Since the beginning of
time men on this earth have used
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herbal products to treat
disease, there as natural
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as the whole of
the out of doors.
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You will hear a lot these
days about herbal products
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and how many
people are using them.
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We need to learn how to
use them in a proper manner
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so we can get the most
out of it and also that we
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won't have any danger
of being harmed by herbs.
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So if you have an
interest in this very natural
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type of treatment, we hope you
will join us for this program
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because we will be
talking about several of these.
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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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When I first heard
of herbal remedies,
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I thought how antiquated is
the thought of taking an herb.
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But when I was in medical
school for an uncomfortable
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problem that I had one
month somebody said here,
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drink this tea, so I drank
the tea, in minutes I was no
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longer uncomfortable,
and I said what was that?
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She said why that was
Lydia Pinkham's Compound,
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I said Lydia Pinkham,
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I thought that
Lydia Pinkham's closed up
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about 75 or 100 years ago.
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It was amazing how much
benefit I received from that
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herbal remedy.
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But then I went
through pharmacology,
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and I went my clinical training
and after the clinical years,
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I was very well indoctrinated
in the general allopathic
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way of practicing
medicine with drugs and surgery
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and it never crossed my
mind to ever even investigate
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about herbs, it was a
number of years later,
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maybe 20 years later when I
met a man who a horticulturist
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a PhD., in botany,
had worked with the
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Department of
Agriculture for many years
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and truly enjoyed
investigating about herbs.
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I began to realize that herbs
have been thoroughly researched
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in some instances, and
their safety has been determined
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and their effectiveness
has been worked out
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and we began rather
gingerly to use a few herbs
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and as we learned a
little bit about a few herbs,
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we were emboldened to
learn a bit about a few more,
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and when we found out
how very effective they are
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we began to realize, this
is something that the Lord
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has provided for us to
use to treat people with
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in cases of sickness.
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Then came up the whole
subject of their safety,
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a lot of medical journals
were carrying warning articles
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BEWARE of this or that
kind of herb, this can be toxic
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in this way and
somebody was found to be injured
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with this herb
or that herb maybe,
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so I began to wonder
about the safety of the herbs.
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One day I began to
compare how many people had died
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from some kind of
herbal preparation,
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and how many people
had died from some kind of
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pharmaceutical preparation,
and I thought to myself
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herbs are incredibly safe, and
they are also highly effective
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in many cases.
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So as time has gone by, I
have found that those herbs
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that we use on a customary
basis, that they are incredibly
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safe, they can be used even
in over dosage by people who
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never had any kind of
training at all, and they do
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perfectly well in
handling the herbs.
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So instead of being fearful
of herbs, we should study herbs,
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we should try to get
some observations that can be
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helpful not only in our
own families, but also to share
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with our friends and neighbors,
and people who go to our church.
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Thinking about the
safety of various herbs,
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brings us to think about
the safety of certain other
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kinds of supplements.
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What about nutrient supplements
are they always safe?
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Can these be
used indiscriminately?
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Or do we need to have a
little education about them
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so that we can keep
from injuring someone with
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the nutrient
supplements that we have.
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So Dr. Don
Miller is with me today,
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and he has done a little
study in nutrient supplements
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and he is going to share
some of that with us now.
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- Ok! Nutrient supplements
are quite common in the
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United States, about 158,000,000
Americans on an average basis,
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or common basis use
supplements, spending about
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8.5 billion dollars on
the things, so there must be
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something to them or it's
a pretty good salesman job.
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But I think there is
something to supplementation,
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but let me say at
the very beginning,
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the best supplementation
you can do is by eating
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the right foods, fruits,
vegetables, whole grains nuts,
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and seeds, prepared in
as natural form as possible,
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eaten with a peaceful mind,
is your best supplementation.
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Because of all of the
supplements that we take,
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probably Americans have
the most expensive urine
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in the entire world, because
most of it, especially the
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water soluble vitamins are
going right out into the urine
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the fat soul able can over
a period of time accumulate
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in the body and
cause us other problems.
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If we are taking supplementation
as a prophylactic's
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or just on a daily maintenance
dose, I don't really recommend
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this because your body
can get used to taking it in a
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pill form, and often in a
really..., taken away from all
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of it's constituent coding
in such an un-natural form
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that it really looses
the knack for being able
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to pull it out
of another product,
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let's say like vitamin C,
if you take a lot of vitamin C
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every single day,
because we know it's good for us
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our body can become so
used to using it from the pill
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when we get off of the tablet,
when we get off of the pill,
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the body may have
forgotten how to draw
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out of the orange, out of
the avocado, and we can get
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then a C deficiency problem,
and so it's best to use it
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when we need it.
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I like to supplement
or have people supplement,
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when they have a
reason for supplementation.
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Now there are
certain supplementations,
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and I'm going to mention a
few in just a few moments here
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that we... we're
going to let you think
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about what you think is right.
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The main one we think about,
the main one that people are
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concerned with is vitamin
B12, should we supplement with
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vitamin B12?
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Well normally if a
person is not a vegetarian
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they don't have to worry
about it for the most part,
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although now days, animals
are getting so many antibiotics
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they don't have B12, but
for the most part you don't have
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to worry, lacto-ovo vegetarians
will probably be getting enough
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vitamin B12 through these
products to take care of their
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systems.
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I have known people, I know
people who have been vegans,
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that means total
vegetarians their entire lives,
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who do not have any
vitamin B12 insufficiencies or
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manifestations in their bodies,
and so it's not a problem
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for them, but if a
person's worried about it,
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then I would say go
ahead and supplement with B12,
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get the sublingual kind,
the type that you chew up
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and swallow, not
just taking the pill.
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You can get this type
and make sure there not from
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an animal source, so B12
especially when you start to get
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older or if you are
rather sedentary or infirmed
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perhaps B12 could be an
idea that you could take.
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I'm certainly not
against taking the vitamin B12.
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Vitamin E, it's an extremely
good thing to have in the body
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it's an anti-oxidant, but we
should get our vitamin E from
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our foods, it's a fat soluble
vitamin, our body is then able
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to store it in the fat and
use it over a period of time,
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If it's not something
that you eat, if doesn't use it
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it goes out of
the body, you save it.
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But if you want a
therapeutic dose of vitamin E,
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perhaps 1,000 mcg day would
be where you would want to go.
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You don't need to have a
whole lot just get a little bit,
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I meant 400 I.U., I was
looking up at my vitamin B12
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list for the maintenance,
so about 400 I.U. per day
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for the E if you are trying to
get over a particular problem.
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Calcium, eat your greens, eat
your fruit, eat your vegetables
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for your calcium, if you
are prone to osteoporosis,
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if you are in line to
get osteoporosis because of
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maybe the lifestyle you have
been living, you are getting
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in that age, whatever, you
are afraid about osteoporosis
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then you might do some
supplementation with the calcium
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but be careful with the calcium
supplementation because it,
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itself can cause other problems.
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I would not recommend
you supplement with more
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dairy protein because all that,
or dairy calcium, because that
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causes you because of
the protein content, to loose
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more calcium in your urine.
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Vitamin C, eat your
oranges, eat your fruits,
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eat your
vegetables for your vitamin C.
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If you are going through a
period of time when you've got
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a lot of sickness around you
then it's time for prophylactic
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measures, time for heroic
measures, perhaps you can take
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a little bit more
vitamin C during that time,
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but as a maintenance
dose I would not recommend it.
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Vitamin D not needed, you
get plenty from the sunshine
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if you are getting
into the older years,
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you might think about
doing some supplementation if
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your are worried about
it, if you are sedentary
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you sort of a shut in,
between 400 and 1200 I.U. a day
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would be enough for you
and your supplementation there.
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Basically the bottom
line there is eat your fruits
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and vegetables, people take
far more supplements than they
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really need, we spend a lot
of money on these supplements
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and we sit there and
think in our minds that,
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if I take this supplement, that
will take care of my problems.
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What you need to do is eat
your fruits, your vegetables,
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your whole grains,
your nuts, and your seeds,
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and then get your nutrients
there, and then if you have
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any other problem, you say I
know I have a deficiency here
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then you do
some supplementation.
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You know a lot of people
are making a lot of money
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Dr. Thrash on supplements,
I think they could spend
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some more of
that money on oranges.
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- Yeah! You are
right about that,
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I think that a lot of people
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especially overtake on minerals,
and when minerals go high
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in the body they can become
oxidants, and we talk a lot
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about anti-oxidants, but
we should think about oxidants
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as well.
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Iron is an oxidant in a high
dose, and can increase the rate
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at which we age, and some
of the other minerals are also
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oxidants in high dosage.
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Now I would like to
mention next the whole group
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of herbal remedies
called anti-inflammatories.
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An inflammation is characterized
by redness and swelling and heat
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and pain, and so if you have
any of that, then you should
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think of some kind of anti-
inflammatory herb, of course
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to supplement the other
things that you are doing
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such as exercise, or
massage, if that's applicable,
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or passive
movements, or hydrotherapy,
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what ever you may be doing
otherwise, think also of the
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possibility of using
some kind of anti-inflammatory
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herbal agent.
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One of the very best is flax
seed, and we often have that
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in the home because of
its high fatty acid content,
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it has some excellent fatty
acids in it, such as the Omega 3
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types, so we want to
take a little of the flax seed
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ground freshly and I
want to emphasize the freshly.
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Ground freshly so that it
can be of help to the heart
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and the blood
vessels, and the blood fats.
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That also is an
anti- inflammatory agent,
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in fact one of the ways
that it is heart healthy
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is because of it's
anti-inflammatory capabilities.
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Also very helpful is
that of Hawthorne Berry,
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Hawthorne Berry is a very
close relative to crab apple
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and to other apples, they
are all in the rose family,
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and so with the capabilities
of Hawthorne Berries you can
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can expect that an apple
also has some anti-inflammatory
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qualities, and that is true.
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But Hawthorne Berry is
far higher in the constituents
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that perform the anti-
inflammatory functions for us.
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Ordinary turmeric in the kitchen
has many anti-inflammatory
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qualities, it is very good,
I could recommend that to you,
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the dosage is about 1/2 teaspoon
to a teaspoonful, taken over
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a full day.
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Then there is also Feverfew,
Boswellia, the White Willow Bark
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all of these are
anti-inflammatory,
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and then there is one that is
used far less than it should be,
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and that is Ashwagandha,
you can find Ashwagandha at
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most health food stores.
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Ashwagandha has a
number of very fine properties,
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it is not an expensive herb
and it should be used far more
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than it is, and I would
like to see people doing that.
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Every time I go to a country
where I can expect to get
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some kind of parasite, Malaria
or an intestinal parasite,
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or a skin parasite, I always
take with me some Wormwood
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and Dr. Miller has had some
experience in going to countries
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where there are
parasitic agents,
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either those that
affect the blood, or the skin,
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or the bowels, Dr. Miller
what do you do when you go to
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the countries that you know
you are going to be exposed?
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I pray a lot before I
go to these countries,
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because you never know
what you are going to get,
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and you get some of
these bugs over there,
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and they are with you
from now until the final fires.
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It's a sometimes challenging
and exciting experience and so
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what I try to do is first of
all prepare myself for the trip,
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if the body is strong it
is going to be more likely to
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resist any invaders.
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I also take with me one
supplement that I like to
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travel with, which is
called Grapefruit Seed Extract.
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It's a natural herbal
that's been extracted from
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grapefruit seeds, extremely
bitter, I add this to my water
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if I'm in an area where I'm
not sure of the water source.
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But there are other supplements
that I will take with me,
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other herbs, or herbs that I
will find when I'm in the area
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which is a wise thing to
do if you are going to travel
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into an area, learn
about what grows in that area,
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that can be a natural
agent to take care of parasites,
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worms, and other things.
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Let's say if you are going
to Africa, which I do every
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once in awhile, there
the problem is Malaria,
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what are you going to do
for Malaria, take a Malaria
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prophylactic's, I don't want
to do this, and so what I do
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as soon as I get to Africa,
every day, and there is plenty
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of papaya around, I will
have a papaya always in the
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refrigerator, and every
day, now I usually go overboard,
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they say you can do this
two or three times a week,
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every day I'll take
between one and two teaspoonfuls
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of papaya seeds, I just
put them in my mouth and chew
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them up very
well and swallow them,
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they have a very peppery taste.
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It tastes just like
the leaf of a Nasturtium,
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another thing that does the
same thing as an anti-Malarial.
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So I take this every time I
am over there, and I have not
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gotten Malaria yet, an so
either I've dodged the mosquito
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or this really does work.
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There are other things
that you want to take with you
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or have available, or
take once you get back
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as a way to get
rid of these things.
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Dr. Thrash has mentioned
Wormwood, another one is
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Black Walnut, I usually
buy these in an extract form,
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it's very nice to buy
it in an extract form,
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I will take these, put
them in some hot water,
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if they have been
alcohol extracted,
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let that dissipate
off, and then drink them.
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Other ones that you can
take: Cloves is very good,
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for parasites and
other types of things.
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Aloe Vera, these
things do not like Aloe Vera,
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you can either take it in the
liquid form or you just take it
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scoop it out of the
leaf and eat it that way,
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it can cause you to have
a little bit of diarrhea,
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but I would rather have that
than have the worms in my body.
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Garlic, not matter where you
go you are going to find garlic,
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don't leave home without
it, buy it once you get there.
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Anything that is inside
your body that does not need to
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be there, it will pretty
much be expelled by the garlic.
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Thyme, the simple herb
Thyme is good for these things,
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False Unicorn, Echinacea,
the purple Coneflower,
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I find this growing
all around the world,
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this is extremely good.
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Chaparral is another nice
thing to help expel the worms or
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kill the worms, another
thing that is not herbal but
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is natural is
diatomaceous earth.
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If you get some diatomaceous
earth in capsule form
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you take a few of these every
day, the worms will eat this
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and cause their bodies to
basically disintegrate and so
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some simple things that
you can do, and there are
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other things, just get a good
herb book, at least find out
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the herbs, where you
are, what do they do, now
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many of the people there
already have these things
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and they can live with
them, but sometimes we can't
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live with them, so do
what you can and I don't know
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Dr. Thrash it's helped me
so far, and I believe in it.
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- Yes I have been helped a lot
too, I remember one time I took
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a team to Eastern Europe
and the Eastern Bloc Nations
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are rather famous for a
little contaminant in their
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water streams that gets in the
intestinal tract and makes it so
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that it's not very
nice for the American.
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We have no resistance against it
of very little, and so when we
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get there we often get the
Giardia, and a very effective
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agent for that is the
Wormwood, or Artemisia Annua.
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So we took that with us
and took a little every day
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it goes under the trade
name parasital, so we took
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what was called the prophylactic
dose and we were also
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very careful with our water.
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I remember we portioned out
the chores to be done every day
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and Dr. Miller's chore
was to grind out the water
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so we put it through a micro-
pour filter and we didn't get
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the Giardia, any of us.
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Now I would like
to talk with you about
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hormone modulators, any
time the endocrine system is
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affected in any way, you
can use some of the hormone
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modulators which are extremely
effective in the human body.
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As an example, people who have
prostate cancer or cancer of the
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breast, or they have a thyroid
problem or a pituitary problem
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these can be very
helpful for the person.
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Saw Palmetto Berry has
been sort of categorized
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as the man's herb, for prostate
problems, it is good for
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benign prostatic hypertrophy
and it's good for cancer
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of the prostate.
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But what most people
do not know is that it
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is a very excellent hormone
modulator for women as well
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so when women have a problem
with menstrual access in any way
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the uterus or the tubes,
or the ovaries, or her cycles
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she could be well advised to
take the Saw Palmetto Berries
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very good as a
hormone modulator.
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It inhibits the five alpha
reductase, it's a good inhibitor
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in that way and therefore,
has good anti-cancer properties
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for both men and for women.
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It's a hormone antagonist
and especially the kind
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that makes a woman
have cancer of the breast,
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and a man have
cancer of the prostate.
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Then there are properties
in soy, many constituents
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in soy that have a modulatory
effect on the endocrines.
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Such things as the iso-flavones
and of course there are
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proteases, and protease
inhibitors and there are
00:22:01.26\00:22:05.67
anti-neoplastic constituents,
saponins, and inositol
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and a whole bunch of them
in soy that make soy products,
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well soy beans in particular,
not so much soy products.
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As each step is made in the
manufacturing of soy products
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like soy milk or even
tofu as these are manufactured
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a little bit of the good
constituents are lost with each
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step, and it makes it so
they are less good for you
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than the soy beans themselves.
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No question that in countries
where soybeans are used in
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rather large quantity,
cancer of the breast is less,
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and cancer of the prostate
is of a nature that is not the
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acute form that we more
frequently see in the west.
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The first one that I
mentioned was Saw Palmetto,
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then next was soy, and the
third one is such an excellent
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hormone modulator is
flax seed, we could spend the
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rest of the week talking
about the benefits of flax seed
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but just to tell you
some of the hormone modulatory
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things in it, lignans are
the principle ones, not the
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iso-flavones as in soy products,
they are phytoestrogen's
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and they assist us in
normalizing the whole hormone
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system, by normalizing
I mean if it is to high it
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it brings it down, if
it's to low it brings it up.
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Very interesting
little chemical mechanisms
00:23:43.94\00:23:48.55
that make this happen.
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With flax seed androgen
levels fall, now we know that
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androgen levels are very
important in the production
00:23:55.52\00:23:58.56
of prostate cancer.
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Now some other herbs that
are good hormone modulators but
00:24:00.03\00:24:06.36
maybe not the very top ones,
licorice root is pretty much
00:24:06.39\00:24:10.17
close to the top, I like it
very much and anybody who has
00:24:10.20\00:24:13.70
any endocrine problem, I
usually suggest that they
00:24:13.73\00:24:17.19
try using that.
00:24:17.22\00:24:18.57
Skull cap, Asian and
American Ginseng, Chase tree
00:24:18.60\00:24:24.62
which we usually think
of as being a woman's herb
00:24:24.65\00:24:27.22
also a very good man's
herb especially in cancer of the
00:24:27.25\00:24:30.83
prostate, and then
benign prostatic hypertrophy.
00:24:30.86\00:24:34.21
Partridge Berry another hormone
modulator, False Unicorn,
00:24:34.24\00:24:38.62
that's a member of the
Lily family, along with garlic,
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and onion, and many others.
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And then don't forget
Vitamin D, in most men who have
00:24:43.98\00:24:48.32
enlargement of the prostate,
or prostate cancer we find that
00:24:48.35\00:24:52.83
they are vitamin D deficient.
00:24:52.86\00:24:54.74
Does that mean that their
prostate cancer came on because
00:24:54.77\00:24:58.44
they didn't
exercise enough in the sun?
00:24:58.47\00:25:00.69
Or does it mean that they
don't hold on to vitamin D well
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or transform it
well in their skin?
00:25:04.68\00:25:06.08
We aren't certain why that
is, but it is certainly the case
00:25:06.11\00:25:10.91
that they do much better
with a good level of vitamin D.
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Now we have a whole class
of herbs called sedatives,
00:25:16.85\00:25:22.04
and Dr. Miller with your
traveling around do you ever
00:25:22.07\00:25:25.59
have a need to take a
sedative to get to sleep?
00:25:25.62\00:25:30.22
- I could sleep standing up,
I don't have any problem with
00:25:30.26\00:25:32.72
sleeping normally, but
if I do there are some herbs
00:25:32.75\00:25:36.45
that are quite nice, and
if I have a patient that needs
00:25:36.48\00:25:38.63
something to help them
to sleep, there are some
00:25:38.66\00:25:40.97
very common herbs, probably
one of the most common herbs
00:25:41.00\00:25:44.47
that we have in the
world, is a herb called hops.
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The reason why it is so
common is that it is the basis
00:25:49.28\00:25:52.18
of making beer, and
interestingly enough,
00:25:52.21\00:25:55.33
that it's the hops in the beer
that is the more dangerous part
00:25:55.36\00:26:00.34
over the alcohol part,
because people who drink
00:26:00.37\00:26:03.17
a whole lot of beer, get
drowsy, it's an herbal reaction
00:26:03.20\00:26:06.65
from the hops, so I
find hops works very nice.
00:26:06.68\00:26:10.41
I've heard about people taking
a pillow case and filling it
00:26:10.45\00:26:13.53
full of hops and then sleeping
on that, and then aiding in
00:26:13.56\00:26:16.62
thier sleep, but there
are other ones besides this.
00:26:16.65\00:26:19.07
One that you know
when someone is taking it
00:26:19.10\00:26:23.93
it's called
Valerian, Valerian is probably
00:26:23.96\00:26:27.62
one of the most noxious
smelling herbs once you've
00:26:27.65\00:26:30.45
used it, but it's an
extremely good sleeping aid.
00:26:30.48\00:26:34.28
Catnip is another one,
which is in the mint family
00:26:34.31\00:26:37.69
so other mints are very
good to help persons sleep.
00:26:37.72\00:26:41.24
Then there is St. John's
Wort, we realize we take it for
00:26:41.27\00:26:47.02
anti-depression, but it is also
very good to help someone sleep.
00:26:47.05\00:26:50.70
and then there is skull-cap
another nice sedative herb.
00:26:50.73\00:26:53.30
But we can take all of
the herbs in the world,
00:26:53.34\00:26:55.95
but we have to do the
other things that we can do
00:26:55.98\00:26:58.37
to help us to have a good
night's sleep, no late suppers,
00:26:58.40\00:27:00.91
no exciting things before
bed time, making sure we are not
00:27:00.94\00:27:04.31
taking lots of
naps during the day.
00:27:04.34\00:27:05.89
There are some simple things
we can do Father to help herbs
00:27:05.92\00:27:08.77
help us to have a
better life style.
00:27:08.80\00:27:11.07
- Yes, and we can be most
grateful for these because
00:27:11.10\00:27:15.26
the Lord has given these to
us to make certain that we know
00:27:15.29\00:27:19.10
that He is a father of
love, and that He has provided
00:27:19.13\00:27:22.72
for all of our illnesses.
00:27:22.75\00:27:24.08
I don't know of any illness
that won't be helped somewhat
00:27:24.11\00:27:27.48
by taking some kind of herb,
and most of these as I said
00:27:27.51\00:27:31.70
in the beginning, these
are incredibly safe for us
00:27:31.73\00:27:34.93
and if the question is
between an herb or a drug,
00:27:34.96\00:27:39.66
the safest one is
almost hands down, in favor for
00:27:39.69\00:27:44.06
the herbs, so we
can recommend these,
00:27:44.09\00:27:46.36
and of course people have
used them forever and anon
00:27:46.39\00:27:50.62
so we know that they are safe.
00:27:50.65\00:27:52.56
So may the Lord bless
you by understanding that
00:27:52.59\00:27:55.61
our Heavenly Father has
made provision for every need.
00:27:55.64\00:27:59.17