There are a lot of
diseases in our age
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that we just don't know
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what makes them come about.
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Some of these we have had
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for just a few years,
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Some we have had
for a number of years
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and diseases
tend to wax an wane.
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There are several of these
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that we're still
in the waxing phase.
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They are still not waning yet.
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We'd like to talk
about some of these diseases
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in this program and
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we hope you will join us for it.
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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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Some of the diseases
that we are suffering from
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in this modern
age, have a fairly clear
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relationship to
some kind of lifestyle
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We also have a number of
diseases in this modern age,
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that are fairly, clearly related
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to diet, in some way,
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and one of those
is endometriosis.
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Some things in
lifestyle may be associated
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with endometriosis,
but then some things
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in diet may also be associated.
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Endometriosis is a planting,
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or a transplanting of
some of the lining material
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of the uterus,
in some other place.
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Now some other place may
be the uterine wall itself,
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normally this membrane
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lines the interior of
the uterus, or the womb.
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But in
endometriosis some parts of it
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may be transplanted
into the wall of the uterus.
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Then when the
uterus contracts at all
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that causes pain.
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In addition to the
uterine muscle, it can be these
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little bits of
endometrial tissue can be
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transplanted on to
the surface of the uterus,
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or on the surfaces of the tubes,
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or inside the
tubes, in which case
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there may be an
infertility problem.
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These little bits of the
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lining material
called endometrium
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may transplant on
the inside of the abdomen
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They may
transplant even on the liver
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or on the intestinal
tract, during the mesentery
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or in some other place.
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They may inbed in the umbilicus,
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or in some cases they may
even go to some distant place
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such as to the skin.
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I saw one case of endometriosis
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that, the skin of
the upper chest was
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involved with an
endometrial transplant.
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It's quite weird to see
this strange looking thing
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that became very
congested with blood
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with her menstral
periods, and then when
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the tumor was taken out
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it had very
tipical lining material,
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the same kind thing that we find
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in the lining of the uterus.
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Such cases of
course bring forth a lot
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of interest, and a lot of study,
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and some of the
studies that have been done
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have shown some factors
of lifestyle to be involved.
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Some have felt
that sexual excitation
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during the menstral
period, may be involved
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in endometriosis.
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The way that is
beleived to happen,
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if it does, it
has not been proven,
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is that the
contractions of the uterus
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at a time when
the lining material
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is usually sloughing
off, that these contractions
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cause certain viable
portions of little streaks
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of the endometrial
that are still living
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they have been shed,
but they are still living
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and they can be squeezed
back along the lymphatics
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into the wall of the uterus,
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or can be squeezed out
through the fallopian tube
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into the tube, and
out into the abdomen
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where they can
implant on the ovaries,
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or on the tubes
themselves, or in distant areas.
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If this is true, we
don't know, but it is certainly
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well worth the Bible injunction
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to avoid marital relations
at that very tender time
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of a womans monthly cycle.
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Now another theory, as
to how endometriosis occurs
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has just been published,
a very short time ago.
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This one inculded 70
patients with endometriosis
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who had various
studies done on their tissues
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and on their tissue fluids,
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and all of the
fluids and tissues showed
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a high level of
iron, and the researchers
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came to the conclusion, at
the end of their study period
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that they were dealing
with something having to do with
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iron metabolism, or
perhaps even iron overload
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that it might have to do with
the origin of endometriosis.
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Now whatever its
origin might be, we do know
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what it is, where it implants
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what kind of
symptoms that it gives.
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These are usually a
worsening of symptoms
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just before, and at the
time of the menstral flow.
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These symptoms,
being largely pain,
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maybe pelvic pain,
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maybe pain on the
floor of the pelvis
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or in the abdomen generally,
or in one side or other.
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Or in any place
where there is an implant
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of the endometrial
tissue, as the endometrium
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swells just prior to the
onset of the menstral period.
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That swelling causes
pressure on adjacent nerves
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and that of course can cause
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a woman feel
quite a lot of pain.
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So pain control is
one of the important ways
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that we treat endometriosis.
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This can be with
heating pads, ice bags,
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massage of the extremities
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which tends to distract
the person from the pain
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that they are having elseware.
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Hot footbaths
can be most helpful
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in this kind of problem,
and then a very spare diet
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can be helpful in endometriosis.
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Some of the anti-pain
herbs are such things as,
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White Willow Bark, some
of the anti-imflammatory
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herbs, such as Hawthorn Berry,
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or Stinging Nettle, or Kava
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or dandelion, a number
of these ant-inflammatory
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agents, flax seed
is also an excellent
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anti-inflammatory agent
and can be a excellent remedy
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in endometriosis.
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Now an interesting
feature of endometriosis
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is that it will eventually
sort of burn itself out.
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Because every month
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there is a
bleeding from these implants
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as well as from the
lining of the uterus
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because of the hormonal cycles
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that involve
these implants as well.
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After a little while
the pressures on the inside
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and the scarring that comes
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from the repeated bleedings
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will cause the implant to
just sort of burn itself out.
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So if the woman can
tough it out for long enough,
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the time is coming
when she will be better
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with endometriosis.
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Now another thing I
would like for us to discuss
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is that of
pollutants in modern society
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and I have Dr. Don Miller
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who is going to talk
with you about pollutants
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and he has become aware of these
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as he has traveled
around so Dr. Miller
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would you tell us
something about pollutants.
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Well I look
fondly back at the days
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when your main pollutants
you had to worry about
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stepping in.
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Now you have to
worry about breathing them.
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Now I've been in
some cities in the world
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that are sort of
noted for the amount
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of pollutants in the air.
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A Bangkok, is one of the
most highly polluted areas.
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Tokyo is very polluted,
but, how big of an impact
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does this
pollution have on the body
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is the question
that you need to ask?
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There is a very interesting
study that I have read
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that came out of
Utrecht the Netherlands
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basically it wasn't done there
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it was done by
people in the Netherlands
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on a small town in
the country of Switzerland
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the small town with
the highway moving through
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the middle of it,
which would carry about
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5,000 vehicles a day.
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They found that
people who lived outside
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the 50 meter
line, from the highway
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outline of 50 meters
would have a significantly
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lower amount of
cancers than with those living
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within that 50 meters.
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Here's what it looked like
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Of 75 deaths,
over a 12 year period,
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due to various
carcinomas, various cancers
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in this 12 year period of time
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Only three lived
outside of this 50 meter ban
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so apparently 47 people
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living within this 50 meter ban
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might have been profoundly
affected by the exhaust
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and the pollution
coming out of the vehicles
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traveling down this
road and quite frankly
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5,000 vehicles is
not that many vehicles.
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But there is
something else he found out
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not only were his
patients dying of cancer,
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because of
living within this zone.
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Here's what else: headaches
sleep disorders, fatigue,
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depression, digestive
disorders, and nervousness
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were twice as common, and
in those people living within
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50 meters of the highway,
they were taking four times
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as many analgesics,
than those living outside
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the 50 meters.
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So what do you do about this?
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Well we recommend
very strongly vitamin M.
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And what is vitamin M,
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"MOVE", move away from the area
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Now sometimes that
may seem overly simplistic
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you just can't do it.
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But realize that with the
proximity to the pollution
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source, you are
opening yourselves up to
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a source of danger,
and a source of disease.
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What can you do?
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If you cannot move
everything else you do
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needs to be done as
carefully as possible.
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They say that people
who cook over gas ranges
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and that is my
favorite way to cook.
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If they do not
have proper exhaust,
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they are breathing as
much exhaust and pollutants
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as if they were
living in the city,
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so we need to have a good
exhaust fan over our range
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or over our stoves.
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But another
very interesting one,
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I found looking
through the internet.
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Chemicals, in
newly installed carpets,
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we have this
problem called outgassing.
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Almost everything
now days outgasses.
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Our paint has
anti-fungal agents,
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and they have anti-mold agents.
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We have carpeting with
different agents in there.
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This is what they did,
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they took pieces of carpeting
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and they blew a
fan over the carpeting
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into a cage of mice, so
it would forcing the mice
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to breathe air that was
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coming over
newly made carpeting.
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Between 40 minutes and 24 hours
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every single mouse
was dead within this cage.
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Now a mouse is very small
and does not have the capacity
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to basically take care
of some of these pollutants.
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But what do we do
when we have a home thats
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wall to wall carpeting.
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Our drywall has agents in there,
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the paint on the dry wall,
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the curtains
have agents in there.
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The upolstry on
our sofas and chairs
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all have outgassing
agents and we are living
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in a very potent
stew of pollutants,
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and its not the
healthiest thing.
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Now some people,
because of vital capacity
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because of good genes
or whatever, good lifestyle
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in other ways are
protected, but some people are
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profoundly affected by the
stew that they are living in.
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There are other
things, the preserving things
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that we have nowdays.
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The plastics, I read
an article not long ago
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that people who put
food in the microwave oven
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and have some of this
shrinkwrap type plastic
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over the top, as the microwave
heats it up, pollutants
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drip off, zeno estrogens
drip off into the food,
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you are eating this
stew, and these things
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cause infertility, as a matter
of fact just wrapping your food
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in these types of
plastics are not the best thing.
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What I like to do
when I finish my all fruit
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jelly jars, or
whatever jars I'm using.
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I save all my glass jars
and I put my leftovers in glass.
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They don't outgas and
they stay pretty well.
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Put a tight lid on them,
put them in the refrigerator
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at the proper temperature,
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but try to eat them
as fast as possible,
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because everything now days
in this society is giving off
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some type of pollutant.
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So the best thing
is to do is be careful,
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if you are going to
move into a new home.
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they are building some new
homes at Uchee Pines right now
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and maybe some
day we will finish one
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and I'll move into it.
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I've already got the hard
wood floors, those pine floors.
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I've already got the
floors ready to put down.
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No carpets in the house,
I'm gonna have mini blinds
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no curtains.
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I feel that I'm getting into
that age where you got to be
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a little bit more careful,
and you might be in that age too
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but no matter how
old or how young you are
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Take care of
yourself beginning right now
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and you might some real
benefits along down the road.
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So Dr. Thash this pollution
thing is a major problem.
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Yes it is. Did I miss
it or did you not mention
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about cigarette smoke.
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Well,you know they
find that cigarette smoke,
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a person who smokes
a cigarette in a room
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and then leaves the room.
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The effects of that
cigarette remains in that room
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for seven days,
and that's in there.
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Now there's another
thing that's very interesting
00:14:32.27\00:14:34.21
sort of written by a very
inspired writer some years ago
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says that if a child,
and we've all had this happen
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who are parents.
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Remember sitting there
sleeping and your little child
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comes up and says can
I sleep in bed with you.
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If the parent smokes,
father or mother smokes
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and the child sleeps
with them in the bed.
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We're not talking about
the parents smoking in bed,
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we're just
talking about the "aura"
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that comes off the person,
00:15:00.47\00:15:01.69
that person will have weakend
lungs, and could be affected
00:15:01.73\00:15:04.98
for their entire lifetime.
00:15:05.01\00:15:06.23
Just being around
where someone has smoked.
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It is great that we are
moving to the area nowadays
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where people are not allowed
to smoke in public areas.
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I love our airports,
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you walk down through
our airports in America
00:15:15.96\00:15:18.02
and every once in
awhile you come to a glass cage
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and inside this glass
cage are death defying people
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all smoking their cigaretts.
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You go to other countries, and
people are smoking everywhere,
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and its pretty tough to take,
but cigarette smoking is an
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unbelievably dangerous
thing in our society Dr. Thrash
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we need to be careful.
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Now I used to think that
this idea that just the skin
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of a person with a smoking
history would exude materials
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that would cause a
child to be affected by it.
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I thought that, that was
a little overstated, until
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some major research came out
showing that indeed it is true
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that even the
skin and the breath
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of a person who is a
smoker can affect their child,
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their unborn child as well.
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No I would like to talk
just a bit about the eyes
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Most marvelous organ,
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one of the most marvelous
organs in the entire body.
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It's a precision
organ, something in the eye is
00:16:18.28\00:16:22.52
constantly moving.
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The diaphram of the
eye is constantly opening
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and closing for
the available light.
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The lens of the eye is
constantly changing its shape.
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because of the
distance that we are looking,
00:16:34.94\00:16:38.87
whether its long or short,
and the changing of the eye,
00:16:38.91\00:16:42.71
just to look from a long
distance to a shorter distance
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to a very short distance,
or to a very distant object.
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The lens has to
make some major changes.
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Very precision
instrument, the eye.
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So are there some
special things that we should
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do to take care of
it, and the answer is yes,
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we have a lot diseases of
the eyes and the structures
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that are near the eyes
that we should be aware of
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I would like to talk with you
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about a few of the things that
have to do with conjunctivitis.
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This is an inflammation
of the sac, the moist sac
00:17:16.72\00:17:21.93
that covers the
outside of the eye.
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If you pull your eyelid down,
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you will be right in
the conjunctival sac.
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A germ can get in there or
you can get injured because
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of trash or a bug
or something that falls
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in the eye, or some fumes
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or chemical that
comes into the eye.
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So that you can get
an irritation that can be
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followed by an infection.
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So what can you do that
will help your conjunctivae
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Well it will be
of no surprise to you
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that the same things that
we have always talked about
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are good for the eyes,
are good for the conjunctiva
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Vitamin A and foods
that are high in vitamin A
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such as apricots, and squash,
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sweet potatoes, pumpkin
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anything that is orange
or yellow or deep green.
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All of the greens, the
more deeply green they are,
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the more vitamin
A they will contain
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and that helps the cinjunctiva
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It helps to keep it moist,
so people with the dry eye
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syndrome should emphasize
these foods in the diet
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Apricots can be very
helpful to provide vitamin A
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But now the B vitamins
are also important for the
00:18:40.80\00:18:44.88
proper conjunctival health.
00:18:44.91\00:18:46.72
B vitamins help with
the healing of diseases,
00:18:46.76\00:18:52.19
the growth of new
membrane and so the B Vitamins
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should of course be emphasized.
00:18:57.65\00:18:59.90
Now cataracts,
this is a cloudiness
00:18:59.94\00:19:03.75
of the lens of the eye.
00:19:03.83\00:19:06.22
This cloudiness tends
to grow once it begans
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so that the person who
starts getting a cataract
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may wait for a good
while before it gets so bad
00:19:14.32\00:19:18.28
they can't see,
before they have the lens
00:19:18.31\00:19:20.86
operated on, and
a new lens put in.
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So what can help
us with cataracts?
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Well the same good
fruits and vegetables
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that will help
with the conjunctiva,
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will also help with the lenses.
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But then there is
another whole class of foods
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should be avoided, and
these are the dairy products.
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I have here a number of
the dairy products that have
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as their offending
agent that of galactose.
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Lactose is the
principal carbohydrate in
00:19:51.02\00:19:54.46
cow's milk or breast milk
either, and lactose may cause a
00:19:54.49\00:20:01.99
serious problem for
the eyes in adulthood,
00:20:02.02\00:20:06.14
so people who are prone
to cataracts should eliminate
00:20:06.18\00:20:09.40
dairy products, because
the lactose comprised of
00:20:09.43\00:20:13.20
glucose and
galactose can break down,
00:20:13.23\00:20:16.73
or does break down
during the digestive process
00:20:16.77\00:20:19.93
and the galactose that's
released is the offending
00:20:19.97\00:20:23.10
agent for the lenses.
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Then of course the
total fat that one takes in
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can affect the lenses as well.
00:20:31.56\00:20:34.10
Butter and margarine
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these are very
injurious to the lenses
00:20:37.21\00:20:41.25
of a person who is
prone to get cataracts.
00:20:41.28\00:20:44.97
Now what about salt,
the excessive use of salt
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and very salty
foods can also affect
00:20:48.69\00:20:52.61
the production of cataracts.
00:20:52.64\00:20:55.04
Glaucoma is an
increase in the pressure
00:20:55.08\00:20:59.91
inside the eyes, and
anything that will increase
00:20:59.95\00:21:03.29
the blood pressure
will also increase the
00:21:03.32\00:21:05.95
pressure inside the eyes.
00:21:05.98\00:21:07.82
So coffee, tea,
colas, and chocolate
00:21:07.86\00:21:12.73
these can all
increase the interior pressure
00:21:12.77\00:21:16.13
of the eye, to make
glaucoma, which can then
00:21:16.16\00:21:19.63
injure the retina,
and can cause blindness
00:21:19.67\00:21:23.11
because of damage to the retina.
00:21:23.14\00:21:24.11
A very high protein diet
00:21:24.14\00:21:28.44
can also damage
the internal structure
00:21:28.48\00:21:32.26
of the eye and
cause one to get glaucoma.
00:21:32.29\00:21:36.04
Then another one
which is so serious
00:21:36.07\00:21:38.76
is that of Macular Degeneration.
00:21:38.79\00:21:41.41
The macula is the place of
00:21:41.45\00:21:44.75
the most fine focus
00:21:44.78\00:21:48.53
in the eye, and
the macula can be
00:21:48.56\00:21:52.61
damaged by a
wide variety of things
00:21:52.64\00:21:55.26
aspirin being one
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various food substances can
00:21:57.09\00:22:00.67
such as those that
are deficient in zinc,
00:22:00.71\00:22:04.44
those that are
deficiant in anti-oxidants,
00:22:04.48\00:22:08.18
aged foods,
foods that are rancid,
00:22:08.21\00:22:11.32
those kind of things can
be a problem for the macula.
00:22:11.36\00:22:15.12
There also some wonderful foods
00:22:15.15\00:22:17.32
that can help the macula
00:22:17.35\00:22:18.65
spinach is one,
00:22:18.68\00:22:19.65
if a person who
has already developing
00:22:19.66\00:22:22.97
macular degeneration
00:22:23.01\00:22:24.95
that can reverse the process
00:22:26.83\00:22:29.66
of macular degeneration
00:22:29.69\00:22:31.68
and can give the
person a little bit better
00:22:31.72\00:22:34.83
acuity of vision,
than one had before
00:22:34.86\00:22:38.31
the spinach routine was taken.
00:22:38.34\00:22:41.53
Cabbage is also good,
00:22:41.56\00:22:43.15
oranges are good, and
foods that are high in zinc
00:22:43.19\00:22:46.41
and high in anti-oxidants.
00:22:46.44\00:22:48.08
All of these can be so
beneficial for a person
00:22:48.12\00:22:52.97
with eye problems,
that I think that it is
00:22:53.01\00:22:56.23
well for us to study
these various things.
00:22:56.26\00:22:59.58
Another problem is
that of night blindness
00:22:59.61\00:23:02.90
and Dr. Don Miller
00:23:02.93\00:23:04.68
will talk with you
about this problem.
00:23:04.72\00:23:07.16
You talked about
Macular Degeneration
00:23:07.20\00:23:09.30
Dr. Thrash, you
know my mother had this
00:23:09.34\00:23:11.41
Oh! And she's
right now is 81 years old
00:23:11.98\00:23:14.46
and to the point
where she already had the
00:23:14.50\00:23:17.63
blindness in the
center of her eye
00:23:17.66\00:23:19.54
and she could no
longer drive at night
00:23:19.57\00:23:21.42
cause she could not see at night
00:23:21.45\00:23:22.50
and she could not
even see in shadows.
00:23:22.54\00:23:24.19
She started all
this about two years ago
00:23:24.23\00:23:25.81
taking a herbal combination
that is good for the eyes
00:23:25.85\00:23:29.74
and she recently got her
full drivers license back
00:23:29.77\00:23:33.34
she has no visible
macular degeneration anymore.
00:23:33.38\00:23:36.92
Is that right, I'm
sure she took bilberry tea,
00:23:36.95\00:23:40.08
and maybe she
ate bluberries alot.
00:23:40.11\00:23:42.82
Every time I go home
I try to take her some
00:23:42.86\00:23:45.22
during blueberry season.
00:23:45.25\00:23:46.73
But there are good things
that you can do for the eyes.
00:23:46.76\00:23:48.94
Did she take the spinach?
00:23:48.97\00:23:49.94
I had her taking spinach
at least three times a week.
00:23:49.95\00:23:52.98
Uh huh! Extremely good!
00:23:53.61\00:23:54.69
Anything that Dr.
Thrash has mentioned
00:23:54.73\00:23:57.00
for the eye problems
that she has mentioned
00:23:57.04\00:23:59.24
is good also for
the night blindness.
00:23:59.27\00:24:01.86
The eye is, when
you think about the eye
00:24:01.89\00:24:04.41
if you study the eye
you wonder how in the world
00:24:04.45\00:24:08.18
can anyone have the audacity
00:24:08.21\00:24:10.43
to even think about evolution.
00:24:10.46\00:24:12.61
How could you evolve
this unbelieveably complex
00:24:12.65\00:24:16.47
part of our visible brain.
00:24:16.50\00:24:18.00
But our eyes, she's
already talked about the macula
00:24:18.04\00:24:22.36
she's talked about
othe parts of the eye
00:24:22.39\00:24:24.02
we have rods
and cones in our eye
00:24:24.05\00:24:26.46
that receive
certain types of light.
00:24:26.50\00:24:28.84
It's the rods that
receive basically alot of light
00:24:28.88\00:24:32.30
which is not color sensitive
00:24:32.33\00:24:34.87
its basically black
and white type light
00:24:34.91\00:24:36.65
and this is where
we get our night vision
00:24:36.68\00:24:38.79
those who have good rods
can see very well at night.
00:24:38.83\00:24:42.53
People who have night blindness,
00:24:42.56\00:24:45.35
the rods are not as
strong as they should be
00:24:45.39\00:24:48.00
So what can we do about this?
00:24:48.03\00:24:49.84
Everything that Dr.
Thrash just said about
00:24:49.88\00:24:52.33
everything else in the
eye you do those things.
00:24:52.37\00:24:55.23
You eat the
green leafy vegetables,
00:24:55.26\00:24:57.91
you eat the orange and
00:24:57.94\00:24:59.97
the yellow vegetables and fruits
00:25:00.01\00:25:00.98
When I'm in India, I
have alot of patients
00:25:00.99\00:25:04.73
come to me with this problem,
00:25:04.76\00:25:06.66
I've got night blindness,
00:25:06.69\00:25:08.30
Now for some reason in
the developing countries
00:25:08.34\00:25:10.89
that eat rice,
00:25:10.99\00:25:11.96
they eat almost
always refined rice
00:25:11.97\00:25:14.64
which is depleated rice
00:25:14.67\00:25:16.00
which is going to
deplete them of their
00:25:16.04\00:25:17.94
vitamins and their minerals.
00:25:17.97\00:25:18.95
I tell them because,
00:25:18.98\00:25:20.73
there are plenty
of them over there.
00:25:20.77\00:25:21.98
Start eating alot of papaya,
00:25:22.01\00:25:24.06
a very good source of vitamin A.
00:25:24.09\00:25:25.92
If you have night blindness
00:25:26.14\00:25:27.72
I would suggest you start off
00:25:27.76\00:25:29.50
with about 25
international units
00:25:29.54\00:25:31.76
of vitamin A about twice a day,
00:25:31.80\00:25:33.99
which is going to help.
00:25:34.02\00:25:35.83
Also a zinc deficiency
00:25:35.86\00:25:38.04
Dr. Thrash had
mentioned a zinc deficiency.
00:25:38.08\00:25:39.92
If we have a zinc deficiency
00:25:39.95\00:25:42.56
the liver is not able
to convert the carotene
00:25:42.60\00:25:45.68
in the vitamin A,
and so we need to have
00:25:45.71\00:25:47.81
plenty of zinc, and so you take
00:25:47.84\00:25:48.85
either a zinc supplement,
but I'd rather you take
00:25:48.89\00:25:51.29
zinc containing foods.
00:25:51.32\00:25:52.92
I've already
mentioned in another program
00:25:52.95\00:25:54.73
Things like popcorn,
things like pumpkin seeds,
00:25:54.77\00:25:58.01
there are good
sources of zinc out there.
00:25:58.04\00:26:00.62
If you are eating a good
00:26:00.65\00:26:01.81
whole food dietary
00:26:01.84\00:26:03.93
which is rich in
your vitamins and minerals
00:26:03.97\00:26:06.29
you won't have the problem
with these particular things.
00:26:06.33\00:26:09.30
Carrot juice is
another very good thing
00:26:09.33\00:26:13.04
you could eat the carrots,
00:26:13.07\00:26:14.04
but also take the carrot juice,
00:26:14.05\00:26:15.46
and the green and yellow foods
00:26:15.49\00:26:17.03
and then the bilberry,
Dr. Thrash mentioned bilberry.
00:26:17.07\00:26:19.93
You can also
take the American form
00:26:19.96\00:26:21.30
which is blueberry, bilberry/
blueberry, extremely good
00:26:21.34\00:26:24.84
for the eyes and you
are going to find that
00:26:24.87\00:26:26.88
you might just have a reversal
00:26:26.91\00:26:28.75
of this nightblindness problem
00:26:28.79\00:26:30.60
its a major problem.
00:26:30.63\00:26:31.60
people with nightblindness
00:26:31.61\00:26:32.58
should not be driving at night.
00:26:32.59\00:26:33.56
But we feel like if we
take good care of our eyes
00:26:33.57\00:26:37.22
with proper nutrition,
the body is unbelievably
00:26:37.26\00:26:41.01
able to repair
itself Dr. Thrash.
00:26:41.04\00:26:43.18
Yes it is I'm constantly
amazed at wonderfully well
00:26:43.21\00:26:47.28
we have been
designed to repair ourselves.
00:26:47.31\00:26:49.35
Another thing is
just visual accuity
00:26:49.38\00:26:53.47
of course cataracts,
00:26:53.50\00:26:54.92
and macular degeneration,
00:26:54.96\00:26:55.95
are involved in
that, but there are also
00:26:55.99\00:26:58.89
things having to do
with the muscles of the eye
00:26:58.93\00:27:01.57
and the place
where we interpet vision.
00:27:01.60\00:27:05.68
The central portions of vision.
00:27:05.71\00:27:08.73
Where we, when some
light rays come into the eye
00:27:08.77\00:27:13.35
they have to go back,
00:27:13.38\00:27:14.81
to the very back of the brain
00:27:14.84\00:27:16.58
in the occipital area
for the interpretation.
00:27:16.62\00:27:19.96
If there is some
hardening of the arteries
00:27:20.00\00:27:23.31
going to the brain in that area,
00:27:23.34\00:27:26.42
then the person,
although they may see quite well
00:27:26.46\00:27:29.54
They will not be able to
interpret what they have seen
00:27:29.58\00:27:33.31
So hardening of the arteries
00:27:33.34\00:27:35.78
can be a factor in poor vision.
00:27:35.81\00:27:38.21
To avoid
hardening of the arteries
00:27:38.24\00:27:40.61
of course the arterial tree
00:27:40.64\00:27:42.93
must be kept in the
most excellent health.
00:27:42.97\00:27:45.67
and to do that you need
00:27:45.70\00:27:47.15
exercise and
diet, plenty of water
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and a good lifestyle.
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May these be
your portion in life.
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