[music] >: It has stood the test
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of time.
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God's book, the Bible.
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Still relevant in
today's complex world.
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It Is Written,
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sharing hope around the globe.
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JB: This is It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw,
thanks for joining me.
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The Bible starts with
those magnificent words, "In the
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beginning God created."
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The Bible says He began
by creating light, and on He
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went through creation week,
making this beautiful world,
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when then was far more
beautiful than it is now.
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On the sixth day
God created people.
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God made us to inhabit us.
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We were designed to
be His dwelling place.
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In fact, He tells us
in the Bible that we are
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the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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However, there's
trouble in the temple.
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Millions of people die
prematurely every year from
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lifestyle-related diseases.
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Different choices would
result in longer, better
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quality lives, in many cases.
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So, what can we do about
the trouble in the temple?
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Are there simple changes
that we can make so that we
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would be able to live
longer, healthier lives?
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Now, thankfully, there are.
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I spoke with Dr. Brian
Schwartz, a cardiologist in
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Kettering, Ohio, and asked
him how we could live longer
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and avoid disease,
especially heart disease.
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JB: What else can we
say to people who are
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looking to do something
about their heart health?
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BS: Yeah, so if you are a
sedentary person, you really
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haven't exercised much,
then even starting the basic
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level of
exercise--just simply going out
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and walking.
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Walking is one of the
healthiest things you can do for
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your heart, but you need
to get in about 20 minutes
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a minimum of 3 days a
week to get a benefit.
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JB: That's not too hard.
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I'd like to come at this
from a slightly different
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angle, 'cause some people
say, I know I'm overweight.
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I know therefore that my
risk factors are a little
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high, but the
mountain just seems so high.
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Now, you're making it sound
like from an exercise point
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of view it's not undoable.
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BS: Absolutely.
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It doesn't matter what
type of exercise you do, there
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must be something that
you take an interest in.
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Walking is one of
the very simplest things.
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It doesn't require
expensive equipment; it doesn't
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require a gym membership.
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If you've got sleet and
rain and snow, you can go walk
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at a local mall, but
you can get out and walk
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for just 20 or 30 minutes.
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Now, ideally we'd like you
to walk for at least 30 minutes,
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5 days a week.
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That seems to give the
best benefit to the heart.
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JB: But you're
saying, start somewhere.
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BS: A minimum of 20 minutes,
3 days a week, still gives
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you a great
benefit to your heart.
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Just losing 20 pounds
will often drop the blood
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pressure by about 20 pounds
and drop the bad cholesterol
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by about 10 points.
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Just losing 20 pounds
may drop your risk of a heart
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attack by nearly
half, just by getting some
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of the weight down.
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You don't even have to
get to the ideal range.
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So, just starting to
do some of these things.
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I myself am a vegetarian.
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I tell my patients, I don't
expect you to do everything
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that I do, but the
closer you get to doing that,
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the better off
you're going to be.
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JB: Is meat really that bad?
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I mean, this is America, man.
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We were raised killing
animals and eating them.
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BS: Exactly right.
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Well, we are learning
that there are all kinds
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of consequences to eating meat.
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Environmental
impacts, health impacts,
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a lot of the
problems with global warming
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can be traced to the
factory farms that we do to get
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all this meat.
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There was an article in
"Newsweek" last year showing
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that Americans eat 4
times more meat than the rest
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of the world.
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We eat meat, you said
we grew up eating meat.
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But it didn't used to be
that we had meat with every
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single meal.
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Now, you have meat
with breakfast, lunch
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and supper.
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Meat has become
the staple of our diet.
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Just reducing it to an
occasional thing would be
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very healthy.
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Eliminating it altogether
though would be fantastic.
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Meat is calorie-packed;
it's full of saturated fat,
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especially red meats.
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We now know from
studies that have been published
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that it increases your
risk for certain cancers.
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And when you compare
groups of patients, or groups
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of people, that are vegetarian
versus non-vegetarian,
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the vegetarians live 7
up to 10 years longer than
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non-vegetarians.
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JB: I think
that's worth repeating.
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When you compare vegetarians
with non-vegetarians,
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the vegetarians are living
as long as a decade longer.
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BS: Up to a decade longer.
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JB: And you didn't say
you must get rid of it all.
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You said, if you can't
go that far, cut it back so
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it's just an occasional thing.
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BS: Yeah, I try to practice
the ideal, and even then,
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there's things
that I can do better.
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All of us have to make choices.
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Sometimes I'm on a trip
and I pick the best choice that
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I have.
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But as far as possible,
I try to set the ideal.
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I don't always get my 4
days a week of exercise in,
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but I try to do that.
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I live in a stressful
world just like everybody else.
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I have a very
stressful job sometimes.
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I get called in the
middle of the night to come in
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and treat patients with a
heart disease and heart attacks,
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and I have to just
drop everything and run in.
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That interferes with your
daily life, so we try to do
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these the best we can.
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We have to start somewhere
and work toward it, so just
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giving up red
meat is a big goal.
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I tell my patients, if you
don't want to be a vegetarian,
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just eating fish or
chicken that's been baked
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or broiled is better
than eating red meat.
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But, if you want to give
up fish and chicken and eat
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a plant-based diet, that
shows the maximal benefit.
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Then there are vegetarians
who decide to give up all
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dairy and become vegan
vegetarians, and that seems
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to have even a better benefit.
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They live even longer
and have less risk of heart
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disease, less risk of cancer,
less risk of a lot of these
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diseases that we suffer under.
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JB: Exercise, diet.
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If we make some
modifications there, we will
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benefit our heart health
and in a life, in a nation,
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where heart disease
is the number one killer,
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this is pretty serious.
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BS: This is huge.
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JB: What else can a person do?
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BS: If you've optimized
your diet, you've optimized
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your exercise, if you smoke
you definitely want to give up
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smoking, that's huge.
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Do the simple
things that you can do.
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There is still a
role for medications,
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in some instances.
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If you have a very high
cholesterol after going on
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a careful low-fat diet,
then it might be reasonable
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to add a medication.
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What is a concern is, I
have patients literally come
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in to my office and say,
Hey, I want that pill I saw
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advertised on TV.
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JB: What's wrong with that?
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BS: I say, well
what pill is that?
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They say, You know, the
one that I can still eat my
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chocolate cake, and I
just take the pill and it
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neutralizes the cholesterol.
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That seems to be a problem,
because we're not dealing
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with the root cause.
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The root cause is partly
our genetics but largely what
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we're eating.
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Some of us have
missed the boat on preventing
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heart disease.
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We've already had heart
surgery, we've already had
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a stint, we already
have angina when we walk.
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But the good news now is,
by implementing these simple
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measures you can reverse that.
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If you've had one
heart attack, you can prevent
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yourself from ever
having another heart attack.
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If you've had heart
surgery, by following simple
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lifestyle changes you
can prevent the need for ever
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having to go
through that process again.
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People that are having
angina, that need to have
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heart surgery, have
been placed in studies
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with Dr. Dean Ornish
and Dr. Estenstein up
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at the Cleveland Clinic.
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And the ones that go on a
very fat-limiting diet have
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had reversal of their anginal
pains in as low as 2 weeks.
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JB: Two weeks?
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BS: Dr. Estenstein has
a series of 18 patients
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that were referred for heart
surgery but were turned down
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because they were too
high risk to go through
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the surgery.
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So instead, he took
those patients, he actually
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brought them to his
home where he taught them how
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to eat a plant-based diet
that emphasizes absolutely
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no fat.
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In following those patients
over the last 15-20 years,
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not a single one of
those patients that have stuck
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to that diet has
ever had a heart attack.
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JB: Yet they were
too sick to have surgery.
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In other words,
they were left to die.
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BS: They were left with
no hope from the medical
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community.
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JB: And now they're well.
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BS: They may still have
some plaques in their arteries,
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but they're not having
anginal pain, they're not
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having heart attacks,
they're following a very
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careful diet, they're
exercising, but they're
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healthier now than they were
when they were first diagnosed.
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JB: Is there anything dangerous.
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You know, somebody says,
Well, I'm going to take some
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of this on board, but
maybe my doctor, he or she might
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advise--you're not
talking about anything that has
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any danger
attached to it, are you?
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BS: Yes, if you have
heart disease and you're getting
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daily anginal chest
pains, then you should consult
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with your physician before
you start a vigorous exercise
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program.
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If you're diabetic, you
need to make sure you monitor
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your blood sugars.
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And if you're even thinking
about changing your diet
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and reducing your medications,
you need to do that in cohort
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with your physician,
with his advice or her advice.
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Some people will still
need to be on a low level
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of medication, so
that has to be coordinated.
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So don't just suddenly say, huh!
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I'm stopping my medication,
I'm going on this careful
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plant-based diet and I'm
giving it all up, because you're
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asking for trouble.
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It took many, many
years to get to that point.
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It's a slow process to
reverse heart disease once
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you have it.
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JB: Number one, nothing
dangerous about picking up
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some shoes and
taking a 20-minute walk.
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Nothing dangerous
about limiting the amount
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of unhealthy food
and increasing the amount
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of healthy food.
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That's healthy and
that's responsible.
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BS: Absolutely.
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Unless you're actively
having symptoms right now,
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you can get out and start
doing those simple measures.
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JB: However, something, I
think this adds appropriate
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balance to any
discussion like this.
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Rome wasn't built in a day,
just like your heart disease
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didn't happen overnight.
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People do need to
take a medium- to long-term
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approach at this.
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If you want to lose 150
pounds and by this time next
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week you're still 150
pounds overweight, it's a little
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too early to get discouraged.
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BS: Exactly.
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Our bodies are actually
fearfully and wonderfully
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made.
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It's amazing how much
abuse they can take for many,
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many, many years
before these symptoms actually
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start popping up.
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I mentioned that these
little fatty streaks occur
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in children.
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By the time people are in
their 20s, 40-50-60 percent
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of people have plaque in
their arteries to the point
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where half of Americans
over the age of 45 have plaque.
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The precursor of heart
disease, all sitting there
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in their arteries.
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This all occurs over many,
many years: 40-50-60 years,
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so if you're setting
off to reverse this process,
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it's also going to be
a very gradual process.
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It's not going to all go away.
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But the good news is that
even stabilizing the plaque
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that's there, preventing
it from getting worse and
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gradually reducing
it, you're going to start
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feeling better immediately.
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JB: Is it fair to say
that in relation to heart
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disease, that there are many
people, and there'll be many
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people watching us
right now, who are much sicker
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than they realize?
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BS: Oh, it's like
a ticking time bomb.
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So, we mentioned earlier
that for some it will be too
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late.
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The first symptom they'll
have is a clutch of chest
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pain and they'll collapse
on the floor as their heart
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stops beating.
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JB: And they die.
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And they didn't know.
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BS: Unless the paramedics
can get to them within 5
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or 6 minutes, somebody
does CPR, get them to a hospital
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where that artery can be opened
back up, they're not going
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to make it.
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JB: So there are a lot
of people right now who are
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in that condition and
they just don't know it.
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And they're not going to
know--they'll never know.
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Their spouse might know,
their children might know,
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but they'll never know
because-- BS: Their first
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symptom might be that they died.
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JB: This is something that
people really ought to take
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seriously.
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BS: Absolutely.
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JB: Let's talk about this
from a spiritual perspective.
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Why does it even matter?
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I mean, in terms of the
big picture, we are fearfully
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and wonderfully made.
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In the beginning God.
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On the sixth day He
made our grandparents.
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How does this
matter spiritually?
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Does this have any connection?
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What connection does
this have to our spiritual
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health?
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BS: I think in
two ways this relates.
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First of all, we're
made in God's image.
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We were designed to
reflect His character.
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But we know that our
heart, our mind and our bodies
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is the dwelling
place of the Holy Spirit.
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God wants to communicate
with us, to dwell with us,
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and in order to be able
to realize that, we need
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a healthy body.
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Particularly the frontal
lobes of our brain are known
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to be the spiritual
centers of the brain.
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And things like
caffeine, like tobacco smoke,
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like lack of exercises,
diseases like diabetes and heart
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disease, things that impair
the blood flow to that area
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are going to impair our ability
to sense spiritual things.
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And, from a further standpoint,
you can wind up being
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either somebody who can be
of service to our fellow man
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and be out there able
to help others, or you
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can become a burden:
a burden to your family,
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a burden to society
because you haven't taken care
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of yourself.
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So I think it's
also a matter a social
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responsibility.
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JB: The Bible says that
our bodies are the temple
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of the Holy Spirit.
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BS: That's right.
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JB: If that's the case,
then we should be treating Him--
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BS: I believe that God
created us in a way that we
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live under the same laws
that govern the whole universe.
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The laws of cause and effect.
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So, to a large degree the
things that we do now might
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impact what happens to us later.
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Now, granted there are
things outside of our control,
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and nothing can happen to
us if God does not allow it.
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He ultimately runs the
whole universe and cares about
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even the hairs, knows
the number of the hairs
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on our head.
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But we make choices, and
as those choices are outside
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of God's will, He doesn't
protect us from the consequences
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all the time.
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There is a day in which
He's going to make all things
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new, and He does forgive
us for our wrongful habits;
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He does forgive for our
sins; but many times we bear
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the consequences
throughout the rest of our life.
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JB: I get asked every
now and then about this:
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We're saved by
grace through faith.
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Right.
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But then Revelation
22:12 says, "And behold I come
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quickly, and my reward
is with me to give every man
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according as his work shall be."
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Sounds to some people as
though this is saying we're
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not saved by God's
grace but by our works.
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Now, let's look
at this carefully.
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John writes that we are
judged by our works, not saved
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by our works.
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The point is that our
works, how we live our lives,
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demonstrate or give
evidence regarding the reality
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of our profession.
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Anyone at all can claim
to be a follower of Jesus,
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but it isn't what you
say that really matters.
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It's how you live.
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That's where the
evidence really is.
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In the judgment, it
isn't just a profession God
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is looking for.
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He's looking for the real thing.
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I'm John Bradshaw
for It Is Written.
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Let's live today by every word.
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JB: This is It Is Written.
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Thanks for joining me today.
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There's trouble in the temple.
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The Bible says our
bodies are the temple
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of the Holy Spirit.
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But thankfully God has
given us in many cases ways that
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we can reverse that trouble.
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Here's more of my
discussion with cardiologist
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Dr. Brian Schwartz.
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[Music]
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This is a subject that
comes close to home for me,
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because my own
father had heart disease,
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had open-heart surgery,
congestive heart failure
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and died from a heart attack,
which if we want to be honest
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about it was preventable.
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It was a result of his
own lifestyle choices that
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accumulated over many
years and eventually the lights
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went out and Dad was gone,
when he could still be here
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today.
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BS: And that's the tragedy
in families, is that so many
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lives are cut short.
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I have patients that come
into my office and they'll
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say, You know, I don't want
to give up that part of my diet.
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I don't want to quit smoking
because it's not the quantity
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I'm looking at,
it's the quality.
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And in reality they
don't realize that those
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last 15-20 years,
what it's going to be like.
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What is it going to be
like to their family, to have
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their life cut short and
for the family to go on without
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them, when they could have
been there for that graduation
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or for that wedding.
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What's it like when
they're smothering to death
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with congestive heart
failure those last few years.
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Or, when they're trying
to smoke a cigarette through
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a trach, because they
have such bad lung disease.
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They're trading
both the length as well
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as the quality when
they choose these habits.
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JB: Alcohol must factor
into heart disease somehow.
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How does it play a part?
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BS: It does.
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There's a lot of mixed
reviews in the literature
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about having a glass of
wine to help your heart.
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JB: Oh yes,
we've all heard that.
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BS: It gets a lot of props.
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Interestingly, the
studies that have most carefully
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looked at that, it turns
out it's probably not the actual
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alcohol content in the
wine that gives the benefit.
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There's other compounds
that come from grapes, other
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compounds in there that
might give the benefit to
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the heart and actually
help you raise those good
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cholesterols and
help be protected.
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Not necessarily
the alcohol content.
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And because alcohol has
so many other deleterious
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effects on society, on
our livers, on the rest of our
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health, I don't
recommend it for my patients.
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JB: Let's talk for a
minute about congestive heart
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failure, which my dad had
and so many other people's
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dads have.
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What is it, and
how does it come about?
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BS: Okay.
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So congestive heart
failure is a term that's thrown
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around out there,
but it actually occurs
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from a cardiomyopathy.
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Something that damages
the heart muscle itself.
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So, the heart is
about the size of our fist.
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It squeezes the blood.
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In fact, it pumps almost
close to a million gallons
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of blood every single year.
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It does an
incredible amount of work.
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That little muscle only
has about a half-second to rest
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in between every beat.
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But when you get
a cardiomyopathy,
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when the muscle
itself is affected, the heart
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begins to stretch out.
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It can't squeeze with
such vigorous contractions
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each time.
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That leads to
congestive heart failure.
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The symptoms of congestive
heart failure are often
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the feeling of smothering.
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I can't catch my
breath, I can't lie down flat.
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You start retaining fluid.
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The fluid builds up in
your lungs and makes your lungs
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stiff, and that's
why you can't breathe.
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Fluid may build up in your
legs, and so your legs start
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to swell.
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You might have to let
out a couple of inches
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on your belt, because
you're retaining fluid.
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Those are all signs of
congestive heart failure.
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JB: What can be done about it?
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BS: Congestive heart
failure can be prevented.
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The number one cause of
congestive heart failure
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in the United States is
coronary artery disease,
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which we've talked about.
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JB: The old saying, an
ounce of prevention is worth
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a pound of cure, or
bigger than a pound of cure.
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BS: Absolutely.
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JB: I imagine that you
would say, the best way to treat
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heart disease is to
avoid heart disease.
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BS: Absolutely.
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I believe that in my
practice close to 90 percent
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of the cases of congestive
heart failure, 90 percent of
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the cases of coronary
artery disease, are brought on
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by our poor choices.
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There are some
people that do absolutely
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everything right.
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We still live in a
sinful world where, regardless
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of living well, living healthy,
they can still suffer from
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heart disease.
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But that's not the average case.
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JB: Caffeine.
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Let's talk about caffeine
in relation to the heart
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of one's health.
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BS: Personally, I
don't drink caffeine.
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That puts me in a very
small minority of people.
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People feel generally that
they're more awake and more
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alert when they drink their
cup of coffee every morning
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or have a caffeinated beverage.
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JB: Well, we have these
energy drinks that'll give
00:20:47.36\00:20:49.76
you a jolt of
energy for 2-3-4-5 hours.
00:20:49.76\00:20:52.10
And it's just a caffeine blast.
00:20:52.10\00:20:54.10
BS: It's a lot of
sugar and a lot of caffeine.
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Both of those cause an
immediate spike, but then it
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tapers off quickly and
you're probably actually
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at a lower level of alertness
after the fact, than when
00:21:02.73\00:21:06.06
you first took it.
00:21:06.06\00:21:09.36
Because of that, it
causes you to want to do another
00:21:09.36\00:21:12.33
one so you can
feel better again.
00:21:12.33\00:21:14.33
And so you're constantly
in the cycle of feeling like
00:21:14.33\00:21:16.33
hmm, I'm not
feeling quite so alert.
00:21:16.33\00:21:18.33
I need to take another
caffeinated beverage or get
00:21:18.33\00:21:20.33
another caffeine boost.
00:21:20.33\00:21:21.33
It turns out that in
the studies that I've seen,
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that caffeine does make people
feel like they're a little
00:21:25.66\00:21:29.13
bit peppier.
00:21:29.13\00:21:30.06
But after they've been on
it chronically, you're simply
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getting back to a normal
level of alertness by taking
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the caffeine that you would
have had if you'd never been
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on the caffeine
in the first place.
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JB: What does it do
to your body that's bad
00:21:39.80\00:21:41.80
for your body?
00:21:41.80\00:21:42.80
BS: It's a stimulant.
00:21:42.80\00:21:43.80
It is causing you, and
you can feel it if you drink
00:21:43.80\00:21:45.80
a lot of caffeine, you
can feel a little bit jittery.
00:21:45.80\00:21:47.80
And because the muscle
cells and the heart, all of them
00:21:47.80\00:21:52.23
can become
irritable at different times.
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Caffeine stimulates
those other cells in the heart,
00:21:54.66\00:21:59.40
besides the natural pace
maker, to become irritable.
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And they can take over
and trigger faster than
00:22:01.80\00:22:03.80
the natural pace maker.
00:22:03.80\00:22:04.80
When that happens you
get a quick little jolt
00:22:04.80\00:22:07.46
in your chest.
00:22:07.46\00:22:08.46
That's what you feel
when you feel a palpitation.
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JB: So if someone is looking
to look after their heart,
00:22:10.46\00:22:13.76
you'd say caffeine's got to go.
00:22:13.76\00:22:15.76
BS: Well, again,
it's all about choices.
00:22:15.76\00:22:18.43
So I tell all my patients
who drink a lot of caffeine
00:22:18.43\00:22:20.90
that it would be best to
limit it to not more than
00:22:20.90\00:22:22.90
one caffeinated beverage.
00:22:22.90\00:22:24.43
But I also tell them again
that I don't drink it at all,
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and I think that's the ideal.
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JB: Brian, thanks.
00:22:27.90\00:22:29.73
I really appreciate
your taking the time today.
00:22:29.73\00:22:31.66
It's been a great blessing;
you've helped a great deal
00:22:31.66\00:22:34.03
and you've given us
a lot to think about.
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Thanks.
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BS: You're very welcome.
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[music] JB: Eyes for India
is giving sight to the blind,
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and you can be a
part of this amazing work
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that God is doing.
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Fifteen million blind people
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other country in the world.
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And many of the blind
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if only they could have
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Every $75.00 you give
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Doing the work of Jesus
in opening the eyes of the
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blind, and opening
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JB: Jesus said He came
into the world to give us
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a more abundant life.
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And you can have that
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And remember, It Is
Written is a faith ministry made
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possible by people like you.
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If you're blessed by this
program, I want to ask you
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to be gracious enough to
help us through your financial
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support.
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We don't place a
lot of emphasis on
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that at It Is Written.
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But that's not to suggest
it isn't needed or appreciated.
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Your continued financial
support makes it possible
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for It Is Written to
continue sharing the Word
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of God with the world.
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Today we've
discussed that there is trouble
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in the temple.
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Our bodies are the
temple of the Holy Spirit.
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We've also spoken not
only about the physical heart,
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but the spiritual heart.
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How is it with
your temple today?
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If there's trouble in the temple
of your life, I don't want you
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to be surprised or
discouraged, because the Bible
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has said that we're all sinners
and we all have come short
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of the glory of God.
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The key is not simply
admitting or discovering
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that there's trouble in
the temple, but in coming
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to Jesus so that He
can do something about it.
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So as we come to Jesus
in prayer right now, I want
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to pray for you and with
you that He'll make everything
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right in the
temple of your heart.
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Let's pray.
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Our Father in Heaven,
we thank You today for
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Your great goodness to us.
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We come to you, Lord,
asking that You would make
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our heart right.
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I know there are some
people who are sick and ailing
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and they've been
diagnosed recently.
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Some people struggling
now because of an uncertain
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physical future.
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I pray for them,
please come close to them.
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Remind us again that all
of us have sinned, we're all
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in this together, and that for
all of us there is hope in You.
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We thank You that You
are a God who is a God
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of forgiveness.
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We pray with David,
create in us a clean heart.
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Take our
hearts, make them Yours.
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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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[music]
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Thanks for joining me today.
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I'm looking forward to
seeing you again next time.
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Until then,
remember, it is written:
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"Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every
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word that proceeds
from the mouth of God."
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