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>>John Bradshaw: This is It
Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw.
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Thanks for joining me.
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In the beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth.
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And what was it like back then?
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Well, it was beautiful.
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It was perfect.
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And nobody was sick.
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There were no doctors
in the Garden of Eden.
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There were no
prescription drugs,
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no medications of any kind.
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There weren't any supplements.
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They were not needed.
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The
undertakers, funeral parlors,
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out of business.
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No need.
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Because when God
created His first children,
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Adam and Eve,
no sickness at all.
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Well, Isaiah wrote
in the book of Isaiah
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that we are going to
a place where, he said,
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“The inhabitant thereof
shall not say, I am sick.”
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And when we read in Third John,
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the little book of
Third John, verse 2,
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we read these words:
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“Beloved, I pray that
you may prosper in all things
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and be in health, just
as your soul prospers.”
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That was John's
wish for his readers;
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it's God's wish for us today.
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So what's the reality?
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Illness everywhere you turn.
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Healthcare
problems, not solutions.
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Healthcare costs blowing
out budgets of entire nations.
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People not sure
what to do about diseases
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they don't know how to fight.
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Oh my goodness,
that was not God's plan.
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To discuss this with me is
cardiologist Dr. James Marcum,
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who practices here in
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Dr. Marcum,
thanks for joining me.
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>>Dr. James Marcum: My pleasure.
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And
unfortunately, my whole life,
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the last 27 years in practicing
cardiology and medicine,
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I see people that are suffering
with diseases of all sort.
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>>John: So from a
physician's point of view,
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how bad is it?
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>>Dr. Marcum: Oh, well,
let's just look at things.
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Over the last 20, 30 years,
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the rates of heart
disease keep going up.
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The rates of
diabetes keep going up.
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In fact, it's been
estimated in the United States,
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by mid-century,
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one in three people
will have Type 2 diabetes.
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>>John: One in three.
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>>Dr. Marcum:
Yeah, one in three.
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The rates of
being overweight go up.
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The risk of
joint problems go up.
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Um, high blood
pressure keeps going up.
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Every year, more and
more chronic diseases.
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Cancer rates keep going up.
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Mental health
problems keep going up.
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All of these chronic
diseases keep increasing,
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and you ask yourself, is modern
medicine fixing these problems?
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>>John: Now, this was not
God's plan in the beginning.
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God created perfect
people with perfect health.
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So over the last 6,000
years, something has gone wrong.
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And you ask the question,
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modern medicine, is it fixing?
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You might even ask the question,
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is in some ways, it harming?
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Though I don't mean
to sound subversive.
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So here's what we know.
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God created Adam and Eve.
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Sin entered the picture.
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From then to now,
it's been down, down,
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down in terms of our health.
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There have been some upswings.
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You go back a few
years, people were shorter,
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people weren't as healthy,
people didn't live as long.
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So there've been
some improvements.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Right.
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>>John: So here's a
question: with the improvements
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that we've had, and I think
they're observable in the last,
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I don't know, 50
or 100 years or so,
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why are things
still as bad as they are?
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When are the doctors and the
scientists going to figure out
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what the magic
bullet is for heart disease
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or diabetes or cancer or stroke?
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>>Dr. Marcum: Yeah,
well, the more I learn,
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the less I know.
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And our body is
very, very complicated.
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You know, we think of the
trillion cells in our brain,
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the quadrillion connections.
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We know very little about
the brain and how the brain
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is affecting our whole body,
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and how it turns on
and off genes or genetics.
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We know very
little about the bowel,
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the flora in our
bowel, all sorts of bacteria.
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There's more
activity in our bowels
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that affects our entire body,
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including our
cardiovascular health.
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Then our immune
systems, you know,
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which fights off these bad boys;
we're just now discovering all
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things about our immune system
that we never knew before.
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So as time goes on,
things get more complicated,
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and yet we did make
some major advances,
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especially, you
know, antibiotics,
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blood transfusions.
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So we have made some processes,
but over the years we've got
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into these chronic diseases,
these lifestyle diseases,
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the diseases that we put on
ourselves that weren't made,
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designed to have all
these stressors on our body,
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which has caused
aging and mutations
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and all sorts of
bad things to happen.
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>>John: Okay, so this question
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is not meant to
skewer the medical system.
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You're a physician, a very,
you're a well-educated physician
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operating at a very high level.
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So I don't mean to come
after the medical profession.
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But what in the
world's going on?
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This is, we're well
into the 21st century now,
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and it just seems like
things are getting worse.
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So, what, what
are the successes,
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the failings, and the
limitations of modern medicine?
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>>Dr. Marcum: Yeah.
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Well, modern medicine is great
at treating acute problems.
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You know, if I'm
having a heart attack,
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I want to have a stent.
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My heart's going
slow; give me a pacemaker.
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If I'm bleeding to
death, stop the bleeding;
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give me a blood transfusion.
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So it's great at
treating emergencies.
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It's also improving at treating
chronic genetic problems.
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Let's say you were
born with a gene that's bad.
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Well, we're now studying
the genes and we're finding ways
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that we can do things to
help the genes maybe not express
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these things that would
cause problems down the road.
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So we're making
some inroads to that.
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But where we haven't
made much inroads at all
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is our lifestyles,
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the things that we're doing
that's changing our very genes,
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that's accelerating aging,
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that's causing all
this chronic disease.
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And unfortunately, we're looking
more toward what we can do.
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Here, let's have a pill.
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Let's have a quick fix.
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We're not looking
toward the real answers
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to this complicated system,
and that's looking at a Creator.
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And I tell people, John,
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that when you're
looking at modern medicine,
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there's ditches that we fall in.
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You know, there's
the ditches of thinking
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that modern
medicine can fix everything.
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>>John: Sure.
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>>Dr. Marcum: There's
another ditch on the other side
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of the road that says lifestyle.
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That's all we need is lifestyle.
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>>John: And that modern medicine
can't really fix anything.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Right.
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>>John: And that's not true.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Right.
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And the true path is us to
understand that when we're sick,
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which we all are genetically,
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we need a Saviour
that can rescue us
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from this bad
genetics that we've come on.
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>>John: Now, let's get
into this more after the break.
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But before the
break, let me ask you this:
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So I think what
you've identified
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is that medicine
is doing its best.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Um-hmm.
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>>John:: Medicine
is doing its best,
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and in some areas
medicine is doing wonderfully,
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wonderfully.
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But medicine is up
against something that
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it seems it can't overcome,
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and that's not so much disease,
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but the
lifestyle of the patient.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Yes.
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>>John: I mean, you
can't give anything away,
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I know, but you've seen patients
that you know full well,
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if only they did A,
B and C real simple,
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their lives would trend
up, but they just won't do it.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Right.
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>>John: So
lifestyle is a major component
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of turning this
disease thing around, correct?
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>>Dr. Marcum: For
chronic disease, yes.
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>>John: For chronic disease.
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>>Dr. Marcum:
Diabetes; can reverse that.
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Hypertension; can reverse that.
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Conditions like
sleep apnea, heart disease,
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uh, joint
problems, mental health.
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These are all potentially
lifestyle-related diseases
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that can be turned around.
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>>John: Now,
before we go to the break,
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uh, we're not pretending
that lifestyle can fix
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everyone in
every situation, right?
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>>Dr. Marcum: That's correct.
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>>John: But what percentage
of lifestyle-related illnesses
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can lifestyle
adjustment positively impact?
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>>Dr. Marcum: Well, it's been
estimated that 80 to 90 percent
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of all disease now is chronic.
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These diseases we
cause by lifestyle;
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80 to 90 percent.
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So if we can get
people to change that,
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you know, to
change their lifestyle,
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then there's potential that 80
to 90 percent of chronic disease
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could be reversed.
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>>John: Now,
wouldn't that be something?
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Wouldn't that be something?
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And if you're like me, you
either suffer from or you know
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people, lots of people,
battling chronic disease.
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God has a way out.
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We'll share more with you
about that in just a moment.
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>>John: Thanks for joining
me today on It Is Written,
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and my special
guest, Dr. James Marcum,
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a cardiologist who, as
well as practicing cardiology,
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leads Heartwise Ministries.
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We're looking to the solution
to today's healthcare dilemma.
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And it seems, it seems,
that much of the solution,
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we can't push this too far
and say the entire solution,
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much of the solution
rests in the power of,
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or the privilege of, choice.
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Lifestyle choices.
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Let's be practical about this.
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Let's talk about some chronic
conditions and what people
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can do practically, accessibly,
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what they can do to
impact those things.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Well,
some of the chronic diseases,
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if you could figure out what
the chronic stressor is that's
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causing the disease, eliminate
that and you can do well.
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For instance...diabetes.
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We talked about how 1 in 3
might have Type 2 diabetes.
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Diabetes is a
disease of too much fat.
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We have too
much fat in our diet;
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we have too
much fat in our body.
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Just removing fat in
our body through exercise,
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and removing fat by
eating more vegetables
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and fruits and nuts and grains,
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just that in itself can
reverse Type 2 diabetes.
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>>John: Now, I'm going
to suggest something to you.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Yeah.
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>>John: That's pretty easy.
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Now, I know that
some are going to say,
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“Oh, I can't imagine
living without my fatty food.”
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Can you imagine dying?
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What's the alternative here?
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I can't...you've done
harder things than that.
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If it's the difference
between life and death,
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you can imagine it, all right.
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Look, we're not
asking anybody to go
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and climb Mt.
Everest without oxygen.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Yeah.
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>>John: So what
you're saying is,
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by simply changing what
you eat, you can reverse,
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you can, not always
will, but you can in many cases
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reverse diabetes, correct?
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>>Dr. Marcum: That's for Type 2.
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>>John: That's a simple fix.
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>>Dr. Marcum: And yet, if you
have diabetes for many years,
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it damages the body.
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It's a leading
cause of blindness,
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kidney disease, heart
disease, neuropathies,
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everything.
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>>John: Yeah.
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>>Dr. Marcum: And
it's just those things.
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Less fat in your
body, by exercising.
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Less fat in your diet
by eating healthier foods.
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>>John: I read where already we
have 1 in 4 people are diabetic,
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but there's a humongous amount
of people are prediabetic.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Yeah.
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>>John: If we're coming up to
1 in 3 people are going to have
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Type 2 diabetes in
just a short amount of time,
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think of the cost of that.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Yes, yes.
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They estimate it's
about $15,000 a year
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to take care of
a Type 2 diabetic.
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And it's not only in the States,
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but we're seeing
this around the world now.
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>>John: As the
western lifestyle encroaches.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Exactly.
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We're getting too much of
this, and it's damaging us.
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>>John: So
let's be honest, then.
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We're spending
multiplied millions of dollars
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on study after study
after study after study,
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and we know what the problem is.
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It's your fork, right?
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>>Dr. Marcum: Um-hmm.
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>>John: It's hyperactive fork,
hyperactivity with your fork.
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Really.
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Putting it simply.
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>>John: So that's diabetes.
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That's plain,
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and by the way, by the way,
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please, let me say this.
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If you're
battling Type 2 diabetes,
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I'm not trying to get on you.
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We don't want to
be critical of you.
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The doctor's simply
saying that in many,
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many cases it's what we put in
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that causes this
terrible outcome.
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You mention, I'll let you
go quicker on some of these.
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Heart disease: what should,
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what could a person
do in many situations?
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>>Dr. Marcum: Again, what
is the number one stressor
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that causes it?
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Again, too much
fat in the body, okay?
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Too much fat
gets in the arteries.
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The arteries get clogged up.
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It leads to heart attacks,
all sorts of malfunctions.
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Just eliminating, again,
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fat in the body again is
going to help improve that.
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You know, you've
heard of cholesterol;
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that's a type of fat.
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You get that out
of the body, again,
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we can actually reverse this.
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I use greens and beans as a
treatment for heart disease.
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I get them on a whole
food, plant-based diet,
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get them on some exercise,
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some positive
thinking; they improve.
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But a lot of people, John, don't
even know about these things.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Doctors
aren't bringing these up.
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They're not emphasizing it.
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It's a secondary, here,
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let me do a
procedure or pill first,
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and unfortunately, our
culture is leaning away
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from solutions
and treating symptoms.
00:14:37.37\00:14:39.47
>>John: Sure, sure,
you can take a pill,
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but it doesn't get
to the underlying cause.
00:14:40.88\00:14:42.31
But what about this, Dr. Marcum?
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You'll find a study
that's released that says
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fat's not bad for you.
00:14:45.68\00:14:46.88
Fat is good for you.
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Eat more fat.
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It, it seems that
the common-sensical,
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good science says,
lower the amount of bad fat.
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Why do we see studies that
say fat doesn't make you fat?
00:14:56.66\00:15:00.26
>>Dr. Marcum: Well, I
always, when I look at a study,
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I say, who is
paying for the study?
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>>John: Follow the money.
00:15:03.30\00:15:04.17
>>Dr. Marcum:
Yeah, follow the money.
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Is a drug company paying for it?
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Is a hospital system?
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Who is paying for the studies?
00:15:07.84\00:15:09.47
And I could find,
if we had the funds,
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much, many more studies that
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show people without
this do much better.
00:15:13.58\00:15:15.78
So it's, you can't
believe everything you hear;
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you have to know where
the source of truth is.
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And it's
getting harder nowadays.
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>>John: You
mentioned hypertension.
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Explain what hypertension
is, and then talk about what
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a person might be
able to do for that.
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>>Dr. Marcum:
Hypertension is when the blood,
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the blood pressure in
the blood vessels go up.
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And if it goes up long
term, it's a long-term problem,
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it stresses the blood
vessels, it damages them,
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predisposes them to
things like aneurisms,
00:15:37.87\00:15:40.20
strokes, damage to your
kidneys, damage to your eyes,
00:15:40.24\00:15:43.07
heart attacks.
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High blood pressure is not good.
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In some countries, we see
no high blood pressure at all.
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In the Amazons,
we don't see this.
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>>John: It's not there.
00:15:50.71\00:15:51.71
>>Dr. Marcum: In
Africa, rural Africa,
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they don't have hypertension.
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This is another
disease of western culture,
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specifically, the food
we eat, processed foods,
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and the stress we're
under, and lack of activity.
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Those three things,
we get rid of those,
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most of the cases of
hypertension would go away,
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and also the downhill
effects that we're going to get
00:16:10.73\00:16:13.74
if we go on hypertension
year in and year out.
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They call hypertension
the “hidden killer.”
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Some people don't
even know they have it.
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>>John: It's incredible, isn't
it, how simple some of this is?
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And, and a
person may be wondering,
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you know, so what?
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You hear this:
gotta die of something.
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Gotta die of something.
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Well, I'll tell you this: you
don't have to die of everything.
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And there are many
things that need not be a threat
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in your life, and as a
result, your life is lengthened.
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What does the Bible say?
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We are “fearfully
and wonderfully made,”
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David wrote in the
Psalms, in Psalm 139.
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Let me ask you a
question: why, then,
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is this simple fix
not being spoken of more?
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>>Dr. Marcum: Well, if you
look at the world we live in,
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is our world designed
to worship the true God,
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or worship the
false gods of this world?
00:17:04.02\00:17:06.45
There's a real
battle going on out there:
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battle for our
health, battle for our minds.
00:17:08.12\00:17:11.09
And as we do this, you
know, the culture says,
00:17:11.13\00:17:14.10
oh, you can do
this, you can have this,
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you can eat this way,
you can move this direction,
00:17:15.93\00:17:18.50
and there'll be no consequences.
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We have a fix, but
do we really have a fix?
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We're not looking
at the true solution
00:17:23.71\00:17:26.71
to our healthcare dilemma.
00:17:26.74\00:17:28.08
The world is taking us
away from the worship of God.
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>>John: It's
important to remember
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that we are in a
battle, is, there...
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>>Dr. Marcum: Yes.
00:17:33.92\00:17:34.98
>>John: There's a real
spiritual battle going on.
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Let me read this to you.
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This is 1 Corinthians,
chapter 3 and verse 16,
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and Paul wrote to
the church in Corinth,
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“Do you not know that
you are the temple of God,
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and that the Spirit
of God dwells in you?
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If anyone defiles
the temple of God,
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God will destroy him; for
the temple of God is holy,
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which temple you are.”
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Our body was designed to be
an inhabitation for God Himself.
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And therefore it's important
we keep it in good shape.
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Healthy body, healthy mind.
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The healthier we keep ourselves,
the more able we are to receive
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the Spirit of God and
to hear the voice of God
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and to connect with God.
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We live in this world
where the enemy has conspired
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against good health
by encouraging us to
00:18:14.79\00:18:17.16
destroy ourselves as
rapidly as we possibly can.
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Look around you; that's
what you see taking place.
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Now, in a moment, how
about we discuss a case study.
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You ready to do that?
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>>Dr. Marcum: Yes.
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You want to do that right now?
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>>John: Well, we'll
do that in just a moment.
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There's a case study, a case
study that we can look at and
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say, when you connect
your chronic condition to God,
00:18:31.97\00:18:36.41
God does great things.
00:18:36.44\00:18:38.41
We'll share that encouraging
story with you in just a moment.
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>>John: I think
it's fascinating to study
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the great
characters of the Bible.
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Sarah was considered
such a great woman of faith
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that she's listed in Hebrews 11,
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the great faith
chapter of the Bible.
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Hebrews 11:11 says,
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“By faith Sarah
herself also received strength
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to conceive seed,
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and she bore a child
when she was past the age,
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because she judged Him
faithful who had promised.”
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So who was this Sarah?
00:19:50.62\00:19:51.75
Well, she lacked faith.
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She recommended to her husband
00:19:53.66\00:19:54.86
that he father a
child by another woman.
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She was then cruel to
the woman in question,
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and Sarah lied, to God.
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Which reminds us that
God works with faulty people,
00:20:01.43\00:20:03.83
and He rehabs faulty people.
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Mistakes and shortcomings
00:20:05.47\00:20:06.87
don't spell the end
of the road for you.
00:20:06.90\00:20:08.40
God hangs in there with
you, and His grace is powerful.
00:20:08.44\00:20:11.74
He didn't give up on Sarah,
in spite of her weaknesses.
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And the God who
didn't give up on Sarah
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is not about to give up on you.
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>>John: I'm John
Bradshaw. This is It Is Written.
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Thanks for joining me.
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God's solution to
the healthcare dilemma.
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And we have a real healthcare
crisis in the United States,
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really, in all first-world
countries around the planet.
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Discussing this with me is
cardiologist Dr. James Marcum.
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Dr. Marcum, we said we
would look at a case study here.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Yeah.
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A
50-something-year-old gentleman
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that presented to the office.
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Never been to the doctor before,
didn't think he was much sick,
00:20:51.51\00:20:54.68
thought he was
doing pretty well.
00:20:54.72\00:20:56.38
But at age 50, he was
having lots of symptoms.
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He was going to
the bathroom seven,
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eight times a night.
00:21:01.16\00:21:03.09
Energy level, down,
down to almost zero.
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Well, I tested
him, and guess what?
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He had diabetes.
00:21:09.33\00:21:10.30
>>John: Oh, really.
00:21:10.33\00:21:11.07
Didn't even know.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Yeah,
A1c was greater than 10.
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Very much a diabetic.
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And I said, “Listen, fellow,
you're, you're diabetic.”
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>>John: He did not know this.
00:21:19.51\00:21:20.64
>>Dr. Marcum: Did not know this.
00:21:20.68\00:21:21.98
I said, “All these
problems are from diabetes.”
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And he said, “Well,
how can I be a diabetic?”
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I said, “Well, you
know, sometimes you have bad
00:21:26.92\00:21:29.08
genes that
predispose you to disease.
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And let's be honest;
the pancreas makes insulin;
00:21:31.99\00:21:34.42
your pancreas isn't
making much insulin,
00:21:34.46\00:21:36.56
and you're doing
some lifestyle things
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that could be hurting you.”
00:21:38.53\00:21:39.93
He didn't believe me.
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>>John: Really.
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>>Dr. Marcum: I said,
“You continue this path,
00:21:42.23\00:21:43.60
it's going to age your genes,
00:21:43.63\00:21:44.87
you're going to
have heart attacks,
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you're going to get blind,
00:21:46.23\00:21:47.30
you're going to have
problems with your kidneys.
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You got to do something.”
00:21:48.54\00:21:50.67
And I said, “Listen,
00:21:50.71\00:21:51.54
would you prefer to
go the medical route,
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or would you prefer to
go the lifestyle route?”
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>>John: Okay, before
you get to his answer,
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explain what the
medical route is.
00:21:59.61\00:22:02.05
>>Dr. Marcum: Yeah.
00:22:02.08\00:22:02.92
>>John: And
follow that by telling me
00:22:02.95\00:22:03.59
what the lifestyle route is.
00:22:03.62\00:22:04.55
>>Dr. Marcum: Well,
the medical route would be
00:22:04.59\00:22:05.95
to give you some medicines,
00:22:05.99\00:22:07.39
specifically start you on a drug
called metformin or insulin.
00:22:07.42\00:22:11.33
>>John: Lots of people
watching us right now...
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>>Dr. Marcum: Yeah,
lots of people take those.
00:22:12.89\00:22:13.93
>>John: ...say oh yeah,
oh yeah, I'm using that.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Now
he had Type 2 diabetes.
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But with that
disease, not only had diabetes,
00:22:16.83\00:22:18.83
but he found out
that he had sleep apnea,
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because he had a
little extra weight.
00:22:20.97\00:22:22.47
His blood pressure was high.
00:22:22.50\00:22:24.04
His cholesterol was high.
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He was having
uric acid in the body,
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which causes gout.
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He had five or six chronic
diseases from this problem of,
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of diabetes.
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>>John: If I might say so,
it sounds like this individual
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was a walking time bomb.
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>>Dr. Marcum: He was.
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>>John: Really.
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>>Dr. Marcum: I explained
the cause of it. I said,
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“Listen, if we can
get fat out of the body,
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fat out of your diet totally,
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we might be able to
reverse this rather quickly.”
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And he says,
“Oh, I can't do this.”
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He says, “I'm
used to eating chips.”
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He was a chip-aholic.
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He had lots of processed foods.
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He didn't even realize
what this processed food,
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he ate pretty
healthy, he thought.
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Lots of processed foods.
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So he says, “I can't do this.”
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I said, “Well, you
know, what you need to do is,
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is look for the real power,
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and that's a
relationship with Christ.”
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>>John: Right.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Who
will help you see truth
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and give you the
power to make changes.
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And he says, “Well,
this is a dire situation.
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I don't want to take medicines
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that don't fix the problems
for this chronic disease.
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I want a solution.”
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So he got on his knees and said,
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you know, he had a
relationship with God.
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It wasn't like
he didn't know God.
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He says, “Listen, God,
I've identified a problem.
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I need extra help.
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I need power in my life.
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>>John: Sure. Amen.
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>>Dr. Marcum: So right away,
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he started exercising
an hour and a half a day.
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Got on the treadmill
30 minutes in the morning
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and an hour at night
when he got back from work.
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And he had a
pretty demanding job.
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But he says, “I'm going
to make time to do this.”
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He got rid of
all processed foods.
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>>John: Okay.
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>>Dr. Marcum:
All processed foods.
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If it wasn't
natural, he didn't eat it.
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In three months, his A1c,
high to non-diabetic range.
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>>John: Fantastic.
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>>Dr. Marcum: In three months
he lost a total of 30 pounds.
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>>John: In just three months?
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>>Dr. Marcum: Three months.
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Blood pressure,
heart rate, triglycerides,
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all the markers
of chronic disease,
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gout, all of that got better.
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He did it through the
power of God changing him.
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The solution to his chronic
dilemma was plug in that power,
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and to see truth, and able
to change one step at a time.
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So he did well at three months.
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He went back to his
doctor just last month,
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and still his
A1c was in the fives.
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Okay, six below is
non-diabetic range.
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All of the chronic disease:
cholesterol had gone down,
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blood pressure gone down,
gouty numbers had gone down.
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All the chronic
disease had stayed well,
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even at this point.
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That patient was
me, John Bradshaw.
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That was me, and I had
to enact those changes.
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A doctor who supposedly
was supposed to be healthy,
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was not healthy.
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He had chronic disease
that he didn't even know about
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‘til it got so bad that
it presented with a symptom.
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There might be many out there
that have chronic disease too.
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They just don't know it until
bad things start to happen.
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>>John: Sure.
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So it was the power of God
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that made this
amazing change in your life.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Yes.
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I asked God to help me do things
that I never thought I could do.
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I didn't think I could exercise
an hour and a half every day,
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with my schedule.
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I didn't think I had the ability
to give up all processed foods.
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But it was through His
power and that relationship
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that I had with Him that I
needed a little extra help.
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You know, whenever someone
has a trial or temptation,
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then we use that and
turn it into a ministry.
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So I want to use this to help
other people understand that,
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yes, for chronic diseases,
God is the place to start.
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Understanding
where the ditches are.
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Plugging into that,
helping you see truth,
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and enact things
one step at a time.
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>>John: What if someone says,
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“I just don't have
an hour and a half.”
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Start, just start,
start with what you...
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>>Dr. Marcum:
Yeah, start somewhere.
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Say, “God, what
can you help me do?”
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You know, five minutes,
ten minutes, thirty minutes.
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Ten thousand steps.
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Get out of the
room, walking every hour.
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Find something to
keep the parts moving,
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so you can
change your metabolism
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to get fat out of your body.
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So I changed, I lost 40 pounds.
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>>John: Fantastic.
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>>Dr. Marcum: In six months.
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All the chronic
disease markers went down.
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And it wasn't me; it
was the power of God.
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So I'm claiming that this
is going to be the solution
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to our chronic
healthcare dilemma.
00:26:11.77\00:26:14.00
>>John: Just like that.
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The solution, the
solution, the solution.
00:26:15.00\00:26:16.94
It's not legislation.
00:26:16.97\00:26:19.21
The solution is
not another program.
00:26:19.24\00:26:21.88
The solution is not a new drug
that we haven't discovered yet,
00:26:21.91\00:26:25.38
and God bless
those who are helping us
00:26:25.41\00:26:27.38
in the medical
and science fields.
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The solution is Jesus.
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>>Dr. Marcum: Yes.
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>>John: And there's
power in the Spirit of God
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coming into your life.
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You are fearfully
and wonderfully made.
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If you feel
like you can't do it,
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remember what Paul
wrote to the Philippians:
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“I can do all things through
Christ, who strengthens me.
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My God shall
supply all your need
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according to His riches
and glory, by Christ Jesus.”
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If you can't get
it done, that's okay.
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God can do it in you.
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The solution?
00:26:56.58\00:26:57.95
The solution is Jesus Himself.
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>>John: Dr. Marcum,
thanks for joining me today.
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This has been a blessing.
00:28:12.59\00:28:13.52
>>Dr. Marcum: My pleasure, John.
00:28:13.56\00:28:14.86
And, you know, it's
not an easy story to tell,
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you know, but it's important.
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God's using this for
ministry to help others.
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>>John: A blessing.
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Thanks, let's pray together now.
00:28:21.36\00:28:22.30
Let's pray.
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Our Father in heaven,
00:28:23.26\00:28:24.37
we are thankful for
what you can do in our life.
00:28:24.40\00:28:27.17
We're grateful to that for many
of the pressing physical health
00:28:27.20\00:28:31.77
problems we face as a world,
00:28:31.81\00:28:34.11
many of those cases,
00:28:34.14\00:28:35.28
there are simple solutions.
00:28:35.31\00:28:37.41
Lord, I pray you'd guide us,
00:28:37.45\00:28:40.22
pray that you'd lead us
to good health and not bad.
00:28:40.25\00:28:43.35
I pray that you'd lead
us away from bad practices
00:28:43.39\00:28:45.85
to good practices.
00:28:45.89\00:28:47.52
I pray that we can see
defeats turn into victories,
00:28:47.56\00:28:49.79
failures into success,
00:28:49.82\00:28:51.23
good health take
the place of bad health.
00:28:51.26\00:28:53.19
Thank you that we are
fearfully and wonderfully made.
00:28:53.23\00:28:56.70
And in all of this,
00:28:56.73\00:28:57.70
we're not merely
looking for a longer life,
00:28:57.73\00:28:59.60
not merely
looking for better health.
00:28:59.63\00:29:01.24
We are looking to
honor You and glorify You
00:29:01.27\00:29:04.61
and give You more of us
to possess and work through.
00:29:04.64\00:29:08.68
Thank you that
You are the solution.
00:29:08.71\00:29:12.48
We are grateful.
00:29:12.51\00:29:13.82
We pray in Jesus' name,
00:29:13.85\00:29:16.72
Amen.
00:29:16.75\00:29:18.52
>>John: Thank you so
much for joining me today.
00:29:18.55\00:29:19.95
I'm looking forward to
seeing you again next time.
00:29:19.99\00:29:21.89
Until then, remember:
00:29:21.92\00:29:23.22
"It is written:
00:29:23.26\00:29:24.83
'Man shall not
live by bread alone,
00:29:24.86\00:29:26.59
but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'"
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