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Welcome to
Health For A Lifetime.
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I'm your host Don
Mackintosh. We are glad
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you are with us today,
we are gonna be talking
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today about
Arthritis. Dr. John Clark
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an orthopedic surgeon
from Maine is with us to talk
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about this. You've been
practicing about five years
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in orthopedics, do
you see a lot of people
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with Arthritis. Oh I do,
a lot of people come to me
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with that very
diagnosis, and so they come,
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they are hunched over
there, like you know my uncle
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was saying once and
its not really funny,
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but it's gonna graphic
he says who is that person
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sneaking in air, you
know, they are kind a hunched
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over they are and
almost does look like
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they are sneaking in if
you will, but its really
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because of the Arthritis.
That's right it's quite
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crippling and causes
deformity, people will get
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bowlegged or not need as
they get older and the CDC
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has designated
Arthritis as one of the leading
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causes of disability in America.
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So, centers for disease
control CDC, that's right,
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says this is a leading
cause for disability and that,
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what else the
statistics about it, you know,
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give me the numbers.
About 20 percent of Americans
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have been
diagnosed with arthritis,
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but there is another 10%
of Americans that have it,
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but have never been
to doctor to get that
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particular
diagnosis. Is this, you know,
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this is watched around
the world, is this is just
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an American phenomena
or is Arthritis something
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it affects other
cultures as well?
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Arthritis has become so
prevalent that they have
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designated the decade
from 2000 to 2010 as the bone
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and joint decade to
raise awareness about arthritis
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around the world,
because it is such a world wide
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problem. Now, I
can't help but think that
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you are probably
gonna share with us,
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that there is some
way to prevent arthritis
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from developing to begin with.
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That's right if we
couldn't prevent it I guess
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that wouldn't be a
whole lot of reason to talk
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about it. What there, yeah
we just say hey we give up,
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right. Well, there
is a couple of things
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about joints that are
important to think about
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when you think about
preventing arthritis.
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Okay, number one is circulation
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and number two is illumination.
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The circulation is
getting the blood to the joint
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and the blood
away from the joint
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and illumination has
to deal with removing
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the metabolic
products from the joint
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as they build up
so they don't stack up
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and cause trouble. So,
circulation, circulation,
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circulation, oh that's
right, that's exactly right.
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Anything else. Well as
you think about circulation
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there are several
factors that effects circulation
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and number one is
how much water you drink,
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if your blood gets too thick
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you won't be
able to circulate it
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and so water is very important.
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Now the water not only
is circulation in the blood,
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but water has to
circulate to the joint,
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apart from the blood it
has to soak-in and soak-out
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that's because
cartilage has no blood supply.
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May we can put up
our first graphic here,
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where we talk about
that the blood supply
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to the joint is dependent upon
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blood flowing by the
joint. Is this a knee?
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This is the knee, the
green part of the graphic
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are the bones, the
pink along the side
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there is a vessel that
I have drawn very large
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and at the top
you see a blood cell.
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You see the blood cells
come flowing by the joint,
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nutrient has to soak
across the blood vessel,
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across the joint capsule,
across into the joint space
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some people talk about
having water on the knee,
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well everybody has a
little bit water on the knee,
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the water on the
knee then has to soak
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into the cartilage and
that is one of the few ways
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that cartilage can get nourished
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and then the waste
products have to soak back out,
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we call it diffusion out
of the cartilage back across
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the joint capsule and
then back into the bloodstream,
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where they are taken
out through the kidneys.
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I always thought
that a vessel was
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kind of a little
bit more firm than
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that and I don't
think things leaking through
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and leaking backend,
but that actually happens.
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That is the way you
get nutrition to all
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your tissues is that
the blood cells flows down
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the blood vessel and
its squeezes off nutrients
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as it goes through a capillary,
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those nutrients cross across
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the blood vessel wall
and then into the tissues.
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So, for arthritic
people they are not having
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this type of soaking,
they are not getting what
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they need in and they
are not getting it out,
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that's right, okay.
Nutrition is not getting in
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and waste products are
piling up inside the joint.
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Okay, so we need water
and then what else we need.
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The next thing
we need is exercise,
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believe it or not exercise
is important for the joints,
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if you don't use them
you tend to loose them
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and then
nutrition is very important.
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Okay, so water,
exercise, nutrition,
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and the solution to
this pollution is dilution,
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you are saying,
well there you go,
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that's a good way of putting it.
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Okay back to water anything
else you want to tell us
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about why water is important.
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Yes, the cartilage is
kind of a spongy material.
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Its actually made up
of 65 to 80 percent water,
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that water not only
carries nutrients into it
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and nutrients or
waste products out of it,
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but that water acts
kind a like a shock absorber,
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it also makes that
cartilage very slick,
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its kind a like the
linoleum in your house.
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If you get it wet it gets slick,
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we like the
cartilage to be wet and slick.
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So my ears, is
that cartilage right?
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That is cartilage, but
that is not the quite the same
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as what's in your
joint, it's similar.
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The cartilage in your
joint has an open space
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with synovial
fluid flowing against it.
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The cartilage in your ear
is very similar in make up,
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but it has skin
around it. Okay, exercise.
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Our joints you know
usually you would think
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well my joints are
hurting me in different things
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maybe I just need to
stay off for a while,
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but you are saying
we keep moving anyway.
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Yes, if you don't use
your joints you tend to loose
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them and why is that?
The cartilage since it has
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no blood supply depends
on cyclic loading to pump it,
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it helps pump nutrients
in and waste products out
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if you don't pump it, it
will accumulate waste products
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becomes acidotic and
the acid like the gas
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and other acids tend to
make the cartilage cells
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very unhappy and maybe even die.
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It helps degenerate
the cartilage matrix,
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it makes the sponge
degenerate pretty soon,
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you start loosing
joint space if you walk you
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pump the joint, if
you walk you keep more
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oxygen coming in your system
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to get to the cartilage
and then cartilage is much,
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much happier. Okay,
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so walking can get
kind a squeezed off
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in squeezed off out
like that, that's right.
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You know, we have talked
about exercise, nutrition,
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and all these
different things that maybe
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could prevent,
but I have heard that
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arthritis is
sometimes autoimmune,
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there is an immune
element to that is that true?
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That's exactly right,
there is autoimmune arthritis.
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And you are not
talking about those in this
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or are you? We
are talking mostly
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about osteoarthritis,
but some of the principles
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that we cover in
nutrition will also affect
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the arthritis called autoimmune
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or rheumatoid arthritis.
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Okay, so even if you
have rheumatoid arthritis
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you should be out there walking
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and doing all those
things, don't just give up.
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That's right. Okay,
I have heard you know
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what HFAL saying
you are what you eat,
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you have talked
here about water,
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you have talked about exercise,
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but what about
nutrition in arthritis.
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Nutrition is very
important for your joints,
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I would like to talk
about foods in five different
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categories as the way
they affect your joints.
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Okay, I would like
to talk about foods
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that are refined.
Okay, refined foods,
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what will they do?
Refined foods, an refined foods
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would be like
sugars, oils, alcohols
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these kind of things,
things you don't necessary
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find out nature that
they have been processed.
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The effect of refined
foods is that they make all
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the blood cells stick together
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and when they all
stick together they don't
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drop off nutrients to
the tissues like they should,
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what happens is
in normal situation
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you have a
capillary that is about
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half a diameter of a blood cell.
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When the blood cell
reaches that capillary
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it actually folds over and then
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it goes down the
capillary and it squeezes off
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its nutrients to the
surrounding tissue. Well,
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if you eat refined foods
it tends to stick all those
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blood cells together
kind a like the Michelin Man,
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you know this guy with
all the tire stuck together,
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okay, that's what
your blood cells do and
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when they all stick together
they come to the capillary
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and they can't make
it through and so they
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don't drop off
nutrients, they don't pick up
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waste products, and
the joint is starved
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for nutrition and it's
basically based in waste
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products. So, you know
these big sediment rolls
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and all that, that's
probably gonna not help
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your joints. I told my
staff one time all about
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this gave them my lecture
on this topic and whenever
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we went out to eat
after that they go ahead
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and order something
they knew that wasn't good,
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they start to
eat and they say oh,
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my knee is starting to
hurt. Okay, so refined foods
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you said that's one
group, is there another
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type of foods in
terms of nutrition
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you want to
bring to our attention.
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Yes, you talked about
the autoimmune arthritis,
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we call them the
inflammatory arthritis,
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but there are also
foods that are specifically
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inflammatory for people.
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I had a patient come
to my office not long ago
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and they were a
high school track star,
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they were a
runner, they like to go out
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and run six miles
a day, that's a lot.
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I want to do that if I am
really afraid of somebody.
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Oh, yes. Well, when we
run and then they start
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developing this pain
in the ball of their foot.
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It was hurting, it was swelling,
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and they came to see me.
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Well, I set up them up
on our program to take care
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of that, but then
the mom who was along
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with the young
person asked me what,
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how did they get this, what the,
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what causes this? I said
well we don't always know,
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but sometimes people
have in their diet things
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that are inflammatory.
She says well like what?
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I said well there are
things that we know are
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inflammatory to everybody
and some things are specific
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for certain people.
But in this case I told her
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that there is, the
most animal products
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especially dairy
especially foods that have had
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a rotting process
used to create them,
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and she said what's
that she asked? Cheese.
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Yes, this would be like
cheeses, wines, alcohols,
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and vinegars; she says vinegar?
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I said yeah vinegar,
and she says wow well
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he drinks about a half
a cup of vinegar a day.
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I said, what really? I
didn't know why that was,
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but I asked him well you think
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you could try something
else to drink for the next
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couple weeks while we
see if we can get you over
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this inflammatory
problem and he said yes,
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so he came back
in a couple of weeks,
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he done all the
things that I told him,
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some hydrotherapy and so
forth, drink in lots of water,
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but he had stopped the use
of large amounts of vinegar
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and the
inflammation had gone away
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he went back to his track.
So, the list of these foods
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that are inflammatory,
you've mentioned vinegar,
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you've mentioned
cheeses or you know
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animal product
foods, anything else along
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those inflammatory lines.
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Yes, any food that has
been created by rotting,
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but also foods that have
had molds growing on them
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when the mold grows on the
food it produces aflatoxins.
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Aflatoxins are
especially toxic to the system,
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the body reacts to them.
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The way the body reacts
all these inflammatory foods
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is that these capillaries
that we talked about that
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have to have nutrients
move across the capillary wall
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and waste products
back those capillaries
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become inflamed and
they become thickened,
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the wall of that
capillary may actually thickened
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four or more
times as usual thickness
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then with a thick capillary wall
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you can't get nutrients
across the capillary wall
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is too thick and you
can't get waste products
00:13:51.78\00:13:54.42
back out of the tissues
back into the bloodstream
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across that
thickened capillary wall.
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So, we talked
about refined foods,
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we talked about
inflammatory foods,
00:14:01.96\00:14:03.81
you have down here
also vasoactive foods.
00:14:03.84\00:14:06.78
Vasoactive foods
will definitely affect
00:14:07.05\00:14:09.72
your joints. You see
vasoactive foods are foods
00:14:09.75\00:14:12.50
that change the way
your blood is flowing through
00:14:12.53\00:14:16.78
your system, they
regulate the vessels in ways
00:14:16.81\00:14:20.66
that they won't necessarily
supposed to be regulated,
00:14:20.69\00:14:23.50
what happens is when
you take a vasoactive food
00:14:23.53\00:14:27.11
it tends to clamp down
the vessels in the arms
00:14:27.14\00:14:31.25
and legs in order to
push blood to the heart
00:14:31.28\00:14:34.08
and brain to make
you think you are awake
00:14:34.11\00:14:36.12
like caffeine, like
nicotine, like theobromine
00:14:36.15\00:14:40.56
like a different vasoactive
amines contained in cheeses
00:14:40.59\00:14:44.50
and wines. We are
talking with John Clark,
00:14:44.53\00:14:48.48
we are talking about the
foods that can really cause
00:14:48.51\00:14:51.61
or lead to arthritis
and we are talking about,
00:14:51.64\00:14:54.97
you know, if you can
avoid those or other things
00:14:55.00\00:14:57.37
you can improve maybe
reverse better yet prevent
00:14:57.40\00:15:01.69
arthritis and we
are gonna talk more
00:15:01.72\00:15:03.17
about this when we comeback.
00:15:03.20\00:15:04.46
maybe reverse better
yet prevent arthritis
00:15:04.49\00:15:05.46
and we are gonna
talk more about this
00:15:05.47\00:15:06.44
when we comeback.
00:15:06.45\00:15:07.42
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have been talking with
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Dr. John Clark, he
is an orthopedic surgeon
00:16:07.82\00:16:10.50
and he has a
concern about people's bones
00:16:10.53\00:16:13.21
and their joints and
we have been talking about
00:16:13.24\00:16:15.17
arthritis and how it is
disabling crippling disease
00:16:15.20\00:16:19.17
for millions of Americans,
you said that the CDC said,
00:16:19.20\00:16:22.01
it's the number one
cause of disability not
00:16:22.04\00:16:24.48
only here, but
around the world and you've
00:16:24.51\00:16:27.06
also said that
there is reasons for that.
00:16:27.09\00:16:29.64
Summarize some of
those reasons and then we
00:16:29.67\00:16:32.17
were working through
a list of foods that are
00:16:32.20\00:16:34.83
kind of toxic foods. We
want to get back to that,
00:16:34.86\00:16:37.23
but summarize a little
bit where we have been,
00:16:37.26\00:16:39.56
you know so people
can catch up with us.
00:16:39.59\00:16:41.57
Arthritis is a big
problem for people because most
00:16:41.60\00:16:45.21
of things we do,
we depend on our arms
00:16:45.24\00:16:46.98
and legs to get
around and of course our arms
00:16:47.01\00:16:49.83
and legs have all
these joints in them.
00:16:49.86\00:16:52.31
The workplace
example, people who get
00:16:53.34\00:16:55.68
arthritis in the
knees or hips are basically
00:16:55.71\00:16:59.05
going to be out of
work and if this happens
00:16:59.08\00:17:00.63
in their elderly
years when they are already
00:17:00.66\00:17:03.06
when they are already
headed toward retirement,
00:17:03.09\00:17:04.28
the company is
just gonna say well why
00:17:04.31\00:17:05.95
don't you retire
early or just you know
00:17:05.98\00:17:08.10
they lay him off,
so keeping your bones
00:17:08.13\00:17:10.59
and joints in good
shape to the end of your
00:17:10.62\00:17:13.09
life is very important.
So, you talked about water,
00:17:13.12\00:17:17.02
exercise, nutrition,
talked about circulation
00:17:17.05\00:17:20.41
and illumination and then
having this pumping effect
00:17:20.44\00:17:23.59
of the cartilage
because we keep moving
00:17:23.62\00:17:26.63
and squeezing things
in and squeezing things
00:17:26.66\00:17:29.23
out that's how
our cartilage works
00:17:29.26\00:17:30.84
and then we were
going through this list of
00:17:30.87\00:17:33.09
foods we said refined
foods, inflammatory foods,
00:17:33.12\00:17:36.25
vasoactive foods and
slow, well we didn't get
00:17:36.28\00:17:40.37
to this next one. You
want to talk about slow
00:17:40.40\00:17:42.21
transit foods. I can
kind a get figure that out,
00:17:42.24\00:17:45.68
you know it
sounds like peanut butter
00:17:45.71\00:17:47.17
or something, but what
exactly is a slow transit
00:17:47.20\00:17:49.85
food. That's right,
Don, we wanna talk about
00:17:49.88\00:17:52.59
slow transit foods
because they do effect
00:17:52.62\00:17:55.34
the joints by slow
transit we mean it takes a
00:17:55.37\00:17:58.41
longtime to get from
the mouth out of the system.
00:17:58.44\00:18:02.52
These foods are foods
that are usually high in fat
00:18:02.55\00:18:06.94
and low in fiber. The
effect is that as the food
00:18:06.97\00:18:11.34
is a longtime in the
system, the bacteria have
00:18:11.37\00:18:15.38
heyday they say oh
poor guys look what's coming
00:18:15.41\00:18:18.10
and they get
longtime to work on it.
00:18:18.13\00:18:20.38
Now bacteria
multiply at a fast rate,
00:18:20.41\00:18:23.90
they double
every so many minutes
00:18:23.93\00:18:25.85
and if you give
them a lot more minutes
00:18:25.88\00:18:28.30
they will overpopulate,
they will overgrow.
00:18:28.33\00:18:31.09
Bacteria have a bad
habit, they don't clean
00:18:31.12\00:18:34.66
up after themselves
and as those bacteria sit
00:18:34.69\00:18:37.96
there they put off
toxins, those toxins are
00:18:37.99\00:18:41.23
reabsorbed into the
system and they do all
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the things we have
talked about so far just like
00:18:43.99\00:18:46.58
the refined foods,
the inflammatory foods,
00:18:46.61\00:18:49.48
and all the foods
that cause trouble for
00:18:49.51\00:18:52.25
the joints. They create
real low or hypercoagulation,
00:18:52.28\00:18:56.59
they create
inflammation and they act in the
00:18:56.62\00:18:59.89
same vasoactive ways
of the vasoactive foods
00:18:59.92\00:19:02.44
with those toxic
mediators, once more since
00:19:02.47\00:19:05.32
the food sits
around so long the body,
00:19:05.35\00:19:07.31
you know, what isn't
sent out right away tends
00:19:07.34\00:19:10.87
to sit their and
reabsorbs some of these things
00:19:10.90\00:19:12.95
you are trying to get
rid off and so the body
00:19:12.98\00:19:15.44
has all this
accumulation of waste products
00:19:15.47\00:19:19.20
and bacterial toxins.
So, slow transit foods
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would be like things
that are high in fat,
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they don't move
through quickly, that's right,
00:19:24.46\00:19:26.65
any, what are some
other slow transit foods?
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Slow transit foods
anything that's usually high
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in fat and low in
fiber. You look at fast foods;
00:19:31.85\00:19:35.49
usually there are no
fiber and lots of fat,
00:19:36.62\00:19:39.58
so like French Fries
70% fat, they just hang out
00:19:39.61\00:19:42.50
for a longtime.
That's exactly right,
00:19:42.53\00:19:44.69
other foods that
hang out for longtime
00:19:44.72\00:19:47.06
are animal products,
usually high in fat and
00:19:47.09\00:19:50.42
no fiber. Animal
products are the favorite food
00:19:50.45\00:19:54.64
of bacteria too and so
they have a heyday on this.
00:19:54.67\00:19:58.25
Other foods anything
that's usually deep fat fried,
00:19:58.28\00:20:02.09
foods that have been
refined and that goes
00:20:03.02\00:20:05.36
back to our refined food list.
00:20:05.39\00:20:07.10
People in America
usually have about a
00:20:07.13\00:20:11.35
72 hour transit
time, where as people on
00:20:11.38\00:20:14.84
a high fiber diet
from some of the other
00:20:14.87\00:20:17.57
countries, where refining
hasn't become the habit,
00:20:17.60\00:20:20.51
have a less than
30 hour transit time
00:20:20.54\00:20:24.17
and they have less
osteoporosis in those
00:20:24.20\00:20:25.94
countries, and less
low back pain too and
00:20:25.97\00:20:29.35
less arthritis. That's
a very stimulating thought
00:20:29.38\00:20:32.61
to think, you
know usually we think,
00:20:32.64\00:20:33.77
well the foods out
there on the table better
00:20:33.80\00:20:35.77
covered up, so the
flies don't get on it.
00:20:35.80\00:20:38.17
But we don't often
think about hey you eat
00:20:38.20\00:20:40.05
certain kinds of food
and they go through slow,
00:20:40.08\00:20:41.87
you got all these little
bacteria, little flies in
00:20:41.90\00:20:44.65
the body they get out
as well. That's right.
00:20:44.68\00:20:46.90
Well that's
fascinating. Now, plaque forming
00:20:46.93\00:20:49.12
foods. We usually
talk about plaque forming
00:20:49.15\00:20:51.36
foods is being
related to, you know,
00:20:51.39\00:20:53.45
the heart and all
those different things,
00:20:53.48\00:20:55.69
but how are they
related to arthritis.
00:20:55.72\00:20:58.92
You know, the other
day I put up an x-ray,
00:20:58.95\00:21:01.13
I was looking at it,
and there was actually more
00:21:01.16\00:21:04.73
calcium in the blood
vessels in that x-ray of
00:21:04.76\00:21:08.37
a leg then
there was in the bones
00:21:08.40\00:21:11.16
because of all the
plaque that it formed in
00:21:11.19\00:21:13.98
those blood
vessels and I have seen lot
00:21:14.01\00:21:16.51
of patients who
came in because they are
00:21:16.54\00:21:18.82
diabetic or they
were otherwise they have
00:21:18.85\00:21:21.64
been smoking or
something and had developed
00:21:21.67\00:21:24.30
this plaque and they
were loosing their limbs
00:21:24.33\00:21:26.41
they had to have amputations,
00:21:26.44\00:21:27.81
while this process
also effects the joints.
00:21:27.84\00:21:31.83
You see if the joint
can't get blood by it
00:21:31.86\00:21:35.75
then it can't get
nutrition and it can't get rid
00:21:35.78\00:21:39.16
of its waste
products. So, plaque affects
00:21:39.19\00:21:41.79
joints the same it
affects your heart,
00:21:41.82\00:21:43.90
same way it
affects strokes in brains,
00:21:43.93\00:21:46.66
it affects the
whole body. Refined foods,
00:21:46.69\00:21:51.05
inflammatory
foods, vasoactive foods,
00:21:51.08\00:21:53.62
slow transit foods,
and plaque forming foods.
00:21:53.65\00:21:57.13
Plaque forming
foods, and those foods are
00:21:57.16\00:21:58.83
foods that are
usually high in fat,
00:21:58.86\00:22:01.50
high in
cholesterol, high in trans fats,
00:22:01.53\00:22:05.88
any food especially
that has had oils that
00:22:05.91\00:22:09.12
have been super
heated; these foods are
00:22:09.15\00:22:12.06
specially plaque
forming. The worst of course are
00:22:12.09\00:22:15.32
foods where cholesterol
has been mixed with air
00:22:15.35\00:22:19.12
such as ice cream
or even pancake mixes,
00:22:20.01\00:22:23.51
where eggs have been
dried and put in the mix,
00:22:23.54\00:22:25.95
so all you have
to do is add water.
00:22:25.98\00:22:28.54
You know these
foods that you have gone
00:22:29.74\00:22:31.50
through, I mean
these are foods that people
00:22:31.53\00:22:34.79
out there you know
there is huge restaurant
00:22:34.82\00:22:36.60
chains built
around the best pancakes.
00:22:36.63\00:22:39.46
That's right, built
around the best this or that,
00:22:39.49\00:22:42.29
I mean each one of
these, I could probably put
00:22:42.32\00:22:45.22
a restaurant or
food chain, you know next
00:22:45.25\00:22:48.87
to it, there are junk
food firms that you know,
00:22:48.90\00:22:51.35
that we could
mention, but we won't.
00:22:51.38\00:22:54.42
I mean but they are
built around these things,
00:22:54.45\00:22:56.99
so how are you,
you know, how you gonna
00:22:57.02\00:22:59.97
impact a culture,
I mean the culture is
00:23:00.00\00:23:02.89
being impacted,
you are saying they are
00:23:02.92\00:23:04.42
getting arthritis and
their bones are falling apart,
00:23:04.45\00:23:07.08
but how could we
turn that around?
00:23:07.11\00:23:09.24
Well, we got to get
everybody back to the
00:23:09.27\00:23:12.04
garden, that's
where the food is the best
00:23:12.07\00:23:15.39
the closer you can
eat to the garden the
00:23:15.42\00:23:17.66
better off you will
be. If we think about each
00:23:17.69\00:23:20.09
of these areas that
I have talked about the
00:23:20.12\00:23:22.73
refined foods and
inflammatory foods,
00:23:22.76\00:23:25.45
slow transit
foods, vasoactive foods,
00:23:25.48\00:23:28.13
and plaque forming
foods, if you eat food
00:23:28.16\00:23:31.01
from the garden
you will combat all
00:23:31.04\00:23:33.98
those problems.
Refined, if you eat nice
00:23:34.01\00:23:37.74
leafy grains and eat
your beans and you know
00:23:37.77\00:23:40.49
your rice and your
grains and you eat everything
00:23:40.52\00:23:43.10
close to the garden
you get your fiber with
00:23:43.13\00:23:46.95
the food and you end
up with more nutrients.
00:23:46.98\00:23:49.68
You know, people
that eat lots of meat
00:23:49.71\00:23:51.54
have to be very
careful that they get all
00:23:51.57\00:23:53.88
their nutrients and
vitamins, those are very
00:23:53.91\00:23:56.99
important for
the joints as well.
00:23:57.02\00:23:58.61
Now, when you think
about this like the oils;
00:23:58.64\00:24:02.45
people who are on
refined oils tend to eat
00:24:02.48\00:24:05.30
a lot more oils
that are Omega-6s
00:24:05.33\00:24:07.88
or saturated oils.
People on a vegetarian diet
00:24:07.91\00:24:12.69
tend to have a
balance between their
00:24:12.72\00:24:14.25
Omega-3s and their
Omega-6s. Omega-3 oils
00:24:14.28\00:24:18.59
have been shown to
help the blood flow easier,
00:24:18.62\00:24:22.74
to be anti-inflammatory
for the joints,
00:24:22.77\00:24:26.49
and also to be good
for a lot of problems
00:24:26.52\00:24:29.57
that are caused by
oils that are too saturated,
00:24:29.60\00:24:33.61
it's a better
alternative. So, we are moving
00:24:33.64\00:24:36.10
from foods that we
have to avoid the things
00:24:36.13\00:24:37.96
that they can help us.
Yeah, when you talked about
00:24:37.99\00:24:40.82
all those
restaurant chains we might be,
00:24:40.85\00:24:43.21
you know, in trouble
with, I thought we better
00:24:43.24\00:24:45.12
move to good foods.
So, you said there are all
00:24:45.15\00:24:48.02
actually top
things you can do that are
00:24:48.05\00:24:50.16
actually good, that
can turn things around,
00:24:50.19\00:24:52.75
one thing you
have listed here is the
00:24:52.78\00:24:54.38
nutrition what's you
are talking about now,
00:24:54.41\00:24:56.51
yes, what about
water and all these other
00:24:56.54\00:24:59.73
things you have listed?
Because the joint is made
00:24:59.76\00:25:03.40
up of 65 to 80%
water, if you dehydrate
00:25:03.43\00:25:08.77
the joint is going
to start squeezing down,
00:25:08.80\00:25:12.42
the cartilage is
going to get flatter,
00:25:12.45\00:25:14.58
but if you start
drinking lot more water it
00:25:14.61\00:25:17.28
helps the joint
because it washes out
00:25:17.31\00:25:19.60
the inflammation,
it washes out the waste
00:25:19.63\00:25:23.13
products and it
helps the joint to recover
00:25:23.16\00:25:26.58
its ability to take on
nutrition, the more water
00:25:26.61\00:25:30.07
you can drink up to
a point the better off
00:25:30.10\00:25:32.22
you are for your
joints. We always tell people
00:25:32.25\00:25:34.46
drink eight to ten
glasses of water a day,
00:25:34.49\00:25:37.77
we always talk about
other parts of the body
00:25:37.80\00:25:40.37
that they helped, but
it's especially important
00:25:40.40\00:25:42.25
for the cartilage.
Exercise? Exercise you know
00:25:42.28\00:25:46.36
the best exercise
people can do is to go
00:25:46.39\00:25:49.35
walking outside in the open air,
00:25:49.38\00:25:52.07
you get this
negatively ionized air,
00:25:52.10\00:25:55.04
fresh air and its
actually better than running,
00:25:55.07\00:26:00.10
if you walk the level
of oxygen in your system
00:26:00.13\00:26:03.35
is much higher and
that oxygen also helps with
00:26:03.38\00:26:07.50
the blood flow, the
walking helps with the
00:26:07.53\00:26:09.70
blood flow, the walking
helps pump the cartilage
00:26:09.73\00:26:12.05
and you are out, where
you can let your stress
00:26:12.08\00:26:14.54
go, you can think
about wonderful things
00:26:14.57\00:26:17.31
like God made all
these trees and you know
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the sky is blue
represents his love for us,
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there are lot of
things you can think about,
00:26:22.93\00:26:24.75
as you go outside and
walk that actually help
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you in ways you may
not be able to put a
00:26:28.06\00:26:29.89
mechanism to.
Arthritis most debilitating
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thing it can be what
you are saying is avoided
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and perhaps in
someway is reversed.
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That's exactly right,
I had a babysitter for
00:26:40.93\00:26:45.44
my kid when I was in
a school, who was in her
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70s and she had
bone on bone arthritis,
00:26:50.16\00:26:53.18
that means you
will never recover the
00:26:53.21\00:26:55.34
cartilage, but as long
as she was on a good diet
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and she made sure
she avoided certain foods
00:26:58.57\00:27:02.21
that were particular
to her, she get walk up
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and down the
mountain behind her house
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with no pain. If she
ate a junk food diet,
00:27:06.56\00:27:09.54
she would be
crippled up in no time at all.
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She had figured out
what would work for her
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and had put
herself on a good diet.
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We have been
with Dr. John Clark,
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we have been
talking about arthritis.
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We are thankful that
you are with us today,
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thank you for taking
time from that busy practice
00:27:23.33\00:27:26.00
and your wife and
your family and we are also
00:27:26.03\00:27:28.62
thankful that you
have been with us today,
00:27:28.65\00:27:30.12
we hope that you have
discovered some things
00:27:30.15\00:27:31.58
that can help you
know how to help people
00:27:31.61\00:27:33.42
that have arthritis,
help you not get arthritis
00:27:33.45\00:27:36.47
yourself if you don't
have it or if you do have it
00:27:36.50\00:27:38.95
figure out how to find
those toxic foods maybe
00:27:38.98\00:27:42.51
you are drinking a cup
of vinegar a day like a one
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example and whatever
it is and to reverse that
00:27:45.58\00:27:47.96
replace it with
positive foods. We are glad you
00:27:47.99\00:27:50.41
have joined us; we
hope that as a result of
00:27:50.44\00:27:52.84
today's program you
and your joints will
00:27:52.87\00:27:55.54
have health that
lasts for a lifetime.
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