Hello, I'm Agatha
Thrash, a staff physician
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from Uchee Pines Institute
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and I want to welcome you
to "Help Yourself to Health"
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Today, we'll be
talking about fatigue.
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There are many causes of
fatigue, and we won't be able
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to cover them
all, but we hope that
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by the end of the program,
you'll know a lot more about
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how to keep from getting tired.
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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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Now of course, there
are many causes of fatigue
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in the world today.
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Some of them are
caused by physical activity.
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But, as we have in the
material that we have to present
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to you today, there
are also many causes
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that have to do with metabolism.
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And, some of these
you'll be able to deal with...
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And some of them are
things that you can work at
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but probably
never fully accomplish.
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Now the first one that
we would like to talk about
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is that of a
chronic fatigue syndrome.
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I suppose if it
had more publicity than
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any other type of
fatigue, except maybe
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sleep-deprivation fatigue
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And with the chronic fatigue
syndrome, there are a number
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of things that you can do.
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And, some of the causes
are known to be viruses...
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some causes may be metabolic...
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some may be
nutrient deficiencies.
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And we may have time to
cover a number of these,
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but I've asked Don Miller
if he would talk with you about
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some things having to do with
the chronic fatigue syndrome,
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and maybe some things about
how he treats chronic fatigue
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This is Don Miller, who
is a Lifestyle counselor
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at Uchee Pines... Don Miller
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Okay! First of all, we are
very familiar with the term
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chronic fatigue syndrome.
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It seems to be another
term they have for it anyway
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is the yuppie disease.
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It seems like it's only made its
rise in the last 20 or 30 years
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But as far back as the 1900s,
there were some evidences of
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this type of an
ailment creeping in society.
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In the 1980s, they sort
of linked it somewhat to
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Epstein-Barr virus, but
in that link, they find that
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some people with chronic fatigue
syndrome, do not have the
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antigen to Epstein-Barr virus...
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and some people who do not
have chronic fatigue syndrome,
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do have the Epstein-Barr virus.
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And so, that's not
the definitive thing...
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We can't just go in there and
say... "We're going to make a
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bullet that shoots
just Epstein-Barr,"
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because that might
not be the problem.
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So there are many different
causes, or thought to be
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causes for Epstein-Barr virus,
or the chronic fatigue syndrome.
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I think if we knew exactly what
caused it, we could probably
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find a solution for
it, but we don't know.
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But, as Dr. Thrash
already mentioned, it could be
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viral in nature.
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And so if it's viral,
what can we do for a virus?
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There are many things
that we can do for a virus.
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There are other
things that sort of act like
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chronic fatigue syndrome...
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Let's say like Lyme disease...
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It makes a person very tired...
malaise, and achy joints
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which is chronic
fatigue syndrome symptoms.
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And, we've treated
Lyme disease very, very
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successfully over the
years with something as simple
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as hydrotherapy.
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As a matter of fact, we
have never had a patient
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at Uchee Pines who
came there with Lyme disease
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that did not go away completely
clear of the Lyme organism.
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Basically it consists of putting
a person into a hydrotherapy
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tank, and you can do
it at home in your bathtub
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...Raising their temperature up
and I would normally get their
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temperatures up quite
high, upwards of 104 degrees
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And I've even had
them up to 105 degrees...
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keeping them there as
long as they can tolerate,
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of course at the same
time, keeping their head cool...
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keeping them well-hydrated,
keeping them encouraged
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because it's very
tough to go through this
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particular type of a treatment.
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And we find that that
high temperature will kill
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the Lyme organism.
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We also find that it is a
good way to kill off viruses...
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And so, if it's
a viral infection,
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we give them hydrotherapy...
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And there are other nutritional
things that we can do
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...things like grapeseed extract
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We've seen medical reports
saying that grapeseed extract
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or grapefruit seed
extract, either one of those...
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grapeseed, or
grapefruit seed extract
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...Both will have a good effect
on working on these viruses.
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Another is toxic exposures...
usually lead or other types
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of things in our environment.
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We just need to
make sure our environment
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is clean of these things.
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Another one of the causes
of chronic fatigue syndrome
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is sensitivities... normally
a food sensitivity, an allergy
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And so, it's quite simple
to find what those things are.
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We eliminate everything from
our diet which are known to be
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food allergens and
that's almost everything
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But you can get to a
very, very simple diet.
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Now I would leave
off some main things...
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of course, all animal
products, not just the meats,
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but the milks, eggs and
the cheese... leave those out.
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They are shown to be some of the
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major food
allergens in the world.
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Leave out all
caffeinated beverages and foods.
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When I say foods...
chocolate goes in that class
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We've got coffee,
tea, cola and chocolate.
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Leave off citrus... as good
as citrus is, we're not saying
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that citrus is bad, but many
people are allergic to citrus.
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Leave off many of your
grains, especially wheat.
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As a matter of fact, I've got
a study right here that showed
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that they took an Epstein-Barr
virus, or some chronic
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fatigue syndrome
patients and it did just a
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couple of things for them...
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A wheat-free diet,
treatment of allergies,
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and psychotherapy.
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And what we do with a patient
along the lines of psychotherapy
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is counseling, encouraging them.
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I remember, very vividly,
a patient I had a number of
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years ago with
chronic fatigue syndrome...
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After a series,
2 different series;
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1 series of 15 fever treatments
and 1 of 20 fever treatments.
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The fellow was still
complaining of the fact that...
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"I still don't feel
like I have any energy"...
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and he just felt
like he still had it.
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And I remember that
morning, it was the morning when
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it was doctors'
rounds and Dr. Calvin Thrash
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came into the room with me
to meet this particular patient
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and Dr. Calvin had his medical
reports there and he said,
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Well... I'll call him
Bill... "Well Bill, it says here
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that you no longer
have the virus in your body,
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or the antigens to the virus"
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And, it was
amazing, the transformation!
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He was well! He
just... "I feel GREAT!"
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He walked out of there
feeling perfectly fine.
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There's something...
and don't get me wrong
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I'm not saying that this
is all in your mind because
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it's not all in the mind...
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But many, many studies
are showing that there is a
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a link to how we feel about
things... to how we're going
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to react to those things.
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And so, we did the
fever treatments and we also
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had them on a very,
very close diet to make sure
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that we were eliminating
all kinds of food allergens
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from his particular diet.
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STRESS is another cause
of chronic fatigue syndrome.
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We realize that stress
lowers the immune response
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and so that's going
to be a double whammy
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We've got now a low
immune response and not able to
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fight whatever is causing
the chronic fatigue syndrome
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and so we realize that
we need to reduce stress.
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Now there are many
stressors in our lives.
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Noise can be a stress.
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Just our work can be a stress.
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Now, I can't say go
out and quit your job...
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but if you have the type
of job that causes you lots of
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stress during the
daytime, we realize a very easy
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cure for that is
exercise neutralizes stress
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And so, after work,
go home and exercise.
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Now I realize that
when you get home from work
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after a really tough day,
the thing you want to do is
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plop down and
sleep and you will sleep.
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It's no problem sleeping then...
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But the problem is sleeping
at 10 o'clock or 9 o'clock
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when you should be going to bed.
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But if you go out and get some
good, vigorous cardiovascular
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exercise, you're going to
find that you're going to feel a
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whole lot better... and
this has also been shown to be
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one of the ways to fight
chronic fatigue syndrome.
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One of the causes could be a
marginal nutritional deficiency
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and so, it may be a time
to do some supplementation
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But, I really like to suggest
people to eat a large variety
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of foods over a long
period of time and a very small
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quantity of food... a
very small grouping of foods
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at each particular meal.
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Some people get
into the habit of eating
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the same thing every single meal
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cornflakes for
breakfast, whatever for lunch,
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and the same thing for supper
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Change your nutrients
and try to get your nutrients
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in as complex form as possible.
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That means eating raw fruits
and vegetables, or as little
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preparation as possible...
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you'll be getting
more of your nutrients.
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Ginkgo biloba has been
shown to be very effective in
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fighting chronic
fatigue syndrome...
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And is a very common tree
now, it came from the Orient.
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We see it all over
the country right now.
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As a matter of fact, Dr. Thrash
has planted a string of those
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Ginkgo biloba trees
right down through Uchee Pines.
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And so, I would
suggest you get some of that.
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You can find it in
your health food store.
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Licorice... now not the type
that you get in the candy store,
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the confectionary
stores, but licorice as an herb
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also has shown to be
very effective in fighting
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chronic fatigue syndrome.
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Bilberries and blueberries...
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These bilberries,
blueberries and cranberries
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breakdown the walls of
viruses, so these are very good
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in fighting any type of
a virus that may be causing
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the chronic fatigue syndrome.
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And so, our thoughts are...
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Keep your mind and your thoughts
elevated by praising the Lord.
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You know, I learned
years ago this principle of
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"The Law of
Reciprocal Influence"
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You get up in the morning...
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you don't feel good...
granted, you don't feel good
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but what you need to do is tell
the Lord, I praise you anyway.
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You know, it's like
the old Job-like situation
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"Though He slay me,
yet will I praise Him"
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I received a phone call
from a man one time years ago
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who had chronic fatigue
syndrome to the point where
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he was completely debilitated.
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He could do nothing
more than lie on his bed
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And he decided, after
talking with us at Uchee Pines
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to do 3 things in his life...
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1. He was going to exercise.
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2. He was going
to do hydrotherapy.
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3. He was going to
improve the state of his mind.
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His exercise at the
beginning of his course
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consisted of crawling
across his floor on his
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hands and his
knees. That was it.
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That's all the man could
do, But he did that much.
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Then his wife would
help him into the bathtub
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and give him a
hydrotherapy treatment...
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Raising his temperature
as high as she could...
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And I have found
in my experience with
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chronic fatigue syndrome,
it's very hard to elevate
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the temperature of
one of these people.
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But, you get it up
as high as you can...
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upwards of 102-103,
hold it there for as long
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as that patient is
able to stay in there,
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and then let them rest for
at least an hour afterwards.
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And the third thing was,
he learned to praise the Lord
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no matter how lousy he felt.
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It took 2 years.
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Now, many people
who are suffering from
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chronic fatigue syndromes have
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it for many, many
more years than 2.
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But, he suffered for 2 years
during the treatment process
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At the end of 2 years,
he was completely well!
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He went back to work again.
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He had no residual effects.
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And so I think these very simple
things are a whole lot better
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than the armamentarium
of drugs that they might be
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suggesting in
society today, Dr. Thrash.
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Yes, I'm very much
with you on that score...
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And, of course, something
as simple as a hot bath
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One can take a hot
bath for 20 minutes,
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or one can take
one for 45 minutes
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And if you can only tolerate
it for 20 minutes, that's fine.
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That will help you a lot.
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But if you can tolerate
it, maybe 30 minutes or so,
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then that may be better for you.
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And, 45 minutes could
sometimes be used as well.
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Now there is literally a laundry
list of symptoms that a person
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can have with
chronic fatigue syndrome
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And, of course, in
addition to just overwhelming
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fatigue, let me mention
a few other things as well.
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One of those is depression...
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And I have a list, we
just wrote down all the things
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that we could find that
people have suffered from with
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chronic fatigue syndrome...
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...fever, sore throat, painful
lymph nodes especially in the
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neck and under the arms, general
weakness of muscles... not just
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tiredness but also weakness,
and muscle pain and discomfort,
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the disabling fatigue needs
to be at least 6 hours a day
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and lasting for at
least 6 months... but
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most of the time, it's 24
hours a day... anytime they
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think of it, they are
tired; headaches, joint pains
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and visual complaints, or
other neurologic problems.
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Sleep disturbance is one of
the most difficult to deal with
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and depression is also
very difficult to deal with.
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And then some people
will have the onset at a very
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definite time... they
can tell you at least the day
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or, by all means, the
week and they can sometimes
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tell you the very hour...
"I was feeling good until
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3 o'clock in the afternoon
and suddenly I didn't feel good
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and I felt tired every since...
I had to go home and go to bed
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and I haven't felt
like getting up since then"
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and that may be 6 months later.
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So this is some of the
laundry list of symptoms that
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people with a chronic
fatigue syndrome have.
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Now, nutrition is one
of the important things
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that we can do for
fatigue in general...
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And Lidia Seda, who is
my colleague at Uchee Pines,
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she is a Lifestyle
counselor and a VERY GOOD cook!
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Well, thank you, Dr.
Agatha, I appreciate that.
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And oh, I can see that
you have sea cakes! Yes, I do.
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All right. I really like your
sea cakes... tell us about it.
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Well one of the main ingredients
in sea cakes is kelp...
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And kelp usually is very
beneficial for those individuals
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who may have thyroid problems.
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We recognize that anytime
the body is not working o
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full capacity... whether
it's an illness, an infection
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insomnia, obesity...
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anything that keeps it
from being able to work at its
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full potential, can be fatiguing
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And having thyroid, or what's
called "hypothyroid" can be
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one of the conditions
which can cause fatigue.
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And kelp has been known
to help with this situation
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There's a good bit of iodine in
it since it comes from the sea.
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And so, when you make sea cakes,
you always put kelp in it...
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Always... So if
you leave out the kelp,
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which you could do, then
you'd call it just "cakes"
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You could call it...
well, exactly... call it cakes
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The other nice thing is that
this recipe also calls for basil
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And basil has been used for
individuals to treat exhaustion
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and to help
build up energy. Yes...
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It's a little bit
of a pepper upper!
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A pick-me-up... Yes it is.
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And, of course, we're not
using it in the same quantities
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that a person may need
but using it in your recipes
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overall can be something
that can help to boost energy
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And it's a basic herb that many
people have in their kitchen.
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Well tell us what else you
have in it because I'm sure
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it's also very helpful.
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Well, why don't we let
the whole audience see what
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exactly are the main
ingredients for sea cakes...
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and they are as follows:
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Well now, there are several
very good ingredients in that
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that would help with fatigue.
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I noticed onion...
Onion has Quercetin in it...
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And Quercetin is
very helpful for fatigue.
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It's a good general tonic.
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It's a nice antioxidant.
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It helps you not to age rapidly,
... so it's very good for that
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And then I noticed
also, it had rice in it.
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Rice has a very
good quality protein...
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...not a very high quality but
what it does have is excellent
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And so, those
are very good cakes.
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So we might call them
rice patties or basil...
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Basil cakes if you
didn't use the kelp.
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And many people do
enjoy the taste of fish...
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So this is good way of
getting the taste of fish
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without getting many times the
high salt that we find in fish
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Also, nowadays there's
high contamination with fish.
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Our waters are very contaminated
either with pesticides,
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or petroleums or chlorine...
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Different types of
chemicals that are not
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beneficial for the
body; and unfortunately,
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in the fish, in the adipose
tissue or in the tissues of fat,
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they store that up
in concentrated form
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and we, unfortunately,
then consume that...
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So this is a way of getting the
TASTE of the sea, I should say
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and the benefits of kelp without
getting some of the added
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undesirable
benefits of eating fish.
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You know, as I smell
these, they smell very much like
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the salmon croquets
that my mother used to make
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when I was a girl. Oh really?
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And I can just see myself
taking a slice of bread and
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putting 2 of these cakes on
it with a slice of onion and
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a slice of tomato and
some lettuce and perhaps some
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soy mayonnaise and having a nice
sandwich... a very nice sandwich
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I know once when I demonstrated
this for a cooking class,
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that we held, someone said,
"these taste just like crab"
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So you can see that it
does satisfy the taste of those
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who are fish lovers!
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Yes, if you're a seafood person,
this would be the thing...
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the seafoods... Yes, exactly
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and the other nice thing
about this is that it also has
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celery and celery has
been known to help lower
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blood pressure. Yes
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And it's good for
arthritis as well.
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So, like anything that helps
to get our health that much
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better, can help
fight against fatigue
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And with this also,
we have another recipe...
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a tartar sauce
that can go with it
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And I'd like to share with
the audience those ingredients
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for the tartar sauce...
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What you have is 1 cup of water
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1/8 cup of Soy Supreme Powder
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I understand the Soy
Supreme Powder is made from
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the whole soybean...
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Yes, it's a
better quality powder...
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than many of the other ones.
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1 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
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1/4 teaspoon garlic
powder 1 tablespoon of tahini,
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that's sesame seed butter...
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and that's it...
that's how you make it
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And then you could
add what I have here...
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is a relish and what's
nice about this relish is
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it doesn't have any vinegar.
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Oh, okay, so that means
it was probably made with
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lemon juice to give
it the little bit of
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sourness that you expect.
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And a little bit of dill as well
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to give it a little
bit of that little, I guess
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spiciness that
people look forward to.
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And you can just mix that
in with the ingredients for
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the tartar sauce and you
would have your tartar sauce!
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Oh yes, well I'm a label-reader
and this looks very good.
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It has a little turmeric
in it which is now being
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recognized as having
anti-inflammatory properties
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so that might help a little bit
with chronic fatigue as well.
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Ohh... may I have lunch with
you when you eat these sea cakes
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Of course, I'm hoping you will!
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Very good. Thank
you so much, Lidia
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Appreciate that.
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And I'm a lot less tired
than I was just thinking about
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maybe eating with
Lidia and having some of
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these nice sea cakes.
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Now, there are many other
reasons why people get tired.
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And I have here one
reason why people get tired...
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And this is in teenage boys...
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well actually 11
to 18 years of age...
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They're suffering a lot
of fatigue these days which
00:20:41.00\00:20:44.11
distresses me... I'm just
sorry to hear that because
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I remember that
was the age when I felt
00:20:47.33\00:20:50.25
the most full of
energy I think I ever have.
00:20:50.26\00:20:52.94
But tiredness has been
linked to their lifestyle.
00:20:52.97\00:20:56.48
Let me read this to
you... this comes from the
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"Journal of Nutrition
and Environmental Medicine"
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It was published in 1999,
and you know what they say?
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After ALL this research
that was published here...
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then they come to the
conclusion that there were
00:21:08.98\00:21:11.36
3 things that were involved
in these boys' chronic fatigue.
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Unhealthy food, I
already knew that...
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Bedtime was irregular. Well,
you know, I already knew that.
00:21:20.59\00:21:26.52
Television-watching. I
could have predicted that too.
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So I suspect that these
researchers got $100,000
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to discover this wheel again.
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Now, we need to remember this...
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Unhealthful food, irregular
bedtime and TV-watching.
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Now if we will let our
children go out and exercise
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If we will give them
the most healthful diet
00:21:49.99\00:21:52.35
it's possible to have, and
if we will watch very carefully
00:21:52.38\00:21:56.53
what they're watching on
TV, and that they don't watch TV
00:21:56.56\00:22:00.68
...that they get out
and exercise instead,
00:22:00.71\00:22:02.89
I suspect that we will eliminate
a large part of the fatigue
00:22:02.92\00:22:06.67
that we're now
seeing in the youngsters.
00:22:06.70\00:22:09.13
Now, not only can
older folk and those who are
00:22:09.16\00:22:16.64
teenagers, but even
infants can get very tired.
00:22:16.67\00:22:20.50
And when the infant gets very
tired, if mother knows how to
00:22:20.53\00:22:24.92
do an infant massage, she
is VERY likely to be able to
00:22:24.95\00:22:29.42
help her infant who
may be very cranky and even
00:22:29.45\00:22:32.97
inconsolably crying
because of the fatigue...
00:22:33.00\00:22:38.25
that his little muscles
actually ache because of his
00:22:38.28\00:22:43.02
tiredness, and so because
of that, if mother knows how
00:22:43.05\00:22:47.01
to do an infant massage,
she can substantially reduce
00:22:47.04\00:22:50.64
the fatigue and the
crankiness that her child has...
00:22:50.67\00:22:54.50
And so I've asked
Shannon Jenkins, who is a
00:22:54.53\00:22:57.18
Lifestyle educator
student at Uchee Pines, who has
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a little niece and, you've been
with little Tianna ever since
00:23:01.02\00:23:04.64
the day she was born.
00:23:04.67\00:23:05.75
Does she ever get cranky?
00:23:05.78\00:23:07.60
A little bit, yes.
00:23:07.63\00:23:09.54
Well, show us what you
do in the way of a massage
00:23:09.57\00:23:13.13
when she gets cranky and
tell us how it helps her.
00:23:13.16\00:23:16.97
I see you've got a chart here...
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Yes, I do and I'm going to
demonstrate here on Melissa.
00:23:18.66\00:23:22.21
First start with the leg and
do a milking motion down the leg
00:23:22.24\00:23:28.14
...just like this,
just down the leg and
00:23:28.17\00:23:33.98
put a little pressure on it.
00:23:34.01\00:23:35.60
And then go to the foot,
and like a fanning motion,
00:23:35.63\00:23:41.03
just press on the
bottom of the foot.
00:23:41.06\00:23:43.41
And then, you can go
back to the leg and do
00:23:43.44\00:23:49.66
like a rolling
motion down to the ankle...
00:23:49.69\00:23:52.16
from the ankle to
the knee, just like this.
00:23:52.19\00:24:01.01
And then you can
move to the chest.
00:24:01.04\00:24:02.95
And over the ribcage, you
can do a little fanning motion
00:24:02.98\00:24:07.59
just over the
chest... and then you can go
00:24:07.62\00:24:12.70
from the chest ALL the
way down the arms and back up
00:24:12.73\00:24:16.67
in a nice smooth stroke.
00:24:16.70\00:24:18.57
It looks like that
gets the shoulders too.
00:24:18.60\00:24:20.63
Yes, the shoulders and
all the way down the arms.
00:24:20.66\00:24:23.08
Then you can play a
little bit with the baby.
00:24:23.11\00:24:26.53
...Like peek-a-boo, you
can put your hand over the face
00:24:26.56\00:24:29.41
and go back down to
the ears and come back up
00:24:29.44\00:24:32.06
and across the cheeks.
00:24:32.09\00:24:33.85
Then over here, we can do a
little massage on the cheeks
00:24:33.88\00:24:38.71
and down the jaw, and just
play with the baby a little bit.
00:24:38.74\00:24:43.35
Does that help Tianna when
she has that kind of thing?
00:24:43.38\00:24:47.24
Yes, they will like
that, and after a few days,
00:24:47.27\00:24:49.07
they will respond a
lot more positively.
00:24:49.10\00:24:50.79
They might not like it
so much the first time,
00:24:50.82\00:24:52.85
but after a couple of
days, they will love it.
00:24:52.88\00:24:56.99
Thank you very much, Shannon.
00:24:57.02\00:24:58.51
Now I hope some mother
here will know a lot more
00:24:58.54\00:25:02.59
about how to deal with
a cranky baby because of
00:25:02.62\00:25:06.27
the way that Shannon has
dealt with little Tianna.
00:25:06.30\00:25:08.72
And, don't be afraid
of an infant massage,
00:25:08.75\00:25:11.16
they may act as if they
don't like it at first, but
00:25:11.19\00:25:13.54
you can be assured, as Shannon
said, that they will like it
00:25:13.57\00:25:16.54
after a few times.
00:25:16.57\00:25:18.16
Now one of the big problems
that we have in the modern age
00:25:18.19\00:25:21.16
is that of jet lag.
00:25:21.19\00:25:22.42
So, I've asked Don Miller,
who is very acquainted with
00:25:22.45\00:25:25.84
jet lag, if he will tell
you something about jet lag
00:25:25.87\00:25:29.09
and how to handle that
very good cause of fatigue.
00:25:29.12\00:25:32.21
Yes, it's sort of like
dealing with cranky travelers
00:25:32.24\00:25:34.52
in this case, because
I deal with it a lot...
00:25:34.55\00:25:36.93
because I do spend a
lot of time in Europe
00:25:36.94\00:25:39.03
and other parts of the world.
00:25:39.06\00:25:40.36
And, just a couple of
simple things, and you probably
00:25:40.39\00:25:43.68
know some things...
and if you do, let me know,
00:25:43.71\00:25:45.41
because I need all
the help I can get.
00:25:45.44\00:25:47.72
But one of the things we like
to try to do is try to start
00:25:47.73\00:25:50.32
acclimatizing yourself
to where you'll be going.
00:25:50.36\00:25:52.74
Let's say I'm going to be
flying to London next week...
00:25:52.77\00:25:56.22
I realize that they are
about 5 hours ahead of us
00:25:56.25\00:25:58.84
That means at midnight
their time, when they should be
00:25:58.87\00:26:02.43
sleeping, it's only 7 o'clock
in the evening at my time.
00:26:02.46\00:26:05.24
Now what I should start doing
then, is start going to bed
00:26:05.27\00:26:08.54
EARLIER to start
getting nearer to their time.
00:26:08.57\00:26:11.54
It's not so bad the going to
bed time because it seems like
00:26:11.57\00:26:14.36
we in America all
go to bed too late,
00:26:14.39\00:26:16.26
but it's that getting up time.
00:26:16.29\00:26:17.64
Let's say if they sleep in
and don't get up until 7 a. m.
00:26:17.67\00:26:21.16
that's 2 a. m. your time.
00:26:21.19\00:26:23.55
So if you start getting
up earlier in the morning,
00:26:23.58\00:26:25.75
and going to be earlier at
night a few days before you go,
00:26:25.78\00:26:28.66
you'll sort of lessen
that gap in-between where you
00:26:28.69\00:26:32.77
are coming from
and where you're going.
00:26:32.80\00:26:35.00
Another thing you need
to do is stay well-hydrated
00:26:35.03\00:26:38.28
during your trip and
immediately after your trip.
00:26:38.31\00:26:40.82
We find that you need
to drink a lot of water.
00:26:40.85\00:26:42.03
Now, you understand that
if you're flying across the
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Atlantic ocean, or
wherever you're going,
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drinking a lot of water
means you'll be getting up a lot
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And so sometimes, I don't do
that but I'll stay well-hydrated
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a few days before and
really, as soon as I arrive
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at the airport, I will
start drinking lots of water.
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I usually carry my own
water because it's a lot of
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expense to buy water in
airports but stay well-hydrated.
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Also, it's very, very good...
it's amazing, if you fast
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even during the trip because
that airplane food is not
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that good anyway...
and the day after the trip,
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you'll find that you're going
to have a lot less problems
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and I try as much as
possible to sleep on my trips.
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I take some melatonin,
I put an eye mask on...
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It's always harder going
east, than it is going west
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and so the east side
trips... do these simple things
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and you should find some
real benefit... Dr. Thrash
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That's very good..
Thank you so much for helping
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us to deal with this other
very common cause of fatigue.
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Now, of course, fatigue can
be a part of a disease process
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and if you can't
explain it some other way,
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then you do need
professional help.
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And I would like to
say... The Lord is coming soon!
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And in the earth made
new, nobody will EVER be tired
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We won't even need to sleep.
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We might sleep
but we won't need to.
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Praise the Lord!
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