Participants: Agatha Thrash (Host), Don Miller, Rhonda Clark
Series Code: HYTH
Program Code: HYTH000223
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00:01 Hello! As I get older I have more and more respect for law.
00:07 We have all sorts of laws that involve the entire universe 00:12 many of those are made I believe so that God would have 00:18 a framework that He could make the human body so much 00:22 like Himself. 00:23 If you like a study of law, you will enjoy the program 00:28 that we have for you today, we will be talking about 00:31 the laws of health, so we invite you to join us. 00:53 Welcome to Help Yourself to Health 00:55 with Dr. Agatha Thrash of Uchee Pines Institute 00:58 and now here is your host Dr. Thrash. 01:02 Physiologic law is that law that guards our health 01:10 that helps us to be strong, it gives us efficiency 01:14 it makes the body function in the way that it does. 01:17 Physiologic law is probably the most fascinating study 01:22 I have ever made in my entire life. 01:26 I love the study of health it's a very compelling study 01:32 it's a study that when people make it, 01:35 they understand the great joy that those of us who spend 01:40 a lifetime in this kind of work, this is the kind of thing 01:45 that we can thoroughly put ourselves into. 01:48 In a study of law, the physiologic law also helps us 01:53 to be of service to others. 01:54 As we learn about law, we can make it so that we 01:59 teach others how to be obedient to law, 02:02 we can find ways that will make it easy for them to be 02:07 obedient to law, such as finding recipes 02:11 that will make it so that they can cook healthfully 02:13 and finding activities that they can do out of doors that 02:17 will make them enjoy being out of doors more, 02:20 and a variety of other things that can just transform life 02:25 and make it so that everyone enjoys physiologic law. 02:29 Now my colleague at Uchee Pines Rhonda Clark is going to help me 02:35 talk with you today about this thing of law. 02:38 Health laws, do you have an opportunity at Uchee Pines 02:42 to practice the health laws? 02:43 - I have learned a great deal about health laws at Uchee Pines 02:47 and am very lucky to have opportunity there to put those 02:51 into practice, and to see people who have worked with 02:53 health laws for more years than I have, being role models 02:58 and encouraging to me while I'm learning them. 03:01 - You've been in the medical field for a long time, 03:04 about fifteen, twenty years. 03:07 And with that you have learned quite a lot of standard medicine 03:12 and now you might say that what you are doing 03:15 is lifestyle medicine, so tell us something about 03:19 what you have learned about laws of health. 03:22 - There have been some surprises along the way, 03:25 I thought as a registered nurse in my training 03:27 and my experience, I knew about nutrition 03:30 and I have learned there is much more to nutrition. 03:34 Simple things, laws of nutrition that I was not familiar with 03:37 even simple things as fresh air, sunlight, the importance 03:43 of regularly being involved in those, are important for 03:46 health, these were new concepts for me, and I have enjoyed 03:49 learning about them. 03:50 - And the laws of regularity, the laws of cleanliness, 03:56 all those kinds of things, also have powerful influence 04:00 on the health that we have. 04:02 What else would you like to share with us? 04:05 - Well I wanted to share a little information today on 04:09 a couple particular laws of health. 04:13 The first one being the law of regular exposure to sunlight. 04:18 Sunlight has many healing properties, we think of it as 04:22 something that enhances our mood, we love to see 04:25 the spring time come, and summer, with the increased 04:28 sunlight and warmth. 04:30 We know that it helps our body produce vitamin D, 04:33 an essential nutrient, and we may know that sunlight has 04:38 properties, I was surprised to learn of two particular 04:43 properties of sunlight that benefit our health. 04:46 One has to do with the production of vitamin D, 04:49 when sunlight strikes our skin in it's production of vitamin D 04:56 it uses Cholesterol, as that Cholesterol is utilized 05:01 then Cholesterol needs to be taken from the blood 05:05 to replace that which has been used in the production of 05:07 vitamin D, lowering our blood cholesterol levels. 05:11 An interesting study looking at cholesterol levels prior to 05:17 and after a two hour sunbath showed that cholesterol levels 05:22 in that short period of time were lowered on average 13%. 05:27 It's further believed that as the blood cholesterol level 05:32 lowers, eventually the atherosclerotic plaques 05:35 that have accumulated in our arteries, 05:37 may be able to be reduced through regular sunning 05:41 and regular utilization of Cholesterol in the production of 05:44 vitamin D, I found that to be quite interesting. 05:47 Also with sunlight, it has a bactericidal activity 05:54 when exposed to our skin it actually helps turn the 05:57 oils of our skin into a substance that kills microbes 06:01 of all types. 06:02 When we hang our laundry out on the line, 06:05 our laundry has the benefit of the sunlight in killing 06:09 any bacteria that might be present. 06:11 Some of you may have seen an article in a women's magazine 06:16 I guess about two years ago how washing machines were 06:19 found to have high colonization's 06:21 of the bacteria E Coli 06:23 and this makes sense since we launder our under garments 06:26 in the washing machine. 06:27 Hanging the clothes then out on the line ensure 06:31 that the bacteria are completely eliminated 06:33 after the Tsunami which was around Christmas time 06:37 the end of 2004, devastation, and for many people 06:42 the inability to find pure water. 06:44 It was interesting that one technique 06:47 for purifying water was to place 06:49 water in glass jars, and expose them to sunlight 06:53 for several hours, this property was enhanced if they were 06:56 set on corrugated tin. 06:58 The sunlight would kill the pathogens in the water 07:03 so that it was then safe to drink. 07:05 Sunlight also has a property to stimulate our immune system 07:11 so that even internally we have a better opportunity 07:15 to fight off infections and illness. 07:18 It increases the number of white blood cells 07:20 and increases their activity level, so that infections 07:24 viruses, bacteria, these things can be prevented or headed off. 07:28 So I found that to be quite interesting about sunlight. 07:31 Today I wanted to share also with you another property of 07:36 health Dr. Thrash that I was so interested to learn about it, 07:40 and that is the beneficial properties of fresh air, 07:44 especially fresh country air. 07:47 Our air, which I didn't realize has negatively and positively 07:52 charged ions, and they have an effect on us. 07:56 In the presence of positively charged ions, which we find 08:00 indoors, especially around electrical equipment, 08:04 such as televisions, computer monitors, or around 08:08 air conditioning units, home heating units, 08:11 these positively charged air ions lead to head ache, 08:16 irritability, nasal congestion, feelings of fatigue, 08:21 even depression, where as outdoors in the fresh air 08:25 especially as we get into fresh country air, 08:27 we find higher percentages of negative air ions. 08:31 These have the exact opposite effect, they are calming 08:35 and yet at the same time help us feel energized, 08:38 they relieve nasal congestion and allergy symptoms. 08:41 They relieve headache and fatigue, and interestingly 08:46 they have quite a fascinating effect on our bodies 08:50 physiologically. 08:52 Along our trachea and bronchi the main tree of our respiratory 08:58 system we find cells that are lined with little tiny hairs 09:03 called cilia, their job is to help sweep debris that we inhale 09:08 out of the respiratory tract and it's partner in doing this 09:12 is mucous. 09:14 The mucous traps things that we have breathed in, 09:17 little dust particles, pollen, and the cilia work together 09:21 as little brooms to sweep this substance back out, 09:24 so we can cough it out or swallow it, and eliminate it 09:27 from the respiratory tract. 09:28 Normally our cilia beat about nine hundred times per minute 09:33 in the presence of higher percentages of positive air ions 09:38 they only beat six hundred times per minute. 09:41 Meaning that these substances that we inhaled, are more slowly 09:45 eliminated, giving greater exposure to the delicate 09:48 respiratory system. 09:49 Where as in the presence of negative air ions, 09:52 the cilia would beat about twelve hundred times per minute 09:56 and mucous flow would increase just a bit, 09:58 helping keep that respiratory tract clear. 10:02 This may be why negative air ions are beneficial 10:05 to fighting allergy symptoms. 10:07 In Philadelphia, at Northeastern Hospital 10:11 one very interesting use of negative air ions, 10:14 is in treating burn patients, as they receive a burn patient 10:18 at Northeastern, they are treated three times a day 10:22 thirty minutes per session, in a room that has 10:25 lot's of input of negative air ions, from machines 10:30 they are ionizing machines. 10:32 They did a study in the relief of pain, for burn patients 10:36 in this room and found that when treated consistently 10:40 three times a day, thirty minutes per episode, 10:42 narcotic need decreased by an amazing 85%. 10:47 They regularly continued to use negative air ion treatments 10:51 on their burn patients, seeing this their chief of surgery 10:55 decided they needed to try using negative air ions 10:58 in patients following surgery. 11:00 They followed for eight months patients having surgery 11:05 137 patients agreed to be a part of this study, 11:08 they only received two treatments in the negative 11:12 air ion rooms, they would go for thirty minutes on their 11:15 first day, post surgery, then again on their second day 11:19 post surgery. 11:20 Seventy nine of the 137 patients needed hardly any 11:25 narcotics, some needed none, and in the others, in fact 11:29 over all they had about a 50% decrease in narcotic use. 11:33 so it is fascinating that God has put in fresh air, 11:36 something so amazing and helpful to us. 11:39 If you were to stand in downtown Los Angeles, 11:43 for example, or any busy city, you would find in the air, 11:47 less than a hundred little negative charged ions 11:51 per cubic centimeter, in fresh country air you would 11:55 from 20 to 50 thousand, but the best place to find high 12:01 concentrations of negative air ions is around falling water. 12:05 At Yosemite Falls, for example, they measured over 100,000 12:09 negative air ions per cubic centimeter of air. 12:12 At the ocean, near moving water, even in our shower, 12:16 we find negative air ions, trees, are wonderful sources, 12:20 especially evergreen trees. 12:22 Keeping plants in the home can help increase the number 12:25 of negative air ions. 12:27 So I encourage you to spend time out doors in the fresh air, 12:30 and sun shine, and let those wonderful laws of health 12:35 those wonderful gifts of God benefit you. 12:37 - Very good, you know as I was listening to your talking 12:41 about this I thought what powerful effects this has 12:47 an anti-aging influence, sunshine and good fresh air, 12:51 and so when we think about aging, and everybody would 12:57 like to have anti-aging factors in their lives, 13:00 here are some, in fact all the laws of health 13:03 are things that we can do that can help us resist 13:07 the inevitable and that is the aging, we can slow down 13:12 that aging process. 13:14 We do that also by not smoking, by not drinking alcoholic drinks 13:18 by eating a proper diet, 13:20 there are so many things that we can do 13:22 and Dr. Donald Miller has found quite a lot of laws 13:27 of health as he has studied physiology and studied 13:31 Inspired Writings, and Dr. Miller thank you 13:33 for joining us today, and I would like you to tell us 13:36 about some of the things you have found on the 13:39 Laws of Health. 13:40 - Ok! Normally when we talk about laws of health 13:43 we somehow limit them to eight laws of health 13:46 and they are good laws of health, nutrition, exercise, 13:48 water, sunshine, temperance, air, rest, and 13:51 trusting in the Lord. 13:52 I can't say anything against these, these are vital laws 13:55 of health, but if we stop at these eight laws, 13:58 we miss some very important laws, but I always whenever 14:02 I teach lifestyle principles at Uchee Pines, or anywhere 14:05 in the world I start off with the two foundational principles, 14:09 If any of my students are out there, 14:11 I want you to repeat them with me because it will mean 14:14 that you listened to me in class. 14:15 1. The life is in the blood, what you eat becomes your blood 14:21 whatever you had for your last meal, within a few hours 14:24 was already circulating through your blood system. 14:27 If you had good food, it follows that you probably 14:31 had good blood, if you had junk food, 14:33 well I'll leave you to make a conclusion what type of blood 14:36 that you had, if you've had lots of sugar and fat, 14:39 you've got lots of sugar and lots of fat into your 14:42 blood stream. 14:43 Now you say, well sugar is a good thing, 14:44 yes sugar if it's in its unrefined state releases 14:48 slowly into the blood stream, therefore helping you with 14:51 your blood sugar situation, so the life is in the blood. 14:56 Second law, foundational law perfect health requires 14:59 perfect circulation, you can have the best blood in the world 15:02 but if you are not getting blood to an area, 15:05 you've got death on the way. 15:06 So what we need to do is to make sure we have 15:08 good circulation, now with those eight laws of health, 15:11 some of those help that circulation and that good blood 15:14 nutrition is certainly part of the good blood situation. 15:18 Exercise, certainly part of the circulation part, water, 15:22 part of the circulation part, sunshine relaxes the blood 15:26 vessels, allows blood to flow freer, that's part of the 15:31 perfect circulation, so we got lot's of other things 15:34 that we can do. 15:35 But now some other laws that I have found, 15:37 in searching through the literature and other things 15:40 that are extremely important to us, one is something 15:43 as simple as cheerfulness, the attitude that you have. 15:46 There was a study that came out of Kansas State University, 15:49 saying that people who are extroverts or who just 15:53 seem to be happy, stay happy longer and are less sick. 15:57 My mother is one of these people, I have never seen anyone 16:00 more positive than my mother is, she is always happy 16:04 she is never sick, I see other people who follow 16:08 maybe a better lifestyle than my mother, I don't know 16:11 but they are always gloomy people, 16:13 they seem to get sick more, and so what we need to do is 16:16 practice an attitude of gratitude and have happiness 16:20 as part of our lifestyles, 16:21 looking for things to be happy about. 16:23 I find that people who are depressed, seem to focus 16:27 on things that are depressing. 16:28 They've got a problem in their life, they spend their 16:31 whole life looking at the problem, 16:33 rather than looking at the maybe solution, 16:35 or looking beyond the problem to something else. 16:38 I meet people all around the world that are having problems 16:41 with their emotions, with their happiness, 16:46 with they are just gloomy people, and I say well what's 16:49 the problem, they can tell me ten things in a row, 16:52 and I'll say well tell me something that is right 16:54 and if I can somehow get them to focus on something 16:56 that's more positive. 16:58 It's strange that their body tends to follow, 17:01 so we need to have a positive outlook on life, 17:05 practice cheerfulness, another one of the laws of health is 17:09 our dress, you see it's very popular in the winter time 17:13 people wearing these big down vests, 17:15 they've got maybe a flannel shirt on, 17:17 but they have a four inch thick down vest on with a 17:20 flannel shirt underneath too, which means that 17:23 their trunk is warmer than their extremities 17:26 which means the blood will shunt to the trunk, 17:28 congesting the trunk, which in itself is not a 17:32 healthful condition. 17:33 We need to have equal circulation you see that's 17:36 going to cut down on the perfect circulation. 17:38 If we have the same number of layers on our arms 17:42 as we have on our trunk, we're going to have better 17:44 circulation, so we need to have good circulation. 17:47 If we have tight bands on our bodies, 17:49 some people put these belts on and wear those constricting 17:52 bands, that's cutting down on good circulation. 17:55 We need to have clothes that are healthful, 17:57 we need to cover our bodies, summer and winter. 18:00 It's amazing, I go down to Africa and in the summer time 18:05 when the sun is beating down, the workers are out 18:07 in the fields with the long sleeves on, and with something 18:10 on their heads. 18:11 You protect yourself from the rays of the sun, 18:15 now the sun is good, but certain times of the day 18:16 it's not the best, but also you can become chilled without 18:19 even knowing it on the hottest days, because 18:21 the evaporation of the water we've got that latent heat of 18:24 evaporation, taking off lots of heat, lowers the temperature 18:29 of the extremities, trunk is heating up, 18:31 congestion in the trunk, so we need to have right clothing. 18:35 Another one of the laws of health that we normally don't 18:38 think about is, let me see I've got some written down here. 18:43 Cleanliness, how about cleanliness, washing your hands 18:47 keeping your hands..., the best way to get sick 18:50 is to be walking around and then sit there and get something 18:53 out of your eye, or pick something out of your teeth 18:56 or get your hands that aren't completely clean, 18:59 into one of the orifices that can pass some of the 19:02 pathogens that you might have touched, into the body. 19:06 Not just your own body cleanliness, which is extremely 19:09 important, but the food that you eat should be clean also. 19:13 You don't know what touched it, or who touched it 19:16 or what landed on it before you put that thing into your mouth, 19:19 and so we should make sure that our food and our bodies 19:22 are in a clean state. 19:24 If we do not clean our bodies or our clothing, 19:26 our body tends to re-absorb the toxins that is constantly 19:32 throwing out. 19:33 We are basically all born with three kidneys, 19:35 we have a left kidney, a right kidney, and our skin, which 19:38 acts as an excretory organ, we need to make sure 19:41 that we're cleaning this. 19:42 Now you may be in a place where you don't have that much water. 19:47 I spend time in Moldova, and I learned how to take a bath 19:51 in about two liters of water, cold water, every morning 19:54 in the winter time, you just learn how to do it 19:56 with a cloth, and you give yourself a good scrubbing 19:59 all over the body, and then you rinse off a little bit, 20:02 you can take quite a good bath in just a couple of quarts, 20:06 or a couple of liters of water. 20:07 A clear conscience, I read a book a few years ago by a doctor 20:14 it was called The Gift of Pain, and he found one of those things 20:19 that made our pain more intense and last longer, and we also 20:22 find that it makes us sicker is having 20:24 a guilty conscience, so if you have anything on your mind 20:28 that causes guilt, anything on your mind that you might 20:31 have done some time in the past. 20:32 Clean out the garbage, if you are carrying something 20:35 around, get rid of it. 20:37 Search your heart, or ask the Lord... 20:39 I love that verse in the Bible, "search me O Lord, 20:41 and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts, 20:44 and see if there be any wicked way in me, and then 20:47 lead me in the way everlasting. " 20:49 I've done some things in my past, 20:51 that I greatly regretted, and I remember years after 20:56 the fact, the Lord would bring something to my mind 20:59 and I would have to go back years past, find that person 21:03 and make it right. 21:04 I remember, something I didn't even do wrong, 21:07 but still, I've got this very active guilty conscience, 21:10 even when I'm not guilty, I was sitting in the back row 21:13 of this class and next to me was my friend, 21:16 she was a cheerleader named Janie, and as she would 21:18 take the test, she would lay each paper on the window sill 21:23 which was fine, and I'm struggling through this 21:25 was a very hard class for me and this was a nice spring day 21:29 and the wind blew and one of her papers went blowing out 21:32 the window, well I was raised to be a gentleman, 21:35 and so I got up, went up and told the teacher, 21:38 I didn't ask permission, I said Janie dropped a paper out of 21:41 the second story window, so I just went down the stairs, 21:43 thinking nothing of it, walked out found the piece of paper 21:46 and the way I work, I saw it laying there, I turned my head 21:50 I picked it up, and I put it behind my back. 21:53 I didn't even want to catch myself doing something wrong 21:55 half way up the stairs, it hit me, the teacher thinks 21:59 this is a set up, the teacher thinks I am cheating. 22:04 I went back in, gave the test to Janie, she finished it, 22:07 I finished it, and that bothered me then because I thought 22:12 that the teacher thought I was cheating, 22:13 which I did not want, and I did not do. 22:15 Years and years later, we're talking about just a few years 22:19 I am now at Uchee Pines, 14 years in the Marine Corp 22:21 have now gone by, almost 20 years at Uchee Pines 22:24 have gone by, I finally found this professor, 22:27 she is now an old woman, I write her a letter and say 22:31 Dr. Mease I want to tell you remember that day, 22:35 and I did not do, I did not cheat, 22:38 and all these different things. 22:39 I got the most wonderful letter back, 22:42 I have been carrying this guilt now for close to 30, 22:46 35 years, I get this wonderful letter back from her, 22:49 she says, I never thought you cheated, she said the only time 22:54 I was really upset with you is when I knew that you could 22:56 do so much better than you were doing, and you just 22:59 didn't seem to have the mindset to get involved in what 23:04 you were supposed to be doing. 23:05 So when you have a guilty conscience, believe me sometimes 23:10 it is not as bad as it looks, go back to that person 23:14 even if they don't receive your apology, 23:18 it's off of your case. 23:20 If you have done something wrong to hurt somebody 23:23 or something, whatever it is, you have to go back, 23:24 You have to do all that you can to make it right. 23:28 Sometimes it is the Holy Spirit keeping this desire on you 23:32 to make cases right, and if you do not make them right 23:35 you will carry it the rest of your days. 23:38 So my recommendation is have a clear conscience. 23:42 One other law of health, that we do talk about, 23:44 but we sometimes don't talk about it in the paradigm of 23:48 the laws of health, and that is herbs. 23:51 Herbs are extremely important to us, we don't have 23:55 the Tree of Life anymore but I believe that God has 23:58 given us the Tree of Life, in tree, shrub, and flower, 24:02 the herbs that surround us, we can find unbelievable 24:05 healing properties. 24:06 Wherever I go, in whatever part of the world, 24:09 I try to learn some of the indigenous herbs in that area 24:12 and find ways of getting them into the people, 24:14 or on to the people, because from those things, 24:18 I find real healing. 24:19 I find real protection when I am in Africa, 24:21 every day I will eat a couple of spoonfuls, 24:25 they say that you only have to do it a couple times a week 24:28 but I eat a couple spoonfuls of papaya seeds. 24:31 Very peppery tasting, but it is a great anti-malarial 24:35 I don't want to get Malaria, so I eat the seeds, 24:38 Nastirsham leaves will do just as well, 24:40 because they have exactly the same flavor, 24:42 the same properties. 24:43 So look around in nature, for what God has placed 24:47 at our finger tips, at our disposal, as common weeds. 24:51 Plantago that grows in your yard is a great herb 24:55 so it grows proliferate, and it is good for the stomach 24:57 and so God has, Dr. Thrash, many things besides those 25:01 eight laws that we talk about, I basically see fourteen laws 25:04 and probably more than that. 25:05 - Yes there are probably many more than that, 25:07 I always like to hear you talk about purity of life, 25:11 just living a pure life. 25:14 - I left that one off but that is so important. 25:16 - Why don't you say a few words about the purity of life. 25:18 - You know purity of life has a lot to do with a lot of other 25:22 laws of health, but it's what goes on between the ears 25:25 has such a profound effect upon the health that we have. 25:29 Dress can affect someone's purity of life, 25:32 think that many times many women tempt each other 25:35 by the way they dressed. 25:36 We have to have pure minds, we have to be thinking 25:40 the right things, and quite frankly I labor for the 25:44 young people growing up today in this world, 25:46 which seems to be so out of control with the purity issue. 25:50 Purity seems to be something that is puritanical, 25:52 you know back in the Queen Victorian Age, 25:54 when we considered oh that's Victorian or puritanical. 25:57 But by today's standards they would be scandalized 26:01 by..., I don't know everything has just changed. 26:04 We need purity of life. 26:06 - Yes we do and we can encourage one another 26:08 in the upward path, by being very careful about 26:12 the way that we interact with others and just exactly 26:16 what we do in our own lives 26:17 that impacts the life of others. 26:20 Consider the matter of dress from another standpoint 26:23 and that is that if we chill the skin, the macrophages 26:28 or some of those fighting soldiers that we have 26:32 that are constantly on duty in the skin, if we chill those 26:37 substances in the skin then we are going to reduce 26:41 the ability that the skin has to protect itself, 26:44 and also to put into the blood stream those healing proteins 26:49 that we so desperately need to keep the immune system 26:52 functioning at it's best. 26:53 Now we spoke a bit about cleanliness, 26:57 but I would like to mention a couple of things about 26:59 orderliness. 27:00 Orderliness, helps the brain also to be orderly 27:04 if we keep our premises clean, sweet smelling and in order, 27:11 it does wonders for keeping the brain orderly and making 27:16 the immune system have a high functioning capacity 27:19 and making it so that you can put out more work. 27:22 So I do recommend not only cleanliness, but also 27:27 orderliness be always thought of. 27:30 Now regularity in what you do is another important thing 27:35 that you do the same thing at the same time every day 27:38 making the work that we do on this earth much more effective 27:45 in blessing others and in Glorifying God, 27:48 and when we come to think of it our major reason for being 27:52 is to Glorify God and to Bless His people. |
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