Welcome friends,
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and welcome to another
edition of NEWSTART Now.
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So you think you
want to lose some weight?
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Do you think you're
a little overweight?
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Well, I've got news for you.
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I want to show you
a clip of Dave Waddell
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who's in our studio right now,
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but when he first arrived.
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Well, I've struggled
with weight for 20 years,
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and it wasn't till just
the last year and a half
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that I
ballooned up to 668 pounds
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is what I weighed
yesterday when I first got here.
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So that's the
heaviest I've ever been.
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I have all the
weight-induced diseases.
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I have diabetes,
high blood pressure,
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high cholesterol,
sleep apnea -- everything.
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What I want from
coming to Weimar is
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a 180-degree lifestyle change.
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I've tried different
diets through the years,
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Nutrisystem, all
the different fads,
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I've tried the 5 meals a day,
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3 snacks and 3 meals,
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so 6 actually,
times you eat a day,
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to stoke the fire, as they say.
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But nothing's worked.
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I need to do something,
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so it's a total lifestyle
change that I'm looking for.
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Welcome back, friends,
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and as I promised, Dave Waddell.
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How are you, Dave? - Doing good.
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Good to see you.
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Good to see less of you!
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- Much less. Yes.
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Let's just get right into this,
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because I know the viewers,
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through the first
interview they're going,
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"Wow! What a big man."
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Let's just
start with the weight.
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How many pounds have you lost?
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A hundred and five on the books.
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A hundred and five on the books!
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And perhaps a little bit more.
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You've actually -- Folks,
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Dave has lost a whole person.
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We have a camera crew here,
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one of which
weighs about 90 pounds!
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So he's lost at least her.
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Dave, tell us what
else has happened here.
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Well, okay. Yesterday I
walked the Half Mile Loop.
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For the first time.
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Now, let me also
share to the viewers,
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so this is fair.
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Some people are going,
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"No. He couldn't
have lost 105 pounds
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in 18 days."
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You're right. He didn't
lose 105 pounds in 18 days.
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Dave has been with us 3 months
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and has gone through 4 sessions,
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back to back sessions.
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And when Dave got here,
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he couldn't even
move! He couldn't walk.
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And the Half Mile
Loop was a big achievement.
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So let's get back
to that Half Mile Loop.
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Yep, did the Half Mile Loop.
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When I first got here
I couldn't walk 10 feet
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without stopping and resting.
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So that was big.
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And I'm paying for it today.
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A little sore, but... - A
little sore, that's alright!
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But it's worth it.
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That's one of the
biggest accomplishments,
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is being able to
walk further, exercise,
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and then of course my legs
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are much
different now than they were
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when I first got here.
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There's no
weeping, there's no...
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They look like legs now.
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We should have got,
at the first interview,
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although your legs were
wrapped with bandages so that...
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because they were oozing!
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They were
actually infected and sore.
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And as I remember, and
I described it as being
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black and blue
and purple and red,
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all these colors mixed up.
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His legs, they look
fantastic, Dave. I'm so happy.
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Yeah, I credit hydro for
that, and the low-salt diet.
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Yes! And you
took the bandages off,
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Tell us from there,
what's happened after that?
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Did you put them back on?
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I expected to have
to put them back on.
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I didn't believe
the doc when he told me
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that I wouldn't have to
put the bandages back on.
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And I took them off the
day after the first interview,
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Wednesday, for the first hydro,
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and I didn't have
to put them back on.
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In three days you
took them off? - Yep.
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And you had been
wearing them one year?
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Yeah. Changing them
every week for a year.
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Now let's get into some of
the medications you were taking,
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or are still taking.
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What kind of... I
know you had diabetes,
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and high blood pressure.
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And your respiratory,
you had problems there.
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Your heart rate was like 105,
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resting, is that not
correct? - Yeah, that's correct.
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Tell us what has
happened with these things now.
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Well, the doc was
being very cautious because
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he didn't want my
heart rate to get very high,
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because one of the medications
keeps the heart rate down.
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So we've only gone off half
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of one of the
three heart medications,
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So my pulse got
down to about 80,
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and then he started
weaning me off some of the meds,
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and now it's around 90.
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So when it gets back to 80
we'll take off more of the meds.
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But yeah, my
resting was like 105, 107
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when I first got
here, every time I took it,
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just getting out of bed.
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And then it...
Now it's much less.
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And I went off the
cholesterol medication,
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and so I truly saw
what my cholesterol was.
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I thought it was
under control for years,
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but it was the medication that
was keeping it under control.
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It was under
control through medication.
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- It shot through the
roof when I went off the med.
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And insulin, I probably
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stopped taking
shots the third week.
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- You don't take
insulin anymore, at all?
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No, I was taking 125
units of quick-acting
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and 80 units of slow-acting
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insulin when I first got here,
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so that's like 200 units.
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I went down to
nothing. Every once in a while,
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if I eat a little too
much fruit for breakfast,
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I have to give
myself a little tiny shot.
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But at least it's
not sweets or anything.
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It's good fruit.
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Are you taking any oral
medication for diabetes?
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I'm taking one. - Metformin?
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I'm on Actos. - Okay.
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And how many milligrams?
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45 milligrams. -
That's practically nothing!
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And we're gonna
probably go off that
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once the sugars
get down below 200.
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- Good. Good for you.
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So tell us about...
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You know, I've never interviewed
a big man like yourself.
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Although, we've had one
other individual I recall.
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But tell us, how
did your routine...
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How did you possibly fathom
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that coming to
this NEWSTART program
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you would gain,
or lose in this case,
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anything at all when
you couldn't even move!
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I know I saw you walk 10 feet
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and then sit down and
rest, gasping for air.
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What possessed you?
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I was ready to try anything.
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I was frustrated.
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I had spend the last
year and a half gaining.
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Every time I went to
the doctor, every month,
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it would be 15-20 pounds more.
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Every time I went it was
just... I was so frustrated.
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I was happy when
I went to the doctor
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and only had
gained 4 or 5 pounds.
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So I was ready
to try the bypass,
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I was ready to do anything.
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And of course, my
sister's a nurse anesthetist,
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she said she would
never want me on the table
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in the operating
room, being my size,
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and do anesthesia.
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Because she said it would
be easy to put me to sleep,
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but it would be
really hard to wake me up
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once it's done, and real
easy for stuff to go wrong.
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So I'm glad I don't
have to go the surgery route.
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It was a blessing to
be able to come here.
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I learned a total new
lifestyle, like I was hoping.
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I mean, everything I
had been taught in the past,
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I had to be re-educated.
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- Totally re-educated.
It's amazing, isn't it?
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Let me ask you a
serious question now.
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For the viewers, for
that viewer there that
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perhaps is morbidly obese.
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And morbid to me is--
They said I was morbidly obese
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by being 75 pounds overweight.
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Was there a time when
you suffered from depression
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so severe that you
gave up and decided
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this was it, you're
just going to check out,
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you didn't want
to live this life?
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Yeah, the last year and a half,
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I was really depressed.
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In fact, I had to
change depression meds
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because I was so bad
I couldn't concentrate,
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I couldn't think straight.
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I'd find myself driving through
that fast-food restaurant
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line again and thinking,
"What am I doing to myself?"
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and I just kept doing it.
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I kept doing it, and
it just dragged me down,
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and down, and down.
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Oh yeah, I was very depressed.
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There were many
days when I was thinking,
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"I just hope I don't
wake up tomorrow morning.
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It'd be easier," you know.
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But now you seem so happy.
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You seem like a young
man that has been given hope.
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And you know, we serve a
God that's a God of hope.
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And we know that He is here
watching over all our guests.
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My prayer is that
you continue on this path
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and I get to see less
of you more of the time.
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The biggest transformation
was the thought patterns.
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I was plagued with
constantly thinking of
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Taco Bell burritos and stuff.
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So, it was fun. The
Lord took those away.
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All absolutely
just gone. - Gone.
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Oh, David, I'm so happy for you,
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and I'm so happy
that you got to join us
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and have our viewers witness
what you've gone through.
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Thank you for
coming into our studio.
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It's my pleasure.
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And I'm going to be seeing
less of you more of the time.
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Folks, don't go away, because
we have an interview coming up
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with his doctor
in just a moment.
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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 evaluation
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with laboratory studies
and an 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 trails
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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 at:
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Or visit our website:
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Welcome back, friends,
and in our studio, Dr. Lukens.
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How are you, my friend?
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Man, I'm really
excited about this one because
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this is what it's all about.
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This is the cat's
meow, so to speak.
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So, I want to hear
from you, Doc, because
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you know, it's not
often we see a man this size
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who has reached
the end of his rope,
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that is depressed,
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ready to check out.
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In fact he said, "I just pray
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that I don't wake
up in the morning."
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What has
happened? How could a guy
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lose, first of all,
105 pounds like that,
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and then he's no
longer depressed.
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Tell us some of the
things that happened, please.
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Well, what's
exciting about him is that
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he is a record for us.
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I've been here 20
years, as you know,
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and he's a record for us
for weight loss in one week.
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He came in at 668,
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and he lost 30-plus
pounds in the first week.
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And the reason why
that was so exciting
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is because he didn't
want us to unwrap his legs,
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because what happens...
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He has medicated
wrappings on his legs.
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When they're unwrapped,
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the legs will start
swelling and swelling,
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and then the skin will split,
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and then it takes him weeks
and longer for them to heal up,
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and he said, "When you do that,
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it's going to set me way back."
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And I believed that it wouldn't,
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because I had seen this
before, but not to the extent
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of losing 30 pounds in one week.
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So we unwrapped him.
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He's never had to
have them wrapped again,
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and he's thrilled.
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One of the things
though, is that his...
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He was taking his insulin wrong.
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And so he has this
really rapid-acting insulin
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along with the
long-acting insulin.
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And I believe he's
pretty much off of it
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almost all the time now,
which is really something.
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And that's the way to go.
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And here's what he was doing.
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In the last year and a half he
had gained another 140 pounds.
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And he would
check his blood sugar
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like 2 hours after he had eaten,
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and if it was 300
or 400 or whatever,
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then he'd give himself
30, 40, 50 units of insulin,
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and what that was
doing was it was forcing
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the body, the cells,
to take up that sugar,
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and the fat cells, they
were just getting more and more.
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And after you do
that long enough,
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you get more fat
cells, and so they...
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Was he possibly
gaining weight by doing that?
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That's how he gained 140
pounds. - Oh my goodness.
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I thought it was going
through the drive-thrus,
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and eating all
those burgers and fries.
00:14:05.52\00:14:07.60
Well no, he obviously
had to be eating like that,
00:14:07.61\00:14:12.24
but he was doing
his insulin wrong.
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And what we want
to do is we want to
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have the person, by
doing diet and exercise,
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we want their
numbers to be normal.
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But the research now--
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In fact, my family
practice magazines showed
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that the more
insulin, and the more
00:14:27.21\00:14:29.66
pills and medications
that you have to take,
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the quicker you're
going to have a heart attack.
00:14:32.30\00:14:34.63
And so he was headed there.
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He could only stand
up for about 30 seconds.
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One time he stood up
quite a bit longer than that,
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and he just had to sit down.
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So I took his blood pressure,
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and his blood
pressure was like 60 over 40.
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If he hadn't found
his seat at that time,
00:14:50.64\00:14:52.72
he would have
just... - Just passed out.
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Yeah, he would
have just collapsed.
00:14:54.85\00:14:56.75
And you know, for a
guy that's in his late 30s,
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and he's been teaching
and so forth, he's just...
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He was, as they say,
he was circling the drain.
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And he didn't know
why it was happening.
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The more he was gaining,
00:15:10.39\00:15:12.75
the more
depressed he was getting.
00:15:12.81\00:15:14.60
And he was just
trying to while away his days
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just trying to figure
out anything that he could do
00:15:19.21\00:15:22.15
to keep his mind off of
what was happening with him.
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And then when he
saw what could happen,
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and I understand-- He
probably told you that
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he was able to walk now,
and how far he was able to go.
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He walked the Half Mile
Loop for the first time.
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- Yeah, that was...
- That was wonderful.
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Yeah, and it's up and down.
00:15:40.82\00:15:42.03
Some of the
cardiac patients can't
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do that when
they first get here.
00:15:44.10\00:15:46.03
So all of these
things were going, and
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you know, when
a person has tried
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all the things that they can do,
00:15:54.87\00:15:56.39
and they're
following what they can,
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and it isn't working,
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then they just figure,
"Well, there's nothing I can do,
00:16:01.24\00:16:04.63
and how much
longer am I going to live?
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How much longer do I
have to live this way?"
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And so, it's really sad.
00:16:11.39\00:16:14.18
You know Doctor,
as many of our guests
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have shared with us in the past,
00:16:16.61\00:16:18.60
that they come here and
they learn a new lifestyle,
00:16:18.87\00:16:22.24
for David, what he said--
00:16:22.45\00:16:24.36
and I know you haven't
seen that interview yet,
00:16:24.48\00:16:26.87
but what he said was,
"Everything I learned was
00:16:27.09\00:16:29.87
180 out from what I
was taught on the outside."
00:16:30.27\00:16:33.39
And now he has a
whole new lease on life.
00:16:33.66\00:16:36.42
He has hope.
00:16:36.63\00:16:38.27
And you know he may be
staying with us even longer.
00:16:38.51\00:16:41.39
Yeah, well that's really
good. - That would be great.
00:16:41.51\00:16:44.18
When you have a lifetime of
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you know, being overweight...
00:16:47.66\00:16:50.36
I mean, he's been overweight
for probably most of his life.
00:16:50.37\00:16:54.51
And then gaining
more and more and more...
00:16:54.60\00:16:58.66
I think he figured, for him,
00:16:58.87\00:17:00.78
a weight of
200-250 would be magic.
00:17:01.18\00:17:04.87
Well you know,
I mean, if he's...
00:17:05.00\00:17:07.18
if he's two and a half
times that, it's really tough.
00:17:07.42\00:17:13.09
And the thing is, is that
00:17:13.24\00:17:15.39
you know, he still is
going to have the work to do,
00:17:15.66\00:17:19.30
and if people are out there
and they're saying, you know,
00:17:19.45\00:17:22.36
"Wow! I want to go to Weimar,
00:17:22.45\00:17:24.12
and I want to lose
50 pounds in 1 week,"
00:17:24.30\00:17:27.00
you know, each
case is different.
00:17:27.03\00:17:29.81
But each person has
to work on that area
00:17:30.00\00:17:32.72
so that they don't
go back and they don't
00:17:32.73\00:17:36.45
get overcome by those things.
00:17:36.63\00:17:38.33
And that's where our
loving heavenly Father
00:17:38.39\00:17:41.69
and our Elder Brother come in,
00:17:41.70\00:17:43.63
and they just say,
"Look. You're My child.
00:17:43.66\00:17:47.06
We're all in the same family.
00:17:47.24\00:17:49.18
I'm never going
to let go of you.
00:17:49.24\00:17:51.06
The only way that
you can not be successful
00:17:51.18\00:17:53.81
is to jerk your hand out of mine
00:17:53.84\00:17:57.39
and go your separate way,
00:17:57.40\00:17:59.27
and I'll be
crying if you do that."
00:17:59.33\00:18:01.48
- Yeah, yeah.
00:18:01.66\00:18:03.60
Thanks for
sharing that. I know that
00:18:03.63\00:18:06.81
hits you really
deep in the heart.
00:18:07.00\00:18:09.21
Let me ask you this, Doctor.
00:18:09.48\00:18:12.39
With a person like that,
can you tell our viewers...
00:18:12.63\00:18:15.42
I know there are
many, many people out there
00:18:15.48\00:18:18.12
that are morbidly obese
00:18:18.13\00:18:19.48
in a huge way, pardon the pun.
00:18:19.75\00:18:23.15
But is there
really... Can anybody do this?
00:18:23.24\00:18:28.60
Or is this just
one case of a guy
00:18:28.69\00:18:31.15
that just happened to luck out?
00:18:31.18\00:18:33.18
Well, the American Diabetic,
00:18:33.69\00:18:36.84
American Dietetic, and
American Heart Associations say
00:18:36.87\00:18:40.24
"Go on 1,200 calories."
00:18:40.48\00:18:43.33
And I've asked people that.
00:18:43.69\00:18:45.24
I say, "Have you
been able to do this?"
00:18:45.25\00:18:47.39
They say, "Not a chance.
00:18:47.45\00:18:48.78
All I can think
about between meals is,
00:18:49.09\00:18:51.45
'When do I get to eat again?'"
00:18:51.46\00:18:53.21
çlaughterÑ You see?
00:18:53.36\00:18:54.63
And he hasn't been
overly hungry while he's here
00:18:54.66\00:18:56.75
because of all
the fiber in the food,
00:18:56.81\00:18:59.39
it's low-calorie,
it's the right kind of fat,
00:18:59.40\00:19:04.30
it's the right kind of proteins.
00:19:04.42\00:19:06.45
And so all of the
things that he does
00:19:06.63\00:19:09.09
are being healthy for his body.
00:19:09.10\00:19:11.03
And so, if a person goes on
00:19:11.04\00:19:13.24
the Standard
American Diet (SAD),
00:19:13.25\00:19:15.81
then they're getting
really calorie-dense foods
00:19:16.18\00:19:19.75
and not much bulk, so they're
feeling hungry all the time.
00:19:19.81\00:19:23.03
And this is really the only
way that a person can do that:
00:19:23.04\00:19:26.03
whole plant foods eaten whole.
00:19:26.04\00:19:29.51
When they eliminate the oil,
00:19:29.78\00:19:31.42
every one of those
tablespoons, teaspoons of oil
00:19:31.43\00:19:34.84
that they have that are free,
00:19:35.00\00:19:36.57
from the other plant
food and added to your food,
00:19:36.84\00:19:40.18
it's been liberated out,
00:19:40.24\00:19:41.87
and the fat cells
will seek those calories
00:19:42.09\00:19:46.69
and they'll just
bring them right back in.
00:19:46.72\00:19:48.39
So this is really the
only way that I've seen
00:19:48.54\00:19:51.33
that people can be successful,
00:19:51.34\00:19:53.12
is to eat whole plant foods.
00:19:53.15\00:19:54.78
And then of course we
wanted him to exercise.
00:19:54.79\00:19:57.27
And he couldn't!
- He couldn't walk.
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Yeah, he couldn't
walk. - 30 seconds...
00:20:00.10\00:20:01.45
It was really exciting,
00:20:01.46\00:20:02.60
because finally
he was able to walk
00:20:02.61\00:20:04.30
from the clinic all
the way up to the flagpole.
00:20:04.54\00:20:07.69
And I was with
him the first time.
00:20:07.84\00:20:09.69
And he sat down on the
bench in front of the Weimart,
00:20:09.70\00:20:12.72
and he said, "I did it."
00:20:12.84\00:20:14.66
And I said, "You did what?"
00:20:14.75\00:20:16.21
And he said, "I walked
all the way from the clinic
00:20:16.24\00:20:18.33
without stopping."
00:20:18.34\00:20:20.06
Most people
wouldn't even think about it.
00:20:20.15\00:20:22.30
I gave it a lot
of thought because
00:20:22.36\00:20:24.57
as you may recall
in my own testimony,
00:20:24.60\00:20:27.15
I couldn't walk the
Half Mile Loop either.
00:20:27.18\00:20:29.54
And I wasn't as big as Dave,
00:20:29.57\00:20:31.33
I was just a wreck.
00:20:31.42\00:20:33.00
And then it must have been 2 or
3 days before I could do that.
00:20:33.01\00:20:37.12
So Doctor, what
you're saying then
00:20:37.15\00:20:39.69
in answer to my question is,
00:20:39.81\00:20:41.63
it doesn't
matter how big you are,
00:20:41.64\00:20:43.63
it doesn't matter if
you're on your last leg,
00:20:43.81\00:20:46.60
you could be on your death bed--
00:20:46.61\00:20:48.30
get here, go on the
program, and we can help them.
00:20:48.36\00:20:51.69
That's right.
00:20:51.72\00:20:53.39
And again, I'm so happy that
you're following the people up,
00:20:53.40\00:20:56.78
because they appreciate
it, and they know that
00:20:57.12\00:20:59.09
somebody's trying to
help them, and they're there.
00:20:59.10\00:21:02.06
Well, we'll continue to do that.
00:21:02.42\00:21:04.69
I've been blessed by
being given that assignment.
00:21:05.06\00:21:08.21
I get to talk to
everybody while they're here
00:21:08.22\00:21:11.00
and then after
they leave as well.
00:21:11.03\00:21:12.87
- Well, this is exciting.
Thank you Doctor for joining us.
00:21:12.88\00:21:15.81
- I'm really, really happy.
00:21:15.82\00:21:17.06
It's always a
pleasure to visit with you.
00:21:17.07\00:21:18.75
- Thank you.
00:21:19.00\00:21:20.09
And thank you for
being with us, folks.
00:21:20.27\00:21:22.18
But don't go away,
because in a moment
00:21:22.19\00:21:24.48
we have an
important tip for you.
00:21:24.49\00:21:28.09
Hello. Welcome
to NEWSTART at Home.
00:21:41.87\00:21:43.63
We're glad that we
can enter your home today
00:21:43.64\00:21:46.06
I'm Don Mackintosh, the host,
00:21:46.09\00:21:47.75
and today we have
Dr. Neil Nedley with us.
00:21:47.76\00:21:50.33
We're glad you're here, Doctor.
00:21:50.34\00:21:51.39
Thank you. It's good to be here.
00:21:51.42\00:21:52.87
You're a specialist in
not only internal medicine,
00:21:53.12\00:21:56.57
which deals with medical
issues of the internal organs
00:21:56.66\00:21:59.66
and the whole system, but also
00:21:59.75\00:22:01.63
preventive medicine, or
so-called lifestyle medicine.
00:22:01.66\00:22:05.21
And today we want to
talk about lifestyle medicine.
00:22:05.24\00:22:07.57
as it relates to what happens
here at the NEWSTART program.
00:22:07.60\00:22:11.12
-Okay. And NEWSTART, of course,
00:22:11.24\00:22:14.66
that acronym--
nutrition, exercise, water,
00:22:14.67\00:22:17.00
and all those different things.
00:22:17.09\00:22:18.39
What are the
things that we're learning
00:22:18.42\00:22:20.57
that can help people know
00:22:20.58\00:22:23.21
that this is really something
that's going to help them?
00:22:23.27\00:22:25.15
Well you know, interestingly,
we used to think of NEWSTART
00:22:25.42\00:22:28.21
as really being a
preventive modality.
00:22:28.30\00:22:32.03
Those were the 8 things
that could prevent disease.
00:22:32.15\00:22:35.06
And it's true, they do.
But we now know that each
00:22:35.24\00:22:37.81
one of those principles
can actually be utilized
00:22:37.82\00:22:40.24
in certain diseases to
help treat the disease.
00:22:40.25\00:22:43.24
And maybe that's
all that's needed.
00:22:43.30\00:22:45.24
to treat the disease
and even cure the disease.
00:22:45.27\00:22:48.03
So it's not
enough to just prevent.
00:22:48.12\00:22:49.66
It might even reverse.
00:22:49.72\00:22:51.54
That's right. Lifestyle
medicine really is different
00:22:51.63\00:22:54.48
from preventive medicine
in that lifestyle medicine
00:22:54.49\00:22:57.42
is a lifestyle intervention
in the treatment of disease.
00:22:57.69\00:23:02.15
So give me an example.
00:23:02.36\00:23:03.48
We do the sunlight, we do
all these different things.
00:23:03.57\00:23:05.54
We have cardiac patients,
we have depressed patients.
00:23:05.60\00:23:08.69
What about sunlight? Vitamin D?
00:23:08.78\00:23:10.72
Well vitamin D can help people,
00:23:10.78\00:23:13.21
for instance, that have
lung cancer or breast cancer.
00:23:13.30\00:23:16.27
Studies show that if
you get breast cancer
00:23:16.45\00:23:19.51
and your vitamin
D level stays low,
00:23:19.57\00:23:22.45
you'll have a much higher chance
00:23:22.51\00:23:24.30
of that breast cancer
spreading to the lungs.
00:23:24.31\00:23:26.69
If you have breast cancer and
you get the vitamin D level up,
00:23:27.06\00:23:30.72
you'll only have
a 15 percent chance
00:23:30.73\00:23:32.36
of it spreading to the lungs
00:23:32.37\00:23:33.54
instead of about
a 94 percent chance.
00:23:33.55\00:23:35.75
And so you can
make a big difference
00:23:36.00\00:23:39.03
just on getting
adequate vitamin D.
00:23:39.04\00:23:41.36
And of course,
that's through the sun,
00:23:41.54\00:23:43.09
and that should
be an intervention.
00:23:43.10\00:23:44.36
Every breast cancer
patient should know that.
00:23:44.39\00:23:46.24
If you have breast cancer,
00:23:46.25\00:23:47.30
you need to get your
vitamin D level checked.
00:23:47.31\00:23:49.12
because if it's woefully low,
00:23:49.13\00:23:51.24
you need to find a way of
getting a lot more vitamin D,
00:23:51.25\00:23:53.72
and it will help your prognosis.
00:23:53.73\00:23:55.42
Now most people probably think
their vitamin D level is fine,
00:23:55.45\00:23:58.81
but do most people have
a problem with low levels?
00:23:58.87\00:24:02.06
Actually, the
majority of Americans today
00:24:02.15\00:24:04.09
have problems with low levels.
00:24:04.10\00:24:05.72
And that's simply because we
00:24:05.73\00:24:07.18
don't live in an
agricultural society
00:24:07.19\00:24:09.00
where people are outdoors
working, like they used to be.
00:24:09.01\00:24:11.42
And so they're
primarily indoor people
00:24:11.54\00:24:14.24
and if they are outdoors,
it's in the morning or evening
00:24:14.30\00:24:16.54
where there's not enough
00:24:16.55\00:24:17.57
direct sunlight
to get vitamin D.
00:24:17.58\00:24:19.63
Other things. What
about cardiac patients
00:24:19.81\00:24:23.03
or those that
have heart problems.
00:24:23.06\00:24:24.30
What are the lifestyle things
that happen here at NEWSTART.
00:24:24.31\00:24:27.63
Well actually, the
NEWSTART program has been
00:24:27.78\00:24:30.18
shown to be able to
reverse coronary artery disease.
00:24:30.19\00:24:33.66
So if someone has
chest pain and angina,
00:24:33.78\00:24:36.06
this is a great place to come.
00:24:36.07\00:24:37.51
And normally, within 5 to 7 days
00:24:37.60\00:24:40.60
their arteries
actually begin to relax,
00:24:40.66\00:24:42.87
More blood goes to the arteries.
00:24:42.88\00:24:45.75
And over the course-- if
they stay on the program--
00:24:45.76\00:24:47.78
a year, on the angiograms
it will actually improve.
00:24:47.87\00:24:51.03
Those plaques will
significantly improve
00:24:51.09\00:24:53.45
in their coronary arteries.
00:24:53.51\00:24:55.21
And so you can actually
reverse coronary artery disease
00:24:55.22\00:24:57.63
through NEWSTART principles.
00:24:57.64\00:24:59.12
Of course, if you have
chest pain or angina right now
00:24:59.18\00:25:01.27
it might be best to call
your doctor or go to the ER,
00:25:01.39\00:25:03.69
but you're saying
if it's stable enough
00:25:03.70\00:25:05.69
to come up here
then. - That's right.
00:25:05.75\00:25:07.24
Anything else in terms of
lifestyle things that we...
00:25:07.45\00:25:10.30
that happen here, like...
00:25:10.36\00:25:12.54
Well I mean, it
can treat hypertension.
00:25:12.69\00:25:14.39
High blood
pressure can be treated
00:25:14.42\00:25:16.15
through NEWSTART principles.
00:25:16.16\00:25:18.00
Also many other diseases.
You mentioned depression.
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Major depression can actually be
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treated through
lifestyle principles.
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And then, if you've
even had a heart attack
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and you have
congestive heart failure,
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the heart can
actually get stronger,
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and we can find ways of actually
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preventing the fluid
building up in the lungs
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through certain
NEWSTART principles.
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So it sounds like NEWSTART is
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kinda like the
answer for many things,
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and now we're figuring
out why it's the answer.
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That's right. - Yeah.
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So lifestyle is a
very powerful thing.
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How long are the programs here?
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Nineteen days.
That's the full program.
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And they run those
one after the other.
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They run them
year-round, and so...
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I tell ya, it's the
greatest 19-day investment
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that you can
make, is in your health.
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And this will
definitely improve your health.
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You know, it's
exciting to be here
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and see some of the
changes in people's lives.
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- Absolutely.
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Well, we hope that
what you've learned today
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is helpful to you.
It's been helpful to me.
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And if you or someone you
know needs the NEWSTART program,
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let them know about the program.
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Let them know
about the people here,
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like Doctor Nedley and
others that are serving,
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and just the good
old lifestyle things
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that they could be involved in.
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Go to our website:
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We're glad you joined us,
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and we hope that as a
result you have a new start
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that starts today.
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Modern views of
evolution stem all the way back
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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 instruction
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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 an old industrial era
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long since passed.
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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,
that's it for today.
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I'm glad you joined us,
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and I hope you
enjoyed the program.
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Pick up that phone
now and give us a call at:
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Have a wonderful
day, and God bless you.
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