Participants: Agatha Thrash (Host), Don Miller, Rhonda Clark
Series Code: HYTH
Program Code: HYTH000235
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00:01 Hello! We generally think of eight laws of health
00:06 but actually when we start counting the laws that we know 00:10 we find there are more. 00:12 There are more than maybe fifteen, 00:15 there may be even more than twenty, we'll be talking about 00:20 some of these overlooked laws of health, 00:23 or frequently overlooked laws of health. 00:25 We hope you will join us, we think you will enjoy considering 00:28 some of these frequently overlooked laws of health. 00:52 Welcome to Help Yourself to Health with Dr. Agatha Thrash 00:56 of Uchee Pines Institute, and now here is your host 01:00 Dr. Thrash. 01:01 I love living by law, I love knowing about laws, 01:08 think what it would be like if we didn't know the laws 01:12 having to do with sleep, with rest, with food, with fresh air, 01:17 we would be at sea with the health, so I love living by law, 01:22 I love studying about law. 01:24 Not only physiologic law that has to do with health 01:28 but all manner of law, I like to study the law that has to do 01:32 with the starry heavens, and I think if we enjoy studying 01:38 about law, we can know more about the nature of God 01:42 because He has a character that has a transcript of law, 01:48 and so we would like to invite you today to join us as we 01:52 consider some of these wonderful things about law the things 01:58 having to do with sort of overlooked laws. 02:02 I'd like for Rhonda Clark to join me and thank you Rhonda 02:07 for being on our program today. 02:10 - Glad to be here. 02:11 - And you are going to talk with us about some very interesting 02:15 aspects of an overlooked law. 02:18 - Yes! 02:19 - What are you going to talk about today? 02:21 - Well I wanted to talk about the principle of dress, 02:23 It's interesting that how we dress has a great deal to do 02:27 with our health, and there are principles of dressing 02:30 that we have received through Inspired Writings that science 02:33 is showing are very important. 02:35 What I specifically wanted to focus on is how important it is 02:39 that we dress with even coverage over our bodies, 02:43 not having a lot more layers in one place with no layers 02:48 in another, especially important in covering 02:51 the extremities. 02:52 Our arms and legs have large blood vessels that are intended 02:56 to bring a rich blood supply to our hands, fingers, 03:00 all through our arms and legs and yet often we leave these 03:04 extremities completely uncovered making those blood vessels 03:09 stay in a state of constriction. 03:11 When we have many layers Dr. Thrash, I know you know 03:15 that's where we have vessels that are open, dilated, 03:19 lot's of warmth there in those areas, and then the areas where 03:22 we have very few layers, the vessels constrict, 03:26 some of the little capillary beds where oxygen and nutrient 03:30 delivery takes place are actually completely bypassed 03:35 when the vessels are constricted and things are very chilled. 03:39 - It's interesting that the anatomical structure of the 03:45 blood vessels of the face which is expected to be out in the 03:49 open, that these vessels are all together different from 03:53 the vessels on the neck which are down just below... 03:55 just inches away from the face and yet the 03:59 architectural pattern is different 04:03 from the face to the neck, so I think that 04:06 is an indication to us that the creator intended that we 04:10 should respect certain parts of the body by being more careful 04:16 about the dress. 04:17 - Yes, you know it's not uncommon in someone 04:20 who has left their extremities uncovered frequently 04:25 or regularly that they will have 04:27 high blood pressure, and part of this is because the heart is 04:29 constantly having to push harder to deliver blood through areas 04:33 that are tightened and constricted. 04:35 It's also a common cause of headache, uncovered extremities 04:40 the way that the blood is distributed has been changed. 04:43 - Have you read about these studies of certain polar bear 04:46 clubs where they... now my understanding is 04:51 they take a warm sauna, they are breathing warm air, 04:56 they get all sweaty and then if I'm not mistaken they run 05:01 out and roll in the snow or bathe in the ocean, 05:03 and a study was done of these individuals and it was found 05:07 that among these athletes, these hardy ones, these very 05:12 macho people, that they had more hypertension than the 05:18 general population by far more than double the population 05:22 of hypertensives. 05:24 - Hmm that's so interesting. 05:25 - That helped me to know I was on the right track by keeping 05:29 my extremities warm and by not enjoying a cold plunge 05:35 into icy water. 05:36 - It makes me think to when our extremities are chilled 05:40 not only can we not deliver a good circulation, 05:45 our heart is trying very hard to push some circulation there 05:48 for oxygen and nutrients to be delivered to these tissues 05:51 but waste products in those tissues accumulate. 05:54 One of the ones that is most concerning is potassium, 05:58 when the extremities accumulate levels of potassium and then 06:02 they become warmed, large amounts of potassium can enter 06:05 the blood stream and as these reach the delicate organs 06:08 especially the heart, they can cause an irritation. 06:11 The heart can actually beat irregularly as a response to the 06:15 re-warming of the extremities that have been chilled for 06:17 some period of time. 06:18 This is another reason why tight bands in our clothing 06:23 are concerning, they act very much as chilling does, 06:27 to restrict circulation to parts of our bodies below 06:30 that band allowing very limited delivery of oxygen and nutrients 06:34 and restricting the release of waste products to be 06:38 brought back up in normal volumes and eliminated. 06:41 - This then could account for the increased probability 06:46 that we will have arrhythmias or heart rhythm disturbances, 06:51 they complain of it more when they go to bed. 06:55 - Yes! 06:56 - It's not only that they can be more aware of it 06:59 because there are fewer distractions, but it is also 07:03 because there are actually more arrhythmias, the potassium 07:06 coming back into the blood stream goes to the heart, 07:09 triggers an arrhythmia. 07:11 - Yeah, it's important to keep our extremities covered 07:14 and to dress in layers where we have equal layers, having 07:18 to many layers in an area can be equally harmful, 07:22 there is some interesting research being done in 07:24 breast cancer, that as there are heavier layers over the 07:27 chest, and the breasts are kept warmer than the other areas 07:30 of the body, there's a greater increase of breast cancer. 07:33 So having equal coverage over the course of our body 07:37 is really that which is best for our good health. 07:39 - I often tell people who come to the south, they say oh 07:44 how can you stand this heat, well when I see the way 07:48 they dress, I can understand why they are having a problem 07:51 with the heat in the south because the first thing they do 07:55 in the morning, they wake up and they think oh this is cool 07:58 and nice, this is shorts and halters weather and so they 08:03 put on their shorts and halters and their limbs are exposed 08:08 to the air, and if you just go up and touch their arms 08:12 in this area, you can tell that the back of the arm 08:16 is a little chilled, so I tell these people who come from 08:21 other parts of the world to the south. 08:23 In the morning dress as warmly as you possibly can, 08:28 not to be so uncomfortable that you are just pouring off 08:31 sweat, and if people will do this on a regular basis 08:35 they will find that by 3:00 in the afternoon when it really 08:38 gets hot in Alabama, then you can remove the outside clothing 08:43 that you've put on and you feel quite comfortable. 08:46 But if you acclimatize your extremities to the Arctic 08:50 at 7:00 in the morning, by 3:00 in the afternoon 08:55 you have nowhere to go, you just hope you can retire to the 09:00 air conditioning and be comfortable in it. 09:03 So I think that's an illustration of how we dress 09:06 in a wrong way, whereas if we studied the matter 09:10 and dressed accordingly we could be much better at this 09:15 matter of finding some of these hidden laws, these 09:19 frequently overlooked laws of health, and that is one, 09:24 thank you so much. 09:26 - You're sure welcome. 09:27 - I appreciate that. 09:28 Now another thing I like to do is to put on multiple layers 09:34 such as might be with these leg warmers, now leg warmers 09:39 can be simple like these, or I've seen them where they are 09:43 quite fancy with gold threads or silver threads and lots of 09:46 embroidery and really quite elegant garments but these 09:52 leg warmers are simply utilitarian and I don't guess 09:55 they look to bad, but these can be layered on 09:59 over long johns and then when it warms up then these can be 10:06 removed, or if you go indoors, you've been outdoors and you've 10:09 needed these then when you come indoors, just as a sweater 10:12 these can be taken off the legs and then you can keep 10:16 the extremities quite warm in this way. 10:18 Warmed extremities are healthful in a number of ways 10:22 just as Rhonda pointed out, breast cancer and other 10:26 breast diseases are known to be more common in women who have 10:33 customarily chilled extremities. 10:36 Now Dr. Donald Miller is also going to join us with some of 10:41 these frequently overlooked laws of health, Dr. Miller 10:46 I see that you have a problem. 10:51 - I have a sore foot, - You have a sore foot. 10:54 - I have a sore foot. - How long has it been sore? 10:56 - Well that's a good question, that's a good question to be 11:01 asked, whenever someone tells me they have a problem 11:04 the first thing I say is, how long have you had it, 11:06 did anything happen at the beginning of it that might 11:09 precipitate what your problem is. 11:11 Now this is going to be a law of health that I have not really 11:15 spoken about when I teach this class, but as I think about it 11:19 this is a very important law of health. 11:21 Let me just explain what this person's problem is 11:23 the person has a sore foot, and so he goes to the doctor 11:27 and says doctor my foot hurts and the doctor says, 11:30 I've got just the thing for you we'll give you a little shot 11:33 of pain killer and that will take care of your problem 11:36 and the guy says I really don't want to take any shots 11:39 of pain killer. 11:40 So he goes to a second doctor and he says doc I've got a very 11:46 painful foot, and the doctor says I got just the thing 11:49 for you, take a handful of these pain medications and that 11:52 will take care of your problem of the pain in your foot. 11:55 He may have thought I don't want to take all of these pills 11:57 and so he goes to a third doctor and the third doctor says 12:02 here just the thing you need, here's a nice cane, 12:05 when you walk you can lean on it an don't put quite as much 12:09 pressure on that foot and it will make you feel better. 12:12 He may have thought I don't want to have to carry a cane, 12:14 I've got a pain in my foot, so he goes to the fourth doctor. 12:17 I would hate to go to this doctor if I had a headache, 12:20 so he goes to the fourth doctor and says I've got just the thing 12:22 for you, what we'll do is we'll just take the foot off 12:26 and you'll have no more pain in the foot. 12:27 Well I'm glad I don't have a headache, the guy goes jumping 12:31 out of the office on that one. 12:32 He goes to the fifth doctor he says doctor I got this pain 12:35 in my foot could you help me? 12:36 The doctor says hmmm! How long have you had this 12:40 problem, and then he says how about lets remove your shoe 12:44 and he takes the shoe off and what do we find down in the shoe 12:48 but a large stone, that was the cause of the pain. 12:52 So what's the law of health here, the law of health is 12:54 reason from cause to effect. 12:57 Try to figure out using your common sense, why don't I 13:01 feel well, now we can start to drink lots of water, 13:03 going to sleep on time, we should be doing these things 13:06 anyway but the curse without a cause the Bible says will not 13:10 come, we look back and try to find the rock. 13:12 What was it in my lifestyle, what was it in the last few days 13:16 that caused me to have this problem, once we find that 13:20 problem out, we have a better opportunity of removing what 13:23 ever that cause was. 13:25 You know I see people, and I used to do the same thing 13:28 I would get sick and I really don't do anything else 13:32 about it, I don't look back and see the fact that I just 13:34 pigged out on ice cream or candy a couple days before 13:37 and so I continue these things, as a matter of fact I'm 13:40 always amazed, I remember one of my earliest memories 13:45 I had had a tonsillectomy when I was a child unfortunately 13:49 and I remember being in the hospital bed, I must have been 13:53 two and a half, three years old but I still remember this. 13:56 The person came to my bed and said, after the operation, 14:00 what would you like to eat, you can have anything? 14:02 - What's a three year old going to say? 14:05 - I don't know what it was that I said but I told him something 14:07 and he said you can't have that, you can only have Jell-O 14:11 and I said ok I'll take it, and I told him my favorite, 14:13 probably lime Jell-O, and he said you can't have that, 14:16 it boiled down to one type of Jell-O. 14:19 But when you think about what Jell-O is, it's highly sugared 14:23 gelatin in a water base which basically is going to cause 14:28 the same problem that caused my tonsils to swell up to try to 14:31 fight whatever's problem because my immune system was suppressed. 14:34 - Colored flavored sweetened water. 14:36 - That's what it is, and gelatinized which means that it 14:39 has the bones, tendons, ligaments of some type of a 14:42 dead animal in there to make gelatin, so I thought well, 14:45 maybe the best thing to do in my life is to try to find out 14:48 what's causing this persistent problem, and when people have... 14:54 I get a stomach ache once in a while, I say keep a food diary. 14:59 For me especially when I travel in Eastern Europe, 15:02 it seems like Eastern Europeans have a hard time cooking legumes 15:07 well enough, and if I have an uncooked legume, 15:10 a bean that has not been properly cooked 15:13 I know it's going to hurt me. 15:16 So what I do now, whenever I have any food with a bean in it 15:19 I'll take one out and I will put it in my mouth and I will 15:23 taste it, and if it has that little bit of crunch, 15:26 that little bit of mealiness, I might sacrifice that one 15:29 and swallow it, but I will not eat another one. 15:32 We have to be careful with people to enjoy their 15:37 hospitality, but we have to also be very careful with this 15:41 machinery God has given us. 15:42 - Yes! - And making sure we're not 15:44 going to hurt ourselves. 15:45 - With partially cooked foods, beans are just one of them 15:50 but grains can also be partially cooked and that can also make 15:55 a problem, we may not feel it internally but it can cause 15:59 a general problem for us of inadequately 16:03 hydrolyzed starches. 16:04 - Well that's another one of these unknown laws, 16:08 or unspoken about laws that we have but there's a 16:10 wonderful book called Ministry of Healing 16:12 and on page 301 it says, grains used for porridge or mush 16:19 should have. 16:20 - Several hours of cooking. 16:21 - Ok! So I go to Europe and what do they serve muesli 16:25 which is raw oats, and I'm sitting there thinking, 16:29 now in medical hypothesis I think about 1989 came out 16:33 with a study that said that probably the reason why many 16:37 people over 30 have many lacunar scars in their brain 16:40 is incomplete breakdown of the starches from incomplete cooking 16:45 of the grains, now you did an experiment in your kitchen 16:48 about this didn't you? 16:49 - We did in the laboratory at Uchee Pines, we took a number 16:53 of pots set them to boiling with different kinds of cereals, 16:58 oatmeal, whole grain oats, oat groats, and cracked wheat, 17:07 rice, corn grits, and corn meal, and every 10 minutes for the 17:12 first hour we took a little alley quote from each pot 17:16 and we examined it for hydrolysis and we found 17:21 that there was very little hydrolysis in anything except 17:25 the corn meal which was very finely ground, and by the end 17:30 of two and a half hours millet was all done. 17:35 But rolled oats did not get done for 90 minutes, that's 17:39 an hour and a half, and corn grits do not get done for 17:44 five hours, oat groats do not get done for five to six hours 17:50 and whole kernel rye didn't get done for about 6 hours, 17:54 barley also took about that long. 17:55 - How about minute oats? 17:58 - Minute oats, we found that that required about 18:00 20-30 minutes, the quick oats required 45 minutes to get 18:05 well done. 18:07 - And if we don't do that then we have these large 18:09 chain starches and they can get into our blood stream, 18:12 they do get into our blood stream, and can affect our 18:14 brains, get into the small capillaries and cause little 18:16 lacunar scars, a little bit of tissue death, 18:18 into our kidneys, our bones, our adrenals, it can cause havoc 18:23 in the body and we never even know it and wonder why 18:26 our memory is slipping, could it be part of our 18:29 memory problems? 18:30 - I think so, I think one of the reasons why, in fact it was 18:33 postulated, it has been postulated by those who have 18:36 studied this, that one of the reasons for slippage of memory 18:40 and old age is because of years of eating inadequately cooked 18:45 grains. 18:47 - I read another place about some very large loaves of bread 18:51 being made that were very heavy and moist on the inside 18:55 so the servant girl who had made these things feeling 18:58 oh my master won't like this, so she took it out and put 19:01 it in the pigs trough, the guy had a couple great big sows. 19:05 Well the next morning he went out and do you remember what 19:08 happened to both those sows? 19:09 - Yes! Umm! - They died. 19:13 - They had died during the night, yes! 19:14 - And he looked in the trough and there was some crumbs 19:17 of this bread left and the woman confessed that 19:19 I put the bread there. 19:20 Our loaves should be small well baked loaves, 19:23 so that they could be dry on the inside, and that browning 19:27 on the outside, some people cut away the crust, 19:30 the crust is one of the healthiest parts because that 19:32 has the Maylard reaction, it has started the complete 19:36 hydrolysis and it chain reacts down into the bread. 19:39 I like to toast my bread, when it first starts to get 19:42 a little bit of a brownness that means that is has good 19:45 hydrolysis is going to be much better for me. 19:47 - Very good and I'm glad when you said when it first starts 19:50 to get brown, because if it gets very brown, then we have 19:55 advanced glycation and products and that can also cause a 20:00 problem, it accelerates the rate at which we age and also 20:04 makes is so that we are more susceptible to such things as 20:08 cancer and hardening of the arteries. 20:11 Now another thing that we have found to be a frequently 20:15 overlooked law of health, people think that it's a law 20:18 of spirituality, and it is, but prayer and meditation 20:23 and work that we do in church with our characters, 20:28 these are also laws of health, they are not just spiritual laws 20:33 and I have asked Rhonda Clark to join me again and talk 20:39 a little bit about meditation and it's benefits as a 20:43 health giving activity. 20:45 - I'll be happy to, you know when I first heard of this 20:48 principle of meditation, I was thinking of sitting in the 20:52 corner and humming and I didn't understand really this 20:55 principle of meditation in the Christian perspective. 20:58 I have learned that it is just really taking time to ponder 21:03 and roll around in your mind a principle that you have found 21:07 in scripture, something that you have heard from a sermon 21:10 that meant a great deal to you, and really looking for ways that 21:13 you can apply that in your own life. 21:14 - So that little word Selah in the Psalms is really "Stop 21:20 and Meditate," think about this factor, so that's 21:24 sort of what you are thinking about. 21:26 - A little description meditation right there. 21:28 As I was a student at Uchee Pines, one of our instructors 21:32 Dan Viss let us know about a ministry that he had, 21:36 it's called Fast Ministries and he teaches a principle 21:40 about meditation and application, he actually teaches 21:42 you how to meditate on a spiritual thought and apply 21:47 that into your life. 21:48 This meant a great deal to me so I appreciate the opportunity 21:51 to share with the folks who are watching the show today. 21:54 This principle of meditation and application is so simple 21:58 as you read the scriptures or a devotional or 22:02 inspiring message that you are finding in a book, 22:05 that's speaking to your soul, take in small bits, 22:08 as you read a verse in the Bible or a short passage 22:12 in the Bible, stop, spend some time looking for principles, 22:18 concepts, things that are spoken about the character of God or 22:22 principles that you can apply into your daily life, 22:25 that's that process of meditation, taking something 22:29 very short, simple and then pondering on it thinking on it, 22:33 and the very best way to apply that into your life is to think 22:38 about how can I today make this real in my life. 22:45 Maybe you will read a passage that has something about 22:49 how important it is for us to keep our thoughts on the Lord 22:53 and so you will think ok today every meal I'm going to stop 22:58 before I have my meal and spend a few moments 23:00 thinking about the Lord, praying to Him, pondering 23:03 on things about this day that I am grateful for that He has 23:06 given, I mean simple things, the sky is the limit with this 23:09 and I like it because it's very individual to each of us. 23:12 Sometime he would give us an assignment to take the same 23:15 verse and we would come back the next day and share 23:18 the applications that we had found as individual students. 23:21 It was interesting to see how with one verse, all of us would 23:25 have something different, all of us would have found a way 23:28 to apply that in our lives that day that was very unique 23:31 individual and made the Bible seem very rich to me, very rich. 23:36 - Well it's been interesting to me for many years to read 23:40 medical reports that people who are deeply religious 23:44 have much better health, they recover from surgery, 23:48 from amputation of legs, from childbirth and many other things 23:52 better if they are deeply religious, and I think it's not 23:55 just that they are more relaxed and happy, I believe that there 23:59 is a physiologic process that occurs that comes from the faith 24:05 that we have, from the exercises that we do of a 24:11 spiritual nature. 24:12 And concerning church attendance, there have been 24:15 several studies that have been done showing that people 24:19 who attend church are more likely to recover from 24:24 heart attacks very quickly, so that's another good thing 24:27 that we can recognize, is a law of health, it's not just 24:33 a spiritual law but can be engaged in because we know that 24:38 the Lord wants us to take care of His equipment, 24:41 and so entering into these spiritual exercises is a part of 24:47 the way that the Lord wants us to take care of the equipment 24:51 that He has entrusted to our care. 24:54 Another of the frequently overlooked laws of health is 25:00 cleanliness and order in the home. 25:03 Some people feel that they can just live in squalor 25:10 or in disorder and disarray all the time and that this is 25:15 alright, it's not the externals that matter to the Lord 25:20 but I can say that from the standpoint of a physician, 25:24 people who live in these surroundings are more likely 25:29 to become upset in the immune system as well. 25:33 The immune system and the nervous system are very closely 25:37 related to each other, and people who are not orderly 25:41 tend to become a little disordered in the mind 25:44 that disorders the body secondarily. 25:47 Another thing is being creative, a number of years ago 25:53 a study was done on people who were being creative and whether 25:58 that acted as something to prolong the life, and it was 26:03 recognized as the study progressed that people who 26:09 were more creative tended to be in better health. 26:13 Then another thing I like a lot is the Bible's idea of our doing 26:20 charitable acts, doing charitable acts will do good 26:24 for those for whom we do that charitable act, 26:28 but the charitable act also reacts upon ourselves 26:34 and gives us a beneficial effect in the health, where as the 26:41 converse of that is also true, that is if you do evil things 26:45 to other people, it reflexively reacts upon yourself 26:50 and you find that because you have done things that are evil 26:54 to others, your own health tends to suffer, so we need to pray 27:00 that the Lord would help us to have this good law of health 27:04 that's frequently overlooked, that law of doing 27:07 charitable deeds for others. 27:09 We had a patient a Uchee Pines one time who had severe 27:12 diabetes, she also had a lot of serious physical complaints, 27:17 she was nearly blind, she had difficulty in digesting her food 27:23 and a number of other difficulties, we suggested 27:27 to her that she stop thinking so much about herself 27:31 and start giving herself to her neighbors. 27:34 This dear lady began to be Mrs. charity itself, 27:40 and the interesting thing to us was as she promoted 27:45 charity to others, her own heal began to return, 27:48 and her life was made sweet not only in the community 27:52 that she lived in, but in her family and in herself. |
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