Hello, I'm Agatha
Thrash, a staff physician from
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Uchee Pines Institute.
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We have a topic for you
today that's a very common one.
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Probably the commonest
thing that doctors hear about in
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their offices is allergies.
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Allergies and
various autoimmune problems.
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And so we'd like to
talk with you about that,
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and 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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We have such an enormous number
of chemicals, pollens and fumes
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and foods and dyes and
a lot of things... fabrics
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that we can react to.
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And so, the human body
often does that very thing.
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What it does, is to
look at something and see
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if it recognizes it as
part of what it has had,
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and if it does,
then it is happy with it,
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and if not, then it may react
to what you have just contacted.
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Now this kind of thing...
reacting to something in your
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environment, is quite common.
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In fact, many people today are
what they call "allergic people"
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They react with such things as
hay fever with skin rashes, with
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gastrointestinal problems, with
aches and pains, with fatigue,
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with depression, and a lot
of other things that can be
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said to be a
problem with an allergy.
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Some people can't
sleep because of allergies.
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Some people have flu-like
symptoms because of allergies.
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What can we do
about these allergies?
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Well we have a
number of things we can do.
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One of the allergies that we
don't often think of as being
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an allergic
phenomenon is that of arthritis,
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and it isn't so
in all instances,
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but certain cases of arthritis
do seem to have a basis in
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food sensitivity, especially
the rheumatic types, or the
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rheumatoid types of arthritis.
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We have often found that if
we eliminate the nightshades,
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these individuals will
have much better opportunity to
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be pain free.
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They may also recognize that
their joints, which have been
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swollen, and tender, will
be less swollen and less tender
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if they remove certain
things like the nightshades.
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Nightshades are tomatoes,
potatoes, eggplant and peppers.
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These foods contain a
number of alkaloids which can be
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irritating to some people.
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I like to
explain it in this way...
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...of course it isn't
exactly this way but it's like
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walking through these little
sandspurs that you might find in
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Florida, near the beaches, which
get on your clothing or stick
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in your foot.
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These sandspurs are
little packages with thorns
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sticking out all around.
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And when you walk by, they
are very ready to stick onto
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you and since they
have little barbs on them,
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they don't peel
off very readily.
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And so, with a sandspur
you can carry them sometimes,
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...if you don't notice them,
you can carry them in a seam
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of your clothing for some
months before you recognize
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that it's actually there.
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With these alkaloids that are
present in certain foods like
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the nightshades, I like to
think of them as being like
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sandspurs... they attach
themselves or fix themselves
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as the allergists say, in the
joints on some of the tissues
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and they sort of stay there
to irritate and to poke into
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the person and cause them
to have pain and inflammation.
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Staying off the nightshades
for a period of time...
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say some months, or even
a year, can often do wonders
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to make the person feel better.
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Now nightshades aren't the
only foods that can cause a
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person to have painful joints.
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Soy products are also quite
common as allergy-producers or
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arthritis-producers.
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And some people have a
sensitivity to wheat or to
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all the gluten grains like
rye and barley and wheat and
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other grains that contain this
very large protein that we call
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gluten.
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Now gluten and the nightshades
and soy are just members of
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classes of foods that
do not have any particular
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claim on allergy production
but they are unique in that
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they probably cause more
allergies than most other foods.
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Now there is a type of arthritis
that is not allergic which we
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call gout.
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Gout is caused by the build
up of uric acid in the tissues
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and in the blood which
comes from purine metabolism.
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You may not heard of
purines as a part of foods,
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but purines are often
associated with proteins...
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So foods that are very high
in proteins, especially animal
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products, tend to be high
in purines and tend to have
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a metabolic end
product called "uric acid. "
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As the uric acid builds up in
the blood, and in the tissues,
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sometimes the uric
acid will crystallize out...
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And we are going to show you
how to make a charcoal compress
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and actually put it on somebody
that we are going to tell you
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has gout.
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Now with gout, the foods that
are the highest in the purines
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are liver, kidneys, brain,
heart, sweetbreads, muscles,
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anchovies, sardines, meat
extract, consommé, gravies,
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fish roe and herring.
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Now many of us don't
eat any of those anyway,
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but then those that
have moderate levels are
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some other sea foods,
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and ALL meat and ALL foul.
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Yeast and lentils, whole
grain cereals, beans, peas, and
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asparagus, cauliflower,
mushrooms, spinach and oatmeal
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...those have
moderate quantities.
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So if you tend to have gout,
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you want to leave off all
these foods as much as you can.
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Then those that have negligible
levels are vegetables and fruit,
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many cereals, and
many cereal products.
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So, as you tend to
leave off these foods,
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that makes your
gout tend to get better.
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But let's say you're
in an acute flare-up,
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you have big toe which is often
the part of the anatomy most
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severely affected.
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Your big toe is
swollen and painful,
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and you want to do something
to bring the pain down.
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So I've asked Melissa Thrash
if she will show you how to make
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charcoal compress.
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Charcoal compresses are
not difficult to make and
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Melissa has been
making them for quite a while.
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So Melissa, would you
show us how to make a compress
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and then show us on
your friend, Shannon Jenkins
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just how you apply it... Okay.
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Often people will add flaxseed
to their charcoal compress
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because it helps it to
gel better but it's not
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absolutely necessary.
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You can use either the whole
flaxseed, or you can use the
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flaxseed ground.
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And, the ratio for flaxseed
is 1 part of the flaxseed
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to 4 parts of the charcoal.
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So I'm going to demonstrate
here by just spooning out some
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charcoal...
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1, 2, 3, and 4
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And I can see that
that's a very light powder.
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It's really, really messy.
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And you can add the
flaxseed whole or ground
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into the
charcoal and mix it up...
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And it's as my grandmother
said, it's really, really messy
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and it tends to get everywhere.
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And so, I already mixed
some up so we wouldn't make
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a real big mess.
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But you just mix it up in
with enough water to make it
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into a thin paste and not really
runny but just a nice paste. Yes
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And you're going to
apply that to a porous material
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such as a paper towel, or
a thin cloth, or a napkin,
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or a handkerchief, or whatever
you happen to have that's
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porous enough that
it will go through...
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and just spread it over it.
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Sort of like putting peanut
butter on a piece of bread,
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isn't it? Sort of..
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Sometimes when the charcoal
is made up, it is very thick
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so you want it not to be so
thick that you can't spread it
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easily...
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Okay...
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There should only be one
layer of material between the
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charcoal and between the
skin that you want to put it on
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because it's
not to be a barrier,
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it's just to
contain the charcoal.
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Okay Shannon, I'm going
to put this on your elbow.
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And, we're going to
wrap the plastic around it.
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This plastic is not
part of the treatment,
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it's simply to
contain the charcoal...
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as Melissa said, charcoal can
be quite messy and it can get
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over a lot of things.
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And it is also to
keep the charcoal moist...
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it will help with that quite
a lot and that's very helpful.
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And I suspect you're
going to want an Ace bandage...
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...there you go.
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The Ace bandage
is put on lightly.
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It's purpose is simply to
hold the bandage in place...
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the compress in place...
so it's just simply wrapped
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And the way to wrap an
Ace bandage is overlapping it
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about one-third and it functions
in this instance merely to hold
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the compress in place.
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So once she's got it there,
then she can attach it with the
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little fastener that
came with the Ace bandage.
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There we go...
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And how long does
she leave that on?
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She... preferably could
leave it on all night...
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but you don't have to
leave it on all night.
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Yeah, if it's in the daytime,
she could leave it on just
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a few hours... Um hm.
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All right, thank you girls.
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I appreciate
that and am so happy.
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I'll let you check the charcoal
because it can be spread from
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here to outside... and this
as well... so that we aren't
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liable to get any of that on us.
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It's really quite a liability.
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Now, we have a variety
of things about immunity
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that we need to understand
and to understand this,
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we need to know some things
about white blood cells and how
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the body produces certain
of its important products.
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So I've asked Dr. Winn Horsley
if he will assist me in helping
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you to understand about
this matter of immunity.
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Dr. Winn Horsley, who is a staff
physician at Uchee Pines and
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he will now tell you some
things about the immune system.
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Thank you, Dr. Agatha.
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You've introduced it, that the
real part of the immune system
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is the white blood cell...
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And in this issue of
whether it's allergies or these
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autoimmune diseases
you were talking about,
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we're talking
about the immune system.
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And perhaps first it would
be worthwhile to look at what
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does it do that is
good... since it sounds like
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it's being bad.
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Yes... and these things.
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It would be worthwhile to think
about that white blood cell
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and, I think, maybe
visualize it... All right...
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Could I put it on the board?
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Well yes, I wish you
would... that will help.
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The white blood cell, I
guess we'll outline it black...
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but the inside will
be white... Very good.
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As all the cells in the body,
you have a membrane around it.
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The white blood cells are
very different from the majority
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of blood cells which are red.
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The red blood
cells are like robots,
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they don't have a nucleus...
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they're just
cargo ships for oxygen.
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But the WHITE blood cells have
a nucleus with all the nuclear
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material that there is in
the body... directing things.
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And I'm going to take
one of of the lowest class
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of white blood cells...
what is called a "neutrophil,"
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and what it has is a lot
of little granules in it.
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These granules are filled with
a hypochlorite-type of solution
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which really is
essentially bleach.
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Yes, that's very powerful.
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It is! You know, I heard a
talk once by an emergency room
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physician who emphasized
that a bleach injury...
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if a person gets
undiluted bleach on her hands,
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it's much harder to handle
than a strong acid injury.
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Is that right? Uh huh...
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So, here we have
the white blood cell...
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another name for this
neutrophil is a "poly,"
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a "polymorphonuclear" cell.
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And off here, we're
going to say we have a germ...
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a bacterium, which is an enemy
that we want to get rid of,
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and it is very
good at doing this.
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The very first thing that
happens is that this white blood
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cell has the remarkable capacity
of being able to recognize
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that this is a foreign object...
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Now you may think,
well that should be easy.
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But let's keep in mind... there
are little cells in our own body
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I drew this little purposely
because most bacteria are
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smaller than the
white blood cells.
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But we have tiny platelets
that are there... in the blood.
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And there are so many
structures in the body,
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How does it recognize
which is supposed to be there
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and which is not?
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Well it's an amazing
endowment that, in fact,
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we could say that it is trained
in a college that does this.
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We should really compare
the white blood cell system
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to an army because it
functions very much like that.
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In fact, there are different
levels of the soldiers and
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officers in it
up until generals.
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And they get training in
what you could call the military
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college of the body.
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It's a gland that's
located behind the breastbone,
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so we can't feel
it or be aware of it.
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And, it's actually
rather small in adult life but,
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in early childhood, in infancy,
it's quite a large gland.
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And what it's doing is, it's
training these white blood cells
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to recognize
everything that is you...
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when they're in you.
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Everything that's
in me when it's in me.
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It's to
recognize what is oneself.
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And, when they have
graduated from the college,
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they're well-trained.
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So, as soon as it sees
any object, it quickly checks
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...sort of like
computers do on a credit card.
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Is this an approved or
an unapproved object person?
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And so if this bacterium, as
it shouldn't, it would not pass
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the test, then
it's automatic fight...
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And it's trained
like a hit squad.
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It goes after
hijackers of airplanes.
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It then shows another of
its amazing capabilities...
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It's able to move.
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It's able to swim right
through fluid, or actually even
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go through soft tissues.
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It will come right over to
the bacterium and then go ahead
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with it's destruction.
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Now I'm not going to re-draw
the whole white blood cell.
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I'll just draw the
bacteria right next to it here.
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The next step is
putting out some arms...
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as though it were
going to give a loving hug.
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But the following
step is not a loving hug...
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it is consumption.
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It's now inside but
the story isn't over yet.
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It's now encapsulated inside
the white blood cells' membranes
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but now all these little
granules come into action.
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They come with their bleach
with its powerful destructive
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action and they're
dumped into that little space
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and that bacterium
is history... Um hm.
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Well, that's
obviously an important function.
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Yes, and it's important
also that those little granules
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don't ever dump their
bleach until they get the germ
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in that capsule and they put
the bleach inside the capsule.
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That's very much so.
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It may have taken
another billion years to evolve
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that little
feature... don't you think?
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You know it really is ludicrous
to think that these things
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could have just happened... Yes.
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Now this is, of
course, just one aspect
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of immune function.
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There are other cells
that have, not this action,
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but rather a directing
action, or a memory action of
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remembering previous things.
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And there is a whole system
of molecules called "antibodies"
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that are involved in struggles
like this for getting rid of
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foreign objects.
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Now here, in our talk today,
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we're getting into
autoimmune disease.
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And the underlying
problem here apparently is
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that somehow the white blood
cells have either forgotten
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or gotten mixed up on what
was their original training
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at the military college.
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And so they, somehow,
on encountering some cells
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or tissue of the body,
consider that this is foreign.
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is an enemy.
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It's an enemy... ah ha.
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And so they start
directing their terrible weapons
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right at one's own body.
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Those of you that remember,
not the present struggle
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in the Middle East, but
one about 10 years ago...
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11 years ago, the Gulf War,
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might remember that the main
causalities, the main source
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of casualties among the
allies there was what was called
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"friendly fire. "
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And, friendly fire kills
just as dead as enemy fire.
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That's exactly the kind
of thing that's going on.
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This is really friendly fire.
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That's right.
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What kinds of diseases
do we have that are involved
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in this kind of friendly fire?
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Well, perhaps one of
the most commonly known one
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would be rheumatoid arthritis.
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There is actually
quite a long list.
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We could name a
couple of them...
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Lupus, I think many
people have heard of.
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Other ones are less well known.
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There is an inflammation of the
thyroid... Hashimoto Thyroiditis
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...and the list goes on.
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There's even one type of
diabetes where they consider
00:20:49.86\00:20:52.61
that it's because of
an autoimmune problem
00:20:52.64\00:20:57.26
that these white blood
cells will attack one's own
00:20:57.29\00:21:01.02
pancreatic cells... the
cells that produce insulin.
00:21:01.05\00:21:04.23
And, of course, the
person that ends up with
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diabetes won't have
insulin being produced.
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Well thank you very much.
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This has been very
helpful, very enlightening...
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and FASCINATING... I just
can't imagine how fascinating
00:21:12.93\00:21:17.77
these kinds of
things are... Really.
00:21:17.80\00:21:21.12
Now, in addition to the
autoimmune things that we might
00:21:21.15\00:21:24.84
think of as being against self,
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we have just some ordinary
allergies and I've asked
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Don Miller if he will explain
to you some of the things
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having to do with
just ordinary allergies.
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And it looks as if you have
brought some very interesting
00:21:40.47\00:21:44.05
props here.
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Don Miller, a Lifestyle
Counselor from Uchee Pines.
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Thank you, Dr. Thrash.
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Allergies are very
common in our society and
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I think every single one
of us probably has an allergy.
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We just don't know it because
it seems like allergies are
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accumulative in our
system and we can handle
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a little bit of allergy.
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And it can do something as
simple as cause a running nose,
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all the way up to faulty
thinking and, quite frankly,
00:22:07.92\00:22:11.31
sometimes an
allergy can cause a death.
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I've known people allergic
to aspirin... that a small
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amount of aspirin would
cause death because they are
00:22:16.46\00:22:18.29
so deathly allergic to it.
00:22:18.32\00:22:20.18
But, I just want to explain
this idea of accumulation.
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Some people are
allergic to fumes... hair spray,
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deodorant, perfumes and they
just cannot be around them...
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but some people are allergic but
there is no reaction in the body
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So, let's say this person
is allergic to hair spray...
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but they also happen
to be allergic to dogs.
00:22:38.73\00:22:42.09
And many people are allergic
to animals and they have no idea
00:22:42.12\00:22:44.53
that they are because
00:22:44.56\00:22:45.53
of the fact that their body
00:22:45.56\00:22:46.53
can handle it.
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You see, it's the immune
function that keeps us from
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having an immune reaction.
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So we've got odors in the home,
00:22:52.29\00:22:55.25
and we have a dog in the home,
00:22:55.28\00:22:56.62
and some people are sort of
allergic to common household
00:22:56.65\00:23:00.18
products like Styrofoam or
other types of things we have
00:23:00.21\00:23:03.01
in the home and still, their
bodies are strong enough...
00:23:03.04\00:23:05.98
their immune systems are strong
enough not to have a reaction.
00:23:06.01\00:23:09.22
A good example of the
fact that as we grow older,
00:23:09.35\00:23:11.79
we seem to
become more allergic...
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I have never, in my
life, had a case of poison ivy.
00:23:13.71\00:23:17.21
I can go out and
pull it with my hands,
00:23:17.24\00:23:18.98
I can rub it on myself,
00:23:19.01\00:23:20.03
if I can eat the
leaves... it has no effect.
00:23:20.06\00:23:22.42
I've known people, like
me, that one day, down in their
00:23:22.45\00:23:26.82
older years... all of a sudden
they start getting poison ivy
00:23:26.85\00:23:29.89
because their immune systems,
because of wearing out from age,
00:23:29.92\00:23:32.56
start becoming having
the allergic reaction to it.
00:23:32.59\00:23:36.27
So this person is quite lucky.
00:23:36.30\00:23:37.69
They've got all these
odors around the home.
00:23:37.72\00:23:39.40
They've got Fido in the home.
00:23:39.43\00:23:40.99
They've got all the Styrofoam
and other things in the home.
00:23:41.02\00:23:43.30
No problem.
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Trouble is, they are
also allergic to dust.
00:23:44.41\00:23:48.06
And when they
are allergic to dust,
00:23:48.09\00:23:49.73
THAT sets off the trigger.
00:23:49.76\00:23:51.32
And so... we just
need to avoid dust, right?
00:23:51.35\00:23:55.38
We can't avoid dust.
00:23:55.41\00:23:56.95
Howard Hughes tried
for years to avoid dust
00:23:56.98\00:23:59.44
but dust is everywhere.
00:23:59.47\00:24:00.92
We might be able to avoid
some simple household products
00:24:00.95\00:24:03.53
but that's sort
of hard to do too.
00:24:03.56\00:24:05.06
It's a little bit
easier to... sorry Fido...
00:24:05.09\00:24:09.34
to get rid of the dog
and the odors are hard too...
00:24:09.37\00:24:13.07
So I would say probably in this
case, the dog has got to go.
00:24:13.10\00:24:15.71
And if we get rid of that one
step, that sort of built up this
00:24:15.74\00:24:19.94
system in our bodies to
cause the allergic reaction,
00:24:19.97\00:24:23.65
then we're not going
to have the runny nose,
00:24:23.68\00:24:25.73
the teary eyes, the
cough, whatever it might be..
00:24:25.76\00:24:28.55
And I've known people who are
almost debilitated by something
00:24:28.58\00:24:31.59
as simple as just
a dog in the home.
00:24:31.62\00:24:33.81
So we search the home for...
00:24:33.84\00:24:35.13
what is it that we
might be allergic to...
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find out what it is and
get rid of that one thing
00:24:37.29\00:24:39.84
and all the rest might go.
00:24:39.87\00:24:41.31
And it has already been
mentioned that things like
00:24:41.34\00:24:43.17
milk and eggs, and things
are very high in allergenic
00:24:43.20\00:24:46.54
properties... get rid of
those things first and work down
00:24:46.57\00:24:50.52
to the point where "I
can't get anything out"
00:24:50.55\00:24:52.30
and if you get
down to that point,
00:24:52.33\00:24:53.84
usually you are not going to
be having an allergic reaction,
00:24:53.87\00:24:56.67
Dr. Thrash.
00:24:56.70\00:24:57.67
Well that sounds very good.
00:24:57.68\00:24:58.92
Thank you so much
for presenting that.
00:24:58.95\00:25:01.74
And since hay fever may be
one of those big manifestations
00:25:01.77\00:25:06.51
and people with hay fever
can tend to get sinusitis in the
00:25:06.54\00:25:11.65
frontal areas, and in
the ethmoid areas, and in the
00:25:11.68\00:25:14.99
nasal areas and these
people have a lot of pain...
00:25:15.02\00:25:18.23
especially if they get a
cold or if they do any kind of
00:25:18.26\00:25:23.69
air travel.
00:25:23.72\00:25:24.90
And so I've asked Melissa if she
will show you just how to make
00:25:24.93\00:25:28.77
a sinus pack.
00:25:28.80\00:25:30.37
Melissa...
00:25:30.40\00:25:31.72
Okay, we going to
demonstrate on Shannon...
00:25:31.75\00:25:35.71
Okay, Shannon gets to
take the nice lie down spot.
00:25:35.74\00:25:43.25
Okay, first you are going
to get some water as hot as
00:25:43.28\00:25:47.93
the person can stand it.
00:25:47.96\00:25:49.25
And you are going to
dip the towel into the water
00:25:49.28\00:25:52.32
and wring the
towel out really well.
00:25:52.35\00:25:54.14
You don't want it to
drip and burn the patient.
00:25:54.17\00:25:56.26
And then you're going
to fold the towel over
00:25:56.29\00:25:58.93
somewhat like this...
00:25:58.96\00:26:02.16
Can they see
that... ah yes. Okay.
00:26:02.19\00:26:05.53
Just in a little shape here
00:26:05.56\00:26:08.10
and it's going to go over
the face... over the sinuses
00:26:08.13\00:26:11.52
and her nose is going to
be able to stick out this hole
00:26:11.55\00:26:14.36
so she can breathe.
00:26:14.39\00:26:15.36
That's nice... makes it so
that she has all of her sinuses
00:26:15.37\00:26:20.15
covered and still she is
able to breathe... Um hm.
00:26:20.18\00:26:23.25
And you leave
it on for 3 minutes
00:26:23.28\00:26:25.15
and then change it
out and get another one,
00:26:25.18\00:26:27.52
and put it on for
another 3 minutes,
00:26:27.55\00:26:29.32
and then change it
out and put on another one
00:26:29.35\00:26:30.99
and do this
exchange maybe 3 to 5 times.
00:26:31.02\00:26:33.91
And then when you're done,
00:26:33.94\00:26:36.06
you can take it
off and get a dry towel
00:26:36.09\00:26:38.72
just like the one
that you used that was wet
00:26:38.75\00:26:42.03
and put it on the
face and leave it there
00:26:42.06\00:26:48.62
for a little while
to dry the face off...
00:26:48.65\00:26:51.09
And let them maybe go to
sleep and when they wake up,
00:26:51.12\00:26:54.17
you hope that they'll
be completely well of their
00:26:54.20\00:26:56.71
sinusitis.
00:26:56.74\00:26:57.71
This is a very
effective treatment
00:26:57.72\00:27:01.09
and we have seen this especially
for people who have the flu,
00:27:01.12\00:27:04.09
or people who have severe
allergies with a bad case of
00:27:04.12\00:27:09.27
sinusitis.
00:27:09.30\00:27:10.27
We have seen it work
just absolutely marvels.
00:27:10.28\00:27:12.76
Sometimes within seconds
of putting the part of this
00:27:12.79\00:27:18.08
sinus pack in place, the person
is already having a reduction
00:27:18.11\00:27:22.27
in their pain.
00:27:22.30\00:27:23.80
Now pain and drippy nose
characterize those who have
00:27:23.83\00:27:29.30
acute sinusitis.
00:27:29.33\00:27:31.29
Chronic sinusitis is
almost always associated also
00:27:31.32\00:27:36.00
with a little bit of cough.
00:27:36.03\00:27:37.47
The reason for that is
that the secretions run back
00:27:37.50\00:27:41.41
in the back of the throat
and run down into the bronchi.
00:27:41.44\00:27:45.50
We can see then that some of
the things that the Lord made
00:27:45.53\00:27:49.39
for our benefit and
for our enjoyment at times
00:27:49.42\00:27:53.43
come to be our enemies and
the body works against them.
00:27:53.46\00:27:57.86
May God richly bless you.
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