Hello, I'm Agatha
Thrash, a staff physician from
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Uchee Pines Institute.
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We find people at Uchee
Pines who come there for all
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manner of diseases and finally
we may make the diagnosis that
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your problem is
due to your stresses.
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If you'd like to
hear a program on that,
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for the next half an
hour, we'll be discussing some
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things about stress.
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We hope you will join us.
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Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute.
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And now, here's
your host Dr. Thrash
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It may come as a bit of a
surprise to you that stress
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is a frequent
cause of ill health.
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In fact, very serious disease
can be caused by stress...
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because stress adversely affects
many of our body systems.
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And I have with me one of
my cohorts at Uchee Pines,
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Don Miller
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And Don Miller is a
health educator and one of our
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speakers in many
of our seminars and
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Don Miller will start the ball
rolling with some things about
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stress and how it
impacts the health... Don Miller
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Thank you, Dr. Thrash.
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You know, evolutionists figure
that... Hmm... where did stress
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come from... Why
do we have stress?
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Well, I know why we have it.
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Back when they had to
hunt those big, nasty monsters
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and big dinosaurs and had to
go out there and live by their
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wits and by their muscles.
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They had to have the special
burst of different hormones
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through their body
to get them to survive.
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And now it's just a
vestige of evolution and
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why we have it nowadays.
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I don't agree with that...
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I believe that
stress and the hormones...
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and all these things
involved in the stress process
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are again, like everything else,
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a gift of God to be
used in the right way.
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Stress is a good
thing... in the right situation.
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The trick about stress is...
how do you manage your stress?
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Now let's just look at
the stress situation, or the
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stress mechanism.
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What causes stress?
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Well it can be
something physical...
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It can be
something environmental...
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It can be something chemical...
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It can be a number of
different things that causes
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a stress response.
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Basically, it's going to
be something that you sense
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9 times out of 10...
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Some central input comes
in... you see the Rottweiler...
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you smell the
smoke in your basement...
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you see the flickering blue
lights in the car behind you...
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you see your boss coming
down the hallway and you are
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at the drinking fountain
when you're not supposed to be.
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Whatever it is,
these things are stressors.
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How are you going to deal?
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But what happens
when you get this input?
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Well first of all,
the cortex of the brain
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receives the
information, it processes it...
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and it sends it to the amygdala
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The amygdala again
does some processing
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and it sends along and
activates the hypothalamus
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and the
hypothalamus says... Hmm...
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It sends the message
down to the adrenal medulla
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and it says, "We
need now some adrenalin. "
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And so now... PFUUU! We've got
some adrenalin in our system.
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At the same time, the pituitary
is sending a message down
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to the adrenal cortex and it's
sending out some other hormones.
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Now what do these hormones do?
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Well, the adrenalin is going
to increase your heart rate...
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And it's going to
increase your glucose.
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Now, the glucose goes up to
give you more muscle strength.
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The heart rate goes
up to get that glucose...
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that's now in the blood, all
the way throughout the system.
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The pituitary is sending
its message down to the adrenals
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to send out some hormones that
are going to keep these things
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up at the right
levels, and at the same time,
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increase your respiration,
do some dilation of your
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blood vessels... the
dilation of your eyes,
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your ears are more keen...
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You stop digestion.
You stop elimination.
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Everything is ready
for... perhaps we can use
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the "fight or
flight" mode of the body
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which is a good thing
in the right situation.
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When the Rottweiler
comes, you need to know
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what to do in that situation.
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Are you going to run?
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Are you going
to fight the thing?
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But you need some
special equipment...
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and that's what
it's given to us for.
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The same type of
stress can come to us though
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when we're sitting in traffic
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trying to get to the airport...
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and we're almost late
and the traffic stopped...
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we're going to miss our flight.
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Same type of stress.
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Same hormones are
pouring into the system.
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Your heart rate has gone up,
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you're a little bit flushed,
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you're breathing a
little bit heavier,
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you're starting to worry.
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Now what do you do?
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If you do not take
care of that stress...
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People who get caught into
this chronic stress situation
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...always stressed out and
those are really the type A
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type of people... they
have some serious problems
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with their health.
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We need, at those
times, to learn how to
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release the stress.
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There is one saying I
want you to remember...
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Remember this one...
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"EXERCISE NEUTRALIZES STRESS."
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When you are in a
stressful situation,
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somehow do some exercising.
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If you are stuck in
your car, in traffic,
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stop and go... you can't even
get out and walk around your car
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Start doing some hand exercises,
doing some isometric exercises
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Even singing and yelling will
help you release some of the
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steam from your system...
it's now getting overcooked
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and you're getting
into a sick situation.
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We need to learn how
to RELEASE the stress.
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God has given us this ability
to have the stressful situation
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to meet stressful circumstances.
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We use this stress response
when we are getting ready
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to do something
very important...
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a particular
performance, an athletic event,
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what ever it is, we need this
extra burst of these hormones
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and the
sensitivity to our environment
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to do our very best job.
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And so, I'm thankful for
the gift that God has given us
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in the stress response...
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But, again, it's how we deal
with the stress, Dr. Thrash,
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and most people don't
deal with it very well.
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That is quite true.
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Now, when we are under stress,
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our mucosal surfaces...
in fact all of our epithelial
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surfaces all through the body...
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those on the skin, those
in the gastrointestinal tract,
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those in the sinuses
and down through the lungs.
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All of these are
adversely affected by stress.
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Therefore, when we
are under special stress,
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we can have some kind of
affliction in those areas.
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I remember one time, a
young man we had a Uchee Pines,
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who was one of our drivers.
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He was a very sensitive
young man but he was also
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a young man who was a
bit clumsy and often was
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doing things wrong.
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So one of his supervisors,
one time, just made a list
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of everything that
he was doing wrong...
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Simply wrote it down and
there were 23 items on the list.
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So, I knew that this was
going on and I could hear
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a very quiet young man,
listening to this laundry list
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of all of his failings.
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The very next day this
young man who had not been sick
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in a long time, came down
with a bad case of a cold.
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Now that's just one instance...
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That had to do with the
reduction in the defense
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mechanisms of the
upper respiratory tract.
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But also, in
other mucosal surfaces,
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we have a
reduction in T cells...
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a reduction in the
defense mechanisms that
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guard us and make a
barrier against the entry of
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various germs or
foreign agents like pollens or
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other allergens.
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And so another of our
workers at Uchee Pines,
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a man who is in a very stressful
job... he is one of our
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maintenance engineers...
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And this young man sometimes
has a breakdown of his stomach
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mucosa.
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This epithelial surface
that makes a barrier against
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many things...
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Of course when
we swallow things,
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right there at the
entry, through the mucosa of the
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stomach, that goes from
the stomach into bloodstream...
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right there, there are
barriers that keep things out
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and that's the important
function of this mucosa...
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...is to keep things out.
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We might think that
the mucosal surfaces of the
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gastrointestinal tract are just
waiting to receive everything
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But that isn't true,
there are many things
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that they keep out.
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Or, they keep out
MOST everything...
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Such as too much iron.
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But, let's take the man who
is in the stressful position
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at Uchee Pines, whose stomach
fails under his stresses.
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What happens with him is
that because of the weakening
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of the immune system
in the stomach lining,
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he gets an
infection called, "H. pylori"
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Now H. pylori, as
some of you will know,
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is a germ
associated with peptic ulcers.
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When I was in medical
school, there was one thing that
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we knew for certain and
that is that peptic ulcers
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were not caused by a germ.
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The germs we found there,
we just KNEW that they were
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secondary invaders.
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But now, 50 years
later, we understand that...
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Yes, a germ is one of
the CAUSES, one of the known
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causes of peptic ulcer.
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And the reason that it attacks
the stomach under stress,
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is that there is a weakening
of the defense mechanism
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We always felt that
because of the stress,
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it made us over-produce
hydrochloric acid and
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pepsin and
things of this nature...
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so that we were more
likely to gnaw the inside of our
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stomach lining with
these very powerful chemicals.
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But now we know that it is a
reduction in the immune system
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functioning right at the
barrier and that allows the
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germ to penetrate and colonize
the lining of the stomach.
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Now there are
things that we can do...
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Of course, we can treat
the stress... that is true...
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and we should but ALSO, we
can give the person a variety
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of simple remedies that can be
helpful in this stress-related
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disease.
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One of those is
a tranquilizer...
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and one of the tranquilizer
herbs such as catnip
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or skullcap...
those are very good...
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mint tea and chamomile... these
are all mild sedative herbs
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And will often, with
the continued use of them,
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be just sufficient to give
the person a tranquil feeling
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when they do a
very stressful job.
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Another thing is
the antibacterial herbs.
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There are a number of
them... Garlic is a good one.
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Grapefruit seed extract
is an extremely good one.
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And Echinacea and goldenseal,
these are also very good ones.
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You will find that
Mastic gum is very good
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for the H. pylori germ.
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Many of these can be
obtained from health food stores
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with very little effort.
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And we recommend that
you do try to get them there.
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Now other mucosal surfaces that
can be affected when a person
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is under stress, are all
of those mucosal surfaces
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in the genitourinary
tract... the GU tract,
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that would be vaginal surfaces,
ureteral and urethral and
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bladder surfaces...
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All of these surfaces
are also affected by stress.
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And so, women are more
prone to stress-related problems
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than men are as a general rule.
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And especially is
that so in the bladder.
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So cold feet, which the
body perceives as a stress,
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a stressor... the cold
feet will cause a reduction
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in blood flow and also a
reduction in the protective
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white blood cells that make a
barrier against the penetration
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of any kind of germ
from the outside, and
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because of that, a woman
may come down with cystitis...
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because of having cold
feet or habitually cold feet.
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Now viruses can also
invade our premises easier when
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we are under
stress... such as cold stress.
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And so, we mentioned about
the young man who got a cold,
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but don't forget that cancer
is also caused by a virus.
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The virus of breast
cancer may be triggered,
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or at least assisted in getting
a toehold in the breast by
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the chilling of the extremities.
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We know that in
habitually chilled women,
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they tend to have more
breast cancer, at least in cold
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climates... there is more breast
cancer than in warmer climates
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where the extremities
are not habitually chilled.
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So, I hope that this
little discussion about chilling
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and about stress on the
mucosal surfaces can be helpful
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to you to know how to protect
yourself in this instance from
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these kinds of afflictions.
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And now, Don Miller will
have another aspect of stress
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to talk with you about.
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Okay, Dr. Thrash, I mentioned
the term, "type A personalities"
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I'm not into typing people.
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I don't like all this
phlegmatic and choleric
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and all these things...
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But we do have people who
are a little bit more type A...
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as you realize these are
the driven type of people
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...the
perfectionist type of people
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...everything has to be just so.
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Then you've got the
type B type of people that
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are sort of laid back...
let it flow, let it go...
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Basically the type A
type of a personality
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is the type of a
person who is a stress magnet.
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They make their own stresses.
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Now when I say,
"make their own stresses,"
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again I have to stress..
that STRESSES are out there.
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It's how we relate to...
receive and process the stressor
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I know that some
people when they get...
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I used to be type
A type of a person...
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Let me mention one situation
I was in that I have tried
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very much to get away from...
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and I think the Lord has
given me the great victory here
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I had taken someone to
the airport in Atlanta...
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and I've always
been a perfectionist...
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On the way home
from the airport,
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and I had driven this
road dozens and dozens of times
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I've lived in Atlanta.
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I've been at Uchee
Pines for a number of years...
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Instead of going down
I-85, I took I-285 going north.
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And I really flagellated myself!
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I said, "Why did you
do this stupid thing?"
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You know... this type
A thing... getting tense,
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...heart rate going
up... breathing deeper...
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I'm sure all kinds of
stress things were going through
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my body...
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But then the
thought came to me...
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to ask the Lord...
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"Lord, you know I
know better than this...
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There's a purpose
for this just happening.
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I want you to... Please...
I know that some things
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we won't understand
until we get to heaven,
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but maybe once in a
while, let us find out down here
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why we make these really BIG
mistakes and they were needless"
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And, as soon as I started
talking to the Lord about this
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thing, I didn't
have anymore stress.
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I got off the first exit,
came back on the other side,
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came down and as soon as
I was getting back on I-85,
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someone was
letting out a hitchhiker
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on the side of the road...
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And the Lord told me...
"That's why you did that. "
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Well... Praise the Lord.
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And so, I picked
up the hitchhiker
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and I realized for my
next 1-1/2 hours, driving with
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this young man, why
the Lord had me do this.
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And so when you get
into a stressful situation,
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the best way to deal
with it is to ask the Lord...
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"Why is this thing happening. "
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What in my
character needs developing?
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What in my life needs changing?
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What do I have to learn about
ME to make me a better person?
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And now I've learned,
it doesn't matter to me...
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I'll go to the
airport, and they'll tell me...
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another real quick...
if I can Dr. Thrash...
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I've got a quick situation...
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I was in the airport
in Munich a few years ago,
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and they told me the plane was
overbooked, I didn't have a seat
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And, would I mind waiting...
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And I said, "Well,
I'd really like to go now,
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I've been here for 5 weeks.
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They said, "Well, we'll
give you one of the last seats
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but, if we need
it, can we have it?
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I said, "Sure, if you
need it, you can have it. "
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So they gave me the seat 23-B
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but it turned out,
they did not need my seat.
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I was happy. I was going home...
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So I went and I sat
down in my seat 23-B,
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strapped myself in and
everything was going fine
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and pretty soon,
another man came up the aisle...
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and he looked at me and
said, "You're in my SEAT."
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And I looked at my
little ticket and I said,
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"No sir, this is 23-B."
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And he said,
"I've got 23-B too. "
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And he showed me his
ticket and he turned around and
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WOOOH... back up
front! Type A person.
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Pretty soon,
here he comes back...
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dragging the
stewardess with him.
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And the stewardess
comes to me and she says,
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"Sir, may I see your
stub?" And I said, "Sure. "
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And I handed her my
stub and she looks at my stub
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and she says... TO ME...
"Sir, you'll have to leave. "
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Now, I could have said...
"NO WAY... I got here first,
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this says 23-B...
I'm not going anywhere. "
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I said, "Okay, fine... Do
I have to leave the airplane"
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She said, "Just come with me. "
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I said, "Okay. "
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So I get my things and
she walked out and into the
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little in-between place...
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When I finally got in there,
she handed me my stub back.
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She had crossed out
23-B and written 2-E.
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You know where 2-E is?
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I've WALKED
through first class...
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I was on a window,
second row, first class...
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for 11 hours from
Munich to Atlanta.
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Now if I'd gotten
all stressed out too,
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they probably would
have gone ahead and given it
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to the other guy but
he made this stressor
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his depressor.
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It depressed him for
the rest of the trip.
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But if he knew... I was up
there enjoying myself greatly.
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So, how do you
receive your stress?
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Receive it sometimes as
God's message that He says
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"I'm getting ready to do
something GOOD for you. "
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Receive it correctly.
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I look forward to
these stressful situations.
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Now I just want to
sit back, type B...
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If it goes bad,
there's a reason for it.
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And I know I've got
lots of things left in my
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character to be developed.
00:19:04.23\00:19:05.52
And if He needs to put
me in a stressful situation,
00:19:05.55\00:19:07.67
"Lord, bring em on...
just give me the grace to
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not be creating them for
myself but be dealing with them
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with your grace. "
00:19:15.97\00:19:16.94
Dr. Thrash, that's
the way I like to deal
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with these stress things.
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Ah yes... very good
story. I appreciate that!
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I once worked with a
nurse in Louisville, Kentucky
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who was a pediatric
nurse and a very good one.
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And one of the things
that characterized her was
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that she just fell in
love with her little patients.
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I remember one little
fellow who had big blue eyes
00:19:34.90\00:19:38.67
and beautiful creamy skin...
00:19:38.70\00:19:42.39
and she just fell in love
with him but he had leukemia.
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So, we all knew
that he was going to die.
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And as his disease developed,
she became more and more
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concerned about him...
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And finally when he
died, he died in her arms
00:19:53.74\00:19:57.30
and she just
almost fell to pieces.
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The next day, she got a
little infection of some kind
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and within a week, she
was in a full-blown infection
00:20:05.58\00:20:08.51
and continued to have
that for over a month before
00:20:08.54\00:20:12.62
she could come back to work.
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I had another associate,
a psychiatric nurse...
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She dealt with
schizophrenic patients a lot
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And she would private
duty nurse some of the
00:20:21.52\00:20:23.36
schizophrenic patients.
00:20:23.39\00:20:24.45
And when they would
really go sour in some way
00:20:24.48\00:20:28.84
and hallucinate or get
very abusive toward her,
00:20:28.87\00:20:32.40
then she would come
down with an infection.
00:20:32.43\00:20:35.66
And we find from
studies that have been done
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in many areas, that abusive
situations or major losses
00:20:38.78\00:20:42.92
of some kind, can bring on
an illness of some other kind.
00:20:42.95\00:20:46.82
Infectious illnesses are common
but also a wide variety of other
00:20:46.83\00:20:51.66
illnesses... I
mentioned the peptic ulcer.
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There are also hernia situations
and slip disk situations
00:20:53.88\00:20:58.52
and all sorts of
skeletal problems that can occur
00:20:58.55\00:21:02.37
because of extreme stresses.
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People meet
stresses in different ways,
00:21:04.36\00:21:08.53
and, as Don
Miller just told you,
00:21:08.56\00:21:10.41
if you learn to sort
of roll with the stressor,
00:21:10.44\00:21:14.97
then you will find
yourself to be much happier.
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Learn to have a Christian
attitude about your stresses.
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One of the important stresses
that occur in people's lives
00:21:21.77\00:21:25.00
is that of simple change.
00:21:25.03\00:21:26.74
Just as we heard
about the seat change.
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It's an annoyance always,
when you had planned something
00:21:30.77\00:21:34.28
to go this way...
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And all of a sudden you realize
it is not going to go that way
00:21:35.32\00:21:38.40
...there has been
some interruption.
00:21:38.43\00:21:40.02
There has been
some change of course.
00:21:40.05\00:21:42.10
And as you have
these interruptions and
00:21:42.13\00:21:44.72
changes of course,
00:21:44.75\00:21:45.75
then you find that you're
annoyed, or you can be annoyed.
00:21:45.78\00:21:52.62
But you need to have
the very spirit of Christ
00:21:52.63\00:21:56.40
about the changes.
00:21:56.43\00:21:57.75
If you will read
the life of Christ,
00:21:57.78\00:21:59.62
you will see that His life
was a life of FORCED changes.
00:21:59.65\00:22:03.87
He would be
speaking to His audience and
00:22:03.90\00:22:06.58
in would come the hecklers.
00:22:06.59\00:22:08.20
Or, up would come
those who would glower over
00:22:08.21\00:22:11.77
their glasses,
I suppose, at Him.
00:22:11.80\00:22:14.30
And yet, He steered a
straight forward course,
00:22:14.33\00:22:17.51
or He received the interruptions
with the grace that He has
00:22:17.54\00:22:21.82
taught us...
that we may also have.
00:22:21.85\00:22:24.62
Now, as we think about
the diseases that can come
00:22:24.65\00:22:27.68
to people because
of their stressors,
00:22:27.71\00:22:30.42
we need to know that
we cannot bear stresses
00:22:30.45\00:22:34.50
ourselves... we are
not constructed by our
00:22:34.53\00:22:37.22
Divine Designer
to bear stresses...
00:22:37.25\00:22:39.80
so we can put
these stresses on Him...
00:22:39.83\00:22:42.56
"Father, I am Your
child, this stressor is a
00:22:42.59\00:22:46.42
test for me.
00:22:46.45\00:22:47.78
I am not capable of
bearing this stress alone.
00:22:47.81\00:22:51.16
And, therefore, I request
that Your broad shoulders
00:22:51.19\00:22:56.05
carry this stress. "
00:22:56.08\00:22:57.17
And, I have never had it to
fail me when I have had this
00:22:57.18\00:23:00.88
kind of stressor and this
kind of relationship to it...
00:23:00.89\00:23:04.07
But that the Lord bore me
over the stressor without any
00:23:04.10\00:23:08.62
difficulty at all.
00:23:08.65\00:23:10.05
He is capable of unraveling
the most tangled situation.
00:23:10.08\00:23:14.62
And now, Don Miller is
going to talk with you about
00:23:14.65\00:23:18.03
another aspect of stress.
00:23:18.06\00:23:19.60
Okay... I like to keep
going back to situations in our
00:23:19.63\00:23:23.60
environment... situations
in our lives that cause us
00:23:23.63\00:23:27.24
to thank the Lord for
the stress response...
00:23:27.27\00:23:30.33
the response to a stressor.
00:23:30.36\00:23:32.87
I am the type that...
00:23:32.88\00:23:34.38
and this is a character flaw
that I've got to still work on,
00:23:34.41\00:23:38.58
that if I'm driving somewhere,
I'm going to get there,
00:23:38.61\00:23:42.13
I'm not going to stop...
I'm going to keep on driving.
00:23:42.14\00:23:44.23
And sometimes, I
have been driving along...
00:23:44.26\00:23:48.44
and got a little bit road-weary
00:23:48.45\00:23:50.41
and took one of
those little micro-naps...
00:23:50.44\00:23:52.16
You've taken those yourself.
00:23:52.19\00:23:53.72
And it's one thing to wake up
and you're still on the road...
00:23:53.75\00:23:55.87
But I remember one time,
I was driving down the road,
00:23:55.88\00:23:58.37
and I had still a long
way to go... I was by myself
00:23:58.40\00:24:00.93
late at night... I
really was pushing.
00:24:00.96\00:24:03.26
And I had to get there...
00:24:03.27\00:24:04.71
and as I was driving down
the road, I had one of those
00:24:04.74\00:24:07.74
little micro-naps
and I ran off the road...
00:24:07.77\00:24:10.07
And I HIT something
really rough on my tires
00:24:10.10\00:24:12.99
and it scared me SO bad,
that was the stress response...
00:24:13.02\00:24:18.29
the feeling, the
sight... all these things,
00:24:18.32\00:24:22.10
and I was wide awake
the rest of the night.
00:24:22.13\00:24:24.95
I had no problem getting there.
00:24:24.98\00:24:26.55
And other situation...
when I was in college.
00:24:26.58\00:24:29.71
I was driving from Georgetown,
Kentucky to my college in
00:24:29.74\00:24:34.03
Campbellsville...
late at night again
00:24:34.06\00:24:36.11
and I was tired and I
got to this little town
00:24:36.14\00:24:39.04
and this time, I
was going to stop.
00:24:39.07\00:24:42.03
And there was a
filling station there...
00:24:42.06\00:24:43.60
this was outside of
town, everything was closed.
00:24:43.63\00:24:45.93
And there was a road going this
way and a road going this way...
00:24:45.96\00:24:48.88
and I pulled in and just
stopped, put it in neutral,
00:24:48.91\00:24:52.74
and just put my head
over the steering wheel...
00:24:52.77\00:24:55.09
sound asleep, instantly.
00:24:55.12\00:24:56.52
Car was still
running, lights were on,
00:24:56.53\00:24:59.02
and I was basically
lined up crossways on the road
00:24:59.05\00:25:02.35
before I got to the
road, straight into a fence...
00:25:02.38\00:25:05.07
This is what I was
looking at when I stopped.
00:25:05.10\00:25:07.98
I slept probably no more
than a few moments because
00:25:08.01\00:25:11.47
micro-naps are
very good for you...
00:25:11.48\00:25:13.48
But when I woke up, I
had forgotten where I was,
00:25:13.51\00:25:17.56
anything about the
situation, my car was running,
00:25:17.59\00:25:19.90
and all I could see
was a FENCE in front of me.
00:25:19.93\00:25:22.85
It gave me that
adrenal response.
00:25:22.86\00:25:27.39
It scared me SO BAD,
00:25:27.42\00:25:29.56
I couldn't sleep once I got back
to college... an hour later.
00:25:29.59\00:25:32.71
That really got
everything going in my body.
00:25:32.74\00:25:35.50
And so these are GOOD responses,
00:25:35.53\00:25:38.23
but then again, I've
mentioned before and it bears
00:25:38.26\00:25:41.05
mentioning again...
00:25:41.08\00:25:42.05
When you are in that stressful
situation that you cannot change
00:25:42.06\00:25:46.44
and it's a stressful
situation brought on by
00:25:46.47\00:25:48.79
a deadline,
brought on by your boss,
00:25:48.80\00:25:51.38
brought on by... whatever
it is in your environment
00:25:51.41\00:25:54.03
that you cannot change
and you can't run from it
00:25:54.06\00:25:56.97
...somehow in your experience,
00:25:57.00\00:25:58.76
you have to release that stress.
00:25:58.79\00:26:03.14
And the best way is let
your muscles use up that extra
00:26:03.17\00:26:08.33
glucose.
00:26:08.36\00:26:09.33
Let your muscles use
up that extra heart rate.
00:26:09.36\00:26:12.67
Just by doing some
exercises where you are,
00:26:12.70\00:26:15.26
if you can, just get up
and walk around very quickly
00:26:15.29\00:26:17.76
Take some deep breaths
and surrender the situation
00:26:17.79\00:26:21.85
to the Lord realizing that
good will come out of this thing
00:26:21.88\00:26:24.81
It's amazing,
these stress responses...
00:26:24.82\00:26:28.77
the adrenalin and
all the stress hormones,
00:26:28.80\00:26:32.80
they only last a
short time in your system...
00:26:32.83\00:26:35.72
in working the
really peak activity.
00:26:35.75\00:26:38.56
Use them up as fast as possible.
00:26:38.59\00:26:40.88
As you are letting your
mind get out of the stressful
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situation and it will not do you
the large harm that it WILL do
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if you do not learn to deal
with it correctly... Dr. Thrash.
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There's another area
that I would like to touch on
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in dealing with stress
and that's stress in babies.
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I'm sure that we don't
think about the fact that babies
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can be under
quite a lot of stress.
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They are born into
a foreign environment.
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They are in the nursery with
foreign hands and foreign voices
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that they've never heard before.
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And when they're
with their parents,
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whose voices they do recognize,
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they are often with other people
whom they don't recognize.
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And then lights are
flashing to take photographs and
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all sorts of nurses are
doing funny things to them that
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they don't understand...
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And babies can
develop first class stress.
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And when they're in
the hospital is the time
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when we need to protect
our babies from the stresses
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that can give them
a bad start in life.
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And so from infancy to old
age, we need to be constantly
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aware of the fact that
God is trying to protect us
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from the serious
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stresses of life.
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