Have you been looking
forward to retirement...
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or is someone you know
looking forward to retirement?
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And you say... "Oh, if I could
just retire and stop working!"
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Well, we're talking
with Dr. Neil Nedley
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We're looking at
current research...
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And, Dr. Nedley you've got
an interesting study here for us
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Yes, this was a study
done on 17,000 adults,
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so this is a huge study.
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Whenever you see a study
in the thousands, that's huge.
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17,000! And when
you get over 10,000,
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that's very huge! Um hm...
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And so this was 17,000 adults.
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And what they
looked at particularly
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were their retirement,
and then how long they lived
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after their retirement.
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And what they found out
was that those who retired
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in their 40s and
50s, in particular...
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If they retired, and they
were compared with people who
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chose not to retire,
but could continue to work
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through their 40s and 50s,
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they actually had twice the risk
of death within the study period
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TWICE THE RISK! Twice
the risk of death... Wow
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And so, you know, often we
talk about how sad it is...
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He just retired... you
know, it's just been a year,
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or 1-1/2 to 2
years, and he JUST retired!
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But my thought is, based on
that study, is we should ask...
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"I wonder if he'd still
be alive if he didn't retire"
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Well you know, you remember that
Commandment right in the middle
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of the 10
Commandments that says...
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"Six days shalt thou
labor, and do all thy work. "
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I mean, if you retire, are
you breaking that Commandment?
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You know, it's
kind of interesting...
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it doesn't have an
age limit on it, does it?
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I mean it doesn't! It
doesn't say until you're 59-1/2
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Now to be fair, you
know, some people that retire
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actually work harder
after they retire, than before
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...Because they're able
to go into mission work.
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They're able to go...
We're not talking about that.
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We're talking about people
that just say, in this study,
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Am I right or wrong...
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They say, "Okay, I'm
not doing anything. "
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Well, they were not having a
gainful source of income here,
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and so, it was looking at those
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And, of course,
this was a worldly study,
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so, you know, there
probably weren't very many
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of the 17,000 that
went into mission work.
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That would be another
study to look at it... Okay
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But, basically, it was those
who were not gainfully employed
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on a fulltime basis, and it
actually increased their risk
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of death significantly,
and this was published
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in the "American
Journal of Epidemiology"
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Wow, it's a very
reputable journal...
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A very prestigious
journal, and it was done
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by "Christina Bamia from
the University of Athens"
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Okay, so DON'T RETIRE!
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Now, another thing, we
want to talk about is rock stars
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Now, how many of you watching
today look up to a rock star?
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...Want to be like one?
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I don't know... or
maybe you know someone who is
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looking up to
maybe a musical icon...
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Or watching some
kind of show where they
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idolize these types of folks.
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This is a fascinating study.
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Yeah, it was done
on 1,064 rock stars.
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Okay, they
studied the rock stars.
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The rock stars from
Europe, and North America
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were studied.
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So Canada, U.S.,
Great Britain primarily...
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I mean all 3 of those
primarily, I should say,
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more so than the
other European countries.
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And what they found out
was that the risk of death
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...early, premature
death is dramatically higher
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in the rock star world.
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I guess it
doesn't really surprise me
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...You think about Elvis Presley
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you think about
some of the Beatles,
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you think about
Morrison, and Coban...
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all these different
names and different people,
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different singers... They're
either committing suicide
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they get killed, or
something happens to them
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They overdose on drugs...
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Yes, in fact, they actually
looked at the causes of death
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and they found out that
many of the deaths were drug
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or alcohol-related.
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In fact, one-fourth of
them who died prematurely,
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died simply due to
alcohol abuse, or drug abuse.
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And, this is
significantly higher than the
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general population...
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I mean, way off the
scale, in comparison to the
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general population and
their percentage of deaths.
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So, you know, I
notice in the study, as well,
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that it's VERY dangerous to
get successful as a rock star.
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Yes, in fact, out
of these 1,064 people,
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I'm sure you probably only
heard of maybe 20 or 30 of them.
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Some of them
weren't as successful...
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And even if you
were unsuccessful
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in the rock business...
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You know, you
published your first CD,
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and you never published again.
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You still had a significantly
higher risk of death.
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So there's
something about the ROCK world
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...we know in the
performance aspect of things
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that is brought out in the
study ... that is not healthy
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for the physique and
we know from other studies
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it's not healthy for the mind...
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But, particularly those
who are very successful,
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the question is... Well,
if you're very successful,
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if you make lots of
money, maybe you're in a higher
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socioeconomic group,
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and so maybe you have a
higher motivation to stay alive
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and to be healthy, etc.
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But those people, at the
time that they reach their fame,
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they had a dramatic increase
risk of death within 3 years
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of becoming famous.
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Well, there you have it!
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Do NOT become famous and do
NOT become a rock star! Right?
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Now, you mentioned something
interesting to me as well...
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is that, maybe you can
tell us where that study is to,
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but you mentioned that
being an orchestra conductor,
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there have been studies showing
you live very long doing that
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Yes, that's
actually a separate study...
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that wasn't part of the
study done by "Mark Bellis"
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Mark Bellis was the lead
researcher, and this was done
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by the "Center for Public Health
at Liverpool University. "
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That was where
the study was done.
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In England? In England, right.
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That's where the Beatles
were from... That's right
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Yeah, it was
actually from their town...
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And, of course, many people
studying this were thinking
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it was a myth that
rock stars died early
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Maybe we just heard
about the ones who died...
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And so that's why
they did the study to see
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if it was a myth or not, and
they found out it isn't a myth
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And indeed is very statistically
significant that you're going to
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tend to die prematurely.
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But, yes, other studies have
shown that if you are in the
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classical music world,
you have longer life...
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And if you are an
orchestra conductor,
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you have
significantly long life.
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In fact, your chance of
successfully aging into your 90s
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and still being active
is much HIGHER if you're a
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symphony
orchestra conductor. Hmm
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Well, maybe that's
what I should go into.
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Let's move to our next study...
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Social ties and memory loss.
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Before we go into the next study
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I just need to quote something
else that was mentioned
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in this study, and that was...
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a rock song that was written
back in the 60s, from "The Who,"
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and it was "I hope I
die before I get old"
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And of course, a self-fulfilling
prophecy in the rock world
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But I've met so many
people as patients, even...
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that tell me, "Dr. Nedley,
if I knew I was going to live
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this long, I would have
taken better care of myself. "
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In other words, the time
to make changes, as far as our
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choice of music... as far
as our choice of lifestyle
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is the time when it
can benefit us the most.
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And the time to do that
is the younger, the better.
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And the younger we are
and make these changes,
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the more positive and
abundant life we'll live.
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Social ties and
memory loss in the aged...
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another study you
want to talk about.
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YES! This is a study, of
course we're always looking at
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the people that retain
their memory when they get old.
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And there are people
that can retain their memory
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after the age of 85,
and still be very sharp...
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Still have a
good working memory,
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and still can have
a good recent memory,
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and not just things of the past.
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Many people over age 85,
they just, you know, talk about
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the past, and they can
remember things of the past,
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but recently, they can't.
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And what they found
out, was that it was directly
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related to staying connected
with family and friends.
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You remember better if you have
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more family and
friends that you're close to.
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Yes, and this was
"Dr. Lisa Berkman"
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and she is from
Harvard University there
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in Boston
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And this was published in the
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"American
Journal of Public Health"
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And it showed memory among
those LEAST socially integrated
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declined at twice the
rate as among the MOST
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socially integrated.
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Bringing in the highest
level of social integration
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ameliorated more than
half of the age-related decline
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in memory.
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This was published in May 2008
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and, again, it shows how we
were created to be social beings
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Huge study too... about
15,000 people, I think... Yes
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A large study, and this
may be even more important
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than the
vitamins you're choosing
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to consume to help your memory.
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So, love the Lord with all
your heart, AND you neighbor
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as yourself... is
really good advice.
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Absolutely! Wow, fascinating.
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So if you want to
remember something...
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have some
friends! Remember that!
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Yes, and really,
there are other studies that
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look at closeness of friends...
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You know, if you look
around in your own life,
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and you don't
have 5 close friends,
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now this isn't family,
these are close friends
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that you can
almost bare your soul to,
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and you can really have...
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you know, it helps
you... it helps them,
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it's really part of a
good nonsexually intimate
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but socially
intimate type of friends
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If you have more than 5,
it's a GREAT health booster,
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AND a GREAT mind
booster! Fascinating.
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Well, moving on...
we've got to move on from
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friends and memory to BROCCOLI!
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Broccoli... who
would have thought!
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Broccoli after memory! Yes!
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Tell us a little
bit about broccoli.
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All right!
Well, this was a study
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that actually shows how broccoli
fights cancer. That's good news!
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And, we do have a graphic
in regards to the broccoli.
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This study was done
by "Richard Milton"...
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He's a biologist at "Britain's
Institute of Food Research"
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And, it wasn't just broccoli,
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the study highlighted
broccoli but you can also see
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in that picture cabbage.
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Cabbage is part of the compounds
that actually fight cancer.
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And other foods that
are not shown in the picture
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that also helped out
were brussel sprouts,
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cauliflower,
cabbage, watercress...
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These are foods that we
call the cruciferous vegetables.
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And the cruciferous
vegetables, we have known, have
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reduced the risk of
a number of cancers...
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particularly colon cancer.
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But this was a study
taking a look at those who had
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prostate cancer.
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Now many people with prostate
cancer... there's a score.
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If you have prostate
cancer, be sure and get a score.
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Find out what
your Gleason score is.
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If you're 6 or below, the
doctor will give you an option
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to not get treatment.
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In other words, the
chance of this spreading fast
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is very, very slim, and
he might just re-biopsy you.
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And so this took people
with low Gleason scores...
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almost the precancerous lesions
and it put them on broccoli
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and then it
measured their genes.
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And it found out that
over 100 genes that are
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associated with
cancer, were turned off,
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and another 100 genes that
are associated with a reduction
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of cancer were turned
on by increasing the amount
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of cruciferous vegetables
that they were consuming
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by 4 per week.
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So that's not very
much. That's right.
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Just a few
more... Just a few more!
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...4 vegetables
Now what's the serving?
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Is that like 2
platefuls, or is that like 3...
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It's a cup. It's a cup... Okay
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So, 4 cups or more of
these cruciferous vegetables
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were enough to
change the genetics
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and, actually, it reduced
the risk of the prostate cancer
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progressing, or the
precancerous lesions
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going into prostate cancer.
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And I suppose that if
it's good for the prostate,
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it's probably good for
other parts of the body as well.
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Yeah, absolutely!
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And, in fact, we know
that from other studies,
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that cruciferous vegetables
do avoid a number of cancers
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And in this study,
they took a look at
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"isothiocyanate
and sulforaphane"
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Those are 2 chemicals in
the cruciferous vegetables
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that do have
potent genetic effects.
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Well, I think... I mean
you've really helped us today...
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We CAN'T retire early! Right?
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It's better
just to keep working.
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We need to stay away
from the rock stars...
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And we need to eat BROCCOLI!
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Very practical
take-home messages...
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Yeah... or
watercress, brussel sprouts...
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That's right! ... cabbage
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Thank you so much for
being with us today, Dr. Nedley
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Thank you,
always good to be here.
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And thank you for being with us.
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We hope that you
have, as a result...
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Health that
Lasts for a Lifetime!
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