Hello and welcome to
Health for a Lifetime.
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I'm your host Don Mackintosh.
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We're glad you're with us today.
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And we're also delighted
that Dr. Zeno Charles-Marcel
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from the Lifestyle
Center of America is with us.
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Welcome Doctor.
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Thank you very much, Don.
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The Lifestyle Center of
America is there right near
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Oklahoma City,
very centrally located.
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It's a beautiful facility.
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What exactly do you do there?
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What's your background
in medicine and what not?
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So we kind of get to
know you and what you do.
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I'm the medical director
for the lifestyle center.
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What we do is we have
people who come there with
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chronic illnesses or they wish
to prevent chronic illnesses.
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They spend anywhere from
12 days to 19 days with us.
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We see a smattering of different
kinds of diseases but we tend to
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concentrate primarily on
diabetes, on heart disease,
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high blood pressure, obesity,
and so called syndrome X
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and we have special programs
for people with diabetes.
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My background is
internal medicine.
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My sub-specialty work was
in geriatrics and my focus,
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my clinical focus,
currently is on that syndrome X.
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And you're also a teacher
adjunct or associate professor
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at Loma Linda, isn't that right?
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That's right.
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With Loma Linda, it's been voted
recently a very high medical
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schools across the nation.
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It's a privilege, actually,
to be able to be involved like
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you are with that school.
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Yes, it is.
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Lifestyle Center of America
those that are watching today
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we're going to be
talking about allergies.
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You may have allergies or know
those that do have allergies.
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But maybe you're going to
want to get in touch with the
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Lifestyle Center of America.
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They have a webpage
that's www. lifestylecenter. org
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and you can learn about the
programs, the people, all those
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different things.
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I'll give that to you again
throughout the program so you
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can remember that.
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I know that after listening
to Dr. Zeno Charles-Marcel
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you're going to want to get in
touch with him about something
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because he's very interesting.
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We're going to talk
about reactions or reactors and
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reactions - allergies - today.
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I heard an interesting
thing that sometimes people are
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allergic to each other.
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Well, it is possible that
people may have some chemical
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constituent that would
trigger an allergic response
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by somebody else.
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But I don't know of any
really documented cases of it.
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What is an allergy?
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What are allergies?
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Well, allergy is just a state
that people are in where they
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have cells in their immune
system that are reacting to
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things in their environment,
or things that are being
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generated on the inside of
them that produce chemicals
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these chemicals
produce symptoms.
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The symptoms often times include
things like itching or runny
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nose or even wheezing and
spasm of the bronchial tree,
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the respiratory tree.
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So it's a whole host of
various kinds of responses
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a person could have
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Are people allergic to onions?
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Is that why their eyes water?
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That's not an allergy to onions.
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That's just an irritation from
some of the volatile chemicals
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in the onions that people tear.
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So allergies then really are
a good thing - true or false?
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Well, I wouldn't
say it's a good thing.
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Basically it's a reaction that
involves a particular line of
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chemicals that are being
produced and these often times
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lead to symptoms.
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Now on the other side is
if there is something that is
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actually toxic to us and
we have an allergic reaction,
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the allergic reaction
actually is a minor reaction.
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It will alert us that this
thing is in the environment and
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therefore to help us to avoid
that particular toxic thing.
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But for the most part, people
are allergic to some of the
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common things that we
might find in our environment
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some food stuffs that otherwise
would have been reasonable for
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some people to eat, some people
may be quite allergic to them.
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How big a problem
is this in America?
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How many people have
allergies or maybe you know some
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statistics, but how
large a problem is this?
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It is a huge problem!
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It is bigger than
I can even estimate.
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I don't have any numbers telling
how many people have allergies.
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But all one needs to do, anybody
whose watching this show,
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is to ask 10 friends "Who has
allergies?" and they will find
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that probably seven of their
10 friends have some kind of
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allergy problem.
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There is one time during
the year, I know for me during a
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certain time of the
year, something about the grass
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or the hay, so called hay fever,
this or that, wow, I just stop!
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I'm not very good outside.
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I have to really be careful.
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So it's a huge problem.
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Why do we have then, you've
mentioned several causative
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factors, foods
or different things.
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And then you mentioned
something as we were talking
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called "atopy. "
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What is atopy and what does
it have to do with allergies?
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Well, atopy is the... A T O P
Y is how you spell it... this a
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word that is used often by
medical personnel that indicates
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that the person is
at the state of allergy.
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In other words, the person has
the genetic components and they
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have everything, they are ready
and waiting for them to have
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an allergic reaction.
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For some people it can be
expressed, that is they go
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on and start that process
of having physical signs,
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physical symptoms of the allergy
or it could be something that is
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kind of under the surface, it's
hanging out there and it's just
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waiting for the triggers to
push the person over the edge.
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Well, you've talked to me
now for a few minutes, and I'm a
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atopic person.
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Do I seem like I'm on
the verge of allergies?
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How can you tell whether or not
you are one of those families or
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one of those
individuals at risk?
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One of the easiest ways to
tell is to look at your family.
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If you have people in the family
who have allergies then chances
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are you also are at some risk of
developing allergies yourself.
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And by family members we're
not talking about step-family
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or anything like that.
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We're really talking
about blood relatives.
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If your blood relatives or
ancestors had allergic or atopic
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diseases such as asthma,
eczema, if they had allergic...
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Eczema being like what?
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It's a scaly, crusty, dry
things on the skin that often
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times cause itch.
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Or it could be
allergic rhinitis.
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That's where runny nose,
chronic, clear, runny nose.
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Sometimes with children we
see the allergic salute, that is
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they run their hand
under their nose to wipe it and
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clear their nose.
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The allergic salute - laughter -
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The skin over the lip and
the side of the nose can change
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its appearance and so on because
of the chronic irritation of
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rubbing.
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Also, I may have mentioned
allergic bronchitis and of
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course that's linked to
asthma where the bronchial tree
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actually constricts.
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So if in our families we
have those types of conditions,
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any of those types of things,
we're kind of set up, and we
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need to be really watching
for our own selves unless we
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would develop
problems with this.
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What can we do then to
prevent some of these things?
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What could we do
to prevent asthma.
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What can we do to deal
with these types of things?
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Well, Don, there are some
factors that are out of the
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control of the person but are
in the control of the parents of
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the person before the
person was actually born.
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So prenatal?
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Yes, there's some prenatal
factors that actually influence
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whether the child, who will
later on grow up to be an adult,
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but whether that child is
actually going to be manifesting
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in the allergic
reactions or not.
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So all you pregnant mothers
out there, all you people that
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think you're going to have
children, listen up now and take
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those notes down
as we're talking to
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Dr. Zeno Charles-Marcel.
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What can we do prenatally
to help us get away from a
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predisposition to allergies?
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If we look at the prenatal
influences, one side of that
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prenatal influence is
of course the genetic side.
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So if I have an allergic
kind of problem then it's likely
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that a child that I would father
would also have some of that
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allergic potential
or atopic potential.
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Those are things that by and
large we can't really change.
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We can't really change
the genes at this point.
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But how those genes are going
to express themselves often
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times is related to triggers.
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Are there things
that would trigger?
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So the mother who is carrying
the baby, that person would be
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wise to stay away from some
of those environmental triggers
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which include things that
we might eat or actually things
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that we might inhale or
be exposed to otherwise.
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So what would
like trigger asthma?
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Some of the triggers include,
for the mother passing it on to
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the kids, would be things in the
diet like fish, peanuts, soy,
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some people are allergic to soy,
wheat, and perhaps the biggest
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one is cow's milk.
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Cow's milk?
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So these are things we should
stay away from when we are
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pregnant, or stay away
from if we have a problem
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with those things.
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The way I would put it is if
we are known to have a problem
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with those things, it would
be best to stay away from them.
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If we think we might have a
problem with those things, or if
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we have family members who
have allergies to those things,
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then what you'd want to do
is to reduce these to a minimum,
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if not eliminate
them from the diet.
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And why is that?
What's happening?
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What would happen inside of us
if we take those substances in
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when we're pregnant?
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The baby has
essentially a clean slate.
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The baby has the genetic makeup
that will allow it to go one way
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or another.
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When the mother is exposed
to these allergens, when she's
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exposed to these environmental
triggers, that is transmitted to
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the baby, and the baby's immune
system can then turn on in the
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side of allergy or remain
what we would call normal or
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non-allergic.
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So that by reducing the
load of these allergens or
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eliminating contact with these
allergens, actually you are
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sparing the baby from turning on
this allergic kind of response.
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Is the same thing true even when
the mother is breast feeding?
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Actually breast feeding is
protective against allergies.
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Now this is post-natal.
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Ok, we don't
want to get there yet.
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Is there any other prenatal
things we should stay away from
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specifically?
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A big one is actually
smoke - tobacco smoke.
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There are studies done in
Great Britain that have actually
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shown an increased incidence
of asthma in men at age 40
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because their mothers
were exposed to smoke when
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they were in uteral.
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So 40 years later.
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40 years later.
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And when you say exposure
to smoke is that an occasional
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exposure or all
the time being exposed?
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It's occasional or all the time.
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And the higher the
dose, the greater the chance
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that the child
will grow up to a...
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So it's really unconscionable,
if you're pregnant, to be in a
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smoke filled room.
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Let me tell you, in some
Scandinavian countries they look
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at exposure to smoke during the
time a woman is carrying a baby
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that this is
considered infanticide.
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This is actually
killing and harming the baby and
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it's going to
become a criminal offense.
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Is that right?!
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It's that right!
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The scientific
evidence is so strong.
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What would you do if you saw
someone that was smoking or in a
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smoke filled room
next to their child?
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Would you share that with them?
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I would share that
with them hands down.
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Additionally and apart from just
an allergic reactions per say,
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there's some collateral problems
that the kids can end up with
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including chronic ear
infections or repeated
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and recurrent ear infections.
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That stuff starts off before
the child is actually born.
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We're talking with Dr.
Zeno Charles-Morcel from
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the Lifestyle Center of America.
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If you would like to contact
the Lifestyle Center of America
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you can do that by calling 3ABN
and we can give you the contact
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numbers or by getting in touch
with them by their web page
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that's www. lifestylecenter.
org and they can help you out.
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We're talking about allergies.
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We're talking about how to
avoid them even before your
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child is born.
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When we come back we'll talk
about more of that and what to
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do, of course
after you've been born.
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And so join us when we back.
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Welcome back.
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I'm talking with Dr.
Zeno Charles-Marcel today.
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We're talking about allergies.
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Perhaps you have an allergy.
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Perhaps you'd like
to get in touch with
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Dr. Zeno
Charles-Marcel or those at the
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Lifestyle Center of America.
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And you can do that by
contacting them at their website
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www. lifestylecenter. org
or calling us here at 3ABN.
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We were talking about allergy
before we went to the break.
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We were talking
about prenatal influences.
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We talked about smoking
and even being exposed to smoke
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and that's a no no
- just don't do that.
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We talked about
countries that say,
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"You're doing that -
that's child abuse. "
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I believe that day is coming
here too, just like you said.
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I know that with the
cigarette companies now,
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it's very believable.
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Who would have thought
40-50 years ago that what has
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happened to big
tobacco is now happened.
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But I think that's going to
go into other areas of life.
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But there's another one.
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A friend of mine
that you perhaps know too,
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Dr. Neal Bernhard,
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The Physicians for Responsible
Medicines in Washington, D.C.,
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is actually taking
the government to court on
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some other issues concerning
the food and what-not.
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But what about this big dairy
lobby and what about cow's milk?
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You talked about after birth
exposing children to cow's milk.
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What about that in allergies?
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Well, let me say, I'm not into
the political end of things.
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I'm just going to look at
what the scientific leader has
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demonstrated.
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Even prenatally, women who
have some sensitivity to milk,
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cow's milk, which by the way
probably 45-75 percent of adults
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have some form
of milk sensitivity.
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45-75 percent!
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Especially people who have
chronic sinusitis and so on.
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The estimates are about
75% of those people have
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milk or dairy intolerance.
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This is not the same as lactose
intolerance, which is the
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sugar portion of the milk.
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It's actually the proteins
in the milk that produces
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intolerance.
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It tends to be, if you will,
dose response, the higher the
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dose, the more the response.
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But when it comes to allergy
even a little bit can produce a
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pretty big response.
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Prenatally.
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So that a mother who is
exposed to cow's milk who is
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allergic to cow's milk may
be passing on cow's milk allergy
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to the baby.
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So that child will be born
now being more sensitive to the
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cow's milk.
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After birth, if that child
is again exposed to cow's milk
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then the child can end up
with allergic problems including
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asthma, eczema,
and atopic dermatitis.
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So they can have the full-blown
cow's milk allergy in addition
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to some of the other things that
might be going on related to
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part of the cow's milk protein,
bovine serum albumin and other
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proteins that can trigger auto
immune reactions by the baby
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to allow for the
development of type I diabetes.
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Diabetes?
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Diabetes, that's correct.
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How does that work?
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Well, as far as we can tell,
there are some proteins in the
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milk, and one of these, the
prime target is actually the
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bovine serum albumin.
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This bovine serum albumin
has a shape and a configuration
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that's very similar to the shape
and configuration of some of the
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proteins in the beta cells
of the insulin producing cells
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in our pancreas.
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So what can happen is that when
the young child gets this whole
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protein into the system, and by
the way, the gastro intestinal
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system of an infant isn't fully
developed until about 1 to 2
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years of age, so whole proteins
can actually enter into the
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circulation of the child.
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The child then has to fight
against this foreign protein.
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And the way the child will
do it is with the immune system.
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So the immune system attacks
this foreign protein, breaks it
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down, and sends a signal
throughout the child's system
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that says essentially this,
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"If you see this
protein, attack it!"
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"Don't let it live. "
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Now, that process alerts all of
the immune active cells in the
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child...
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T- killer cells and all that.
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You got it!
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You're really a student
of this stuff! - laughter -
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Well, these cells now look
for proteins that have this
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signature.
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And low and behold, if
the pancreas of the child
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has proteins that are similar
and the child has the genetic
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make up that says if this
connection occurs they develop
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type I diabetes.
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Low and behold that will happen.
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Amazing!
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Why aren't we
hearing things about this?
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In America you see
commercial after commercial...
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Just recently I was at a
friends' house that was watching
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a commercial and there was a
big thing about drinking milk,
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and about how it's
healthy for you and your family.
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Why don't we hear
these kind of things?
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Well, I think that a
large extent, we don't get an
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unbiased view of
the scientific data.
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You know the milk
industry is big business and
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they have a product to sell.
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And by the way,
milk is whole food.
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Milk is very rich in nutrients.
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As a matter of fact, it's so
rich in nutrients it can take a
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baby calf and produce a full
grown cow in a matter of months.
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This is
nutritionally packed stuff.
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I'm not trying to speak against
the fact that this is sometimes
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good, solid nutrition.
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In some communities this might
be the best nutrition that some
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people can get.
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But it's not
without its downside.
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And the downside is it
really wasn't meant for human
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consumption per say,
particularly for early in life.
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The kind of milk that is
meant for babies to thrive on
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is actually mother's milk.
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Mother's milk.
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So if you have a choice
of breast feeding or not
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breast feeding your
child, you really should make a
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choice to breast feed.
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Breast feed by all means.
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How long?
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At least a year.
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During that first year
the constituency of the
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mother's milk actually changes
as the child progresses and as
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the child develops.
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When you're breast feeding
should you yourself drink
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cow's milk?
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Well, if again, if you have this
atopy issue, if you have allergy
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or if your family they have an
issue with cow's milk allergy,
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I would stay away from
the cow's milk as well and use
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other things if at all possible
to get adequate nutrition.
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There are like soy milks, rice
milks, there are other things
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That's correct
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Now those other
things, I ought to mention,
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they are not
really milks, you know.
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Soy milk is not really milk.
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It's just soy beans.
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It's soy beans and
they now make it with
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soy protein
isolates and what not.
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You could be allergic to that.
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You could be
allergic to that, too.
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Additionally, with the genetic
engineering, they've been able
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to put in other kinds of
proteins into the soy bean,
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etcetera, so some people may
not be allergic to soy at all,
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but they might be allergic
to something else that was
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introduced into the soy.
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So stay away from
genetically produced foods?
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Well that might be a lot bigger
topic than I can summarize in
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one statement.
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But for instance, there was an
epidemic, if you will, a small
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epidemic, of individuals who
were supposedly allergic to soy
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bean, when in fact
they weren't really allergic
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to the soy bean at all.
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They were allergic to the Brazil
nut proteins that were placed
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in the soy bean by soy
bean growers to produce
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a more stable crop.
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Amazing!
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So foods as grown.
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Foods as grown
that's the way to do it.
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Let's talk about some specific
allergies that people maybe are
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struggling with in our
last four minutes here.
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A big issue is asthma.
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Ok, asthma, what
can we do if we have it?
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We know what we can do to
avoid it - no cigarette smoking
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and those different things - but
what can we do if we have it?
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If we have asthma, we ought
to look at what things typically
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trigger the asthma.
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Some people have
exercise induced asthma.
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So they go out and exert
themselves and they end up
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with wheezing.
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For those individuals, actually
using fruits that are high
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in vitamin C tend to decrease
the person's allergic response
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or asthmatic
response to exercise.
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If not, they can take
a vitamin C supplement -
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500- 1,000 mg of vitamin C
for a half an hour before they
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go out to exercise and this
will decrease their likelihood
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of wheezing during exercise.
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So that's a simple
thing that people can do.
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If the person knows that there
are triggers, they should stay
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away from those triggers.
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Now one of the triggers is food.
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And the various kinds of foods
they may not be aware that there
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are things in the food
that might produce this.
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But apart from the things in the
food is the quantity of food.
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People who tend to have
allergic asthma associated with
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food or exercise tend to
also have more asthmatic attacks
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more frequently
when they over-eat.
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So over-eating, gluttony, now
that's not a popular word today
00:24:56.94\00:25:01.34
but over-eating can actually
bring on asthmatic attack.
00:25:01.38\00:25:06.65
Unfortunately asthma is a
disease that can take your life.
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Some people may have their last
meal that actually kills them.
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Eczema.
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Eczema - this of course is
a skin condition and the same
00:25:18.90\00:25:21.76
things that pertain to bronchial
spasms or the asthmatic attacks
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can also be applied.
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Like vitamin C?
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Vitamin C is helpful.
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Some people, of
course, tend to be?.
00:25:34.43\00:25:38.12
So just keeping
them away from the foods.
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This is a major
issue with eczema.
00:25:40.20\00:25:43.52
Allergic rhinitis?
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Allergic rhinitis
is the same issue.
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All these diseases are
actually in the same cluster of
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atopic diseases.
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Water?
00:25:51.37\00:25:52.58
Having adequate amounts of
water, this is actually part
00:25:52.61\00:25:57.48
of the treatment for allergy.
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Good, fresh, clean water
inside and of course outside.
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We've got about 2 minutes.
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What about allergies as
they relate to the society?
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There was an
interesting study in the
00:26:10.52\00:26:16.44
New England Journal of Medicine
a few years ago looking at
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what I would call a
societal aspect of asthma.
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What was found was that the
parts of the cockroach actually
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are highly allergenic.
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They can set off allergies
as an environmental factor.
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Is that right?
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That's right!
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And what was found is that
within the inner cities across
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the United States we're dealing
with the social ill of poverty
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and poor housing, etcetera,
that these individuals,
00:26:50.08\00:26:52.92
the youngsters who live in these
environments actually have a
00:26:52.96\00:26:56.50
greater death rate from asthma
than people who don't live in
00:26:56.54\00:27:00.05
these kinds of situations.
00:27:00.09\00:27:01.06
Because of cockroaches?
00:27:01.07\00:27:02.04
Because of the
cockroaches - that's correct.
00:27:02.05\00:27:03.07
Amazing!
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So getting rid of the
cockroaches... it's actually
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what I would call a social issue
that has to do with poverty
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and education and
etcetera that can be helped.
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If people know about this...
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So if you have cockroaches
call the Orkin man or call
00:27:18.62\00:27:20.94
whoever the bug man is.
00:27:20.98\00:27:21.95
Whoever the bug man is...
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Get rid of them!
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Right, as a matter of fact
for many people the best thing
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is to not encourage the
cockroaches in the first place.
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And that requires hygiene in
the environment, keeping things
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clean, keeping away the foods
that the roaches will come out
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at night to feast on.
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You take them off the
counter, put them in the garbage
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and close the lid.
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We've been talking with
Dr. Zeno Charles-Marcel.
00:27:42.84\00:27:45.14
He has a wealth of information
on allergies and other subjects.
00:27:45.17\00:27:48.02
If you'd like to contact him or
the Lifestyle Center of America
00:27:48.06\00:27:50.88
give us a call here at
3ABN and we'll get you in
00:27:50.91\00:27:52.92
touch with them.
00:27:52.95\00:27:54.35
We hope as a result of
today's program you have
00:27:54.38\00:27:56.02
health that
lasts for a lifetime.
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