Participants: Ron Gianonni (Host), Dan Powell
Series Code: NSN
Program Code: NSN000073
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00:23 Hi friends, and welcome to another edition of NEWSTART Now!
00:27 In our studio with me is Dan Powell 00:30 from Yuma, Arizona. 00:32 And Dan came to us with a 00:34 series of problems. 00:36 And what I'd like to do is go to the clip when he first arrived. 00:41 I've been a diabetic since 1981 00:46 and my diabetes has gotten worse, and worse, and worse. 00:50 And I'm taking way too much insulin 00:53 and I needed something to help me get off this insulin. 00:58 Because it's a bad thing. I hate doing insulin. 01:02 So that's one of the main reasons I came here. 01:07 A lot of my friends at church 01:09 have been telling me to come here. 01:12 And here I am. 01:15 I have neuropathy and high blood pressure 01:19 and the neuropathy is going all 01:22 the way up to the back of my knee. 01:28 It's getting unbearable. 01:30 And I just can't do it anymore. 01:32 So that's why I've come to Weimar 01:33 Absolutely, what I'm trying to 01:36 achieve is to get rid of the insulin, 01:39 and to reverse my neuropathy, 01:41 and to go get my blood pressure down, 01:43 without having to take any pills. 01:48 Welcome back friends. And in our studio, 01:50 Dan, how are you my friend? 01:51 I'm wonderful, thank you. 01:53 You know, I remember a whole lot more that we talked about 01:56 since then and I'd like to address that right now. 02:01 You were on morphine? 02:04 I was taking a 12 hour time released morphine 02:07 for the pain in my hands and my legs. 02:10 So the neuropathy got so bad... 02:13 Now some of our viewers can relate to this. 02:16 We have many people out there 02:18 with diabetes, high blood pressure, 02:20 and neuropathy from the diabetes, 02:22 and they're on these pain killers. 02:24 But why morphine? 02:26 Well my doctor told me that for long 02:28 term it was the only thing I could do. 02:30 Okay. 02:32 And so, I've been doing it. I don't like it, but 02:38 now guess what? 02:40 I'm not doing it anymore! 02:41 Alright, I knew you were going to say that! 02:43 I'm off of it. 02:46 And my insulin, I was taking 300 units a day. 02:51 Now I'm down to about 90 units a day. 02:53 Wow. 02:54 Now let me just address the audience for a moment. 02:56 We don't do an interview before this show. This is live 03:00 and recording one shot. 03:03 So you're seeing the real deal. 03:05 Back to when you first came here 03:08 you seemed so relaxed then like there wasn't anything 03:13 really going on. 03:14 Well, that's my nature. 03:15 That's your nature. 03:17 That's my nature. 03:18 Okay. 03:20 I feel like I've not only done good for myself but I feel like 03:22 I've done good for the other guests too. 03:26 I've been very positive with them. 03:29 And when I was going through the morphine withdrawls 03:32 I did my best to help those ladies out. 03:36 We had 13 ladies and only 3 guys. 03:38 Wow. 03:39 And since then, like I said I've dropped my insulin down. 03:45 I lost 20 lbs. 03:47 20 lbs.! 03:49 20 lbs. in 18 days. 03:50 I can tell! 03:52 I feel so much better, I just praise the Lord! 03:55 He's blessed me way more than I could've imagined. 03:59 Amen. Amen. 04:01 Your legs and your hands, what about the neuropathy? 04:04 When I first came here I could bearly walk 04:07 the trails 04:09 I had a really rough time. My legs were tight 04:11 and they were really hurting. 04:13 Now I'm walking up to 5 miles a day. 04:15 Wow! 04:16 I'm going up the hills, I've been up misery hill, 04:19 I've been all through the flume trail. 04:21 What's misery hill? 04:22 That's the big hill. 04:24 That's the big hill! They call that misery hill? 04:26 They used to call it cardiac hill. 04:29 Cardiac hill too. 04:30 But now they've changed it? 04:32 We call it misery hill. 04:33 One or the other you got up there. 04:35 I got up there. 04:36 As well as a lot of our heart patients who come here 04:40 for restoration of their heart and their 04:42 cardiovascular disease 04:43 they're all walking up that hill. 04:46 I'm leaving for home tomorrow 04:49 with a whole new attitude 04:51 and a whole new life. I thought before I came here 04:55 that my life was over. 04:57 I really thought that. 04:58 And now, look, I can tell, my face, my stomach is going. 05:07 I got about 20 more lbs. to go 05:09 and then hopefully I'm going to get off insulin for good. 05:12 Good. 05:13 But NEWSTART has just done wonderful. 05:15 Now whats going on here Dan? I am an alumni aswell 05:19 and I have my own point of view. 05:21 But I want you to tell our viewers 05:24 what you think is happening here. 05:25 What's going on, is it the food? 05:27 It's the food, it's the treatments, 05:29 it's the lectures, it's the atmosphere, everything, 05:34 all in one. 05:36 I love the hydro treatments. 05:37 I'm a stainless steel fabricator. 05:42 And I'm going to fabricate some basins for myself 05:47 so I can do the hot water cold water treatment. 05:50 Because that hot water cold water treatment is excellent. 05:54 It's done so much good for my legs it's unbelievable. 05:58 Now Dan, when I was here 06:01 I could feel the presence of the Lord so deeply in my heart. 06:05 I didn't know it at the time. 06:07 I was not a Christian then. 06:09 Oh really? 06:10 I was not a Christian. 06:11 And because of the NEWSTART program and the many people here 06:16 I was baptized 3 months later! 06:18 Oh, wonderful, praise the Lord! 06:21 So tell me, did you have an experience like I did? 06:24 Well, I was born and raised a Seventh-Day Adventist. 06:27 I went through Auburn Academy. 06:30 I got away from the church after I went into the service 06:33 and I did my own thing and I was selfish 06:36 and three years ago I was rebaptized into the church. 06:40 At the Gila Mountain Seventh-Day Adventist Church. 06:43 My pastor, Pastor Mel Phillips, 06:46 he's been an inspiration to me and he really cares about me 06:50 and he's the one who got me to come here. 06:52 And I just praise the Lord, for my church family. 06:57 They're behind me, they support me, 07:00 and I love them all. 07:02 Now what about the staff here? 07:04 Oh, the staff here are wonderful. 07:07 Every one of them. 07:08 All through, the chaplain, 07:13 Jerry in massage and water treatment, 07:16 Richard in exercise, I can just name them all. 07:20 Well, Dr. Ing has been my biggest inspiration. 07:24 He's been your mentor? 07:25 Absolutely. 07:27 He has been so good. He and I are in contact all day long. 07:30 Yes. 07:31 I've been taking my blood sugars and I've 07:33 finally gotten them down to where I'm in the 100's. 07:37 Because I was floating up in the 200's, 300's. 07:40 Is Dr. Ing your doctor? 07:41 Dr. Ing is my doctor. 07:43 Okay, we're going to be 07:44 talking with him in a little bit. 07:45 Oh, he's a wonderful doctor. 07:47 All the doctors are, Dr. DeRose, and Dr. Lukens. 07:51 They're just wonderful. 07:52 So did you think it was usual to 07:55 have access to your doctor all day long? 07:58 Yeah, yeah. 07:59 Yeah, because I go to veterans medical 08:01 and I'm just a number. 08:04 And when I go to see my doctor he 08:05 doesn't even really know who I am. 08:07 He just goes on the computer and 08:09 looks to see where my blood is at 08:12 And I will remain with veterans but 08:16 I'm going in with a different attitude. 08:19 I'm going to tell him what I need. 08:21 What I've learned here 08:23 is unbelievable. 08:26 What about your family, when you go home, 08:28 you're on fire I can tell, 08:32 and you're absolutely going to stay with this, 08:34 what about the family, how are they 08:35 going to deal with it? 08:37 Well, my father is a winter visitor to Yuma, AZ 08:40 he lives up in Montana in the summer 08:42 and comes to Yuma, AZ in the winter. 08:44 And my dad is very healthy. He's 80 08:47 years old and he's in better shape than I am. 08:50 And he's borderline diabetic and he and my step mom, 08:56 I'm trying to get them, 08:58 I've been talking to them on the phone, 08:59 and I want them to go vegetarian. 09:02 I'm completely vegetarian now. 09:04 Vegan. 09:05 Good. 09:07 I'm off the meat, I'm off the milk, 09:08 I just loved cheese, I loved yogurts, 09:12 and milk. I could drink a gallon of milk a day. 09:15 Easy. 09:17 So now my life has turned. 09:20 Now have you stopped any 09:22 medication while you've been here? 09:23 I've stopped all my medications 09:25 except I'm taking a little bit of Lisinopril. 09:28 What does the all consist of? 09:31 I was taking Gemfibrozil, 09:34 I was taking Gabapentin. 09:37 I was taking, oh 3, 4, 09:41 other things to help my triglycerides 09:46 and I'm off everything except the Lisinopril. 09:49 And the doctor tells me that helps my kidneys. 09:56 That's awesome. 09:57 I'm just completely elated 09:59 Dan, I want to thank you. We're running out of 10:01 time but thank you for coming on the program. 10:04 It was my pleasure. 10:05 God bless you! 10:06 You too, thank you! 10:08 Friends, don't go away because Dr. 10:09 Ing is going to be with us right after this message. 10:22 Do you have diabetes, 10:23 heart disease, high blood pressure, 10:25 or do you weigh too much? 10:28 Hi, my name is Dr. Ing, and I'd like to tell you 10:30 about our 18-day 10:32 NEWSTART lifestyle program. 10:34 It includes a comprehensive medical 10:36 evaluation with laboratories and an 10:39 exercise stress test, 10:41 physician consultations, 10:43 culinary school, 10:45 and an opportunity to walk on beautiful 10:47 trails in the foothills of the Sierras. 10:52 Your health is one of the most 10:53 important things that you have. Don't wait. 10:56 Give us a call. 11:00 Or visit our website. 11:19 Welcome back friends, and in 11:21 our studio is, Dr. Clarence Ing. 11:22 How are you, Doctor? 11:24 It's great to be here, Ron. 11:25 Before we start I just want to remind our guests 11:27 for those who have never met you, 11:30 you are the medical director here at 11:32 the NEWSTART program, is that correct? 11:33 That is correct. 11:35 Alright we got that straight. 11:36 Now we're going to talk about, Dan. 11:38 Yes. 11:40 And Dan seems to be a different guy 11:44 in the second interview. 11:46 He's like on top, is he really doing that great? 11:50 Yeah, he's feeling so much better than when he came. 11:54 He's off medications and his blood 11:58 sugar is under much better control. 12:01 He probably mentioned how much insulin he was on. 12:03 He was taking 100 units of insulin 3 times a day. 12:07 70/30 which is a mixture of regular and NPH insulin, 12:12 with every meal and his blood sugars were 12:16 far less than we would want. In other words they were 12:19 way to high, they were out of control. 12:22 So he was willing to fast, 12:26 go without eating for three days 12:29 to get started. 12:30 And during this time we'd monitor his blood 12:33 sugars to make sure they didn't go to high 12:36 and it was very interesting. Even without eating any food 12:39 his blood sugars were still high, 12:41 but not so high that we had to give him any medication. 12:45 And then he resumed eating and then we had to 12:49 give him a little bit of insulin. But now he's 12:52 taking 100 units a day which has knocked off 200 units a day. 12:58 He's better. Also, initially when he came 13:01 he was uncomfortable because 13:04 his hands were numb and tingling and they hurt 13:08 and also his feet, 13:12 his legs and his feet were totally numb. 13:16 Yeah, he was on morphine I understad. 13:18 Yeah, he was on morphine 13:19 because of the pain in his hands. 13:20 Oh, wow. 13:22 And after he'd been here for a week he said, 13:23 I want to stop that. 13:26 Fine if you want to stop that we'd be happy to work with you. 13:29 He had a tough few days but he said he'd done it 13:31 before and he wanted to get off of some of those medicines. 13:34 Is this something that we've done 13:36 continuosly here at the NEWSTART program, 13:39 assist people in getting off of medications? 13:42 We've had people want to get off of 13:43 medications and if they're willing to that 13:46 we're willing to work with them. 13:48 So he's done very, very well, 13:51 he's stopped that medication, and he's lost 20 lbs. 13:54 One of the fascinating things about his blood work was 13:59 that his triglycerides were really, very high. 14:01 I'm not sure if he told you the number but I think it was 14:04 876 which is quite high. 14:08 They're still high now but they came down to 461 14:13 which 415 points lower than what they were. 14:16 And that's even with stopping one of his 14:18 medications that help lower his triglycerides. 14:21 So his diet and lifestyle have made a big impact. 14:25 And now he says that his feet which 14:28 weren't hurting before are starting to hurt. 14:30 Which means he's getting feeling back in his feet. 14:34 And the pain in the feeling he has is not that painful. 14:39 So he's getting feeling back in his feet. 14:41 So it's a welcome pain. 14:44 Yeah, it's uncomfortable but something he can tolerate 14:49 and now he has feeling in his feet. 14:52 And his blood sugar is likewise as 14:55 we've worked with him to manage his 14:58 insulin and his eating 15:00 because he's primarily just eating 2 meals a day. 15:04 His blood sugars are now within a normal range 15:08 with the medication. 15:10 So he's using a short acting insulin and 15:12 a long acting insulin and doing very well. 15:15 Now when he leaves here, 15:16 will you, or will he be doing follow up, 15:21 as in calling you and asking for advice, 15:24 or will you be working with his doctor, 15:27 how does that all play out? 15:28 Well I certainly hope he'll contact me 15:32 because on my final instructions 15:34 I told him what I wanted him to do. 15:38 Whole plant foods eaten whole, 15:40 take some B12 everyday, 15:42 walk at least 3 to 4 miles a day, 15:45 and I gave him a goal for losing weight. 15:47 Lose about 5 pounds a month until he gets down to 15:51 the weight we talked about. 15:53 He, and May, who is my wife who is also a dietitian, 16:00 the three of us together decided on a weight goal for him 16:04 and working at about 5 lbs. 16:05 a month he should be able to get there. 16:07 And since he has email he's meant to report to me 16:11 at least once a month about his progress, and blood sugars, 16:16 and he knows how to contact me because he has my 16:18 home telephone number, 16:20 actually he has my cell phone number. 16:23 Because that's how I've been tracking and following him here. 16:27 When he takes his blood sugar he 16:29 reports to me and says, what should we do? 16:32 So now he's got a handle on it and knows what he needs to do. 16:36 And so it's not unusual for a 16:40 doctor here at the NEWSTART program 16:43 to follow up on guests once they leave? 16:45 That's right, if the guest wants to have someone to talk to 16:50 all of my patients get my home telephone number. 16:52 That's awesome. 16:54 And they can call me anytime of the day or night. 16:56 I know that to be true, 16:58 because when I first met you 7 or 8 17:00 years ago it was on the phone 17:03 and you returned a phone call from me 17:06 and it was about ten o'clock at night when we talked. 17:09 Sometimes I don't get to make my phone 17:11 calls until then because that's when I get home. 17:14 So do you think that Dan is... 17:16 You know, we've done this 17:18 program for about a year now doctor. 17:20 and we've seen all these 17:22 wonderful changes that people are going through, 17:25 is it typical in your experience? 17:27 It seems to be in mine now, 17:30 that whoever comes here gets healed. 17:32 Well they certainly get much better, 17:35 especially those with diabetes. 17:37 The numbers that we use as far as people with type 2 diabetes, 17:42 of which Dan was an example, I had another individual, 17:45 and this other individual had had diabetes for 3 years, and 17:49 she came in on her medication, and 17:51 she stopped her medication, it was an oral medicine, 17:55 and her blood sugars are 17:56 normal now without any medications. 17:57 So, 4 out of 10, or 40% 18:00 of those with type 2 diabetes usually 18:03 we find that their blood sugars will be 18:06 normal without having to use medication. 18:09 And those who still have to use medication, 18:11 Dan is an example of that group, 18:13 have much better control with far less medication. 18:16 And he's proof of that as well. 18:18 He's also proof of the thing we've discovered, which is 18:23 with the NEWSTART approach to diabetes 18:27 people with diabetic neuropathy, which is what he had, 18:33 with the burning, numbness, tingling, and so on, 18:37 we get a significant and dramatic improvement. 18:40 So it's been very worthwhile 18:42 for him to go through the program 18:44 and he's very pleased and happy, 18:46 with what he's been through and what he's 18:50 accomplished and how he's feeling right now. 18:53 So for our viewers now, there seems to be 19:01 a lifestyle that we teach here. 19:03 Some people can't get here for whatever those reasons are. 19:08 Is there something that you can tell our friends 19:12 and our viewing audience all over the world here 19:15 what they could possibly do to help change their lives. 19:21 Well I think one of the really important things in 19:24 helping to improve your health is the food that you eat 19:27 and we've discovered through experience and also 19:30 by reading the medical literature 19:32 that the best diet is the 19:34 original one given to man in Genesis 1:29. 19:38 And that ends up being plant foods. 19:40 So the the guideline we use for food is, 19:43 whole plant foods eaten whole. 19:46 So can you break that down a little bit? 19:49 Whole plant foods eaten whole, 19:52 that means we should be eating a plant based diet, 19:55 Right. 19:57 in their original form as they come out of the garden? 20:00 Well sometimes you've got to, like your wheat 20:05 you've got to process the wheat a little bit, 20:09 eat brown rice rather than white rice, 20:12 whole wheat flour rather than the white enriched flour. 20:19 If it has a mother or a face you don't want to eat it. 20:22 And another thing to remember, 20:24 your stomach is not a graveyard for dead animals. 20:27 Those are two important points, if you combine 20:30 those with whole plant foods you should do quite well. 20:32 So, if it has a mother or a face don't eat it. 20:36 That's right. 20:37 And whole plant foods eaten whole. 20:38 That means when you go into the market 20:41 and you go into the produce section 20:44 you can eat anything in the produce section, pretty much. 20:47 Yeah, all your vegetables and things of 20:50 course and then your whole grain cereals. 20:53 White rice is not what you want, brown rice is. 20:58 Instead of white flour, even enriched white flour, 21:00 you'd want to eat whole wheat flour. 21:03 Well Dr. Ing I want to thank you 21:05 because I know you're a busy guy 21:07 running this program here, 21:09 I just want to thank you for coming on the set. 21:11 And God bless you and your work! 21:13 It's a pleasure, thank you, Ron. 21:14 And friends I want to thank you, but don't go away, 21:16 we have an important message for you, right now! 21:34 Hello, welcome to NEWSTART At Home. 21:36 We're glad you've joined us today. 21:37 And we're also glad that Dr. Doug Plata is with us. 21:40 He is an urgent care specialist and trained in 21:44 family medicine and preventive medicine. 21:46 Which means you're just very practical. 21:48 Thank you, I hope so. 21:49 And you probably see a lot of people 21:51 that are just kind of axious about things. 21:54 And there's nothing that causes more 21:56 anxiousness than maybe a foreign body in the eye, 21:59 or in the nose! We're gonna talk 22:00 about foreign bodies in the nose and ears! 22:03 Right, some of the most interesting cases I've seen! 22:06 I'm sure you've seen them to. 22:10 You always hear those stories 22:11 about a kid putting a bean in his nose, 22:15 or whatever. What are the things you see? 22:18 Rasins, peanuts, I don't know why, 22:20 but they just do it. Kids, what can you do? 22:23 And who's more troubled about it, 22:27 the child, or the mother? 22:28 Oh, by far in ways, the parent who comes in. 22:31 Yeah, very distraught. 22:33 So, probably at first you're like a 22:36 psychologist saying, it's going to be okay. 22:38 Exactly. 22:39 And you kind of do a little soothing. 22:42 But let's get to that. What should 22:44 we start with the nose, or the ears? 22:47 Honestly I consider them about the same. 22:49 So, let's start with the nose. 22:50 Okay, very well. 22:52 Again the most common thing I see are 22:55 little children who don't know any better and 22:58 the parents will often times say 22:59 that they just watch the kids grab 23:01 it and stick it in the nose. 23:02 It's something they enjoy doing I guess. 23:05 And again, most commonly 23:08 rasins, kids just love to do that, 23:10 peanuts, these sorts of things. 23:13 So what do you do? 23:17 Have they tried blowing the nose? What do you do? 23:19 Right, right. 23:21 Often times the mother is in a panic. 23:24 She may have tried to get it out, 23:26 she may not have. Regardless, 23:29 in most cases it's fairly straight forward, 23:32 we just have some forcepts we can just reach in and get it. 23:36 It depends how far back the kid has pushed the object. 23:40 We can use different techniques. Sometimes 23:44 getting something past it, and pulling it out like that. 23:48 So, is there anything they can do at home 23:51 before they see you, what should 23:52 they try before they get there? 23:54 What I find often times is it's not too 23:57 far in and they can just kind of push it out. 24:01 And that often times works. 24:03 I would not recommend this next thing for 24:06 them to do at home because it's very dangerous 24:08 but sometimes we just take a Q-tip and put some 24:11 super glue on there and attatch it 24:13 on and then pull it out like that. 24:15 But I definitely would not recommend that. That's just 24:16 asking for trouble if it's not being done by a professional. 24:19 That's true because they end up 24:21 with a Q-tip glued inside their nose. 24:24 Which would probably not be good. 24:25 Exactly. 24:27 Okay so, anything else about the nose before we move to the ear? 24:31 Let's move on to the ear 24:32 because there was something I've seen 24:34 that's common in the ear and that's when people are sleeping 24:38 and they must really be in a deep sleep because while 24:41 they're sleeping an insect actually crawls into the ear. 24:43 This is a common thing like a cockroach or like a... 24:45 Yeah! 24:47 And so, of course depending on if it's a 24:48 black widow spider you're in deep trouble but 24:52 But I haven't seen that yet. 24:53 Right. 24:55 So what do you do in that particular case? 24:56 What can they do at home, anything? 24:58 Well, quite honestly I find that people don't 25:02 stay at home very long because usually 25:03 they're on the road and they're flying. 25:05 because it's gotta be one of the most disturbing 25:07 things to have an insect crawling around in your ear. 25:10 And often times there's nothing, 25:12 you try to get it out and the insect tries to stay in, 25:14 it's trying to get away from you. 25:16 So it's very difficult to get out. 25:17 So if you shine a light it freaks out? 25:20 Well actually sometimes they'll actually say, 25:22 oh, that's the way out and they actually follow it. 25:25 So, yeah. 25:26 You can try that, if that doesn't work... 25:29 But usually if it's not working and they 25:31 come to you what do you do when they get there? 25:33 First of all what I like to do is kill the poor insect. 25:37 Because it' going to be a lot easier 25:39 if it's not struggling to get out. So, 25:41 we can use alcohol and kill it that way or spray it and 25:45 Rubbing alcohol? 25:46 Yeah, yeah. 25:48 So they can do that at home? 25:49 That's really true, they can do that at home. 25:51 And that should be perfectly safe. 25:52 And then we go in with sort of needle nosed little clamps 25:55 and reach in and grab it and sometimes it comes out in parts. 25:59 It's the reality. 26:02 You might be able to do one other technique 26:05 I've seen and that's when you take a syringe and wash it out. 26:09 Yeah, that can work as well. 26:11 Could they try that at home? 26:12 If they have got a syringe. 26:15 Like maybe a bulb syringe or something? 26:16 Yeah. 26:18 We've been talking to Dr. Doug Plata 26:19 about foreign bodies in the ears. 26:21 Very practical information for you. 26:25 I think there's all kinds of 26:26 information like this on our website at, 26:33 Thank you Dr. Plata. This was very 26:35 practical and might seem like a small thing to you 26:37 but a small thing in the ear is a big thing, isn't it? 26:39 That's right. 26:41 So we're glad that you've joined us 26:42 here at NEWSTART At Home 26:43 and thank you again for being with us. 26:53 Modern views of evolution stem all the way back 26:56 to theories developed in the mid-1800s. 26:59 Out of the same time period came ideas that shape 27:02 our educational system today. 27:05 The Common School Movement, for example, 27:08 saw schools more like a factory, 27:10 with students blindly memorizing instruction 27:12 rather than thinking for themselves. 27:15 Their curriculum was rigid and theoretical. 27:17 Instead of being flexible and practical, 27:20 it was designed to conform the individual 27:23 into a specific ideological mold 27:25 that fit the needs of an old industrial era 27:28 long since passed. 27:31 Just like our view of creation in six literal days, 27:34 we believe the Bible contains an educational blueprint 27:38 radically different from the one we see now. 27:54 Well folks that's it for today. 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