There are some people
who go from doctor to doctor,
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from herb to herb, from drug
to drug, from this treatment
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after that treatment,
they buy expensive things,
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they try to get themselves well,
but instead of getting well
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they tend to get worse.
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Sometimes somebody will
say over the back yard fence
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you know, you sound just like
my relative who did thus and
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such and she got well, and
if you do that you probably
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would too, so they tried that
and maybe they do get better,
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or maybe they don't get better.
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If you are that kind of person,
or you know someone who is
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that kind of person, this
program is going to say one or
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two reasons why this
kind of scenario occurs,
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so we hope you will
join us for this 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 is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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There are times when I say
to a patient, I think you have
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a food sensitivity,
and they may say oh no way,
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I'm eating now what I've eaten
all my life, and I've never
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had a problem.
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Sometimes if I can convince
them to try eliminating a
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certain food, they get better
right away, and one of those
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is for people who
have gluten sensitivities.
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Gluten sensitivities come in
a number of forms, but probably
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one of the most difficult
to diagnose is that of a
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gluten sensitivity.
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Sometimes it is very
easy, we just make a suggestion,
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the person eliminates gluten...
all the gluten grains from their
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diet and immediately
they are essentially well.
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But sometimes it is as a
minister I know who was not
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very well as an infant,
and as he got older he was a
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small child, always the
runt in his class in school and
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he always had some kind
of discomfort in his abdomen,
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he was never really
quite comfortable, he had more
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diarrhea, more bouts of stomach
pain than his two sisters did
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so his family sort of
though he had a weak stomach.
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He grew up never robust,
went to college and studied for
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the ministry, married, pastored
a church for many many years,
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had three children, finally
when he was 65 years old,
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in 1980, that was 25
years after Celiac disease or
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gluten sensitivity was
discovered, this man was
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diagnosed, he was 60 years old.
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Now at the age of 60 to find
out that you've got a disease
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that has existed since you
were born is a little on the
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discouraging side but he
was very hopeful that he could
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get well, so he went
right into the gluten free diet,
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and it wasn't long before
he had his disease fairly well
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under control, although he was
never robust, not until he died.
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I would like to draw for
you a diagram of what happens
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to the intestinal
tract when a person has a
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gluten sensitivity.
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Now if you could imagine that
I am drawing here the stomach
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and the small bowel, and here
is the duodenum, and jejunum,
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and then we get around to the
ileum which is here, and that
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goes into the colon
which you can see here.
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In the small bowel, let's
take a small segment of this
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and just take a look at
it, here is the outside lining
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and here is what we will call
the sub mucosa, and then we will
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draw the mucosa on here.
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This has ups and
downs as you can see here,
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but those are all things
that you can see, and of course
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down in this area we have blood
vessels that run in this area,
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of course they are very
numerous, lots of blood vessels
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in here, but now
let's do another thing,
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let's take a segment
of this part of the bowel,
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just right here.
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Here it is, this is microscopic
now, it has these long fingers,
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finger like projections called
villi that project above the
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surface.
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Now with just a little bit
of imagination you can tell
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that if we are eating food
and it's up in here and it comes
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down in here, that by
having these villi, you greatly
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increase the surface area over
which you can absorb nutrients
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that you have digested
from your food, and it greatly
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increases the likelihood
that you are going to have a
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good functioning bowel, and
that you are going to absorb
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your nutrients, which
can encourage a child to grow
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and a young man to be robust.
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If there is something
wrong with this whole mechanism
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then the person might have
a great deal of discomfort,
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and that's what people with
Celiac disease usually have.
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Unfortunately if they are not
diagnosed and gluten eliminated
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from their program, then as
the years go by, we simply have
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a shortening of these
villi, so after a little while
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they shorten a little
bit, then it isn't long before
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it shortens a little bit
more and it is only that high,
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and after years of not having
a gluten free diet the surface
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area over which they could
reabsorb or absorb their food
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has greatly diminished,
so these individuals are
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compromised rather
significantly with their
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nutrition, and they
become nutrition cripples.
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What can we do for
such an individual?
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It isn't difficult, it is
simply avoid the gluten grains
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and what are they?
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They are wheat, rye, and barley,
almost everyone will tell you
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oats also, but oats
probably contain gluten only by
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contamination.
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Gluten is a protein
that is present in grains,
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present especially in
wheat and with this sensitivity
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then of course if anyone
eats wheat with the gluten in it
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the thing that I showed you
on the board will continue to
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happen with a continued
shortening of and flattening
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of these villi so that less and
less nutrients can be absorbed.
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In addition to the pain
and diarrhea, and the abdominal
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discomforts, often they
develop a bit of sense of being
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down in the mouth, they
try everything that they hear
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and they just aren't
well, but once they get on a
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gluten free diet they
can be helped marvelously.
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Individuals with gluten
sensitivity should avail
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themselves of all the
information that is available
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these days such as this journal
that comes out frequently
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it's produced by the
folk called Gluten Free Living
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and the address for them is
19 Broadway in Hawthorne, NY.
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You can find this on the web
and get enrolled in one of these
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organizations that help
people with Celiac Disease.
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You will find also if you look
for it, you will find centers
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where people with gluten
sensitivity can go such as this
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Holland's Center that you
can find also on the internet,
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and here is another one that
you can find on the internet,
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The Discussion of Gluten
and what it's made of and what
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kind of tests can be done
for the individual who has a
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gluten sensitivity.
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Laboratory tests that
can help with this include
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blood carotene, it is
almost always low, and fecal fat
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is almost always
high in these individuals.
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Then if a glucose tolerance
test is done, they will have
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a rather flat curve, instead
of the normal curve which goes
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up and down rather sharply.
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They will have a low cholesterol
but also a low calcium level,
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and iron and B12 and Folic
Acid may also be low in these
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individuals, and if you
can supplement their diet
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with these then it
helps quite a great deal.
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The prognosis in these
people is excellent if they are
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gluten free.
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So we recommend that
people who have gone from doctor
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to doctor and never seem
to find any kind of help for
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their disorder, that they
certainly try to see if they
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can't get the help that
they can get from just being
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diagnosed with Celiac Disease
and getting the cure for it
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which is avoidance of gluten.
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Now, with oats I might
just add that oats may be taken
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and if you can find a company
that does not deal with any
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other grain except oats...
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There are a few companies
that do handle only oats,
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but if they handle other
grains then there will be some
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cross contamination.
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Even as little as 300 or 500
parts per million parts of oats
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one part of gluten or wheat
will certainly make a difference
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for these individuals.
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They need to be down
less than 20 parts per million
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in order not to have significant
quantities of gluten.
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In addition to gluten
sensitivity or celiac disease,
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there are other types of
gluten sensitivity, but a whole
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plethora of other
disorders that affect the
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gastrointestinal tract.
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Now I have here Dr. Don Miller
and he is going to talk with you
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about a very
common problem GERD or
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Gastro
Esophageal Reflux Disorder.
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Dr. Miller!
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Thank you!
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You know Dr. Thrash has
mentioned cross contamination...
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you will notice sometimes
when you go to the store
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and you look at
your ingredients...
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You should become an ingredient
reader, especially if you have
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any types of allergies
or sensitivities to foods.
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You will often find
somewhere in that area:
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This product was produced
in a factory that also uses
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nuts, peanuts, wheat, gluten,
soy, because they realize
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out there that there is this
problem of cross contamination.
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So be a careful reader, because
it can be a major problem.
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I'm going to talk a few minutes
about this problem called
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Gastro
Esophageal Reflux Disorder.
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Basically it deals with
the stomach and the esophagus,
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the first part of
our alimentary canal,
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that can be really
affected by some reflux.
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Reflux means to flow back-
ward, the flow backward means
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basically that you are having
your stomach juices in there
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and some of it gets somehow
up through the cardiac sphincter
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into the esophagus which
will cause a burning sensation.
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They also sometimes
call this heartburn.
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Now I will say at this
point that GERD is not caused by
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a lack of the little
purple pill in your diet.
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The little purple pill is only
going to address the symptom
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and not the problem.
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What's causing the burning
is the hydrochloric acid,
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extremely strong industrial
cleaner that they clean
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metal with, which is used to
digest the food in the stomach.
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It gets back up through the
sphincter, into the esophagus,
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and will start the burning.
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The burning itself
is not the disease.
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The damage it
does is the disease.
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Some people have it
every once in awhile,
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once a month is not GERD, it's
just you did something wrong.
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It's the chronic
GERD that's the problem,
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the chronic overuse of
whatever it is that is causing
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this problem, that is
causing this constant burning.
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Now what's going to happen,
if you constantly allow the
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hydrochloric acid up into
your esophagus to burn it away.
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You could come up with
some ulcers in your esophagus.
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You could also develop cancer.
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So these are serious things
that you do not want to get,
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so the recommendation is, find
a better way to live your life.
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How is that?
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There are a couple of
things that you can do:
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People that over eat have a
high tendency to develop GERD
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because they get an
over distended stomach,
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the pylorus is not going
to allow the food out because
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it is not ready to be
sent to the duodenum and so
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you will push it back up through
your little sphincter here
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into the esophagus, and
that is what is going to cause
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your GERD.
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Also certain
foods, your fiery foods,
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foods that are gas
forming, foods that will cause a
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upset to the stomach
area, which will cause it to
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come back up this area.
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Also bearing
down on the stomach.
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People do that when
they are constipated,
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which we will talk
about in a few moments,
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and other problems will cause
us to push to much pressure
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on the sphincter allowing
food to go back through.
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So what should you do?
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It's simple, what do you do?
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You quit doing what you
did wrong to cause you to get
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the problem.
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We recommend that you
eat smaller amounts of food.
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It's not rocket science
to know how much to eat,
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but we will talk
about that some time later.
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You eat the amount of food
that when you get done eating
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you could say hmmm, I
could still eat some more food,
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and that is hard to do.
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It is a habit that we learned
to do, but we could still eat
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more food, we stay away
from fiery foods, hot foods,
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those are not the best foods
and we drink plenty of water
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between the meals.
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We want to make sure
that between the meals we have
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plenty of time to
complete the digestive process,
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we go through what is
called the interdigestive phase.
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Once the food has been
emptied from the stomach,
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gets past the duodenum,
gets on its way down the tract
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everything sort of relaxes
for awhile, we need this time
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between the meals.
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That is one of the best
recommendations that you can
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have is rest between meals
and don't over tax yourself
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with to much food.
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Another thing that you can do
if you are having this problem
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is raise the head of your bed,
I'm not talking about putting
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a bunch of pillow behind your
head, but raise the whole head
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of your bed
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Put about four to six inches
underneath the two front legs
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of your bed, the headboard
which will raise the whole slant
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of your bed just enough to allow
gravity to keep things down.
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The only time you should be
lying in you bed to go to sleep
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is in the evening time,
and that is the worse time for
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a person with GERD to
have eaten a big meal.
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We are living in a society
that likes to eat the main meal
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at night time, don't eat
the main meal at night time.
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The main meal is in
morning a good meal at lunch,
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and if you have GERD, probably
supper should be eliminated.
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You don't need it.
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You see people with GERD
have uncontrolled appetites
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and usually have a tendency
to be going towards overweight
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so stay away from these things.
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Tobacco also exacerbates
and alcohol... GERD so...
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If you have a problem
with tobacco and alcohol
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get into a program that you can
get off of these death dealing
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products and you won't have
to worry about the purple pill,
00:16:26.98\00:16:29.95
you don't have to
worry the Esophageal Reflux,
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you won't have to
worry about the heartburn,
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you can be back to
being normal again,
00:16:33.62\00:16:35.84
and very few people
know what normal is.
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I sort of appreciate being a
little bit normal Dr. Thrash.
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Yes, It's nice to be normal but
there are a lot of people who
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for one reason or
other are not normal in the
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gastrointestinal tract.
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A lot of people with GERD
have tried everything they can
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they try to be very good
in their routine and still
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they have GERD.
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But if you persist there
are good things that you can do
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that may help you albeit
may not entirely eliminate
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the problem.
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A few more things
about gluten sensitivity,
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first thing is not just Celiac
disease but a gluten sensitivity
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can cause a number of
other problems as well.
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Take for instance the
skin problem of Rosacea,
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Rosacea is also
called adult onset acne,
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and it involves the face
in almost the same pattern
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that childhood acne
involves the face, but it often
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tends to be cystic
with large bulbous types of
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little abscesses that form
in the skin and can be quite
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painful and unsightly.
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So people with this kind of
problem will also be looking
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every where for the way to
cure their problem with Rosacea.
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Sometimes they use antibiotics
and these antibiotics may help
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some, but that is
only for those that have a
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secondary infection, the cause
is not primarily that of an
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infection, but is a sensitivity
of some kind or something else
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that we don't really understand.
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But there are some ways
that you can help yourself with
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getting rid of gluten
if you determine that a
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gluten sensitivity is
one of those things causing
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your Rosacea.
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Let me just mention a few
things, one is that you can use
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rice and corn, and millet,
those are grains that you can be
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quite certain of if you
have a gluten sensitivity.
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Since you don't have
bread, wheat bread, you are at a
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handicap when there are sand-
wiches or you are at a picnic
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or something of this nature.
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But if you make some nice
waffles for yourself made from,
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rolled millet or rolled corn
which you can sometimes find
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I don't think I have seen
rolled rice but you can make
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rice flour, then mix it
half and half with water
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and if you are very careful
you can something that is
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palatable.
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You can also cook the
rice ahead of time and make it
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nice and soft and
then make a waffle,
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and that can give you
something that you can spread
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and make a sandwich with and
that helps you to have something
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at the same time others in
the picnic are having their
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nice sandwiches.
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You can also use potato flour
that can be found in many shops
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and soy flour, arrowroot, that
is another on that people with
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a gluten sensitivity
should know about, Tapioca,
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don't forget that it can
be used at a great advantage
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and can be very helpful.
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Buckwheat is not
wheat, it's a little seed,
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it is not in the grass family
at all, but can be used by those
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who have a gluten sensitivity.
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Millet can be used in hundreds
of ways, millet pudding,
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millet roasts, all sorts
of things, it can be sweet
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or savory, it can be used in
vegetable meals or fruit meals
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and it is very good for that.
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People with gluten sensitivities
may also have joint pains,
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they may have what they consider
to be Rheumatoid Arthritis
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and indeed people with
Rheumatoid Arthritis or with
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Osteo Arthritis may be made
worse by their sensitivity to
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gluten so individuals
who have that can certainly
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benefit from knowing
about leaving off gluten.
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Then for women who have
intrauterine growth retardation,
00:20:50.98\00:20:56.47
that's the baby is not growing
as fast as it would appear
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as it should for the gestational
age, and these persons
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a test for gluten
sensitivity would be very good,
00:21:06.73\00:21:09.35
that's to test the fecal
fat and the blood carotene
00:21:09.38\00:21:12.39
and the cholesterol, and
calcium and all of these things
00:21:12.42\00:21:15.79
that indicate a gluten
sensitivity or Celiac Disease
00:21:15.82\00:21:20.54
those should be tested to
see if the mother may have
00:21:20.57\00:21:25.09
a gluten sensitivity.
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Chron's disease is often
mistaken for Celiac disease
00:21:26.91\00:21:32.77
and so is the
Tropical Sprue or that kind of
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Celiac disease, the
Tropical Sprue is not a gluten
00:21:42.63\00:21:46.22
sensitivity but it
is due to an infection,
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but it does cause the
same kind of problem with the
00:21:48.43\00:21:52.61
gastrointestinal tract,
so all of these lines of
00:21:52.64\00:21:54.70
investigation should be done
for people who have prolonged
00:21:54.73\00:21:59.15
failure to thrive we can
say, they go from one attempt
00:21:59.18\00:22:05.12
to another to try to get well
and they never seem to get well.
00:22:05.15\00:22:08.69
A common problem is constipation
and a lot of people have it
00:22:08.72\00:22:14.30
both children as adults and we
should study what the causes are
00:22:14.33\00:22:21.01
and try to eliminate it,
and Dr. Don Miller is going to
00:22:21.04\00:22:24.58
talk with you some
about that problem now.
00:22:24.61\00:22:26.75
A couple of other things
I failed to mention about
00:22:26.78\00:22:30.24
GERD, fried foods, coffee,
and chocolate also exacerbate
00:22:30.27\00:22:35.72
the problem so stay away
from those if you have GERD.
00:22:35.75\00:22:38.40
Constipation is a major problem,
00:22:38.43\00:22:40.28
I suspect that most
people listening today have
00:22:40.31\00:22:43.32
chronic constipation
and they don't even know it.
00:22:43.35\00:22:45.53
There is a good way to find
out whether you are constipated,
00:22:45.56\00:22:48.00
one, just how do your stools
come out in the first place
00:22:48.03\00:22:52.59
they should not take a
15 minute effort to void
00:22:52.62\00:22:56.50
your stools, it should be a
very quick and easy movement,
00:22:56.53\00:22:59.87
it is those who really
have to strain at their stools
00:22:59.90\00:23:02.93
that are probably constipated.
00:23:02.96\00:23:04.42
But you can do a simple
test, take some charcoal powder
00:23:04.45\00:23:08.35
mix it with some water,
your next meal just drink about
00:23:08.38\00:23:10.97
two tablespoons of
charcoal even teaspoons will do,
00:23:11.00\00:23:14.68
in a small amount of water,
drink it and eat your meal
00:23:14.71\00:23:17.12
and then you will
find one of these days,
00:23:17.15\00:23:20.75
unfortunately for some
people one of these days,
00:23:20.78\00:23:23.38
you will start seeing
the charcoal in your stool.
00:23:23.41\00:23:26.58
When you stop seeing it
in your stool, whatever time
00:23:26.61\00:23:30.48
elapsed between
taking it and voiding it,
00:23:30.51\00:23:33.04
that is your transit time.
00:23:33.07\00:23:34.52
Your transit time should
be between 18 and 30 hours,
00:23:34.55\00:23:38.91
some people's transit
time is between 83 hours and
00:23:38.94\00:23:43.09
seven days, that means that
their food is slowly slogging
00:23:43.12\00:23:46.61
through their system
for that period of time.
00:23:46.64\00:23:49.51
Where constipation happens
is in the colon, the last part,
00:23:49.54\00:23:53.78
of the alimentary canal
before it leaves the body.
00:23:53.81\00:23:56.83
The purpose of that part of
the anatomy is to take up the
00:23:56.86\00:24:00.83
moisture to make the
stools at the right consistency
00:24:00.86\00:24:04.99
to be taken out of the body.
00:24:05.02\00:24:06.46
The trouble is we
have a very low fiber diet,
00:24:06.49\00:24:09.31
a very low water intake,
and I might say this also
00:24:09.34\00:24:12.31
that probably most
people listening today are
00:24:12.34\00:24:14.67
chronically dehydrated,
people who are dehydrated have
00:24:14.70\00:24:18.50
more constipation and
people have low fiber diets.
00:24:18.53\00:24:21.70
Where do we find fiber?
Fruits, vegetable, whole grains,
00:24:21.73\00:24:25.17
nuts and seeds, that is
where you find your fiber.
00:24:25.20\00:24:27.81
It is the high meat diet and
these crazy high protein diets
00:24:27.84\00:24:32.14
which are death dealing in
every respect are going to be
00:24:32.17\00:24:36.89
very promoting of constipation.
00:24:36.92\00:24:38.92
I was in India a few
years ago, a team of two,
00:24:38.95\00:24:44.00
and the one person on the
team had gone there a few days
00:24:44.03\00:24:46.69
early and somehow he had sort
of made it known that he was
00:24:46.72\00:24:51.21
really appreciative
of the food as it was,
00:24:51.24\00:24:53.59
so by the time I got there
it was the most basic White Fair
00:24:53.62\00:24:57.93
you have ever seen, white rice,
other types of white products,
00:24:57.96\00:25:01.07
very few of anything
else, and it didn't take long,
00:25:01.10\00:25:04.11
just a couple of days
later I found myself in the
00:25:04.14\00:25:07.35
constipated state.
00:25:07.38\00:25:08.53
This is a very uncomfortable
feeling, so I made a concerted
00:25:08.56\00:25:12.72
effort to make sure that I
got fresh vegetables and fruits
00:25:12.75\00:25:15.51
on the market and augmented
my white diet with these
00:25:15.54\00:25:19.23
different things.
00:25:19.26\00:25:20.23
So the best thing that you
can do if you are constipated is
00:25:20.24\00:25:22.63
change your diet, try
eating far more fiber,
00:25:22.66\00:25:25.92
that means fruits, vegetables,
especially and whole grains.
00:25:25.95\00:25:29.40
You can take some flax
seed, flax seed is a high form
00:25:29.43\00:25:33.04
of fiber, it's also
an ant-inflammatory,
00:25:33.07\00:25:35.78
it has Omega 3 Fatty
Acids, eat lots of that.
00:25:35.81\00:25:38.61
You can take Psyllium
Seed, now Psyllium Seed Husks
00:25:38.64\00:25:41.37
can do one of two things,
it can take care of diarrhea
00:25:41.40\00:25:45.10
by taking up moisture, or it
can take care of constipation
00:25:45.13\00:25:49.91
by absorbing moisture.
00:25:49.94\00:25:51.80
It will basically get you
right to where you need to be.
00:25:51.83\00:25:54.13
Another thing you need to
do is drink plenty of water,
00:25:54.16\00:25:57.25
I would recommend a
person with constipation,
00:25:57.28\00:26:00.10
first thing in the morning,
you roll over, get out of bed
00:26:00.13\00:26:02.95
and drink two glasses of warm
water and go for a prayer walk.
00:26:02.98\00:26:06.39
Get outside of your house,
go for a walk up the street,
00:26:06.42\00:26:09.14
up through the country
lane, wherever you live and
00:26:09.17\00:26:11.87
come right back because
you will need to because often
00:26:11.90\00:26:14.02
that causes an increase in
the cilia action down there
00:26:14.05\00:26:17.34
and the villi down in the
intestinal tract and you will
00:26:17.37\00:26:20.66
find things
flowing quite nicely.
00:26:20.69\00:26:22.97
It will take awhile to
get completely free of the
00:26:23.00\00:26:26.22
constipation
problem, but once you have,
00:26:26.25\00:26:28.23
you will be praising the
Lord that things are passing
00:26:28.26\00:26:31.24
so much easier now.
00:26:31.27\00:26:32.34
If you don't do this, you've
got an appointment somewhere
00:26:32.37\00:26:35.73
down the line with
hiatal hernia, hemorrhoids,
00:26:35.76\00:26:39.02
varicose veins, colon
cancer, with whole constellation
00:26:39.05\00:26:45.33
of problems for the
very reason of constipation,
00:26:45.36\00:26:49.03
so I would recommend that
you get things moving again
00:26:49.06\00:26:51.38
and by a dietary
that would promote it.
00:26:51.41\00:26:54.13
That is very good, and I
have found also in children
00:26:54.16\00:26:57.73
and also in young people,
that if they wear bands at night
00:26:57.76\00:27:04.33
that are to tight, such as
pajama bands, or panty bands,
00:27:04.36\00:27:08.31
or whatever, these are
tight enough that they leave
00:27:08.34\00:27:12.14
a red mark on the skin, then
that individual is much more
00:27:12.17\00:27:17.62
likely to have constipation.
00:27:17.65\00:27:19.25
As Dr. Miller mentioned,
people who have constipation
00:27:19.28\00:27:22.72
or any other kind of
symptom referable to the colon
00:27:22.75\00:27:27.52
or the rectum, or the anus,
they are more likely to develop
00:27:27.55\00:27:31.56
a variety of colon diseases
that we have commonly occurring
00:27:31.59\00:27:36.81
in the population
in the United States.
00:27:36.84\00:27:38.91
So some time spent in
studying these kinds of problems
00:27:38.94\00:27:45.12
in the United States can make
it so that you can avoid these
00:27:45.15\00:27:51.77
problems that occur in people
with gastrointestinal upsets.
00:27:51.80\00:27:58.38