Hello! The heart is a very
simple muscle with some valves
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that are made of
connective tissue, some nerves,
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some fairly large bundles of
nerves, and some blood vessels.
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Very simple construction
and yet many things affect it,
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many things that we do
in lifestyle can affect it
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for good or for not so good,
so we want to learn those things
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that we should avoid and
encourage those things that we
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should do for the
health of the heart.
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We'll be talking about some
of these things in this program
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so we hope that you will join
us, and I know that you will
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enjoy it.
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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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Things that we eat, the air
that we breathe, how we walk,
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the amount of sunshine that
we get, so many things affect
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the heart directly and
many of those things that affect
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the heart directly also affect
it indirectly, so that we may
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get factors that come
from many different directions
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affecting the heart.
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Now I would like to show you
some pictures, so if you will
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come with me we will see some
pictures that can help you to
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understand some things having
to do with the heart and how
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you can participate in
keeping the heart healthy.
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So I would like to show you
a heart a cross section diagram
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of the heart that will
show to you the nerve system,
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now this just shows the
major trunks of the nerves but
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you will notice at the very top
you will notice a little group
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of nerves all together in
a bundle, and then some cords
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that go down to another
group of nerves all together.
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This represents the electrical
system of the heart and
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of the way that the nerve
impulses travel over the muscle
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of the heart.
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Now you will also notice that
at the top the aorta is there
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just behind the aorta is another
circular type of structure
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going backward from the
aorta which points straight up.
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That structure going backward
is the pulmonary artery,
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so when blood comes into
the right heart it goes out as
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unoxygenated blood into the
artery, the pulmonary artery,
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the only place in the
body where an artery carries
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unoxygenated blood, and then
goes to the lungs gets filled
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with oxygen, comes back to
the left atrium, goes to the
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left ventricle and then is
pumped out through the aorta.
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All of this is controlled
by a nervous system that sends
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impulses on a regular basis
to the two sets of chambers,
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upper chambers and
the lower chambers.
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Now in the next view you will
see a little bit of a close up,
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the SA Node, the sino auricular
node is that one at the top
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and you will remember from
the previous diagram that it
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does have cords of
nerves that go to the next one,
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and what is not shown is the
way that these nerves fan out
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over the entire aricular
area and the ventricular area.
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It's a little bit better
shown in the AV Node that's the
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auriculo ventricular node
which also sends nerve impulses
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down over these cords and
out through the ventricles,
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both the left and
the right ventricle.
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The next picture will show
another aspect of heart health
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which is a build
up of atherosclerosis.
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Now you may have heard of
arteriosclerosis which is a
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general term that includes
several different kinds of
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arterial and arteriolo disease,
the arteriole are structures
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are the smallest of the
arteries, it is in this portion
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of the blood vessel tree that
the blood pressure is controlled
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but this large one that you
see on this picture shows under
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the lining of the artery
which could be a medium sized
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artery or a large artery,
or even the aorta, this cushion
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of yellowish material is partly
cholesterol and partly other
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substances which
are largely inert.
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Now this fatty substance
can get blood vessels growing
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into it, when blood vessels
grow into it then we can have
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a hemorrhage inside this plaque.
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If a hemorrhage occurs inside
this plaque, it's going to
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squeeze the remaining lumen
of the artery even more and can
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close it up so a tiny hemorrhage
in a large plaque is one of the
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important things causing
the blockage of an artery.
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Now in the next slide you
will see the entire aorta and
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part of it's arteries
that come off from the aorta,
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notice the three at the top,
the first on the left of the
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screen is the innominate which
forks into two as you can see
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that's the common
carotid and the subclavian,
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and then the left common
carotid and left subclavian
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come directly off the aorta,
now that's important to remember
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but only for surgeons who
are going to be operating on the
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aorta, but just below, just
beyond the take off of the left
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subclavian you will see
that there is a huge bulge.
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now that unfortunately is a
very bad pathological condition
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it is an aneurism.
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This aneurism may be from
hardening of the arteries or
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atherosclerosis or medial
calcinosis, and of a variety of
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diseases that can occur of the
aorta and then because of the
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disease it begins to
loose its elasticity of going
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back and forth with each hear
beat stretching out and then
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snapping back to
it's original size.
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It looses that elasticity and
becomes fusiform as you can see
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there, here in the first
one on the left, there is not a
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connection there with the
renal arteries stops short the
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aneurism stops short of the
renal arteries as you can see
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but the second one does
involve the take off of the
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renal arteries, that
makes it much more serious.
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Then the third one
comes down a little farther,
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involves the renal arteries
and goes down almost to the
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common iliac arteries
which is the fork at the bottom,
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and then the last one on
the right of the screen, you can
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it still involves the
renal arteries and more of the
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common iliac arteries.
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Now as we see these
graphics we can understand the
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seriousness of problems
that can occur in the aorta,
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this largest of the
blood vessels largest of the
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arterial tree just in this
one thing and of course our
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having aneurisms is a
serious problem and can often be
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corrected by surgery.
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So the next slide will show
what we use to correct it with
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in surgery, we have here a
Teflon graft, this graft is not
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as good as the
original by any means but it can
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save a person's life.
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Notice how it is a mesh
work and so it is inserted into
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or attached to the aorta
and to the common iliac arteries
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in this case and we can see
it in the next slide, we can see
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it already in place.
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Now you might think well
this is good, now we've got a
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new artery, yes we do have a
new artery but unless there is a
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major change in lifestyle this
artery will not function long
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and pretty soon it's going
to be filled also with the same
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kind of material that
filled the first artery.
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So always a
lifestyle change is necessary,
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so hardening of the arteries
the answer is not surgery
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the answer is lifestyle change,
although we can be very happy
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that we have surgery that can
help us over a serious blockage
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in blood vessels, that's not
the best answer, the best answer
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is dealing with the
atherosclerosis so then we
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face the question, is
there hope for atherosclerosis?
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So I have asked a friend of
mine a colleague at Uchee Pines
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Rhonda Clark and RN to
join our program this morning,
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we are glad you are here.
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- Thank you for having me! -
I know that you have done some
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research on atherosclerosis
and I would like to hear what
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you have to say about the hope
for atherosclerosis. -Great!
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- Is there any hope?
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- The good news is that indeed
there is hope and this can be
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very encouraging for any of
you who like me have not always
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lived a perfect lifestyle,
and you begin to wonder,
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have I already done damage
beyond what there is any hope
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of recovering.
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The conventional belief about
atherosclerosis even just as few
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as 20 years ago was that
once it developed as it was
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developing, there really was no
hope, there was no opportunity
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of that to be halted or
reversed and it wasn't until
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1990 when a physician by
the name of Dean Ornish led a
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research team out in
San Francisco, California
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that did show indeed that there
is hope for atherosclerosis
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that these plaques of
atherosclerosis that get built
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up in our arteries
can indeed be reversed.
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What's interesting Dr. Thrash
is that all of this in his study
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was about lifestyle measures,
it wasn't about procedures.
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- I would like to mention
that many years, even probably
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about a decade and a half
before Dean Ornish did his study
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we already knew at Uchee Pines
that lifestyle could make a
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major change, and the way
that it happened was this.
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There was a patient at Wildwood
Hospital and Lifestyle Center
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who had been a severe alcoholic
and had lived on milk and
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these little cheese crackers
that you can buy from the
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vending machine for about two
years, and until her daughter
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came and said this is going
to stop, and so she took her to
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Wildwood where she stayed on
an excellent lifestyle program
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for about eight months
until Thanksgiving time,
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and then she heard about
Uchee Pines being very close to
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Columbus, Georgia.
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Well she had some relatives
living in Columbus, Georgia
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so she said well I'll
just move down to Uchee Pines,
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she stayed on the same
good lifestyle program,
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she unfortunately died suddenly
of a ruptured brain cyst about
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a year and a half after
she had come to Uchee Pines.
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At an autopsy the angiogram
which had been done at Wildwood
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showed remarkable clearing
of various large blood vessels
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that had been studied
before so we already knew before
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Dean Ornish published
his wonderful study, we were
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very happy to see it, we didn't
have enough cases that we could
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publish it but Dean Ornish did
and we were very happy about it.
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- Well people may be interested
to know what was it exactly
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about this program that had
helped, so I want to share that
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with you but I do want to
mention in conventional medicine
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the treatment has to do
very little with reversing the
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process of atherosclerosis.
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One of the common treatments
is angioplasty, where a balloon
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on a thin tube is threaded
into the heart where areas of
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blockage occur, then it's
inflated to kind of push open
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the passage ways spreading
the plaque a little thinner
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against the walls of the artery.
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It's distressing to learn
that in a single vessel that has
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received the angioplasty
the failure rate is 35-45% in
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six months, and if
multiple vessels are done,
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the failure rate is
50-60% in six months.
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The procedure is very costly
it's risky and it does nothing
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to treat this underlying
problem of atherosclerosis.
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What was so exciting
about Dean Ornishes program
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which was know as the Lifestyle
Heart Trial, was that he put
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people on a very low fat
very low cholesterol diet.
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A typical low cholesterol diet
in that era was about 300 mg
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of cholesterol a day, Dean
Ornishes program allowed only
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five, that gave the person the
opportunity to have one nonfat
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serving of skim
milk or yogurt per day.
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The only animal product
that was allowed in the diet
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other than egg whites,
everything else was plant based
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rich in fiber, rich in healthful
nutrition, and he was very
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strict with the participants
in the study that they could
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not smoke, they could not
use caffeine, which I am sure
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you are familiar with Dr. Thrash
can be not only a contributing
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factor to heart
rate irregularities and
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high blood pressure, but
interestingly can raise the
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blood fat levels as well.
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- And can increase the problems
that one might have with
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diabetes, even in inducing
diabetes, coffee is a bad news.
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- Yes! - Even decaffeinated is
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bad news. - Yes!
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The other two aspects of
his program included exercise
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and stress control, for some
people that was building the
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spiritual aspect of their life
or for other it was taking walks
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outside, things that they could
do to help relieve and manage
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stress, and the
results were astounding.
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Previously on a low cholesterol
diet people might expect after
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four or five years to
have a decrease in their total
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cholesterol count of about
six percent, and always the
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atherosclerosis worsened.
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There was one
interesting study called
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The Program For Lipidemia
Control that had people followed
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for 10 years, they followed
a 25% fat diet, 200 mg of
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cholesterol per day, which
at that time they thought was
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very low and strict and
these individuals over ten years
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only lowered their cholesterol
counts about 10 points
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on average, almost all
85% of them had worsened the
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atherosclerotic
plaques in their arteries.
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On Dean Ornishes program by
angiogram the individuals on
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this program had not only
prevented further worsening
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of their heart disease, but
had actually shown improvement.
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The plaques in their arteries
had opened had released,
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and it was encouraging to
find that those who had the
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worst lesions or blockages
at the beginning of the study
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had the best results.
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Some of them had as much
as 50% increase of blood flow
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to the heart muscle, and
this all occurred in one year,
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this astounded the
medical community, and was so
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encouraging for those of us
who have felt the Lord intended
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for us to
have... - Have lifestyle!
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- Yes! - It has
a major treatment
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modality in the
treatment of heart disease.
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There is hope for the
person who feels either from a
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diagnosis or feels from their
lifestyle that they may have
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atherosclerotic plaques
there is hope through following
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plant based diet,
exercise, managing stress,
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staying away from caffeine
and tobacco, those are proven
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success remedies
against atherosclerosis.
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- Very good, thank you so
much Rhonda, I appreciate your
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being on the program and we
hope to have you again sometime.
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- I would be happy any time.
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- I would like to talk with you
about angina, angina is another
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very common term that you
hear dealing with the heart
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and angina has been treated
in a variety of ways for a long
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time, most of these ways
are not curative they are merely
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palliative for the symptoms,
but I would like to talk with
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you about a few things
that can be curative for angina.
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One thing is the very same
program that you heard Rhonda
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speaking about, the control
of the diet, so that it's low
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in fat, low in cholesterol, so
that maybe even no cholesterol
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at all, which would mean a
plant based diet almost entirely
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if not entirely, and plenty
of exercise, and avoiding those
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noxious substances that we
know are cardio-toxic that's the
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first thing,
always start with that.
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Then there are some very
wonderful herbs that can be
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helpful, one is
of course Hawthorne.
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I think at any time that
some one who know anything about
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herbs and the heart, any
time they hear heart disease or
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artery disease, the next thought
is going to be Hawthorne.
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Hawthorne berry is a
tiny little apple like fruit,
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it grows in several places in
the United States, the southeast
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is one of those places,
it just grows wild there
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and the local people call it
haw, it has thorns on the tree
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and it's a little yellowish,
or pinkish yellow, or reddish
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yellow fruit, just about
1/2 inch to 3/4 inch big,
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with some large seeds
that's characteristic of the
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Hawthorne Berry and then
it grows widely in Europe
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especially in
Germany and Eastern Europe,
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very widely there.
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Hawthorne should be
always one of the first lines
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of herbal treatment
for the heart or for the
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blood vessels in any way.
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Then there are some
others, some anti-platelet herbs
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which keep the platelets
from getting sticky and making
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tiny clots inside blood
vessels which then make a scar
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when they heal and the scar
that is a weakened place on the
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artery, then comes fat and
it sticks to this weakened place
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and that's the beginning of
the plaque that we saw earlier.
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So anti-platelet stickiness
herbs are colius, which is also
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good for the blood pressure,
and ginger also good as a
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blood vessel opening
herb, and the common turmeric
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which we have in the kitchen.
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Turmeric has a most
wonderful substance that causes
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anti-platelet stickiness
and a half teaspoonful three or
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four times a day in a little
water is the dosage that one
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should take.
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And then some people
use capsicum, or red pepper
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it also has blood
vessel dilating effects and
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anti-platelet stickiness
factor, I reserve Cayenne
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Capsicum for really
serious and acute cases.
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Then there is Valerian and
corydials, many of these are
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common herbs that you know
but have not been used as a
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Cardiac herb, one of
those that you've used for it's
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immune system boosting
is Astragalus which is very
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healthful to boost the immune
system to help you to fight
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germs, but also in many parts
of the world it is not used
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in that way at all, it
is used as a cardiac herb,
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and so I recommend
that to you when you are
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dealing with angina.
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Now another very important
part of the work that we do
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is to lecture in health and
I have asked Dr. Donald Miller
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who is our world lecturer,
he goes to various parts of the
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world from Uchee Pines,
supported by Uchee Pines and
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encouraged by Uchee Pines
and Dr. Miller welcome to the
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program today. - Thank you!
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- You always have
some interesting things
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and so I would like to have
you tell us what you have here
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simple things I can
see. - Simple things!
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- What are they going to
do for us with the heart?
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Well this is good things and
bad things here, and I do a lot
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of traveling and a lot
of long distance flying and
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I remember it seemed to
get to the point in my flights
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that almost every
time there was some type of
00:22:34.17\00:22:36.78
medical emergency on the air
plane, there would be a little
00:22:36.81\00:22:40.50
murmur, they would have to
sit down and there would be
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people rushing up and down
in the aisle's, and then when we
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finally landed.
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Please everyone remain in
your seats while we cart this
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poor soul out of the air
plane and they are having a lot
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of problems of people having
cardiac events on the air plane.
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So they started doing things
differently on our long flights,
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on every air line that I
have flown on in the last number
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of years, in the air
line magazine, there is always
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a section giving you exercises,
and not only do they give you
00:23:08.14\00:23:12.02
a section on exercises that you
do in your seat, but they will
00:23:12.05\00:23:15.74
show you on the screen a little
program on how to do exercises
00:23:15.77\00:23:20.35
while you are sitting
there because when you sit still
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for a long period of time,
your blood sort of settles out
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and one of the problems
that we have had in airplanes
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over the years and I still
see it out there, is the food
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that they feed you is
normally very high in fat.
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I always get my meal
first because they are always
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searching out those few
people who are on special meals,
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although I am finding, the
more I travel, the more people
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are getting those special meals.
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The un-special meals, the
ones that everyone else gets are
00:23:46.79\00:23:50.44
always very high in fat
and there is a big difference
00:23:50.47\00:23:53.63
between fat and water.
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Now it's interesting they will
give you this big fatty meal
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and when you want something
to drink it's a very small
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container of water, this isn't
the container, but they will
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give you small glasses and
usually they will also have
00:24:03.80\00:24:07.25
Coka-Cola and other
different types of sugar drinks,
00:24:07.28\00:24:10.56
and the sugar makes your
blood thicker which is not good.
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The fat makes your
blood thicker, that's not good
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and if you are sitting there
for seven, eight, ten hours
00:24:17.84\00:24:20.95
with all this fat and thickness
in your blood, it has a tendency
00:24:20.98\00:24:25.35
to slow down and
sometimes forming clots.
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That can cause very
severe cardiac events,
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so what I recommend you
do if you travel and when you
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travel and not just on the
airlines, if you have a long
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car ride, they recommend
very importantly if you have
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a long automobile ride,
especially if someone is older
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in a vehicle and even if
you are young every two hours
00:24:45.93\00:24:49.18
you stop and you do a Chinese
fire drill we used to call it,
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go around the vehicle,
walk around the rest area.
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- And partake of the water!
- And drink copious amounts
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of water, the nice thing about
drinking water, it makes you
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have to stop every once in
awhile and then you get your
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exercise, it is very good.
00:25:04.90\00:25:06.66
I remember once on tour, we
used to travel a lot we'd have
00:25:06.69\00:25:10.97
a few team members with us
and of course we were always
00:25:11.00\00:25:14.31
on a deadline, and I
remember one time we stopped
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and Dr. Thrash looks at
her watch and says 55 seconds,
00:25:17.20\00:25:20.52
so you got good exercise
getting into the little room and
00:25:20.55\00:25:23.70
getting back out in 55 seconds.
00:25:23.73\00:25:25.68
- I remember one team
member jumped out of the van.
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- Yes! - She went sailing out
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to get back in 55 seconds.
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- And it was always a
challenge so when you start,
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it's very important when
you are in an airplane they also
00:25:38.16\00:25:41.51
recommend this, get
up and walk around some.
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If you have a tendency or
have a danger of forming clots,
00:25:43.99\00:25:50.03
or of having strokes or heart
attacks, or your doctor says
00:25:50.06\00:25:53.66
you are in this area, maybe you
are one of those they've said
00:25:53.69\00:25:55.92
take an aspirin a day which
we don't necessarily recommend,
00:25:55.95\00:25:59.28
we say take a clove
of garlic a day or some
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purple grape juice a day. -
Or keep drinking your water!
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- Keep drinking your
water, just keep the blood thin
00:26:03.90\00:26:06.43
and keep it moving through
your system, but get up and
00:26:06.46\00:26:09.60
walk around if you think
that you might be in this area
00:26:09.63\00:26:12.33
and then do your exercises,
whatever you want to do
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keep those muscles
moving. - And stretch!
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- Stretch! - And yawn!
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- But please be gentle
with the guy behind you, I was
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on my last flight I was sitting
there and just real comfortable
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and the person in front
of me pushed their button,
00:26:26.66\00:26:28.06
and they came back whoosh!
and their thing was right in
00:26:28.09\00:26:30.75
my face, so he was
probably trying to stretch and I
00:26:30.78\00:26:33.62
gave him that break but if
you are going to put your seat
00:26:33.65\00:26:36.05
back, push your
button and slowly lean back,
00:26:36.08\00:26:38.56
don't give them a heart attack
thinking the plane is crashing,
00:26:38.59\00:26:41.21
and then do your nice
big stretches and you might
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survive your flight and not
have to have a medical emergency
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at the other end. -
Yes! Well I'm thankful
00:26:48.72\00:26:50.76
that we have all this
instruction that can keep us
00:26:50.79\00:26:54.63
healthy in this way, not having
heart attacks and blood clots
00:26:54.66\00:26:58.80
on air planes.
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Remember that if you
have the health of your heart
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as being an important thing
in your life, remember that you
00:27:05.46\00:27:09.25
should be getting a C-reactive
protein and a homocystine
00:27:09.28\00:27:14.43
level done annually as well,
and more frequently if get an
00:27:14.46\00:27:21.45
abnormal test, these are
new markers that we know are as
00:27:21.48\00:27:26.38
important as
getting a cholesterol test,
00:27:26.41\00:27:28.59
they test for different things
that also affect the heart
00:27:28.62\00:27:32.68
in an adverse way.
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Now I hope with these very
important things that we have
00:27:34.61\00:27:38.88
mentioned that you will
have more hope that you can have
00:27:38.91\00:27:42.00
a healthy heart and that your
lifestyle will be more healthful
00:27:42.03\00:27:46.67
than it has been before.
00:27:46.70\00:27:48.38
Now when you realize
that your heart is healthy,
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give our divine designer
the credit for giving us
00:27:51.48\00:27:56.11
this good heart.
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