In Jamaica they have a way
of letting you know when fruit
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is ripe and ready to eat
by saying that it is fit,
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if a fruit is fit,
then it is ready to eat.
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In this country when we
speak of something being fit,
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if a person is fit they
are physically fit, their heart
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is good, they are in good
shape, what they are doing,
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their lifestyle is
sufficient to keep them healthy.
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We have a number of things
that can help you to have good
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cardiac health, we'll be talking
about a few of these numerous
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things in this program, and
we hope that you will join us
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so that you can be fit.
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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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In this country we have
become sort of couch potatoes,
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many people are couch potatoes,
one of the reasons for that
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is that they don't especially
like what goes on outside,
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they do like what goes
on inside, especially TV,
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and the things that they
read and people they talk with
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on the telephone and the
computer, all of these things
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have joined together to sort
make us in America be certainly
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what we could
call couch potatoes.
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How do you know whether you
are one of those who should be
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a couch potato and should stay
inside the house and carefully
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watch over your heart and make
certain that nothing happens
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to it, or that you are
physically fit and that you
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can enter into all kinds of
activities outdoors, in fact
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you should to keep your heart
in good shape, so that you can
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live a long time.
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Well I have asked Justina
Thomas and Dr. Don Miller
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to help me to show you one
of the tests that can enable you
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to know whether you
are fit, physically fit.
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This one that I will talk
about first is the chair stand,
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and I have Justina, this
is Justina Thomas and she is
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officiating in the chair,
she will do the stands and then
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Dr. Don Miller will count
off one 30 second increment
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and during this 30 seconds
Justina will stand as many times
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as she can, so Dr.
Miller are you ready?
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- I'm ready are
you ready Justina?
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- I'm ready! -
All right here we go,
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Ready, Go!
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- Ok, so now he is timing
her so that we can see how many,
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he is also counting how
many times she has been able to
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get up and down, and you
will see here on the board just
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how she ought to
be able how to do.
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A 50 year old person
should be able to do:
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Well the 30 seconds has
gone by what did you find?
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- I think she
needs a cane, she did 20.
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- Ok! That's something
that we need to work on then!
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In 30 seconds a 50 year
old should be able to do 30,
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now if you are 50, you get
up from a chair that Justina was
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sitting in is not the very
best one, it should be one that
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has a flat bottom and is
just about the height that one
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usually sits in, so the chair
that she was sitting in was
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a little low and also slanted
backward which many chairs do
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have, so that's an important
thing to letting us know how
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physically fit we are.
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I happen to know that Justina
is more physically fit than it
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would be indicated by 20 chair
stands in 30 seconds because
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I see her walking vigorously
a lot of the time on campus
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so I know she is
quite physically fit.
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Throughout one's years of life
one should from time to time
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do certain tests of this nature
so that one can find just how
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physically fit one is,
and if not physically fit,
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then some measures should
be taken so that the person
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can get into
physical fitness promptly.
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Now Dr. Miller is going to
talk with you about another
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aspect of what you can do
at home to help yourself know
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whether you are in good
shape or not, Dr. Miller what
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would you like to
tell us about that.
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- We did a little
thing on Justina last night,
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it is called the
waist- hip ratio,
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and what you do is a very
simple test, you get yourself a
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seamstress tape, a cloth tape,
sort of like what Dr. Thrash
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has here, and what we do...
Go ahead and stand up there
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Justina, you run it abound
the waist about the level of the
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navel, so we are just going
to wrap this around you Justina
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and we look at the numbers,
of course you wouldn't want to
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do this around a sweater and
everything else, you want to get
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as much just skin and a little
bit of clothing around there,
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you make that measurement,
and then you make the next
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measurement around the largest
part of the hips, right about
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midway through the buttocks,
that's where you are going to
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get your measurement at.
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Now the reason why we
take these two measurements
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is there is a healthy type
of overweight and an unhealthy
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type of overweight,
they are both unhealthy,
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but those who carry
their weight in their hips
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it's healthier, basically
we call this the pear shape
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and then there is also those
who have their weight up on
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top, the trunkal obesity, which
is sort of the beach ball shape.
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So what we do is we take
those two numbers and we divide
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the hips into the waist to get
a ratio, now you can understand
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that if the hips are larger and
you are dividing into the waist
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you are going to get a fraction,
if the waist is larger and you
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are dividing into that you
are going to get a whole number
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or a whole and a fraction.
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We did this to Justina
last night, her waist hip ratio
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is.79, the good average for a
woman a good healthy average is
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.8, so she is very healthy
because she is even below that.
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For a man it can be one,
anything over this for a woman
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or a man shows that they are
starting to get to much trunkal
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obesity, carrying to much weight
above the waist which we have
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found to be less healthful
than those who carry more down
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below the waist, so
it's a simple test Dr. Thrash
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and I suggest that it is some-
thing that we can be doing.
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- Yes! It is a very simple test.
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Now Justina if you will just
stand over here, I would like
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to show another thing, these
are just calipers, you can get
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these sometimes from a
department store or you can
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simply measure it just
with a nice ruler that gives you
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centimeter increments, so I
would like to show you if you
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are only going to do one,
you do it over the biceps,
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but we ideally do it not
only over the biceps but also
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over this fold right
here, and this fold right here,
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and a fold that is right beside
the abdomen, I can't really
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pinch up much on Justina, I
don't think that you will be
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the champion women's wrestler
any time soon, but let's just
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say we are going to do one
measurement which is the biceps.
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Here we go with this very
simple device and just pinch up
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just the skin and subcutaneous
tissue and with this kind of
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device you just measure, let
it just measure the amount and
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she measures between.6 and
.7, now for a woman the ideal is
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less than one, for a man
the it's about 1/2 centimeter
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not very much.
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He needs to be thinner
than she is, women tend to store
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a little bit more fat than
men do and that's normal and
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natural, it has to do with
the reproductive process and she
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just naturally,
hormonally carries a little more
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subcutaneous
fat than a man does.
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Thank you Justina!
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Now these are some tests that
you can do at home that will
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help you to know
whether you are physically fit,
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but there are some laboratory
tests, that I would like to see
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people getting more than they
do, and one of those is called
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the CRP or C-Reactive
Protein, this is an inflammatory
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substance that if it is high
in the blood it usually means
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that the person has some
inflammatory process going on
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somewhere in the body.
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I would like to talk with
you just a bit about where these
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inflammatory processes begin
and what their target organ is.
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These inflammatory processes
often have their origins in some
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need that the body has,
such as to fight a tumor or to
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heal some kind of infection
or injury that you have had
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but sometimes they don't have
any known origin, it's just the
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general lifestyle of the person
but as we have studied this
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it is beginning to develop
that a certain type of lifestyle
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does lead to a development of
these inflammatory substances.
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just one of which is tested
for, or just a group of them
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are tested for in the C-Reactive
Protein, but enough to give us a
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good idea as a general
screening test for these
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inflammatory substances.
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What happens to the person,
or what is the condition of the
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person when we find these
inflammatory substances high?
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Well they may have such things
as diabetes, hypertension,
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cancer, there is a whole list
of them, high blood cholesterol,
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especially the kind that
will lead to heart attacks and
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strokes, that means a
high LDL and a low HDL.
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Then they have diabetes and
Alzheimer's disease is now being
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found to be associated
with high C-Reactive Protein
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and other inflammatory
substances, there are certain
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cytokine's, also inflammatory
substances which tend to stiffen
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the lining cells of our various
blood vessels, these cytokines
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are a product of the lifestyle.
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Then there a bunch of
metallomatrix types of
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inflammatory substances
that are also lifestyle and they
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tend to cause inflammation
and be deposited in various
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tissues such as the heart and
the brain in sufficient quantity
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to cause some cellular death
in that area, and then you have
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a scar there, a scar in the
heart, or a scar in the brain
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or other parts of the body
that can cause difficulty for
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you in having a healthy heart.
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There are some of these
inflammatory substances that
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will actually soften or even
digest collagen, now you may
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have heard of collagen diseases,
they are like lupus, and
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rheumatoid arthritis, and a
whole class of diseases that go
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under the name of
collagen diseases.
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Now if inflammatory substances
are deposited in the tissues
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cause damage, may cause us
to have chronic ill health, even
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progressive ill health
and they are associated with
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lifestyle, then it behooves
us to find out what kind of
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lifestyle that is and to
make the necessary changes.
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Weight gain, very big
weight gain can triple the
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C- Reactive Protein, well that
immediately lets you know that
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weight gain, especially
as is the case in males,
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a rapid weight gain can
triple the C-Reactive Protein.
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A sedentary lifestyle can
also triple these inflammatory
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substances, tension and
stress are famed for causing an
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increase in inflammatory
substances, then competitive
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games, even computer games, but
also sports, these competitive
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games are also famed for
increasing your inflammatory
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substances.
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An animal based diet is likely
to do the same, so as we study
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these inflammatory substances
we come to recognize that
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there are things that we
can do that can slow down our
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probability of getting
into a chronic progressive
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diseased state.
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One of the important ones that
people are all the time doing
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that they really shouldn't
do is eating A-G-E's, AGE's,
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that stands for
Advanced Glycation End Products.
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Advanced Glycation End Products
are AGE's occur when you burn
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your toast, when you over cook
anything, when you scorch your
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nuts, or when you barbeque
things and get some smoke
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flavoring on your food,
these kinds of things do produce
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these AGE's and make it
so you have more inflammatory
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substances in your blood
stream, these include also
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tumor necrosis factor, which
is and inflammatory product
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and can cause serious increase
in your likelihood of getting
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a chronic progressive disease.
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Now some other things
that can cause heart disease
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Dr. Don Miller will talk
with you about and at this time
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he has some interesting things
that you will find to be also
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very helpful, Dr. Miller!
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- I think most people are
getting pretty heart wise but
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there is one thing that we
hear a lot about and we wonder
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what does that really
mean and it's that thing
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called free radicals.
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It's not some radical person
that escaped from a hospital
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or a from a prison, but a
free radical is something very
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interesting, I want to go
to the board and we're going to
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look at something very
interesting about what a
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free radical is.
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If you remember your
high school chemistry
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you remember that we have atoms,
now basically our human body is
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made up of cells, and the
cells are made up of molecules,
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molecules are made up of various
forms of atoms, and here I've
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drawn a
particular atom on the board.
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Now if you remember from
your high school chemistry
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you've got your protons
and you've got your electrons,
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you've got your neutrons also,
but you basically are going to
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deal here... The main
thing in free radicals
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is your electrons, now
this is an oxygen atom,
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it's got eight protons
and so that tells you how many
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electrons it's going to
have, and the electrons come
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in shells, the first shell
is going to have two electrons,
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the next shell to be complete
will have eight electrons
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but in this case it
only has six electrons,
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so it is always looking
for somebody to mate up with.
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So what is one of the
most common things you know of
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that has oxygen in there,
well let's talk about water
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let's add water to it, what is
water, water is H2O, which means
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there are two atoms of
hydrogen one atom of oxygen.
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The hydrogen has one
proton and one electron, it also
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is looking for a mate, and
so it comes down and it shares
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a mate with the oxygen,
but that gives it only seven,
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this one is now shared
with the hydrogen, so another
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hydrogen settles up next to here
with it's proton, and it shares
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an electron, and now we
have two atoms of hydrogen
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one of oxygen, and we have
a very stable or an inert form
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called water.
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Oxygen itself, if the air that
you breathe is not an atom of
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oxygen and it's a molecule
of oxygen made up of two oxygen
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atoms put together, so you
are going to have two electrons
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being shared in this outer shell
with the other electrons of the
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oxygen atom, now you have
02 which is what we breathe.
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This is the way it should
be, now, what's the problem?
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When we have
something going on in the body,
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now our body makes free
radicals on purpose sometimes,
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the immune system makes free
radicals to attack viruses and
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bacteria's that get into
the body, they work very well
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for that purpose, but we
also have other free radicals,
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we have a break down of
atoms and molecules in the body
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as a result of herbicides,
cigarette smoke, pollution,
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radiation, we have these
things happening all the time
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which is no problem normally,
if we have enough of what we
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call anti-oxidants, see
when we oxidize something...
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Let's talk about one of
the dangerous things in the
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blood stream called
LDL, low density lipoprotein,
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when this becomes oxidized, or
that means it is attached to a
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free radical it becomes a major
problem, and what we have to do
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is somehow keep this
thing from becoming oxidized
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by getting rid of the
free radicals in the body.
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We do this by a high intake
of vitamin E, a high intake of
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vitamin C, the E is a fat
based vitamin and the C being a
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water based, they are
very good and they are very
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heart protective,
how do you get your E's?
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You take yellow, orange,
and green vegetables and fruits,
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and C is in almost everything,
plenty of fruits and vegetables
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make you very heart healthy.
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The more anti-oxidants
you have in your body,
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the less problem you are
going to have with free-radical
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damage, because once an
atom becomes a free radical,
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it's lost the electron and
it's looking for the electron,
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it will share one with somebody
or it will steal somebody
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else's, if it steals somebody
else's then it will be looking
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for something and you have
a chain reaction and it gets
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worse and worse as a person
gets older, and this leads to
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accelerated aging.
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So the older a person gets,
the more important it is to have
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plenty of vitamin C, and
vitamin E in their systems.
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Now the anti-oxidants foods,
what happens to them when they
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get a free radical attached to
them and they steal one of their
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electrons, no problem, an
anti-oxidant is stable both
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with the right number of
electrons in it's outer shell
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or the wrong number,
it's stable either way.
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So the idea about eating your
fruits and vegetables to protect
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your body, especially from
the oxidation of the LDL is
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extremely important so your
yellow, your orange, your green
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fruits and vegetables,
eat plenty of those things,
00:20:48.02\00:20:50.30
your citrus fruits, your
avocados are great in vitamin C,
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eat these foods and you
are going to find that your
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anti-oxidant value goes up in
your body, and the free radicals
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go down in the body, you
are not going to have all this
00:21:00.92\00:21:03.01
problem getting plaques in your
blood stream, so a simple very
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brief, very quick look at
free radicals, we hear about
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them a lot, hopefully you will
know a little bit more by now
00:21:12.92\00:21:15.07
but if not, well, get an
elementary or a high school
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chemistry book and read about
chemistry it is an interesting
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subject Dr. Thrash.
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- Yes it is, we are made up
of chemistry and our food is
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chemistry and water is
chemistry the air is chemistry,
00:21:27.05\00:21:29.71
we are chemistry, and we
live in a world of chemistry,
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it's really fun to study.
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Congestive heart failure is
another of those things that
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you should learn about,
congestive heart failure is not
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all that common but when it
does occur in a family there are
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things that you can do.
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Congestive heart failure simply
means that the heart itself
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is not completely emptying
itself with each contraction
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so instead of making a
firm contraction that completely
00:21:54.72\00:21:58.86
empties it with every
heart beat, the heart is simply
00:21:58.89\00:22:02.95
beating but not completely
emptying, and as the pressure
00:22:02.98\00:22:07.17
builds up because the heart
doesn't completely empty then
00:22:07.20\00:22:10.20
one develops fluid in various
organs, the legs, and finally
00:22:10.23\00:22:16.52
the pelvis, and finally gets
into the abdomen and eventually
00:22:16.55\00:22:20.45
into the chest, and the
person is swollen all over.
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So how can you deal
with a person who has
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congestive heart failure?
00:22:27.94\00:22:29.19
When it first begins try to do
what you can to eliminate those
00:22:29.22\00:22:34.23
lifestyle problems that have
initiated the hardening of the
00:22:34.26\00:22:39.96
arteries or the high
blood cholesterol, or the high
00:22:39.99\00:22:42.57
blood pressure, and a variety
of other things that can cause
00:22:42.60\00:22:47.03
congestive heart failure.
00:22:47.06\00:22:48.19
Some things that you can do,
first do the lifestyle matters,
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the second thing is to judge
how much exercise the person
00:22:53.27\00:22:59.18
with congestive heart failure
should have, now I was very
00:22:59.21\00:23:03.50
careful to let you know
that exercise is a part of the
00:23:03.53\00:23:07.84
treatment for people
with congestive heart failure.
00:23:07.87\00:23:10.58
When I was in medical school
it wasn't so, a person with
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congestive heart failure we told
the person to prop their feet up
00:23:13.96\00:23:18.76
in their home and be served
by someone else from now on,
00:23:18.79\00:23:23.46
and we expected that to last
until the end of their lives.
00:23:23.49\00:23:26.54
Now we are expecting to
have some rehabilitation for the
00:23:26.57\00:23:29.96
person so we start out
with very mild exercise,
00:23:29.99\00:23:33.22
they may get a little
short of breath, but day by day
00:23:33.25\00:23:36.57
they just stroll a little
bit farther and finally they are
00:23:36.60\00:23:40.50
able to pick up their speed a
little bit, so little by little
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they gain some thing that
they have lost in the way of
00:23:44.58\00:23:48.89
physical fitness, then another
thing that we always do for
00:23:48.92\00:23:52.63
people with congestive hear
failure is help them to loose
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weight if that's applicable.
00:23:56.15\00:23:57.55
The way to loose weight is
very simple, first you start
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with eliminating all free fats,
now since we need some of the
00:24:02.42\00:24:06.80
fat types of vitamins like
vitamin E, vitamin E is very
00:24:06.83\00:24:12.66
healthful for the heart so
we want to eat all those foods
00:24:12.69\00:24:16.31
that are high in vitamin
E, such as grains and beans,
00:24:16.34\00:24:20.59
anything that's fatty itself
since this is a fatty vitamin,
00:24:20.62\00:24:26.34
those things will contain
vitamin E, and also present in
00:24:26.37\00:24:31.11
fruits and vegetables that are
deep yellow, that can be helpful
00:24:31.14\00:24:35.67
for you to know what to eat.
00:24:35.70\00:24:37.63
Then one can take a supplement
of vitamin E of maybe 200 or 400
00:24:37.66\00:24:44.04
international units a day,
that's very helpful, Arginine,
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also called L-Arginine, can
be very helpful in congestive
00:24:49.16\00:24:54.97
heart failure and one can take
from one to three teaspoonfuls
00:24:55.00\00:25:01.08
per day of this
powder, CO-Q10 can be
00:25:01.11\00:25:04.12
very helpful, it's a
cardiac nutrient and can
00:25:04.15\00:25:07.22
help you quite a lot.
00:25:07.25\00:25:08.78
So I hope with these
things the person in your family
00:25:08.81\00:25:12.26
with congestive failure
can be helped remarkably.
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There is another problem
with the heart called angina,
00:25:15.67\00:25:18.88
and Dr. Miller will talk
with you about that to give you
00:25:18.91\00:25:22.73
some idea how to
deal with angina.
00:25:22.76\00:25:25.51
- You know there are two
basic health principles, one,
00:25:25.54\00:25:28.06
the life is in the blood,
the second is there is perfect
00:25:28.09\00:25:30.36
health requires
perfect circulation.
00:25:30.39\00:25:32.19
A good test for this is get a
blood pressure cuff, put it on
00:25:32.22\00:25:35.24
your arm, pump it up, don't
let the air out and just do some
00:25:35.27\00:25:38.09
exercises and see how long
it takes before pain happens
00:25:38.12\00:25:40.85
in your hand and in your arm,
same thing is happening in your
00:25:40.88\00:25:43.83
heart with angina.
00:25:43.86\00:25:45.05
It's basically you are having
insufficiency of blood flow to
00:25:45.08\00:25:48.56
the heart muscle itself, and
when your muscle starts getting
00:25:48.59\00:25:51.54
starved for blood, it's going to
start telling you, and that is
00:25:51.57\00:25:54.94
what it is, it's a signal, pain
is signal that I'm being damaged
00:25:54.97\00:25:59.18
down here, now what
do you do about angina?
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There is a very good article
that came out a few years ago
00:26:02.18\00:26:05.30
in Lancet, the British Medical
Journal, and it gave some simple
00:26:05.33\00:26:09.51
steps that you can do to cure,
"Cure" they use the word cure,
00:26:09.54\00:26:13.50
angina, and I am going to
give you these simple steps:
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1. No free fats in your
diet, no butter, no margarine,
00:26:16.62\00:26:17.59
no fried foods, no salad oils,
no cooking fats, no nut butters.
00:26:17.62\00:26:24.76
no mayonnaise, anything
that has visible fat is out of
00:26:24.79\00:26:27.95
your diet, that is the
first second thing, no animal
00:26:27.98\00:26:31.28
products, high is saturated
fats, saturated fats will find
00:26:31.31\00:26:35.53
a home in your coronary arteries
so you get off of all animal
00:26:35.56\00:26:40.47
products, three, when you
start to feel the angina attack
00:26:40.50\00:26:44.37
start coming, you don't stop
and lay down, you slow your pace
00:26:44.40\00:26:48.83
and you walk through the
pain, you slow down it subsides
00:26:48.86\00:26:53.25
and you stay at that pace right
there, and you walk through
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the pain, fourth thing
is fruits and vegetables
00:26:56.82\00:27:00.56
in your dietary, in your
diet, fruits and vegetables,
00:27:00.59\00:27:04.02
whole grains, nuts and seeds.
00:27:04.05\00:27:05.69
Another thing, keep
your arms and your legs from
00:27:05.72\00:27:08.98
being chilled, summer
and winter keep yourself
00:27:09.01\00:27:11.81
well clothed, even a cold breeze
in your face could precipitate
00:27:11.84\00:27:15.26
a angina attack, and so these
simple steps, they've shown
00:27:15.29\00:27:21.02
in the Lancet and in American
Medical Journals that these
00:27:21.05\00:27:25.10
things right there can take
care of your angina problems
00:27:25.13\00:27:28.02
Dr. Thrash.
00:27:28.05\00:27:29.02
- Yes! Those are very
excellent steps to take.
00:27:29.03\00:27:32.74
There are a few other
supplements that I like to give
00:27:32.77\00:27:36.48
to heart people and one of those
is garlic, not only in the diet
00:27:36.51\00:27:40.97
but also as pills, so make a
stock of these things that are
00:27:41.00\00:27:46.76
heart healthy, and if anyone
in your family develops any
00:27:46.79\00:27:50.11
kind of heart disease you
are already prepared to be
00:27:50.14\00:27:53.36
of assistance to them.
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