The following program presents principles 00:00:01.98\00:00:03.08 designed to promote good health 00:00:03.09\00:00:04.77 and is not intended to take the place of 00:00:04.78\00:00:06.69 personalized professional care. 00:00:06.70\00:00:08.56 The opinions and ideas expressed are those 00:00:09.28\00:00:11.44 of the speaker. Viewers are encouraged 00:00:11.45\00:00:13.69 to draw their own conclusions 00:00:13.70\00:00:15.09 about the information presented. 00:00:15.10\00:00:16.84 Hello and welcome to Health For A Lifetime. 00:00:50.54\00:00:52.01 I'm your host Don Mackintosh. 00:00:52.02\00:00:53.33 We're glad that you're with us today. 00:00:53.78\00:00:55.00 And if you are with us today you have a 00:00:55.36\00:00:56.91 heart and that heart is beating, 00:00:56.92\00:00:58.35 and that's why you're alive, but many 00:00:58.36\00:01:00.85 people in America and around the world 00:01:00.86\00:01:02.44 are struggling with heart disease and 00:01:02.45\00:01:04.61 talking with us today about this, number one 00:01:04.62\00:01:07.14 killer at least here in America is 00:01:07.15\00:01:08.49 Dr. Neil Nedley. Is it still number one 00:01:08.50\00:01:10.50 or has cancer overtaken it? Well, it's still 00:01:10.51\00:01:12.87 number one overall. If you take a look 00:01:12.88\00:01:15.44 at age 85 and younger cancer is number one. 00:01:15.45\00:01:19.15 Okay. Now, if you're taking a look at 00:01:19.86\00:01:21.92 atherosclerosis in general it would still be 00:01:21.93\00:01:25.43 number one even under the age of 85, 00:01:25.44\00:01:28.91 but if you're just looking at coronary 00:01:28.92\00:01:30.59 artery disease, which used to be called 00:01:30.60\00:01:33.44 the number one killer often, it's still 00:01:33.45\00:01:36.52 as number one overall, but and less than 85 00:01:36.53\00:01:38.71 cancer is your greatest likelihood of death. 00:01:38.72\00:01:41.09 Okay, so let's look at some of those 00:01:41.10\00:01:42.73 numbers maybe you, we can get a handle 00:01:42.74\00:01:45.47 on what's happening at least in the West. 00:01:45.48\00:01:47.06 Yeah, well as you can see 50 million 00:01:47.52\00:01:50.69 Americans have high blood pressure 00:01:50.70\00:01:52.69 and that's one of the precursors to artery 00:01:52.70\00:01:54.68 disease as well as stroke 00:01:54.69\00:01:57.13 and heart attack, 12.6 million have coronary 00:01:57.14\00:02:00.84 artery disease and 4.6 million 00:02:00.85\00:02:04.58 have had a stroke and survived it. 00:02:04.59\00:02:06.45 There is 1 death every 33 seconds 00:02:07.86\00:02:11.64 from atherosclerosis, 40% of all deaths 00:02:12.11\00:02:15.53 are currently from cardiovascular 00:02:15.54\00:02:17.20 disease in this country and the costs 00:02:17.21\00:02:20.10 are astounding. The latest figure we have 00:02:20.11\00:02:23.28 its 2001, but almost $300 billion spend 00:02:23.29\00:02:28.25 in health care cost on atherosclerosis, 00:02:28.26\00:02:31.37 that's a pretty phenomenal figure. 00:02:31.38\00:02:32.95 Man, and largely avoidable. That's right. 00:02:34.04\00:02:36.98 We know enough about this disease 00:02:36.99\00:02:39.58 that we can prevent it in over 90% of cases, 00:02:39.59\00:02:42.18 if people would follow what we recommend. 00:02:42.98\00:02:46.46 Ninety percent, so that would take 00:02:47.05\00:02:48.18 that $300 billion down to, 30 billion. 00:02:48.19\00:02:51.49 Yeah. Yeah, it would be down to a, 00:02:51.50\00:02:54.00 a very low health care cost. And probably 00:02:54.01\00:02:57.58 we wouldn't have spent that much money 00:02:57.59\00:02:58.76 research at that point, but still largely 00:02:58.77\00:03:02.30 preventable. Largely preventable, 00:03:02.31\00:03:04.37 yeah high blood pressure also largely 00:03:05.61\00:03:07.48 preventable and then the other risk factors 00:03:07.49\00:03:10.48 that are cigarette smoking still prevalent 00:03:10.49\00:03:14.55 in some sections of the country, 20% of 00:03:14.56\00:03:17.95 Americans still smoke and then high 00:03:17.96\00:03:20.94 cholesterol, which is even much more 00:03:20.95\00:03:22.61 prevalent? So, I mean we know so much 00:03:22.62\00:03:25.75 about it, we hear about it in the news at 00:03:25.76\00:03:27.25 least here in the West. Why is it still such 00:03:27.26\00:03:29.65 a significant problem? Number 1, 00:03:29.66\00:03:33.04 people aren't getting informed as to 00:03:33.05\00:03:34.98 what causes it to a broad scale and that's 00:03:34.99\00:03:37.41 the reason for a program such as today 00:03:37.42\00:03:39.29 where we can get the information 00:03:40.67\00:03:42.28 out there. We actually have enough 00:03:42.29\00:03:44.88 information to know how to virtually 00:03:44.89\00:03:46.59 eliminate this disease now. 00:03:46.60\00:03:48.10 And you know, when you consider the, 00:03:48.11\00:03:49.76 the figures for it you know, one death 00:03:49.77\00:03:52.50 every 33 seconds you know, you would 00:03:52.51\00:03:55.65 add up the amount of deaths in one day 00:03:55.66\00:03:57.80 from atherosclerosis and that would be 00:03:57.81\00:03:59.69 like several jumbo jets going down. 00:04:03.73\00:04:04.70 If we had just jumbo jet going down 00:04:04.71\00:04:06.05 once a year we would think that was 00:04:06.06\00:04:08.28 too much and we would put all sorts of 00:04:08.29\00:04:11.08 money into the FAA and into doing 00:04:11.09\00:04:13.83 everything we could to prevent those deaths 00:04:13.84\00:04:16.69 whether it's better pilot training 00:04:17.08\00:04:18.72 or whether it's better equipment on the 00:04:18.73\00:04:21.93 airplanes, but here we have the equivalent 00:04:21.94\00:04:24.81 of about 4 jumbo jets going down 00:04:24.82\00:04:26.88 every day as far as the amount of 00:04:26.89\00:04:29.57 deaths are concerned. And no one 00:04:29.58\00:04:31.16 seems to be all that concerned about it. 00:04:31.17\00:04:33.17 Yeah, that is interesting I mean, 00:04:34.31\00:04:35.40 look if you have a, a military conflict, 00:04:35.41\00:04:37.48 many times the news media will say, 00:04:38.04\00:04:39.45 alright it up to this number or that 00:04:39.75\00:04:41.47 number in, even if it's one or two or if 00:04:41.48\00:04:44.78 there is a some kind of serial killer 00:04:44.79\00:04:47.45 that has struck, oh! No it's up to 8 people 00:04:47.98\00:04:50.99 or 12 people and it's all over the headlines. 00:04:51.00\00:04:53.31 Yeah, exactly. But with this. 00:04:53.32\00:04:55.63 One death every 33 seconds 00:04:56.10\00:04:57.81 and people call it "Natural." 00:04:57.82\00:04:59.85 And the reason they do that is because 00:04:59.87\00:05:01.75 they don't want to hear bad news about 00:05:01.76\00:05:03.53 their bad habits. Well, I think 00:05:03.54\00:05:06.01 that's a big part of it too. 00:05:06.02\00:05:07.28 And the other part of it is there is still 00:05:07.29\00:05:09.39 general ignorance out there in regards to 00:05:09.40\00:05:12.27 the fact of this disease is preventable. 00:05:12.28\00:05:14.36 You know, I was doing an interview with 00:05:14.37\00:05:16.11 another physician in a, in a city of about 00:05:16.12\00:05:18.49 400,000, 500,000 people, and the man got off 00:05:18.50\00:05:22.33 the plane, he said exactly what you said, 00:05:22.34\00:05:23.98 but he had some very telling illustrations 00:05:23.99\00:05:26.61 that went along with it. And I, I, I called up 00:05:26.62\00:05:30.09 the news media and they were there to talk 00:05:30.10\00:05:32.00 to him right after we got out of the airport, 00:05:32.01\00:05:34.27 we went right to the news outlet. 00:05:34.28\00:05:36.43 He shared that he could prevent 00:05:36.44\00:05:38.98 and he said well, how would this, this happen? 00:05:38.99\00:05:41.36 He said, well he just start to talk about 00:05:41.37\00:05:43.33 some of the habits, never got on the news 00:05:43.34\00:05:46.03 anywhere, no one wanted to. Yes, 00:05:46.04\00:05:48.33 that's right. This person was an Olympic 00:05:48.34\00:05:50.45 gold medalist; this person was eminently 00:05:50.46\00:05:53.06 qualified at a, at a medical school out East, 00:05:53.07\00:05:56.10 Yale University. He had you know, 00:05:56.11\00:06:00.13 not secondary research reports, 00:06:00.14\00:06:02.67 but primary research he had done. 00:06:02.68\00:06:04.16 And this, this part of the country because 00:06:04.17\00:06:07.24 it was high in consumption of the foods 00:06:07.25\00:06:09.10 that he was talking again, 00:06:09.11\00:06:10.29 never made it anywhere. Wow! That's shocking, 00:06:10.30\00:06:14.10 and it's really appalling. Really, 00:06:14.11\00:06:16.04 I mean it was particular because there were 00:06:16.05\00:06:17.96 probably many deaths that occurred. 00:06:17.97\00:06:19.90 They wouldn't have occurred otherwise 00:06:19.91\00:06:21.60 had they hear of it. That's right. 00:06:21.61\00:06:22.67 Because people are interested in how to 00:06:22.68\00:06:24.16 prevent this disease and how to 00:06:24.17\00:06:25.52 reverse it as well. That's right, 00:06:25.53\00:06:27.16 so I'm, I'm happy you're here talking about it, 00:06:27.17\00:06:28.79 let's talk then about the, the affects that 00:06:28.80\00:06:31.84 it has on these different areas 00:06:31.85\00:06:33.40 of the body that you, atherosclerosis 00:06:33.41\00:06:37.22 or heart disease. Yeah, well atherosclerosis 00:06:37.23\00:06:39.62 comes from two Greek words; 00:06:39.63\00:06:41.62 Athero means mushy, and sclerosis means hard. 00:06:41.63\00:06:46.74 And so, literally it means the mushy hard 00:06:46.75\00:06:49.69 disease and it's actually not a bad 00:06:49.70\00:06:51.42 illustration because it starts out with 00:06:51.43\00:06:53.87 something mushy, which is fat 00:06:53.88\00:06:55.69 and cholesterol being deposit in the 00:06:55.70\00:06:58.22 blood vessels and then calcium comes 00:06:58.23\00:07:00.42 along later and hardens it up and it can become 00:07:00.43\00:07:03.80 quite hard and it can start to 00:07:03.81\00:07:05.45 obstruct arteries. Okay. As far as the arteries 00:07:05.46\00:07:09.67 that are affected from it, it can affect 00:07:09.68\00:07:11.86 any artery in the body. So, whether small 00:07:11.87\00:07:15.73 or large any artery and capillary 00:07:15.74\00:07:17.65 and vessel probably as well. 00:07:17.66\00:07:18.96 Yeah, primarily it's going to affect the 00:07:18.97\00:07:20.63 high pressure arteries, so it's going to affect 00:07:20.64\00:07:22.84 the large blood vessels primarily, 00:07:22.85\00:07:24.80 but it can also affect the medium blood vessels 00:07:24.81\00:07:27.42 and even some smaller blood vessels, 00:07:27.43\00:07:29.01 but it affects the blood vessels 00:07:29.02\00:07:30.72 going to the brain of course that can cause 00:07:30.73\00:07:32.35 a stroke, but even before it causes 00:07:32.36\00:07:34.95 a stroke it can cause a decrease in brain 00:07:34.96\00:07:38.45 functions just because of its limiting 00:07:38.46\00:07:40.62 brain blood flow. And so what, what are 00:07:40.63\00:07:43.17 we talking about a decrease in brain 00:07:43.18\00:07:44.55 function like how much or there are 00:07:44.56\00:07:45.76 any numbers? Well, we do have 00:07:45.77\00:07:47.95 some, some graphic that talks about the brain 00:07:47.96\00:07:51.16 and atherosclerosis. As plaque 00:07:51.17\00:07:54.40 build-up increased in several studies overall 00:07:54.41\00:07:59.11 thinking ability decreased, 00:07:59.12\00:08:01.61 also the attention levels decreased 00:08:01.62\00:08:06.16 and the mental reactions speed fell, 00:08:06.17\00:08:08.52 and moreover, high levels of plaque 00:08:08.53\00:08:12.85 build-up on initial evaluation predict 00:08:12.86\00:08:15.02 a more rapid decline in memory ability. 00:08:15.03\00:08:17.49 So, it's going to affect your memory, 00:08:17.50\00:08:19.34 it's going to affect your analytical ability, 00:08:19.35\00:08:21.59 it's also going to affect your 00:08:21.60\00:08:23.25 reaction time. And unfortunately 00:08:23.26\00:08:25.13 this is what tends to happen when people age 00:08:25.14\00:08:27.89 that's why real old drivers tend not to be 00:08:27.90\00:08:31.36 a very safe drivers. Actually in coming here 00:08:31.37\00:08:33.98 today there was almost an accident caused 00:08:33.99\00:08:37.35 by an individual that was in the left lane 00:08:37.36\00:08:39.50 going very slow, limited vision obviously 00:08:39.51\00:08:43.19 tunnel vision, not looking at anything else 00:08:43.20\00:08:45.72 around her, but elderly in nature, 00:08:45.73\00:08:48.45 her reaction time was down, 00:08:48.46\00:08:49.92 her analytical ability, her ability to gather 00:08:49.93\00:08:52.44 information was down and she was a danger 00:08:52.45\00:08:54.40 being on the road. And I can tell you 00:08:54.41\00:08:57.82 it wasn't due to her age, it was due to 00:08:57.83\00:08:58.80 atherosclerosis that's what, 00:08:58.81\00:09:01.10 what had caused that. Now, we talk about 00:09:01.11\00:09:03.38 this with older folks and what not so 00:09:03.39\00:09:05.44 then the people that are young that are watching 00:09:05.45\00:09:06.91 say I don't have to worry about. 00:09:06.92\00:09:08.05 Does this affect anybody's mental ability 00:09:08.06\00:09:10.71 if they're in their teens or if 00:09:10.72\00:09:11.97 they're in their 20s or if they're in their 30s? 00:09:11.98\00:09:14.23 Well, you know the fatty streaks can begin 00:09:14.24\00:09:16.98 in infancy actually depending on how 00:09:16.99\00:09:19.77 infants are eating and they all began 00:09:19.78\00:09:24.13 at that time, not enough to really decrease 00:09:24.14\00:09:26.83 the blood flow at that point. 00:09:26.84\00:09:28.05 Usually you have to be in your 20s or 30s 00:09:28.06\00:09:31.40 before you start getting a significant reduction 00:09:31.41\00:09:33.93 in blood flow from it building 00:09:33.94\00:09:35.76 up to that level. Although it has happened 00:09:35.77\00:09:38.19 in people as you know, late teenagers. 00:09:38.20\00:09:41.01 Heart attacks occur every day 00:09:41.02\00:09:42.41 in this country and people 00:09:42.42\00:09:43.78 that are in their late teens. 00:09:43.79\00:09:44.86 But what about mental abilities? 00:09:44.87\00:09:46.22 Are those affected before you have 00:09:46.23\00:09:47.79 the heart attack or something? Yes, 00:09:47.80\00:09:51.89 they can be. The mental abilities can be 00:09:51.90\00:09:54.41 affected in the 20s and 30s, and of course, 00:09:54.42\00:09:57.11 if it's affected then, then watch out 00:09:57.12\00:09:58.73 because if the individual doesn't 00:09:58.74\00:10:00.50 change their diet and lifestyle 00:10:00.51\00:10:01.86 they're gonna run into a significant 00:10:01.87\00:10:04.35 decline in their 40s, 50s, 60s. 00:10:04.36\00:10:06.63 Now, someone tells me that you know, 00:10:07.22\00:10:08.33 when you're in your teens and, 00:10:08.34\00:10:09.44 and what not you can get away with some 00:10:09.45\00:10:11.87 bad food up to a point, but then someone 00:10:11.88\00:10:13.93 you are 20s, your aorta is 00:10:13.94\00:10:15.10 really affected, is that right? 00:10:15.11\00:10:16.32 Well, it's an accumulation really, 00:10:16.78\00:10:19.17 okay, and so the teenage year starts to process 00:10:19.18\00:10:22.55 and then it just accumulates 00:10:22.56\00:10:23.99 further in the 20s. Well, what about the fatty 00:10:24.00\00:10:27.45 streaks in the aorta? Talk to us a little bit. 00:10:27.46\00:10:29.71 What is the aorta and what happens in it? 00:10:29.72\00:10:33.06 Well, actually I have a diagram of an 00:10:33.69\00:10:36.98 atherosclerotic plaque that could occur anywhere 00:10:36.99\00:10:39.19 in a carotid artery that supplies the brain or 00:10:39.20\00:10:42.35 in the aorta. And you can see 00:10:42.36\00:10:44.34 the artery wall what started the process 00:10:44.35\00:10:46.75 off is the yellow there in the middle, 00:10:46.76\00:10:48.62 those are the cholesterol crystals and that in 00:10:48.63\00:10:51.89 order to protect the body from that cholesterol, 00:10:51.90\00:10:55.40 plaque that's there. The body actually 00:10:55.41\00:10:57.90 forms a smooth muscle layer above that with 00:10:57.91\00:11:01.38 a small fibrous cap and that will decrease the 00:11:01.39\00:11:04.56 blood flow, but it won't 00:11:04.57\00:11:05.57 plug off the blood vessel until that 00:11:05.58\00:11:07.50 ulceration occurs, if you can see 00:11:07.51\00:11:09.75 that individual's fibrous plaque got ulcerated, 00:11:09.76\00:11:12.83 inflammation can do that. And when that 00:11:13.60\00:11:15.81 ulceration occurs platelets form which are 00:11:15.82\00:11:18.30 clotting agent in the entire vessel 00:11:18.31\00:11:20.12 can block off. So, you can get a blood 00:11:20.13\00:11:22.82 vessel for instance it's only 20% blocked and 00:11:22.83\00:11:26.00 if it an ulcerated plaque occurs then a sudden 00:11:26.01\00:11:28.87 heart attack occurs. And so just because you 00:11:28.88\00:11:32.77 have blockages less than 50% on an angiogram, 00:11:32.78\00:11:35.84 doesn't mean that you're, you're home free as far 00:11:35.85\00:11:38.73 as not having heart attack. 00:11:38.74\00:11:40.03 So, explain that also, I mean the underline thing 00:11:40.52\00:11:42.60 is the cholesterol crystals that buildup there 00:11:42.61\00:11:44.72 as a result of diet or oxidized cholesterol 00:11:44.73\00:11:48.67 whatever it would be and then the, 00:11:48.68\00:11:50.63 the ulcerated event, what causes that you 00:11:51.68\00:11:54.40 said inflammation? Yes, when you have 00:11:54.41\00:11:56.52 inflammation it's more risky. 00:11:56.53\00:11:58.53 For instance, people tend to get 00:11:58.54\00:11:59.85 heart attacks for instance when they 00:11:59.86\00:12:01.49 have a cold, or when they 00:12:01.50\00:12:03.17 have pneumonia. We've had many 00:12:03.18\00:12:04.86 individuals come into the hospital for pneumonia 00:12:04.87\00:12:07.09 and the day later they have a heart attack. 00:12:07.10\00:12:08.80 And that's because one of those plaques 00:12:09.53\00:12:11.51 gets ulcerated. That's right, 00:12:11.52\00:12:12.97 the inflammation from the pneumonia made 00:12:12.98\00:12:15.19 it more easy for that plaque to ulcerate. 00:12:15.20\00:12:17.29 People with arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis 00:12:17.30\00:12:19.83 for instance they're much more likely to rupture 00:12:19.84\00:12:22.40 an ulcerated plaque. And really anything 00:12:22.41\00:12:25.89 that's going to cause inflammation in the body, 00:12:25.90\00:12:27.76 as physician we measure it by looking at 00:12:27.77\00:12:29.53 two things, a C-reactive protein. 00:12:29.54\00:12:32.25 The higher that number is the, 00:12:32.57\00:12:34.48 the greater the inflammation in the 00:12:34.49\00:12:36.21 body and the sedimentation rate. 00:12:36.22\00:12:38.13 And so, we can get an idea and both of those 00:12:38.48\00:12:40.88 are actually risk factors for heart attack. 00:12:40.89\00:12:42.74 It's the cholesterol that really causes 00:12:42.75\00:12:46.18 the risk factor, but the final end 00:12:46.19\00:12:49.02 point is the inflammation. But you can have a 00:12:49.03\00:12:51.39 huge amount inflammation and never run into a 00:12:51.40\00:12:54.61 rupture plaque if you don't have a plaque 00:12:54.62\00:12:56.41 there to begin with. And that's why we really 00:12:56.42\00:12:59.75 want to prevent because none of us are going 00:12:59.76\00:13:01.52 to able to completely eliminate inflammation. 00:13:01.53\00:13:04.45 By the way, dental carries as 00:13:04.79\00:13:06.73 well dental cavities. When you have the 00:13:06.74\00:13:08.97 bacteria there and they're feasting on your gums, 00:13:08.98\00:13:12.57 periodontal disease that can cause inflammation 00:13:12.58\00:13:15.60 and that's why periodontal disease has been 00:13:15.61\00:13:17.34 associated with heart attacks and stokes 00:13:17.35\00:13:20.18 because of that inflammation. 00:13:20.19\00:13:21.79 Interesting now someone tells me that when 00:13:22.34\00:13:24.88 someone's an obese person they're in a constant 00:13:24.89\00:13:27.34 state of inflammation, is that true? 00:13:27.35\00:13:29.18 Obesity does raise the C-reactive protein 00:13:29.82\00:13:32.32 a little bit. And so, 00:13:32.33\00:13:33.82 when we measure it on the blood, 00:13:33.83\00:13:35.05 in the bloodstream, obesity is associates with 00:13:35.06\00:13:38.31 inflammation. We're talking with 00:13:38.32\00:13:40.01 Dr. Neil Nedley, we're talking about 00:13:40.02\00:13:41.37 heart disease, we've talked about how 00:13:41.38\00:13:43.49 dangerous it is, we've talked the fact that 00:13:43.50\00:13:45.35 it can began even when we're very young. 00:13:45.36\00:13:47.28 When we come back we'll continue our discussion 00:13:47.78\00:13:49.94 and hopefully have some good news, 00:13:49.95\00:13:51.17 it is good news because we can prevent 00:13:51.18\00:13:53.23 and avoid it, but how can we do that? 00:13:53.24\00:13:55.32 Join us when we come back. 00:13:55.33\00:13:56.39 Are you confused about the endless stream of 00:13:59.45\00:14:01.85 new and often contradictory 00:14:01.86\00:14:03.45 health information, with companies trying 00:14:03.46\00:14:06.16 to sell new drugs and special interest groups 00:14:06.17\00:14:08.59 paying for studies that spin the facts, 00:14:08.60\00:14:10.61 where can you find a common sense approach 00:14:11.17\00:14:13.12 to health? 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We've been talking about 00:15:00.58\00:15:02.19 heart disease and we've been talking about the 00:15:02.20\00:15:04.96 magnitude of the problem at least in the 00:15:04.97\00:15:07.74 West and it is also the number one killer, 00:15:07.75\00:15:09.98 if you look around the world. 00:15:09.99\00:15:11.67 And we've been talking about what can happen 00:15:12.06\00:15:14.36 to our aorta, our brain? 00:15:14.37\00:15:16.38 And Dr. Nedley what else do we need to say 00:15:16.93\00:15:19.48 about these areas of the body? 00:15:19.49\00:15:22.78 Well, I mean it can cause an aortic rupture, 00:15:23.37\00:15:25.45 it can cause kidney failure, 00:15:25.91\00:15:27.20 it can cause lose of limb, when the blood vessels 00:15:27.21\00:15:30.50 are blocked in the legs? And there is a lot of 00:15:30.51\00:15:32.83 problems that people are suffering from and being 00:15:32.84\00:15:35.07 hospitalized for, that they don't 00:15:35.08\00:15:36.49 recognize the root cause being atherosclerosis. 00:15:36.50\00:15:39.33 Okay, so this is the mushy heart disease that 00:15:39.34\00:15:41.48 goes from that mushy girl to something that's 00:15:41.49\00:15:43.16 sclerotic or hard. Right. 00:15:43.17\00:15:45.54 And what are the numbers? We probably need to 00:15:45.55\00:15:48.68 know our numbers. Well, the cholesterol 00:15:48.69\00:15:50.44 is a big number. And we have a 00:15:50.45\00:15:52.66 graphic that describes the cholesterol in the 00:15:52.67\00:15:56.11 blood and its risk for heart attack. 00:15:56.12\00:15:58.79 And once the cholesterol gets above a 150 00:15:59.12\00:16:01.73 your risk significantly goes up that's higher 00:16:01.74\00:16:04.25 160 then it is a 150, 200 it's gone up over 00:16:04.26\00:16:08.21 twice as much over someone with 150 and a lot 00:16:08.22\00:16:11.10 of people think they're fine at 195 00:16:11.11\00:16:13.06 cholesterol reading, they're not. 00:16:13.07\00:16:14.68 They really need to get it down further. 00:16:15.01\00:16:16.56 And then you can see as it goes up further it's 00:16:17.08\00:16:19.77 an exponentially increase by the time you're 00:16:19.78\00:16:21.66 up to 280 eighteen times the risk of death 00:16:21.67\00:16:26.43 from heart attack. So, and that one said, 00:16:26.44\00:16:29.30 it was two times, four times, six times, 00:16:29.31\00:16:30.89 eight times the risk. Right. Just by that. 00:16:30.90\00:16:33.45 Just by that incremental increase in the 00:16:33.46\00:16:35.78 cholesterol level. So, someone tells me 00:16:35.79\00:16:37.55 every point your cholesterol increases 00:16:37.56\00:16:39.72 is to 2 to 3% increase and the risk of death 00:16:39.73\00:16:43.36 from heart attack. That's right, yeah. 00:16:43.37\00:16:45.55 Okay, so really those numbers, 00:16:45.56\00:16:47.75 knowing your numbers is part of the game. 00:16:47.76\00:16:49.40 Knowing your numbers is part of the game 00:16:49.99\00:16:51.38 and then trying to get your numbers under 00:16:51.39\00:16:53.57 control which of course is possible. 00:16:53.58\00:16:56.03 So, what is the single most affective way to get 00:16:56.74\00:17:00.55 your numbers under control? 00:17:00.56\00:17:01.70 Well, it's a multifaceted approach. Okay. 00:17:02.40\00:17:06.24 We don't recommend just one way I mean some 00:17:06.25\00:17:08.68 cardiologist might say taking a Statin drug is 00:17:08.69\00:17:11.59 the single most important thing that you can do. 00:17:11.60\00:17:14.17 Those Statins have side effects and you can 00:17:14.63\00:17:16.47 lower your cholesterol level by diet and 00:17:16.48\00:17:18.49 lifestyle as well as a Statin. 00:17:18.50\00:17:20.98 Now, the problem is most people aren't being 00:17:21.21\00:17:23.14 told how they can do it. They're just told to 00:17:23.15\00:17:25.39 take the skin off the chicken, 00:17:25.40\00:17:26.72 use low fat dairy instead of high fat dairy 00:17:27.37\00:17:30.20 and their cholesterol levels will go down about 00:17:30.21\00:17:32.52 6% by doing that, but not 30 to 40% it 00:17:32.53\00:17:37.36 really needs to go down to make 00:17:37.37\00:17:38.92 a huge difference, and that you can 00:17:38.93\00:17:41.10 do by diet. Our screen, 00:17:41.11\00:17:44.91 we have a graphic that shows cholesterol 00:17:45.97\00:17:48.36 in foods. The more cholesterol 00:17:48.37\00:17:50.27 we eat in the foods the greater our cholesterol 00:17:50.28\00:17:53.51 gets in the bloodstream. You can see fruits, 00:17:53.52\00:17:56.23 grains and nuts and vegetables, 00:17:56.24\00:17:57.46 zero cholesterol. If you want to know 00:17:57.47\00:17:59.98 whether it's something as cholesterol in it, 00:17:59.99\00:18:01.41 read the ingredients if it's just plant foods 00:18:01.42\00:18:03.77 has no cholesterol. Skimmed milk 00:18:03.78\00:18:06.88 still has some, a lot of people think 00:18:06.89\00:18:08.39 skimmed milk doesn't has 45 mg, 00:18:08.40\00:18:10.18 2%, milk 18 mg, whole milk 33 mg, 00:18:10.19\00:18:14.30 and so a dairy comes from an animal anything that 00:18:15.08\00:18:17.44 is an animal or comes from an animal has 00:18:17.45\00:18:19.94 cholesterol in it. And then we have 00:18:19.95\00:18:22.34 higher sources of cholesterol and of course 00:18:22.35\00:18:25.88 those would be the meat themselves and we have 00:18:25.89\00:18:28.79 a graphic in regards to that as well. Okay, 00:18:28.80\00:18:31.91 so we have what's the highest meat source 00:18:31.92\00:18:35.03 of cholesterol? Well, you can see get, 00:18:35.04\00:18:38.96 before we get to the meat there, 00:18:38.97\00:18:40.15 Ice cream 29 mg, butter just a 00:18:41.28\00:18:43.60 tablespoon 31 mg, but look at eggs that 00:18:43.61\00:18:47.13 would be the egg yolk because the egg white 00:18:47.14\00:18:49.47 actually has the one exceptional role, 00:18:49.48\00:18:51.28 doesn't have cholesterol in it. 00:18:51.29\00:18:52.38 But egg yolks 213 mg of cholesterol, 00:18:52.81\00:18:56.36 huge amount and that's why we tell people, 00:18:57.01\00:18:58.52 if they're going to eat eggs they really ought 00:18:58.53\00:19:01.20 to throw the yolk away and just eat the whites. 00:19:01.21\00:19:03.19 Then we have tuna. A lot of people think 00:19:04.53\00:19:06.20 tuna is part of the plant kingdom. 00:19:06.21\00:19:07.60 I had run into a lot of people who think that 00:19:08.17\00:19:10.44 fish is part of a vegetarian diet. 00:19:10.45\00:19:12.39 Fish is part of the animal kingdom, 00:19:13.41\00:19:14.95 it has cholesterol in it and 00:19:14.96\00:19:16.44 study-after-study shows, if you're a healthy 00:19:16.45\00:19:18.39 vegetarian you add fish to your diet, 00:19:18.40\00:19:20.23 your cholesterol goes up. Tuna 26 mg per serving, 00:19:20.24\00:19:24.32 clams 57 mg, crab 64 mg and 00:19:24.33\00:19:27.95 then we have the regular meats that most 00:19:27.96\00:19:31.30 people are eating graft as well. 00:19:31.31\00:19:33.65 So, that would be like pork, 00:19:33.66\00:19:35.56 beef, chicken. Right, you can 00:19:35.57\00:19:39.17 see chicken breast, that's without the skin 00:19:39.18\00:19:41.19 and the fat scraped off 73 mg, 00:19:41.20\00:19:44.24 if it has the skin and the fat 82 mg, 00:19:44.77\00:19:47.58 which is actually a little higher than pork 00:19:47.59\00:19:49.11 and beef? You can see 00:19:49.12\00:19:50.09 pork 76 mg per serving, beef 80 mg per serving. 00:19:50.10\00:19:53.75 A lot of people aren't aware of that 00:19:54.07\00:19:55.17 chicken has much cholesterol, 00:19:55.18\00:19:56.52 most people are told to eat chicken, 00:19:56.53\00:19:57.96 if they have a high cholesterol level. 00:19:57.97\00:19:59.50 That's right, they are. 00:19:59.51\00:20:00.48 And that's not gonna work very well. 00:20:00.49\00:20:02.52 And then you can see the real high ones 00:20:02.53\00:20:04.95 are shrimp 165, the organ meats are high, 00:20:04.96\00:20:08.35 beef kidney 329, beef liver 410, Caviar 500. 00:20:08.36\00:20:13.06 And if you see anyone feasting on beef brains 00:20:13.07\00:20:15.95 you have to wonder about their intentions 00:20:15.96\00:20:18.10 just 1, 3 oz serving 1697 mg. 00:20:18.11\00:20:23.08 People actually eat that beef brains. 00:20:23.09\00:20:25.03 Well, I wouldn't recommend it, not only 00:20:25.04\00:20:27.60 is it high in cholesterol, 00:20:27.61\00:20:28.90 but you know if you want to avoid 00:20:28.91\00:20:30.95 some of the fat disease that could come 00:20:30.96\00:20:33.05 with beef brain you would not want to 00:20:33.06\00:20:34.98 eat it, it's actually not recommended to anybody 00:20:34.99\00:20:37.23 to it eat anymore. But they're used to. 00:20:37.24\00:20:39.17 They're used to and unfortunately, 00:20:39.18\00:20:41.09 there are still people doing it. 00:20:41.10\00:20:42.07 Amazing, now you know, 00:20:42.08\00:20:44.19 you a little bit earlier just a back you said, 00:20:44.20\00:20:46.26 really people need to know about these foods 00:20:46.27\00:20:50.29 because you can really lower your cholesterol, 00:20:50.30\00:20:52.33 sometimes as much as Statin medication, right, 00:20:52.34\00:20:55.00 but let's say you have 300 cholesterol 00:20:55.01\00:20:58.03 or 240 or 260 they come to your office. 00:20:58.04\00:21:01.17 Will you put them on the Statin short term 00:21:01.18\00:21:02.88 until they get, get it down, 00:21:02.89\00:21:04.25 is it something that should be done? 00:21:04.26\00:21:06.54 Well, not necessarily I'll see how 00:21:06.55\00:21:08.94 motivated the individual is to act on 00:21:08.95\00:21:11.12 the information that I give them. 00:21:11.13\00:21:12.56 And I'll give them the opportunity for a good, 00:21:12.57\00:21:15.05 better, best diet. The best diet for preventing 00:21:15.06\00:21:17.51 coronary artery disease is a totally 00:21:17.52\00:21:19.10 plant-based diet that has no cholesterol in it. 00:21:19.11\00:21:21.31 And that is difficult for most people to be 00:21:21.32\00:21:26.03 able to transition do immediately without 00:21:26.04\00:21:28.22 some instruction. So, we have cooking 00:21:28.23\00:21:30.31 schools and we have different didactic 00:21:30.32\00:21:33.80 instructions where they can learn how to cook 00:21:33.81\00:21:36.22 some very tasty dishes. And if they're willing 00:21:36.23\00:21:39.98 to do that, their families is willing 00:21:39.99\00:21:41.71 to cooperate with that, 00:21:41.72\00:21:42.69 they won't need a Statin drug even off 00:21:42.70\00:21:44.19 the bat, we can lower the cholesterol level 00:21:44.20\00:21:46.31 60 points in about 3 weeks. 00:21:46.32\00:21:48.46 We can lower it about 90 points in about 00:21:48.47\00:21:51.16 6 weeks by getting on an ideal program. 00:21:51.17\00:21:54.01 Just by the diet. Just by the diet, yeah. 00:21:54.02\00:21:57.72 So, you know some of these things are 00:21:57.73\00:21:59.29 on your website resources 00:21:59.30\00:22:00.76 www.nedleypublishing.org, or its com 00:22:00.77\00:22:05.80 or www.drnedley.com. Drnedley.com, yeah, 00:22:05.81\00:22:11.98 and so these resources like the book proof 00:22:11.99\00:22:14.04 positive and some of these other things 00:22:14.05\00:22:15.79 and then I think you have you know 00:22:15.80\00:22:18.19 other things that can specifically help 00:22:18.20\00:22:19.94 with the nutritional things. Right, yes, 00:22:19.95\00:22:22.01 and of course we have cookbooks and recipes 00:22:22.02\00:22:24.08 that go long with it. You know once you, 00:22:24.09\00:22:25.60 you know, a lot of people think 00:22:25.61\00:22:27.11 you're gonna sacrifice taste doing this, 00:22:27.12\00:22:28.90 but once you can make the food, 00:22:28.91\00:22:32.71 we really just need to retrain the cooks. 00:22:32.72\00:22:34.32 Once we can make the food and have it tasty, 00:22:34.33\00:22:38.23 there is no reason to go back to the other 00:22:38.24\00:22:39.53 way of eating. And so, we try to 00:22:39.54\00:22:41.09 teach these people maybe 6 or 8 dishes, 00:22:41.10\00:22:43.73 kind of amazing how little variety 00:22:43.74\00:22:45.98 the average American has in their diet, 00:22:45.99\00:22:47.62 they eat a lot of times at the same restaurant, 00:22:47.63\00:22:49.87 order the same foods of the menu and 00:22:49.88\00:22:53.16 if they can switch those over to 6 or 8 very 00:22:53.17\00:22:56.41 good recipes that's a good start, 00:22:56.42\00:22:58.01 and that's now a whole lot to learn. Right, 00:22:58.02\00:22:59.98 so we give them 200 recipes and certainly 00:22:59.99\00:23:02.25 6 to 8 of them they'll like. Exactly and then 00:23:02.26\00:23:04.97 if they like them, they can repeat that 00:23:04.98\00:23:06.40 and start noticing the benefits. 00:23:06.41\00:23:07.99 Anything else that you would give people 00:23:08.00\00:23:11.24 they came to your store, your health food store. 00:23:11.25\00:23:13.65 Well, we would try to get them on higher 00:23:13.66\00:23:15.25 polyunsaturated fat and lower saturated fat. 00:23:15.26\00:23:17.96 Saturated fat increases the liver's production 00:23:17.97\00:23:20.45 of cholesterol. Polyunsaturated fat 00:23:20.46\00:23:22.79 is going to lower it and so the more liquid 00:23:22.80\00:23:24.78 the fat the more your cholesterol goes down. 00:23:24.79\00:23:26.95 And so, foods like almonds for instance, 00:23:26.96\00:23:29.30 very good at lowering cholesterol, 00:23:29.31\00:23:30.73 walnuts very good at lowering cholesterol, 00:23:30.74\00:23:32.71 Pecans good at lowering cholesterol. 00:23:32.72\00:23:35.03 Where some plant fats, even know they 00:23:35.04\00:23:37.54 don't have cholesterol can raise it like 00:23:37.55\00:23:39.07 coconut oil for instance, or palm kernel oil. 00:23:39.08\00:23:41.43 Interesting, and again these, these things 00:23:41.44\00:23:44.58 are in, in, in your book proof positive I think. 00:23:44.59\00:23:47.07 Yes, but then another factor Don that 00:23:47.08\00:23:49.56 and this is one that a lot of America has not 00:23:49.57\00:23:51.76 caught up with it, I think this is why 00:23:51.77\00:23:53.46 it's good that you're listening to this program. 00:23:53.47\00:23:55.33 A Bruce Taylor study didn't get a lot of 00:23:55.34\00:23:57.95 publicity, but it really needed to because 00:23:57.96\00:24:00.09 it really helps to confirm other studies 00:24:00.10\00:24:02.54 and why it happen? Bruce Taylor was a 00:24:02.55\00:24:04.70 pathologist in New York and the medical students 00:24:04.71\00:24:07.87 were doing studies on rabbits and monkeys. 00:24:07.88\00:24:10.31 They fed them Bruce Taylor's cholesterol 00:24:10.32\00:24:12.85 that had been exposed to the air 00:24:12.86\00:24:14.56 and it had been, in a large bucket all of them 00:24:14.57\00:24:17.87 developed galloping atherosclerosis 00:24:17.88\00:24:19.82 within just a few weeks. Oh! 00:24:19.83\00:24:22.11 This was a Bruce Taylor's actual 00:24:22.12\00:24:23.42 own personal cholesterol, 00:24:23.43\00:24:24.60 this was a vat that he had right? 00:24:24.61\00:24:26.02 That's right. Okay. Yeah. Okay, good. 00:24:26.03\00:24:28.27 I was gonna say poor Bruce. 00:24:28.28\00:24:29.76 And so they fed it to them, 00:24:29.77\00:24:32.11 they fed it to them. Yes, 00:24:32.12\00:24:33.43 and it plug the arteries quicker 00:24:33.44\00:24:35.67 and they thought it would. So, then the 00:24:35.68\00:24:38.04 Bruce Taylor got you know, 00:24:38.05\00:24:40.87 he was wondering why it plugged it off so much, 00:24:40.88\00:24:42.45 so he fed them pure cholesterol 00:24:42.46\00:24:43.95 that had never been exposed to the air 00:24:43.96\00:24:45.80 to rabbits and monkeys, none of them 00:24:45.81\00:24:47.90 developed atherosclerosis. 00:24:47.91\00:24:49.46 So, pure not oxidized cholesterol 00:24:49.47\00:24:51.91 is not toxic. However, 00:24:51.92\00:24:53.59 when we eat foods it's been oxidized; 00:24:53.60\00:24:55.45 it's been exposed to the air. 00:24:55.46\00:24:56.77 And so that any one to next step 00:24:56.78\00:24:58.40 to see which foods were the damaging. 00:24:58.41\00:25:00.42 He would count the dead cells in the 00:25:00.43\00:25:02.12 aorta from these plaques, 00:25:02.13\00:25:03.71 24 hours after they were consumed. 00:25:03.72\00:25:06.45 And we have a graphic on the foods 00:25:06.46\00:25:09.29 that were most damaging. 00:25:09.30\00:25:10.27 The fist most damaging was custard 00:25:10.28\00:25:13.13 and the most commonly consume custard 00:25:13.14\00:25:15.49 is ice cream. Whenever you put sugar, 00:25:15.50\00:25:17.31 milk, eggs together in the same ingredient, 00:25:17.32\00:25:20.87 the sugar really helps to oxidized that. 00:25:20.88\00:25:23.00 Pancake mix you have that egg yolk 00:25:23.01\00:25:25.19 being powered up, you're oxidizing 00:25:25.20\00:25:27.46 that cholesterol, third most damaging 00:25:27.47\00:25:29.38 Parmesan cheese which is powered 00:25:29.39\00:25:31.00 in cheese and that tied with lard as being 00:25:31.01\00:25:33.85 the third most damaging cholesterol. And so, 00:25:33.86\00:25:36.76 it's not just the cholesterol content of 00:25:36.77\00:25:38.56 the foods that we eat, 00:25:38.57\00:25:39.54 oxidized cholesterol, 00:25:39.55\00:25:40.55 but the oxidized cholesterol. 00:25:40.56\00:25:41.74 And this helped to explain something else. 00:25:41.75\00:25:43.82 We talked about an infancy; 00:25:43.83\00:25:45.21 people developing fatty streaks children. 00:25:45.22\00:25:47.66 They've done autopsies on these children, 00:25:47.67\00:25:49.77 if they die from siege or an auto accident. 00:25:49.78\00:25:51.98 Some mothers the way they eat, 00:25:51.99\00:25:54.26 they have more cholesterol in their 00:25:54.27\00:25:56.11 human breast milk then what cows do? 00:25:56.12\00:25:58.09 Which group do you think had the fatty 00:25:58.10\00:26:00.44 streaks the one consuming cow's milk 00:26:00.45\00:26:02.30 or human breast milk? Well, 00:26:02.31\00:26:05.07 you're gonna tell me. Actually 00:26:05.08\00:26:07.60 it was the one consuming cow's milk even 00:26:07.61\00:26:09.59 though it was lowering cholesterol. 00:26:09.60\00:26:11.07 The reason the way most infants consume 00:26:11.08\00:26:13.95 human breast milk is directly from the nipple, 00:26:13.96\00:26:16.79 it's not exposed to the air 00:26:16.80\00:26:18.38 and so it's not toxic, it's not oxidized. 00:26:18.39\00:26:21.38 And so the best way for you to drink 00:26:21.39\00:26:23.90 your cow's milk would be to go down 00:26:23.91\00:26:26.14 to the barn and get it straight, 00:26:26.15\00:26:27.45 but we have, if you're gonna do that, 00:26:27.46\00:26:29.94 recommend that either. No, that's right. 00:26:29.95\00:26:31.57 Now, you have a quote here that 00:26:31.58\00:26:33.08 I think was fascinating me over a 00:26:33.09\00:26:35.35 hundred years ago by Ellen White. 00:26:35.36\00:26:37.59 Yeah, she said, "Especially harmful 00:26:37.60\00:26:40.24 are the custards and puddings in 00:26:40.25\00:26:41.79 which milk, eggs, and sugar are the chief 00:26:41.80\00:26:43.84 ingredients. The free use of milk 00:26:43.85\00:26:45.44 and sugar together should be avoided." 00:26:45.45\00:26:47.04 And of course the reason for that 00:26:47.05\00:26:48.69 is these very toxic cholesterol molecules 00:26:48.70\00:26:52.08 that are produced in the process developing 00:26:52.09\00:26:55.00 atherosclerosis and progressing 00:26:55.01\00:26:57.74 atherosclerosis. What you know people 00:26:57.75\00:27:01.17 are changing habits and these foods 00:27:01.18\00:27:03.09 are probably highly addictive as well. 00:27:03.10\00:27:05.04 What spiritual tip do you share with 00:27:05.05\00:27:08.87 your patients? Well, one of the spiritual 00:27:08.88\00:27:12.23 tips is as not good to use much honey, 00:27:12.24\00:27:13.94 Proverbs for instance says that, 00:27:13.95\00:27:17.18 but also that we can overcome 00:27:17.19\00:27:19.69 with the power of God. God can give us 00:27:19.70\00:27:22.48 the information to change our life 00:27:22.49\00:27:23.95 and can give us the power to change our life 00:27:23.96\00:27:26.43 for the better. And He wants us 00:27:26.44\00:27:27.41 to be healthy; He doesn't want us 00:27:27.42\00:27:28.82 to be sick or die prematurely. 00:27:28.83\00:27:30.33 We've been talking with Dr. Neil Nedley, 00:27:30.34\00:27:32.74 talking about heart disease. 00:27:32.75\00:27:34.31 And I hope that you have gotten some 00:27:34.32\00:27:36.74 very good information here that will lead to 00:27:36.75\00:27:39.40 decisions that can save not only your life, 00:27:39.41\00:27:42.36 but the lives of others. We have more need 00:27:42.37\00:27:45.52 for information, contact this here at 3ABN. 00:27:45.53\00:27:47.52 We'll get you in touch with Dr. Nedley or 00:27:47.53\00:27:49.54 go to his website www.nedleypublishing.com 00:27:49.55\00:27:54.11 and we hope that as a result, 00:27:54.12\00:27:55.99 you'll have Health that last For a Lifetime. 00:27:56.00\00:27:59.18