Hello, and welcome
to Health For a Lifetime
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I'm your host Don Maclntosh.
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Today we're going to
be talking about fire -
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fire in your arteries
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Do you have fire
in your arteries?
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If you do, you're
going to want to put it out!
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And talking with us about
this vital subject today is
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Dr. Tim Arnott.
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He's a physician from the
Lifestyle Center of America
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in Oklahoma.
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All day, Doctor, you help people
put fire out that's in their
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arteries, don't you?
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That's true, we do.
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What does this really mean?
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Fire in the
arteries, what does it mean,
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fire raging in the arteries?
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- Well, inflammation is
the word that most people would
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be familiar with and it has
to do with the immune system.
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It has to do with
the white blood cells.
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Now the truth is that when
you have too much cholesterol
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and saturated fat in your diet
and that is then put into the
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blood stream and so you
have high levels of cholesterol
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in the blood stream, levels that
are higher than they should be
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and you're not taking enough of
these pigments in the fruits and
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vegetables, you're not getting
the antioxidants in the whole
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grains and in the seeds,
then this cholesterol can become
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oxidized, or
chemically injured or damaged.
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When that happens the
cholesterol is actually in a
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state of such toxicity that
the white blood cells see it and
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they absorb it, they take it up
and they put it into the wall of
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the artery and
sequester it there.
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This whole process of getting
the immune system involved in
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getting rid of the excess
cholesterol leads in many cases
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to an
elevation, an inflammation.
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So that's the fire?
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- That's the
fire, that's correct.
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It's these chemicals the
white blood cells are sending
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to each other that
we can actually measure.
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- Now you work at the
Lifestyle Center of America
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you're a medical doctor
there, you've specialized
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in family practice and there at
the Lifestyle Center of America
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you help people all the time
know whether or not they have
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fire in their arteries,
so to speak, or not, whither
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not they're inflamed or not.
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How can you tell whether
or not you have this going on
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in your arteries?
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- Well, actually every
patient that comes through
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Lifestyle Center of
America actually gets a test
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called a CRP or a
C Reactive Protein.
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This is a
protein that's put out.
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It's made by the liver right
up here under your rib cage.
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That protein is put out in
response to an immune system
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a white blood cell army that's
mobilized and actively dealing
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with the cholesterol that is
accumulating in your artery wall
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and that is accumulating
in your blood stream.
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- Ok, I heard about it
first just not too long ago.
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So it's
actually pretty specific.
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It can tell you what kind
of fire and how big it is.
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Absolutely.
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What's exciting about it is
that it measures and it actually
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is able to detect low
levels of inflammation.
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I mean we have a sed rate test-
red blood cell sedimentation
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rate- that can measure more
robust and greater levels of
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inflammation in the body,
but there's actually a level of
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inflammation that is not high
- it's low - and it's found just
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relating to your arteries
and that cholesterol material
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that maybe building up there and
what the white blood cells are
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doing with it, and that low
level of inflammation is very
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important because people that
have more of that are at greater
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risk for a coronary
event like a heart attack.
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- So this is why it is important
to know whither or not my
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arteries are inflamed.
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Absolutely!
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- Because if they're inflamed
if that C Reactive Protein...
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and "C" stands for what?
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- I don't know exactly what it
stand for, that's just the term
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that's been given,
"C" Reactive Protein.
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- It tells me that
there's a real problem there,
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if it's elevated, I need
to watch out because this can
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really damage my arteries.
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- What they've discovered is
individuals can have normal, or
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what's considered by our
government as normal LDL,
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or bad cholesterol
levels, but if they have a high
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C Reactive Protein level,
which means they have a lot of
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inflammation, even though
their cholesterol may not be
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that high, they are
still at significant risk
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for heart attack or
other coronary event.
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So how do we put out the fire?
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Let's say we had our C
Reactive Protein... what's the
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normal for that?
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Is it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5?
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- Well, you want
to get less than one.
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Ok, less than one.
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Let's say it's greater than
one, let's say I have three.
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- Well, if you have a three,
that's actually getting you up
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into a higher risk category.
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- Ok, let's say I
have that, what do I do
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to put out the fire?
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- Well, one of the things
that has been shown, early on,
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a number of years ago,
individuals who are eating the
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most fiber,
actually have the lowest
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C Reactive Protein levels.
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Now, even more recently,
just last year, Dr. Kendall and
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his colleagues at the
University of Toronto in Canada,
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show that you can
actually significantly lower
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C Reactive Protein.
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In fact you can lower it
about as much as one of these
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Stanton Drugs, Lipitor, Zocor,
Levacor, by doing the following:
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by taking individuals and
putting them on a plant based
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diet and including as
part of that plant based diet,
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remember on a earlier program
we said you could be vegetarian
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but not necessarily a
healthy vegetarian or optimal
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vegetarian, well he
tried to make it plant based or
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vegetarian diet that was optimal
by making sure they were getting
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some almonds as part of their
diet, making sure they were
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getting 25 grams of soy protein,
making sure that they were
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getting some of these
phyto-sterols, these are
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steroid-like compounds in the
plants that can actually help
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block cholesterol uptake out
of your intestine into the blood
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stream, sending that
cholesterol on out of your body.
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And they were giving that
in the form of a margarine.
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So they were giving them so
focus foods that have been shown
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to help lower heart disease risk
and sure enough they were able
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to lower C Reactive Protein
levels and they were able to
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lower total cholesterol
levels about the same as a
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Stanton Drug like Zocor.
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- So increased fiber, increase
complex carbohydrates or foods
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as grown, that has
been shown to put the fire
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out in the arteries?
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Actually that's correct.
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The other thing that
it's important for people to
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understand is that there
are some fats that are found in
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animal products, the
red meats for example,
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the arachidonic acids, it's
an Omega 6 fat, and it is a fat
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that can only go one direction
once it's inside the body.
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It goes in the direction to
make some of these specialized
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chemicals, prostaglandins for
example, and it only can make
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prostaglandins that promote
inflammation, that promote
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blood clot, that promote
arteries constricting, and so
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when you take an animal products
you don't give the body a choice
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when you take in meats,
for example, you force the body
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to rev up the fire!
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Yes, exactly!
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Now the other thing that can
happen, even if you're eating
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plants and you're
getting more of the Omega 3 fats
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and you're getting more of
the Omega 6 fats, there can be a
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problem if you're getting those
Omega 6 fats in the form of corn
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oil, safflower
oil, and sunflower oil.
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The reason is they are so rich
in Omega 6 that they can get in
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the way of your using properly
the Omega 3 fats that are
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found in walnuts and
flax seed for example.
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You can actually rev up
inflammation that way as well
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because it's the flax
seed fat, the Omega 3 in that,
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and the English walnut Omega
3 that can reduce inflammation,
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reduce blood clots.
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- So flax seed is
beneficial because it reduces
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the inflammation.
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That's correct.
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- Now you have a couple graphics
on this flax seed issue.
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Let's look at that and
talk a little bit about it.
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- Dr. Hugh and his colleagues
at the Harvard School of
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Public Health, have
looked at the intake of
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Alpha-Linolenic Acid.
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- Now see they have a level
of one there vs. a level of. 55.
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- That's right, one would be the
greatest risk of a heart attack.
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So the long bar means
lots of risk of heart attack.
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When you have a short bar,
as you can see there, it's about
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half the risk of
having a heart attack.
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And then you look over to the
side it says, "Highest intake of
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Alpha-Linolenic Acid.
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Well, that is the Omega 3
fat that is concentrated in your
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flax seed, it's concentrated in
your English walnuts, and it's
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in your dark
green leafy vegetables.
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So individuals in there study
that had the highest intake of
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those specialized Omega
3 essential fats found in
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English walnuts,
found in flax seed.
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By the way you can get either
dark brown or blonde flax seed
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or dark greens, they have the
lowest risk of a heart attack.
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- So in other words you may have
a salad out of really dark green
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and put some walnuts on top.
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That's exactly right.
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English walnuts.
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- Now interestingly enough, we
were talking earlier about how
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you could have a generally
not so healthy food product, but
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it's got some
benefit in there because it
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comes from the plants.
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In this study, actually
they found that individuals were
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getting their Omega 3
fat, Alpha-Linolenic Acid, from
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salad dressing which is
made largely from soybean oil.
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Because soybean oil has more
of the Omega 3 in it, they were
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actually getting protection
from that, but you're going to
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be much better off
to eat the soybean.
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- So where would someone get
flax seed that wants to use that
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or these
different kind of things?
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Can you buy flax seed at the
super market down the street?
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- Well, it depends, if you live
on the West Coast, if you live
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in the South, if you live on the
East Coast, you probably can.
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If you live near the Lifestyle
Center of America you're
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probably going to have to go to
a health food store or you can
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join a co-op, like we do.
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We have a relationship now
with Country Life Foods there in
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Michigan and they send us 5
pounds, 25 pounds of flax seed,
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blonde, brown, you name it.
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- And I understand that you have
to grind it up or else you won't
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be able to utilize it.
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- Well, you can utilize if you
don't grind it but it will be a
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laxative rather than
getting you the essential fats.
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That's absolutely right,
you want to freshly grind it.
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A coffee grinder is the
perfect tool to grind up those
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flax seeds and you want to take
in 2 Tablespoons of the whole
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seeds, not rounded, just flat
Tablespoons of the whole seeds
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grind it up and you
want to do that every day.
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And that will give you
just about as much blood clot
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preventing power as
someone who eats fish,
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say 3 times a week,
because there are Omega 3 fats
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in fish as well.
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- So there is
fire in our arteries.
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That fire comes from
inflammation, just to summarize.
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We can figure out whether or
not we really are having that
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inflammation by a C Reactive
Protein test that your doctor
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can run or you can do there at
the Lifestyle Center of America.
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We need to know whither or
not we have inflammation because
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if there's a fire in our
house we want to put it out.
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And the way to put it out most
aptly is to eat foods that are
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high in fiber, foods as
grown, and to have flax seed.
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- Flax seeds, English walnuts,
and leafy greens and to avoid
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a lot of those processed oils
which are so rich in Omega 6
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they can dilute the
benefits of your Omega 3 fats.
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- You know there is a lot of
discussion about fats and how
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they relate to heart disease
and how they relate to the fire
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in the arteries
and different things.
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And there's some confusion,
frankly, about that and we
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want to talk about
that a little more.
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I'm sure you
educate people there at the
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Lifestyle Center of America
about these different things
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when they come to the program.
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And they see
things turning around.
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We're talking
with Dr. Tim Arnott.
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He's a physician at the
Lifestyle Center of America
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in Oklahoma where they help
stop, reverse in some cases,
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or prevent the
common killers in America.
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When we come back we're going to
talk a little bit more about the
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fire many people have in their
arteries and how to put it out.
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We hope you join us.
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Welcome back.
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We've been talking
with Dr. Tim Arnott.
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We've been talking about
something that kills millions
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of Americans, that
being heart disease.
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We have noted that this
is somewhat likened as a fire
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in our arteries because of
the inflammation that comes as a
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result of those
processes in the arteries
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and we need to
put that fire out.
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How do we tell whether
or not we have that fire?
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There are some special
tests like C Reactive Protein.
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Dr. Arnott is a specialist
in helping people reverse the
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common killers
with lifestyle medicine.
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He works at the Lifestyle
Center of America in Oklahoma.
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You're a family
practice physician but you've
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specialized in this.
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There's programs they
do there, 19 day program.
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They also do programs,
or developing programs,
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that people can even
find in their community's now
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like the Well Spring Program.
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We've talked about how
to stop this inflammation.
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We've talked about having the
kind of foods we need to have
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high in fiber, and greens,
as well as food that is grown.
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We've talked about having flax
seed or these other different
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things in our diet.
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I want to talk a little
bit more about flax seed.
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You told me in the break about
a very fascinating study that
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I think we need to bring out.
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- Dr. Delorgarille and
his colleagues actually found
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individuals who had
already had a heart attack.
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And they put half of those
individuals on what's called a
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heart prudent diet.
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Basically an American
Heart Association style diet.
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They put the other half of those
individuals who'd already had a
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heart attack on a diet that was
rich in Alpha-Linolinic Acid.
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Now this is the essential fat
that we can not make, we have
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to eat it, we have to get it
from our food, it's made only
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by plants, and it's
richly supplied in flax seed,
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English walnuts,
and dark leafy greens.
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They followed these individuals
for a number of years and what
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they discovered is the
individuals who were on this
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diet rich in this Omega 3
fat they had a 70% lower risk
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of dying than the
individuals who were on the
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heart prudent diet.
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So this graphic that
we're going to look at
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is going to show this?
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Absolutely.
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As you can see on the top line:
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You can see that individuals
who are on this usual
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Post-Heart Attack Prudent Diet,
Like The Heart Association Diet,
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The Heart Association Diet.
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They had the greatest risk
of death after a heart attack
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shown there by the longest bar.
But those who are on this diet
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that was rich, high in flax
seed, walnuts, high in these
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greens you can see that
they had less than a third,
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the risk of dying after
their first heart attack,
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70% lower risk, in fact.
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If I would have found out
about that, and I was on that
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American Heart Association
diet I'd say, "Stop!"
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That's exactly right.
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In fact they had to...
this is not a study that you can
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continue when you see
this great a difference between
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the two groups, you
can not continue ethically.
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It's malpractice.
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Absolutely!
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- That's an essential
protective fat, the Omega 3
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fatty acid, is that right?
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- Yes, actually what they
have shown is that if you take
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in a good quantity
of these essential fats,
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the Omega 3 fats, for example,
as we've been saying, again,
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from flax seed, English walnuts,
from dark leafy greens, or
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many people would
take in fish to get these,
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you actually stabilize the
membranes of the heart cell,
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you lower the irritability
of those heart muscle cells,
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and your risk of having
a dangerous rhythm after a
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heart attack is reduced, and
you actually have lower risk of
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sudden death.
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- So there are essential fatty
acids that actually are putting
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out the fire in the arteries
and those essential ones are
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Omega 3,...
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- Alpha-Linolinic Acid, and
it's found -it's concentrated
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in those three food groups.
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- English walnuts, flax
seed, and dark leafy greens.
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Well, fascinating!
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So people should go out and
immediately start eating fish
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then probably because
that's where the Omega 3's
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are aren't they?
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Well, you know it's like this.
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Fish can actually help...
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The Omega 3 fats in fish,
there are two of them that are
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very important, these
two Omega 3 fats in fish
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are very helpful because they
can actually prevent blood clots
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from forming.
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And so if you want to live
on a standard American diet,
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and have lots of cholesterol
in your blood stream, and have
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lots of cholesterol moving into
your arteries, then you want to
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make sure that you don't...
when those cholesterol deposits
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break off, you want to make sure
that a blood clot doesn't form.
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And so eating fish can
actually help prevent that.
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But the best thing you can
do is to prevent those plaques
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those cholesterol lesions
from forming in the first place.
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So you won't need to
take a fish oil, for example.
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That's the safest approach.
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I mean it's dangerous to have
a plaque form in your artery
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and have it rupture.
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What you want to do is prevent
the plaque that can rupture.
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And the way you do that
is to eat a plant based diet.
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You don't need fish to
prevent this heart disease.
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- What if you already have
the heart disease and you want
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to reverse it or
should I say stop it,
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is it ok for fish then?
or plants, are they better?
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- Well, fish is not the best
choice because if you are on a
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diet that is rich in
beans, whole grains, fruits,
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vegetables, nuts, and
seeds, and you add fish to it,
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you're going to have a
higher cholesterol level.
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You're going to have
a higher protein level.
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Animal protein can
also raise cholesterol.
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- So maximizing my essential
fat intake is paramount to
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putting out this
fire in my vessels.
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How do I maximize that?
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I think you have some graphics
to show to talk about that.
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- Let's take a look
at the first graphic:
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So this is one way.
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Another way to maximize it:
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- Another way to
maximize the essential fats:
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Do the flax seeds taste good?
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- Actually, they have kind of
a nutty flavor and some people
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who think that the dark
ones maybe have a little bit of
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sharp flavor and found
that the blonde seeds have a
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even more mild flavor.
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So how do eat them?
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Do you put them
on your ice cream?
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- I actually take... it's the
first thing I do in the morning
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before breakfast, I take those
two Tablespoons of whole flax
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seeds, put them in the coffee
grinder, whiz them up, put them
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under my cereal and I hardly
even know that they are there.
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So you hide them.
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Hide them, basically.
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You can put them in bread.
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You can put them in muffins.
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You can put them in soup.
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You can use flax seed, frankly,
add a little bit of water
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to that flax seed,
it's a wonderful binder.
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It can actually
be an egg replacer.
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You can use it in recipes.
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Many different uses.
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- Ok, what's another
way to maximize that?
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We have on our graphic:
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- An ounce of English walnuts
which would be about a hand full
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but you could still close
your fingers over those nuts.
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In other words, you don't have
an open hand full of nuts but
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you can close your
fingers over all those nuts.
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That's about an ounce.
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An ounce several times a
week can just add more of these
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essential fatty acids.
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By the way, if we have listeners
who have children, or who are
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pregnant, expecting moms, or
breast feeding moms, it's very
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important that the developing
child's brain be richly endowed
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with Omega 3 fats.
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Makes them smarter?
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Absolutely it does!
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In fact, breast milk is
one of the greatest sources of
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Omega 3 fat and you
don't get that in cow's milk.
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Children that are breast fed are
actually at a higher level of IQ
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when they test them and
it's because they are being fed
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these brain building fats with
one of the prominate fats in
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the brain is the Omega 3.
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- Ok, another way to
maximize these essential fats
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that we have.
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- As we mentioned earlier,
one of the things you can do to
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limit the benefit of Omega
3 fats is to take in so many
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Omega 6 fats...
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That's like in processed oils?
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- That's processed oils,
corn oils, safflower oil, these
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different oils, refined oils.
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You can take in so much
Omega 6 fat in the form of those
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processed oils that it totally
takes up the enzyme that's
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needed to work on the
Omega 3 fats from the flax seed,
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English walnuts, and greens and
those essential fats can't be
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beneficial at
reducing inflammation.
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- So decrease the
competition so it can flourish.
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Anything else here to
maximize we have on our list?
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- Well, actually they've
discovered if you could eat
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fats that are rich in
mono-unsaturated oils:
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These mono-unsaturated
fats actually have less of the
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Omega 6 fat that
competes with the Omega 3
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that you're taking in.
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- That doesn't sound like
something that's going to be
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hard to do at all.
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Lot's of people like these
foods that you have mentioned
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and they're protective against
the fire in our arteries.
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You know many times people say,
"Well, I'm just going to get to
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the doctor and
get checked out. "
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I'm sure not too many doctors
ask about these different
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tests that you've given... are
you eating this, are you doing
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this, these are
all things we can do.
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But many times they'll just say,
"Well, let's do an angiogram
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and make sure that's ok
and then they'll just say it's
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a clean bill of health.
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Anything wrong
with that approach?
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- Well, actually, there's been
a reformation, so to speak, in
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the understanding
of coronary disease.
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We used to think it was a
disease of a lumen, where the
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blood is flowing.
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In other words, we thought that
over the years more and more
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cholesterol filled up the inside
of your artery and finally it
00:24:58.76\00:25:01.95
shut off and you
got a heart attack
00:25:01.98\00:25:05.37
and cessation of blood flow.
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But what they've discovered
recently with the new technique
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which is called intra-vascular
ultra sound where they actually
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take a coronary catheter,
they put it inside your coronary
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artery and on the end is an
ultra sound probe that rotates
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at rapid speed and it actually
takes pictures of the wall of
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the coronary
artery in living patients.
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It's like real-time living
microscopy in a living patient
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with coronary disease.
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And what they discovered
is that the cholesterol that
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actually encroaches on the blood
flow, represents only about 1%
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of the coronary artery
disease burden in a patient.
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In fact 95-99% of coronary
disease is not impeding on
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the blood flow.
00:25:51.68\00:25:52.65
It's actually in
the wall of the artery.
00:25:52.66\00:25:54.69
What they've discovered is
that the coronary artery as this
00:25:54.72\00:25:57.93
disease advances, as you put
more cholesterol in your artery
00:25:57.96\00:26:01.13
wall, the coronary
is able to remodel.
00:26:01.17\00:26:04.50
In other words, it's able
to keep the blood flow space
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constant even though there could
be huge amounts of cholesterol
00:26:07.12\00:26:10.74
plaque in the artery wall.
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And that is completely missed
on a angiogram, because all
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you see is that remodeled normal
width coronary and your missing
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95-99% of the disease.
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- What's the best test you can
have to decide whither or not
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you have fire in your arteries
coronary artery disease?
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- Frankly, there are two tests
very simple that would actually
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be the best test to predict your
future risk of a coronary event.
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That would be a total
cholesterol divided by your
00:26:38.78\00:26:42.32
good cholesterol
or HDL cholesterol.
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So you just take your total
cholesterol, you divide it by
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your good cholesterol and
it gives you that ratio number
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and then the C Reactive Protein.
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Those two tests together,
C Reactive Protein should be
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less than one, the ratio
should be less than four, total
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cholesterol to HDL, less
than four or even better,
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less than 3.
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Those two things together will
give you your best information
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about future risk
of a heart attack.
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- So people could go to the
doctor, they could schedule that
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test, that's something that all
doctor's they'll know about if
00:27:09.73\00:27:12.54
they go talk to them about it?
00:27:12.58\00:27:13.61
Absolutely
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More and more doctors are
testing for C Reactive Protein.
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- What about angiograms,
should we ever have them?
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- Well, angiograms can be
helpful because if the coronary
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narrowing is very tight you
may need to do a angioplasty
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- But those are really
stable plaques and it's
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not really going to...
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That's right.
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Angioplasty has never
been shown to lower death from
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heart disease because it's only
treating 1-5% of the disease
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those lesions that
are shown on the angiogram
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are the most stable.
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So C Reactive and cholesterol.
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We've been talking
with Dr. Tim Arnott.
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He's a physician at the
Lifestyle Center of America
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in Oklahoma.
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They do programs addressing
this and also programs
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in the community.
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We're glad you've
joined us and hope you have
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health for a lifetime.
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