Hello and welcome to
Health for a Lifetime.
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I'm your host Don Mackintosh
and today we're delighted
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to have Dr. Bernell
Baldwin with us. Welcome doctor!
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Glad to be here. Now I
understand and probably
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by seeing what's in your
lap we also could figure out
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that you are a
specialist in brain sciences.
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Correct. And you got your degree
from the George Washington
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University. Yes. And
your Ph. D. was done in...
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what was it again?
This was in brain science
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was the Ph. D. and
support the areas biochemistry,
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anatomy, and such.
Supportive related fields.
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I see. So, if I have any
question about the brain or
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different things like that,
if you don't know the answer
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you'll tell me but you probably
will know at least a direction
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to go today.
Yes, this should be.
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So this would be a good day
to put on our thinking caps.
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You know you have entitled this
talk for this time together -
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this dialogue that
we are going to have -
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"World War I of the
Brain" or "Brain Wars. "
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Right! What do you mean by that?
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Brain war is a concept based
on the electronics of the brain.
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OK. And here's
what's happening. I hold...
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Here's a
professional model of the brain.
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The top of the brain
should run the brain,
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but the bottom of the brain
is trying to mess up the rest.
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For instance. Take violence.
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If this portion of the
brain near the hypothalamus...
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If this portion of the
brain is running the show,
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people get hurt.
Whereas if the frontal lobe
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for spiritual control
and if this back and side
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of the cortex is running
the show, then you have building
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humanity instead
of hurting humanity.
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I see. So the front part of
the brain needs to be the...
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the quarterback - needs to be
the one in charge, needs to be
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the chief. Fullback.
Fullback. Yes. The executive
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centers are in the
front of the brain. All right.
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And the information
banks are in the back.
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But the
troublemakers are in the bottom.
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OK. So, in other words,
we have built-in trouble.
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Yes, ever since Adam.
He listened to his wife
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and got into trouble.
OK. So we shouldn't listen
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to our wives? We
should listen to our wives
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with discrimination. Works fine.
And they should listen to us
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with discrimination? Of
course. Speaking of wives...
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Here is the
septal area of the brain.
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Right there. I see.
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If this portion of the
brain is running things,
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you have lust; whereas, if
the frontal lobe is running
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this portion,
then you have love.
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Mmmm. That's the story.
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I see. So what does that
have to do with our wives?
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Well, this has a lot to do
with the way we treat our wives.
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I see. If we love and cherish
the wife, she becomes a queen
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and we become leaders. Whereas
if the wife becomes a thing,
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like the media push...
Um-hmm. Yesterday, for instance,
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they were speaking about
the couple that got married
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on television without
ever seeing each other...
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Um-hmm. Yesterday.
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They were talking about
this. Well, what we are saying
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here today is that the
war of the whole universe
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involves each one of our brains.
It's the battle for the mind.
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And the top of the brain is
in electronic and chemical war
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with the bottom of the brain.
And the bottom is fighting
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the top - so we have
what could be called trouble.
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OK. So, really you know your
hear a lot of people saying:
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This is not your
problem; this is not my problem.
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It's something
someone else did to me.
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Would it be fair to say
that while that may be true
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in some cases the real concern
or real problem we have is
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really in our own
minds? Yes, indeed.
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And if we... we can choose...
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If you look at the other
side of this brain, the will
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is located right there.
That's the frontal lobe -
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the left part, left
front. Yes, left front.
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And if this portion
of the brain is intact,
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then in spite of
irritation... Um-hmm.
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in spite of frustration,
in spite of trouble,
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a person can say "I
choose to do what's right.
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I'm going to
practice the Golden Rule now
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instead of hitting
this child from impulse. "
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Um-hmm. Well, tell us a
little bit more about the war
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in the brain. How does
it? You've said that really
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there is this...
this... what would you say
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combat between the
lower portions and the - yes -
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upper portions
of the brain. Right.
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What are the ways that
the lower part of the brain
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will get the ascendancy?
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All right, it's a
very good question.
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It's very simple. Take
hamburgers, for instance.
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Um. A little background.
Most of the brain is behind
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a blood brain barrier so that
the bad chemicals in the blood
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cannot produce
temporary insanity.
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OK, so in other words, they
don't let everything that you
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put into your bloodstream
get there... right...
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to mess up your synapses.
Temporary insanity meaning
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for instance if you have
alcohol that would make you...
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But that gets to
the brain, doesn't it?
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That's a different story because
the alcohol molecule is so small
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it will go right
through the blood brain barrier.
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So the things that we
have discovered that go through
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the blood brain barrier are
our way of... That's one way of
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messing things up.
Messing things up! Yes, indeed.
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Now here's another one.
Hamburgers, you said something
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about hamburgers. Yes,
that's right where we're going.
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People don't realize
this. Even in uteruses
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they tend to neglect this.
All the neuroendocrine areas
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are outside of the blood
brain barrier - so yesterday's
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hamburger, this
morning's bacon and eggs,
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tomorrow's
mistakes in nutrition,
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the blood, going through the
neuroendocrine areas including
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the hypothalamus, will so
stimulate the hypothalamus
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that the bottom of the
brain becomes in charge.
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So if you eat a hamburger,
your bottom of your brain
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is in charge. What about
the hamburger is doing it?
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The byproducts in
the death of the cells
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and in the heating,
the cooking of the cells...
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I have a whole book at
Wildwood from Japan by Sigura
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showing that when you fry
or you heat, braise, boil,
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high-temperature
cooking, you make mutagens.
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So it doesn't necessarily
have to be meat? You could fry
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soy beans... Yes! Yes!
Don't eat burned soybeans!
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All right, that's
the way that works.
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Now, this point of view
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is not just
private interpretation
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because the Good Book
mentions in Psalms about this.
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He gave them the request BUT
sent leanness into their soul.
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Where is that from?
What story is that from?
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This is in the Psalms...
Having to do with the exodus?
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Oh, yes. And about
how the food that they ate
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yes... or they wanted
to to eat this food but
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He sent them leanness of
soul because of their choice?
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Right! Because of all
this dead quail that they ate.
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All right. And you remember
they got sick by the thousand
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and died - lots of them
died - because of this bad diet.
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And now you are saying
that science has proven
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that that is what happens.
In other words, the bottom part
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portion of the brain was
in charge instead of the top.
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Right! Not only that, not
only that... and we perhaps
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will discuss this
on another program...
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There is more than
twice as much dementia
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in Seventh-day Adventists
who eat a lot of meat...
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versus those who...
who are vegetarians. OK.
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And a leading chemist in
Texas by the name of Dr. Torda
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she showed for the first time
that byproduct of meat called
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xanthene will reduce the
ability of the brain to make
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acetylcholine. So the
top of the brain goes down,
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when you eat meat and the bottom
of the brain is stimulated.
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Now, Russian endocrinologists
have shown this.
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One meal of meat to a dog will
so stimulate the hypothalamus
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that the stress hormones
go up like this... you see...
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whereas with
bread they go like that.
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So there is direct chemical
evidence that what we eat
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changes the balance of power
between the top of the brain
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and the bottom. OK.
So - if you want the
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lower brain to work well or
not be the leader... eat bread.
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If you want the upper...
in other words, if you want
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the upper brain in charge
but if you want the lower brain
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eat a hamburger.
Right! This will do it!
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This will do it. Another thing,
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I have... In my brain lab,
I have put depth electrodes
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into the hypothalamus
of anesthesthetized animals
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and shown that when you put
stimulating dietary chemicals
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in the stomach, the wires
from the stomach to the brain
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are activated and they
make noise that goes up to
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to this region of the brain
and upsets the chemical input
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balance between the
bottom of the brain and the top.
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So what are these chemical
things you put in there?
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Spices. Like? Black
pepper! What about salsa?
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Ahhah. I didn't test salsa
and have no comment about it.
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But stuff like
pepper, allspice, cloves...
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these chemicals in the stomach
will shift the balance of power
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to the bottom of the brain
and tends to make a person...
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Have you ever met
somebody that had a short fuse?
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Impulsive, see. So you
are really dependent on
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if someone puts spices and
different things on their plate
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in the morning you could have
an explosion in the afternoon.
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Yes... even before you
get there. And if your way is
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crossed, you see, you
could be snippy to the children
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instead of loving and
kind and self-controlled.
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It really makes a difference.
I had a friend who said,
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she has two children, and she
said well this one child of mine
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when I was pregnant I ate
this type of food... yes...
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and it was real
spicy. Anything to that?
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Yes, this can
really make a difference.
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What we eat... Now,
another thing you can do
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to shift the balance of power
to the bottom of the brain...
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I put a depth electrode into the
hypothalamus, and I put a beat
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into the brain. A beat? A beat!
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Like a beat...
Like a sound? Yes!
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A beat... like that.
And pretty quick the cortex
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of the brain resisted the
beat. And after a short time
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the whole brain beat
in rhythm with the beat.
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So, oh really?
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Really! The
frontal lobe, everything?
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Everything. This is the strategy
back of Babylonian music.
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Hmmm. What do you
mean Babylonian music?
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I mean by that...
confusing music, you mean? Yes!
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Confusing music. And music
that instead of having a nice
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balance of harmony and melody
and rhythm so that you have
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action and
inspiration and beauty.
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Instead, you have confusion!
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Hmmm. So the beat business
like Belgian-Congo music
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is not what you want to develop
cultured, self-controlled
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individuals that have
poise, power, and success.
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Let me ask this question:
You did your PhD on brain
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physiology - right - and
the connection between the brain
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and the heartbeat.
Right. Ummm. And in the heart,
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if I understand...
correct me if I'm wrong...
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if you have one cell aside
from those leader cells that
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make the upper heart beat
together and the lower heart
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beat together, yes, if you have
them kind of going on their own,
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it can cause confusion
and the heart can get confused
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and just fibrillate -
and then the person dies.
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Is this same thing you
are saying about the brain?
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Yes, indeed. So that the brain
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is an ensemble of
special-purpose computers.
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And, the point is:
what we see, what we hear,
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what we eat, what we
think, the through-put,
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what we do with the
brain is going to influence
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whether we are going
to be wise... or foolish.
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OK. So, you've said some
things that can make us foolish.
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You've said that if we
eat certain types of foods:
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you mentioned
hamburgers, spices... Yes!
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and then certain things
that we listen to, yes, namely
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heavy, over... music that's
not balanced with too much
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beat... anything else than can
really make the lower portions
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of the brain be in control?
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Why certainly! Another thing
you could do to make the lower
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centers of the brain -
and that is follow impulse.
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By choices, then
habits, then action...
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and then character.
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So it's not good to say
well I feel like that and then
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based... Now, where are
feelings located in the brain?
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Well, are you talking
about shallow feelings
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or integrated feelings? Now you
sound like a brain scientist!
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I'm talking you know like
the common expression where
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someone says well I just,
I just feel like having this.
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Or I just feel like doing that.
Yes. Now the center of that
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would be under my
finger right there.
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Thalamus. Um-hmm. So circuits
centering in the thalamus are
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very important with
feelings. But here's good news.
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We can... we can share
feelings with our loved ones
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with friends and with
people - even with the dog.
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So the dog is happier, we are
happier, everybody is happier
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because it's in a
climate of love... not hatred.
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So there are deep,
integrated feelings. Yes!
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You know, I want to talk more
about that when we come back.
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We've been talking
with Dr. Bernell Baldwin.
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He's a brain
specialist... a brain scientist.
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And it DOES matter what you
eat, what you drink, what you do
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concerning your brain. When we
come back we are going to talk
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about some positive
things about how to win the war
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that goes on. Join us.
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We've been talking
with Dr. Bernell Baldwin.
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He's a brain
scientist from Wildwood.
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He was a professor for 14
years teaching doctors really
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how to think about the
brain and other people.
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And we've had an exciting
time looking at this war
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that you have
described in our own brains.
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There are different parts of
the brain that, when stimulated,
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vie to be the leaders - if
I understand correctly. Yes.
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Correct. And we can,
we can through our choices
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have either the lower
part of the brain be in control
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or the upper or frontal lobe
that really makes us separate
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from animals, right?
Yes! OK. And then as we closed
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we were talking about habits;
we were talking about feelings
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and we were talking
about that whole process.
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What is a habit?
How is it developed?
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What are the things
that we can do to win the war
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between the two
sections of the brain?
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Yes. Well, a habit is a
pattern of nerve cells that are
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hooked up by
synapses to do a job.
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Like blink an
eye. Like make saliva.
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Like guide a car. Um-hmm.
Much of this is automatic.
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Some of these are involuntary,
automatic, and some are
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the things that
we... we have input into.
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Yes. Now if it's
more complicated,
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and if we have to steer
the car to avoid that truck,
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um-hmm, that is
a higher process.
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All right. Well, then how...
what is the process whereby
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we know where we
are in this battle?
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You said that, you basically
said, that the lower parts of
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the brain shouldn't be leading;
the upper part should be.
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How can we know if we
are losing the battle?
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How can we know if the
lower section of our brain
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is in control?
Why, it's very simple.
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If we will look at
3ABN with both eyes open
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and listen to what's
being said, we can figure out
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that, say, there's
light... I should walk in it.
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Hmm. And we are doing
it, if we are walking in it,
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then the frontal
lobe will tell us FORWARD.
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Whereas, if we treat 3ABN
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like an extended
pious commercial,
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then we are headed for ashes
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instead of beauty forever.
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Well, isn't that just
a matter of preference?
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I mean, someone's maybe
watching right now and they say
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Wait a minute!
That's a religious backing
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to those programs that you
are on and different things.
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And you are just saying
that you are wanting me to
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believe in Christ and
Christianity... yes, yes...
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and, you know, I understand
where you are coming from but
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let's just say someone
doesn't agree with that...
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How can they choose
between sources of revelation?
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Is that part of this
whole conflict? Well, of course!
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This conflict in the brain
- this brain war - um-hmm -
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is heating up, and it's
getting hotter every day.
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But here's the good news.
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When we are born, the bottom
of the brain runs everything.
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Parents know this vividly.
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It's common for a child,
the first time they're given
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applesauce, to
throw it on the floor.
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Um-hmm. In a little
dish. The bottom of the brain
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is running things.
But here's the good news.
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In spite of all the negatives
in the bottom of the brain,
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Christianity is the only system
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that will produce a
revolution in the brain
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so that all things become new
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and they have a complete
turnaround of the brain.
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Because when the will is
given to God, God can perform
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a miracle so that
the top is on the top
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and the bottom is on the bottom.
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Hmm. So... other
religions can't do that?
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Take Hutchins. Hutchins is?
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President, President of
the University of Chicago.
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OK. He said he is leaving
the University of Chicago
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because the modern university
has lost the power to save man.
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We've got the good
news from the Bible,
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from heaven, that God
has the power to save anybody
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including Hutchins. Hmmm.
And the way this happens...
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this new birth is a miracle!
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Not just a tedious
process of accretion so that
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the top of the
brain can be the top.
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And when we give ourselves
to God then we can learn from
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Him how to love this
son who is in trouble.
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Um-hmm. How to love this
daughter that needs help.
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Sounds like you are speaking of
this from personal experience.
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And instead of kicking
the dog, we train the dog.
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Um-hmm. Yes. Instead of
snipping at the secretaries,
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we encourage the
secretaries. Oh, yes.
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So instead of talking theory
we are talking experience.
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For instance, before I
went into brain science
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my goal in life was to
design the fastest airplane
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in the world. Um-hmm. I thrived.
I led my class in physics.
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I thrived on this, and
my model was Howard Hughes.
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Um-hmm. But after studying
the Bible over Nero's box in the
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Colosseum, Howard Hughes
shrunk. And he got so small
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that he and Rosalind
Russell could go right through
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one rivet hole. So
that wasn't your big,
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consuming passion and
there was something else that
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took its place. No.
And I find it's a lot more
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thrilling and
fulfilling and interesting
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to help humanity
instead of just making big bucks
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making a larger
house, a larger car,
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and more pairs of
shoes in the wife's closet.
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Well said. So, let's
talk then about this.
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You're saying that there needs
to be a decision, really, if we
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want to get our brains
focused the right way? Right.
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The frontal lobe in control,
the upper portions of the brain
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in control. There needs to be
a decision to look at some power
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outside ourselves? Right, right.
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And this... Does this
happen regardless of what we do?
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I mean, do humans have to look
somewhere outside themselves?
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Of course we need to cooperate.
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Um-hmm. We need to cooperate.
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But take the song Amazing Grace.
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Where did it come from?
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John Newton was in the slave
business, and he was converted.
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His frontal lobe became
the crown of his creation,
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and he cooperated with God.
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And so Amazing Grace
has been blessing the hearts
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of millions of people ever since
because the brain - instead
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of being upside down
with hedonism... Um-hmm...
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became right side up
with applied Christianity.
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Um-hmm, um-hmm. As we
close out this segment,
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I want to get some real practics
for us. You know, we talked
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at the first part of the program
about things we should avoid.
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Yes. We talked about meats with
arachidonic acid or different
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things like that that you had
mentioned. Things that cross the
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blood brain barrier that
cause the lower portions to win.
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What are some other things that
we can do, eat, drink, think,
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different things that we
can do, to put the right forces
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in our brain in charge?
Yes. One of the best things
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you can do is to take
careful attention to choosing
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your grandparents.
Well, how can you do that?
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This is a little
rugged to do, isn't it?
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Um-hmm. Now take a self-control
receptor in the brain
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called the GABBA receptor.
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It has recently been discovered
that heavy use of alcohol
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can genetically
destroy this receptor so that
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instead of being whole
it is ruined permanently.
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And so that's the grandfather?
Yes indeed, the grandfather!
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And so one reason why we are
having more violence in schools
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and why the White
House is confusing instead of
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constructive and creative
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is because the, technically,
the behavioral teratology
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the damage from
alcohol, tobacco, drugs,
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bad nutrition, bad
habits, imbalanced education,
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so much of this piling up
that the junk DNA is multiplying
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in the human genome,
and what we've really got
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is piles of liabilities.
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And instead of
having Abraham Lincoln...
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You know, we need
more Abraham Lincolns.
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And it will take more
than a quick fix to do this.
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One person at a time. One
person at a time, one part
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at a time. And, to get very
practical, one choice at a time.
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Is ADD and these different types
of things a result of problems?
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It's involved.
Involved. By scan evidence,
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new scan evidence, in
attention deficit disorder
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the frontal lobe of
the brain is out to lunch.
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Um-hmm. And when a
child is built this way,
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when they are this big.
When they are raised this way,
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by impulse and feeling
instead of by principle,
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then the frontal lobe atrophies
because it's not used. Um-hmm.
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You see. So atrophy of disuse
is a very real factor in this.
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We are going to need
to discuss a little more
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about the brain war,
right, to wrap this up.
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What about scripture memory?
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Excellent. For instance:
"For God so loved me...
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you... us... that He
gave His only begotten Son
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that whosoever believeth
in Him SHOULD NOT PERISH
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but have everlasting life. "
That abundant life starts now!
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We've been talking
with Dr. Bernell Baldwin.
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We've been talking about the
brain and about its importance.
00:27:32.59\00:27:36.48
About what we eat,
about what we drink,
00:27:36.59\00:27:38.93
about what we do and how it
stimulates different portions
00:27:39.03\00:27:42.02
of the brain. Dr. Baldwin
has suggested that the lower
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sections of the brain should
be following the upper sections
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of the brain - the frontal lobe.
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And we have learned some
interesting and exciting things.
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We hope that it's a help
to you and that as a result
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you'll have health
that lasts for a lifetime.
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