Hi folks, and welcome to
another edition of newstart now.
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We have a guest with us today,
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Mary Kay Gonzales
from Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Mary Kay came to us
a couple of weeks ago
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very sick, and we'd like to see
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that interview
right now if we can.
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Well I believe what happened is,
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just the
everyday work of stress,
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and not taking time for exercise
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and eating right.
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And I remember about Weimar,
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and how it has a
lifestyle change program.
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And also to take
control of my diabetes,
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which I was diagnosed in 1999.
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Being here, I know
that I want to be able to
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to continue the work that I do,
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without worrying
about feeling sick,
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or not being able
to do, or be able to
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travel anywhere with
restrictions of health
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So reversing the diabetes,
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and just doing a
whole new way of eating
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would give me a fresh start
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to really be able
to accomplish what I
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need to do in just
an everyday situation.
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Well folks in our studio
I have Mary Kay Gonzales.
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Mary Kay, how are
you? - I'm doing great.
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You look like. . .
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you look different!
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Thank you, yes.
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Tell us what has happened,
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I know you have some
exciting news to tell.
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Yes, I feel great
since I've been here,
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I'm off of all my high
blood pressure medicine.
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And you say all,
now when I was on
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those I had two,
were you taking two?
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Yes, two of them.
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Ok, and you're off those.
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Off of them, and my
blood pressure is normal
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which makes me
happy because I've
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been on high blood
pressure for 15 years.
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15 years! And in 17
days now you're off them,
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and your blood
pressure is normal.
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What is normal? Tell
us what your reading was.
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110 over 69.
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110 over 69! and what
was it with the medication?
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It was much higher, I
think like 120 over. . .
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I think 110, I mean the
second number was much higher.
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And that was with meds!
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That was with meds!
Isn't that wonderful?
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Oh. . . I just can't believe it,
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it's just been. .
. a real blessing.
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I didn't even expect that,
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I thought well maybe
it will just get better
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but to be off of
that is just like,
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complete freedom.
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Now I know you have some
other good news, tell us more.
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Yes, on my
diabetes my sugars were
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way out of control, they
were over 200 even at fasting,
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for over a year and a half.
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And just in three days,
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they started
coming down, and now my
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sugars at fasting are
89, they stay at a hundred,
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you know they don't
go over, and I'm off of
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all the medicines except one,
so I'm just down to one now.
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Congratulations.
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I know, I can't
believe it's so exciting.
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Yes, you look so different,
you look so much more alive!
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I feel much more alive, I think
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the walking, I
mean before I only
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used to walk maybe
a mile or two miles
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I've done eight miles.
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In one day. At one time?
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No no no, just
different parts of the day,
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but going through the trails
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you know, and I love it,
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it's just like I
have more energy,
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it's just been really great,
and the food has been wonderful,
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And everything I
have learned here
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has just opened up my eyes
to how I can feel great now,
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you know. . . I can be a new me.
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Now what about the weight?
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and I know that
is not as exciting
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as dropping the blood pressure
medications, and the diabetes,
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but what about the weight?
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Well the weight
is coming of slowly,
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and in fact today I'll be
measured to see how well I've
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done on inches
and stuff like that,
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but it's been pretty good.
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And you said a moment ago,
before we started the interview
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that you are have a
treatment in the hydrotherapy?
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Yes, it's a fever bath,
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because I had endometrial cancer
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a couple of years ago,
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and they did a
full hysterectomy,
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and this is to build up
my immune system so that
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you know, I can be cancer free.
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And that's gone? - Yes.
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Praise God.
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It's amazing just in a few days,
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I mean that all
this could happen.
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I'm just so thankful
. . . for NEWSTART here.
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Yes, you got a new
start. - Yes, I got a new start.
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How were you treated here?
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Oh everybody
here is very loving,
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professional, the teachers,
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the doctors,
were just wonderful.
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And who was
your doctor? Dr. Ing.
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And they've just
been, so much information,
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that I can take
back and actually use.
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And the cooking school, I
learned so many new things
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on how to be a vegan. I'm
pretty excited about that!
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So they make it easy so
you can actually take this and
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implement it right away.
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Now were you a cook
before you came here?
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Did you cook at home?
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Yes, I did, but I think I tended
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to eat out more,
to make it easier.
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I'm excited to be able to do a
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lot of the
recipes that we learned,
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because it really tastes good,
now that I was surprised about.
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So was I when I went.
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Now Sally was the cooking
school instructor, right?
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Yes. - Sally Christensen
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She's been at our NEWSTART
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program about 20
years did you know?
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Yes.
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And she's an excellent teacher
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and I know that
you've learned quite a bit.
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Yes, it's a. . . she. . .
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her cooking school,
it makes it so easy,
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and it's not hard at all,
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and there's
recipes that you can do
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really fast, you
know less than 30 minutes,
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real fast ones,
and then you know,
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you can make lasagna and
pizza, I mean things that. . .
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Like the lasagna!
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Yes, like the lasagna,
it's one of my favorites.
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Now, what part of the
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program had the
most effect on you?
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Any particular part? or was
it a culmination of everything,
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what did you
like to do the most?
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Well, I think the walking was
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I really enjoyed, because the
grounds here are so beautiful,
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but the classes
with the doctors,
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all the information we learned,
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I mean, it was
just an eye opener.
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Now the doctors have two
or three lectures per day,
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and then you have
cooking school lectures,
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then you have lectures
perhaps from Rhonda Smith
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who is running
the NEWSTART program,
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and then the
hydro-therapies and the walking.
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When you were walking did
you get up to the water tower?
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Yes, I did.
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Did you get to see the sun rise?
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Oh, yes it was so beautiful.
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I think
anywhere you go on campus
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there's something beautiful,
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the Manzanita
Trail, it's just gorgeous.
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Now what really
affected me about
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the walking was I
never walked anywhere
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In San Francisco
where I was raised,
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you either took a
trolly car, bus, or a car.
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So walking was new to me,
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and I really enjoyed
that while I was here,
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So I'm glad that
you brought that up.
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Now I understand
you did a treadmill
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your second day you were
here, where they wire you up
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and you'd walk up on this
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treadmill
rather fast and faster.
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How did you do the first time.
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Well the first time I did ok,
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you know, but it
was pretty tough.
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What I was surprised is,
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I was kind of dreading the
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second test
towards the end, you know.
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So was I by the way!
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But I did
really good! - Did you?
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Yes, I improved immensely.
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Yes so you got. . .
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They cleared you
of any conditions?
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Yes, and my blood
pressures came down,
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I mean
everything went very well.
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So I was really
excited about that.
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Now what are you going
to do when you get home?
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What's going to change
when you walk in the house?
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Everything is going to change!
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Everything, from the way I eat
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from the way I exercise,
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and even the spiritual part.
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So every aspect of my
life is going to be different.
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Now what part of the
spiritual part had an impact?
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Well, you know
we had a fresh start
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every morning
which was really nice,
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and the chaplain, Viola,
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was especially
inspirational to me.
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and it gave me some
special insights, and I needed
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that special time with the Lord,
and it was definitely met here.
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Yes, I hear this from everyone
who comes through the program,
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it's just part of
the whole package,
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Yes, it actually is, you
can't separate any of it,
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all of it makes
you a whole person.
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Mary Kay, I just want to thank
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you for joining
us in the studio.
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Thank you so much.
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I wish you all the luck
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in the world. - Thank you
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Folks, thank you for joining us,
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but don't go away I
got a message for you.
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Well, you've done very well.
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Do you have diabetes,
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heart disease,
high blood pressure,
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or do you weigh too much?
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Hi, my name is Dr. Ing,
and I'd like to tell you
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about our 18-day
NEWSTART lifestyle program.
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It includes a
comprehensive medical
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evaluation with
laboratory studies and an
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exercise stress test,
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physician consultations,
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culinary school,
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and an opportunity
to walk on beautiful
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trails in the
foothills of the Sierras.
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Your health is one of the most
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important things
that you have. Don't wait.
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Give us a call.
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Or visit our website.
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Welcome back friends, and in our
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studio today is
Dr. Clarence Ing.
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How are you Doctor?
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It's great to be
here with you Ron.
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Dr. Ing is our medical
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director for the
NEWSTART program.
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Dr. Ing I'd
like to talk with you
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about Mary Kay Gonzales,
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and the
progress that she's made,
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what a delightful lady,
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she just seems
to be bubbling with
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excitement and
enthusiasm about the program.
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But tell us from a doctor's
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point of view
what's transpired here.
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Well Mary Kay came with some
significant health challenges.
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A couple years ago, she
learned that she had cancer,
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cancer of the uterus
and the metrocarcinoma
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and the hysterectomy.
. . she had hysterectomy
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which was. . . there's
a usual treatment for that
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and she also has
diabetes, and she also has
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high blood pressure,
and she's also too short.
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Meaning! You mean
she's a little overweight.
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Yes, she's a little overweight.
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Some of our viewers don't
know what that comment means.
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People don't like to be
told their overweight, so I say
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Well, you know,
you're not overweight,
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you're just
undertall, or you're too short!
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You need to grow taller!
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But we haven't
figured out a way to help
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people grow taller when
their 40 and 50 years old,
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So then we have to work
with the other parameter,
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and we usually then
help them lose weight.
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And we help them do that
very successfully with the
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program that is here,
and the Lord's blessing.
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The Lord's blessing
is really important,
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because we've had
people lose 140 pounds,
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150 pounds, 200 pounds.
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Not in 18 days?
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No, no not in 18 days,
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and they keep it off.
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We have had
patients lose like 20 pounds
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or 25 pounds in the 18 days,
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but a significant
part of that was water.
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But, you know, it has happened.
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But the program does work,
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and we're really happy
to help the people out.
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Now Mary Kay, I understand is
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taken off a
couple of her medications
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since she arrived here,
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can you tell us a
little bit about that?
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Well Mary Kay comes
in with the diabetes,
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and the high blood pressure,
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the weight, and
the history of cancer.
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So the areas she
wanted to work with,
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she wanted to lose some weight,
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she wanted to see
if she could get off
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some of her
medications, and she. . .
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One was for triglycerides?
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She was on one
for her triglycerides,
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and her triglycerides were
really quite high, they were
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300 or more. . .
around . . . you know. . .
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up in the high
200s or almost 300,
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and so one of the
medicines for that was removed
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and her triglycerides came down,
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and they came down
quite dramatically,
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you know like over 120 points,
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and that was with the
lifestyle changes that
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she made without
having to use the medication,
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and she was happy about that.
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And as we would
monitor her when she came in,
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her blood
pressure was really. . .
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it was normal
with her medication.
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So we started to
withdraw the medication
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and monitor her blood pressure,
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and her blood
pressure stayed down,
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so as the blood
pressure continued to stay down
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we slowly removed more medicine,
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and the blood
pressure stayed down,
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till finally she got to the
place where she wasn't on any
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medicine for her blood pressure,
00:14:53.01\00:14:54.78
and her blood
pressure was normal.
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She said, Oh good, I don't
have to use any more medicine,
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and her blood
pressures were normal.
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As she continues to. . .
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follow the
principles that she's learned,
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they should stay down,
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and she was very
happy about that.
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Oh she's excited, so am I,
and I can tell you are as well.
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When she first arrived here,
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and she had her
initial interview
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she seemed to be
a little bit down,
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somewhat depressed
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and she shared a
little bit about that.
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Did she talk to you
about her depression?
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She really didn't mention
that too much, but I know that
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as we continued
to work with her,
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her mood brightened,
00:15:39.15\00:15:41.06
and she was
much more optimistic,
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and she was much more outgoing,
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and much more
cheerful and a lot happier.
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Well I think. . .
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from what she's been through
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that would be
depressing in itself.
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And I know, and
maybe you can remember,
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when I came through the
program, I was depressed.
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I thought I was
going to die any day,
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and you know, all these
things that had happened to me.
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And I was quite
scared, and I could
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see that in the
eyes of a lot of people
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who come through the program.
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Some of them are not so willing
to share that with a stranger.
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However I know that after being
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with you doctors
for a couple of weeks,
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we. . . at least I opened
up and I see she did as well.
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Now she's also
lost weight, and I know
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that she wants to
continue to lose weight,
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do you have a program in place
where you follow up with guests,
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and assist them after they
leave the NEWSTART program?
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Well, the
patients that I follow,
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every single one of
them that I work with,
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when they go home, I
ask them, Do you have email?
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And if they do, I
give them my email,
00:16:53.69\00:16:57.12
I also give them my card,
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but I also give them
my home telephone number.
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And I say, Look, if you have any
questions that you want to ask,
00:17:03.78\00:17:07.15
or any problems after the
program and you need an answer,
00:17:07.42\00:17:12.12
or if you get sorely
tempted to do something that
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is less than healthful,
00:17:17.51\00:17:19.42
and you say,
Should I or shouldn't I?
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Please give us a
call, anytime, day or night
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as long as I'm
present here in the US
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I'll be happy to talk to you,
00:17:29.21\00:17:30.48
and we'll see if we
can talk you through that.
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I can vouch for you because
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I remember talking to you on
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the phone about
5 or 6 years ago,
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before I ever came
to the NEWSTART program,
00:17:40.42\00:17:43.36
and it was like 10:30 at night!
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And I understand
from working with you now,
00:17:46.24\00:17:49.30
in the evenings you
often spend the entire
00:17:49.75\00:17:52.03
evening talking to
people all over the world.
00:17:52.04\00:17:54.33
Well, yes sometimes that's right
00:17:54.69\00:17:57.27
I can't really do it
during the daytime in the
00:17:58.21\00:18:00.48
office in between
patients, it's not long enough,
00:18:00.49\00:18:02.81
so sometimes when I go home,
00:18:03.39\00:18:05.54
then I'll start to
make my phone calls.
00:18:05.81\00:18:07.87
And if they are on the
east coast, it's a little
00:18:08.42\00:18:10.42
challenging because I don't want
to call them too late at night.
00:18:10.43\00:18:13.06
But if they're
on the west coast,
00:18:13.48\00:18:16.00
I'll usually call up to
nine or ten in the evening.
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and most of the time people
are very happy to hear it,
00:18:19.87\00:18:22.15
occasionally they say,
Well can you call another time?
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I say Certainly.
00:18:24.73\00:18:26.00
So it's up to them.
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Well I mention these things
because the viewers are saying,
00:18:27.66\00:18:30.27
well I know
some might be saying,
00:18:30.30\00:18:32.27
at least I've been asked,
00:18:32.28\00:18:33.66
Well what about when we leave?
And I say after you leave,
00:18:34.21\00:18:37.36
all you have to
do is give us a call.
00:18:37.37\00:18:39.39
There's a number of us,
00:18:39.87\00:18:41.27
especially I
know with you doctors,
00:18:41.28\00:18:43.21
who are so willing
to assist our guests
00:18:43.66\00:18:47.06
once they've left the program.
00:18:47.63\00:18:49.66
Don't we have a young lady on
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staff now that
does the followup?
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That's right, and you
know another thing I do when I
00:18:53.72\00:18:57.09
give them their
final instructions,
00:18:57.78\00:18:59.21
I write my email address
00:18:59.75\00:19:03.51
I say, I want you
to give me a report,
00:19:03.81\00:19:05.69
if you have email, once a month
00:19:05.70\00:19:07.24
give me your progress,
tell me what your weight is,
00:19:07.69\00:19:10.18
what your blood pressure is,
00:19:10.19\00:19:11.48
if you have diabetes what your
00:19:12.03\00:19:13.42
blood sugars are,
and how you're doing.
00:19:13.43\00:19:15.24
And if you have diabetes,
and you go get a hemoglobin A1C,
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which gives a
number for what their
00:19:20.60\00:19:22.63
blood sugars have
been like for three months,
00:19:22.64\00:19:25.21
I want to know
what those values are.
00:19:25.33\00:19:27.81
And we often encourage them to
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repeat lab work in
three to six months
00:19:30.58\00:19:33.36
depending on
how important it is.
00:19:33.45\00:19:37.18
So we want to
know how their doing.
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Yes, good. Now I know
that she's going home,
00:19:39.87\00:19:43.57
and I believe she lives
in Santa Rosa, California,
00:19:43.58\00:19:47.66
a couple hours away from us.
00:19:48.21\00:19:49.72
She is going to
continue on this program,
00:19:50.87\00:19:54.84
what assistance does she have
with regards to how to prepare
00:19:55.39\00:20:00.63
once she gets home and starts
00:20:01.06\00:20:02.72
cleaning out the
pantry and the freezer
00:20:02.73\00:20:05.03
Well this is something we talk
00:20:05.48\00:20:07.09
to them about
even before they go,
00:20:07.10\00:20:08.72
What are your
plans when you go home?
00:20:09.06\00:20:11.33
Where are you going
to put in your exercise?
00:20:11.78\00:20:13.66
What are you
planning to do about food?
00:20:13.72\00:20:15.66
And they start to think about
these things before they go,
00:20:16.21\00:20:19.21
and also for menu planning
they talk with my wife May,
00:20:19.48\00:20:22.60
who is a dietitian,
a registered dietitian.
00:20:23.09\00:20:25.33
So they plan out the
foods they're going to eat,
00:20:25.57\00:20:27.66
and the menus
they're going to follow,
00:20:27.67\00:20:29.30
so they have a good idea
of what they're going to do.
00:20:29.54\00:20:32.24
If they need to purchase some of
those things here, they do that.
00:20:32.51\00:20:34.72
And by the way, Mary Kay
00:20:35.00\00:20:36.24
even though she
lives in Santa Rosa,
00:20:36.51\00:20:38.30
she's going to come
back for the reunion
00:20:38.31\00:20:40.24
the first
Wednesday of the month,
00:20:40.69\00:20:43.48
where we have anyone
who's been a NEWSTART alumni,
00:20:43.63\00:20:45.69
they come back and
we have lunch together.
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Yes, the first
Wednesday of each month,
00:20:47.57\00:20:50.45
and I think that's
just a wonderful plan,
00:20:51.03\00:20:53.36
and I notice the group is
getting larger and larger!
00:20:53.37\00:20:56.33
That's awesome.
00:20:56.57\00:20:57.57
Any other thing you
can add for Mary Kay?
00:20:58.12\00:21:01.84
Well, she lost five pounds,
00:21:02.39\00:21:04.15
she's off her
blood pressure medicines,
00:21:04.30\00:21:06.45
and her blood sugars are
under much better control.
00:21:06.46\00:21:09.21
And she's off the
triglyceride medicine.
00:21:09.33\00:21:11.30
Yes, and she's very
pleased and happy about that.
00:21:11.42\00:21:13.63
Dr. Ing, our
time is running short,
00:21:14.66\00:21:16.63
I want to thank you
again for joining us.
00:21:16.64\00:21:18.84
God Bless you in your work.
00:21:19.54\00:21:20.87
Thank you very much Ron.
00:21:21.45\00:21:22.57
And thank you
folks for joining us,
00:21:22.75\00:21:24.24
but don't go away, we have
an important message for you.
00:21:24.25\00:21:26.42
Hello, and
welcome to NEWSTART NOW,
00:21:41.18\00:21:42.78
I'm your host Don Mackintosh,
00:21:42.79\00:21:44.18
and today we're glad that Dr.
Michael Orlich is with us today.
00:21:44.19\00:21:47.03
Welcome Dr. Orlich.
00:21:47.42\00:21:48.45
Good to be with you Don.
00:21:48.63\00:21:49.84
Now you're a
specialist in family practice,
00:21:50.24\00:21:52.63
but also you're doing a
board in preventative medicine,
00:21:52.64\00:21:55.69
you worked here for a time
at the NEWSTART program as well.
00:21:55.70\00:21:59.03
That's right, four years here
at NEWSTART lifestyle program.
00:21:59.12\00:22:02.39
And we have an
acronym here, NEWSTART,
00:22:02.48\00:22:04.72
which a guest
came up with I guess,
00:22:04.73\00:22:06.75
and one of those parts
of the acronym is W, water.
00:22:07.30\00:22:11.15
We want to talk
about water today,
00:22:11.84\00:22:14.18
do we get enough water?
00:22:14.19\00:22:15.63
Well, some people do
and some people don't,
00:22:16.84\00:22:19.39
but there are a lot of
00:22:19.40\00:22:20.69
people who don't
get enough water.
00:22:20.70\00:22:22.63
Water is one of
those simple things
00:22:23.39\00:22:25.24
that we take for
granted, like air,
00:22:25.25\00:22:27.03
but it's very
important for our health.
00:22:27.51\00:22:29.30
Does our body tell
us when we need water?
00:22:29.75\00:22:31.24
or do we have to tell
our body that we need water?
00:22:31.25\00:22:33.00
Well it's very
fortunate that our
00:22:33.39\00:22:35.27
body does have a
lot of mechanisms
00:22:35.28\00:22:37.12
for keeping us
from getting dehydrated.
00:22:37.57\00:22:39.72
We hang onto
more water through our
00:22:40.27\00:22:42.75
kidneys when we're
not getting enough,
00:22:42.76\00:22:45.48
and we also have
the thirst mechanism,
00:22:46.12\00:22:48.66
that keep us from
getting too dehydrated,
00:22:49.00\00:22:51.39
but remember these are alarms
00:22:51.40\00:22:53.12
of your body saying it's
getting a bit dehydrated,
00:22:53.42\00:22:56.45
so it's better to stay ahead of
00:22:56.46\00:22:58.36
the game and
get plenty of water.
00:22:58.37\00:23:00.30
Remember that probably 70% of
your body is made up of water,
00:23:00.42\00:23:05.36
all of the various
chemical reactions that
00:23:05.42\00:23:07.66
take place in your body
that allow you to be alive
00:23:07.67\00:23:10.36
are water based reactions.
00:23:10.84\00:23:12.66
And so having enough
water, staying well hydrated
00:23:12.75\00:23:15.51
is a very important
principle for health.
00:23:16.06\00:23:18.00
And you were
telling me before we
00:23:18.45\00:23:20.09
did this segment
that there's some
00:23:20.10\00:23:21.60
new research that's also showing
00:23:21.61\00:23:23.18
some benefits for
being well hydrated.
00:23:23.19\00:23:24.84
Well that's true,
there are a number
00:23:25.36\00:23:27.33
of benefits of
getting enough water.
00:23:27.34\00:23:29.27
Some of the most
obvious ones actually have
00:23:29.72\00:23:32.36
to do with the urinary
system, and the bladder.
00:23:32.37\00:23:35.18
For example if you want to
avoid urinary tract infections,
00:23:35.33\00:23:38.84
it's good to
drink plenty of water.
00:23:38.85\00:23:41.03
If you want to
avoid kidney stones,
00:23:41.57\00:23:43.45
it's important to
drink a lot of water.
00:23:43.46\00:23:45.45
If you keep the urine dilute,
00:23:45.57\00:23:47.18
the stones don't have as
much of an ability to form.
00:23:47.63\00:23:50.57
And bladder cancer is clearly
00:23:51.12\00:23:53.21
reduced with
increased water intake.
00:23:53.22\00:23:55.66
But what I was
telling you about is findings
00:23:56.21\00:23:58.84
from the Adventist
Health Study, which is a major
00:23:58.85\00:24:01.78
epidemiological
cohorts study funded by the
00:24:02.21\00:24:05.18
National Institutes of Health,
00:24:05.39\00:24:07.18
and done out of
Loma Linda University.
00:24:07.19\00:24:09.36
And they published
interesting results that
00:24:09.81\00:24:12.48
had to do with people
on their questionnaire
00:24:12.49\00:24:15.15
checking whether
they drink more than five
00:24:15.45\00:24:19.00
glasses of water a
day between two and five,
00:24:19.01\00:24:22.51
or less than two
glasses of water a day,
00:24:23.00\00:24:25.42
and a very very
interesting finding
00:24:25.43\00:24:27.54
is that those people who drank
00:24:28.09\00:24:29.84
more than five
glasses of water a day
00:24:29.85\00:24:32.09
had a significant reduction
00:24:32.39\00:24:34.60
in their risk of
coronary heart disease,
00:24:35.00\00:24:37.27
compared to
those people who drank
00:24:37.28\00:24:39.24
less than two
glasses of water a day.
00:24:39.25\00:24:41.30
So it seems that something as
simple as drinking enough water
00:24:41.87\00:24:45.18
may lead to a
reduced risk of one
00:24:45.63\00:24:47.45
of the biggest
killers in America.
00:24:47.46\00:24:49.27
Wow, I'm
feeling thirsty already!
00:24:49.60\00:24:51.51
But is all water
equal? I mean you know,
00:24:51.75\00:24:54.27
bottled water, tap water,
where should I get my water?
00:24:54.28\00:24:57.48
Well, some people ask
about other beverages,
00:24:58.03\00:25:01.84
you know, like
say pop, and Kool-Aid,
00:25:02.03\00:25:04.21
and coffee, and
that sort of thing,
00:25:04.22\00:25:06.30
And fortunately all
of these things can help
00:25:06.57\00:25:09.09
you keep from
becoming completely dehydrated,
00:25:09.10\00:25:11.54
because they are all
mostly made out of water,
00:25:11.55\00:25:14.12
but it's far better
to drink pure water.
00:25:14.57\00:25:16.78
One of the biggest
and simplest reasons is
00:25:17.03\00:25:20.00
you don't need a lot of the
other things that are added,
00:25:20.63\00:25:23.30
and one of the
biggest things is calories.
00:25:23.31\00:25:25.24
You don't want to drink
your calories, because this can
00:25:25.87\00:25:28.51
bring on so many extra
00:25:28.52\00:25:29.57
calories and
lead to weight gain.
00:25:29.58\00:25:31.15
But water itself, course
we can get it in many forms,
00:25:31.69\00:25:35.18
and around the world many
00:25:35.30\00:25:37.12
people die from
contaminated water.
00:25:37.13\00:25:39.51
Fortunately here
in the United States,
00:25:39.69\00:25:41.66
most city water,
municipal water is safe,
00:25:42.21\00:25:46.00
and free of major pollutants.
00:25:46.48\00:25:48.69
And so most people
can do well with just
00:25:48.75\00:25:51.42
drinking tap water
and drinking enough of it.
00:25:51.43\00:25:54.30
Bottled waters have
been looked at and in general
00:25:54.81\00:25:58.45
they're about the
same as your average
00:25:59.00\00:26:01.54
tap water so
there's no real advantage to
00:26:01.55\00:26:04.33
bottled water, distilled
water, that type of thing.
00:26:04.69\00:26:07.81
Six to eight glasses a day?
00:26:08.63\00:26:10.12
Six to eight glasses is
certainly a good rule of thumb,
00:26:10.60\00:26:13.45
it varies if you're
in a hot environment,
00:26:13.87\00:26:16.18
if you're exercising a
lot you will need more,
00:26:16.19\00:26:18.60
but six to
eight glasses a day is
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good for most
people in most times.
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Well I think we're
going to have a drink
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right after this
segment, of water that is.
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And we're glad your joined us,
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Dr. Mike we're glad
you're here with us,
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and we're glad
you joined us as well.
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We hope that you
can visit our website,
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to get more information
about this or other subjects,
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and that as a
result of todays program,
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you have a
newstart that begins. . .
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right now.
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Modern views of
evolution stem all the way
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back to theories
developed in the mid 1800s.
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Out of the same time
period came ideas that shape
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our educational system today.
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The common school
movement for example,
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saw schools more like a factory,
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with students blindly memorizing
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instruction rather than
thinking for themselves.
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Their curriculum was
rigid and theoretical,
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instead of being
flexible and practical,
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It was designed to
conform the individual
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into a specific
ideological mold,
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that fit the needs of a old
industrial era, long since past.
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Just like our view of
creation in six literal days,
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we believe the Bible contains
an educational blueprint
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radically different
from the one we see now.
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Well friends thank
you for joining us,
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in the meantime, pick
up the phone, and call -
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May God bless you.
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