Hello, my name is Agatha Thrash.
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I'm on the medical staff
of Uchee Pines Institute.
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We have a program for you
of gastrointestinal problems,
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and anything that involves
the mouth, down all the way
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through the intestinal tract...
we might be talking about it.
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So we hope that you will join us
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and I think
you'll enjoy our program.
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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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If someone said to
you, "I have an ulcer"...
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You would probably think
"peptic ulcer," wouldn't you?
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Now that's strange
because most of the time
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when people have an ulcer,
it isn't an ulcer of the stomach
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It's an ulcer of the skin...
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but when we say,
"I have an ulcer,"
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this is such a serious
affliction, that most of the
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time, people understand
that you mean you've got a
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peptic ulcer in the
stomach, or in the esophagus,
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or in the duodenum,
or even in the jejunum
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But most of the time, it's
in the stomach, or the duodenum
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Now peptic ulcers are
so-called because the pepsin
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in the stomach has
somehow gotten so that it has
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reached the very
tissue of the stomach itself
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and has actually
eroded the tissue itself.
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Pepsin is a very
powerful digestant...
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and can digest the stomach
itself if it actually touches it
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...And so, for that
reason, there is usually a very
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nice layer of
mucous all along the lining
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of the intestinal
tract from the esophagus
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all the way down
through to the anus.
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Now because of that,
the powerful digestants
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which we produce, cannot
actually get at the lining
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and digest the lining, so
that it makes an ulcer for us.
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So what would cause
an ulcer to develop?
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Well one of the
important things is a GERM.
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A germ called
"Helicobacter pylori"
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This germ has been
around for a long time
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and yet, we did not know
that it afflicted the stomach
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in this way until just
the last very few years.
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When I was in medical
school, there was one thing
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that we knew for sure
about peptic ulcers...
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and that was that it
was NOT an infection.
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We knew that it was caused by
the pepsin, the peptic digestion
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And so, we called
it a "peptic ulcer"
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That's how it got its name.
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And interestingly enough,
we continue to act on that
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premise and we treated
people for all sorts of things
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having to do with too
much acid, too much pepsin,
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too much
motility of the stomach,
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too much hyperactivity
of the individual...
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a lot of stress...
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We gave them tranquilizers...
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We went in and cut the nerves...
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We did all sorts of
things to people to try to
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treat peptic ulcers, and
we knew that our treatment
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was not successful,
but we didn't understand
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that the reason it was
not successful... was because
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it was caused by a germ,
and we should attack the GERM
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and not the nerves, or the acid,
or the pepsin, or whatever.
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In recent years, we've learned
how to treat the people with
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peptic ulcers by
attacking the germ itself.
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Now, can you do that
with natural remedies?
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Yes, as a matter of fact,
I believe that the natural
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remedies are actually more
effective than the antibiotics
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that are given for this.
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We have people come to us
frequently... who have been
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treated with antibiotics
for their peptic ulcers...
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their Helicobacter, and
they have not had a success...
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And they come to us and we
give them very simple things
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that we treat with...
the goldenseal, echinacea,
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the myrrh, the garlic,
the grapefruit seed extract,
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and with these
things, treatment for a month,
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which is about
the standard treatment
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using any kind of treatment...
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we treat them for about a
month and most of the time,
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they are
completely free of symptoms.
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Even though they may
have had the symptoms
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for years and years, they
are completely free of symptoms
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usually in about a month.
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And, so we feel very good about
the treatment of peptic ulcers
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using these very simple things.
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Of course, at the same
time that we tell a person
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about the treatment for peptic
ulcer using these herbal things,
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we also tell them how
to change the lifestyle...
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Because often, a change in
lifestyle is needed so that
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they will not become re-infected
with the Helicobacter...
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and that is,
indeed, quite a possibility.
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So, one of the things
that we tell them to do
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is to make certain
they get plenty of exercise.
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Now how does a
person get GOOD exercise?
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Well the very best quality
exercise is purposeful labor.
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Now purposeful labor is
something like doing gardening.
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Or, it may be yard
work... Or, painting the house
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...something that requires
that you do some vigorous
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physical labor that
has a purpose to it.
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Now if you plant a garden,
the weeds that are growing up,
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or the vegetables that mature,
they're going to be coercive
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to you to get out there
and deal with the garden.
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And so, every day, you must go
out there and, for an hour or 2,
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you must work in your garden...
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That's VERY GOOD
exercise. It's ideal.
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One more thing that
can make exercise ideal is
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that of an exercise partner...
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especially if that's a neighbor,
a person who comes from
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a little bit of distance to
your house, or you go a little
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bit of distance to her
house, and there, the 2 of you
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begin some kind of exercise
that's hard, physical labor...
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such as clearing an
area that has been neglected
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and maybe you make a
little park out of an otherwise
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neglected bramble patch.
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That can be very good labor...
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And because it is purposeful,
and because you have a
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partner, both of
those are coercive,
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and they sort of give you
a little shove to get out of
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doors and get moving.
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Now, I have Don
Miller with me here today
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and Don Miller is
going to talk with you about
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some things having to do
with the gastrointestinal tract
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...and it looks as if you
may be prepared to deal with
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any part of the
intestinal tract...
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Well, quite a few things,
but the one I want to talk about
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right now is a
thing called "GERD"
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One in 5 people
have it at some time.
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Even I think
sometimes I have it...
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You get that little bit
of burning in your esophagus.
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That's what GERD stands for...
gastroesophageal reflux disorder
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You've got things
bubbling up from your stomach
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into your esophagus which
can be very, very irritating...
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And can lead to some long-term
and very chronic problems.
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It can even lead
to esophageal cancer.
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It can lead to a narrowing
of the bottom part of your
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esophagus which will
make it hard to swallow.
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It just makes life
miserable for many people,
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and some people
have it all the time.
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Some of the main
factors causing GERD
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are obesity... and, we're
going to talk about, briefly,
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how we can avoid
that particular problem
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...a lack of exercise,
overeating is a main problem
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because we get so
much food down there,
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our stomach tries to
force the food back up into the
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main part of your stomach
to get even the first part
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of digestion begun, and
if we're pushing too hard,
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some of that will come back
up through the cardiac sphincter
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and start burning the esophagus
because it's got digestive
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juices already in there...
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and it's not made to
receive digestive juices.
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Also, taking certain
drugs like aspirin, is very bad
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actor when we're
talking about GERD.
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What can we do about GERD?
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1. We need to stop
eating so much food.
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We need to lose weight.
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We need to eat in
a relaxed climate...
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And I would recommend to a
person, after they get done
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with a meal, get
some of the exercise that
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Dr. Agatha Thrash talked about.
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Many people, when
they get done with a meal,
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they go into the other
room, and they plop down
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and... watch the
TV? Or, go to sleep?
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They are so tired
from all that eating,
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they just got to get some rest!
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And I teach people a good habit
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I want them to learn
when they're eating...
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The habit that we
have when we eat...
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is we have our plate of
food, we get a nice big spoon
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or a forkful... we
put it into our mouth,
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and the next thing that we
do, is we dive RIGHT back down
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to the plate of
food, and we start carving
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out the next portion.
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Now our eyes are seeing this,
and our brain is interpreting
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all this saying...
"Look, here comes another one,
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dump what you've got. "
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And so this unchewed
food, is now pushed back to the
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tongue, and as that
next spoonful comes up,
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you swallow... and that
food is NOT ready to enter
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into your stomach, and
you take the next spoonful...
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So what do we do?
Here's what I recommend...
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you take a
spoonful, forkful, knifeful;
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however, you eat a
food... chopstickful,
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put it in your mouth and then
lay your eating instrument down
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and chew your food.
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Just chew it and
relax as you chew your food.
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Don't sit there and
chase one bite after another,
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and don't drink with your meals.
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You need to drink about 8
to 10 glasses of water a day.
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This will be very healthy.
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It helps to build
up the digestive juices
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but we don't drink the water
or any liquids with our meals
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because of the fact
that it will dilute the food
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It will dilute our digestive
juices, and when it gets diluted
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the body says... "we need
more," and it just pumps more
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into the system.
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We should be in a 2-meal plan.
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As a matter of fact, it
will sound as a broken record
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as we talk about all of
these intestinal tract problems.
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We need to go to
a 2-meal a day plan.
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1. It will lessen
our instance of obesity.
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2. It will help
with the GERD problem.
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We need to prop up
the head of our beds.
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This is a very easy one.
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Now, often GERD is
precipitated by a thing called
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a hiatal hernia...
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That little cardiac
sphincter has become weak,
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and we've got part of
even the stomach protruding up
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in to above the stomach wall
there at the cardiac sphincter
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So what we need to do,
is raise the head of our bed
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usually by something as simple
as putting a couple of bricks
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underneath the 2 legs
at the head of your bed
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Now we're laying at a
little bit of an incline;
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therefore, all night
long, gravity is working to keep
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that food going down.
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Another great reason not
to go in and lay down on the
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couch after you
eat, if you have GERD,
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because you will have
some problems from that.
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Aloe vera and slippery elm...
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Take a couple of
ounces of aloe vera every day
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Take some slippery elm
tea, it comes in a powder
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You mix it with water...
it becomes sort of gelatinous
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You swallow that down.
It will coat the lining
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and if you do have
some GERD, some reflux,
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it's going to keep
from burning it so badly,
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and you can
slowly start working on
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taking care of
that in the future.
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Avoid sphincter-relaxing foods.
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We've got things like...
all of your animal products
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especially milk.
Citrus is a sphincter-relaxing
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food, tomatoes...
coffee is another one,
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Coffee, alcohol... will
all relax that sphincter,
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and when that sphincter relaxes,
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food starts coming back up,
and that's what we call GERD.
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And so, rather simple...
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but it's a problem if
you don't take care of it.
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Yes, it's an extremely important
problem because a large
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number of people are
now suffering from it.
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And there are some
things needing to do with
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eating hygiene and, of
course, Don Miller mentioned
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a number of those...
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Being regular in one's
habits, that's very good
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Being very
careful not to overeat
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Don't drink a lot of
water with your meals.
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Never lie down after
you've just finished eating
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because that can, of
course, encourage more reflux...
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All of these things
represent good eating hygiene.
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Now there is a little affliction
of the person called "hiccups"
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Are you equipped to tell
us how to handle hiccups?
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Hic- hiccups!
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I think everybody, anywhere,
has about 15 different ways
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to take care of the hiccups.
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And, the nice thing
is, many of them do work!
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As a matter of fact,
in one of your books,
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you have a whole
section on just hiccups. Yes
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And I don't think you sat down
and thought all those things up.
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No, I learned them from
a lot of people who told me
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"This is the way I do it"
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That's right... Well, sometimes
the way they do it works
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and sometimes it doesn't...
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Different strokes
for different folks.
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But what it basically is, is an
irritation of the phrenic nerve
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that plays out
along the diaphragm...
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Basically, it's only at
one side... that one side
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will have a contraction,
and when it contracts,
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it forces air up, and
then we get that "heh"
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That sound, and in some
people, it's a really loud sound
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Some with just a
little tinky sound
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But, what ever it
is, it's quite irritating
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if it happens
for a period of time.
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And so, what can we do about it?
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Again, you've got
your own suggestions
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and I'm going to just
give you just a very few things
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that you can do...
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1. We feel if we just put some
pressure just below the sternum,
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where the
breastbone comes together,
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a little bit of pressure
there ... that will take it away
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A doctor once tried this,
he had a person sit on the
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edge of a chair, came up
behind them, and he sort of
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gently pinched
the nape of the neck,
00:14:01.98\00:14:04.49
and then went down
and did a little massage
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down both sides of
the spine with his thumb.
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And that itself... it
took that person's away.
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We've heard about
scaring a person...
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will take away the hiccups.
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I don't really recommend
that, because scaring a person
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is not a nice thing to do.
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You've heard about
people drinking water
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on the other side, you
know, almost turning yourself
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upside-down...
Perhaps pouring the water
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up your nose, which
usually happens, takes it away.
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One way I have found,
works very, very good...
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Because of the
fact that we do have
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the phrenic nerve involvement.
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It comes down from the brain,
it plays out in the mouth,
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roof of your mouth, your
uvula, goes on down your throat,
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a little bit on your lungs
but, basically it ends up down
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on your diaphragm...
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So what you do, when
you have the hiccups,
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you go to a mirror, and
you take something like the
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other end of your toothbrush,
and you look into the mirror,
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and you open your
mouth real wide...
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and you look at that little
uvula... that little thing
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that hangs down in
the back of your throat,
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which I, when I was young,
I thought that was my tonsils
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until they took my tonsils out,
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then I wondered they left one
in there but that's your uvula
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What you do is, as
you're looking at that thing,
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you go back there
with your toothbrush,
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and you touch the side of it,
and just move it to the side...
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just a little bit...
don't keep it back there
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long enough to gag
you, but just a little bit.
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What will happen,
is the phrenic nerve
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gets so involved with what
you're doing with the uvula
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that it forgets to send the
signal to cause the contraction
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on your diaphragm
and I have seen it STOP
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hiccups in a heartbeat!
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So I like those things!
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Some of them actually are funny!
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And I like to deal with hiccups.
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In a baby, they can get
the hiccups for so long, that
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finally they just get frustrated
with them and begin to cry
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every time they hic...
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So if you just take your little
finger, slip it in on the corner
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of their mouth, reach back
and just massage the palate,
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for a minute or so,
they won't like that,
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and that's a part
of the treatment too
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and usually it will stop
their hiccups if you're willing
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to fight with the
infant long enough to massage
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the back of the throat... be
sure your fingernail is short
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when you're doing this.
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Now, I see that you have
here a treatment for nausea
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and an unset
stomach... Yes... yes
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You want to tell us about that?
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I firsthand experience
with nausea... Firsthand
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Ohh... first everything...
First knees because I spent
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2 days on my knees
hanging over the side of a boat
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I was stationed in Key West
and I had a friend who was a
00:16:36.03\00:16:38.74
fisherman and I thought... "What
an easy job, he fishes all day"
00:16:38.77\00:16:42.19
I used to be, in my old
life, I used to love to fish,
00:16:42.22\00:16:45.72
and so he let me go
out with him for 4 days
00:16:45.73\00:16:47.57
and for 2 days, I
never got off my knees.
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I was SO seasick.
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And, I wish I had some of
these simple things with me
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at the time.
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One is something as simple
as a product called carob.
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I suggest you have
some of this around.
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It's an excellent
replacement for chocolate.
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You can make all kinds
of nice products with carob.
00:17:05.60\00:17:09.03
You could mix it with
soymilk, and make carob sauce
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But this is a nice
treatment for upset stomach
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What you do is... you take
a spoonful of the carob powder
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and you put it in a glass
of some sort and then you add
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a little bit of water...
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And what you're looking to
make is a little charcoal paste
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...sort of, oh maybe
the consistency of pudding
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I'm going to get it all over the
table, but that's all right...
00:17:36.20\00:17:38.23
Because what we're
trying to do is get something
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that's going to take
care of my upset stomach
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Once you've got
your paste made up,
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you take a
spoonful of the paste...
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You can see I've got
a lump of the paste here
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A nice carob paste...
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Nice carob... it's
not unpleasant-tasting.
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Smells good. It is.
00:17:55.97\00:17:58.11
If you took chocolate
powder, it would be bitter,
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but this is LOVELY food!
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You put it in your
mouth and just suck on it.
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As a matter of fact, make
it a little bit drier than this
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...Put it in your mouth
and just spend some time
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holding that in your
mouth and slowly sucking on it.
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We've found that this
is a very nice way to calm
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the upset stomach.
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All right... if you don't
have any carob, what can you do?
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Now I'm going to
mention a few things,
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and if you say, "I
don't have these things,"
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my recommendation is go
out and get some of these
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particular products
because you are going to want to
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have them around for that
time the upset stomach comes.
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Another thing you can
do is, use charcoal powder.
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Never take a spoonful
and put this in your mouth!
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You mix it with water... into
a nice slurry, you drink it down
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That is an EXCELLENT
remedy for an upset stomach
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Now, when I used to
travel a lot with my daughter
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when she was quite young, I
would carry these small cans of
00:18:53.41\00:18:57.21
fruit juice with me, and
she invariably would get carsick
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I would pop the top,
pour it into another jar,
00:19:01.75\00:19:04.85
I always carried
another jar around with me
00:19:04.88\00:19:06.98
...a little bit larger,
00:19:07.01\00:19:08.47
I'd put a couple of spoonfuls
of charcoal powder in...
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I'd put the lid on
and I would shake it up.
00:19:10.88\00:19:13.18
If you've ever tried
to stir charcoal powder,
00:19:13.21\00:19:15.51
it looks like Mount Vesuvius!
00:19:15.54\00:19:17.03
But if you shake up
the bottle, no problem.
00:19:17.06\00:19:19.59
Take a lid off, put a straw
in there and my daughter could
00:19:19.62\00:19:22.46
taste the fruit
juice coming through.
00:19:22.49\00:19:24.13
Now, quite frankly, I
mean, you know... realistically,
00:19:24.16\00:19:26.96
the charcoal will take
up, or be bound a little bit
00:19:26.99\00:19:29.69
by the juice, but she
was getting enough charcoal
00:19:29.72\00:19:32.05
down into her stomach and it
ALWAYS took care of her problem.
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There are other nice
things that you can do...
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I carry with me, a little
bottle of peppermint oil...
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And if I feel nausea coming
on, I do this when I'm in an
00:19:41.50\00:19:44.02
airplane... I'll put a
little toothpick in there
00:19:44.05\00:19:46.50
and just put that
toothpick in your mouth!
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Peppermint oil has been
shown to relieve upset stomach.
00:19:48.29\00:19:52.31
Another thing you
can do is use ginger.
00:19:52.34\00:19:54.74
Just some ginger
powder, swallow that down
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That's also been
shown to relieve nausea.
00:19:57.66\00:20:00.97
And, I knew a woman
one time, I believe she was
00:20:00.98\00:20:05.10
inspired by God with some
of the things she came up with
00:20:05.13\00:20:07.57
But she was out in a boat,
and it was very, very stormy
00:20:07.60\00:20:11.49
and she was very, very
seasick, and quite frankly,
00:20:11.50\00:20:13.73
seasickness can cause
some very, very large problems.
00:20:13.76\00:20:17.03
And so probably for the
one and only time in her life,
00:20:17.06\00:20:19.84
she took a little bit of coffee.
00:20:19.87\00:20:21.77
And that little bit of coffee,
00:20:21.80\00:20:23.39
even took care of
her upset stomach...
00:20:23.42\00:20:25.32
So for medicinal uses,
once in a RARE period of time,
00:20:25.35\00:20:29.81
we will allow you to have
some coffee if you don't have
00:20:29.84\00:20:32.35
anything else, because
I'm afraid, one of the things
00:20:32.38\00:20:34.24
about coffee, Dr.
Thrash, it's ubiquitous...
00:20:34.27\00:20:36.07
That stuff is everywhere!
00:20:36.10\00:20:37.31
I mean, it's the world's
most used psychoactive drug
00:20:37.34\00:20:40.71
So what's out there?
00:20:40.74\00:20:41.80
So I say, when you
have an upset stomach,
00:20:41.83\00:20:43.54
and you have nothing
else along these lines,
00:20:43.57\00:20:45.79
I'd say try a little
bit of coffee... I'm afraid.
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In a similar way, a coke will
also be settling to the stomach
00:20:48.76\00:20:52.71
It has a little potassium in it,
and it does settle the stomach
00:20:52.74\00:20:58.10
and soothe the
irritation, and sometimes
00:20:58.13\00:21:01.49
it will take up, or cause to
move out some of those things
00:21:01.50\00:21:05.28
that might be irritating.
00:21:05.31\00:21:06.38
Now with charcoal,
you can take the dose,
00:21:06.41\00:21:10.00
and then if you feel inclined,
and you vomit the dose,
00:21:10.01\00:21:14.89
that's fine too...
because sometimes vomiting
00:21:14.92\00:21:17.62
what is in the stomach,
will make it so that the stomach
00:21:17.65\00:21:19.96
ceases to be upset at all.
00:21:19.99\00:21:21.86
Now I'd like to spend a few
minutes talking with you about
00:21:21.89\00:21:25.13
gallstones... and I
happen to have some from
00:21:25.16\00:21:27.20
my museum here.
00:21:27.23\00:21:28.90
These gallstones came
from different individuals.
00:21:28.93\00:21:32.68
Every gallstone here came
from a different individual.
00:21:32.71\00:21:35.61
You can see that some of them
are different colors from others
00:21:35.64\00:21:38.06
Some are a bit more
fragile than others.
00:21:39.00\00:21:41.33
This one is white, and
that makes it quite a rare stone
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It's a good gem stone,
and I rather like to have
00:21:46.28\00:21:50.48
this kind of stone, but you
have to have a special license
00:21:50.51\00:21:54.92
to go prospecting
for this kind of stone.
00:21:54.95\00:21:58.05
I have many different
gallstones in my collection
00:21:58.08\00:22:02.63
and they are as specific to the
person as their fingerprint is.
00:22:02.66\00:22:07.66
They are all unique and, in
fact, a person, when they begin
00:22:07.69\00:22:12.27
making gallstones, may
make one type, and then as the
00:22:12.28\00:22:17.03
physiology of the
gallbladder changes,
00:22:17.06\00:22:19.48
they start making another type.
00:22:19.51\00:22:21.57
Sometimes they
are tiny, and black...
00:22:21.60\00:22:24.17
and sometimes
they are big and grey.
00:22:24.20\00:22:26.23
Sometimes they are
medium size and white.
00:22:26.26\00:22:29.46
The color is specific
for the kind of chemistry
00:22:29.49\00:22:34.34
that the person has in the
gallbladder and in the liver
00:22:34.37\00:22:37.78
at that particular time.
00:22:37.81\00:22:39.26
Now, what can one
do for gallstones?
00:22:39.29\00:22:42.49
Gallstones often
come about in those people
00:22:42.52\00:22:48.30
who have some altered
metabolism in some way.
00:22:48.33\00:22:52.78
They may be metabolizing
fat in a wrong way...
00:22:52.81\00:22:56.79
Or, they may be eating
more fat than their particular
00:22:56.80\00:23:00.77
physiologic
mechanism can handle.
00:23:00.80\00:23:03.20
And they need to cut
down on the free fats,
00:23:03.23\00:23:06.03
and maybe even some
of the combined fats,
00:23:06.06\00:23:08.25
such as nuts and
beans, and avocado and olives
00:23:08.28\00:23:13.95
...Any of the fatty
foods, that they may be taking,
00:23:13.98\00:23:17.81
they may need to
cut down on those...
00:23:17.84\00:23:20.11
so that the mechanism
that they have for dealing
00:23:20.12\00:23:23.39
with fats is going to
be sufficient to be able to
00:23:23.42\00:23:27.37
handle those fats.
00:23:27.40\00:23:29.14
In addition to that,
taking fats with sugar
00:23:29.17\00:23:31.98
...the 2 things
together, fats and sugar
00:23:32.01\00:23:35.32
Some people can tolerate,
really, quite large quantities
00:23:35.35\00:23:38.49
and not seem to be harmed;
00:23:38.52\00:23:39.80
whereas, other people can
take only a small quantity
00:23:39.83\00:23:42.94
and they get gallstones from it.
00:23:42.97\00:23:44.95
The Alaskan
Eskimos are of this kind...
00:23:44.98\00:23:47.81
They took LARGE quantities
of fat and had no problem
00:23:47.84\00:23:51.11
with it... They
took whale blubber,
00:23:51.14\00:23:52.91
and seal blubber and
the fats in the foods,
00:23:52.94\00:23:56.00
the fats in the fish that
they ate, these gave their
00:23:56.01\00:23:59.84
diet an enormous
amount of fat, and yet,
00:23:59.87\00:24:03.39
they did not have gallstones
UNTIL they added sweets to that.
00:24:03.42\00:24:07.85
So when the Alcan
Highway went through,
00:24:07.88\00:24:10.25
and along with it
came a lot of sugar...
00:24:10.26\00:24:12.44
Adding the sugar to
the already high fat diet
00:24:12.47\00:24:15.62
spelled for them
a lot of problems.
00:24:15.65\00:24:17.30
It spelled for them gallstones.
00:24:17.33\00:24:19.48
It spelled for them acne...
00:24:19.51\00:24:21.54
carious teeth,
hardening of the arteries,
00:24:21.57\00:24:24.96
and many other problems
that they had never had before
00:24:24.97\00:24:27.96
the advent of sugar.
00:24:27.99\00:24:29.27
Even though their diet would
not be one that we would think
00:24:29.28\00:24:32.28
would be very healthy, or one
that is at all well-balanced.
00:24:32.31\00:24:38.38
Now, what can you do
if you have gallstones...
00:24:38.41\00:24:42.00
One thing is
drink PLENTY of water...
00:24:42.03\00:24:43.81
Because with the
water, comes a little better
00:24:43.84\00:24:47.38
physiologic surroundings
for the gallbladder,
00:24:47.41\00:24:52.28
and the
gallbladder works better.
00:24:52.31\00:24:54.48
So, just the drinking of a
lot of water, can in itself,
00:24:54.49\00:24:58.51
be helpful.
00:24:58.54\00:24:59.97
The second thing, if
you're at all overweight,
00:25:00.00\00:25:02.15
lose weight.
00:25:02.16\00:25:03.41
Now, how much
should a person weigh?
00:25:03.44\00:25:05.03
Well a woman and
gallstones are far more common
00:25:05.06\00:25:08.21
in women, than in men...
00:25:08.24\00:25:09.75
That's not to say
men don't have them
00:25:09.78\00:25:11.59
but just that the affliction
is more common in women.
00:25:11.62\00:25:16.07
And so, for a woman, she
can have 100 pounds for her
00:25:16.10\00:25:19.79
first 5 feet; then 5
pounds per 1 inch thereafter.
00:25:19.82\00:25:27.60
So if she is 5 feet 1 inch,
she could weight 105 pounds.
00:25:27.63\00:25:33.48
One-hundred pounds
for the first 5 feet
00:25:33.51\00:25:35.29
and 5 pounds
per inch thereafter.
00:25:35.32\00:25:37.48
For a man, he gets 100
pounds for his first 5 feet,
00:25:37.51\00:25:43.21
and then after that, he
gets 6 or 7 pounds per inch
00:25:43.24\00:25:48.58
depending on how muscular he is.
00:25:48.61\00:25:50.53
So if you're over that,
then of course, you can start
00:25:50.56\00:25:54.50
losing weight...
How do you do that?
00:25:54.54\00:25:57.37
By simple things... such
as becoming a total vegetarian
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Only eating breakfast
and lunch and not eating
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anything between meals...
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And if you eat ANYTHING at
all for supper, it would be
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like a piece of fruit
and that will help one.
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Usually with just
these very simple measures,
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it will help a
person to lose weight.
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If more is needed than
that, then one can eliminate
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all free fats such as margarine,
mayonnaise, fried foods,
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cooking fats, salad
oils and even nut butters
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until the time comes
when the person has lost
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weight sufficiently that they
say they are now normal weight.
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Now in addition to those things,
adopting an ALL vegetarian diet
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is the most
favorable for gallstones.
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Now here you have a gallbladder
filled with stones...
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Should you have your
gallbladder operated on?
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Well a lot of people say,
"No, just keep your gallbladder
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full of its stones. "
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I'm one of those... I
think that we will do better
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if we just keep
the stones, rather than
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having them operated on.
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Some people say, "But,
if you keep the stones,
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you're more likely to get
cancer of the gallbladder"
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Yes, cancer of the gallbladder
is rare and the fatal
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operations for
gallbladder are also rare.
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So both of these
are rare conditions
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but one is about
like the other...
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So I would say that your
chances of dying of the surgery
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are about like your chances
of getting the cancer of the
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gallbladder... So I
would take my chance
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with the cancer
of the gallbladder...
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and I think that you would
be unlikely to get the cancer
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of the gallbladder.
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Now I hope that these
things that we have talked
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with you about the
gastrointestinal tract
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will help you to know
what an important organ
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this system is...
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and to take VERY
good care of yours.
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