Hi friends and welcome to
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another edition of NEWSTART Now.
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In our studio we have Paul
"Big Red" Wilson who's come
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down to visit us for a
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second or maybe
even a third time.
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Paul came to us a couple of
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weeks ago in
really bad shape and
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I'd like you to take a look at
that clip when he first arrived.
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The reason I'm
here is because I've
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gained some
weight and I haven't been
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able to exercise
and I have kidney
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damage that I
need to try to reverse.
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I want to be able to
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reverse the
kidney damage I have.
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I'd like to be
able to get healthier.
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I'd like to get
totally off insulin if I can.
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My blood pressure is
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coming down which is great.
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It's a help and I like
the diet and the lifestyle.
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It works, period. It works.
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Welcome back friends and
in our studio is "Big Red."
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Hey it's good to see you again.
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It's good to see you again.
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Well, not
really for the reasons,
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but good to see you anyway.
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I think when we first met you
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were taking how
many medications?
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When I came back here,
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I was on six medications
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and since I've been here
I'm off my heart medications,
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I'm off my blood
pressure medications,
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my cholesterol medication
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and I was on a pump doing
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about 130 units a day of insulin
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and I'm not on my
pump for the first
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time and I had been
on a pump since 2004.
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You know I'm not on any
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insulin and I'm doing great.
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So the last time you were here,
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you were on the
pump. I don't recall that.
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Yeah I was on the pump
and I downed my insulin way
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back to about 12 to 16 units
a day and I was taking a lot.
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But that's right
after I was involved in a
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hurricane and I had
terrible damage to my kidneys.
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So now you're off all
medication but Metformin?
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Metformin and
then Spironolactone
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but I'll be off of
that pretty soon too.
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They already told me I can
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get off that pretty quick.
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Now I guess it's fair for
me to say that when your wife
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and I spoke she was really
concerned about you, right?
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Yeah. -And you
were at a point where
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you were starting
to mumble a little bit,
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as I recall, maybe
not complete sentences,
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and your body was
starting to shut down.
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I guess you know that.
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Yeah I went through a situation
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with my kidneys where
I had over nine thousand
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milligrams of
protein going through them
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I had a lot of
poison in my system.
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I began to mumble and I
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couldn't finish
sentences sometimes.
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My blood pressure
was pretty messed up.
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I was doing
more and more insulin
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and gaining weight almost daily,
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and honestly the three
times that I've been there,
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it's been three times,
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I felt like I was
about ready to die.
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The first time
in 2005 I had heart
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problems and that got
taken care of back in 2009.
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I left here feeling great.
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It's like I came
in like a dead man,
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crawling and
walked out of here with
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my head up and I
feel the same now.
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I felt like I came
in crawling on my last
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legs and I feel like I
got my life back again.
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So is your thinking clear
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and right today, -Absolutely.
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then it was two weeks ago? -Yes.
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Tremendously.
It's hard to explain
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to somebody that
hasn't been there
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but it's amazing to
be able to think and
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recall things and be
able to do complete sentences
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and I had people tell
me to stop mumbling and to
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speak clearly because
they couldn't understand me.
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And I began
getting worried and I
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didn't realize
how bad I was. -Yes.
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Well your wife knew
because we talked and then
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you and I later talked
and of course here you are.
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You've been here for a couple of
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weeks now and you
get to go home tomorrow
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and I know that
this program, tell us,
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tell the viewers
what we talked about
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earlier in the day
when you stopped at my
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office about
continuing on this program.
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Well it's real important
when you leave here to be
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able to continue the
lifestyle. It's not hard to do.
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It's actually easier than most
people realize and I've learned
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a lot here that helps me to be
able to do that when I go home.
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The one problem is
though that I'm a pastor and the
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crisises of
people around me seem
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to want to steal my time from me
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which is also my
exercise time and
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sometimes the
time that I need to eat
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and it's not hard
to come to a place
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where you're not
exercising like you need to
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and you're not
eating when and how
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you need to eat
and you get sabotaged.
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Well you know I'm going
to be checking in on you.
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I appreciate that.
I look forward to it.
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And Dr. Lukens going to be
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checking in on
you too. -Absolutely.
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You know we really
want to support you
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and I wanted
viewers to know that when
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people come
through the program we
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just don't let you
go, we do some follow-up
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Especially guys like
"Red" who appreciate it
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and really want us to
stay in touch and we will.
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Well you know I've sent other
people here that have been real
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sick and we've been able to see
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them come back
with their life again
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and I know that
I'm a third time repeat
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but you know
there's people out there who
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have been through
this program and if they
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would remember how
they felt when they left and
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how good that was
there's no condemnation here.
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You know the passion to care
for people is tremendous here
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and when I came back here
everybody was excited to see me.
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They all wanted to hug up
on me and they welcomed me back
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but they all got together
with me and helped me to
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overcome the stuff that
was taking my life from me
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and I appreciate that.
I don't think you can find
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that in a doctor's
office anywhere in this country.
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Maybe one of our doctors office.
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Absolutely. -I've got
to tell you when I came,
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as you know, I met my doctor for
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the first time,
Dr. Michael Orlich
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and he prayed with
me and I went "wow,
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this is a special
place. " -Oh yeah.
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Anyway this is about you.
Tell us what else has happened?
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How much weight have you lost?
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Well I've lost 23
pounds as of today.
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You beat me by a pound.
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I'm not going to quit
though. I'm going to come back
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looking thin and lean and mean
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and a praising
machine. -Alright.
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I've got to tell you
I love the people here.
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You know I also came with a
back injury that was pretty bad.
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I had moved a vertebrae
when I was working out,
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exercising on a machine.
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It tore a disk and
herniated another disk and
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the hydrotherapy here
has just helped tremendously.
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I don't have pain
going down my leg,
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I don't have shocks and spasms.
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They do such a great
job in there with you.
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It's tremendous,
I mean, I don't know
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any part of this
that I haven't enjoyed,
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thoroughly enjoyed.
It's been a blessing.
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Well maybe you might
think about just signing up
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for every six
months you come down here,
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spend three weeks and
then go home fresh and new.
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Well actually I'm going to
do something similar to that.
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You guys have a
freshstart program
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that lets you come
for four or five days
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and I'm going to come down
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here with my wife and I'm
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going to make a trip down
here, probably every six months
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and just come
down and keep in touch
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with everybody,
visit with the doctors.
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I'm staying in touch with my
doctor, Dr. Lukens and I'm going
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to send him regular monthly
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updates especially on my kidneys
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so they can see how
this affects kidneys,
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I believe my
kidneys are improving.
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Some of the numbers
show that but I'll have
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better ones after I go
home and have some tests done.
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Yeah. Well I do some
research with Dr. Lukens,
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renal failure, and
so I'll be involved
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in that aspect of
your life as well.
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That's good. -So
we'll be monitoring you.
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I appreciate that. I enjoy
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visiting and
talking with everybody here.
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There's a lot of
good support here.
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Yeah. -It's really tremendous.
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So have you learned to
cook now? When you get home
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are you going to be able
to share this with your wife?
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Yeah you know, when I left here
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in 2005 my
daughter became a vegan,
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my wife did and my
daughter is still a vegan.
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She was one of
the people that really
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promoted helping me
to get here this time,
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and then she put on her
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facebook all
about this lifestyle.
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She says no other
lifestyle can be as good
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for your body as
this one that I have here,
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so I bought her a
real nice cookbook.
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They have cookbooks here you can
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take home and
I'm sending her one.
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But yeah I can cook this food.
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It's not that hard
to do. -Good, good.
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Now when you first arrived
you weren't walking too well.
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How much are you
walking each day now?
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I'm walking three miles a day.
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I've walked up to
three and half miles.
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When I go home I'll try to
get in up to five miles a day.
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Now how tall are you? -Six foot.
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And how much do you
weigh? -Right now I weigh 358.
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-358. -Yeah and I
was 381 when I got here.
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Wow, so you want to
get down to what, 190?
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Well I don't know how far
my body will take me down.
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I know everybody's body will
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take them to
that fighting rate so
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I'm hoping it'll
be at least under 270,
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260, 250 somewhere in there.
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But if I go less
than that I'll be happy.
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Oh I know you will.
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"Red" I want to
thank you once again.
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This is the second time
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you've been
willing to come in and
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share your life
with our viewers.
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I want to thank
you and God Bless you.
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Thank you so much,
I appreciate it Ron.
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Thank you friends
but don't go away.
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Dr. Lukens is going to
be with us in a moment.
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Well you've done very well.
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Do you have
diabetes, heart disease,
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high blood pressure
or do you weigh too much?
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Hi my name is Dr.
Ing and I'd like to tell
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you 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, culinary school,
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and an opportunity
to walk on beautiful
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trails in the
foothills of the Sierras.
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Your health is one of the most
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Don't wait. Give us a call at
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Welcome back friends
and in our studio, Dr.
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Lukens. -Yeah. -How are you?
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Good to be back
again. This is exciting.
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This is
exciting. Now we know "Red"
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from '09 and
he's been here in '05.
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So now he's here,
you're his doctor.
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Tell us what happened.
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The thing that's
really hard is that we can't
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always get in touch with
him because he's such a busy guy
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and so I'd call him and
he takes a Tuesday off and
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everyone should do this,
have a day completely off
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when you do your spiritual,
you do your devotional,
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you do your Bible
study and everything
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and that's why he's so strong in
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the Lord and he
serves so many people.
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But see the last
time when he came here
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he was just right
at the point of death
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and he mentioned
that but I quizzed him
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on it today at the
last doctor's meeting.
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He said they have what
they call, scoop and run.
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He was so close to death.
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He stayed down there
for Gustav, this was in I
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think it was in 2008,
was it? -Yeah I think so.
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Okay and then they had Ike after
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that so he goes
from one to the next
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and the only food that
he had to eat was their,
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they flew in a big meat locker,
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had a generator, kept it frozen
and he was mostly eating beef,
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and so you know I mean that was
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what they were
offering, that's what he had.
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He had cellulitis in his leg,
his kidneys were shutting down,
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he was having some kind
of a bacterimia or septicemia
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so they put something in his
ear to see what his temp was,
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slapped some
things on his chest,
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and when they
realized the situation
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that he was in he
was having the chills.
00:13:16.37\00:13:20.36
He said they have what
they call, scoop and run.
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They just brought him in
there and plugged IVs in him,
00:13:23.55\00:13:27.21
they started him on things
00:13:27.22\00:13:28.84
and when he got to the emergency
00:13:28.85\00:13:31.12
room there in
Houston at the hospital,
00:13:31.13\00:13:33.63
the guy looked at him and
he said "is he still alive?"
00:13:33.64\00:13:37.27
That's how close
it was you see. -Wow.
00:13:38.30\00:13:40.06
He was in the
hospital for ten days
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and they start
testing and they say
00:13:41.57\00:13:43.36
we've got to take
your gallbladder out now
00:13:43.37\00:13:45.42
and he was so sick he said
"just let me go home please.
00:13:45.45\00:13:48.87
Can't this wait until later?"
00:13:48.88\00:13:50.63
Well they didn't want to
but they let him go home.
00:13:50.64\00:13:53.81
Now he actually did
pretty well until he couldn't
00:13:54.06\00:13:57.45
exercise because he told
you about doing his back out
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and then so he was
sedentary and all that
00:14:01.36\00:14:04.57
kind of stuff and he
was really doing poorly
00:14:04.58\00:14:08.03
and then whatever happened
there in Houston and the
00:14:08.27\00:14:12.54
antibiotics and maybe his
blood pressure went really low
00:14:12.55\00:14:17.18
and his kidneys
just started pouring
00:14:17.54\00:14:19.84
out protein and they
wanted to do a biopsy.
00:14:19.85\00:14:22.54
So I told him today I said,
since you're doing so well,
00:14:22.69\00:14:27.21
keep them to deferring it.
00:14:27.22\00:14:29.27
They said "we
don't know why this is so
00:14:29.42\00:14:31.24
they're just going
to try to look and see"
00:14:31.25\00:14:33.09
What's really neat is
that his doctors say you know,
00:14:33.10\00:14:37.63
from clear back
the first time he came,
00:14:37.64\00:14:39.87
they said you know
you did really well.
00:14:39.88\00:14:41.69
Why don't you go
back to that place?
00:14:41.70\00:14:43.42
Well he really didn't
have a choice the second
00:14:43.54\00:14:45.69
time because he was about
ready to die. He really was.
00:14:45.70\00:14:49.15
I mean his legs were like
this and he had cellulitis
00:14:49.16\00:14:52.27
and they were
oozing and everything.
00:14:52.28\00:14:54.42
It was really sad.
00:14:54.43\00:14:55.48
This time you know, he
was actually better than
00:14:55.75\00:14:59.45
he was when he came
here the last time. -Yeah.
00:14:59.46\00:15:03.03
But this time now, he's pouring
00:15:04.36\00:15:05.39
out a tremendous
amount of protein.
00:15:05.40\00:15:07.54
Why is that? -They
don't know. -Just don't know.
00:15:07.55\00:15:11.21
It could be from
inflammation but he's done that
00:15:11.22\00:15:14.78
ever since he was so
sick back there in Houston.
00:15:14.79\00:15:18.36
But the really exciting
part is, he's tech you know,
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he just plugs it in, sends the
00:15:23.04\00:15:24.87
information over from
his pump to the doctors
00:15:24.88\00:15:27.45
and they said "you know
they're taking you down on your
00:15:28.00\00:15:31.30
insulin but it looks like
they can take you down faster"
00:15:31.31\00:15:34.60
so back a week ago I say,
00:15:35.66\00:15:37.66
let's see how
they like this one.
00:15:37.67\00:15:40.27
Just pull that
thing out and stop it.
00:15:40.28\00:15:43.03
and increase your
exercise as you can,
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so this is the first time
since he went on the pump.
00:15:45.16\00:15:48.00
When he first got
the pump they had to,
00:15:48.54\00:15:50.84
usually it's a hundred units of
the rapid acting that they use
00:15:50.85\00:15:56.81
and he had to have
the five hundred units
00:15:57.03\00:16:00.30
per CC because he had
to use so much insulin
00:16:00.31\00:16:03.69
and he was using about
00:16:03.81\00:16:07.24
anywhere from 80
to 130, 135 units
00:16:07.25\00:16:12.21
and he was doing
pretty well on that but see
00:16:12.66\00:16:15.63
he kept gaining weight
and that's what we see.
00:16:15.64\00:16:18.66
When you overdo on insulin and
00:16:18.87\00:16:21.21
you try to keep
those numbers low,
00:16:21.22\00:16:23.15
low, low you cannot
get your weight down
00:16:23.16\00:16:26.51
because, just like a
00:16:26.60\00:16:27.87
patient I just
got through seeing,
00:16:27.88\00:16:30.03
she kept doing it and
her blood sugars would go
00:16:30.04\00:16:32.78
low, she'd have to
eat more insulin, fatter,
00:16:32.87\00:16:36.39
diabetes is worse
and it's a vicious circle
00:16:36.40\00:16:39.69
so he's just absolutely excited
00:16:39.81\00:16:42.03
about this and
his diabetologist,
00:16:42.04\00:16:46.42
his internists are
going to be excited about it
00:16:46.43\00:16:49.27
because I think
his blood sugars even
00:16:49.28\00:16:51.81
after he eats are
about 200 or lower.
00:16:51.82\00:16:56.27
Let me ask you a
question. I don't know if
00:16:56.42\00:16:58.45
you were aware of
this. Of course you were.
00:16:58.46\00:17:00.51
When his wife
called me and said "Red
00:17:01.09\00:17:04.15
needs to come back"
I said well you know,
00:17:04.16\00:17:07.42
the only thing he
needs to do is get serious.
00:17:07.43\00:17:11.03
She said "well
he's really serious now,
00:17:11.60\00:17:13.63
he really needs
to come here, and I
00:17:13.64\00:17:15.15
said well let's
get him down here.
00:17:15.16\00:17:16.78
Well when I first
talked to him he was kind of
00:17:17.15\00:17:20.30
slurring his
words and everything.
00:17:20.31\00:17:22.63
What was all that about?
00:17:22.64\00:17:24.30
Well see the thing is
his legs were swelling again
00:17:24.45\00:17:28.06
and that means that his
heart isn't pumping properly
00:17:28.07\00:17:31.63
so when your heart
isn't pumping properly,
00:17:31.84\00:17:34.78
then your legs swell, your
00:17:34.79\00:17:37.09
kidneys aren't
getting good profusion,
00:17:37.10\00:17:39.27
your brain isn't getting good
00:17:39.28\00:17:40.51
profusion and the
heart isn't profusing itself
00:17:40.52\00:17:44.03
and every time we
talk, practically I
00:17:44.09\00:17:46.06
talk about getting
on the plant-based diet.
00:17:46.07\00:17:49.48
The little tiny
blood vessels dilate up,
00:17:49.49\00:17:52.21
the heart starts
pumping stronger and with the
00:17:52.42\00:17:56.51
little bit of exercise
he could do, strong heart
00:17:56.52\00:18:00.66
pump the water out
through the kidneys,
00:18:00.84\00:18:02.57
I'm hoping that the
00:18:02.58\00:18:04.30
kidneys are stronger now,
00:18:04.31\00:18:05.69
the brain starts
functioning better
00:18:05.75\00:18:07.69
and he's good to go. -And all of
00:18:07.70\00:18:09.60
a sudden he
starts talking normal.
00:18:09.61\00:18:11.54
Yeah. -It's amazing
just to see what he's
00:18:11.60\00:18:13.81
gone through in the
last couple of months.
00:18:13.82\00:18:16.15
Yeah and he did lose over
20 pounds and a lot of that
00:18:16.51\00:18:21.33
is water out but now that
he's able to get up and walk
00:18:21.34\00:18:24.51
he's regaining
his lean body mass and
00:18:24.52\00:18:27.45
those muscles are
starting to work better.
00:18:27.46\00:18:33.09
I don't know whether we
have time now or not but there's
00:18:33.30\00:18:35.39
something called mitochondria
and this is a big deal now.
00:18:35.40\00:18:39.09
and what they found
is that these little
00:18:39.24\00:18:42.12
tiny fuel burners that
make the energy for you,
00:18:42.13\00:18:45.39
you can increase
their efficiency by fifty
00:18:45.54\00:18:48.27
percent and you can get
fifty percent more of them
00:18:48.28\00:18:51.42
and they're in all the cells.
00:18:51.51\00:18:54.12
Even the pancreas can
start having healthier cells
00:18:54.13\00:19:03.12
and the exciting thing
was, I want to know after
00:19:03.27\00:19:06.00
all these years does he
really need that insulin?
00:19:06.01\00:19:08.66
so he did that C-Peptide
test and we found out that he's
00:19:08.87\00:19:12.51
making twice the amount of
00:19:12.52\00:19:14.24
insulin that
normally he should need
00:19:14.25\00:19:16.51
so I said let's stop it. -Right.
00:19:16.60\00:19:18.48
Now what about
coins on Q10 for the
00:19:19.15\00:19:21.03
mitochondria would that
be something you work with?
00:19:21.04\00:19:23.60
You know we make
that stuff and we
00:19:23.61\00:19:25.45
don't really need
all the supplements.
00:19:25.46\00:19:27.42
Your body makes enough?
-Oh yeah but it's healthy.
00:19:27.87\00:19:31.33
Well how does it
double and triple?
00:19:31.36\00:19:33.54
No, these are the mitochondria.
00:19:33.55\00:19:35.33
That's what I
mean, the mitochondria.
00:19:35.34\00:19:37.33
How do they double?
-They're called into action.
00:19:37.34\00:19:39.63
The body does
things that it needs to do.
00:19:39.64\00:19:41.60
Oh when you exercise
-Yeah, yeah. -Oh okay.
00:19:41.61\00:19:44.03
In about three months it
turns you completely around.
00:19:44.12\00:19:48.60
That's why I say
exercise is going
00:19:48.61\00:19:51.87
to be two
thirds of your program.
00:19:51.88\00:19:53.36
So that's what we witnessed with
00:19:53.37\00:19:55.48
Red in this
last couple of weeks,
00:19:55.49\00:19:57.57
that mitochondria perhaps
00:19:57.58\00:19:59.27
No, no it takes longer than that
00:19:59.28\00:20:01.36
but the diet and the exercise,
00:20:01.45\00:20:03.09
the two together have
made his heart stronger.
00:20:03.10\00:20:05.42
Oh okay. -Yeah and he's going
00:20:05.45\00:20:06.84
to get stronger and stronger.
00:20:06.85\00:20:08.27
He's going to be
able to burn that fat up.
00:20:08.33\00:20:10.69
I mean 230, I mean 300,
00:20:10.70\00:20:13.75
330 pounds for
somebody that's six
00:20:13.76\00:20:16.69
feet tall is
still morbid obesity.
00:20:16.70\00:20:19.42
He's over 100
pounds overweight. -Yes.
00:20:19.45\00:20:21.78
And that means that he may have,
00:20:21.87\00:20:24.45
you know one to three
miles of extra blood vessels
00:20:24.46\00:20:28.30
to profuse all of that.
His heart doesn't need that.
00:20:28.51\00:20:32.09
I told him you were
going to keep after him.
00:20:32.15\00:20:34.06
Yeah he's
agreed. You know he knows
00:20:34.24\00:20:37.30
the Bible and he's
working on his PhD. -I know.
00:20:37.31\00:20:40.51
Yeah and I said,
hey, you know you need to
00:20:40.52\00:20:44.09
present your body
as a living sacrifice.
00:20:44.10\00:20:47.57
Doctor I want to
thank you for joining us.
00:20:48.15\00:20:50.18
It's always a
pleasure to have you here.
00:20:50.19\00:20:52.12
Well this is exciting.
00:20:52.13\00:20:53.21
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Hello and welcome
to NEWSTART at home.
00:22:14.63\00:22:16.78
And today we have in
the studio with us Dr.
00:22:18.51\00:22:21.03
Doug Plata. Welcome Doctor.
00:22:21.04\00:22:23.03
Thank you. -You are
a specialist in family
00:22:23.36\00:22:26.63
medicine but also
preventive medicine.
00:22:26.64\00:22:29.18
That's correct. -And
one of the things we've
00:22:29.24\00:22:31.78
been talking about is
00:22:31.79\00:22:33.36
the lack of
hydration people have.
00:22:33.37\00:22:36.60
They're not drinking enough
water or maybe some people
00:22:36.61\00:22:39.06
drink too much but we
want to talk about water today.
00:22:39.07\00:22:41.36
How important is it?
00:22:41.51\00:22:43.15
It's extremely
important. There's studies
00:22:43.16\00:22:45.63
showing that for
heart health it's actually
00:22:45.64\00:22:48.27
about as important
as many of the other
00:22:48.28\00:22:50.60
common treatments that
we have for heart disease.
00:22:50.61\00:22:53.54
By making sure
that you get an adequate
00:22:54.69\00:22:57.39
amount versus those
people who are on the low end,
00:22:57.40\00:22:59.45
the difference
meet is about fifty
00:22:59.46\00:23:01.27
percent reduction in
risk of heart attack.
00:23:01.28\00:23:05.72
And that's probably because
the blood gets more viscus,
00:23:05.73\00:23:08.78
more sticky and maybe
causes the coronary events.
00:23:08.79\00:23:11.45
We're not
entirely sure but that's
00:23:11.46\00:23:13.21
probably at least
part of the reason.
00:23:13.22\00:23:15.03
I'm guessing there's
00:23:15.04\00:23:16.06
probably more
parts to the reason.
00:23:16.07\00:23:17.63
So what kind of
water should we drink?
00:23:17.72\00:23:20.87
Just tap water, distilled water,
00:23:20.88\00:23:22.39
I mean there's all
kinds of exotic water.
00:23:22.40\00:23:24.00
I go to the
store and I could see a
00:23:24.01\00:23:26.30
bottle that costs me
$1.72 or you know a buck.
00:23:26.31\00:23:31.03
And then I can find
this exotic water that's,
00:23:31.18\00:23:33.30
you know, I'm
not saying ten bucks,
00:23:33.31\00:23:34.72
but there's a big
vast variation and they all
00:23:34.73\00:23:38.03
have different labels.
How do I navigate that?
00:23:38.04\00:23:40.42
The first thing that
I'd like to point out
00:23:41.00\00:23:42.57
is that regardless of
the type of the water,
00:23:42.58\00:23:44.12
getting enough water is the
00:23:44.13\00:23:45.84
number one
message, first and foremost.
00:23:45.85\00:23:48.00
When it comes to the
type of water there have
00:23:48.06\00:23:51.09
been a number of
different studies done on this
00:23:51.10\00:23:55.18
and again make
sure you get water.
00:23:55.24\00:23:58.15
Probably one of the
00:23:58.16\00:24:00.72
more unhealthy forms of water
is actually distilled water.
00:24:00.73\00:24:04.45
I know this is going
to come as a surprise
00:24:04.54\00:24:06.84
and perhaps concern
to some of the listeners
00:24:06.85\00:24:10.27
but what
distilled water does is it
00:24:10.42\00:24:12.36
separates out
the minerals from the
00:24:12.37\00:24:14.24
water and what
we're finding out is
00:24:14.25\00:24:16.15
those minerals
are there for a reason
00:24:16.16\00:24:18.09
in particular cardiac health.
00:24:18.21\00:24:20.27
So tap water is
good then after all.
00:24:20.39\00:24:22.45
Depends on the
local environment in
00:24:23.27\00:24:25.75
terms of like if
there's chemicals in there.
00:24:25.76\00:24:27.84
I think many of us
have chosen to go with water
00:24:27.85\00:24:31.33
that's like
from a stream source,
00:24:31.34\00:24:32.78
you know, mountain water.
00:24:32.79\00:24:34.33
And then what about
filtered with charcoal?
00:24:34.42\00:24:36.45
It's probably better
because it does take out some
00:24:36.87\00:24:40.66
of the chlorine and
some of the other substances.
00:24:40.67\00:24:43.87
Okay so how much
water should I drink?
00:24:43.88\00:24:48.06
I always hear this
six to eight glasses.
00:24:48.07\00:24:50.48
Is that valid
or how do you tell?
00:24:51.06\00:24:53.48
The problem is is
people come in different sizes,
00:24:54.00\00:24:56.51
they have different needs
00:24:56.52\00:24:57.75
and if it's a hot day
versus if you're exercising you
00:24:57.78\00:25:01.09
know six to eight glasses
is maybe a good rule of thumb
00:25:01.10\00:25:04.33
but I think far
better to actually sort
00:25:04.63\00:25:07.75
of let your urine
actually be the guide
00:25:07.76\00:25:10.78
in terms of how
much you should get.
00:25:10.84\00:25:12.48
So my urine being the
guide is somewhat interesting.
00:25:12.66\00:25:16.69
I never thought of
being led around by my urine
00:25:16.70\00:25:19.33
but what do you mean by this?
00:25:19.39\00:25:20.69
What do you mean by
the urine being the guide?
00:25:20.70\00:25:22.75
Yeah as we pee in
the toilet as you take a
00:25:22.84\00:25:25.57
look at the color of
your urine in the toilet
00:25:25.58\00:25:28.39
It's pretty straightforward but
00:25:28.81\00:25:30.69
something that we
really need to pay
00:25:30.70\00:25:32.06
attention to and
if it's really dark
00:25:32.07\00:25:33.63
yellow we're not
getting enough water.
00:25:33.64\00:25:37.24
If it's clear then we
know we're doing a good job.
00:25:37.36\00:25:39.69
So it should be
close to clear as possible.
00:25:39.70\00:25:42.51
Really that's true.
00:25:42.52\00:25:43.75
And if you're seeing that
it's not you need to drink 2,
00:25:43.81\00:25:48.24
3, 4 more
glasses. -Get more water
00:25:48.25\00:25:49.63
but the problem is that urine
00:25:49.66\00:25:51.18
comes at the
end, in other words,
00:25:51.19\00:25:53.15
it's what you
should've been doing before.
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so how can you make sure
that you're getting enough?
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What you can do is you can
use the urine as general guide
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you say boy I'm
just, it's a reminder,
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I'm not getting
enough water so I need
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to do things to
be able to help get
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enough water as
evidence by a clear urine.
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Okay so I get my water bottle.
Can the water be damaged at
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all by being in the sun in a
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plastic bottle?
Tell us about that.
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Yeah, there is significant
concerns about certain
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substances within plastics.
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The harder the
plastic the better.
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For me I actually got a
stainless steel container or
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a glass container is
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probably is a
safer way to store.
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And if you have it in the sun,
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if it's in a plastic
bottle it's probably not good.
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There's certain chemicals that
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can sort of
leech into the water.
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But if it's in glass
or you know something
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that's not going to
leech out that's better.
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So the most important
thing is to get water. -Yes.
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And get enough water based on
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six to eight
glasses as a rule of
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thumb but really look at your
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urine to see if
it's clear or not.
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Make sure you're getting
the best kind of water in
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terms of the container so
that you don't an interaction,
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but the real bottom
line is make sure and
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get water you really
need water. -That's right.
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It's really hard to
overdo it. Put it on your desk,
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have it with you, carry
it, whatever you can do.
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We've been talking
with Dr. Doug Plata and
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we're thankful that you
came to be with us today.
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And we're glad that you
came to be with us as well.
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topics that are very
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Thanks for joining us.
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Well friends
that's it for today.
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Don't wait like Red did.
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Don't wait until you're sick
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and tired of
being sick and tired.
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Pick up the phone
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You'll be glad that you did.
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God Bless.
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