Welcome to "Healthy Living!"
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I'm your host Margot Marshall.
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Today we are
talking about caffeine.
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Does it really
help with alertness?
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You might be surprised!
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Are there major problems
associated with its consumption?
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And, are there therapies
to deal with withdrawal?
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Stay tuned for the answers.
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Caffeine's claim to
fame is its purported ability
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to increase alertness.
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Some people say
they need caffeine
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just to function properly.
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Let's see what my
guest, Dr. Eddie Ramirez,
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has to say about that.
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Welcome Eddie! Thank you.
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And what do you have
to say about the claim of
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caffeine actually
increasing alertness,
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is that a good claim?
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You know, there was a
very good, well-designed study
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from "Bristol University"
in the United Kingdom,
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in which they had almost 400
participants and what they did,
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they started to measure their
levels of alertness and the
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different effects that
caffeine was having in them,
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and what they
found was shocking!
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They found out that
these people actually created
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a tolerance to the
effects of caffeine.
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So the researchers
reported in the research paper
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that caffeine drinkers,
they're drinking the caffeine
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not because it makes them
alert, but because it makes them
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feel normal.
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See, as the effects of
the caffeine withdrawal during
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the day, you can see here
on the screen how the people
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that were feeling normal -
that were not drinking caffeine
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continued to feel
normal the whole day.
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The caffeine drinker at
the beginning that you see on
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the left side of your graphic,
you see that they did not feel
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good and not until they
drank coffee they felt alert
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and "normal."
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So this study teaches
us that you don't need to
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drink caffeine to feel alert.
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And this is another interesting
point - the researchers
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in the publication reported
that the withdrawal symptoms
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of caffeine were
similar to having chemotherapy
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in your body.
That sounds terrible!
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So the reason why you are
drinking coffee and you think,
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"Well, I need it for
the morning," you know
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unconsciously that if
you don't drink that coffee,
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you're going to have
those severe side effects
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inside of you - that's
why you drink coffee and not
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because it makes you alert.
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It just makes you feel normal.
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Well if you didn't
drink it, you would be normal
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all the time.
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So what you're saying is normal
people are normal all the time,
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(That's right)
coffee drinkers are only
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at that level of alertness
when they drink the coffee
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and they didn't know
it but if they didn't
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drink it, they would feel
at that high level all day.
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I don't know if
that's going to be good news
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to all the people
because I think it's fairly
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addictive as well, isn't it?
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Yes, and you know, in the world
I move in, in the medical world,
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you go to the hospital
and you will see many doctors
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with their cup of
coffee. I don't drink coffee.
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And you know, I remember
years ago when I was in medical
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school - I was in the inhumane
duties of 36 hours continuously
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in the hospital and I can
tell you, I would do those
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36 hours without a
single drop of coffee.
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I did not need that because
I knew the side effects of it,
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And you know, as I tell my
patients, I don't want to be
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a hypocrite - if I'm telling
you something, it's because
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I'm putting that in my life.
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Where would the conviction come
from if I was not doing that.
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When I tell my patient -
"You do exercise," it's because
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I do exercise.
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And look, I was very impressed
this morning, very early,
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there you were out in the
weather and doing your running,
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so that was very good.
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You are a very good example
of what you tell us to do.
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And you know, there are
many sources today of caffeine.
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Yes, it seems to be
just popping up everywhere!
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And many people may not be aware
of their intake of the caffeine.
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Yes, I mean things that don't
ordinarily or it's just not
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there in the drink to start
with - it's actually added.
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Is that to make it
an addictive drink?
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Absolutely! Caffeine is one
of the most addictive things
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that you can find.
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You can see on the screen
some of the common sources
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such as coffee, tea,
soft drinks, chocolate
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and even some pain relievers
may have some caffeine.
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Alright, so soft drinks didn't
always - some of them did,
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but some soft drinks
didn't always have caffeine,
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did they, or not as much.
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That's right
and it also depends.
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Some people think, "Well, only
the black ones have caffeine."
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Not necessarily, there are some
clear ones that have caffeine.
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So I encourage my patients,
"Go ahead and read labels."
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When you read the
label, then you will see
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if it has caffeine.
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Another very common source
is the famous "energy drinks"
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that they call them.
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See, I have seen even
people going to the E.R.
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from drinking
these types of drinks.
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They have so much caffeine.
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The E.R. is the
emergency department - yes,
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at the hospital.
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So these things are not
only bad for their mind,
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but actually can be
dangerous literally.
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What else? What other
bad effects are there?
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There was a very interesting
study done by "Loma Linda
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University" a few years ago.
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What they did - they had a
spider and this poor spider
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received a dose-adjusted
level of what you would drink
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of two cups of caffeine,
of coffee - that amount of
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coffee of course adjusted
to the weight of the spider.
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And you know, they put
this spider to do its normal
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web - it couldn't do it.
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It just made a mess on that web.
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It took 96 hours for the
caffeine to go out of the
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system and then the spider
was able to make its proper web.
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Now you may be saying,
"Well, but I'm not a spider."
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Yes, I know you're not a
spider, but in the same way that
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you have a nervous system,
spiders have a nervous system,
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and the way that caffeine
interferes with your nervous
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system, it also
interferes with the nervous
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system of the spider.
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I'm just trying to do the
mental arithmetic - that must be
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around about four days,
is that right? That's right!
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To be able to function
normally and that's not
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something that I think
any of us want to see happen.
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I want to be able
to function well, yes!
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And you know, we have
something that would be
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equivalent to the brakes.
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When you are talking to
somebody and you shouldn't
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be saying something - there's
some brakes in your brain
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that says, "Wait,
wait, don't say that."
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Well, there is research
actually that shows that if
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you have caffeine on
board, you have higher risk of
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gossiping - I don't
know if you guys have that
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problem here in
Australia, of gossiping?
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Oh, no, no, no,
no, no. Laughter.
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You're actually at
higher risk of gossiping,
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of saying something you should
not say or you're not part of
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that solution.
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Wow, so how does that work?
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The reason why that
happens is because the brakes
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in your head - when you are
under the effects of caffeine,
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you are moving the
brakes. Let me ask you...
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Oh, like the brakes in a car.
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Would you get in the
car without brakes? Okay.
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Many people - that's the
first thing they do as they
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wake up - they
take away their brakes!
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You wouldn't drive a
car without brakes. No.
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There are many people
that remove the brakes
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from their head first thing.
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And something that is
confusing to many people
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is that there is research
that may show certain benefits
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from caffeine. Okay.
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And you know, you need to
be careful - sometimes certain
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research, I do lots of
research, and sometimes
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certain research has an agenda.
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And whenever I
read a scientific paper,
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I always like to see
who is sponsoring this. Yes.
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And you will see that
many of these good news about
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caffeine type of
studies are sponsored by the
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industries that have
links to coffee or soft drinks
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or so forth industries.
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So people like to hear good
news about their bad habits!
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That's the reason
why something comes up,
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man - you're going to read it in
the newspaper; on the internet;
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you're gonna see
it on the television.
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Yet I've seen, because
I read a lot of research,
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that sometimes another
paper came at the same time
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talking about the
negative effects of caffeine and
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so forth, you don't hear
absolutely anything about it.
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That's really bad,
isn't it? Really, really bad!
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I remember, going back some
years, it was in the country
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in West Australia living
there and I went to Sydney
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for a conference and I thought,
"Oh, on the way back I'll just
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I'll get a mammogram," so
I booked in on short notice,
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and then I was preparing to
do that - they said, "Oh, you're
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not supposed to have
had coffee for 48 hours
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before having a mammogram.
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And I said, "Oh not a problem,
I haven't had any for 48 years
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cause I was 48 at the time,
but I was puzzled about that.
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And so when it was all over,
I said, "Look, I'm just curious,
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what's the connection
between drinking coffee
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and having a mammogram?"
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And they said, "Oh well,
a lot of women experience
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breast pain routinely and
when they pull that clamp down
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that could make it a lot worse."
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And so I was just intrigued
about that but what they
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said was that a lot of women,
when they go off caffeine or
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coffee, whatever it is
they're using for the 48 hours,
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the breast pain that
they've been having for years
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isn't there anymore.
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My own wife, she used to
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drink a lot of soda
pop, the black type,
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with cola and she had this
tremendous pain in her breast,
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and not only that, little
cysts started to come about.
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She goes to the
doctor, the doctor identifies
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some of those cysts and
she asked her about her habits,
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this was before we got married,
and she said the amount of
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soda that she was drinking,
more than 12 cans per week,
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(Okay) the doctor said you
have to stop drinking that soda.
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She stopped -
the pain went away.
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Who wants to live with pain?
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I mean, that's a
good thing to know.
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I hope it's going to be
helping some people out there.
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I know when you really love
something, it's hard to think
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about not having it
but I guess you weigh up.
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So also it affects many systems
and people don't realize that.
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For example, the stomach
is something that suffers
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very much every
time you drink caffeine.
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When you are drinking caffeine,
you are actually creating
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problems with some little doors.
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You have some little doors
that are called "sphincters"
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in your stomach and
those little doors are supposed
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to close when there's food
so digestion can take place
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properly, but see when you are
drinking caffeine, any source
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of caffeine, those little doors
start to malfunction - so they
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may open and when you're doing
digestion it's like a little
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washing machine, you
know, it moves quite a bit
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the food and so forth.
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So as it's doing that mechanical
work, the acid from the
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stomach starts coming up
and things like heartburn and
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these types of problems,
the person stops drinking
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caffeine and many people
get beneficial effects from it.
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Not only the little
doors problem but also ulcers.
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We know very well, you
are at higher risk of having
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a stomach ulcer if you are
a regular caffeine drinker.
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And also the brain - if
you want to see this with your
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own eyes, visit my
page: dreddieramirez.com
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There, I have a video that shows
how just drinking one cup of
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caffeine will
decrease your blood flow in 40%
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in your brain. Forty percent?
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Forty percent! This is
measured with a functional MRI,
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so you have the
before and the after.
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You can go and see
it with your own eyes.
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This is a clip from the news.
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And this is not good - see,
for the health of your brain,
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you want to have as
much blood flow as possible,
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not decrease the blood flow.
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That's a very,
very powerful finding.
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I'm just pretty shocked
actually because that's almost
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half of the oxygen
that's meant to be,
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you know, it's half the blood.
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Absolutely! That's the reason
why when you are under the
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effects of caffeine, you
may do things maybe a little bit
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faster but you
commit the double-errors.
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So especially if you are
like a university student,
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high school student,
that's the last thing you want
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in your system before
your test because why would you
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want to decrease the blood flow
to your brain and especially
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the frontal lobe.
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The frontal lobe is when
you evaluate if something
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is correct or not correct.
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Here you are on a test
asking you a question, multiple
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answers - they're trying to
trick you and you don't know
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which one you're
going to choose and then you
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decrease the blood flow -
it's even worse, you know,
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and you are going to be at high
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risk of choosing
the wrong answer.
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And it's not just students
and not just people being
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tested, it's just our
everyday life - we need to
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have everything going for
us to be able to make good
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decisions and
function well. That's right!
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Another problem
also is with females
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and especially bone health.
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This is something very well
published, very well researched.
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We know that when you are
drinking caffeine, you are
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actually throwing away
the calcium from your bones.
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And you know, here in Australia,
osteoporosis is a huge
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problem. Yes, it is.
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And why put more gasoline on
the fire - stop it, you know,
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don't damage your bones.
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So when you are
drinking coffee, there are even
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studies that show that young
girls, when they drink coffee,
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the risk of fracture
increases even at a young age.
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Even at the young age -
that's really bad because
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normally your
bones are strengthening
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while you are young.
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That's exactly what
you're supposed to be doing
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before you get to
menopause, you want to make sure
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you have the strongest bones
possible - very good point!
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Well I just hope this is
going down well with our people
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tuning in because there
must be some ways that we can
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deal with this or I mean, I
guess people get withdrawals
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if they do...
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Let me give you the plan
I share with my patients.
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but let me just
mention two more things.
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Coffee will also
throw away your vitamin B6
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and iron in your body.
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I tell them that this
is the contradictory drug.
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I have people that come
for consultations and they ask
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me - "Doctor can I get a
supplement of vitamin B6?
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Can I get some iron?
Can I get some calcium?"
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And then I ask them, "Do
you drink coffee?" "Well, yes."
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Here they are drinking something
they are going to throw away.
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There is no need
for this to happen.
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So what strategy are
we going to use to conquer
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the problem of caffeine?
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Well what do you
tell your patients?
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Well, #1 I tell them that
they would benefit from some
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simple
hydrotherapy and hydrotherapy is
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the use of water in a wise way.
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So what I want you to
do if you want to conquer
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caffeine usage, you make
sure that you are starting
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your day with a nice hot
shower, 3 minutes, followed by
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1 minute cold.
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Three minutes hot, 1
minute cold and you're going to
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do this two or three times.
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How cold are we talking about?
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The younger you are,
the higher the contrast.
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So please use common sense,
if you are a little bit more
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advanced in age, that
contrast shouldn't be that much.
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What you're doing
with this, I call this
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"the vegetarian
coffee!" It will wake you up!
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You don't need a
coffee to make yourself alert!
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So instead of grabbing
your coffee, you start your day
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with this tip - that
hot shower followed by cold.
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If you're having some troubles
with nervousness and so forth,
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I'm going to give
you two strategies.
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You can see them on the screen.
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You can go into a
neutral temperature bathtub.
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It's not hot, it's not
cold, it's about the temperature
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of your body that
relaxes the nerves or #2.
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You want to put some
ice in the back of your head
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and that actually
helps relieve many of the
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headache problems, okay? Okay.
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So, hydrotherapy.
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#2. What you can do is
you can eat a good, healthy
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breakfast!
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Many people eat too much
in the evening, and you know,
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the stomach is tired - it's
been working the whole night,
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so the morning comes and
it says, "You know, forget it,
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no more food."
So you're not hungry
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because your stomach has been
working hard the whole night.
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This is a big problem is
a big problem in Australia.
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A lot of people skip breakfast,
children skip breakfast,
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many, many people and,
of course, then what happens
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is as the day wears
into the midmorning,
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they're hungry and they
eat, but it's not usually
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something that you would
eat at a meal. That's right!
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You might talk about
what it is, it's not healthy.
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It's as if
you're starting to drive
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towards
Brisbane, what do you do?
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The first thing you do,
you fill in the gasoline tank,
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then you go with the
proper amount of petrol.
00:21:21.18\00:21:25.21
But, you're starting the
day, why not put some good high
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octane type of quality of food.
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So a good plant-based diet
with whole grains, maybe some
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legumes and something that
tastes good that fills you up.
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It should be the
biggest meal of the day.
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Do you know,
whenever I ask groups and say,
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"What's the most
important meal of the day?"
00:21:52.61\00:21:54.81
and you get a chorus,
"Breakfast!" They know!
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Everybody knows, but I don't
know the figure, but it could be
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somewhere around a third
of Australians, somewhere
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there, I think, who
don't actually eat it.
00:22:04.89\00:22:07.09
We KNOW, but we don't
do it, and you just really
00:22:07.12\00:22:10.73
put your finger on why
that is because of that BIG
00:22:10.76\00:22:14.30
evening meal and your
poor stomach, by morning,
00:22:14.33\00:22:17.33
it's feeling like "It's
my turn for a rest, you know,
00:22:17.37\00:22:19.93
I've been working all night
while you've been sleeping,"
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and so that's where
you have to start, is it?
00:22:21.84\00:22:24.47
And it's not only a bad habit,
00:22:24.51\00:22:26.61
it's actually
bad for your health.
00:22:26.64\00:22:29.11
You actually can end up
with something like reflux
00:22:29.14\00:22:34.48
in your stomach every
night because as you lay down
00:22:34.52\00:22:37.62
with the stomach
full, when you lay down,
00:22:37.65\00:22:39.85
you push the upper
door that I was mentioning,
00:22:39.89\00:22:42.66
the acid comes up, it
burns there and you can
00:22:42.69\00:22:45.76
actually get yourself
a cancer in the esophagus
00:22:45.79\00:22:50.60
if you burn night after
night, after night that.
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So what you need to do is
3 hours before going to bed,
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should be your last meal.
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Another point, avoid tobacco!
00:23:01.34\00:23:05.48
You can even see
it in their name - -
00:23:06.11\00:23:08.05
"caf-fe-ine,
ni-co-tine," they are actually
00:23:08.08\00:23:12.85
close cousins
those two substances,
00:23:12.89\00:23:16.62
and one calls for the other one.
00:23:16.66\00:23:20.46
So, if you are drinking coffee,
00:23:20.50\00:23:23.37
you may be
calling for that nicotine.
00:23:26.87\00:23:28.40
So what I recommend to my
patients is - let's tackle
00:23:28.44\00:23:31.61
both at the same time.
00:23:31.64\00:23:33.54
So both of them,
they need to go away.
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There's a program that has
been offered here in Australia,
00:23:37.48\00:23:43.08
"Breathe
Freely," it's called. Yes.
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Yes, I've seen some of
that. Excellent! Excellent!
00:23:45.69\00:23:48.12
It's an excellent program.
00:23:48.16\00:23:49.92
I would recommend it to anybody
that wants to quit smoking.
00:23:49.96\00:23:53.73
Just Google where in
your close location is that
00:23:53.76\00:23:58.20
program being offered.
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And also, make sure that
you are drinking enough water!
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This is a huge problem,
we could just talk about
00:24:04.74\00:24:07.08
this for a long time.
00:24:07.11\00:24:09.14
But let me tell you this,
when a patient comes to the
00:24:09.18\00:24:12.98
hospital, we have to measure
their liquids and so forth,
00:24:13.01\00:24:22.29
and nurses do some
mathematics to make sure
00:24:22.32\00:24:25.66
that the patient is
having enough liquids
00:24:25.69\00:24:27.73
in them and so forth.
00:24:27.76\00:24:29.26
And I can tell you,
many people don't have
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enough liquids on board.
00:24:34.60\00:24:37.01
They drink all kinds
of things except water!
00:24:37.04\00:24:39.74
So when you are going to
start doing higher water intake,
00:24:39.77\00:24:44.81
the water is going to
help cleanse the system.
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How do you know you
have enough water on board?
00:24:47.98\00:24:49.92
Watch your urine - it needs
to be clear and without smell.
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Oh yes and it's
interesting, I think caffeine,
00:24:54.86\00:24:57.99
coffee and so on,
they actually dehydrate,
00:24:58.03\00:25:00.50
don't they? Absolutely!
00:25:00.53\00:25:01.86
You take away more
water than what you put.
00:25:01.90\00:25:05.40
So some people say, "Well okay,
you're taking away my coffee,
00:25:05.43\00:25:08.20
what am I gonna do?"
00:25:08.24\00:25:09.57
Well, why don't you switch that
00:25:09.60\00:25:12.57
for a herbal tea
without caffeine.
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We don't have the time but
there are some major issues
00:25:17.71\00:25:21.42
both with black
tea and green tea.
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I know this is an inheritance
that the British gave you here.
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It is tradition and so
forth, but the caffeine content
00:25:29.56\00:25:34.16
is not good for you.
00:25:34.20\00:25:36.56
The green tea, I've seen
that with my own eyes in Africa.
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Before you harvest green tea,
you hit the plant with a stick.
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The reason why you do that
is you want to make the plant
00:25:46.64\00:25:49.41
"angry" - it releases
all kinds of toxic substances
00:25:49.44\00:25:53.78
and then you harvest.
00:25:53.82\00:25:55.15
See, if you hit that
plant and you bring a goat,
00:25:55.18\00:25:58.29
the goat wouldn't eat that
plant because when it tastes
00:25:58.32\00:26:01.06
it, he says, "This is
bad, I don't want this."
00:26:01.09\00:26:02.82
Yet what do we do as humans?
00:26:02.86\00:26:04.79
We pick it up and
make a tea out of it.
00:26:04.83\00:26:08.06
Do not do that! You are
consuming very toxic substances.
00:26:08.10\00:26:13.60
Yes, there are a few
antioxidants there, but that
00:26:13.64\00:26:16.14
does not justify the negative
affects that people have.
00:26:16.17\00:26:20.18
They talk about goats
being silly, that seems like
00:26:20.21\00:26:23.11
in that case, we're sillier
than the goat. That's right!
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The next thing I want you to
do, I want you to do exercise.
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See, substitute the coffee
habit with a good morning walk!
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That morning, invigorating
walk will help you start the day
00:26:38.76\00:26:44.90
on with the right leg.
00:26:44.93\00:26:48.27
And when you are doing
your exercise, I want you to be
00:26:48.30\00:26:53.31
thankful; I want you to
think of positive things;
00:26:53.34\00:26:56.28
I want you to start
the day in the proper way,
00:26:56.31\00:27:01.22
and it will give you
that energy, it will open your
00:27:01.25\00:27:04.25
appetite so you can come home
and eat your good breakfast,
00:27:04.29\00:27:07.82
then you go to the
activity of the day.
00:27:07.86\00:27:10.73
Yes, all that sounds
like a really good lineup
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of things to do and
that's been really very helpful.
00:27:13.03\00:27:16.63
One last one - I want to
give you a Bible promise!
00:27:16.67\00:27:21.00
And that Bible promise
is found in Jeremiah 32:27.
00:27:21.04\00:27:27.34
It says - "I am the God of
all flesh, is there anything
00:27:27.38\00:27:32.55
too hard for Me?"
00:27:32.58\00:27:34.72
For God, there
are no impossibles.
00:27:34.75\00:27:37.89
That's beautiful and
it's really important I think.
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Whenever - I mean change
is really a challenging thing.
00:27:41.36\00:27:44.59
And it's very useful to tap into
spiritual resources when we're
00:27:44.63\00:27:47.93
going to make any changes.
00:27:47.96\00:27:49.36
There are two laws of change;
one is "change is inevitable,"
00:27:49.40\00:27:53.54
and "change will be
resisted." That's right!
00:27:53.57\00:27:56.10
So I don't know how people
out there are feeling about
00:27:56.14\00:27:58.51
what we've been hearing.
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Certainly you've given
us a lot of good reasons
00:27:59.91\00:28:02.24
to avoid caffeine.
00:28:02.28\00:28:04.45
You've given us a
lot of good strategies
00:28:04.48\00:28:06.61
on how to deal with
that and the side effects.
00:28:06.65\00:28:11.65
So I hope that's been very
helpful for you and you can
00:28:11.69\00:28:15.86
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