Welcome to Healthy Living,
I'm your host Margot Marshall.
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According to the
Royal Australian College of
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General Practitioners, there
are two factors that determine
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how long men live.
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They say that genes account
for 25%, but the other 75%
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has to do with modifiable
"risk factors", the things that
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each man can do something about.
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And today I'll be talking
to a man who did do something
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about his modifiable
risk factors and reversed
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his diabetes. Stay tuned.
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Diabetes is recognized as
the world's fastest growing
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chronic condition. It caused
1.5 million deaths globally
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in 2013. Half of the people
who have diabetes don't realize
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that they have it. And
did you know the risk of a
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heart attack for people
with diabetes is the same as
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someone who's
already had a heart attack.
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Accompanying our guest today
who has reversed his diabetes
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is his General
Practitioner, Dr. Coralia Jigau.
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Welcome to both of you,
Dr. Jigau lovely to have you
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with us. Thank you! And
Alain, thank you for coming
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and sharing your story and
how it is that you've been able
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to reverse your diabetes with
those "modifiable risk factors."
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You will have to tell us
what they are and how well
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that they worked for you.
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Well it's a work
in progress. Okay.
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I don't know whether I am
fully yet reversed completely
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but it's an
ongoing work in progress.
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But certainly, I was diagnosed
with diabetes nineteen years
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ago. Wow. And as a nurse, a
registered nurse, at that point
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I felt my whole
world was closing in.
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Suddenly I was anticipation
the worse and I was looking at
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amputations and I was
thinking of heart problems,
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I was thinking of visions and
all kind of the complications
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that can come up with diabetes.
I was thinking of the worst.
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I was very very worried
about it and very concerned
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and I thought that is the
end of me, for those of my life
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now. I'm going to be on
medications and eventually
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insulin and that will be it.
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Because my understanding
and our general understanding
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at that time, diabetes is a
disease for life, you've got it
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and that's it, there's
nothing we can do about it.
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But today we know better.
Fortunately we know that it
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is reversible, it is manageable
and can be controlled very well
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with a good lifestyle. As
you mentioned the gene factor,
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my dad had diabetes and
I thought there's nothing
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I can do about it, it's my gene,
so I narrowed it and that's it,
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I have to live with it. I will
be on medication and eventually
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will be on insulin.
But fortunately with our
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health message and we
know that we can do something
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about it. Tell us this
health message...you refer to
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a health message,
what does that entail?
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At first I started...I was
first introduced with the CHIP
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program. And what does
that stand for? CHIP is not the
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Potato Chip, [Laughter]
The Complete Health Improvement
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Program was... I was introduced
to and that gave me a lot of
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information and knowledge and
powered to do something about
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it. But unfortunately it was
quite a few years down the track
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after I had been on
medication for quite a while.
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Two years after my
diagnosis of diabetes,
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I had my first stent put
in. So the damage is done
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even now what we call
pre- diabetic syndrome.
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The pre-clinical syndrome there
where no test will identify
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you've got diabetes
or confirm diabetes yet.
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But it's there and the damage
has been done in your body
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and it's happening. We know not
before the people are diagnosed
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with diabetes its taking up to
five years to progress to that
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diabetes. So when they
have glucose intolerance,
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they already have 10%, they
already have damage to their
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retina and 50%
damage to their kidneys.
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Diabetes is a long progressing
disease so before you diagnose
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there is a lot of damage done.
That's right. That's right.
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And now this set of light,
this knowledge there which we
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twenty, thirty years ago we
didn't know and I personally
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thought there was
nothing I could do about it.
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Did you tell me about
your lifestyle, about how you
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used to have your tea because
lifestyle is one contributed
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diabetes is, most of diabetes
is due to the lifestyle...
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Type 2 diabetes I'm talking
about and lifestyle will do it
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and lifestyle will
reverse it. Exactly.
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Well you told me about your
type of...Yeah, I'm originally
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from Mauritius and we...
That's a beautiful place,
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I stayed at Mauritius
briefly. Thank you, I think so.
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And I love those beautiful...
Oh what are those lilies? Oh my.
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Beautiful flowers,
anyway. Acres of them.
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Acres and my dad
actually brought some back home
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and one of them was the size of
a dinner plate. Oh yeah, yeah.
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One of us for a long time
was sugar, sugar cane was main
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production and so we Mauritian
love our sugar and my mom
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used to make the tea for
everybody in a big pot and
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the sugar, the milk and every-
thing is put in for everyone
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so there's no such thing as
how many sugars do you want or
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you have one or two
sugars for your...So when I left
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and went to do my studies
in England, I had no idea how
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much sugar I needed in a cup
of tea to make it to my liking.
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And I discovered to make it
to my taste, I needed to put
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six teaspoonful of sugar...Ohh!
My sister had a saying
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when we were young, she
said sugar is to sweeten...
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I heard the story with your
colleague...Well my first...
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I didn't tell...Well she
said sugar is to sweeten not to
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thicken. My first time I
was in the ward and that morning
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on duty, I remember the night
staff has made the tray of tea
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for everyone and was going
around saying, tea for you, yes
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sugar, yes, white, whatever.
It come my turn and she asked
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me, how do you like your
tea? And I say six please
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and the whole choir of the
staff is there in unison SIX?
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and I was so embarrassed
I didn't know where to hide.
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So that peer pressure
immediately reduced my intake
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of sugar. I dropped from six to
three. Three was the sort of...
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It wouldn't raise
too much of an eyebrow,
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so people would accept that,
tolerate that. So I was okay
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with three, so I adapted to
three. Until you met your...
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Until I met my wife. My
wife said not three's too much
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and she dropped me
down to two or one.
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When she makes my cup of
tea, it was one teaspoonful.
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But later when I make
it, I put two, but the moment
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I was diagnosed,
immediately the very same day
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I cut out sugar. Okay. To 0.
Isn't it interesting that it has
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to take a wakeup call for us to
do something and it's a shame.
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It is unfortunate...It
is a shame, just like doctor
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was saying, the damage
is taking place over years
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and the damage is done by
the time we get that diagnosis.
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So I'm just hoping that people
tuning in don't find it too
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challenging or too hard
to make some of the changes
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that you are hearing
about on these programs
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because the silent damage is
happening and I find the food
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beautiful. I'm very much
loving the beautiful fruits
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and vege's and whole grains.
That's right and we don't need
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to have that
amount sugar in our diet.
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But the sugar in fruit
is completely different.
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That's right. You can have
as much sugar because that sugar
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is bound with
fiber and do amazingly.
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Plants...which keep it
in control, it's not just
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rising up straight when
you eat it, comparing with the
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sugar cane...Sugar Cane,
its it's not supposed to be
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consumed. Well it wouldn't
matter if you did because you'd
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have to eat a meter of it to get
two teaspoons, you'd have a lot
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of chewing. It would have
to be refined, processed sugar.
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So many years since his child
hood, he was having challenges,
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his blood sugar level
was high and it was high...
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Have you noticed
something special about Alain?
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He's not obese, most of
the people who have diabetes
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they're overweight or obese,
he is not, but do you know
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he has his family history...
Father with the diabetes,
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and this epigenetic change
is with constant blood sugar
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high blood sugar level.
High blood sugar level is toxic,
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it's toxic to the pancreas.
We know it's one of the causes
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why the pancreas cells are
dying as well as high saturated
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fat level. It's another cause of
dying. So as you reverse this,
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your body stopped for awhile
and it starts repairing your
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pancreas.That's fantastic.
Isn't that an amazing thing,
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this disease reversal starts
with the organs and the cells
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of the body are being renewed
and they are being renewed
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by the food that we
eat. You hear the saying,
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we are what we eat. We
are, we literally are because
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as we sit here, our
body cells are being replaced
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by what we had for our
last meal and the ones before.
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So think about that, what
was it...Let that food be thy
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medicine and medicine be
thy food. We are what we eat
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and our health and our life
style will determine our health.
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Usually they've done a study
where they've taken a biopsy
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from your fat and they tell you
what type of fat you have eaten.
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It is the official if it is
there, yeah, it's fascinating.
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Whatever animal or whatever
it came from they can find.
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Okay. It is interesting what the
Bible says, leave the fat out.
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Don't eat the fat. Fascinating,
we do have a Bible text
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which is telling us clearly, we
should not eat fat, Leviticus 7
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I think. That's right, leave fat
alone. It says "Do not eat fat"
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of hogs and do not eat blood...
All meat has blood in it.
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And we do not consider
eating fat, when you eat meat,
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you have fat as well as blood.
Because it's all through it,
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it's not just the external.
But that advice that the good
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Lord gave to our first parents
is standing a very very good
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stand, you basically write
that right at the beginning.
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He told us what to eat
and it was all those beautiful
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plant foods that He
created in abundance.
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And now the World Health
Organization is seeing the light
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on that and I was looking on
their website and came across
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the Healthy Diet Fact Sheet
number 394 if anyone wants to
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look that up an it
lists them there. There we go
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and there it is from the
World Health Organization.
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So it's very up to date, but
its ancient, it was there from
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the beginning and when people
eat like that, they get all the
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beautiful benefits and
when they don't eat like that,
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and when they begin too,
they can get some recovery.
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I'm glad that you've
been able to do that.
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It looks like we are going
full circle and come back to
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where we started from
Eden. We thought development,
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and everything, we had
all this processed food and
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we make life easier, and it
would make life more comfortable
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for us and we find that
they are not, they are making
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our life more complicated
and bring us more complication
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disease and all kind of things.
And now we are going back to
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full circle back to Eden like
diet, that plant based diet is
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the way to go. The plant
based diet is the healthy one.
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Most of the foods in the
super market weren't there
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a few decades ago. They
made more and more and more
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and they are not brand new
kinds of fruit and vegetables,
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they're just things that
they have done more and more to.
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They have taken out
a lot of the good stuff
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and a lot of things with numbers
on that we don't know too
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much about usually and
it's not at all helpful.
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And actually the foods
that have been interfered with
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this way and I'm not just
talking genetically engineered,
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I'm talking about the
highly processed where they are
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stripped of their goodness
and added things in that are not
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so good. Usually fat,
sugar and salt, plus others.
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That's what is really
doing most of the damage and
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certainly the animal
products are not good either.
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It is just the lack of plants
pollination because of being
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designed to eat them and we
just discovered now thousands
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of substances in the leaf
of spinach, which we don't know
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how they are working. We do
not know but they are needed
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for our body and the latest
research in gut, it's showing
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we have in our intestine
gut...we have receptors of
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plant polyphenols. We discovered
until now 28 receptors
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from plants which
are there in the gut.
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We have in our gut receptors
from bitterness, 26 of them.
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We don't know what they are
doing there but we have 26 of
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receptors for bitterness in
our gut without knowing what
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they are doing there. So the
science is progressing and so
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we starting discovery. It's
like opening your eyes, WOW!
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What are these doing there?
Definitely the bitter receptors
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they are doing something. We
do have receptors from sweets,
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not only in our mouth as we
expected it...Yeah, what was
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the most fascinating, we
have receptors from smell.
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Of stomach receptors,
we have it in our gut.
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So what are they doing
there? We don't know the public?
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science will find out. So
its fascinating when we eat
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on God's formula, that's
what my patient asks, why do you
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change, I said this is
God's formula and God's formula
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is the best formula
in which you ever had.
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And those phytochemicals,
there in every single plant food
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has phytochemicals,
every single plant food.
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And there's thousands of them
and they work like an orchestra
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and if you want them
to play beautiful music,
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we need to have all of the
members of the orchestra there,
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and not stripped out and
not for the magic bullet.
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Because they just work
together in ways that we don't
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understand. I'll just tell
you this if I may because it's a
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good illustration. Some years
ago I went to hear the Messiah
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at a church in a country
town and they had a small choir
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and do you know, they
only had four instruments.
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Oh my goodness. I was wishing
I wasn't there because it had
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a harpsicord and a violin
and a trumpet and I just can't
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remember what the other one was.
You cannot play an orchestra
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piece with those few
instruments and not only that,
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but sometimes a couple
of them weren't needed.
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It was just not
a nice experience.
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But this is an illustration
of what it's like, the
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phytochemicals, there are
thousands of them they have
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discovered. They work together
in ways that we don't know
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and probably never will but
they do it all by themselves.
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Yeah. So whole foods
are really really good...
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I think this is, this is also
the problem when we get sick
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we get diabetes, we say,
okay it's a blood sugar issue
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and we try to address just the
blood issue, blood sugar level,
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but we neglect other areas
which is a whole complete issue.
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We're looking so simplistically
through these and I remember
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it was about 12 years ago and
I went to a medical conference
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and they're talking about
the implications of kidney and
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diabetes and I said what?
So diabetes has to do with
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with the blood sugar and the
liver and with the muscle and
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with the pancreas. No, no, no.
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When you have diabetes actually
your kidney instead of excreting
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enough, it is keeping much more
glucose inside of your body.
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You don't need this, you need
to...you have already too much
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so kidney is damaged,
your intestine is damaged,
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some hormones there which are
supposed to keep the blood from
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control. Your brain is not
working up, in the liver the
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main player in the pancreas
is the liver and it affects
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the liver...when you
have an affected liver,
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that liver cannot work properly
and it is destroying the
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pancreas. So most of
the people who have diabetes
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they have fatty liver,
liver cirrhosis. As you fix the
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problem, your diabetes
will fix and how do you fix a
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fatty liver? With a
diet and with exercise.
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But what was interesting with
you, it was because you had in
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2004, your first stent,
you did not...at that stage
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you were not fully aware
of the dangers or fully aware
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you had to do something,
you can't control...it's not
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happening again. And it
happened a second time in 2008
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when you had your second stent
when your eyes were opened.
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After that you came and saw me.
That's right, that's correct.
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Yeah, and it shows that
even as a health practitioner,
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our knowledge was so limited.
I thought I was doing the
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right thing but I cut out the
sugar and I thought that would
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do it. Cut out the
sugar, but now we understand,
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it's not just the
sugar, carbohydrates and fat
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and all kind of
exercise. The fiber needed...
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Yeah, when you took
out the carbohydrates,
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you are talking about the
refined ones, not the whole
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whole grains and that sort...
That's right, that's right.
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The refined carb...the white
stuff and the rice and pasta
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and things like that.
What did you find recently?
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You told me you have seen some-
body regarding micronutrients
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because we know in diabetes
there is a big deficiency of
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micronutrients especially
Chromium, vanadium and maganese
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what have you done about this?
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The magnesium...You told me...
Yeah. Well I found that we eat,
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we eat a lot of stuff that are
deficient like Dr. Coralia was
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talking about, she now
has the ability to check and
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blood tests and find the
deficiencies in different areas
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in our vitamins and micro-
nutrients deficiency and able to
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adjust these. Is that
what you are talking about,
00:20:09.14\00:20:12.11
is that what you are saying?
Yes, I said you start taking
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micronutrients from your
son and you find out you are
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getting better. Uh, I started
using and when first looking
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at this and I started reading
more about micronutrients
00:20:24.99\00:20:27.52
and how it affects blood
sugar and I discovered Chromium
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for example was one, very
important ingredient was missing
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in our diet and we don't
have enough in our diet and that
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interferes with the blood sugar
metabolism, or blood sugar.
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Yeah, but God did not
design us to take tablets and...
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He designed us to eat our
greens, these micronutrients
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are in tiny amounts in
our food, in our greens
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so again, we go to the design.
If we eat according to the
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design, our body will heal,
we'll have the substance to
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be able to healing to help him.
00:21:05.76\00:21:08.36
These micronutrients
are available freely to us.
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That's right. They are available
freely if only we tap into them
00:21:12.60\00:21:17.41
and absorb them and
let our body do the job,
00:21:17.44\00:21:20.04
do the processing of it.
Yeah so you've been enjoying
00:21:20.08\00:21:24.01
you whole food plant
based diet? Very much so.
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When I was introduced into
the CHIP Program years back
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and embraced that more
holistically because I was not
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on a plant based as such at
all until recently only and then
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I have felt the difference
and the difference has been
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enormous in my health, in my
blood sugar and my whole health
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approach. It's not just
one specific area on me.
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You know when...I think in
some our my previous friends
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sharing how we can see a whole
changes in many facet of our
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life when our health
is addressed properly.
00:22:04.92\00:22:08.76
That's right and we've been
noticing as we've talked to the
00:22:08.79\00:22:11.09
different patients that
you've brought with you for this
00:22:11.13\00:22:12.96
little series Dr. Jigau.
What works for you with your
00:22:12.99\00:22:18.27
diabetes and heart is working
for someone else for their
00:22:18.30\00:22:20.54
kidneys and with their
liver and it's one size fits all
00:22:20.57\00:22:24.21
basically. That diet that
the good Lord gave to our first
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parent works for our whole
body, our mind, everything.
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Did you know you said our
body is 25 hour genes and 75 the
00:22:31.11\00:22:36.05
environment and what is
actually the environment?
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It's the food that you eat,
it's the water that you drink,
00:22:39.45\00:22:42.62
it's if you see your sun,
if you stay in the sun or not.
00:22:42.66\00:22:47.23
If you exercise or not,
the amount of stress which you
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have, so all of these
are lifestyle. That's right.
00:22:50.33\00:22:54.97
All of these we have the power
to address so we cannot address,
00:22:55.00\00:23:00.78
you have a gene is not which
is making your predisposition
00:23:00.81\00:23:05.75
for diseases is not a
death sentence because that gene
00:23:05.78\00:23:08.78
can stay there without being
activated. But if you'll work
00:23:08.82\00:23:12.35
and you'll have the same life-
style like your parents had,
00:23:12.39\00:23:15.72
definitely that gene will
be activated and it will cause
00:23:15.76\00:23:18.19
the same problem which we
have. While if you change the
00:23:18.23\00:23:21.03
lifestyle properly,
that will not be expressed in
00:23:21.06\00:23:24.93
your system. And that's
an important thing because...
00:23:24.97\00:23:27.60
you know we talk about the
genetics but it's like little
00:23:27.64\00:23:30.71
switches and they can be
switched on and off by what
00:23:30.74\00:23:33.78
we ate, so it's just amazing.
I think it was Dr. Del...
00:23:33.81\00:23:37.45
who said, the gene is like a
loaded gun and somebody has to
00:23:37.48\00:23:42.75
pull the trigger. Lifestyle
pulls the trigger. That's right.
00:23:42.78\00:23:45.92
Yes. That was what he said,
I remember that and it's true,
00:23:45.95\00:23:49.09
it's true. You know how
the food is working now...
00:23:49.12\00:23:52.13
These micronutrients which
we need to have, they're acting
00:23:52.16\00:23:56.80
on the nucleus and our nucleus
is doing a certain protein
00:23:56.83\00:24:01.47
which is called NLF2 and
its going...this is triggering
00:24:01.50\00:24:08.21
a 400 genes of repair or
you can do in the same way...
00:24:08.24\00:24:13.95
Another substance which will
trigger your nucleus 400 genes
00:24:13.98\00:24:19.95
of causing inflammation in
your body. So it is working
00:24:19.99\00:24:23.63
not as a simplistic, it's in one
line, its working as a whole.
00:24:23.66\00:24:29.33
Yeah, genes of repair, that's
a lovely thing to know about
00:24:29.36\00:24:31.83
isn't it. Food is medicine we
now know, exercise is medicine.
00:24:31.87\00:24:36.77
Yeah. Sunlight is definitely
medicine. Water is medicine.
00:24:36.81\00:24:42.11
Because water activated genes...
If you eat too much salt
00:24:42.14\00:24:46.78
in the case of high blood
pressure, there are a lot of
00:24:46.82\00:24:50.75
genes which are
activated by excess salt.
00:24:50.79\00:24:52.85
If you stop your excess salt,
that genes will be turned off
00:24:52.89\00:24:56.46
again, they will be
dormant, so you do not touch.
00:24:56.49\00:24:59.69
So everything in the
body is acting on genes.
00:24:59.73\00:25:03.63
And it's
influenced by how we live.
00:25:03.67\00:25:08.20
I remember the U.S.
Surgeon General, he talked about
00:25:08.24\00:25:12.37
lifestyle as whether
we... what we eat and drink,
00:25:12.41\00:25:17.68
whether we smoke and exercise
and the last one actually...
00:25:17.71\00:25:22.12
I was surprised actually,
the last one was how we love.
00:25:22.15\00:25:25.79
Yeah. Very interesting, our
relationships are very important
00:25:25.82\00:25:29.59
too. And if I may say
this and I say it genuinely,
00:25:29.62\00:25:32.73
I've heard from one of
your patients that your manner
00:25:32.76\00:25:37.73
and your care and
concern and your compassion
00:25:37.77\00:25:42.60
has been a big part in helping
them on their journey to change
00:25:42.64\00:25:47.08
their lifestyle,
which is a big thing to do.
00:25:47.11\00:25:48.98
And so I think that is a
beautiful thing to find in any
00:25:49.01\00:25:53.55
medical practioner. Someone
who you can tell genuinely cares
00:25:53.58\00:25:57.19
about you and is there to
support you through this change
00:25:57.22\00:26:01.82
and cares about your
outcome. Love is a healer. Yes.
00:26:01.86\00:26:06.46
And if you go deep, we
under- stand exactly how.
00:26:06.49\00:26:09.66
That's right. Because if you
don't have love, you're having
00:26:09.70\00:26:11.87
anxiety and fear which is
triggering all the cortisone
00:26:11.90\00:26:15.10
and your cortisone problem
in the body and its doing
00:26:15.14\00:26:18.37
anxiety and fear and stress
and every cell in your body
00:26:18.41\00:26:24.25
will feel when your
cortisone level is high.
00:26:24.28\00:26:27.02
The love, when you have
it there, it's settling,
00:26:27.05\00:26:30.82
everything is settling in
the body, the body's supposed to
00:26:30.85\00:26:33.92
work properly. It's
actually stress management.
00:26:33.96\00:26:36.22
Yeah, and God is love, that's
His definition, He is love.
00:26:36.26\00:26:42.26
And also I read somewhere, it's
beautiful...The creative energy
00:26:42.30\00:26:46.74
brought the worlds into
existence as in His Word
00:26:46.77\00:26:49.77
in the Bible. And when we
read it, His very life becomes
00:26:49.80\00:26:54.84
part of us, that essence of
love. So it's a beautiful thing
00:26:54.88\00:26:58.88
and I would really encourage
you if you haven't added this
00:26:58.91\00:27:02.08
to your list of lifestyle
things to actually connect
00:27:02.12\00:27:06.72
with the One who created you.
It's an incredibly healthy thing
00:27:06.76\00:27:10.43
and it even says, I'm
the Lord who heals you.
00:27:10.46\00:27:14.20
So it's a very important element
to actually include our Creator
00:27:14.23\00:27:18.70
as part of our lives, as part
of our thinking and gratitude
00:27:18.73\00:27:23.07
to Him, because that plays
a huge role in the healing.
00:27:23.10\00:27:26.41
Yeah, you have somebody to
trust. Yes. You don't have to
00:27:26.44\00:27:32.11
rely on yourself, you have
somebody who knows and is in
00:27:32.15\00:27:35.05
absolute control of everything
what happens instead of
00:27:35.08\00:27:37.82
stressing what will be
tomorrow, you leave your burden
00:27:37.85\00:27:40.59
there. That's
right, beautiful things...
00:27:40.62\00:27:42.89
It's a three dimensional
is, our health is the physical,
00:27:42.92\00:27:46.19
the emotional and the
spiritual, it's all formed
00:27:46.23\00:27:51.40
together. There's been more
that 1200 studies in the last
00:27:51.43\00:27:54.90
hundred years on the relation-
ship between spirituality and
00:27:54.94\00:27:58.21
health and one person who...
Yeah, just an amazing thing...
00:27:58.24\00:28:04.88
We need to actually close here
now and I just want to close
00:28:04.91\00:28:07.82
by saying that health is
very precious and so I really
00:28:07.85\00:28:12.22
encourage you to think of
one thing that you can do today
00:28:12.25\00:28:16.16
to help you to
live life to the full.
00:28:16.19\00:28:18.43
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00:28:18.46\00:28:22.40
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00:28:30.81\00:28:33.51
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