Hi friends, and welcome to another edition of NEWSTART NOW. 00:00:23.84\00:00:26.87 We have in our studio with us today Carol Higgins, 00:00:27.30\00:00:30.42 all the way from Africa. 00:00:30.84\00:00:32.30 And I'd like to show you a clip when she 00:00:32.63\00:00:34.51 first arrived here at the NEWSTART program. 00:00:34.52\00:00:37.00 Well I had a friend, 00:00:38.54\00:00:40.45 that was here a couple months ago, 00:00:41.27\00:00:43.15 and he and I have been trying to lose 00:00:43.60\00:00:45.33 weight together for many many years. 00:00:45.34\00:00:47.51 I have some arthritis and some digestive issues, 00:00:48.03\00:00:51.06 low blood sugar problems. 00:00:51.18\00:00:52.57 So I just don't want to go into being a diabetic. 00:00:52.72\00:00:55.57 The nutritionist tells me I need to lose about 70 pounds, 00:00:56.12\00:00:59.72 and I'm hoping to gain a better 00:01:00.42\00:01:03.30 understanding of how to eat properly. Yeah. 00:01:03.45\00:01:06.30 Sixty-six years has gotten me this body! 00:01:06.75\00:01:09.18 I don't want to finish out my life 00:01:09.63\00:01:11.51 with this body the way it is. 00:01:11.52\00:01:13.60 That's kind of bottom line-- I'm ready for a change. 00:01:14.78\00:01:17.33 Welcome back friends, and in our studio, Carol. 00:01:20.48\00:01:23.00 How are you, dear? Good to see you! 00:01:23.30\00:01:25.15 Fine, thank you. 00:01:25.48\00:01:26.51 Yeah, now I want to get right into this interview, because 00:01:26.72\00:01:29.54 I know you shared with us before we went on the air here 00:01:29.84\00:01:33.21 that you've gone through some incredible changes. 00:01:33.81\00:01:36.54 Can you speak to us about that? 00:01:37.09\00:01:38.63 Well, if I can get over these tears... 00:01:39.42\00:01:41.63 Ah! Sorry! 00:01:41.81\00:01:43.69 Yes, I have... 00:01:44.00\00:01:45.60 I have really experienced some change, 00:01:45.75\00:01:47.75 and I was thinking today if you could only measure 00:01:47.76\00:01:50.84 attitude in milligrams or inches or something, 00:01:52.12\00:01:56.60 that I've probably grown quite a few inches this... 00:01:57.15\00:02:00.63 this week, these last two and a half weeks, 00:02:01.12\00:02:04.12 because my attitude has changed so much. 00:02:04.21\00:02:07.33 So what I'm hearing you say is 00:02:07.75\00:02:09.18 that maybe you have a little hope? 00:02:09.19\00:02:11.27 I have a lot of hope! 00:02:11.66\00:02:13.06 Because looking at golden years, 00:02:13.63\00:02:16.36 you... you... 00:02:16.51\00:02:18.06 I have hope that my golden years will be happy instead of 00:02:18.63\00:02:22.09 depressing. 00:02:22.72\00:02:24.84 So... 00:02:26.00\00:02:27.45 what are these tears about, 00:02:27.51\00:02:28.78 other than that hope? 00:02:29.30\00:02:30.33 You were experiencing some good changes. 00:02:31.00\00:02:33.72 Can you tell us about that? 00:02:33.73\00:02:34.84 I can. I have a vocational school 00:02:35.15\00:02:37.84 in Uganda at the orphanage. 00:02:37.87\00:02:39.63 And I was thinking about this 00:02:40.66\00:02:42.24 because when the kids come in to us as... 00:02:42.25\00:02:45.36 they're hopeless because they've failed in school, 00:02:45.72\00:02:48.75 and what's left for them is vocational school. 00:02:48.76\00:02:51.51 And so they come in, and I try to get... 00:02:52.24\00:02:54.48 I try--in the first week I try to have them experience success. 00:02:54.81\00:02:59.24 And... 00:02:59.54\00:03:01.03 And at the end of the year they are standing tall. 00:03:01.84\00:03:06.18 And now I have experienced 00:03:06.30\00:03:08.54 coming someplace where I felt hopeless, 00:03:08.72\00:03:11.84 and I'm standing tall. 00:03:12.30\00:03:14.39 - God bless you. 00:03:14.84\00:03:16.45 My blood sugar is down, and my... 00:03:16.60\00:03:20.48 ah, my...what do you call it? Tri... not-- 00:03:21.03\00:03:24.36 - Triglycerides? 00:03:24.54\00:03:25.69 Cholesterol? - Cholesterol is down. 00:03:26.24\00:03:28.27 - Down? Yes. - My pulse is down. 00:03:28.28\00:03:30.72 And... - And you're up! 00:03:31.18\00:03:32.48 And I'm up! That's right! 00:03:32.66\00:03:34.66 - All these things are down and you're up! 00:03:34.84\00:03:36.51 I've only lost four pounds, but I've lost three inches. 00:03:36.69\00:03:40.27 - My word. - And I'm just... 00:03:40.72\00:03:42.24 I'm excited that I'm on a... 00:03:42.84\00:03:45.00 I'm on a good path. 00:03:45.51\00:03:46.81 And I want to exercise. 00:03:47.21\00:03:48.72 I was not exercising at all before. 00:03:48.73\00:03:51.09 And I was actually... 00:03:51.66\00:03:53.84 dancing down the path the other day! 00:03:54.48\00:03:56.48 It was very exciting to have energy again. 00:03:57.69\00:04:00.27 - Oh, praise God. 00:04:00.54\00:04:02.48 You know, did Dr. Lukens tell you about 00:04:03.12\00:04:05.09 the lady we had come through the program 00:04:05.10\00:04:07.30 that lost four dress sizes and didn't lose a pound? 00:04:07.48\00:04:12.09 I like that. 00:04:12.21\00:04:13.60 - Well you're just, you're sharing again that 00:04:13.75\00:04:16.87 your body, when it gets in the condition 00:04:17.09\00:04:20.12 it's quote "supposed" to be in, 00:04:20.18\00:04:22.21 the body that God gave us, 00:04:22.30\00:04:24.39 then it doesn't necessarily have to lose weight, 00:04:24.69\00:04:27.81 but you start shrinking. 00:04:28.00\00:04:29.21 It happened to me, as well. 00:04:29.39\00:04:31.21 So what else? 00:04:31.24\00:04:32.45 What else did you like about 00:04:32.46\00:04:34.00 being here at the NEWSTART program? 00:04:34.01\00:04:35.72 Well, I always thought that 00:04:36.00\00:04:37.72 people that ate tofu were really weird. 00:04:37.84\00:04:41.30 - [laughter] 00:04:41.31\00:04:42.51 - Some of us are a little weird! 00:04:42.54\00:04:44.03 - Yeah. 00:04:44.09\00:04:45.12 And now I'm eating tofu and making it. 00:04:45.24\00:04:48.21 - Oh no! - Fixing it myself... 00:04:48.24\00:04:49.78 I hope you don't think that you're getting weird on us. 00:04:50.03\00:04:52.24 I'm afraid I am. - Okay. 00:04:52.51\00:04:54.18 - Well, God bless you for being weird. 00:04:54.24\00:04:55.78 Yep. If this is what weird's about, I'm okay. 00:04:55.84\00:04:58.63 - Good, good. 00:04:58.78\00:05:00.21 So you see vegans and vegetarians 00:05:00.30\00:05:04.42 in a whole new light. 00:05:04.51\00:05:05.81 I do, yeah. 00:05:06.12\00:05:07.66 I'm excited to be able to share this with my family, 00:05:07.72\00:05:12.06 and they're already asking questions, so... 00:05:12.15\00:05:14.39 That's what I'm hoping for, 00:05:14.63\00:05:16.45 is for them to ask questions without me having to 00:05:16.48\00:05:19.54 say, "Do this, do that." 00:05:19.78\00:05:21.45 Because they'll listen if they're asking questions. 00:05:21.66\00:05:24.15 Now I introduced you as coming all the way from Africa, 00:05:24.24\00:05:28.09 from Uganda, 00:05:28.15\00:05:29.51 and on the screen during the first interview 00:05:29.69\00:05:33.84 it said you were from Oregon. - Mhmm. 00:05:34.00\00:05:35.81 Is that where your US home is, in Oregon? 00:05:35.87\00:05:39.42 That's where we're from, 00:05:39.51\00:05:40.57 and that's where our ministry is based from. 00:05:40.58\00:05:43.15 - And how long have you been in Africa? 00:05:43.21\00:05:45.18 We've been there 11 years this month. 00:05:45.54\00:05:47.75 - Wow. - Mhmm. 00:05:48.06\00:05:49.12 What a ministry, to help these poor, 00:05:49.13\00:05:51.39 underprivileged children. 00:05:51.40\00:05:53.00 - It is. 00:05:53.12\00:05:54.15 - Its' probably the toughest thing we've ever done, 00:05:54.51\00:05:57.27 but the most fruitful. 00:05:57.30\00:05:59.06 And we're opening a new cafe when we get back, 00:05:59.24\00:06:02.12 when I get back, 00:06:02.18\00:06:03.18 and it's gonna be... 00:06:03.24\00:06:04.48 vegan. 00:06:05.12\00:06:06.27 Right on. [laughter] 00:06:06.69\00:06:08.36 You'll bring something to these... 00:06:08.48\00:06:10.00 - We're going to start it that way, 00:06:10.01\00:06:11.33 so we don't have anything to change. 00:06:11.36\00:06:13.24 Wonderful, wonderful. - Yep. We'll try it. 00:06:13.36\00:06:15.57 See what happens. 00:06:15.60\00:06:16.66 Okay, so I want to talk about the staff here, 00:06:16.75\00:06:18.42 because we haven't said anything about them. 00:06:18.54\00:06:20.36 You've met of course 00:06:20.54\00:06:22.48 everyone on staff, that is the NEWSTART staff. 00:06:22.72\00:06:26.60 Can you say anything about Viola, for instance, 00:06:27.00\00:06:31.78 our chaplain? 00:06:31.87\00:06:33.00 Oh, she is such a dear spirit. 00:06:33.27\00:06:37.09 I just love her so much, 00:06:37.27\00:06:39.57 and she's gentle, and listened to me, 00:06:39.63\00:06:43.09 and just ministered to me. 00:06:43.21\00:06:45.00 Her teachings were... 00:06:45.15\00:06:46.72 were right on for me 00:06:47.24\00:06:49.18 and ministered to me. 00:06:49.33\00:06:51.15 - Alright. - Yeah. 00:06:51.27\00:06:53.21 - Commitment. 00:06:53.24\00:06:54.30 Commitment? - Mhmm. 00:06:54.39\00:06:56.39 That's the bottom line. 00:06:56.78\00:06:58.48 What about the exercise that you learned here? 00:06:59.39\00:07:03.33 Did you learn how to do some new things with your body? 00:07:03.48\00:07:06.63 I did. I didn't know I could do some of those things. 00:07:06.84\00:07:09.69 Some of them I'm still working on. 00:07:10.21\00:07:12.12 It's not working like it should. 00:07:12.42\00:07:14.63 But yeah, I'm stretching and exercising, 00:07:15.15\00:07:19.15 and Jerry and Rick were both fun to follow. 00:07:19.36\00:07:23.81 Now, what was your favorite part 00:07:24.48\00:07:27.60 of your stay here so far? 00:07:27.69\00:07:29.51 Sally in the kitchen, 00:07:30.48\00:07:32.36 I think, has really put wings to the whole program, 00:07:32.63\00:07:36.87 because without the teaching of cooking, 00:07:37.00\00:07:39.69 how... 00:07:40.24\00:07:41.42 how would we know how to do this? 00:07:41.69\00:07:44.27 And the food was so wonderful. 00:07:44.39\00:07:47.36 You know, Sally's been here like 25 years. 00:07:47.48\00:07:50.63 And she is the cooking school instructor 00:07:50.84\00:07:54.51 Sally Christensen. 00:07:54.60\00:07:56.15 Some of you already know her, 00:07:56.24\00:07:58.12 but some of you are going to meet her 00:07:58.27\00:08:00.21 in the not-too-distant future. 00:08:00.22\00:08:01.66 She's absolutely marvelous, what she does in the kitchen. 00:08:01.75\00:08:05.36 By the way, we have a Reversing Diabetes program 00:08:05.75\00:08:09.24 beginning May 31. 00:08:09.42\00:08:11.39 I don't know if this will broadcast by then, 00:08:11.51\00:08:13.72 but Sally will be participating 00:08:14.00\00:08:16.51 with Neva Brackett in the cooking lectures 00:08:16.57\00:08:20.39 that will be going on there. 00:08:20.48\00:08:21.75 I bought Neva's books. I'm excited about...that. 00:08:22.09\00:08:26.09 - Yes, good for you! 00:08:26.18\00:08:27.48 You know what I really liked about the staff 00:08:27.63\00:08:30.06 is that the doctors walked, 00:08:30.15\00:08:32.78 they ate with us and talked with us. 00:08:33.21\00:08:35.15 We had access to them. 00:08:35.24\00:08:37.06 Literally--I've never been able to ask a doctor just... 00:08:37.36\00:08:40.81 simple little stuff, you know? - Yeah! 00:08:41.18\00:08:43.63 They were accessible to us, and they loved us, 00:08:44.03\00:08:46.60 and they prayed with us. 00:08:46.87\00:08:48.30 That's pretty amazing. 00:08:49.15\00:08:50.54 What Carol is saying is 00:08:50.78\00:08:52.63 not only true, but I want to elaborate a little bit. 00:08:52.72\00:08:55.63 Because usually we go to a doctor and 00:08:55.87\00:08:58.09 we sign in, then the nurse calls us in. 00:08:58.10\00:09:01.18 She takes our blood pressure and 00:09:01.27\00:09:02.81 maybe looks in our ear or our eye or whatever, 00:09:03.03\00:09:05.30 and the the doc comes in, spends 5 minutes-- 00:09:05.31\00:09:07.51 that's it! 00:09:07.54\00:09:08.81 Well here the doctors will eat with you, 00:09:08.84\00:09:11.15 because they eat with the guests every day, 00:09:11.24\00:09:13.33 all three meals. 00:09:13.48\00:09:15.03 Not necessarily do we advise three meals for everyone, 00:09:15.24\00:09:18.63 but they're there-- they make themselves available. 00:09:18.64\00:09:21.36 And after your interview with the doctor, 00:09:21.60\00:09:24.75 I know that they take us out-- 00:09:24.81\00:09:27.24 they took you out, I'm sure-- 00:09:27.36\00:09:28.81 and walked on the trail. 00:09:29.09\00:09:30.27 And what they do is that they observe, 00:09:30.42\00:09:32.24 make sure that you're not strenu--you know, 00:09:32.30\00:09:34.72 hurting yourself, basically. 00:09:34.81\00:09:36.81 - So I think that's wonderful. 00:09:37.51\00:09:39.00 I thought that was just... the cat's meow. 00:09:39.06\00:09:42.18 You know, another thing is, 00:09:42.24\00:09:44.15 I did change. 00:09:44.21\00:09:45.39 The first day, I changed to eating only 2 meals a day. 00:09:45.40\00:09:49.12 And I was AMAZED 00:09:49.39\00:09:52.00 that I wasn't hungry the next morning. 00:09:52.12\00:09:54.63 I was amazed! - Yes! 00:09:54.78\00:09:57.15 And I haven't eaten any meal at night, 00:09:57.18\00:10:00.63 except when we went to Doctor Lukens' house 00:10:00.69\00:10:02.66 that night for fellowship. 00:10:02.67\00:10:04.45 And I was hungry the next morning. 00:10:05.00\00:10:07.21 And no snacks in between, right? 00:10:07.42\00:10:09.03 No, I had no contraband. 00:10:09.15\00:10:10.75 - [laughter] No M&Ms. 00:10:10.76\00:10:13.09 Nope. Nope. 00:10:13.24\00:10:14.78 Well Carol, we've run out of time. 00:10:15.03\00:10:16.51 I want to thank you for being here. 00:10:16.66\00:10:18.45 God bless you in your work in Africa. 00:10:18.60\00:10:21.48 And friends, thank you for joining us, 00:10:21.51\00:10:23.33 but don't go away! 00:10:23.36\00:10:24.45 Because we're going to interview Doctor Lukens in just a moment. 00:10:24.51\00:10:28.06 Well, you've done very well. 00:10:29.21\00:10:30.84 Do you have diabetes, 00:10:37.27\00:10:38.54 heart disease, high blood pressure, 00:10:38.55\00:10:40.63 or do you weigh too much? 00:10:41.18\00:10:42.48 Hi, my name is Dr. Ing, and I'd like to tell you 00:10:43.36\00:10:46.15 about our 18-day NEWSTART lifestyle program. 00:10:46.16\00:10:49.12 It includes a comprehensive medical evaluation 00:10:49.75\00:10:52.48 with laboratory studies and an exercise stress test, 00:10:52.49\00:10:55.78 physician consultations, 00:10:56.33\00:10:58.06 culinary school, 00:10:58.69\00:10:59.87 and an opportunity to walk on beautiful trails 00:11:00.42\00:11:03.36 in the foothills of the Sierras. 00:11:03.37\00:11:05.36 Your health is one of the most 00:11:07.42\00:11:08.84 important things that you have. Don't wait. 00:11:08.85\00:11:10.87 Give us a call at: 00:11:11.42\00:11:13.15 Or visit our website: 00:11:16.21\00:11:17.45 Welcome back, friends, and as I promised, Dr. Lukens. 00:11:35.27\00:11:39.12 It's always so good to see you. 00:11:39.13\00:11:41.33 We've got some exciting people here, huh? 00:11:41.51\00:11:43.27 Yes we do, and I-- 00:11:43.60\00:11:44.69 - And they're excited. And you're excited, I can tell! 00:11:44.70\00:11:47.60 We're going to be talking about Carol, 00:11:47.61\00:11:50.27 and I want to get into the situation of 00:11:50.33\00:11:54.36 hypoglycemia. You call it something different? 00:11:54.51\00:11:57.39 - Can you talk about that? 00:11:57.42\00:11:58.45 Yeah, the...the term... - Reactive? 00:11:58.51\00:12:00.42 Yeah, reactive hypoglycemia. 00:12:00.54\00:12:02.45 - Yeah, tell us what that means. 00:12:02.63\00:12:04.15 Well what's happening is that 00:12:04.36\00:12:05.81 a person generally will be overweight, 00:12:06.06\00:12:08.54 and one of the things that they tell them to do is 00:12:08.72\00:12:12.36 eat every two hours. 00:12:12.51\00:12:14.33 Now you can imagine what a good thing that is 00:12:14.60\00:12:17.15 for your digestive system, 00:12:17.16\00:12:19.51 and how easy it is to take care of your weight 00:12:19.78\00:12:22.36 when you're on that, you know. 00:12:22.45\00:12:24.33 But I had a cousin that had that, 00:12:24.51\00:12:26.15 and what they have, 00:12:26.18\00:12:27.33 is they end up by doing this, but... 00:12:27.51\00:12:31.51 because of their being overweight, 00:12:31.66\00:12:33.81 and it's kind of like pre-diabetes, 00:12:33.87\00:12:35.57 frequently they go into full diabetes. 00:12:35.63\00:12:37.72 And she realizes that possibility is there. 00:12:37.75\00:12:40.21 The insulin goes more and more and more, 00:12:40.45\00:12:43.63 and so after a while, 00:12:43.64\00:12:45.24 when they keep pouring out more and more insulin, 00:12:45.36\00:12:48.72 then their pancreas is going to wear out 00:12:48.87\00:12:51.09 because it's overused. 00:12:51.10\00:12:52.54 And then they won't be able to keep the insulin enough 00:12:52.87\00:12:57.06 so that it can help them when they're still overweight. 00:12:57.09\00:13:00.15 So we come back to it again. 00:13:00.45\00:13:02.03 What's the answer to diabetes? 00:13:02.15\00:13:04.15 - Weight loss. Okay. 00:13:04.42\00:13:06.33 How do you get rid of it? Lose the weight. 00:13:06.63\00:13:09.09 How do you lose the weight? Exercise. 00:13:09.24\00:13:11.72 Well how do you get rid of hypoglycemia? 00:13:12.09\00:13:15.15 Three to five miles a day, 00:13:15.33\00:13:17.39 eating whole plant foods, and that's it. 00:13:17.66\00:13:19.81 If it's not going down, 00:13:20.24\00:13:22.00 then there's something wrong with your program. 00:13:22.18\00:13:24.33 So how about this hypoglycemia thing? 00:13:24.42\00:13:26.84 Reactive. It's reactive because 00:13:27.00\00:13:29.09 there's so much insulin that's coming into the situation. 00:13:29.15\00:13:31.84 - How do you slow it down? 00:13:32.00\00:13:33.09 Well, you don't. 00:13:33.45\00:13:35.27 Because the body's going to respond when you eat 00:13:35.60\00:13:38.09 simple carbohydrates. 00:13:38.27\00:13:40.12 And it raises your blood sugar. 00:13:40.69\00:13:42.66 Your body's going to respond. 00:13:43.03\00:13:44.21 It doesn't want that blood sugar to be high. 00:13:44.33\00:13:46.42 because if it continues on being high and high and high, 00:13:46.54\00:13:49.45 then after a while you start getting 00:13:49.48\00:13:51.45 the problems that the diabetics get. 00:13:51.60\00:13:53.87 And so the insulin comes surging in, 00:13:54.33\00:13:57.57 and you know, a half hour, an hour, 00:13:57.66\00:14:00.18 maybe longer after you've finished your meal, 00:14:00.36\00:14:04.24 your blood sugar starts going down, 00:14:04.48\00:14:06.42 and it goes down and down, and... 00:14:06.48\00:14:07.81 it reaches a normal level. 00:14:07.84\00:14:09.63 And then it goes down lower and lower. 00:14:09.75\00:14:11.63 And pretty soon you start feeling anxious, 00:14:11.66\00:14:14.39 you start feeling clammy, 00:14:14.51\00:14:16.57 you start feeling jittery, 00:14:16.72\00:14:18.69 and you start feeling nauseated. 00:14:19.03\00:14:21.18 What is this from? 00:14:21.19\00:14:22.45 It's because when our blood sugar gets too low, 00:14:22.48\00:14:26.24 then adrenalin starts pouring in 00:14:26.48\00:14:29.12 because that will raise the blood sugar. 00:14:29.30\00:14:31.45 And there you go-- you're on this cycle. 00:14:31.60\00:14:33.57 And my cousin had to quit teaching for a while, 00:14:33.81\00:14:36.24 because she would get sick headaches, 00:14:36.39\00:14:38.69 she would actually throw up. 00:14:39.06\00:14:42.21 Sometimes in front of the class she would pass out 00:14:42.45\00:14:45.30 and just fall to the floor. 00:14:45.54\00:14:46.75 I mean, what kind of...? 00:14:46.76\00:14:47.87 How can you teach a class like that? 00:14:48.09\00:14:50.00 This lady is a wonderful missionary 00:14:50.06\00:14:52.84 over in Uganda, and she's seen some things 00:14:53.06\00:14:55.63 that you would never even want to hear about. 00:14:55.75\00:14:58.03 But she's gotten all these orphan kids, 00:14:58.09\00:15:00.57 and she's brought them in, 00:15:00.63\00:15:03.57 and it's a wonderful thing. 00:15:03.58\00:15:04.69 There's over 200 orphans that are there. 00:15:04.70\00:15:06.69 And it keeps building! 00:15:06.72\00:15:08.21 But here she is, she's got all these responsibilities, 00:15:08.24\00:15:10.84 all this stuff that she has to do, 00:15:11.09\00:15:12.84 and she gets these reactive hypoglycemia spells. 00:15:12.87\00:15:16.87 And she didn't know what to do, 00:15:17.24\00:15:19.54 and they're getting worse, and things are a problem. 00:15:19.72\00:15:23.72 Since she came here and is on the whole plant foods whole, 00:15:24.12\00:15:27.12 she doesn't have those big sugar surges. 00:15:27.24\00:15:29.45 She's only had that reaction once. 00:15:29.54\00:15:31.81 Wonderful. - And so, and... 00:15:32.33\00:15:33.75 And she's thrilled. 00:15:34.09\00:15:35.18 - Praise God. - She's thrilled about that. 00:15:35.30\00:15:37.21 Yeah, that's thrilling! 00:15:37.51\00:15:38.81 I keep telling everybody, "Lose the weight, 00:15:39.18\00:15:41.63 and the diabetes will go away. Lose the weight, 00:15:41.75\00:15:43.72 your reactive hypoglycemia will go away." 00:15:43.81\00:15:46.27 - And so the person says, 00:15:46.45\00:15:48.09 "How do you do that?" you know. 00:15:48.27\00:15:49.66 So--is she losing weight? 00:15:49.67\00:15:51.66 She hasn't lost hardly any. 00:15:51.72\00:15:53.24 Is she getting healthier? You bet she is. 00:15:53.48\00:15:56.24 And so she's excited about that. 00:15:56.57\00:15:58.45 What will happen as she continues on with this program? 00:15:58.72\00:16:02.00 The weight will come off. 00:16:02.24\00:16:03.84 And as it does, this will be a thing of the past. 00:16:04.39\00:16:07.81 Also she's complaining about the knees, the hips, 00:16:08.18\00:16:12.54 and all the weight on the joints, 00:16:12.87\00:16:14.36 the osteoarthritis and those kind of things. 00:16:14.42\00:16:16.78 What is that from? 00:16:17.12\00:16:19.03 - Too much weight. 00:16:20.24\00:16:21.60 It's gotta be weight. 00:16:21.61\00:16:22.60 - Pushing down on those and grinding those joints. 00:16:22.63\00:16:24.66 So there it goes back to that. 00:16:25.06\00:16:27.09 The... 00:16:27.15\00:16:28.27 I don't know how it is, because Africa 00:16:28.36\00:16:30.21 is becoming Westernized now. 00:16:30.22\00:16:31.78 And I'm understanding that people over there now-- 00:16:32.00\00:16:34.36 see this is 20 years since I was there. 00:16:34.57\00:16:36.60 I only saw two heart attacks. 00:16:36.78\00:16:38.45 Two heart attacks in 15 years of practice. 00:16:38.66\00:16:42.42 And now they say 00:16:42.66\00:16:44.30 no, they're having heart attacks over there, 00:16:44.31\00:16:46.45 and people are having diabetes over there, 00:16:46.60\00:16:49.66 and some of the countries are eating 00:16:50.03\00:16:51.51 a lot of beef and stuff like that. 00:16:51.52\00:16:53.57 They're going to have real problems. 00:16:53.84\00:16:55.87 They already have-- they're starting to have that. 00:16:56.18\00:16:58.57 With regards to Carol now, 00:16:59.15\00:17:00.60 you say that she needs to continue to lose weight. 00:17:01.09\00:17:04.06 But I also have heard you say that 00:17:04.27\00:17:06.69 she's come down a couple of sizes. 00:17:06.87\00:17:09.15 and not lost a whole lot. - No, I don't know that. 00:17:09.45\00:17:11.54 You know, when they measure her, 00:17:11.72\00:17:13.48 but she's... her clothes are fitting 00:17:13.54\00:17:16.03 a little bit better, yeah. 00:17:16.15\00:17:17.42 Yeah, she even said that to me. 00:17:17.63\00:17:19.54 - Yeah. - Uh, so... 00:17:19.72\00:17:21.09 - And so, they'll... 00:17:21.24\00:17:22.69 You know, it's not unusual for a person to come in, 00:17:22.75\00:17:25.63 and that's that-- We've talked about this before, 00:17:25.84\00:17:28.00 the metabolic thing, 00:17:28.15\00:17:29.45 where you have the big girth and the high blood pressure, 00:17:29.72\00:17:32.45 and then your blood sugars aren't under control, 00:17:32.57\00:17:34.84 your cholesterol's out of control, 00:17:34.87\00:17:36.42 and your triglycerides are too high. 00:17:36.66\00:17:38.21 That's the five different things, you see? 00:17:38.33\00:17:40.30 And her cholesterol when she came in was like 00:17:40.45\00:17:42.78 250 plus. 00:17:43.12\00:17:45.06 And it's down 30, and that's... 00:17:45.07\00:17:48.84 that's pretty good for somebody who's overweight. 00:17:49.33\00:17:51.84 Especially the women. They don't tend to lose 00:17:52.24\00:17:55.03 their cholesterol and their weight as fast 00:17:55.48\00:17:58.36 as the men can. 00:17:58.54\00:18:00.09 So what advice do you have for our viewers 00:18:00.42\00:18:02.84 that they can practice 00:18:02.85\00:18:04.48 in their own homes, on a daily basis? 00:18:04.87\00:18:07.57 Well see, what we've got is we've got people here that... 00:18:08.24\00:18:12.06 If she's got the pain in her joints, 00:18:12.24\00:18:14.21 what is she going to do? 00:18:14.36\00:18:15.45 Is she going to feel like going out there 00:18:15.51\00:18:16.81 and doing all these miles? 00:18:16.87\00:18:18.33 Not exactly. - [chuckle] 00:18:18.75\00:18:20.69 We have some people here that because of 00:18:20.81\00:18:23.06 their back and their neck and so forth, 00:18:23.07\00:18:25.12 they really...they can't-- 00:18:25.18\00:18:26.78 They don't even feel that they can do upper arm exercises 00:18:26.79\00:18:30.27 with like a 2-pound weight in each hand. 00:18:30.57\00:18:33.36 And that's some of the things that they can do. 00:18:33.57\00:18:35.48 Some people can get on a stationary bike. 00:18:35.57\00:18:38.39 But as we see people do this, 00:18:38.45\00:18:40.60 as they get into this kind of a dietary, 00:18:40.66\00:18:45.06 it's anti-inflammatory. 00:18:45.30\00:18:47.24 And those pains can go away. 00:18:47.51\00:18:49.42 They can go away... start going away within 00:18:49.43\00:18:52.24 a few days or weeks. 00:18:52.36\00:18:54.09 And we've had people that came in 00:18:54.39\00:18:56.33 with bone on bone, 00:18:56.42\00:18:59.00 and they say, "Well, there's nothing I can do about that." 00:18:59.18\00:19:02.30 Yes, there is. 00:19:02.36\00:19:03.48 The inflammation and the pain goes down 00:19:03.57\00:19:06.09 and then they start putting some fibrous tissue in there, 00:19:06.12\00:19:09.72 and after a while, 00:19:10.00\00:19:11.18 they don't have to have that joint replaced. 00:19:11.21\00:19:13.12 It takes time, it takes patience, 00:19:13.18\00:19:15.33 but as she can exercise... 00:19:15.39\00:19:17.51 But you have to start somewhere. 00:19:17.63\00:19:19.03 I told one of my patients just today, 00:19:19.04\00:19:20.69 "Walk 50 steps, 00:19:20.70\00:19:23.00 turn around, and walk 50 steps back, 00:19:23.15\00:19:26.30 and then sit, relax. 00:19:26.42\00:19:29.06 Get up again in 15 minutes 00:19:29.84\00:19:31.69 and do that over again." 00:19:32.00\00:19:33.30 We have people come in in a wheelchair, on oxygen, 00:19:33.39\00:19:36.72 in pain, 00:19:37.00\00:19:38.51 and away they go at the end of the program. 00:19:38.78\00:19:41.36 They're walking the Half-Mile Loop, some of them. 00:19:41.45\00:19:43.69 Some of them are walking less. 00:19:44.03\00:19:45.60 But they're getting started. 00:19:45.81\00:19:47.57 And we know that as a person does that... 00:19:48.00\00:19:50.24 In three months, they've done things where 00:19:50.42\00:19:52.45 people can get out of assisted living 00:19:52.54\00:19:54.51 for an extra 10 or 12 years. 00:19:54.52\00:19:57.60 I mean, that's unheard of. 00:19:58.00\00:19:59.30 - So you're saying exercise is cumulative. 00:19:59.39\00:20:01.87 You don't have to walk for long periods of time 00:20:02.24\00:20:04.84 necessarily, as long as you get started? 00:20:05.06\00:20:07.39 Is that what you're saying? - Yeah, and...and... 00:20:07.48\00:20:08.51 when you're exercising, 00:20:08.66\00:20:10.81 your metabolic rate is going up, and your muscles 00:20:10.87\00:20:15.78 for the next 24 hours are going to burn more sugar 00:20:16.12\00:20:19.24 than they did if you're sedentary. 00:20:19.33\00:20:20.84 Muscles are really happy to take sugar out of the blood. 00:20:21.09\00:20:23.84 When they need it, they'll get it, 00:20:23.87\00:20:25.84 and they're after it. 00:20:26.06\00:20:27.45 But you know, I thought, well... 00:20:27.72\00:20:28.84 I knew that that the overweight diabetic 00:20:29.03\00:20:32.81 was somebody that their pancreas... 00:20:33.09\00:20:34.78 we've got things that'll 00:20:34.87\00:20:35.87 whip it again, whip it again, 00:20:36.00\00:20:38.03 and make more and more insulin. 00:20:38.12\00:20:39.54 That's not what they need. 00:20:39.63\00:20:40.84 This lady doesn't have diabetes yet. 00:20:41.00\00:20:43.21 But her insulin is surging in there, 00:20:43.30\00:20:45.51 and now her life... 00:20:45.60\00:20:47.00 her life is miserable at times 00:20:47.01\00:20:50.81 because she has these things. 00:20:51.06\00:20:52.48 If you're nauseated, if you're... 00:20:52.54\00:20:54.48 if you're just feeling terrible and anxious 00:20:54.81\00:20:58.18 and your blood sugar is dropping so low 00:20:58.27\00:21:00.36 that you're just shaky and sweaty, 00:21:00.37\00:21:02.15 I mean, what are you gonna do? 00:21:02.30\00:21:03.57 That's all you can think about until that's passed. 00:21:03.60\00:21:06.12 That's like life-threatening. - Yep. 00:21:06.36\00:21:08.78 So any last words of advice? 00:21:08.87\00:21:11.18 Do this if you have reactive hypoglycemia. 00:21:11.39\00:21:14.36 Come and we'll help you out. 00:21:14.45\00:21:16.15 That's wonderful. - It happens. It works. 00:21:16.33\00:21:18.09 It happens all the time. - In a short period of time. 00:21:18.24\00:21:20.45 And I want to thank you for joining us, Doctor Lukens. 00:21:21.09\00:21:23.72 It's always my pleasure. 00:21:23.73\00:21:25.12 - It's always good to see you. 00:21:25.24\00:21:26.51 - Yep, really good. 00:21:26.60\00:21:27.63 And thank you for joining us, folks, 00:21:27.66\00:21:29.60 but don't go away. 00:21:29.61\00:21:30.66 We have an important tip for you right after this. 00:21:30.69\00:21:33.39 Welcome to NEWSTART at Home. 00:21:47.87\00:21:49.36 I'm Dr. David DeRose. 00:21:49.37\00:21:50.72 Today we're speaking about a problem 00:21:50.84\00:21:52.27 that's very common in medical offices. 00:21:52.30\00:21:54.57 It's likely that you or one of your loved ones 00:21:54.69\00:21:56.60 have experienced it. 00:21:56.66\00:21:57.78 The topic is frozen shoulder. 00:21:58.00\00:22:00.57 And with me is Jerry Flores. 00:22:00.72\00:22:02.57 Jerry is a therapist at Weimar Center of Health and Education, 00:22:02.66\00:22:06.00 part of the NEWSTART program. 00:22:06.12\00:22:07.51 Jerry, do you see a lot of problems with frozen shoulder? 00:22:07.52\00:22:10.66 Yes I do. As a matter of fact, 00:22:10.87\00:22:12.48 that's one that comes in frequently. 00:22:12.63\00:22:15.36 And we do treat it. 00:22:15.63\00:22:17.30 The medical term is adhesive capsulitis. 00:22:17.39\00:22:20.30 And the word 'adhesive' 00:22:20.45\00:22:22.00 means that things just are like glue there. 00:22:22.09\00:22:25.30 They tighten up, 00:22:25.36\00:22:26.84 they atrophy, 00:22:27.18\00:22:28.66 and I'm going to give one example. 00:22:28.67\00:22:30.18 For example, let's say you break your arm. 00:22:30.33\00:22:32.36 You get it in a cast. They cast it. 00:22:32.37\00:22:35.12 Two months later, your broken bone is healed, 00:22:35.87\00:22:38.66 but you didn't use your shoulder joint at all, 00:22:38.81\00:22:41.60 or very little. 00:22:41.72\00:22:43.12 And then you get up to this to put on a shirt, 00:22:43.21\00:22:45.45 and all of a sudden, "Ouch!" 00:22:45.60\00:22:46.63 You can't go above there and you've got excruciating pain. 00:22:46.66\00:22:49.48 Okay, so you're not... 00:22:49.78\00:22:51.15 A frozen shoulder doesn't mean necessarily 00:22:51.30\00:22:53.12 that they just can't move their shoulder at all. 00:22:53.18\00:22:54.81 They've just got severely limited range of motion. 00:22:55.09\00:22:57.72 Yes, limited range of motion. 00:22:57.78\00:22:59.87 Usually, they could go up to about 60 to 90 degrees, 00:23:00.15\00:23:04.15 but they can't go up above that, 00:23:04.16\00:23:05.72 the full 180 degrees, all the way up to... 00:23:05.73\00:23:08.54 your...ear. - Okay. 00:23:08.57\00:23:11.45 So Jerry, from our experience 00:23:11.54\00:23:13.39 it's very likely that many of the folks tuning in today 00:23:13.42\00:23:16.30 either have some shoulder limitations 00:23:16.42\00:23:18.45 or they know someone who does. 00:23:18.51\00:23:20.24 What can you do to help them? 00:23:20.33\00:23:21.75 What can they do at home to get some help? 00:23:21.87\00:23:24.30 Right. Well, the first thing that I'd like to do is, 00:23:24.42\00:23:26.78 it's a frozen shoulder, right? 00:23:26.79\00:23:28.66 So I just like to thaw it. 00:23:28.81\00:23:30.45 - Okay, fair enough. 00:23:30.72\00:23:31.81 - Thaw out the frozen shoulder. 00:23:32.03\00:23:33.27 You thaw out the frozen shoulder. 00:23:33.28\00:23:34.69 So you just apply some heat. 00:23:34.70\00:23:36.24 A hot pack. 00:23:36.33\00:23:37.63 You take an epsom salt bath, 00:23:37.78\00:23:39.54 which is very good. 00:23:39.81\00:23:41.00 We know it relaxes muscles. 00:23:41.21\00:23:42.78 And that helps. But then the key... 00:23:43.03\00:23:45.78 The key to... 00:23:46.03\00:23:49.18 helping a frozen shoulder is that 00:23:49.27\00:23:51.63 you gotta use a simple formula, 00:23:51.75\00:23:53.42 for a comfort scale. 00:23:53.57\00:23:56.15 What I do is I teach people how to use colors. 00:23:56.33\00:23:59.30 Red, yellow, and green. 00:23:59.87\00:24:03.00 - Just like a stop light. - Just like a stops light. 00:24:03.12\00:24:05.06 Or... 00:24:05.18\00:24:06.30 green, yellow, and red. 00:24:06.78\00:24:08.48 Green - no discomfort at all. 00:24:08.66\00:24:11.00 Keep going. 00:24:11.06\00:24:12.09 Keep going, yes. 00:24:12.39\00:24:13.63 Yellow - warning! 00:24:13.87\00:24:15.45 But it's still okay to go, 00:24:15.51\00:24:17.45 and in this case it would be 'move'. 00:24:17.51\00:24:19.45 And red, which means stop. 00:24:19.63\00:24:21.87 Too much discomfort, 00:24:22.12\00:24:23.51 therefore you don't continue 00:24:23.63\00:24:25.30 with the stretch or with the pressure. 00:24:25.36\00:24:27.54 So, when you got a frozen shoulder, 00:24:27.69\00:24:29.69 and you go up here and it's okay, it's green. 00:24:29.84\00:24:33.18 But you raised it up, it gets yellow, 00:24:33.36\00:24:35.09 and then just a little bit more and it gets into the red zone. 00:24:35.24\00:24:37.84 That's where people don't know what to do. 00:24:38.09\00:24:40.30 That's when we apply the heat, 00:24:40.39\00:24:42.09 and then just stretch it out a little bit more. 00:24:42.15\00:24:44.48 And if you like, 00:24:44.57\00:24:46.39 we could demonstrate a little bit on you. 00:24:46.45\00:24:48.12 - Oh sure, sure. - Sure? Okay. 00:24:48.21\00:24:49.84 So I'm going to take Doctor DeRose's shoulder, 00:24:50.06\00:24:53.42 and let's say it was frozen. 00:24:53.51\00:24:55.42 And you tell me-- I'm going to raise it up, 00:24:55.48\00:24:57.69 and you tell me as soon as it feels uncomfortable. 00:24:57.72\00:25:00.48 Am I supposed to make believe I've got a bad shoulder? 00:25:00.49\00:25:02.63 - Yes. - AH!!! Ahhh! 00:25:02.64\00:25:04.03 Okay, right there. 00:25:04.06\00:25:05.33 We can't go past that range of motion, right? 00:25:05.34\00:25:07.48 Assuming we already applied the heat, right, 00:25:07.60\00:25:10.27 we got more blood flowing there, more oxygen, 00:25:10.28\00:25:12.57 water, and nutrients. 00:25:12.66\00:25:13.87 So then what I do is I start... 00:25:13.88\00:25:16.39 Of course, you're lying down on a table, right? 00:25:16.40\00:25:18.48 And what I do is I start 00:25:18.54\00:25:21.66 just moving it just a little bit, 00:25:21.72\00:25:23.81 and I don't go past the yellow. 00:25:24.12\00:25:25.69 But then I do something. 00:25:26.00\00:25:27.24 - Okay, what do you do? - I stretch it out. 00:25:27.25\00:25:29.12 And I let the arm relax, and I go. 00:25:29.24\00:25:31.57 And I pull on the shoulder. 00:25:31.84\00:25:34.45 Okay, on the shoulder joint, like this. 00:25:34.54\00:25:36.51 - If I were laying down I wouldn't be moving so much. 00:25:36.52\00:25:38.48 Exactly. Right. - My weight would keep me there. 00:25:38.49\00:25:39.84 So then that's going to loosen up all the 00:25:40.03\00:25:41.60 tendons, ligaments, and muscles, 00:25:41.61\00:25:43.39 And that's going to allow for further range of motion. 00:25:43.57\00:25:47.12 - Ah, ah... - Okay, we're there. 00:25:47.24\00:25:49.00 We got about a degree or two. 00:25:49.01\00:25:50.57 Just a little bit more. 00:25:50.81\00:25:52.03 So then what I do is I like to push 00:25:52.24\00:25:54.72 the joint in, and rotate it. 00:25:54.78\00:25:58.03 And that breaks up a little bit of the scar tissue 00:25:58.33\00:26:00.39 that has built up, 00:26:00.40\00:26:01.63 and it allows it 00:26:01.69\00:26:03.45 to gain a little bit more mobility. 00:26:03.57\00:26:05.45 So once I'm doing that-- I'm done with doing that-- 00:26:05.60\00:26:08.42 I'm able to go 00:26:08.45\00:26:10.06 and just stretch a little bit more 00:26:10.12\00:26:11.51 and it stretches a little bit more. 00:26:11.63\00:26:13.30 Until after about an hour, an hour and a half of therapy, 00:26:13.54\00:26:17.03 in most cases, 00:26:17.18\00:26:18.30 I'm able to get about 160, and sometimes even 00:26:18.48\00:26:22.27 180 degrees in just one therapy. 00:26:22.33\00:26:24.84 but usually it takes about 2 or 3 therapies 00:26:25.09\00:26:28.00 to solve this issue. 00:26:28.01\00:26:29.45 And so presumably people could do this at home, 00:26:29.57\00:26:32.18 working on one another. - Yes. 00:26:32.24\00:26:34.72 Listen, I hope you found some very practical information 00:26:34.81\00:26:37.51 on today's edition of NEWSTART at Home. 00:26:37.69\00:26:39.54 If you want more information, simply go to: 00:26:39.66\00:26:41.87 Modern views of evolution stem all the way back 00:26:52.72\00:26:55.33 to theories developed in the mid-1800s. 00:26:55.36\00:26:57.75 Out of the same time period came ideas that shape 00:26:58.42\00:27:01.72 our educational system today. 00:27:01.75\00:27:04.00 The Common School Movement, for example, 00:27:04.54\00:27:06.81 saw schools more like a factory, 00:27:07.27\00:27:09.18 with students blindly memorizing instruction 00:27:09.19\00:27:11.84 rather than thinking for themselves. 00:27:11.87\00:27:13.84 Their curriculum was rigid and theoretical. 00:27:14.39\00:27:16.84 Instead of being flexible and practical, 00:27:16.85\00:27:19.69 it was designed to conform the individual 00:27:19.84\00:27:22.33 into a specific ideological mold 00:27:22.42\00:27:24.87 that fit the needs of an old industrial era 00:27:25.21\00:27:27.66 long since passed. 00:27:27.67\00:27:29.15 Just like our view of creation in six literal days, 00:27:30.42\00:27:33.66 we believe the Bible contains an educational blueprint 00:27:33.75\00:27:37.75 radically different from the one we see now. 00:27:38.12\00:27:40.48 Well, friends, that's it for today. 00:27:53.69\00:27:55.57 Pick up the phone and give us a call at: 00:27:55.72\00:27:57.45 And may the Lord richly bless you this day. 00:28:01.15\00:28:05.69