Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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I'm Agatha Thrash
from Uchee Pines Institute,
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a place where we try to help
people take more responsibility
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for their own health.
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During this next half-an-hour,
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we'll be talking with you
about some things having to do
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with the health and some of the
diseases of the genital organs,
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so we hope you will
join us for this program.
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Welcome to "Help Yourself to
Health" with Dr. Agatha Thrash
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of Uchee Pines Institute
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And now, here's
your host Dr. Thrash.
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We can be constantly amazed
at the way that God has provided
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for our needs to
protect our health.
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It's a very firm doctrine
of the Bible that God wants
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us to be in health and
that He has made every provision
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for that.
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Just take such things as
the air that we breathe and
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the temperature of the air, the
sun that comes so freely to us,
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and the plants
that are everywhere.
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And many of these have foods
that they produce that are ours
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free for the taking, like
many of the berries and a lot
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of the nuts.
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And I'd like to talk with you
about some of these foods now
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and just what they do.
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I have a review here of
some of the plants that are used
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in epilepsy... in the
treatment of epilepsy.
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In other countries of the world,
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they are a little bit advanced
over us than this country
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in the treatment of
epilepsy using plants and
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here is one in
the United Kingdom...
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plants that are known for
their anticonvulsant activity.
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Let me just read a small
paragraph from this report
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that came out in the medical
journal called, "Seizure"
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in the year 2000.
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It was in the month of September
if anyone wants to take a look
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at this article.
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"Many plants are known for
their anticonvulsant activity.
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Various phytochemicals...
now a phytochemical is simply a
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nutrient or a chemical
or sometimes a medicine
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that comes from a
plant... "phyto" means plant.
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So, these are plant chemicals,
and pharmacologic studies...
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phytochemical and pharmacologic
studies have been carried out
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on these anticonvulsant plants.
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In fact, a review article was
previously published with regard
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to plants with
anticonvulsant activity. "
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Thus, the aim of this
particular group of researchers
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was to review all of this
and to add the benefits of their
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research as well.
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Now what they found was
that people with epilepsy
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could be benefited by taking
a diet high in those foods
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having an
anticonvulsant activity.
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Well, that's very interesting
and very helpful to know.
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Very helpful for
people who have epilepsy.
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We had one patient at Uchee
Pines who, after he changed
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to simply a totally vegetarian
diet, went for a whole year
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without a seizure,
whereas he had been having about
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one seizure per week.
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Then he had another seizure
and it was discovered that he
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had eaten something
that he was sensitive to that
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made him have another seizure.
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I wish I could say that
all people with epilepsy
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would respond just as nicely.
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But we can't say that, not
all people will and, in fact,
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in the study that I
was just telling you about,
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not all of the patients
responded to the plant-based
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diet and those plants that
are known to have anticonvulsant
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activity.
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Then, here is some
work on plants that have an
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antiviral effect.
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The elderberries...
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Elderberry plant grows in sort
of marshy areas in many places
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of the United States and these
berries have an antiviral effect
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So a person about to take a cold
can take some of these berries
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and it's a very
great help to them.
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These same berries have
an insulin-like effect and so
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it's been found that people
who have diabetes will respond
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nicely to the elderberries.
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Then, here's a report about
people having a reduction in
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cholesterol by having plants
or plant foods that are high
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in the plant sterols.
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"Sterols," now that's a
word that's very similar to
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some words which we are
familiar having to do with
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hormones, like estrogen.
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The "strogen" part is really
a little take-off on sterol
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or steroidal substances.
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Of course we know that steroids
come from the adrenal gland
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as well.
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And then the testes also
produce testosterone and the
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sterone part is
part of the sterols.
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So, there are many plants
that have sterols in them...
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common plants, like apples and
tomatoes and cherries and beans
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especially soybeans, and all the
nuts and all the whole grains.
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They all have the plant sterols
and they have a very protective
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effect for us against the
overproduction of such hormones
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as testosterone and
estrogens in the human body.
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So these plants protect us
against the over-stimulatory
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effect of some of these.
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And then, of course,
certain vegetable proteins
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and certain fibers help to
lower the blood cholesterol.
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Very interesting things having
to do with plants and their
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specific effects...
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Effects that were there
from the very beginning of
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the life of these plants...
when the Lord made them back
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before the Garden of
Eden... when He made them in the
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first week of Creation.
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At that time, He put
these chemicals in there...
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these phytochemicals in these
plants so that they could be
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a great help to us.
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Now here is a
report on "ginkgo biloba"
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This is a plant that comes
from a tree... a leaf that comes
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from a tree and the
ginkgo biloba has been used in
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the treatment of memory...
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and many reports will show
that it's good for the memory...
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an occasional report will
show that it had no effect on
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the memory... but I think we
should pay attention to those
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great majority of reports
that do show that ginkgo biloba
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has a good effect on the memory.
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In fact, people that I
have talked with recognize
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that it has helped them...
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And, I look at it this way,
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if it's a placebo effect
and it helps them... fine.
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The placebo effect is one
thing that God has given us...
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It's not something
that we generate ourselves,
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and so, if it helps
us by placebo effect,
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I'm very happy with that,
if it's a help, it's a help.
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But this one showed
that ringing in the ears,
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in 4 of the 5 reports that are
summarized here in this article,
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they showed that ringing in the
ears was helped by ginkgo biloba
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Sometimes people will not
use a great enough quantity
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to make it helpful.
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But, if we use
enough and not too much,
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then we can be
helped by the ginkgo biloba.
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Now, we know that there
are certain plant chemicals
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that can help various...
of our genital organs such as
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the breasts, the ovaries,
the prostate, the uterus and
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those organs that have
to do with reproduction.
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And I have asked
Dr. Winn Horsley, who is
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one of my colleagues at Uchee
Pines, if he would assist me
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in talking some about
these things having to do with
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women's disorders,
like fibroids and menopause.
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What would you like to tell
us about that would be helpful
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to our listeners
about these problems.
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Well, you've already given
a number of the foods that I
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even had on my list
here regarding that.
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This is quite an interesting
topic, and I believe even the
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approach at Uchee Pines
has changed in the past years.
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Now, what one could say
is that these phytosterols
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that are acting as
a gentle hormone...
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In the case of menopause, you're
getting a gentle female hormone
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effect, so that when the
hormones from the ovaries
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for instance, have basically
shut down, then you're still
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getting a little bit of
gentle hormonal stimulation.
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And so it's clear there, why
the person would feel better.
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There would not be an
abrupt change in the hormonal
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pattern... not
so abrupt a change.
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But, here's another situation,
a woman who has fibroids
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in the uterus which are
definitely affected by the level
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of female hormones in the
blood, or for that matter,
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breast cancer... which
often, they nowadays check the
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sensitivity even to
estrogens and progesterone...
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Many of them are
sensitive to those levels.
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Well, one used to think that
then those foods that have those
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phytosterols, we should
avoid them completely because...
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Yes... that was our thought in
the beginning... That's right.
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And then, it became
clear, gradually, that in fact,
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if you have those phytosterols,
they block the heavy stimulation
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that occurs from
one's own strong hormones...
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and so you get a tremendous
benefit by having those.
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It's quite the opposite of what
one might've thought originally
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And while we can say that
the strength of the stimulus of
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these native hormones is strong,
the plant sterols are also
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effective and they can affect
us in a way that we can alter
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the menopausal
syndrome symptoms.
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I remember reading about
a case that perhaps you...
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someone at Uchee Pines did a
nutrition for vegetarians with
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an older woman where
it actually brought about
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a hormonal effect in her.
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Yes, that was Dr. Calvin
Thrash who did that experiment.
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The woman came
with some problem.
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I don't remember what
her basic problem was but...
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She also had not had a
menstrual period for 4 years.
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And so he was wondering if it
would be possible to reduce the
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plant sterols in her diet
and induce her to have a little
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bleeding of menstrual type.
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Because the thing that causes
the monthly bleeding is a fall
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in the female hormones.
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So he thought... he reasoned
if he could remove all the plant
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sterols, maybe she
would have a little bleeding.
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So, he did just that.
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I remember the struggle
that we had to eliminate all the
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foods that had plant
sterols in them... they are so
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abundant in so many foods...
so many plant foods and still we
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didn't want to go to a
meat based diet for her and
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milk-based diet.
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So we fashioned a diet for
her and we had a cutoff date...
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And, sure enough, 4 days
later, she had a tiny little
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menstrual
bleeding... Interesting
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She was a very good
guinea pig for that.
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That was our first try on that.
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I wanted to mention, there
are some that actually are quite
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concentrated in the amount
of phytosterols that there are.
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In this little list that I
made just a couple of days ago,
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it had some of the fruits
that you mentioned... apples,
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cherries, and then other
foods, olives, and so on...
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But the one that, in the list
of foods, that had the largest
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number of milligrams
per, say 100 grams, was...
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if you set aside ones that are
just very rare, bizarre things
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like chestnut oil and so
on... that kind of thing.
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The one that really was at
the top, I would say, is sesames
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and sesame oil which is a large
constituent of sesame seeds...
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So, that was
one... was sesame seeds.
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I don't think most people
use sesame oil alone directly,
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but if you use tahini,
which is a very popular product,
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a large percentage
of tahini is the oil.
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That's sesame butter...
That's sesame butter, so
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in that, you are getting
possibly the most concentrated
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form of the phytosterols
of all the more common foods.
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So, since our postulate is
that taking these phytosterols
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will protect you against
prostate cancer or breast cancer
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then it would be good for
us to encourage people to take
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these foods.
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I think so... I agree.
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And besides that, they're
good foods... Oh, they are
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I have one objection for
myself about tahini butter
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I can't help but think
that my reaction to tahini,
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the sesame butter... where I
get pimples in my nose and so on
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that either that particular
oil has an awfully much stronger
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effect than other oils on me,
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OR, there actually is enough
of those phytosterols to be
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producing like an
adolescent reaction.
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Acne-type
products... That's right.
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That's interesting.
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A second one down
among very common foods...
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In fact, perhaps right up at the
top of common foods in the world
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although we don't eat so
much rice, the Orientals eat
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tremendous amounts
and rice bran is very high
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in phytosterols.
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You know, that reminds me
that certainly in the Orient,
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you will find rice and
sesame seed in a preparation.
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And, almost every table
in the Orient will be...
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...in restaurants at least,
and in the private homes where
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I have visited, they have
these little sesame seed mills
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that you just hold it over your
foods sort of like a peppermill
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and grind out the sesame
seed at whatever... you can
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put them out whole,
dispense them whole,
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or you can put them out ground
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And just do that over
your rice or do that over your
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stir fries and you'll
get sesame seed there.
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You know, looking at
this, just in the last few days
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has made me re-think
this issue of Japanese women
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You've heard about this,
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that apparently in
the Japanese language,
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there's not even a
word for menopause...
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And that they have so
little of any particular change
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at that... what we
call change of life
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And you know, dramatic thing...
all kinds of magazine articles
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about it.
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I and I think many people have
attributed that to their use of
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tofu or soy products...
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And there is no question
that that has some effect.
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But I think that there
is more than just soy that's
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part of that because of
their use of sesame and of rice.
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Yes. Well certainly rice
is an excellent food too.
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It has a good quality protein.
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It doesn't have a lot...
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I think about 2.5 or 3 or maybe
4 grams/100 grams of rice...
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But the quality is SO good that
if you get almost any other kind
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of food in your diet, you're
going to get a good quality
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protein with rice in the diet.
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Now you were telling me a little
earlier that, concerning the
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prostate, there are some
exercises that a man can do
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that can help with the prostate.
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Yes, I think we should call on
Don Miller to give us a little
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demonstration of
some of the things.
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Prostate congestion really
probably is a big problem.
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Maybe it's a background, I'm
not sure that enough research
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has been done on this.
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One thing that has been
noted and commented on...
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A missionary doctor to India,
Paul Brand, a neurosurgeon,
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noted that domestic dogs have
often quite a bit of prostate
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trouble and apparently
difficulty with urination;
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whereas, when you look at
wild dogs, no trouble at all.
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Well the thing about domestic
animals, we of course require
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them to not dirty the floor.
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Whereas, an animal out in
the wild goes when it wants.
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Which makes one think we
should be a little more quick
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in responding to those urges.
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So, if we used the muscles
down in the pelvic region,
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contraction and relaxation
of those to help with blood flow
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we may be helping those
pelvic organs quite a lot.
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And so there are some very
simple exercises that have been
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designed specifically for this.
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And I wonder... Don..
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Don Miller, come right over here
and let's see what exercises
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these are.
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I have the
outline of a few of them.
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One of them is on all
4's... going down on all 4's
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then one alternately
lifts one leg first, like this
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and then lets it down.
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Now when a person does this,
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raise the right one now, Don...
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You're using the buttock muscles
to extend the hip, to get the
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leg to go out straight.
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Let it down.
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Okay, alternating like
that back and forth is working
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those muscles
around the pelvic rim.
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In our book here, it actually
talks about if a person is
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having
difficulty with urination...
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having a tap running... just
that somehow, it has an effect
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in helping a person when they
finish, a few times of doing
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this, they'll have
an easier urination.
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You know, as I am watching
this, I think that women could
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benefit from this as
well... I wouldn't doubt it.
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To strengthen the
pelvic muscles and to encourage
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circulation there so that
they would have less painful
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menstruation.
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Good! Don.
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Now the next one is a simple
enough looking thing but I
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don't think it's
easy for balance...
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So why don't you stand
and show us this one and
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grab me if you need to.
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In this one, you lift one
leg and you do some swings
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or circles with the foot and
the whole leg on the one side.
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Now this requires quite a bit of
exertion in these proximal hip
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muscles... I think that you're
doing worse with me holding you
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Okay... and done for several
minutes, just before urinating
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this can help with the
urination just afterwards.
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One other one, is a curious one.
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The person sits down on the
floor and then he's going to
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lift off the floor, so the
buttocks are completely clear
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of the floor and then,
he goes over to one side...
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He is letting the right
buttock touch and then the left
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and going from
side to side like this.
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And that pressure down on the
pelvic region, on the buttocks,
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can make a difference in
terms of fluid flow, and getting
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that whole region to have the
circulation going more easily.
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All of these may be a help
with this issue of congestion
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in pelvic organs...
So thank you very much.
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Yes. Well, I appreciate that
and certainly in today's society
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where we have men who
do not exercise a lot...
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They are likely to get
congestion in the pelvis
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and I can see how
these exercises would massage
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the prostate and strengthen
the muscles there so that the
00:21:24.87\00:21:29.68
muscles can assist in urination.
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And urination
problems are a big symptom.
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Oh, you know, I don't want
to say 100% but I would guess
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it's 80% or more of men at
some point... as they get to
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and past 60, it
becomes an issue...
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Perhaps we should say
something about some more of the
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phytochemicals with respect
to prostate enlargement...
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Very good... I wish we would
because men need to understand
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that we are not
powerless against disease.
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There are many things
that God has given to us,
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even in this very sinful
world that can be helpful.
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So what would
you like to tell us?
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Well, you know, there are
drugs that are used for this.
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Unfortunately, the drugs,
as is almost always the case,
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the drugs will
have side effects.
00:22:20.76\00:22:22.98
And since these are drugs
affecting an organ that is
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closely connected
with reproduction...
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you know there are going to
be hormonal side effects and
00:22:29.86\00:22:33.25
side effects in connection
with urination and so on.
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They are really undesirable
and often there might even be
00:22:37.04\00:22:39.29
other ones like
high blood pressure.
00:22:39.32\00:22:41.31
Well, many people have
already heard about one of these
00:22:41.34\00:22:46.23
plant products and here I don't
think we need to talk about
00:22:46.26\00:22:48.62
phytochemicals.
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The whole herb is well-known.
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It's saw palmetto...
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Saw palmetto grew
near my home town in
00:22:54.06\00:22:58.36
Baxley, Georgia where I grew up.
00:22:58.40\00:23:00.53
The word, I think, came
from Spanish originally.
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Palmetto means a
little palm tree.
00:23:03.23\00:23:05.70
It is a little palm.
00:23:05.73\00:23:07.05
It grows from about this high to
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as high as my
head and a little over.
00:23:09.63\00:23:10.63
I've never seen the plant,
I'd like to see it sometime.
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Oh, it's beautiful... it
has a beautiful flower and then
00:23:11.67\00:23:15.29
the berries form and they are
not very nice-tasting berries.
00:23:15.33\00:23:18.81
And I think it is the berries
that are used... That's right.
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But the heart of the palm which
is right down near the root, is
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delicious... Oh
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High protein and it also
is high in plant sterols.
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Saw palmetto would be a
first one to mention for this
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difficulty in urination.
00:23:35.62\00:23:36.74
By the way, the symptom
that we are talking about with
00:23:36.77\00:23:38.91
prostate enlargement is
difficulty initiating that
00:23:38.94\00:23:42.60
stream of urination.
00:23:42.63\00:23:43.60
That's perhaps the
most prominent symptom,
00:23:43.61\00:23:46.36
and often called "hesitancy. "
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And then, if that's
gets strong enough...
00:23:47.88\00:23:51.45
if that is bad enough, it
can be difficult to get urine
00:23:51.48\00:23:54.91
coming at all, and they
might have to put in a catheter.
00:23:54.94\00:23:59.92
Other problems can follow that.
00:23:59.95\00:24:02.13
You've got the urine building up
and urinary infection and so on.
00:24:02.16\00:24:06.38
There are a
number of other symptoms.
00:24:06.41\00:24:07.73
Well, we should mention
another plant that really does
00:24:07.76\00:24:11.72
help with this.
00:24:11.75\00:24:12.72
I believe this
one is from Africa.
00:24:12.73\00:24:14.63
It's "Pygeum"... I've heard some
people pronounce it "piegeum"
00:24:14.66\00:24:21.46
Pygeum, if we want to give
a dose... I have one here of
00:24:21.49\00:24:26.27
50 mg twice a day.
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You buy that as a
pill or a capsule?
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I've seen it usually in capsules
00:24:31.15\00:24:33.02
I don't know what others think
00:24:33.05\00:24:36.11
but I'm not happy with telling
people to use whole capsules
00:24:36.14\00:24:40.03
because of the fact
that 90% or more of them
00:24:40.06\00:24:42.61
are made from animal gelatin.
00:24:42.64\00:24:44.14
...that hasn't been
clarified as to its safety.. Yes
00:24:44.17\00:24:48.61
So it's a little bit iffy now.
00:24:48.64\00:24:51.15
If a person can just
tolerate dumping the contents
00:24:51.18\00:24:54.07
of the capsule out into
something and then taking it
00:24:54.10\00:24:57.18
There are others that have
been shown to be of some help.
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I know of "nettles. "
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Nettles do help and so
those kind of things are often
00:25:05.99\00:25:11.02
sold in a
mixture for men's health.
00:25:11.05\00:25:13.63
I have here a rather long
list of various herbal and
00:25:18.38\00:25:26.15
other products that are
put together for prostate
00:25:26.18\00:25:30.27
hypertrophy problems.
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There's even an amino acid
that is said to give some help.
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You know, if all else
fails, does a man sometimes
00:25:36.52\00:25:41.21
have to get an
operation for the prostate?
00:25:41.24\00:25:44.55
Well, at times it
may be necessary...
00:25:44.58\00:25:48.01
And I certainly wouldn't
say that it's never needed.
00:25:48.04\00:25:53.46
There might be some
complications of surgery...
00:25:53.49\00:25:57.07
What are those?
00:25:57.10\00:25:59.07
Well, one of the big ones is
that in trying to shave out...
00:25:59.10\00:26:06.32
carve out from the inside
when you do what's called a
00:26:06.35\00:26:09.45
transurethral resection,
00:26:09.48\00:26:11.19
then you can come too near one
of the sphincter muscles that
00:26:11.22\00:26:17.61
hold the urine and, therefore,
a person can have incontinence.
00:26:17.64\00:26:21.54
And so, of course, that's
a very bothersome problem.
00:26:21.57\00:26:24.86
And then sometimes marital
relations can be difficult after
00:26:24.89\00:26:29.81
or impossible after certain
types of prostate surgery...
00:26:29.84\00:26:33.52
I don't know whether the
one that does the paring or
00:26:33.55\00:26:37.03
the reaming out... I don't know
whether that one is associated
00:26:37.06\00:26:40.63
I think probably the most
would be with the abdominal,
00:26:40.66\00:26:44.32
or even the ones where
they do an open approach
00:26:44.35\00:26:47.62
through skin where
they may easily transect
00:26:47.66\00:26:50.59
one of the nerves to
the reproductive organs.
00:26:50.63\00:26:53.97
Well, we have just a
couple of seconds left.
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Do you have anything special
that you would like to...
00:26:57.34\00:27:00.15
more that you would like to add.
00:27:00.18\00:27:02.37
I am just so impressed by this
whole topic of phytochemicals
00:27:02.40\00:27:10.22
and the fact that
God designed them...
00:27:10.25\00:27:13.22
and that when we think
we know all about foods,
00:27:13.25\00:27:17.01
that shows how ignorant we are.
00:27:17.04\00:27:18.99
That's for sure...
because I can remember very well
00:27:19.02\00:27:21.72
when physicians everywhere
were saying foods have nothing
00:27:21.75\00:27:28.17
to do with cancer.
00:27:28.20\00:27:29.81
They have no
influence on cancer...
00:27:29.84\00:27:32.21
Of course, no physician who
has been trained in the last
00:27:32.24\00:27:35.19
20 years perhaps, would
ever say such a thing...
00:27:35.22\00:27:38.54
because foods now, we are
very well aware have a lot to do
00:27:38.57\00:27:43.62
with cancer and
with many other things.
00:27:43.65\00:27:45.41
We can just take the list
of phytochemicals and make a
00:27:45.44\00:27:49.42
designed diet for
people with various diseases.
00:27:49.45\00:27:52.60
We can thank our
00:27:52.63\00:27:53.95
loving,
Heavenly Father for that.
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