The nervous system is one
of our most complete systems,
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it permeates all of the cells
of the body, if you touch here
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there are nerves there, if
you touch here there are nerves
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there, and if you touch
down on the bottom of your foot
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there are nerves there.
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With all of these nerves, it's
quite possible that something
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could go wrong
with some of them.
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We will discuss some of these
things that go wrong with the
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nervous system in this program,
and we hope you will join us
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with our talk on
Neurologic Problems.
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Welcome to Help Yourself To
Health, with Dr. Agatha Thrash
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O f Uchee Pines Institute.
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Now here is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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It's a wonderful age to live
in, in which we are learning
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so many things
for so many diseases.
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I just love living in this
age because I love understanding
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some new things about
what is happening to people,
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especially those
with neurologic problems.
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There was a time when we didn't
have much that we could do
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for a lot of neurologic
problems that now we know more
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about the disease, and we know
more about the nervous system
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and how it functions.
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So we can help people
who have neurologic problems
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and one that I would
like to talk about is
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Multiple Sclerosis.
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It's really a quite common
disorder and we have of course
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a little bit more frequently
in women, than in men,
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but in all areas of society,
all levels of the geography
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end of the socio-economic levels
people have Multiple Sclerosis.
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Now we do find
however, that in tropical areas
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they have far less than they
do in more northerly climbs.
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Why is that? We aren't entirely
certain, but one thing may be
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that something
happens to the nervous system
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in early childhood, in people
who live in tropical countries
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that protects them
throughout their life
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from Multiple Sclerosis.
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What that is we don't know,
whether its the continual warmth
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or whether its the kind of
food, or the way they live,
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or what it is, we
are just not certain.
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But if a person from the tropics
goes to a place in the very
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northern most parts of the
world, they carry with them
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the risk of Multiple
Sclerosis that they had in their
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home area, not in the area
that they are transplanted to.
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Those who are born in northern
climates carry with them to a
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tropical area, the same risks
that they would have if they
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still continue to live in
the more northern climate.
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Some things about Multiple
Sclerosis are quite puzzling
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why it is that some people
get a type of Multiple Sclerosis
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that goes to death in just
a few weeks, its just a very
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accelerated form
of Multiple Sclerosis.
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Why does that
happen? No one knows.
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Why is it that some people
will get Multiple Sclerosis
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and they have a very
slow progress through
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a long life
eventually succumbing to the
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Multiple Sclerosis, but
only after decades have passed.
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This is puzzling, we
don't know exactly why this is.
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There are things that we
know to do for the person with
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Multiple Sclerosis to
slow down the process,
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and I will mention a few of
those, there are many of them,
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so in order to get the full
picture, you would need to make
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a study of Multiple
Sclerosis, which we have done,
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and have written up
at Uchee Pines and by
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simply going on the web to
the 3ABN web site and clicking
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on Uchee Pines in the contacts,
you can find how to get in touch
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with us to get that written
paper on Multiple Sclerosis.
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But some of the things
that we have found, are that
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diet is very helpful.
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The kind of diet that one should
use is one that has no hard fats
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in it, you can use just the all
soft fats that you would like
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and they will furnish the amount
of saturated fats that you need
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for your essential fatty
acids, without giving you those
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fatty acids that may be
harmful to your nervous system.
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Then of course the diet
shall be of a nature that
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will make it so you
will not gain weight,
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because if the muscles get
weak with the disease, the more
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weight they carry, the
more difficult it's going to be
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for you to get around.
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So the person with
Multiple Sclerosis should
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guard the weight very carefully.
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Now another thing about diet
is that it should principally
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vegetarian.
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Vegetarian people do
better than people who are not
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vegetarian, who
have Multiple Sclerosis.
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Another thing you should know
about what we have discovered
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about the cause, is
that in Multiple Sclerosis
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people who have
chilled extremities
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early in life,
maybe this has to do with
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the place that they live,
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this may have to do
with multiple Sclerosis.
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There was some research
done a number of years ago
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that indicated that sick
animals, pets, or livestock
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that the child may have
been exposed to, sick livestock.
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That there was some thought
that that might be involved
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in the persons background.
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Certainly for any household
with children in it, they should
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not have pets, in
the same household.
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The pets should
live somewhere else,
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and children should be taught
that when they have contact
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with the animal,
they always wash the hands
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before they touch the face,
or the mouth, or any other thing
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that might go into the mouth.
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In addition to Multiple
Sclerosis, there is another
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very serious type
of neurological problem
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called epilepsy and Dr.
Don Miller who is with me today
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will talk with
you about epilepsy.
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Dr. Miller.
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Thank you Dr. Thrash.
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I was in Zambia a few
years ago, it was the Sabbath
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at lunch time, we were
gathered in the cafeteria there
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and it sounded like
someone dropped a bowling ball
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or a watermelon, across between
the two on the other side
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of the room, I looked, and
one of the African young men,
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on the floor writhing around,
I went straight over there
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and he was having a
seizure, an epileptic seizure.
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So he went through the stages
of the seizure, he finally got
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done, he was in the sleep phase
afterwards, I went and talked
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with him, I said how
long have you had epilepsy?
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He said I've never had a seizure
before, I've never had epilepsy.
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So we started doing a
little bit of investigation,
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what caused this problem?
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It turned out he was
having a bout of Malaria,
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and he was taking a
new Malaria medication,
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and one of the side
effects was seizures,
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so we could trace it back.
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Whenever a person is having
a seizure, try to find out...
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Let's say someone is having
a seizure and they have never
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had one before, they
may not be epileptic.
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Although it is a
seizure of an epileptic nature,
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but find out what might
have precipitated this one.
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A very common cause for seizures
today is the food additive
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called Aspartame.
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Its been shown to cause
seizures in humans and so
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we should make sure we are
taking none of these things
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with Aspartame
in the ingredients.
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That means most of your
diet colas, many of the little
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artificial sweeteners that you
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put in whatever you might be
drinking that needs sweetening.
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Stay away from Aspartame!
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Basically an epileptic
seizure is a disturbance
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in the transmission of
electrical signals in the brain,
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and it can be caused
by many different things.
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A head injury, now you
may have had a head injury
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ten years ago, and it might be
starting to manifest itself now
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in seizures. It does not happen
immediately, so look in the past
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Have you injured your head,
Have you injured your neck,
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have you injured your spinal
cord, all these things can
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precipitate, and lead to
epileptic seizures some time
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down the line, so be
aware of those things.
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There are some
other causes: high fevers.
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Again a high fever
some time in the past,
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can set you for
seizures in the future.
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Infections: many infections can
set a person up the seizures.
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Constipation in
the transverse colon.
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Where is the transverse colon?
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Basically your small intestine
leads out into the cecum,
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which is down in the
area of your appendix.
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As a matter of fact,
hanging off your cecum,
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is your little appendix,
and then it goes up in the
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ascending colon, and then
across just below your diaphragm
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you might almost think a little
bit lower is your transverse
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colon, and then it goes
down to your descending.
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It is
congestion and constipation
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in the transverse colon
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For over 100 years
this has been one of the
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supposed causes and probable
causes of epileptic seizures,
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and that is normally caused
by, and one of the reasons they
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have been talking about... for
over 100 years is soft bread.
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These old things, you can
take a whole loaf of bread,
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and wad it up in your hand.
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Basically they recommend
that a person, that has epilepsy
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stay off of, especially
soft bread, maybe all breads,
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and all mushy grains, because
they can tend to constipate
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the transverse colon.
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Good thing to stay away from!
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Also the malfunction
of the Ileocecal valve.
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You've got this little
valve, that just as your
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small intestine
goes into the cecum,
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it's called the Ileocecal valve.
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If there's a malfunction there,
powerful toxins can back up
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from the colon into the
small bowel, and cause some
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toxification of the small bowel,
and then there could be some
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leakage into the peritoneal
cavity, and it could get into
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the blood stream, and affect
the neurological apparatus
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in the brain.
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So this could be another
cause, so stay away from...
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You really can't stay away
from a malfunctioning Ileocecal
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valve, but you can try to keep
yourself from having distention
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in the bowel over to much
pressure from constipation
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or straining, things like this.
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Stay away from those
things and keep that valve
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in good shape.
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What are some things
you can do for epilepsy?
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We're not going to say you
can take this herb and its ok.
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If there was a simple cure,
we wouldn't have epilepsy today,
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but there are things
that we do to help with it.
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#1. The person that
has epilepsy needs to be
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on a regular schedule,
they have got to be religiously
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regular in their schedule.
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They need to be in
the exercising programs.
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We find that people have
any type of neurologic problem,
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exercise is extremely
beneficial for that particular
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person.
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They need to have a lot
of raw vegetables and fruits,
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It is extremely good, their
nutrition has to come up far
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higher, than it
probably already was.
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So fruits and
vegetables, a lot of them raw,
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they should do
some B6 supplementation,
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which can also help
the nerves in the body.
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Yellow and orange
fruits and vegetables.
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I like the way that God has
made the fruits and vegetables,
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he color codes them.
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So if you have
this type of a problem,
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eat the yellow
and the orange thing.
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Then do some
other supplementation.
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You can do some manganese
25 mg. a day, some magnesium,
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about 1 gram a day, or
1,000 mg. a day can also help,
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and exercise.
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If a person has epilepsy.
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It comes in four stages:
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The first stage you need to be
aware of, it's called the "aura"
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Most people who are
going have a seizure
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go through this
thing and they know
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and anyone who knows
what their "aura" is can tell
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this person is getting
ready to have a seizure.
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There are a few things
that you can do at this point.
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Over 100 years ago
John Harvey Kellogg,
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recommended that you get a
cold treatment, a cold pail pour
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at this time, can
sometimes short circuit
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the epileptic seizure.
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I've heard about people
when they get into this "aura"
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if they realize that
their "aura" is a little bit
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longer than normal, if their
aura normally is a long "aura"
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they should get
outside and get in some intense
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physical activity, and
sometimes that alone can
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short stop the seizure,
and you not have the seizure.
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Doing these simple things
getting the body back in shape.
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When we are in a disease
situation, we need to no matter
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what the disease is, do
everything that we know to do
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right, and sometimes the
body itself then will say ok
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we are finally doing
things right, and correct
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the situations itself.
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I think that's pretty
good advice Dr. Thrash,
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no matter what we might have.
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That sounds very good.
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Parkinson's disease, another
form of serious neurologic
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disorder, is fairly
common in our society,
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and involves about
equally men and women.
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Maybe just a little bit more men
than women, and the neurologic
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problems that they have,
begin often with a little tremor
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and the tremor may be at
first barely discernable,
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but eventually it get
to be quite a lot more.
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In addition to the tremor, there
is rigidity, and the rigidity
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may be of a very special kind,
so that when you pull on the arm
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instead of getting a smooth
movement, such as you just saw
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they will do something
like this, called cog-wheeling
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they relax spasmodically
and so you get this cog-wheeling
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effect that comes on
with the Parkinson's disease.
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The tremor, the stiffness,
or rigidity, those are two very
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important symptoms, and
almost always have them.
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The tremor may also be
what is called the pill rollers
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type of tremor, where the
person has a little bit of
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rigidity involving the
major part of the hand,
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but the finger do this
little pill rolling thing,
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that the pharmacists used to
do when they made their pills.
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Some other things that are
very important in Parkinson's,
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in making the disease, is
the fact that Parkinson's people
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will have a slowness in
speaking, a slowness in uptake,
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a slowness in walking, they
tend to get into an activity
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rather slowly.
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Those are the major symptoms,
there are a bunch of minor ones
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as well, and I will
just mention a few of these:
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They may have a
problem with a masked face,
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balance can be a pretty
major problem, lack of balance,
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or loss of the
ability to stand upright.
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Then writing, with very small
letters, they often do that.
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They may get a greasy
face, that tends to go
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along with Parkinson's as well.
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They may have difficulty in
speaking, they may get a low
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voice, in fact
sometimes this may cause
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a little marital distress.
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Before the wife
understands what is going on
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with her husband, he begins
to talk in this low rather slow
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voice, and she may think that
he is being hostile toward her.
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When actually he is just
having a phase of his disease.
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Sometimes a year or more will
go by from the onset of fairly
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marked symptoms
before the diagnosis is made.
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Families will often make
excuses for their family member,
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and try to cover these
up in front of other people.
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The emotional liability, that
they have, crying at the drop
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of a hat, if they see somebody
that they haven't see for a long
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time, even though they
may just be acquaintances,
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they may have an
emotional response
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of bringing forth tears.
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Tears that may require a little
while to get under control.
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They have also difficulty in
swallowing, they may have that,
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this is one of the minor
symptoms as well, and a number
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of other minor
symptoms that can come with
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Parkinson's disease.
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Once the diagnosis is made, then
there are several things that
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the person can do to
slow down the disease,
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one is never over eat, has been
associated with the development
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of Parkinson's,
that of over eating,
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it's just
overeating of all food.
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Even people who are eating
basically a very good diet,
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can because of the mere fact
that they over eat, they get
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symptoms of Parkinson's, and
many people, especially if they
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get past the age of 60, when
they over eat a single meal,
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they will find that
an ordinary steady hand,
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becomes a little
unsteady and tremulous.
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Another thing is that
the person should move.
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We see also that in individuals
with Parkinson's, often they
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are not exercisers, but with
the stiffness that comes with
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Parkinson's disease.
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If they keep the muscles moving,
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just as a moving stream
will not freeze, so the moving
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muscle will not get stiff, so
they should make a very definite
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effort to stay moving,
and any kind of exercise
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that they can
do will be helpful.
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Fava beans and velvet
beans are also very helpful,
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they have L-Dopa in them,
the very best source of L-Dopa,
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in the vegetable kingdom is
from fava beans, these are big
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broad beans, you can buy
these at a health food store,
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and if you can find
those that are sproutable,
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you can increase the quantity
of L-Dopa by about 10 times.
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Velvet beans, another
form of good bean for L-Dopa.
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Then there are some exercises
for the shuffling feet,
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of course the
flexibility exercises,
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be certain not to
wear shoes that have
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gripping type of soles,
because shoes that slide,
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can help a person who
has Parkinson's, who is doing
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the shuffling gate,
can help them not to fall.
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If the shoe, when they are
going to slide the shoe and
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it grips the surface, then
they are more likely to topple.
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Learn where the support groups
are for Parkinson's disease,
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in your community, and
join one of those so that
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you can learn how best
to deal with this problem.
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Another interesting
feature of neurologic disease
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is, that of depression.
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While not basically a
problem with altered nerves,
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or sick nerves, it is
certainly a problem of the
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central nervous system,
and Dr. Don Miller is going to
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talk with you
about depression now.
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There are various
forms of depression,
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we will just talk about
the garden variety depression.
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There is a thing called
seasonal affective disorder,
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that a person going
in to a certain season,
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usually the winter
seasons, the Christmas holidays,
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whatever else they
get into this depression.
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These things can pretty much
be covered by some of the things
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I'll be talking about right now.
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Basically, you can
have physiological,
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or psychological
causes for your depression.
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If a person has a
chronic illness, like hepatitis,
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or some other type
of long term illness,
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it can be very
depressing for the person.
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But also if there is a loss, if
the person looses a loved one,
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or looses a job, it can
send them into a depression.
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You can tell if a person is in
a depression, you can just look
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at their face, there
face is expressionless.
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Basically, they are
pretty much flat lined
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on many of the different
areas, their appetite goes away,
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their ambitions go away,
they don't sleep very well.
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Their energy is low, they
just don't think straight,
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a lot of different
things are just sort of flat,
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it's just a boring existence.
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What can you do for a person
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who is in this
type of depression?
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1. There has got to be a
way to lift up the thoughts.
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There is a law that I
like very much, it's called
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The Law of Reciprocal Influence.
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As a person thinks
in his heart, so is he.
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If a person feels depressed,
and he goes around telling
00:22:08.04\00:22:11.18
everybody how depressed he is
00:22:11.21\00:22:12.94
it only
reinforces that depression.
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The best thing that you
can do for a person who is in
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depression, is to find
some way to turn their thoughts,
00:22:18.00\00:22:21.14
and their minds, and
their expressions, their words,
00:22:21.17\00:22:24.06
into something more elevating.
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Often if you talk
with a person depressed,
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they are going to
tell you all their problems
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it's always good to
listen to them, but somehow
00:22:31.27\00:22:35.84
in that conversation
keep trying to find a piece
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of blessing, that they
can find in their darkness.
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Always try to lift
their thoughts up, and say,
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what went good for you
yesterday, or if you can think
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of something that's
good about them, tell them,
00:22:49.46\00:22:51.68
and you are going to find that
as they express positive things,
00:22:51.71\00:22:55.39
their spirits are going to rise,
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A person with depression
needs to have sunlight.
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We find that people who live
in northern climates, have more
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depression than those who
live in the southern climates.
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We recommend for people with
depression, that as soon as it
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is time to get up in the
morning, they turn on all the
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lights in the room.
00:23:14.09\00:23:15.06
Bright lights in the eye
are extremely good for someone
00:23:15.07\00:23:17.30
who is depressed.
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The person who is depressed
should get a lot of outdoor
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activity, exercise is good
for depression, sunshine is good
00:23:20.70\00:23:24.97
for depression, fresh
air is good for depression.
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So we need to get them
into these particular things.
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Deep breathing exercises is
extremely good for depression.
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There is a very easy
exercise, and I'm going to
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teach you right now.
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What you basically do,
your are taking a walk.
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It's a good time to do
your deep breathing exercise.
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As you walk, count how
many steps it takes to draw in
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one breath of air.
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Let's say you are walking
along and you start to inhale,
00:23:49.66\00:23:53.07
you are counting 1, 2, 3,
4 steps, you got your air in,
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that's your factor of
one, and then what you want do
00:23:57.94\00:24:02.87
is multiply that factor by
4, so that makes it up to 16.
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So what you do is you hold
your breath for a factor of 16.
00:24:08.99\00:24:13.06
So you have walked along
breathing in to the count of 4,
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holding it for a count of 16 or
16 steps, and then you exhale it
00:24:18.47\00:24:23.35
for a factor of 2,
which means 8, so sssss
00:24:23.38\00:24:29.32
and some- times
it's pretty hard to get
00:24:29.36\00:24:32.20
the last bit out,
because 8 steps is a long time.
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You are going to
find this to be very good
00:24:36.30\00:24:38.28
for many different problems.
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Exercise, regularity, sunshine.
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There is an interesting
study that came out of
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Ohio State University.
00:24:45.80\00:24:47.61
They found a good way
to eliminate depression,
00:24:47.64\00:24:50.93
mood swings,
irritability, nightmares,
00:24:50.96\00:24:54.22
and did three to do this.
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Now you write these
three things down, if you have
00:24:56.85\00:24:59.47
somebody who's depressed
this could be the cause:
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Sugary junk foods, refined
carbohydrates, and caffeine,
00:25:02.01\00:25:07.53
caffeine type beverages,
like coffee, tea, cola,
00:25:07.56\00:25:12.04
and then chocolate, eliminating
those three things, found that
00:25:12.07\00:25:16.14
many people who had depression,
eliminated all these things,
00:25:16.17\00:25:18.76
it was completely gone, a good
suggestion and it doesn't cost
00:25:18.79\00:25:22.19
you any money to do it.
00:25:22.22\00:25:23.38
Often certain drugs can
cause a person to be depressed,
00:25:23.41\00:25:28.05
so look at the
side effects of drugs.
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If a person is taking a drug,
if a side effect is depression,
00:25:30.21\00:25:34.91
then try to find a
different drug that does not
00:25:34.94\00:25:37.41
give them that problem.
00:25:37.44\00:25:38.61
There are some
herbs that you can take,
00:25:38.64\00:25:41.29
Dr. Thrash has mentioned them,
and many times the same herbs
00:25:41.32\00:25:44.92
that are for one thing
in the neurological system,
00:25:44.95\00:25:47.56
is good for another, St. John's
Wort, of course is good for
00:25:47.59\00:25:50.41
depression, you are going
to hear that they are saying,
00:25:50.44\00:25:53.53
oh St. John's Wort is not good.
00:25:53.56\00:25:56.28
The reason why they
many times say this,
00:25:56.31\00:25:58.62
for a person who is depressed,
because they are already
00:25:58.65\00:26:00.61
taking anti-depressants,
and the St. John's Wort
00:26:00.64\00:26:04.46
is so effective, it's
like getting a double whammy,
00:26:04.49\00:26:06.84
so we recommend
the St. John's Wort.
00:26:06.87\00:26:09.61
Valerian is another very
good tea, and Ginkgo Biloba,
00:26:09.64\00:26:14.09
another good tea for
someone who has depression.
00:26:14.12\00:26:16.79
So lift your spirits, be
happy, talk positive things,
00:26:16.82\00:26:20.28
and Dr. Thrash, I believe
if you talk positive things
00:26:20.31\00:26:23.05
your spirits will rise.
00:26:23.08\00:26:24.58
Oh yes! It does, and it has been
shown also, that the expression
00:26:24.61\00:26:28.15
that you have on the face
can also make a difference
00:26:28.18\00:26:31.39
in how you feel inside.
00:26:31.42\00:26:33.41
So if you don't feel
really bright and cheerful,
00:26:33.44\00:26:37.72
put a cheerful look on the
face anyway, and that will help
00:26:37.75\00:26:41.64
not only you but
the people around you.
00:26:41.67\00:26:43.82
The exercise of taking a breath
for a certain number of steps
00:26:43.85\00:26:50.20
and then
multiplying by a factor of four,
00:26:50.23\00:26:52.61
holding the breath for
that length of time, and then
00:26:52.64\00:26:55.39
exhaling on the factor
of 2, that little exercise
00:26:55.42\00:26:59.70
is also very
good for hypertension.
00:26:59.73\00:27:00.70
Hypertension is also related
to the nerves in many ways.
00:27:00.73\00:27:05.74
The way that we think
can influence the tightness
00:27:05.77\00:27:10.63
of the muscle strength
in our small blood vessels,
00:27:10.66\00:27:16.39
and that of course does
have a very profound effect
00:27:16.42\00:27:19.40
on the blood pressure.
00:27:19.43\00:27:21.13
So learning how to
breathe in a proper way,
00:27:21.16\00:27:23.61
even if you need to get
one of these recording devices
00:27:23.64\00:27:28.07
that gives you a
signal when to breathe in,
00:27:28.10\00:27:30.22
and when to breathe
out, that can be also
00:27:30.25\00:27:33.02
very good for hypertension.
00:27:33.05\00:27:34.55
In neurologic diseases
we need to study everyone
00:27:34.58\00:27:40.10
that we may have, so
that we can find the very best
00:27:40.13\00:27:43.25
treatment for the neurologic
disorder we have not covered
00:27:43.28\00:27:46.97
everything by any means, and
new things are being developed
00:27:47.00\00:27:51.40
all the time, so that
there are constant changes.
00:27:51.43\00:27:53.90
May the Lord bless you
with a good neurologic system.
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