Welcome to Extend
Lifespan Naturally.
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I'm Doctor David
DeRose, president of
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CompassHealth Consulting,
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and your host on this journey
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into a glimpse
of how we can live
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longer and live better.
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Have you ever thought
about it? What does it really
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take to live a
long and healthy life?
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I'd like to suggest
to you that it involves
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at least two basic strategies.
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The first one is
avoiding the major
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disease processes that we face.
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The second involves not just
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avoiding disease,
but optimizing health.
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Let's look at that
first area initially.
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What are the major diseases
that can rob us of longevity?
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If you look throughout most
of the world, you'll find that
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there are two
diseases that stand at
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the top of many
lists. Things like
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coronary artery disease,
the cause of heart attacks,
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and cancer. Those are typically
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the two leading causes of death
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in many cultures
throughout the world.
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Also up there are
things like stroke,
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chronic lung disease,
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infectious diseases,
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high blood pressure and
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diabetes as contributing factors
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to some of those conditions.
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One of the questions always is,
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how do I know which one
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of those disease processes
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I should be
most concerned about?
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Is it heart disease, cancer?
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Is it stroke? Do
I need to look at my
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family history
and then try to decide
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a natural approach to prevent
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that most likely
killer (at least in my case)
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from coming and
knocking on my door?
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Actually, the good news is quite
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revolutionary.
Basically, it's the same
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lifestyle approach, the same
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natural
approach that can help us
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avoid most of
the leading killers.
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We've made easy
in this presentation
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to remember 9
essential elements in that
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disease preventing lifestyle.
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We call it simply LifeStart.
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That's right--LifeStart.
What does that mean?
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Of course, the phrase is trying
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to encourage you to look at
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starting your
life anew, based on
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the information
that we're reviewing
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in this presentation. I say
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reviewing, because much of this
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information has
been out for many
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years. It's likely
not to be something
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totally unfamiliar to you.
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We've also called
it LifeStart because
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LifeStart is a mnemonic. It's an
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acronym, where
each letter in that
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phrase refers to a
specific health-enhancing
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strategy. 9 of them, all told.
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LifeStart. Let's
look at it in some detail.
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Before we go there, let me just
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highlight one other
thing. We said we're
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going to be looking
at two strategies. One
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strategy is preventing the
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leading killers
from visiting us.
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The other is
enhancing the quality
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of our life. We'll find that the
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LifeStart elements help us in
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both of this
domains. So, just what
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are they? Well
the "L" stands for
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Liquids. That's
right--our choice
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of beverages, in
particular, has a
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profound bearing on our
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likelihood of living longer
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and living better. We'll look at
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that in some detail in today's
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presentation. The "I" stands for
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Interpersonal Relations, or
Interpersonal Relationships.
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This may not
sound like something
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that you've heard
that much about. It's
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been relatively
recently that researchers
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are realizing that this is not
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just something that involves our
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quality of life, but it actually
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has role in
helping us live longer.
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We'll look at
that data. I don't want
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you to get
discouraged just as we're
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starting on this
set of strategies
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to help you, because
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if you're watching this, perhaps
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over the
Internet, maybe you feel
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quite isolated.
We actually have help
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for you. We have personalized
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coaching opportunities available
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on the lifestartseminars.com
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Website. So you can
tap into opportunities
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to connect with other people.
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For those of
you who are watching
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this in a group, maybe in a
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community center, a church--some
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other place
where faith community
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gathers. We're glad that you're
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on this journey
with other people
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because we'll see
that interpersonal
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relationships are one of the key
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elements in the
LifeStart program.
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The next letter is
"F," and it stands for
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Foods. This is not surprising,
is it? Dietary choices have
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a lot to do with how long we
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live, as well as
our life quality.
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We'll explore that as well in
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today's presentation. Exercise
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is critical. We're
learning more and more
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about the
health-giving benefits of
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exercise. We will explore that
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component as well.
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Then we come to
the word "Start." We've
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gone through
"L-I-F-E," now we're
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looking at
"Start." The "S" stands for
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Sunlight. Sunlight has been
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something that,
of course, no life
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could exist on
the earth without it.
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We'll be looking some of the
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health-giving properties for us
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individually when it comes to
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that important ingredient.
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Then we move to something called
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Temperance. I know it's an old-
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fashioned word,
but it's a powerful
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concept. Many people toady have
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set aside temperance and in its
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place they've
put--that's right-- moderation.
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Temperance includes moderation
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but it's
moderation in things are
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good. Temperance
also includes the
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idea of total avoidance
of things that are harmful.
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We'll explore that shortly.
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"A" stands for
Air, "R" stands for
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Rest, and T for Trust in Divine
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power. Ready to
embark on our journey,
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looking at these elements
just a little bit further?
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I hope so, because that's
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where we're going,
right now. Let's look at
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these 9 elements and take a
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careful look
just a few examples.
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We can't cover
every one in detail.
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By the way, if you do want more
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information or want this in
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writing, we
actually have a free e-book
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on the Website that walks you
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though the LifeStart paradigm.
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You can get it
there at that very same
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Website, lifestartseminars.com.
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Let's talk about liquids.
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One of my
favorite studies when we
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speak about liquids grew out
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of research performed at
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Loma Linda
University in Southern
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California. Dr. Jacqueline Chan
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(I can remember
actually visiting
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with Dr. Chan) had this belief
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that if we looked at liquid
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consumption, we
could get a window
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on why some people
die sooner than others.
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Others, even of our
peers, who are saying,
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"This is ridiculous!
This is not a big factor."
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When the
research was published in
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2002 in the American
Journal of Epidemiology,
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everybody who
read it took notice.
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Take a look of what they found.
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What this is
illustrating here is,
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in the bars on the left, you see
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individuals who were drinking
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little water.
They're drinking small
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amounts of water.
You can see it here--
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less than 2 glasses per day.
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If you move over
to the right side
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of the graphic, you can see now
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individuals who are drinking
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greater than 5 glasses of water
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everyday.
What's so remarkable is
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the height of the
graphs. What we're looking
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at here--these
bars-- are representing
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the likelihood of dying. Dying
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from a heart
attack, or other causes
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of heart disease. What you
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notice is,
those who are drinking
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more water cut their risk of
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dying from a heart
attack roughly 50 percent.
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Granted, if you're looking
very carefully at the graphic,
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you'll realize
women didn't do quite
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that well--maybe a 40
percent decrease or so.
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Men were better
than that-- over a
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50 percent decrease
in the likelihood of
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dying from a
fatal heart condition.
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You say, "This is
great news Dr. DeRose.
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This give me
some ammunition now.
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I'll be getting a lot of
flack from my significant other
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when it comes to all that soda
pop that I drink. That's the
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only way I can get my water in.
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I'm going to take
screen shot of this--
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take a photograph of it
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(if you're watching
this in a meeting hall),
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and bring it
right home with me."
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Well, before you use this
as ammunition for your soda
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consumption preferences, you've
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got to see that
there was another
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graphic in that study.
Let's take a look at it.
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Now we're looking at individuals
who drank less than 2 glasses
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of other beverages. That's the
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leftmost bars.
You'll notice then--
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the rightmost bars are those
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who are drinking more of other
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beverages
besides water. Do you see
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the problem? Other beverages
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were associated,
not with protection
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from heart
disease, but rather an
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increase in the risk of fatal
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heart disease. That's right--
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drink more of
other fluids, other
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liquids, and your
risk is increased.
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Some of you, no
doubt, are saying,
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"Surely this
couldn't be every other
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fluid besides
water?" Unfortunately, when
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you do research, sometimes you
have small enough numbers that,
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in order to have what
we cause a statistical
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power, you have to clump
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some things
together. All Dr. Chan's
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team could do was group
together all the other beverages
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that were being
used. Presumably,
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this represents the beverages
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that are
commonly consumed in our
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culture. It was a study
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done in America. The point here
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is simple. Although we
may not be able to parse out
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whether every single beverage
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besides water is
less than optimal,
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We can clearly say this from the
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research: water
drinking is health-
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enhancing. One example we've
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just seen. It
can help you decrease
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your risk of dying from a heart
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attack. We need to move on
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because there's other
powerful things that can help
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decrease our likelihood
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of dying from killer diseases
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and also increase the quality
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of our life. Let's move on to
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talk about interpersonal
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relationships.
There's no question--
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that these
aspects of life increase
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the quality of our life,
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at least if those relationships
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are supportive.
I'm sure you could
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think of some people that
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you'd rather not be around.
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Those people definitely are not
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enhancing the quality of your
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life when they show up. But the
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point is simply this:
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we are made as
social beings and,
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regardless of
whether you thrive on a lot
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of social contact, or
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perhaps a
little bit more limited
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social contact. The point is,
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most all of us do
better when we are
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connected with other people.
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Indeed, that's
the research shows.
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It's not just
for quality of life.
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Look at this amazing study that
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was done some
years ago, published
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in the cancer
research literature.
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Before we actually
look at the graphic,
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let me give just give you the
background. The background is
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one of the most prestigious
epidemiological studies in the
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world. It is what we call
a longitudinal cohort study.
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That means you
have a group of people
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and you're
following them through time.
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In this case, the people who
are being followed are nurses.
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It's a study known as
the Nurses' Health Study.
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It was conducted
by Harvard University.
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In this particular
paper, the researchers actually
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identified a 10-year period
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between 1992 and 2002. What they
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then found is
that, in this group of
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over 100,000 women,
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nearly 3,000 of
those nurses were
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diagnosed with breast cancer
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during that decade. This was
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breast cancer,
regardless of the stage.
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We had early stage breast
cancer, Stage I--all the way
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through Stage IV breast cancer.
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What the researchers did,
though, was very interesting.
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They looked at survival
in relationship to social
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connectedness.
What they did find?
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Look at the data with me.
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If you look at the
bottom bars in this
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graphic, you'll see represented
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in the light blue, the breast
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cancer mortality among those
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who were socially integrated.
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You notice it's relatively low
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compared to the dark blue bar
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above it, which represents those
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who were socially isolated.
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Those who did not have a lot of
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social connections had over
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double the risk of dying from
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breast cancer over the period
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of this study. That was not
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anywhere near as remarkable as
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the upper bars, at least in the
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eyes of this physician.
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If you look at those upper bars,
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now we're not just looking at
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dying from breast cancer.
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We're looking at
what is called "all
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cause
mortality"--the likelihood of
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dying from any cause. You see
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here, those women who
were socially integrated had
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the lowest rates of
death, whereas those who
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were socially
isolated had 66 percent
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greater likelihood of dying from
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from any cause. Social
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connectedness, interpersonal
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relationships--they are powerful
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as far as
helping you live longer
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and live better. Let's move on
now to the "F" in our LifeStart
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paradigm. The
"F" stands for Foods.
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Let me just give you one example
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on this topic.
If you've explored
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our Website, you know that we've
got a lot of health resources.
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Many are free resources,
others there's some fee for.
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One of one the
products that's there is
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my "Reversing Hypertension
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Naturally" DVD
series. 3 hours of
00:14:14.88\00:14:17.69
DVDs that walk people through
00:14:17.72\00:14:19.75
natural principles to control
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high blood pressure. In that
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series, I
learned a powerful thing
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about foods and how it impacts
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high blood pressure, which many
of you realize is a risk factor
00:14:27.93\00:14:31.63
for dying prematurely from
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things like
stroke and heart attack,
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as well as kidney failure.
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Hypertension has an interesting
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relationship with diet. Let me
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just share with you
one salient insight.
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This was one that
was new to me when
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I was doing
research for the series.
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I learned that,
in plant products,
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in a variety of
plants, whether they're oats or
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peas, legumes or a variety of
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plants, there are something
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called Ace Inhibitory Compounds.
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For some of you, that may not
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mean much. Let me just give
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you a little bit of
background. I'm going to use
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Some big words,
but I'll walk you
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through it. There's a hormonal
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system in our body called the
00:15:12.17\00:15:13.91
Renin Angiotensin
Aldosterone System.
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That system integrates the
brain, the kidneys, various
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hormonal mechanisms, that
actually control blood pressure.
00:15:21.78\00:15:27.72
If that system is
out of whack, it will
00:15:27.76\00:15:30.03
raise your
blood pressure. One of
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the ways to tone that system
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down is by using ACE inhibitors.
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Some of the most popular blood
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pressure
medications that have been
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around for many
decades are the ACE
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inhibitors.
It's actually a class
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of drugs that you can take in
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prescription form. Other drug
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classes, not just single agents,
feed into the same system
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Here's the point that I'm
trying to make about diet:
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if you eat more
plant products, more
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fruits, more grains,
more vegetables more seeds,
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you will be eating
more Ace inhibitory
00:16:04.19\00:16:07.13
compounds. It requires no
00:16:07.20\00:16:09.20
prescription from a doctor to
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take these. They're
in regimented amounts
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in these natural plant foods.
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Research study after research
study shows the same thing.
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Eat more plant of foods, blood
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pressure comes
down. Don't get worried
00:16:21.54\00:16:24.21
if your blood pressure runs on
00:16:24.25\00:16:25.71
the low side,
like mine does. I eat
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a lot of plant products and I am
00:16:27.72\00:16:29.48
not laying on
the floor in shock.
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It's not going to
cause you to become
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what we call "hypotensive." I've
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never seen that. Eat more
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of these plant
foods. You'll find
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these are the
same foods that lower
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your risk of
cancer and heart disease
00:16:40.43\00:16:42.03
by other
mechanisms. They help you with
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diabetes, and they have quality
of life benefits as well.
00:16:44.13\00:16:47.30
Let's hasten on now to exercise.
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Exercise has
far-reaching effects
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when it comes to enhancing
00:16:52.11\00:16:54.18
our health. Remember, we talked
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about optimizing
health, as well as
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preventing killer diseases.
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Exercise not only helps to
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decrease the risk of cancers,
00:17:02.68\00:17:04.65
like colon cancer. By the
way if you've never smoked
00:17:04.69\00:17:07.79
cigarettes, colon cancer is the
00:17:07.82\00:17:09.96
single most likely cancer to
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kill you. I'm speaking
across gender lines. Even though
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many women die of breast cancer,
and many men of prostate cancer,
00:17:14.93\00:17:18.40
if you combine the genders and
00:17:18.43\00:17:20.14
you take cigarette
smoking out of the equation,
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colon cancer is the
leading killer. In part,
00:17:22.67\00:17:26.71
colon cancer
deaths are related to lack
00:17:26.74\00:17:28.88
of exercise. I know, I know--
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one of you is thinking
about that friend of yours
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who ran marathons or
00:17:34.28\00:17:35.65
played tennis everyday and still
00:17:35.68\00:17:36.99
had colon
cancer. I'm not telling
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you exercise is a panacea, but
00:17:38.82\00:17:41.06
we know it does decrease risk.
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Not only is
cancer risk decreased
00:17:43.73\00:17:46.29
by exercise, but so is heart
00:17:46.33\00:17:47.56
disease risk, blood pressure is
00:17:47.60\00:17:49.46
lower, metabolism works better,
00:17:49.50\00:17:51.83
less risk of diabetes. You can
00:17:51.87\00:17:53.97
even prevent the development of
00:17:54.00\00:17:55.97
of diabetes if you have what
we call pre-diabetes by doing
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better with your exercise.
00:17:59.21\00:18:01.31
Let's stop there for a minute.
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I told you that the same factors
00:18:03.48\00:18:05.58
that help us
live longer, help us
00:18:05.61\00:18:07.78
to live better. Did you know
00:18:07.82\00:18:11.12
that exercise is one of the best
00:18:11.15\00:18:13.29
things you can do
for your mental health?
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That's right--if you have
00:18:15.59\00:18:16.86
a tendency towards depression,
00:18:16.89\00:18:18.66
exercise tends
to boost your mood.
00:18:18.69\00:18:21.33
On the other
hand, if you tend to
00:18:21.36\00:18:22.83
be anxious, exercise
helps to calm you down.
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Isn't that fascinating?
Exercise has this mood and
00:18:26.40\00:18:29.84
mental balancing effect.
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I recommend exercise to my
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patients regularly for both
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disease prevention and for life
00:18:36.21\00:18:38.98
enhancement. While
we're on that subject,
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exercise does something else
00:18:41.95\00:18:43.45
that's remarkable. it actually
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improves blood fluidity.
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The technical term for
that is that it improves
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hemorheology. Some
of you perhaps have seen
00:18:50.29\00:18:53.36
my mini series
on "Longevity Plus."
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It actually builds
on a lot of the things
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we're talking
about in this short
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presentation, and it looks
at it especially from the window
00:18:59.43\00:19:02.77
of improving our circulation.
00:19:02.80\00:19:05.01
That's right--
improving circulation
00:19:05.04\00:19:06.98
through things
like exercise, diet
00:19:07.01\00:19:08.81
and other natural processes.
00:19:08.84\00:19:10.95
Exercise is boon
to mental health,
00:19:10.98\00:19:14.02
it's a boon to
quality of life in general.
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That's "Life."
What about the "Start?"
00:19:19.92\00:19:23.26
Let's look at the
letter "S." Sunlight
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is a powerful health-enhancing
00:19:26.33\00:19:28.50
commodity. You
know that there would
00:19:28.53\00:19:30.33
be no life on earth without
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sunlight. It is sunlight which
00:19:31.77\00:19:33.77
allows plants to engage in that
00:19:33.80\00:19:36.64
process known as photosynthesis,
00:19:36.67\00:19:38.97
which is really the foundation
00:19:39.01\00:19:41.41
of life on our planet. Sunlight
00:19:41.44\00:19:44.65
is health-giving as well when
00:19:44.68\00:19:46.75
it comes to human frame. We've
00:19:46.78\00:19:48.75
known for decades how important
00:19:48.78\00:19:50.79
the sunshine was for making
00:19:50.82\00:19:53.25
vitamin D. Vitamin D is a very
00:19:53.29\00:19:55.59
interesting vitamin. You don't
have to ingest it by mouth.
00:19:55.62\00:19:58.69
In fact, some would
argue that vitamin D is
00:19:58.73\00:20:01.30
best optimized by
judicious exposure to the sun.
00:20:01.33\00:20:05.83
When the sun's
rays hit your skin,
00:20:05.87\00:20:09.17
they actually create vitamin D.
00:20:09.20\00:20:13.31
Vitamin D is important for bone
health. Without vitamin D, you
00:20:13.34\00:20:16.51
can't optimally manage
calcium functions in your body.
00:20:16.54\00:20:21.58
To have strong
bones, you need good
00:20:21.62\00:20:23.35
levels of Vitamin D.
But that really is old news.
00:20:23.39\00:20:26.79
The newer news of
vitamin D is the cutting-edge
00:20:26.82\00:20:29.79
information, showing us
that Vitamin D is important for
00:20:29.82\00:20:34.56
the immune system.
That's right-- if you
00:20:34.60\00:20:36.90
have a tendency
toward autoimmune
00:20:36.93\00:20:39.03
diseases, diseases where
00:20:39.07\00:20:40.54
the body's attacking itself,
00:20:40.57\00:20:41.87
vitamin D seems to be able to
00:20:41.90\00:20:43.91
tone down autoimmunity. On the
00:20:43.94\00:20:46.91
other hand, vitamin D has the
00:20:46.94\00:20:49.18
ability to
enhance the immune system
00:20:49.21\00:20:51.45
to help you fight infectious
diseases. For some years I lived
00:20:51.48\00:20:55.62
in Northern New England.
00:20:55.65\00:20:57.19
In Northern New England, we
00:20:57.22\00:20:58.92
saw a lot of multiple sclerosis,
00:20:58.95\00:21:01.69
an autoimmune disease that
00:21:01.72\00:21:03.16
targets the myelin sheaths, the
00:21:03.19\00:21:06.33
insulating
covering of nerve fibers.
00:21:06.36\00:21:09.30
There's a connection between
00:21:09.33\00:21:11.13
living further
from the equator--
00:21:11.17\00:21:13.20
further north or further south--
00:21:13.23\00:21:15.54
and developing MS, especially if
00:21:15.57\00:21:17.94
you lived in those areas
during your childhood years.
00:21:17.97\00:21:20.98
The evidence is suggesting that
this may well be an effect of
00:21:21.01\00:21:24.98
insufficient Vitamin D
levels early in life. Here's an
00:21:25.01\00:21:30.09
example of an
autoimmune condition
00:21:30.12\00:21:32.35
that's being
linked to vitamin D.
00:21:32.39\00:21:34.22
Let me just give you one
other piece in the puzzle.
00:21:34.26\00:21:36.32
A lot of people
have been worried
00:21:36.36\00:21:37.73
about vitamin D
and cancer. They say,
00:21:37.76\00:21:39.46
"I don't want to get out in sun
00:21:39.49\00:21:40.80
too much. I don't want
to get skin cancer." It
00:21:40.83\00:21:42.70
is true that burning and
too much sun exposure may be a
00:21:42.73\00:21:47.24
problem. Very interesting
point: sun actually, sunlight
00:21:47.27\00:21:52.84
and the vitamin
D that it creates,
00:21:52.87\00:21:54.78
actually is cancer-preventive
00:21:54.81\00:21:57.38
for a host of
major cancer killers.
00:21:57.41\00:22:00.18
So get judicious sunlight
00:22:00.22\00:22:02.15
exposure (don't get too much)
00:22:02.18\00:22:03.89
and you'll be giving yourself
another health-enhancing factor
00:22:03.92\00:22:07.09
that can help to extend
your lifespan naturally.
00:22:07.12\00:22:12.69
Let's move on to
Temperance. Remember, I told
00:22:12.73\00:22:14.96
you earlier in
this presentation.
00:22:15.00\00:22:17.13
Temperance is
not just moderation
00:22:17.17\00:22:19.17
when it comes to good things.
00:22:19.20\00:22:20.70
It's total avoidance of things
00:22:20.74\00:22:22.40
that are harmful. What is that
00:22:22.44\00:22:24.11
look like? What things do we
00:22:24.14\00:22:25.41
need to totally avoid? What
00:22:25.44\00:22:27.04
things in which we
need to be moderate?
00:22:27.08\00:22:29.38
Of course, when it comes to good
00:22:29.41\00:22:31.58
foods, we need to be moderate in
00:22:31.61\00:22:33.28
our eating
habits. It is true that
00:22:33.31\00:22:35.18
even when it comes to good food,
00:22:35.22\00:22:37.25
we can overeat. In fact, if you
00:22:37.29\00:22:39.75
look at data
from the United States
00:22:39.79\00:22:41.39
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention,
00:22:41.42\00:22:43.93
we find that more Americans are
dying from overeating than from
00:22:43.96\00:22:48.00
anything else, at least when
it comes to nutrition per Se.
00:22:48.03\00:22:51.87
That's what the data seems
to indicate. Here's my point:
00:22:51.90\00:22:56.34
yes, eat those good plant foods!
00:22:56.37\00:22:58.87
By the way, if
you're eating plant foods,
00:22:58.91\00:23:00.78
especially
vegetables. Especially leaf,
00:23:00.81\00:23:03.58
stem and flower vegetables.
Let me break that down--
00:23:03.61\00:23:07.42
things like spinach,
cauliflower, cabbage,
00:23:07.45\00:23:11.02
broccoli
(broccoli is a flower and
00:23:11.05\00:23:13.79
a stem). If you're eating things
00:23:13.82\00:23:16.59
like that, it is very hard
00:23:16.62\00:23:18.06
to eat so many calories that you
00:23:18.09\00:23:19.79
gain weight. Stock up on
those foods, but be careful
00:23:19.83\00:23:24.63
not to overeat,
especially of the
00:23:24.67\00:23:26.74
calorically-dense
foods. Obesity is
00:23:26.77\00:23:29.60
driving epidemic rates in the
United States with things like
00:23:29.64\00:23:33.68
osteoarthritis,
the breaking down of
00:23:33.71\00:23:36.64
joints in the hips and knees
00:23:36.68\00:23:39.31
and in the low
back. Obesity is driving
00:23:39.35\00:23:43.25
things like high blood pressure
00:23:43.28\00:23:45.09
diabetes and is
associated with cancer.
00:23:45.12\00:23:47.22
You get my point. This is
one area where we'd want to call
00:23:47.26\00:23:50.06
from moderation. What about
00:23:50.09\00:23:53.60
any area where
we'd want to totally
00:23:53.63\00:23:55.73
avoid something? I know I don't
00:23:55.76\00:23:58.77
have a huge amount
of company, but there's
00:23:58.80\00:24:00.64
a growing number of
health professionals
00:24:00.67\00:24:02.34
that are lining up behind
me (or I'm lining up with,
00:24:02.37\00:24:05.31
whatever the case might be,
00:24:05.34\00:24:06.71
I'm not trying to give a sense
of preeminence) on the subject
00:24:06.74\00:24:09.68
of alcohol. Although
many people have touted
00:24:09.71\00:24:12.18
alcohol as a health-giving
beverage, the public health
00:24:12.21\00:24:15.52
evidence does not indicate that.
00:24:15.55\00:24:17.39
Alcohol, even in moderation,
has problems. Since we're
00:24:17.42\00:24:20.66
speaking about extending your
lifespan naturally, let me give
00:24:20.69\00:24:23.29
you a salient example
from the cancer literature.
00:24:23.32\00:24:26.33
The cancer
literature indicates that even
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moderate consumption
alcohol increases the risk of a
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host of cancers. Let me give you
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an example on the quality
of life that actually overlaps
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with longevity as well. Diabetes
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and
alcohol--they do not get along
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well together. Dr. Joslyn,
the founder of the famous Joslyn
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Diabetes Clinic in the
Boston area. Joslyn actually
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took a notoriously firm stand
against the use of alcohol,
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not only by the patients of the
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Joslyn Clinic,
but also by his staff.
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Joslyn was right--that's what
the evidence indicates. Alcohol
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is a huge source of
calories, nearly twice
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as many calories as pure sugar.
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It contributes
to obesity which, of
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course,
contributes to our epidemic of
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diabetes. Drinking
alcohol lowers your
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willpower. If you're
wanting to get on a better
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lifestyle, it's
going to undermine that.
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Alcohol, in and of itself, can
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raise blood sugar. On top of it,
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if your blood
sugar gets low-- if
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you get hypoglycemic--alcohol
interferes with your body's
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ability to address that. Want
to add one more quality of life
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factor?  I'll do it. In the
absence of diabetes, alcohol
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itself can cause nerve damage,
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known as neuropathy, one of the
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leading
complications of diabetes.
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Fresh air--a very important
commodity. The leading pollutant
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in America--tobacco
smoke. If you're a
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smoker, it's
just one more reason
00:25:47.71\00:25:49.31
to quit. You
may have thought the
00:25:49.34\00:25:50.88
damage was done. You've been
smoking for many years. The good
00:25:50.91\00:25:53.82
news is, the
minute you stop smoking
00:25:53.85\00:25:55.72
cigarettes, you stop feeding
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any cancers that
may already have begun.
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You say, "But I
don't have cancer, Doctor
00:25:59.85\00:26:01.56
DeRose." You
don't know if you don't
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have cancer. Are
you aware of that?
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When you have an early
cancer, there are no tests
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that can detect it. You can
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switch the balance, get rid of
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those tumor accelerators.
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That's right--tumor
accelerators that are in
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tobacco smoke and you may never
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become a cancer casualty.
00:26:16.77\00:26:18.94
Rest. We've got
to talk about rest.
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I know some of
you may feel like you
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want to rest
after this high-speed
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journey through
the LifeStart mnemonic.
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Rest is so
important. It calms stress
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hormone levels down. It helps us
to have a better blood pressure,
00:26:29.02\00:26:32.29
better blood sugar. It's just
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something that
all the way around
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is beneficial.
Make sure you're not
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cutting yourself short on sleep.
It will also help your joints.
00:26:39.13\00:26:42.76
If you're cutting yourself short
on sleep, inflammatory compounds
00:26:42.80\00:26:46.13
wrap up and you
will tend to have more
00:26:46.17\00:26:48.47
join pain. The
last element, Trust
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In Divine Power, reminds us
00:26:51.24\00:26:53.31
that most all of us come to some
00:26:53.34\00:26:55.04
areas in our
lifestyle where we need
00:26:55.08\00:26:56.68
help. We need help
outside of ourselves.
00:26:56.71\00:26:59.68
From someone who
once was agnostic,
00:26:59.71\00:27:01.82
it was a big change for me
to recognize that there was a
00:27:01.85\00:27:04.95
power outside of me that was
00:27:04.99\00:27:06.39
willing to
help. I really believe
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there is. That's why we
speak about Trust in Divine
00:27:08.12\00:27:10.49
Power. If that
doesn't resonate with you,
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we've got people
with the LifeStart
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Seminars who are
willing to help you.
00:27:15.20\00:27:17.47
You can access
them on our Website,
00:27:17.50\00:27:20.07
lifestartseminars.com.
Remember, that is your
00:27:20.10\00:27:24.91
gateway for many
other educational programs.
00:27:24.94\00:27:28.08
Free educational programs are
there for you. We've got great
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materials. You can learn more
about living longer and better
00:27:31.25\00:27:34.65
by using my
mini- DVD series called
00:27:34.68\00:27:38.69
"Longevity Plus." The bottom
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line is, take advantage of what
we've got for you. Make sure you
00:27:42.02\00:27:44.56
pick up our free e-book as well.
It will walk you through that
00:27:44.59\00:27:47.83
LifeStart
mnemonic, give you more
00:27:47.86\00:27:49.80
details, more practical insights
We're here for you. We're trying
00:27:49.83\00:27:54.27
to help you in all the material
00:27:54.30\00:27:56.10
that we present to help you
live longer and better. That is
00:27:56.14\00:27:59.11
what LifeStart is
all about. For LifeStart
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Seminars, and for all of
us at lifestartseminars.com,
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I'm Dr. Dave
Derose, wishing you great
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success in living
longer and better.
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