17\00:24:01.14
it sounds like you're
talking about taking supplements
00:24:01.17\00:24:02.86
in this case, or is it fruits
again, that you're talking about
00:24:02.89\00:24:07.10
Well in this study, they
studied the supplement itself,
00:24:07.13\00:24:11.30
vitamin E, 400 IU.
00:24:11.33\00:24:14.54
Well let's move on...
00:24:14.57\00:24:16.56
We have one other thing
you wanted to talk to us about,
00:24:16.59\00:24:18.62
and you've dealt with
several different things here,
00:24:18.65\00:24:21.94
but another big thing is
brittle bones, "osteoporosis"
00:24:21.95\00:24:25.42
Osteoporosis, and we'll
just focus briefly on that.
00:24:25.45\00:24:29.53
The first concept to recognize
with osteoporosis, brittle bones
00:24:29.56\00:24:37.83
is that our bones
are like calcium banks,
00:24:37.86\00:24:44.06
and from birth until
about the age of in the 30s
00:24:44.09\00:24:49.83
we're putting
calcium into our bones;
00:24:49.86\00:24:52.69
99% of the calcium in our
body resides in our bones,
00:24:52.72\00:24:57.90
1% is dissolved
in the bloodstream.
00:24:57.93\00:25:02.86
So they just keep packing it
away until you're in your 30s.
00:25:02.89\00:25:05.15
Right. At that point, it's a
process of withdrawing calcium
00:25:05.18\00:25:10.27
from those bones...
00:25:10.30\00:25:11.78
And in America,
we withdraw too much,
00:25:11.81\00:25:14.87
and by the time someone
is in their 50s, 60s and 70s,
00:25:14.90\00:25:18.78
the calcium has been withdrawn
00:25:18.81\00:25:20.99
from the bones too
rapidly, and they're brittle.
00:25:21.02\00:25:24.12
So our goal is to slow
that process of withdrawal
00:25:24.15\00:25:29.60
or stop it
completely. What draws it out?
00:25:29.61\00:25:32.51
Just sitting around,
could that be one thing?
00:25:33.42\00:25:36.02
Sedentary lifestyle, a
good example are the astronauts;
00:25:36.05\00:25:41.66
when they're in
a weightless state,
00:25:41.69\00:25:43.53
they lose calcium
rapidly from their bones.
00:25:43.56\00:25:47.18
So sedentary lifestyle,
not enough weightbearing
00:25:47.21\00:25:51.34
exercise is important.
00:25:51.37\00:25:53.03
Another one that is
little known is the area of
00:25:53.06\00:25:57.23
protein in the diet.
00:25:57.26\00:25:59.90
If we take in more
protein than our body needs,
00:25:59.93\00:26:04.68
then the body has to
eliminate that protein
00:26:04.71\00:26:10.45
from the body and it eliminates
it through the kidneys.
00:26:10.48\00:26:13.08
As they're eliminating
it, it takes calcium with the
00:26:14.05\00:26:18.81
protein molecules
with the amino acids
00:26:18.84\00:26:21.84
and it actually takes
that calcium out of the bank...
00:26:21.87\00:26:25.23
draws it out of the
bank from the bones.
00:26:25.26\00:26:27.98
Any other
things we should avoid?
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Some of the other
things are phosphates.
00:26:29.74\00:26:32.21
Phosphates are
found in soda drinks;
00:26:32.24\00:26:36.69
the animal products'
meats are high in phosphates
00:26:36.72\00:26:39.43
and they tend to rob
calcium from the bones...
00:26:39.46\00:26:43.20
As well as things
like cigarette smoking.
00:26:43.23\00:26:47.38
We know that that doubles
the rate of someone having
00:26:47.41\00:26:51.39
a hip fracture
from osteoporosis.
00:26:51.42\00:26:55.75
Alcohol intake leads to
calcium loss from the bones.
00:26:55.78\00:27:01.09
And so, in the
area of getting calcium,
00:27:01.12\00:27:04.98
the goal is to get as
much calcium as you can,
00:27:04.99\00:27:08.98
but without the protein.
00:27:09.01\00:27:11.80
And there are calcium-rich
foods that are high in calcium;
00:27:11.83\00:27:16.64
a lot of green leafy vegetables.
00:27:16.67\00:27:19.34
Green leafy vegetables, broccoli
kale, string beans, tofu...
00:27:19.37\00:27:26.57
High in calcium
but low in protein.
00:27:26.58\00:27:30.01
We've been talking
with Dr. Kevin Bryant,
00:27:30.04\00:27:32.68
from Wichita, Kansas
00:27:32.71\00:27:33.73
We've looked at some health
concerns for older Americans.
00:27:33.74\00:27:36.79
We've looked at
natural remedies for those.
00:27:36.82\00:27:40.41
We've looked at how we
can avoid these things through
00:27:40.44\00:27:43.75
proper medical care...
00:27:43.78\00:27:45.06
Also through
proper lifestyle choices,
00:27:45.09\00:27:47.70
but then in addition,
looking at natural remedies to
00:27:47.73\00:27:51.02
stop these things from
happening or reverse them.
00:27:51.05\00:27:54.28
We hope that today's program
has been a blessing to you,
00:27:54.31\00:27:57.40
and that you have health
that lasts for a lifetime!
00:27:57.44\00:27:59.31