Even very healthy
people can get sick.
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In fact, sometimes the
most healthy people seem to
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come down, very frequently,
with some kind of illness.
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To find the cause of an
illness, may require a good long
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process of elimination.
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So, we'd like to talk with
you about some of these things
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and how you can get so that
you can avoid some illnesses
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and so that you can be healthier
after you've had an illness.
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So, stay with us!
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Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute
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And now, here's
your host, Dr. Thrash
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Now finding the reason
why you have a sickness
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may require quite
a good long time of
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elimination of various things.
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You may say, "Well, it
might have been due to this,
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or it might have
been due to that"
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But the first thing to ascertain
is why you think you got sick.
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So, take a look at your habits!
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Look at every habit of life.
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What time you go to bed.
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How you eat. How you drink.
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Do you have your windows
open at night so that you have
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good circulation of air
in your bedroom at night.
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Just scrutinize every point...
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What did I do last night?
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Did I lose sleep? Was
my pillow comfortable?
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Was it cold in my bedroom?
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You know you just ask all
sorts of questions of yourself
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so that you can find out
what it is that's involved
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in your having gotten sick.
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So the first thing
that you do is to eliminate
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all those health
habits that lead to sickness.
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Then, look at your surroundings.
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Is there something in
your surroundings that makes
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your surroundings unhealthful?
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If so, do your
best to eliminate those.
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And as you work
with this kind of thing,
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you can make your environment
you can make yourself,
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you can make your habits...
all very much more healthy.
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Now when you have found out
the reason for your problem,
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then you assist nature in
the evicting of those conditions
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that have resulted
from broken health law.
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And then obedience to law
makes it so that health is not
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necessarily something
that's a happenstance...
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It's not by chance
that we are healthy,
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or not by chance
that we become ill.
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Now, the way to assist nature
is by obedience to the usual
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laws of health... having
to do with the way that we
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drink, eat, sleep, rest,
breathe... all of those things
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...posture, warmth, hydration,
all of those things that
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have to do with
the laws of health.
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We want to observe those and
be right on top of our lifestyle
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Now there are problems at
times with a stomach upset.
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Some people are upset
in the stomach when they
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take any kind of unusual food...
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Or, when they eat more
than one food of a certain class
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at the same meal... they
join those things together
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they're going to get sick.
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Sometimes it's a serious
illness that lasts a day or so,
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sometimes it's a few
minutes to a few hours
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But by learning who you
are, by learning the kinds of
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things that affect your health,
you can, little by little,
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get so that you can
improve your health.
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With stomach upsets,
there's a wide variety
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of things that can
cause a stomach upset.
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One of those things is
a simple viral infection.
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It may be specific for
the gastrointestinal tract.
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One of the
enteroviruses that specifically
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hits the intestinal tract.
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We might call it
the intestinal flu.
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Those viruses are numerous...
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there are many
different kinds of those.
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Then, there are some
bacteria that can also cause a
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gastroenteritis... an
inflammation of the stomach,
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and the small
bowel... "gastro-enteritis"
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What are some of
those... like salmonella
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That's a
typhoid-like germ, and can cause
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a quite serious illness...
even life-threatening.
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Then there is another
one... a very close relative
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of the
salmonella called "shigella"
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and this one can be
life-threatening as well.
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What happens with
these germs, these bacteria
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...they cause the
infection of the surfaces
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of the intestinal tract, and
when the surface is involved,
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you may get an
ulceration which then gives you
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a bloody diarrhea
which is called "dysentery"
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When diarrhea becomes bloody,
then it's called "dysentery"
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And the bloody diarrhea can be
so intense that the person can
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become anemic, or they can
become even fatally dehydrated.
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So it's important at
the very outset to make sure
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the person with a
bacterial infection of the
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gastrointestinal
tract stays well-hydrated.
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Principally, that means
drinking plenty of water.
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Now because nausea and vomiting
can be a part of the problem
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with a gastroenteritis...
the individual with the
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gastroenteritis may tell you
"EVERYTHING, even the thought
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of putting ANYTHING into
my mouth... I have an absolute
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revulsion to that"
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So they cannot take water
because it makes them nauseated
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and then they vomit.
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You encourage them to take
charcoal... because charcoal
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is the treatment of choice
at the beginning of ANY KIND
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of gastroenteritis.
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You have an upset stomach?
Think FIRST of charcoal.
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If you don't have
charcoal available immediately,
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then think first of water.
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Start drinking water... drink
plenty of it, all that you can!
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If you're nauseated,
you take the charcoal,
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stir it into
water, drink it down.
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It stays down about 5
minutes, not feeling comfortable
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any of the time, and
eventually it comes back up.
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Then what do you do?
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Take it again immediately.
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In fact, have someone, if
you can't move around very well,
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have someone make another
glass of charcoal water for you
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and be just ready
to drink it again...
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immediately
after you have vomited.
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With that immediate
drinking of the next glass,
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you capitalized on a
little device that the body has
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called a "refractory period. "
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It's a time when you cannot
vomit because you have just
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completed that
reflexive cycle of vomiting,
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and you cannot vomit, and
so that can be very helpful.
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Another type of
gastroenteritis is "E. coli"
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That's a parasite... You
might think that we don't
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have much E. coli in
this country that's the
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"Enterobius coli,"
which is a little parasite...
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You might think we
don't have much of that
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in this country, but we do.
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We still have this kind
of ameba ... amebic dysentery
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We still have that, and
so people can have that,
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and the ulcerations of
the intestinal tract caused by
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this ameba can, indeed,
cause a serious problem.
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They can have
nausea and vomiting...
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They can also
have the dysentery...
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In fact, they are
likely to have dysentery.
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Now with the germ,
the little bacillus,
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that we call E. coli, or
"Escherichia coli," this one is
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a germ that also
invades the wall of the bowel
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and causes ulceration.
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With these ulcerations
come both nausea and vomiting
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or an upset
stomach and diarrhea.
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It can last virtually for years
if it isn't treated correctly.
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There are some natural
remedies to use to treat
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both the parasites, as
well as the E. coli germ
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and these can be very helpful,
very effective in ridding
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yourself of these problems.
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Now, at this time, Dr. Miller
is going to talk with you about
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another kind of gastroenteritis,
and that is a food poisoning
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type of gastroenteritis.
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Dr. Miller, have you
ever had a problem with
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that in all your travels?
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I hate to think about
the problems I've had with
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food poisonings.
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I think the last time I
had one, I was in India...
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And I had been traveling around,
and I was going to a little area
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where another person on our
team was talking to some people
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and he had been invited to these
people's home that evening.
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So he thought he'd
take me along with him.
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So we went into this
lovely home, lovely people
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They were very hospitable there.
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And, as we were sitting there
chatting with our translators,
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they brought out 2
trays laden down with grapes.
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And they brought one to the
other man and one tray to me.
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And, here I'm sitting
there with a big tray of
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freshly washed grapes.
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And I smiled and I said to my
translator, "I can't eat these"
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and he says... "You have to"
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I said, "I can't eat
these, they just washed them"
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And he says... "You HAVE to
eat those, they'll be offended"
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I said, "But they
washed them in their water. "
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You see, I wasn't
used to their water.
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It's amazing that in
your country, you're used to
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the organisms
that are in the area,
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but you go somewhere
else, and it's not that way.
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Well, I finally
relented and ate the grapes.
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I did not want to
offend the people.
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And I GOT one of the
worse cases of food poisoning
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I've ever had that night.
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I was in misery the entire
night and half the next day,
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because of the fact that
I got something into my body
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from a food that I was eating.
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Food poisonings are on the rise.
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and we wonder, why
are they on the rise?
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Now usually, we used to
think most food poisonings are
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caused from animal products,
and still, there is a huge
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amount of diseases
coming from animal products.
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But now, is on the rise
in fruits and vegetables too.
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And the reason why is, there
is contamination on the foods.
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You remember a few years
ago, there was an outbreak
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of hepatitis A
linked to SCALLIONS!
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Now how in the world do
scallions get hepatitis A?
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Well the scallions
didn't have hepatitis A,
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the person who was
picking the scallions,
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or maybe in the back
room with the scallions
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had hepatitis A...
cross-contaminated and the
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person consuming those
products got the hepatitis A.
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So I'll just say, at this
point, what you need to do
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is make sure that
ALWAYS, every time you receive
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fresh produce, that you wash it.
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You see, people are getting
more wise about their diets now
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and are eating more fresh
produce, and that's a good thing
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We're to be eating
fresh fruits and vegetables
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And I think that's
what God wants us to do,
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and that is what we should do.
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But we need to make sure...
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They did a study of 1003
food samples in 1999 and 2000
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to see what type of bacteria,
if there were bacteria,
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coming from 21
different countries.
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When they examined the
1003 different food samples
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coming from other countries,
4.4% had bacterial infections
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upon the food themselves.
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And if we would take
them into our bodies,
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we would get that thing.
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I was in Singapore one
time years ago when I was
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in the Marine Corps, and
I was sort of in a confines
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with a young man...
we were on a tour of the
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City of Singapore, and
he told me that he had had
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3 cases of food poisoning in a
couple of months' period of time
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What he liked to do, he liked
to go down into the back street
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where just the people
from the local areas lived
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and eat what they ate.
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He got one case of
food poisoning, I remember
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particularly
from eating jellyfish.
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I don't know how
you eat a jellyfish...
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I guess with soy
butter or something,
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but he ate a lot of
jellyfish and got extremely sick
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with the food
poisoning from that.
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So what we need to
do... is stay away from the
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strange foods... Make
sure that we CLEAN the foods.
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I don't say stay away
from the strange foods.
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Make sure we have
washed them very well.
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What happens when
you go to a restaurant?
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You can't wash and
you can't go up there
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and take your salad
bar, and then go back to the
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bathroom wash it all off.
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So basically, you are
at risk when you no longer
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have control of the
preparation of the food
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in your own hands.
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Dr. Thrash has already mentioned
the best thing you can do
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for a food
poisoning is the charcoal.
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The body's natural reaction
to a poisoning is to purge.
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To get rid of it and
if you feel that way,
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go ahead and get rid of it.
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That's the best thing to do,
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and then take the
charcoal until your symptoms
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are gone, and
that's a good thing.
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There are other things
that cause the upset stomach
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and one is drugs.
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We're talking
about medicinal drugs.
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EVERY medicinal drug is
irritating to the stomach.
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No matter what it is, it's
going to cause some irritation.
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And so, some people
are more sensitive to one
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drug than another.
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And so, I just want
to give you that warning.
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If every time you take
your drug, you feel like you're
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nauseous... I
had a case one time,
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of a patient who
came to Uchee Pines,
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and she had a
large amount of problems.
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And, she was taking
34 different medications.
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Well, I went back and
took her list of medications
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to our PDR,
"Physician's Desk Reference"
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and I ran the side effects
of the drugs and found out
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that she was taking most
of her drugs for side effects
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of her drugs.
00:14:38.63\00:14:39.72
I remember when I was
stationed in Key West, Florida,
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we had a warrant officer
there at the Marine barracks
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and he LOVED fiery foods.
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He would eat fiery
foods 3 meals a day,
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and he lived
between those meals on Tums.
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Now was Tums the
medication for his problem?
00:14:54.76\00:14:58.97
No, the medication
for his problem was
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quit eating the fiery foods.
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And so find out what's
irritating the stomach,
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leave those things off,
and I don't think you'll have
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the problem anymore.
00:15:08.75\00:15:10.45
Is that okay, Dr. Thrash?
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That's sounds good!
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Yes, if we leave those
things alone... that cause the
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the stomach to be irritated,
then we also have a strong
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and healthy stomach, so that
it can RESIST such infections
00:15:20.66\00:15:24.57
as H. pylori.
00:15:24.60\00:15:26.57
Now, you have probably
heard of H. pylori recently
00:15:26.60\00:15:29.80
in relation to peptic ulcers.
00:15:29.83\00:15:32.51
Now when I was in medical
school, we didn't know what
00:15:32.54\00:15:36.27
caused peptic ulcers.
00:15:36.30\00:15:37.60
We really thought that it was
due to some kind of emotional
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problem, and too
much acid in the stomach.
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Well I'm sure that both of those
can be a part of the overall
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problem that enables you
to lose your resistance to
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the H. pylori, and so
it invades your stomach,
00:15:55.20\00:15:58.46
any by invading your
stomach, then it gets a toehold
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in your gastrointestinal
tract, and can give you symptoms
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throughout the intestinal tract.
00:16:06.06\00:16:07.88
But the symptoms in the
stomach are usually pain,
00:16:07.91\00:16:10.88
but can also be nausea,
can be a sense of burning,
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or a tightening in the stomach.
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You can also get a
"dumping syndrome" from an
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ulcer in the stomach
where the stomach does not
00:16:21.79\00:16:26.84
hold on to the food long
enough and it passes quickly
00:16:26.87\00:16:29.94
into the small bowel and
gives you a sense of faintness
00:16:29.95\00:16:34.00
and fatigue, and weakness
immediately after you eat.
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It can also do the reverse.
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It can cause a
constriction of the pylorus,
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so that you
cannot empty the stomach,
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and then you have an
uncomfortable full sense
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of pressure inside the stomach.
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All of these can be
due to the H. pylori germ.
00:16:52.97\00:16:56.35
Now, the H. pylori
germ can affect you...
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can invade your tissues
better if you've been using
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fiery foods, or various
kinds of drugs, or you don't
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drink enough water, or you
take aspirin, or vinegary foods
00:17:09.49\00:17:15.53
...All of those kinds of things
can weaken the wall of the
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stomach and make it so
that that germ can penetrate
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the lining and make
you have a ulcer there.
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So we get a peptic ulcer in
that way... So what can you do?
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Well fortunately, there
are some VERY GOOD THINGS
00:17:29.30\00:17:32.90
that you can use for
ANY kind of gastroenteritis
00:17:32.93\00:17:36.36
whether it be due to shigella,
or salmonella, or one of the
00:17:36.39\00:17:41.66
viruses, or whether
it's due to H. pylori
00:17:41.69\00:17:44.86
and that's garlic
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Garlic, without a doubt, is one
of our most widely useful herbs.
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Now there are times
when people will tell you...
00:17:53.25\00:17:56.30
"Well I took garlic
and it didn't help. "
00:17:56.33\00:17:58.13
Then your next question should
be... "How much did you take?"
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And most of the time,
if it didn't help at all,
00:18:00.95\00:18:03.37
it was because, if
it's a gastroenteritis,
00:18:03.40\00:18:05.92
because they didn't take enough.
00:18:05.93\00:18:08.00
And "enough" is often
just short of making the person
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feel uncomfortable so
that they may actually feel
00:18:13.61\00:18:17.12
a bit more nauseated as
soon as they have had the garlic
00:18:17.15\00:18:21.62
to be introduced
into the stomach.
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So the garlic needs to be
diluted enough with something,
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either fruit juice, like tomato
juice, or some other fruit juice
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that you might
choose... or just with water
00:18:33.32\00:18:36.86
and then drink
it slowly, sip it,
00:18:36.87\00:18:39.60
and in this way, you
can avoid that nausea that
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that comes from taking
too much garlic too quickly.
00:18:42.47\00:18:45.62
Then we have also a wide
variety of other herbal remedies
00:18:45.65\00:18:49.49
such as goldenseal, Echinacea,
grapefruit seed extract,
00:18:49.52\00:18:54.28
elderberry extract which
you can make yourself from
00:18:54.31\00:18:58.46
elderberries that you pick
yourself in a nearby swampy area
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So these are some things that
you can do for the H. pylori.
00:19:05.30\00:19:08.72
You need to treat it
for a whole month so that
00:19:08.75\00:19:11.65
the germ does not hide itself
somewhere in its little ulcer
00:19:11.68\00:19:18.39
so that your
treatment is not effective.
00:19:18.42\00:19:21.17
Now, as we consider some
other things that can cause
00:19:21.18\00:19:26.39
an upset stomach, emotions
are one of those things.
00:19:26.42\00:19:29.80
And I'm sure that Dr. Miller,
as you have traveled around
00:19:29.83\00:19:33.93
in doing health education
in various parts of the world,
00:19:33.96\00:19:36.80
that you have had a
variety of emotions...
00:19:36.83\00:19:40.00
loneliness, or maybe
sometimes even fear or anxiety
00:19:40.03\00:19:44.41
What can you tell us about how
emotions can upset the stomach?
00:19:44.42\00:19:47.65
Well, I can only talk from
my own personal experience.
00:19:47.68\00:19:51.23
Have you ever
heard someone say...
00:19:51.26\00:19:52.63
"You make me sick to my stomach"
00:19:52.66\00:19:54.17
Well that really does happen.
00:19:54.20\00:19:55.88
I want to just mention
a couple of case histories
00:19:55.91\00:19:58.15
in my own experience.
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I was at a place one time, and
I was eating with some friends,
00:19:59.32\00:20:03.17
and the phone rang
in the background...
00:20:03.20\00:20:05.30
it wasn't really going to
bother me... the phone ringing
00:20:05.33\00:20:08.37
But then the person
answered and said, "Hey Don,
00:20:08.40\00:20:10.62
it's, we'll call him,
Joe is on the phone. "
00:20:10.65\00:20:13.09
As soon as the name
"Joe" was mentioned,
00:20:13.12\00:20:15.70
my appetite went,
my stomach knotted up,
00:20:15.73\00:20:18.40
and I felt sick to my
stomach because I wasn't
00:20:18.41\00:20:20.85
getting along too well with Joe.
00:20:20.88\00:20:22.60
That was emotions.
00:20:22.63\00:20:24.92
Some time later,
we were at a meeting.
00:20:24.95\00:20:28.67
Sometimes we used to
meet together at Uchee Pines
00:20:28.70\00:20:30.82
we'd have all
night prayer meetings,
00:20:30.83\00:20:32.65
and there was another
young man at Uchee Pines
00:20:32.68\00:20:35.72
who stood up... This
was LATE at night that night
00:20:35.75\00:20:38.44
and he turned
around... He was sort of in the
00:20:38.47\00:20:41.51
front of where we all were.
00:20:41.55\00:20:42.69
There was about
11 of us there...
00:20:42.72\00:20:45.11
I was in the
back of where we were.
00:20:45.14\00:20:46.46
And he said, "I'd
like us to pray tonight.
00:20:46.49\00:20:48.71
There's someone in this
campus I just can't stand
00:20:48.74\00:20:52.95
and I'd like to pray that
I'd be able tolerate him. "
00:20:52.98\00:20:55.95
Well, one of the men
said, "Why do you want to
00:20:55.98\00:20:57.48
tolerate him? Why don't you
pray that you could LOVE him?"
00:20:57.51\00:20:59.06
And he says, "Not even possible,
if we could just pray that I
00:20:59.09\00:21:03.02
could tolerate him,
that would be fine. "
00:21:03.05\00:21:04.53
And so, we got down...
We all prayed sincerely
00:21:04.57\00:21:09.01
that the man would be
able to love this other person.
00:21:09.04\00:21:12.15
And when we got done
praying, we all got up
00:21:12.18\00:21:16.54
from our knees and
sat and this man stood up
00:21:16.57\00:21:19.11
and says, "I can't
believe it, GOD HAS DONE IT."
00:21:19.14\00:21:23.04
"He's given me love. "
00:21:23.05\00:21:24.60
And he walked out from the pew.
00:21:24.63\00:21:26.48
He walked up the aisle,
to the back of the chapel,
00:21:26.51\00:21:29.20
turned around,
walked up behind me,
00:21:29.23\00:21:31.72
placed his hands on
my shoulders, and says,
00:21:31.75\00:21:34.10
"I LOVE HIM NOW!"
00:21:34.11\00:21:36.11
I didn't even
know he didn't like me.
00:21:36.14\00:21:38.52
He and I right now
are the BEST of friends!
00:21:38.55\00:21:43.21
He told me, later on,
that when I would come into the
00:21:43.24\00:21:45.84
cafeteria, he
would lose his appetite.
00:21:45.87\00:21:48.13
We had NEVER even
TALKED, but sometimes emotions,
00:21:48.16\00:21:51.85
sometimes Satan likes to
drive wedges between people.
00:21:51.88\00:21:54.76
Yes, loneliness can make you
sometimes a little bit upset...
00:21:54.79\00:21:57.75
And perhaps being
in danger, or fear
00:21:57.78\00:22:01.98
that can cause you some upset.
00:22:02.01\00:22:03.58
You see, what
happens... As a matter of fact,
00:22:03.62\00:22:05.08
Pavlov did some
interesting studies.
00:22:05.11\00:22:07.18
He would observe the stomachs.
00:22:07.21\00:22:09.80
As a matter of fact, they did
another study with human beings.
00:22:09.81\00:22:11.62
Let's go away from the dogs.
00:22:11.65\00:22:12.68
Let's go to human beings.
00:22:12.72\00:22:13.71
A man had received an
injury to his stomach.
00:22:13.74\00:22:17.57
And unable to heal, they
put a scope from the outside
00:22:17.60\00:22:22.44
right into the stomach,
so the doctor could actually
00:22:22.47\00:22:24.92
observe... this was
many, many years ago
00:22:24.95\00:22:26.67
...could actually
observe right into the stomach
00:22:26.70\00:22:29.48
And normally, the stomach
was a nice pink substance
00:22:29.51\00:22:34.71
and just really nice.
00:22:34.72\00:22:35.86
But he said when the man
would get sometimes a little bit
00:22:35.89\00:22:37.92
irritated, it
would start to get red.
00:22:37.95\00:22:39.93
But one time, the man was
EXTREMELY upset... EXTREMELY!
00:22:39.94\00:22:44.46
The man looked in there,
and the stomach was blood-red
00:22:44.49\00:22:48.24
and drops of
blood were appearing
00:22:48.27\00:22:50.75
on the surface of the stomach.
00:22:50.79\00:22:52.26
Our emotions have a
huge effect on how we are.
00:22:52.30\00:22:55.78
I remember, it must
have been November 5, 1979,
00:22:55.81\00:23:00.94
I was preparing my
favorite breakfast!
00:23:00.97\00:23:03.98
I wasn't really into
this health reform back then,
00:23:04.01\00:23:06.07
so I was eating some pretty
strange things that morning.
00:23:06.10\00:23:08.14
It was my FAVORITE breakfast!
00:23:08.17\00:23:10.14
A half a dozen soft-boiled
eggs, about a quarter of a loaf
00:23:10.17\00:23:13.41
of bread, torn up with a
big hunk of butter in there.
00:23:13.44\00:23:15.82
That was my favorite breakfast.
00:23:15.85\00:23:17.24
So I had the eggs
right at 3 minutes,
00:23:17.27\00:23:19.52
I was getting ready to
go through the breaking them
00:23:19.55\00:23:21.79
open and dumping them in
and all that slimy stuff,
00:23:21.80\00:23:23.99
and the phone rings...
00:23:24.02\00:23:25.06
And it's my mother, and
she told me at that point
00:23:25.09\00:23:27.68
that my father had just died.
00:23:27.71\00:23:29.39
And immediately, my
stomach was in knots,
00:23:29.42\00:23:32.86
I took the whole thing and
dumped it in the garbage can
00:23:32.89\00:23:35.46
I had no appetite whatsoever.
00:23:35.49\00:23:37.55
I was sick to my stomach.
00:23:37.58\00:23:38.96
Our emotions have
a profound effect.
00:23:38.99\00:23:41.27
We're told we should not eat
when we are emotionally upset...
00:23:41.30\00:23:43.82
And I would
REALLY recommend that.
00:23:43.85\00:23:46.00
We should be calm.
00:23:46.03\00:23:47.15
Our mealtime should be
the happiest time of the day.
00:23:47.18\00:23:49.82
And so all the tensions that
we have sometimes around our
00:23:49.85\00:23:53.91
tables... are
causing chronic upset
00:23:53.94\00:23:56.87
stomachs, and
we don't need that.
00:23:56.91\00:23:58.80
We need to digest
this food, Dr. Thrash...
00:23:58.83\00:24:00.54
that's how we're going to live.
00:24:00.57\00:24:01.70
Yes, our food needs
a good calm atmosphere.
00:24:01.73\00:24:05.37
So if you're
tired, or overwrought,
00:24:05.38\00:24:07.24
when you start into a
meal, take a little time
00:24:07.27\00:24:10.91
and rest and relax,
and pray to the Lord
00:24:10.94\00:24:13.25
that your tensions will vanish.
00:24:13.28\00:24:15.76
Another thing that can cause
the intestinal tract to react
00:24:15.79\00:24:20.43
is that of motion.
00:24:20.46\00:24:22.12
Motion can be one that
one is actually experiencing,
00:24:22.15\00:24:26.63
or the motion can be completely
outside of one and affecting
00:24:26.66\00:24:30.60
one not at all, except the eyes.
00:24:30.63\00:24:32.61
One time, I was in a foreign
country with my granddaughter
00:24:32.62\00:24:37.47
who has always
had motion sickness.
00:24:37.50\00:24:39.86
We have been treating her
motion sickness since she was
00:24:39.89\00:24:42.88
quite a tiny infant.
00:24:42.91\00:24:45.33
I don't usually have
motion sickness, and I was very
00:24:45.34\00:24:48.65
pleased that I didn't.
00:24:48.68\00:24:50.35
And I was in charge of a
little group who were going to
00:24:50.36\00:24:55.20
a place where we were going
to present a health program.
00:24:55.23\00:24:57.62
And I felt that I needed to
be the very paragon of virtue
00:24:57.65\00:25:02.25
in this matter, and
not get motion-sick,
00:25:02.28\00:25:05.36
but the road was a
very winding one...
00:25:05.39\00:25:07.70
It was up and down.
00:25:07.73\00:25:08.73
It was a mountainous road,
so we were doing this kind of
00:25:08.74\00:25:11.00
thing, and it wasn't long before
I began to feel not-too-good.
00:25:11.03\00:25:15.83
So I said to my granddaughter
who was sitting next to me...
00:25:15.86\00:25:19.28
How do you feel?
Are you all right?
00:25:19.31\00:25:22.25
Are you handling
this road all right?
00:25:22.28\00:25:23.66
She said... OH
YES! I'm doing fine!
00:25:23.69\00:25:25.07
I was hoping that she
would say to the driver...
00:25:25.10\00:25:28.08
"No, we need to stop. "
00:25:28.11\00:25:29.10
But, she didn't, so I
waited about 10 minutes,
00:25:29.13\00:25:31.17
and I said, again,
"How are you feeling?"
00:25:31.20\00:25:34.36
Again, she said,
"I'm doing fine. "
00:25:34.39\00:25:36.48
I was doing WORSE.
00:25:36.49\00:25:38.54
So it wasn't but just
about another 10 minutes
00:25:38.57\00:25:41.81
when, AGAIN, I said,
"How are you feeling?"
00:25:41.84\00:25:44.48
"Do you feel all right?"
00:25:44.51\00:25:46.29
Again, she didn't
come through for me.
00:25:46.32\00:25:49.24
She said, "I feel FINE."
00:25:49.27\00:25:51.33
I said, "Well, I
don't. " So I reached over and
00:25:51.36\00:25:54.38
tapped the driver on
the shoulder and I said,
00:25:54.41\00:25:56.32
"You need to
stop... and right away!"
00:25:56.35\00:25:58.71
So, I was quite sick.
00:25:58.74\00:26:01.22
I could hardly
wait for him to stop,
00:26:01.23\00:26:02.97
but once he stopped, I was
very happy that we were not
00:26:03.00\00:26:06.58
still in the car.
00:26:06.61\00:26:07.86
Now, are there things that
you can do for motion sickness
00:26:07.89\00:26:11.34
that will make you able to
tolerate this kind of motionness
00:26:11.37\00:26:14.45
...up and down, around and
about, and the answer is... Yes.
00:26:14.48\00:26:18.30
I don't know why, occasionally,
a person who is not usually
00:26:18.33\00:26:23.59
motion sick, will become motion
sick under certain circumstances
00:26:23.62\00:26:27.81
Maybe it's the
condition of the stomach before
00:26:27.84\00:26:31.59
you start on the trip.
00:26:31.62\00:26:32.66
Whatever it is, occasionally,
people will have a problem.
00:26:32.70\00:26:36.05
If you have to travel a lot,
and you're a passenger in a car,
00:26:36.08\00:26:39.51
you're more likely to
get sick, as a passenger,
00:26:39.54\00:26:41.89
than as the driver.
00:26:41.92\00:26:43.03
Always take with you, a
little bottle of mint oil.
00:26:43.06\00:26:47.99
You can buy this
from a drug store.
00:26:48.02\00:26:50.18
You can also buy it
from a grocery store
00:26:50.21\00:26:52.95
in the spice counter.
00:26:52.96\00:26:54.48
And, when you begin
to feel this nausea,
00:26:54.51\00:26:58.28
don't wait until you
have a full-blown case,
00:26:58.31\00:27:01.06
simply take the top
off and tip the bottle,
00:27:01.09\00:27:04.13
and wet the end of your finger
and you can just lick that off
00:27:04.16\00:27:08.94
And often that's ALL that's
required to make it so that
00:27:08.97\00:27:12.06
your motion sickness just
goes away very miraculously.
00:27:12.09\00:27:17.59
Ginger is also good for that.
00:27:17.62\00:27:19.60
You can buy the
tablets, or the lozenges.
00:27:19.63\00:27:21.77
Those are very good
for motion sickness.
00:27:21.80\00:27:25.38
Now with motion sickness,
you can expect that it may
00:27:25.41\00:27:29.46
last for only a few
minutes, but with some people
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it will last most of the day.
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Now, while the discussion
of these simple things is not
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that kind of thing that's going
to make you so knowledgeable
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that you can hang out a shingle,
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these things should be
able to help you live much more
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comfortably in the
world, and to be a real minister
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to those who live in your home,
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and in your close environment.
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May God richly bless you.
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