Every year in America there
are over one million deaths
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because of type-2
diabetes and chronic obesity.
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This includes heart
attacks and strokes.
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That's six and a half
747s crashing every day.
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What's even more surprising
is that the fix is easy.
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It's your lifestyle.
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Wouldn't it be nice
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if you could actually add
quality years to your life
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rather than dying
one organ at a time?
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Obesity and diabetes
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are the cause of over
million deaths per year.
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Most diseases are reversible
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because most diseases
are lifestyle diseases,
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especially type-2
diabetes and chronic obesity.
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Seriously now,
they can be reversed
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and the quality of
your life can be renewed.
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Call Newstart
today at 1-800-525-9192.
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You will see dramatic changes
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in the first few
days of our program
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and you'll be on
the road to a better,
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more robust quality of life.
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The Newstart programs
are simple and effective.
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Hi, friends, and welcome
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to another
edition of "Newstart Now."
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I'm your host, Ron Giannoni.
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In our studio with me,
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I have Mara Lee
Costin from North Carolina
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and I'd like you to take a
look at when she first arrived.
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I have been a type-2
diabetic for 13 years
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and I have tried various methods
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to get off my diabetes medicine.
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I have tried diets,
everybody that comes up
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with a new idea of how
it's gonna make you healthier,
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I've tried it.
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And not too long ago,
my sister-in-law's mother
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visited my home for a meal.
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When we were
discussing these things,
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she brought up Weimar
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because she had
brought her husband,
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who is now passed, here.
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Coming to Weimar
probably gave him
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10 extra years of his life
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and that's what
I was looking for.
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I was looking for a change
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and my husband
and I discussed it
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and I decided to come.
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And I'm young,
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I shouldn't have to
be worrying about insulin
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and traveling with pills
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and I don't like every night
being dependent on a medicine
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to make me feel
better the next day.
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I wanted something different.
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I don't want to take
those medicines anymore,
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I want to be healthy.
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Before I leave
the Newstart program,
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I would like to
be off my insulin,
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my Metformin, my
blood pressure pills,
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my cholesterol pill.
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I want to be med free.
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I want to try to do
the plant-based diet
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and make it so that
I can be healthy again.
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Hi, friends, and welcome back.
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Mara Lee, thank
you for joining us.
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Thank you.
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I'm real excited
about what you told me
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before the program started.
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And I want the viewers
to hear what's happened.
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We just watched
your first interview
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and you're on all
these medications,
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you're shooting
yourself with insulin,
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taking
Metformin, low blood pre--
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high blood, all these pills.
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Yes. What has happened?
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Well, it's pretty exciting. Yes.
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I have not been on any
medications for two weeks.
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What, are you
saying that two weeks ago
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the docs took you
off all the medications?
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All of them, and
I'm now drug free.
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Drug free.
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I have been drug
free for two weeks.
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My blood sugar this
morning was a normal 106.
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That's beautiful. It
was amazing, I'm so happy.
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Now you've been
diabetic for what, 15 years?
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13 years. 13 years?
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13 years on all these meds
and blood pressure medicine,
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and cholesterol medicine,
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and I am so
thankful I came to Newstart.
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Now, I know there's viewers out
there watching this and going,
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"How is it possible?"
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But you're not the
first one we've had here.
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No, no, and really,
the care given here,
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being watched, supervised
by physicians and nurses,
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going through
the different steps
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they take you
through in this program
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made the difference in me being
able to be ready to go home.
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The cooking school was amazing.
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I now feel like I can go home
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and take this diet
with me and make it normal.
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Yes.
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It's normal part
of my everyday life.
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So what did you like
most about the program?
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Probably the
hydrotherapy. The hydrotherapy.
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Yes, because before I'd arrived,
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I'd had knee
surgery five weeks ago
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and the hydrotherapy has
helped my knee to heal in ways
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I never thought
would be possible.
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Oh, wonderful.
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Now, you're walking
on that knee okay, right?
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Yes, I'm doing great.
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How far are you
walking every day?
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Well, I started
at three and it was--
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my knee got a little tender
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so the doctor
cautioned me to back off.
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So I'm at one
and a half miles now.
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Okay.
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And because you don't want
to overdo it for that reason.
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My knee surgery.
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But the key is the
walking after each meal,
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even just 15 minutes has
lowered my sugars tremendously.
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It's a
wonderful, wonderful, news.
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Yes, I've been
through it as you know.
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I shared with you, in '05,
I came through the program.
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All these same wonderful
things happened with me
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and I'm so happy
and so, you know,
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we just have to praise the Lord
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that this place even exists.
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And this is not the only place.
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There are other lifestyles
centers throughout the world,
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a number of them
here in this country,
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in the United States.
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But this is the only
one I've ever been to.
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And this is where God
showed me how to get well,
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how to stay well and, you know,
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coming through this program,
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three months later after
having completed this program,
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I was baptized.
Wonderful, praise God.
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And my whole has
changed, but this is about me.
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This is about you. Now--
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But, you know, I have friends
who are already asking me,
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will you teach me about
this when you come home?
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Oh, yes.
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Will you teach me
the things you're doing
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because this is an
epidemic in the United States,
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type-2 diabetes
and high blood pressure
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and we need to pass the
word along on how to get help.
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Yes.
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And do it God's way.
And you being the teacher...
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Yes.
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You're just gonna go for it.
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I'm trying, yes.
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Now, I would expect
that when you get back
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and you visit
the church family...
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Yes.
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The pastor is
going to probably ask you
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what happened and
maybe you can share that
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with the church family.
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I plan to ask to do that.
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I pray and hope that you do.
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Thank you.
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Okay, so did the doctors--
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When you visited with
your doctor Dr. Lukens,
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were you ever skeptical?
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Did you think that,
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"Oh, how can I get
off all these medications,
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this doesn't seem right?"
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I was, but it's what I
wanted, it was my dream.
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So a lot of times
you'll listen to somebody
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who'll help you to
accomplish your dreams
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and he did that for me.
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It's evident in my blood work
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and in what's going on
with my blood sugars each day.
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It is making a difference,
it's changed my life.
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Now, I know that you started
a lifestyle two weeks ago.
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Were the medications,
did your blood sugar
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actually drop that
fast in the first few days
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that he took you
off the Metformin and--
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Well, I did some
fasting. So, yes, it did.
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You did three days of fasting?
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I did three days of fasting,
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which I felt was
necessary to clean out my system
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from the prescription drugs.
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And then when I
started eating food again,
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my body naturally regulated
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a little better
to the food I think.
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It was a really good situation.
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And how soon after
you stopped the medication
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did your blood
sugar drop to below 110?
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It's just been recently because
I haven't been able to exercise
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as much as everyone else,
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but it did get down
to the 117, that range.
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That's still,
that's a good range.
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It's still marvelous. Yes.
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Considering, I never
had any days on medicine
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that I woke up that low.
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So that's the amazing part.
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Now, what about
the blood pressure?
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It's gone back to normal
and, in fact, the doctor said,
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"I don't know why you need to
be on blood pressure anymore."
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And they're
testing it every day,
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you know, couple of times a day
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and my blood
pressure is now normal.
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And what is normal?
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120/80 is normal, mine
is running 121/69 or 70
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and it's doing great.
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Yeah. So it's pretty awesome.
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You've discovered a new life.
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I have and I
don't want to turn back.
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No.
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And I can see in
your eyes and hear
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because you
sound like me talking.
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Yes.
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And you're gonna
stick to it, I know.
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I know I am.
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My husband already
bought me a Vitamix.
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Oh, he did? Yes.
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I said I need a Vitamix to
make this and he said, fine.
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So he ordered me a Vitamix.
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I got you a Vitamix.
Oh, good God bless him.
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So, yeah, I guess
it's my graduation present.
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Now, when you came
through the program,
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you were with
some 20 other people.
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We don't have large sessions
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but there are enough people here
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to kind of coax you
and prod you along and,
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"Hurray, let's go
for it." Yes, yes.
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Did you meet any of
these kinds of folks?
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Yes.
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Did you make new
friends while you were here?
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Sure, we did.
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This was a very tight-knit group
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and people were
praying for each other,
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encouraging each other,
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and when I got cut
down on my exercise,
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they would even go the
shorter distance with me
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to make sure I had a companion
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and so, yeah, it was
a very positive spirit
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of people working
together even though each person
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had their own medical issue.
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We all worked
together to help each other,
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it was a good thing.
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Isn't that wonderful? Yes.
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Did the doctor walk with you?
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Yes, and ate meals with
us, and had us to his home.
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It's a very open
relationship with the doctor,
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very different than
outside of these walls.
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When is the last time you
had dinner with the doctor?
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Not for a while.
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Now that could be TV program.
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Yeah.
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Dinner with the doctor.
Dinner with the doctor, yeah.
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And we have dinner with
the doctor each session.
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Yes. Friday night.
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Yes.
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Dr. Lukens likes to
flip those potatoes.
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He likes to--
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Yes, he does, he's
really good at that.
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He is very good at
that, I've watched him.
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Over the years,
flipping those potatoes.
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Yes, yes. And I
like to do that too.
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Yes.
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So, all right, so you
went to Dr. Lukens' home.
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Yes.
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And he fixed
food for you to eat.
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Yes, yes. What did he fix?
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Well, he made some lentil stew
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and he made
interesting appetizers
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that he cut out of
pieces of whole-grain breads
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and avocados and
tomatoes and at the end,
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he served us frozen fruit.
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Yes, it was delicious
and so he did quite well
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and his wife was a little busy
because she was on the phone,
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they were having a grand
baby being born that evening.
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Yes.
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So he did it
himself and I was amazed.
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Mara Lee, I want to thank
you for coming on the program.
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Sure.
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And would you mind
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if I follow up with
you in, say, a month.
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No, that'd be great.
See how you're doing?
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That'd be great. Well,
God bless you, my dear.
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Thank you.
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And we'll talk
to you soon. Okay.
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Friends, don't go away, we have
an important message for you.
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Welcome back, friends,
in your studio Dr. Lukens.
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It's good to see you. Yes.
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And it's really good to see you
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to be able to
talk about this gal.
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She is just really excited
about what's happened here,
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but I'd like you to--
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Yeah, and here
she's got all these kids,
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you know, and--
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Yeah.
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And everything and I said,
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"Where were you when I
was in elementary school?"
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You know, and she tells me
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all the different
things and everything.
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She's really a very nice person.
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Absolutely wonderful,
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and I wanted you to explain
something to the viewers.
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She said that she was
taken off all her meds
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when she first got here.
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Can you elaborate a little
bit about that, the fasting?
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Yeah, you know, and
she just kind of mentioned
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in passing and stuff like that.
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But actually, what
they do when they come in,
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if they're willing
to and most of them are,
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is they start a three day fast.
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Is that just water or juices or?
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They give them
something sometimes
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to make them feel full,
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it's a guar gum or
something like that.
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But anyway, and
some of them like it
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and some of them say,
"No, I'll just take the water."
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But anyway, most
of them think that,
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you know, that's really helpful.
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But coming back to the fast,
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imagine if she's taking insulin
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and she's taking pills as well
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and there's no food coming in,
what's going to happen to her?
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Oh, she's going
to have a problem.
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Yeah, so I know the doctors
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that are out
there, they're thinking,
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"Oh, you know, those
guys up there, they're,
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what do they
think they're doing?"
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And yeah.
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So anyway, they have to
go off of it for three days.
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Yeah.
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And sometimes
their blood pressure
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is already better and so
we take them off of that.
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Now she was on two medications
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that I want to mention briefly.
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One of them was an ARB,
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this is one of the ones
that lowers the blood pressure
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and it's
involved with the kidneys
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just to state it briefly.
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And I handed her something
from my family practice news,
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one of my
journals, and it shows that
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that medication although
it makes those numbers go down
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so they get a lower diastolic
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or lower systolic
and their blood pressure
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looks great and we're
yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.
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But then when they
did a med analysis on it,
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when they checked it,
it didn't lower mortality,
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it didn't lower the
number of heart attacks,
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it didn't lower
the number of strokes.
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And so they said,
well, the number needed
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to treat in order for
this medication to really help,
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you'd have to do an
infinite number of people
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and so really
nobody's helped by that.
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We have that kind
of problem so often
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and it is called
a surrogate study
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in my Family Practice newsletter
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and in my Family
Practice journals.
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They keep talking
about the surrogate study.
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What we want to
know is how many people
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are still alive at
the end of the time,
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not what their numbers did.
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So this surrogate study is
to just look at the numbers,
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see how good these numbers are.
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But, no, how many did it help,
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how many people did it
help them to live longer
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and these medications.
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One of the ones that she
was on for lowering cholesterol,
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it will take your so
called bad cholesterol,
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we'd like to have it below 100,
and it will take it from 150,
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which is high
down to 50, you see.
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And the trouble is when
they started looking at this,
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they found out that
actually the lower your
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so called bad cholesterol was,
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the faster your
arteries were plugging up.
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Wow.
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Now, that's in my
Family Practice stuff.
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Was that because
of the medication?
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It is. It is.
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The lower the
medication makes their
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so called bad cholesterol,
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the faster their
arteries are plugging up.
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And all the other ones,
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you'd have to treat
100 people to help one
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and a lot of people, you know,
5% to 15% percent of people
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are going to have
side effects from them.
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And some of the people like,
they tried to put her on one
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because her
numbers weren't good.
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And she said,
"You know, they just,
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I couldn't take them,
they were making me sick."
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Yeah, so after the fast,
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she did very well
during the fast and so we said,
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"Look, the more you can walk--"
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Now her knee, I was wondering,
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why did come now, babe, because,
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you know, you've just
had surgery on your knee.
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But it'd been a
while, been like--
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What, no, three
weeks. Oh, three weeks.
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It's five weeks
now you see. Okay.
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Yeah, three weeks.
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But anyway, she's a
pusher, she's gung-ho.
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And she made friends
with all the ladies here
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and some of
them were just going,
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going and so she
went along with it
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and so we had to slow her down.
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She talked about that and
had to put ice on her knee
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a couple of times
because she was doing too much
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but she said it's
feeling a lot better than
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when she first came.
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As a patient, how--
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Did she respond
like everyone else?
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Was anything exceptional
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about getting her off these meds
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and how she is-- her
blood sugar is now 104?
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That's when she's fasting. Yes.
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106, I believe. 106.
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The thing is that John McDougall
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talked to us this summer
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and we Skyped
him in and he says,
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"Look, if you're on the program,
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if you're doing all these things
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and you've had diabetes,
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if your fasting blood
sugar is 140 or below,"
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he said, "I'm happy with that."
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And she responded very
quickly to get it down.
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Her fasting sugar,
it's not always that low
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but to get it down at
that time recently 106,
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that's pretty amazing.
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Now, as far as
we're concerned here,
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we meaning you doctors that
minister to the guests here,
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Dr. Plata, yourself, Dr. Ing,
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what numbers do you look for
as kind of like the threshold
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to be below before you say,
"You're no longer diabetic"?
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Okay, this is getting
a little bit technical
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but the A1C
shows what you've done
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during the last three months.
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Right, that's more important
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than what
you're doing right now.
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Yeah, to see what that is.
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But the problem is
that and I probably
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mentioned this many times,
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when they got them
down into the normal range
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by pushing more
insulin and more of the ones
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that whip the pancreas,
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then they found out that
they lost 20-25% more people
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with cardiovascular disease.
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And so the
cardiologist, Dr. James Doug,
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he was following the one
that we did here in America.
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He says, "This is very
confusing and very distressing.
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For 50 years we've
been telling the patients,
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get that low, that's the thing
that's going to help the most.
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But when they do
it with lifestyle,
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they get it low,
they're not on the medicines.
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Why would this be?
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Because the insulin
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tends to make their arteries
plug up faster, you know.
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The insulin does?
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Yeah, it's what
we call atherogenic.
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You get more and the other thing
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is they can't lose weight,
so their diabetes continues on
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and all these
things are happening,
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so that's why I'm so excited
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to be able to
tell people about this.
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It's like
fighting a losing battle
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if you're on the insulin.
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No thank you. Yeah.
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So, doctor--
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But what's neat about her
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is her husband's already
done the work for her at home.
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He really wan-- She
said, "This is expensive."
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And he says,
"Yes, but what will I do
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when I don't
have you any anymore?"
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So that was a good deal.
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Yeah, my question is now,
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is she the one that's
gonna be not only the teacher
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in her school
but in her community?
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Is she gonna be like
a, what I want to say,
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an angel for the
Newstart program?
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Well, the thing is at first,
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they get too
excited but then after that,
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you know, they realize that
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they should back
off a little bit.
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Yeah, but she's already got
people that she wants to come.
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Including her
husband, she's already got him.
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Yeah, and also other
relatives and friends.
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Yeah, she's
already working on them
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and she realized what it
would do for them as well.
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But the thing is
that she needed emphasize
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that the
exercise was so important.
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And that's what
I wish she'd said.
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We're running out of time, doc,
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I want to thank
you for being with us.
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So good.
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And God bless you and your work.
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Friends, don't go
away. We have a tip for you.
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Welcome to "Ask the Doctor."
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I'm Dr. David DeRose
taking your questions again
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on today's
edition of the program.
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We're going to a
question from Canada,
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Danny asks
Winnipeg this very relevant
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and practical question.
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Is juicing fruits and vegetables
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an effective way to
get my five servings
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of fruits and
vegetables per day?
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Well, first of
Danny, let me command you
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you've gotten that message
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that public professionals
have been trying to get out
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for many years
and that is we need
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to be getting a
minimum of five servings
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of fruits and vegetables a day.
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Many are pushing that
number up to 9 or more,
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but your perplexity is exactly
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what many people are at
and there are simply saying,
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"How can I get all this in,
should I just start juicing."
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I know it's become very popular
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but let me tell you
many of the patients
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that I see in my
clinic their problem
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is not so much
what they're eating
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as how much they're
eating in total calories.
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When it comes to juices
there's an intrinsic problem.
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If we're eating our
plant foods or any food
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as a whole food as
we're chewing that food
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we're getting a lot more satiety
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a lot more
satisfaction from the food
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that if we do
reduce it to let's say
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a pureed state or
even a juice state.
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Let me give you
some inside into this,
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classic study was
done many years ago
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they took apples had
volunteers in this study
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eat the same number of calories
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as whole apples then compared it
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to apple sauce or apple puree
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and then compared
that to apple juice.
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What they found is
those who ate the whole apples
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for a given number of calories
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those whole apples gave
them much more satisfaction
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and held them much longer
before they wanted to eat again
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as compared to the apple sauce.
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What do you
think fared the worst?
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Yes, the apple juice.
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Bottom-line the
more juices you eat
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you'll tend to
take in more calories,
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which will often make
it more difficult for you
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to trim down if you're
carrying some extra pounds.
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So in another way
if you're an athlete
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your doing a lot of exercises
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you're on a
vigorous training program
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juice actually could be
added to your program sometimes
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they have people
take it a half an hour
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before their meal
so it doesn't interfere
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with their appetite too much
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and doesn't really give
them the effect of an added meal
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but kind of extends the
benefits of a given meal
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can get some more
calories in that way
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so sometimes I will in usual
circumstances, I say unusual
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because most of my
patients are not athletes.
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They're people that
are trying to trim down
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and so the message is
to cut back on the juices
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rather than increasing it.
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Let me tell you another concern
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I have that I don't hear
many people speaking about
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is probably on the tip
of some of your tongues
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it actually has to
do with your tongue
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and your mouth it's
something called urogastrone,
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I know I took the words
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right out of
your mouth, didn't I.
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Urogastrone is
actually a compound
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that is made in the
mouth when you chew your food,
00:25:57.88\00:26:00.65
it's important for
optimal gastrointestinal health.
00:26:00.68\00:26:04.21
If you want a healthy
stomach, stomach lining.
00:26:04.24\00:26:06.68
By the way we've got an epidemic
00:26:06.71\00:26:08.42
in our country of
gastrointestinal problems
00:26:08.45\00:26:10.99
something that can help
is making more urogastrone.
00:26:11.02\00:26:13.69
How do you make more of it?
00:26:13.72\00:26:14.75
You simply chew your food
thoroughly, isn't it amazing.
00:26:14.78\00:26:18.31
So again juices bypass that
natural protective mechanism.
00:26:18.34\00:26:23.19
Juices also can
have some deleterious
00:26:23.22\00:26:25.23
affects on your blood sugar.
00:26:25.26\00:26:26.77
What's the bottom-line,
for the average person I say,
00:26:26.80\00:26:29.29
"Eat your foods and
vegetables definitely
00:26:29.32\00:26:31.90
but eat them as whole foods
00:26:31.93\00:26:33.37
that's what I do
on a regular basis
00:26:33.40\00:26:35.35
that's what I
recommend my patients too.
00:26:35.38\00:26:37.23
If you've got an
unusual situation
00:26:37.26\00:26:38.96
or you're trying to
increase your calories
00:26:38.99\00:26:40.96
or you're on some
kind of a special fast
00:26:40.99\00:26:42.71
or something
under doctor supervision
00:26:42.74\00:26:44.69
there may be a place
there of course for juices,
00:26:44.72\00:26:47.24
but in general
not the best thing
00:26:47.27\00:26:49.66
in my experience or in
the research literatures
00:26:49.69\00:26:52.99
experience to
include in your program."
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