Fresh air... that's the
precious boon of heaven.
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And fortunate indeed are
those who live where there
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is a lot of fresh air.
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I'm Agatha Thrash,
a staff physician from
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Uchee Pines Institute where
we have a lot of fresh air.
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It's very good down in
the Alabama rural land and
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we enjoy the fresh air.
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But fresh air is a lot
more than we might think of just
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as the delicious
smell of good fresh air.
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During the next half an hour,
we'll be talking about some
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of the great benefits of air.
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So we hope you will
join us for that discussion.
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Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health" with
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Dr. Agatha Thrash of
Uchee Pines Institute,
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and now here is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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We often think of fresh air
as just being not shut up in
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some closed space accidentally,
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or, maybe we think of it
as being out in the open...
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But actually, we can live
for only 3 minutes without air.
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But fresh air, we
don't have to have that
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and we can still live,
we just won't live so well.
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So what we want to do is
to find out how to live well.
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So in order to do
that, we need to study the
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composition of air.
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We need to understand
something about our relationship
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to it and the relationship
of good health to good air.
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And so, with me here
is Don Miller, Uchee Pines
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lifestyle counselor and he
will tell you something about
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the composition of air.
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Don Miller.
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Okay, well Dr. Thrash when you
said that we don't necessarily
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have to have fresh air in order
to live, that's good or we would
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all be dead because
we are really living in
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one polluted world.
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And that's a great misfortune
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and a great sorrow
to many of our hearts.
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But we are surrounded by a
great cloud, a great atmosphere
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of gases and
particles suspended in the air.
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I'm just amazed when I
walk outside and look up
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and see those clouds.
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Tons of water just
hanging up there ready to
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refresh the earth.
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We certainly have a
wonderful atmosphere.
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And it's interesting, we
can look at our atmosphere and
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we breathe nicely in it...
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Were we to stick our head in a
bucket of water, we would drown.
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A fish in water doing just fine
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Bring it out into our
atmosphere it would drown and
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both of us live on oxygen.
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You know when God was in that
creative process back there,
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that first week, it was amazing
how He made each one of us
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able to take in what we need.
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The plants, they are
giving off what we need and
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taking in what we are giving.
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It's a real giving
environment that we are in...
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And the trouble is, we've
taken far too much from it.
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Now, when we think about
what's the composition of our
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atmosphere,
what's it made up of?
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First of all, I will say
that underneath 10,000 feet,
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we've got about a
third of our atmosphere.
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It's pretty thick down here.
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The higher you
go, the thinner it is.
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Go up to about
29,000 feet, that's about
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Mt. Everest's height.
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About 75% of the
atmosphere is below that point.
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Now, you've seen these men who
climb Mt. Everest and women also
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They've go to wear oxygen
equipment because it's so rare
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up there, beyond that very,
very light air cannot sustain
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life quite well.
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Now, what is it made up of?
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What elements
make up our atmosphere?
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People think... well,
it's made up of oxygen.
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Well, if our
atmosphere was just oxygen,
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the next time you lit your
candles for your birthday cake,
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you and the rest of
the world would celebrate
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your last birthday
because, POOF, it would go up
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in one big explosion.
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But, God has made it just right.
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I'm going to sort of
make an illustration here...
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We will take this ball here...
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This is nitrogen...
about 79% of our atmosphere
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is made up of nitrogen.
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That is so that it
does not burn our nose.
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About 20% of our
atmosphere is oxygen.
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That gives up our
life-giving current.
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And then, about 1% is
made up of helium, argon
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and carbon dioxide and
the other gases that make it
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just the right proportion.
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And in the right proportion,
we have good health which is
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exactly what God
wants us to have.
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Now, of course, to have
good health, we have to get
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oxygen into us which we will
talk about a little bit later.
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But I want to talk about
air that's outside the house.
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Now, there are other problems
with air outside the house
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which I will
address in a few moments.
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But let's go inside the house.
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We're inside the house
and many people, it's amazing,
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all the windows
closed, the doors closed...
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How long does the air stay
good in a house with people
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in it when it's all closed up?
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Well, it depends
on a number of things.
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1. How many
people are in the room.
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2. How big is the room.
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3. Is there any wind or any
air at all getting into the room
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Each one of us, every breath,
breathes in about a pint of air.
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That's about 120
gallons per hour.
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So, here we have this room,
you are breathing in this air.
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Now, we have to understand
that when we breathe in the air,
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we are using the oxygen
but we are also breathing out
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some of that oxygen.
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We do not use up all the oxygen.
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If so, CPR would be no good.
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When you give CPR to
a person, you are doing
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rescue-breathing for them.
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You take a breath and
blow it into their lungs.
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Well, there is still
oxygen in what you give off.
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But there is also more
carbon dioxide because your body
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has taken that
oxygen in burning process
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in your cells, gave
off carbon dioxide...
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So now you are
slowly building up
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the amount of carbon
dioxide in your room.
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If you remember back in the 60s,
I believe it was, maybe the 70s
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when Apollo 13 went towards
the moon, they had a problem
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on board and one of the things
that went wrong is their oxygen
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scrubber, their air scrubber,
went down which they could
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no longer scrub the carbon
dioxide in the air and turn
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it back into oxygen.
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And if they were not able
to switch over the scrubbers,
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they would have been in
a real serious situation.
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They came within a
couple of degrees of perishing
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on the way back to earth after
their spacecraft became cripple.
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And so we need to
have our air ventilated...
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We need to have
fresh breathing space.
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Every year there are some
fatalities in this world of
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people,
especially in colder climates
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and more affluent climates.
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Let's talk about, as a matter
of fact, what had happened in
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California not
too many years ago...
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A nice well-built cabin,
double insulated windows,
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everything was just
batten down the hatches...
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they had a nice fire
going in the fireplace...
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and it was a nice evening.
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It was cold outside, so
everything was shut down
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and everyone went to bed.
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Well, the fire continued
burning and burning and burning
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and it slowly ate
up all the oxygen...
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and the people never woke up...
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because the oxygen was depleted,
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carbon dioxide which was
all they were giving off was
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what became the
major gas in the room...
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And that cannot
sustain human life.
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And the people lost their lives.
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We need to have
our windows opened.
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Now, how long does a room stay
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fresh with nobody in it?
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Well, first of all, a room,
no matter how nice the room is
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closed up, the
air will get stale.
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And there are other things in
the air that is going to cause
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it to get stale.
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Everything outgases, the
carpets, the walls, especially
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nowadays, all these
things that are made, they have
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mold retardants and they have
pesticides just built into the
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fibers and into the fabrics and
the flooring and the drywall,
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everything... all
these are out gassing.
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So quite frankly, in a
closed up room, it's not fresh
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to start with.
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And so my recommendation is
learn to keep your windows open.
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I remember when I was in
elementary school, I loved it,
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I had an old elementary school
called Oakley Elementary School
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in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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And I remember, of course, I
was little, so everything seemed
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so huge but it seems like those
ceilings went so high up there
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and I remember my teacher, my
6th grade teacher, this is when
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it finally made an
impression on me...
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She would crack the bottom
window, and then she would
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take this long pole with this
hook on it and go up and she
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would crack the top window.
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And I never
understood... what is she doing?
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I didn't understand that until I
understood the "chimney effect"
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What that was doing, we
realized that hot air rises and
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as hot air rises, it pulls
in other air and so cool air was
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coming in the bottom, rotating
up to the top, going out the top
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and we had this constant chimney
effect which kept the room cool
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but probably more of her concern
was, maybe for a 6th grader it's
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not such a concern about
students going to sleep in class
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that's more in your churches
nowadays, but it kept us more
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awake, more aware, more oxygen.
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They knew that.
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Now windows all close to
the right, or to the left.
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Those are air-conditioning
windows and quite frankly,
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I would rather my air be
conditioned by the outdoor
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atmosphere rather than by
a machine outside my house.
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Not the best way to live,
although I live in Alabama
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and I wish I had some sometimes
but I still am happy at
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nighttime... I can open my
windows, turn on my ceiling fan
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take a cold shower,
lay there on my sheets and
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get to sleep at night.
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So, I like to have lots of
oxygen and fresh air in my room
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And I think we need to have that
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in our homes all
the time, Dr. Thrash.
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Yes, it's a fact that we should
have, in our homes all the time
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We should have a window opened
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We should have circulating
air that never fails us.
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So, as we study this
matter, we need to recognize
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that we sometimes put
our attention on things that
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are not so very important.
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We do put our attention
on our personal relationships
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and that's good.
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We do need to do that.
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We also put our attention
on our food and that's good.
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We need to do that.
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And on the water that we
drink, some of us will not drink
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tap water, we only
drink filtered water
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or distilled water
and that's good too.
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We need to be
attentive about that.
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We will even be attentive about
the temperature of the air.
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But, we need to be more
concerned about the quality
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of the air than we have been.
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Sometimes you will go to
church and the air is not fresh,
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so you will say to
one of the deacons...
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"Could we have some fresh air?"
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They go immediately to the
thermostat... not to the window.
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And if they go
to the thermostat,
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it should be to turn the
temperature up, so they can
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open the air if the
air is cold outside.
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Because we need constantly
to have circulating fresh air.
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A human being throws off waste
products into the air as they
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breathe... they also throw
off some carbon dioxide and
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a little bit of carbon monoxide.
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Fortunately, they breathe out
also some of the nitrogen and
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oxygen and other substances
that they have breathed in too.
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So it's not all
taken up by the blood.
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We refresh the internal
tissues but we don't take up
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all the substances
that are in the air.
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Then also, when we breathe,
we need to air-condition
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and filter the
air that we take in...
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So that's all done by the very
complex mechanisms that we have
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in the nose and respiratory
passages all the way down to the
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very tiniest alveoli that
we have in all those areas.
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We have filtering systems
so that we can keep the air as
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filtered and nice as
we can for the blood.
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Yet, it is a fact that
we often do not do our part
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as well as we could.
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And Valerie Schreiber is going
to tell you something about
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how we can breathe in a
way that will also improve all
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of this function.
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So Valerie, tell us
something about that.
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Yes Dr. Agatha, I'd like to
tell you about proper breathing,
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and the various things
that it facilitates in our body.
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Number one, deep breathing
aids in digestion by massaging
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the internal organs...
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and I'll show you how that's
done in just a few minutes.
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But I also want to tell you
how it assists in the return
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of blood to the heart by causing
a negative pressure to develop
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in the chest, thereby
decongesting your head and
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hopefully stopping the
likelihood of headaches because
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headaches usually come from
extra blood which is congestion
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pooled in the head.
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So just deep breathing can
relieve that condition for you.
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Also, deep breathing pulls blood
up from the legs, thereby making
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it unlikely for your lower
extremities to have congested or
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pooled blood in the lower legs.
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Also, this exercise about deep
breathing that we are going to
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show you in just a few minutes,
encourages the flow of blood
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from the gastrointestinal tract
to the liver for processing.
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Also, after we have eaten
a meal, our blood is usually
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heavily loaded with nutrients
and it needs some assistance
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back to the heart.
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So you can see that just
deep breathing, along with some
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exercise facilitates many
processes in our body that are
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very important, that you would
never think about that breathing
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is going to aid my digestion
and help my blood get back
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to the heart, but yes, it does.
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In fact, I can tell you a few
more things that deep breathing
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does that I share
with the patients.
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And that comes in where
depression or anxiety...
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I tell them to go outside, look
at nature for a few minutes,
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and do some deep breathing
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And you will find that
it's just like a tranquilizer.
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You don't have to go to
the store and buy them or
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get a prescription...
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Just deep breath God's
fresh air for a few minutes and
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you'll start to relax.
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I've had the patients
come back in and say...
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"It is amazing. I can't believe
what that fresh air did for me.
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I feel so much better. "
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So I encourage you to
do the very same thing.
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Now how do you deep breathe?
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You know, we automatically
breathe but it's one of the
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processes in our body that
we can choose to facilitate.
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So we can take in a deep
breath, we can hold our breath,
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we can let it out.
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But one way to facilitate
good breathing is good posture.
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You know, today, so many of us
are crunched over at our desk..
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We are couch
potatoes at night at the TV.
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We are driving behind the car.
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You know, we are on
the computer all day.
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And can you just
see what's happening?
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The chest is all crunched over,
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and those poor lungs...
they don't even know what it is
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to get good oxygen
all the way down in them.
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We're kind of just
breathing off the top of them...
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where we need to be
standing with good posture
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And good posture, one way
that you can do it for yourself
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relatively simply to see if
you're standing properly so that
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you can breath right, is
just kind of get into a good
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comfortable position...
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Make sure that your head is
erect, you are not going to do
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some military thing here.
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But you just lift your shoulders
up to your ears like this
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and then you just roll
them back comfortably...
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Not jerk them back into
a military-type of stance
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And then just
kind of drop them down.
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And you are kind of in
just a comfortable position.
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Now that is proper standing
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As well as I can show you on
Melissa, in just a few minutes,
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how you can measure yourself
to make sure you're head is in
00:15:50.99\00:15:55.43
the right place because another
position that we find our self
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in is... many times we
are crunched over like this
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and then our heads are
jetted out like this and it was
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never meant for our
body to be like this.
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And so one way that you
can check yourself to see
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if you are holding
your head properly is...
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I'll show you here on Melissa...
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You just can take a pen and,
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put your head like this,
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and here is your cheekbone
and here is your collarbone
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So, you want to make sure that
it is standing up straight, not
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jetted out to where it over
this way, or back this way...
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if you're in that military
stance and you're not to be that
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It should be just right over
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top of your
collarbone or your clavicle.
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And that is where
your head really should be.
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One of the other things about
practicing deep breathing is,
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besides good
posture, that you can learn
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by reading out loud.
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If you're reading
out loud and walking,
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it will cause you
to deep breathe more.
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Climbing steps, exercising also
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helps you with
your deep breathing.
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Now one of the things that
a lot of people don't take in
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consideration, is they
think as long as they're
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sucking in that good breath,
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they're getting plenty of it
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But in order to get in good air,
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and to fill your lungs up,
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the important part is
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to make sure you expel
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And it's how much you expel
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to how much you can inhale.
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That's the important
part in deep breathing.
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Now how would you do that?
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Now what you can do is
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in through your nose...
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now I can't talk and do it,
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but you'll get the general idea.
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And put your hand on your tummy
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because when you start inhaling,
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it's not like...
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like this
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You want to inhale slowly
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and you'll feel your
tummy starting to expand.
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And so you sort
of do it like this...
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You just start... and
you keep breathing in slow
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and slow and slow...
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And then when you think
you cannot take another breath
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you just try to do it...
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You just try to go...
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and get another
good one in there
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And then hold it to maybe the
count of 5 or the count of 10
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And then don't do a
"whohh" type of thing
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You won't be able to
let it all out with that
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and that's not proper.
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What you want to do is
purse your lips like this...
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and then you're going...
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And you're just
slowly letting it out
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And when you get to where you
think you've let every drop out
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you just go...
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and get the last little bit out.
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And then you can begin starting
to breathe in through your nose
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and this is the way to
really give yourself a good
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tranquilizer if you're nervous
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or in a state of anxiety.
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It is wonderful
to do it this way...
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But this is a good way to get
good fresh air in your lungs.
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And you know, I say
that what is fresh air?
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You hear about
negative ions, positive air...
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What in the world
are they talking about?
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And where do we get this?
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You know, you hear the
ionized machines and so forth.
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Fresh air is
simply electrified air.
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You know how when there is
a good thunder lightning storm
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...run outside
when it's over with
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because you can breathe
in negatively-charged air
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which means it's
electrically charged...
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It's alive!
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You see, positive air, dead air
00:19:03.59\00:19:05.56
that Don was talking about,
00:19:05.59\00:19:06.91
that's dead air.
00:19:06.94\00:19:08.03
Positive air is dead air.
00:19:08.06\00:19:09.55
That happens in enclosed places.
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And so many of us...
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We work in an enclosed building.
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We live in an enclosed house.
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We drive in an enclosed car
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And you no wonder
that it affects us.
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And some of the
ways that it affect us
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is it causes us to be irritable.
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We can't reason properly
00:19:26.69\00:19:29.33
And I can show you
how this affects...
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back here on a chart that I have
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Lack of oxygen is very similar
to having a drink of alcohol
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how it affects your brain.
00:19:40.54\00:19:42.05
Because you're not
able to reason properly
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Your will doesn't work properly
00:19:44.57\00:19:46.74
Your judgment... you can't
make good judgment decisions.
00:19:46.77\00:19:49.39
And your
emotions are all torqued.
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I've heard people say...
00:19:51.32\00:19:52.54
"When I get up in the morning,
I'm as irritable as a snake...
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Don't talk to me until
about 10 or 12 o'clock...
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and then I'm, I'm better. "
00:19:57.90\00:19:59.47
But a lot of that can be
just from the fact of not having
00:19:59.50\00:20:03.17
good, fresh air in your room
at night to where you can be
00:20:03.20\00:20:06.65
breathing those
good negative ions...
00:20:06.68\00:20:08.27
Because negative ions
come when you go by the ocean
00:20:08.30\00:20:12.08
If you've ever
been to the ocean...
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And when you leave,
you feel so great...
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Well, you know, you've got
exercise out there, sunshine...
00:20:15.31\00:20:17.74
But you have gotten that good,
00:20:17.77\00:20:19.68
negative ionized electrified air
00:20:19.71\00:20:22.97
And it will make you
sleep and feel so good
00:20:23.00\00:20:25.80
Well it happens when you
go in the mountains as well.
00:20:25.83\00:20:28.80
When you go out into the woods
or the forest where there are
00:20:28.83\00:20:31.96
lots of trees... and in
the early morning hours.
00:20:31.99\00:20:35.70
That's a good time
to do your exercise.
00:20:35.73\00:20:37.88
And you'll get good, negative
ionized electrified air that
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will just freshen your
whole body for all the functions
00:20:42.10\00:20:44.91
that you need to
do throughout the day.
00:20:44.94\00:20:46.97
Now office workers,
00:20:47.00\00:20:48.37
I encourage you at all possible
00:20:48.40\00:20:51.44
go out at your lunch hour
00:20:51.47\00:20:53.26
And at your 10 o'clock,
so-called, coffee break,
00:20:53.29\00:20:56.61
don't go drink coffee,
it will kill you any way...
00:20:56.64\00:20:58.49
Drink a glass of
water and go outside
00:20:58.52\00:21:02.75
and breathe some fresh air.
00:21:02.78\00:21:03.75
I grant you,
your work production
00:21:03.76\00:21:05.74
will be much better...
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You'll be much
happier, much more cheerful.
00:21:06.75\00:21:09.37
Now, I want to show you
00:21:09.40\00:21:10.87
why, when you're breathing deep,
00:21:10.90\00:21:14.25
and you'll look over here
on this chart that I have,
00:21:14.28\00:21:16.97
about breathing and exercise.
00:21:17.00\00:21:19.31
We have a muscle
that's right up under the rib
00:21:19.34\00:21:20.31
cage called the diaphragm.
00:21:20.34\00:21:21.31
And a good way to
describe this muscle to you...
00:21:23.20\00:21:25.88
it's like a window shade.
00:21:25.91\00:21:26.88
It kind of rolls up and down.
00:21:26.89\00:21:28.27
And if you'll
look here on my chart,
00:21:28.30\00:21:31.12
You'll see right here
when you have good respiration
00:21:31.15\00:21:34.48
the diaphragm rolls down.
00:21:34.51\00:21:36.79
You'll notice right here,
the lungs are filling up and
00:21:36.82\00:21:39.86
the diaphragm is rolling down.
00:21:39.89\00:21:41.70
When you expire the air, you'll
see that the diaphragm arches up
00:21:41.73\00:21:46.15
and the lungs are much smaller
because it's pushing the air out
00:21:46.18\00:21:49.73
NOW, you get a triple benefit!
00:21:49.76\00:21:52.22
If you go outside
and you deep breathe,
00:21:52.25\00:21:55.15
and you exercise and
you're going to get sunshine,
00:21:55.18\00:21:57.82
and if you go in
the early morning hours,
00:21:57.85\00:21:59.48
you're going to get all
those good, negative ions...
00:21:59.51\00:22:02.27
you will have what I have shown
right here on this picture...
00:22:02.30\00:22:05.22
I have the arrows up here
showing where the diaphragm
00:22:05.25\00:22:08.83
is going to roll down
00:22:08.86\00:22:09.91
But because you are going
for a nice, good walk as well,
00:22:09.94\00:22:13.74
you see I have the
arrows pointing up from the leg,
00:22:13.77\00:22:16.33
you're going to get this
reaction happening to your
00:22:16.36\00:22:20.19
internal organs.
00:22:20.22\00:22:21.32
And it going to be
massaging your internal organs.
00:22:21.35\00:22:24.33
And that's why after
you've eaten a good meal,
00:22:24.36\00:22:26.92
it's good to go out
for just a nice, slow walk
00:22:26.95\00:22:30.11
...not a fast vigorous walk,
00:22:30.14\00:22:31.49
because you'll take the blood
away from the internal organs
00:22:31.52\00:22:34.15
to your extremities.
00:22:34.18\00:22:35.24
But if you go
for just a nice walk,
00:22:35.27\00:22:37.61
it exercises the internal organs
00:22:37.64\00:22:40.06
and, therefore, you'll
digest your food much better.
00:22:40.09\00:22:43.26
But you get some
more pluses besides.
00:22:43.29\00:22:45.52
Here are your intestines
00:22:45.55\00:22:47.47
and it will help peristalsis,
so you will be more regular
00:22:47.50\00:22:50.96
in your bowels.
00:22:50.99\00:22:52.40
When you are exercising
and deep breathing and you are
00:22:52.43\00:22:55.21
creating this exercise
that is happening in your
00:22:55.24\00:22:57.60
internal organs,
00:22:57.63\00:22:58.60
you are giving good integrity
to the walls of all your
00:22:58.61\00:23:01.67
internal organs...
00:23:01.70\00:23:02.75
And you could possibly
prevent a lot prolapses.
00:23:02.78\00:23:06.09
You hear
prolapses... well that's when
00:23:06.12\00:23:07.97
the intestines sort of
hang down because they're weak
00:23:08.00\00:23:10.76
and flabby and filled up
with junk food all the time...
00:23:10.79\00:23:13.77
And you never get exercise and
you're always scrunched over.
00:23:13.80\00:23:16.09
So you get many prolapses...
00:23:16.12\00:23:17.86
Bladder prolapses,
the pelvis prolapses and
00:23:17.89\00:23:21.75
the floor of the
pelvis gets weak.
00:23:21.78\00:23:23.98
But if you do good exercises
00:23:24.01\00:23:26.09
and deep breathing,
00:23:26.12\00:23:27.14
you will strengthen
all this area of your body.
00:23:27.17\00:23:30.11
So I encourage you...
00:23:30.14\00:23:32.42
Learn how to deep breathe
00:23:32.45\00:23:34.07
Learn how to go
out for a good walk.
00:23:34.10\00:23:36.93
And most people
are always saying,
00:23:36.96\00:23:38.48
"Oh, I just don't
have time for it. "
00:23:38.51\00:23:40.87
Well let me read
you a Scripture...
00:23:40.90\00:23:42.70
and a quote that is my favorite
00:23:42.73\00:23:45.10
...Ecclesiastes 4:5 says this,
00:23:45.13\00:23:48.67
"A fool folds his hands
and consumes his own flesh. "
00:23:48.70\00:23:53.93
And so that's what
will happen to you.
00:23:53.96\00:23:55.62
If you don't take time for
your health, you are going to
00:23:55.65\00:23:57.93
consume your own flesh.
00:23:57.96\00:23:59.55
And Earl of Derby says that...
00:23:59.58\00:24:01.13
He says, "Those who cannot find
time for exercise will have to
00:24:01.16\00:24:05.79
find time for illness. "
00:24:05.82\00:24:07.79
Thank you.
00:24:07.82\00:24:09.65
Very good. I think that gives
us a very good understanding
00:24:09.68\00:24:13.17
of some of the anatomy involved
00:24:13.20\00:24:15.49
and also how the
internal organs respond to
00:24:15.52\00:24:18.56
very good posture and
also to very good breathing.
00:24:18.59\00:24:21.89
But even so, some of us may
get some diseases of the chest
00:24:21.92\00:24:26.15
and diseases of the lungs...
00:24:26.18\00:24:27.56
And Don Miller is going to talk
with you about some of those...
00:24:27.59\00:24:31.18
some of those things having
to do with the diseases or
00:24:31.21\00:24:33.68
conditions of the
chest and some other matters.
00:24:33.71\00:24:36.05
I want to fill one more thing
in here because this matter of
00:24:36.52\00:24:40.18
breathing is very important
00:24:40.21\00:24:41.45
Someone has shown me another
way to practice these good
00:24:41.48\00:24:44.44
breathing techniques.
00:24:44.47\00:24:45.92
This is a very easy one.
00:24:45.95\00:24:46.98
I want you to write down...
00:24:47.01\00:24:48.04
1... 4... 2
00:24:48.07\00:24:50.23
Just remember those
numbers... 1... 4... 2
00:24:50.26\00:24:52.67
You breathe in...
you are taking a walk...
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You breathe in to a count
of 1... whatever 1 might be.
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Let's say you're walking
and you take 4 paces for the 1.
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That's one.
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Now you multiply that by 4.
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And so you hold your
breath for 16... 4, 8, 12, 16.
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And then you expire, or exhale,
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you multiply by
2... that 4 steps
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and so you exhale for 8.
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You do that and you're going to
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find yourself really
trying to get that last bit out
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and that will help.
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And that's the problem
with people who have things like
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emphysema.
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A person with emphysema...
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it's not so much a problem with
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inhaling, it's the problem with
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exhaling and getting the
air out of the lungs because
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they've lost the elasticity.
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Things aren't working well.
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And so they tend to get
rather barrel-chested because
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they're always in that
sort of the inhaled position
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and they cannot get
down in the exhale position.
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So they have this larger
chest and they basically end up
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suffocating because they cannot
get the air out of their lungs.
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Now this is caused by people
living or basically smoking,
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that's one of the
main causes of emphysema.
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But it can also be caused by
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people living in
areas of high pollution.
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We were in the State of
Arkansas a few years ago.
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And an old man came into one
of our meetings and this man was
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just a wheezing and a huffing
and a puffing and we wondered
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what's the matter with this man.
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I figured he'd
smoked all of his life.
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It turns out, he had been
a classmate of one of the old
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saints at Uchee Pines and
this man had been a clean-liver
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...not clean LIVER, but he
lived clean for all of his life
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But he had found his
ministry in the LA Basin.
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And in the LA Basin, sometimes
you have what's called a
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"temperature inversion. "
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The cool air comes down at night
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and it's cooler
than the air above.
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So it traps all those pollutants
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And it becomes very, very
polluted down there and he
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breathed this
polluted air all of his life
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And these temperature inversions
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happen all the time.
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One happened in London in 1952.
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It killed 4,000 people.
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We need to make sure
that we've got clean air
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where we are at.
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And if we're not living in an
area where there is clean air,
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perhaps it's time to move
to an area of cleaner air.
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Stay away from carbon monoxide.
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We hear about people who back up
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their cars to their
motel rooms and in the morning,
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in the cold winter and they
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go out and turn on their
car while they're getting ready,
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and the air-conditioning is
sucking in that carbon monoxide
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which is a bad way to
go, Dr. Thrash. Yes it is.
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There are so many ways that
we can pollute the air around us
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and it makes us susceptible
to many different kinds of
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diseases that we otherwise
would not be susceptible to.
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So we hope that you will enjoy
this precious boon of heaven
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that you will be strong and
healthy and that all of your
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internal organs will be healthy
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and massaged nicely by
your good breathing techniques.
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