Every year in America
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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 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
of one organ at a time?
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Obesity and
diabetes are the cause
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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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to a better more
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Hi, friends,
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and welcome to another
edition of Newstart Now.
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I'm your host Ron Giannoni.
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In our studio we
have Mrs. Eppler,
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from Rocklin, California.
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Let's take a look
when she first arrived.
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Actually it was ten years ago
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I injured my
back while working out
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and the way that it transpired
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is that I stopped my
exercising all together
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because It was just too painful.
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So I stop working out,
I stopped doing my walking
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but I didn't stop eating.
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And so I put on
about 40, 45 pounds.
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In that year,
the end of that year.
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I have gradually my
back up, better so I start,
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I started working out
again but I didn't start walking
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and I didn't change my
eating and it seemed to me
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like once I put on that weight
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then I became less
conscious what I was eating,
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I got discouraged
that the way I looked.
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And then I would eat pretty good
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and I would try
weight watchers over,
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you know,
something else and it just--
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I just, it just didn't
work. It didn't work for me.
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You know, I didn't want to have
to go some place to get help,
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I want to be
able to do this myself
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and it wasn't successful.
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I finally thought
this is affecting my life,
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I'm on
medications, I would never,
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I would never
live on medications.
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I would really like to
be off of my medications
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and I'm not sure that I
can get off of the cholesterol,
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it may be a familiar
thing to get my family
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but I for sure can get off
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the high blood
pressure medicine.
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And I'm hoping that I can
get off the cholesterol as well
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that I eat properly
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that will help to
drive down my cholesterol.
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I want those two things
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and I definitely
want to get the weight off
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so I will make a start
here that's my expectations
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that I'll be
able to make a start
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and that if I
continue in this lifestyle
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that I've keep, keep just
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I think I'll be
healthier in ways
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I don't even know now.
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Welcome back, friends.
Then as I promised Shela.
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You don't mind
if I call you Shela?
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No, I certainly don't, Ron.
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I called you Mrs,
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but I want to call
you by your first name.
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Thanks.
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Okay, you live close by here.
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Yes, I do. Very lucky, aren't I?
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Yes, you are.
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So we expect to
see you every week.
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I know.
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Not every week but
you will see me at--
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Every couple of weeks at least.
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You will see me at the alumni.
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Good.
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Yeah. Good.
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You probably
see me at the store.
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Yes. Yes.
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So--
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So we just
watched your interview
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when you first arrived here.
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Has the program
met your expectations?
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It has and it had
tremendous benefits.
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So number one, I
told you my goals.
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I'm off both of my medications.
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You are off both
of your medications?
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Both of my medications.
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Now repeat what those were.
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Okay, I was on a medication
for high blood pressure.
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I'm off that medication.
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I was on a medication for
cholesterol, high cholesterol
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and I'm off of that medication.
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Now what is your
blood pressure now
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that you are off
the blood pressure?
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I'm at 135 over 74 this morning.
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Beautiful.
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Sometimes I'm down at
128 and it's just holding.
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So I've been off that
medication and its holding.
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And the doctor said that's great
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and I don't need
to worry about it.
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Oh, I love it.
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I love it too.
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I did not want
to take medications.
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I mean, not one. I
hated those medications.
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Yeah. I just
didn't want to take them.
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That's not what I want to do.
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I was taking two
blood pressure meds.
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One for the blood
pressure which didn't work
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and the other one to make sure
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that the first one
didn't ruin my kidneys.
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So I got off
both in like six days.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So and you are
now experiencing that.
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Yes.
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Are you taking
any other medications?
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No.
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So those were the only two?
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Those were the only two?
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Have you noticed the
difference in your sight,
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in your thinking, in your
sleeping any kind of change?
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No. No.
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I haven't, I
haven't really noticed that.
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I had some ringing in my years
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and I think that's the
high blood pressure medication
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and I expect that to go away.
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I mean, I'm not
noticing it as much,
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so I expect it to
go away with time.
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And will just have to see
most of my symptoms were subtle
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and probably I didn't recog--
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I just do not want
to be on medication
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if it's something I
can do something about.
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Sure.
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You know, that speaks
to how I am loving my life.
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And now you know you
could something about.
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Yes, and I'm doing
something about it.
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Good girl. Yeah.
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Okay, so what about anything
else that you wanted to--
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I wanted to
reestablish my walking.
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I used to walk
four miles a day and I--
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That's right. You
said, you gained 45 pounds?
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Yes, I injured my back
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and I couldn't continue
walking and I gained all that.
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How is your back?
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It's much better
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but I have to say my bed
is not all that comfortable.
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We don't want to tell anybody.
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I know. I know.
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Now some of the
beds here, I know.
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So it's a
problem for me, I reckon.
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But I do the stretchercise
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and I walk and
that relives pain.
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Now the
stretchercise is something
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that everyone gets together
at 6 am and they do stretching.
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Right.
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And who leads out on that.
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Is it--
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As it turns out its one
of the hydro-therapist Sarah.
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Yes.
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And she must be
my hydro-therapist.
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Oh, good.
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So we really have enjoyed.
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We have a-- actually
we have a lot of fun.
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You know, we talk and
chat while we are stretching,
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getting ready for the
day and then we go for walk,
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those of us who want to.
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We start to walk in the morning
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and then we have breakfast
and then we do a slower walk
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and we do another couple walks
then our day gets real busy
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and we start walking
in between activities.
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You share with me earlier
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you went for a walk
and you just got back
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and that someone else
wants to go for a walk
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and then someone else and you
are finding yourself walking.
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Five and six miles a
day. Five and six miles a day.
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That's incredible.
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Yeah, and it's
wonderful actually.
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And you feel good about it.
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I feel good about it.
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You feel good about yourself.
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I feel good about
myself and I feel good
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that I'm doing
that and I went home
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over the weekend for an activity
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that we preplanned and we,
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my husband and I went walking
there too and he is walking.
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He is so happy to be doing this.
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Oh, wow.
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So we are kind of
rearranging our lives
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and make sure we get
the walk in first thing.
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Yes.
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That's the first thing we do.
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Amen.
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And then we do
everything else so...
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Can I share something with you?
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This morning and
most every morning
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I up at like 5, 5:30,
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I tried to back
to sleep but I can't.
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The Lord tells me, get
up, get out of bed which I do
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and I have my
morning worship and such
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and I tried to get out the
door by 6:30 to do a four miler.
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First thing in the
morning before the heat,
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before anybody is awake
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even sometimes
before the rooster crows
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and its wonderful because I
get in what I'm committed to do
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and then
everything else is just--
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Falls into place.
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Yeah.
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I am by nature a night person.
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I like staying up late at night.
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Yeah.
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But then I don't want to
get up early in the morning.
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I had never been
a morning person so,
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now because I'm tired
at night, I go to bed.
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You know, it's a
different atmosphere
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and I go to bed early,
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well, early for
me 10 o'clock say
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and I wake up by five.
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I'm thinking what am I doing?
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What am I doing?
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So I get up, get ready,
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go out and do the
stretchercise and then walk.
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And that's really good
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and my husband
and I get up early
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because I have to walk early.
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Almost all of us
have decided that
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walking in the heat of the day
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is not what we
are willing to do.
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All right.
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It gets hot around here and
we are not willing to do it.
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It does. It does.
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And then because it's
been light where summer
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we go out and walk in
the evenings after dinner.
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It's really nice to
walk in the evening time.
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You know, you
triggered a thought
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or something that
someone said to me once,
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they said I'm not
hungry in the morning.
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I can't eat my meals in
the morning and I go well,
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what time of night do you eat?
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Well, about 8, 8:30
or when you go to bed,
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oh, 9, 9:30--
come on, that's crazy.
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No wonder you are not
hungry in the morning.
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So I suggested that she--
now I'm coaching this lady.
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I said what about
eliminating your evening meal?
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Couple of weeks
later we talked again,
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I said well, how is it
going with the meal thing?
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She says, oh, I'm just
hungry in the morning now,
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because she is not
eating evening meal
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which is not
good for you anyway,
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as you learned here, if
you didn't already know that.
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So walking or
water all these things
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that we didn't want to
do. Let's talk about the food.
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How was the food?
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That was probably
my biggest surprise.
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I have to say dinner
was my biggest surprise.
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That was my
biggest concern actually.
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It was kind of a shock?
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Yeah. Because I love salads so
that was not a problem for me.
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Okay, we are gonna have salad
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but I love salads,
that's something I eat anyway.
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Were you on the mindset--
excuse me for an update,
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were you of the mindset,
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okay, now I'm gonna
become that you turn in,
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I'm gonna eat a lot of salad?
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I knew that we were going
to be eating a lot different.
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Well, I was not gonna
be eating meat or fish
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and I do eat chicken and fish.
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Right.
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And I thought
and cheese and eggs
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and yogurts and cottage cheese,
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you know, that's my
breakfast in the morning.
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I remember you telling me that
cottage cheese in your yogurt.
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Cottage cheese
or yogurt and fruit.
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How are you
gonna do without that?
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Well, that you know,
it turned out for me,
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we started out with oatmeal.
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That's one of the
cereals I really like.
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Oh, okay.
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So I have little
oatmeal and quinoa
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or whatever else
they present with it.
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All those delicious
fruits and the nuts and the,
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you know, and then they have--
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it was the other little
things, I have the beans
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and the breads
and, you know, liquids.
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I didn't expect that.
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I've never had
that for breakfast
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but I have to say, you know,
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eat your biggest
meal at breakfast.
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Amen.
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So I really tried to eat
more. I tried to eat proper.
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I came here
thinking I'm going to try it
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and I said, this
food is really good.
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Well, imagine that.
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So and then, you know,
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you come to lunch I'm
not quite I'm having lunch
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but I eat a decent
lunch and then, you know,
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some days I
don't eat dinner at all
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because I'm just too full.
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It's very filling.
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This fibrous
food is very filling.
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So not once have I been hungry.
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Not once but which is
and I'm a person who at night
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if I was reading or watching TV
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either one about
10 o'clock I was,
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do we have any
chocolate in there?
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Shela, is there
any chocolate in there?
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No, I don't think
I have any chocolate.
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Well, what do you have?
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Because you know,
well, how about crackers?
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I don't even have
any desire for that
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which is astounding to me
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that I could be doing
this and not want to eat.
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Oh, I think it's wonderful.
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And I think its wonderful
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that you were willing to
come here on the program,
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give your
testimony and talk with us.
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And I want to thank
you and let you know,
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we are gonna do some follow up.
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Okay. Is that okay with you?
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Yeah, sure. It's
fine. Shela, thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you, Ron.
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God bless and
friends, don't go away
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we have an
important message for you.
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Welcome back friends,
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and in our
studio Dr. Doug Plata.
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Yes.
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So nice of you to join us.
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And you know, the viewers
may not be familiar with you
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on the Weimar Newstart set
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but you've worked
with us for many years
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I've seen you come
here and assist Dr. Ing.
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You've also been a guest
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at the Reversing Diabetes
program a couple of times.
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I remember in Santa Cruz
once you and Orlich came.
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And so I like to
talk about Shela.
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You know, very
well educated woman,
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very, very smart and its kind of
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like playing cat mouse
with her in some occasions.
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But how is she doing basically.
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I think she is actually
very pleased with the program
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and she came in think
very motivated for the program.
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And I just had
through last visit with her,
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she is I think in a good,
good spirit, good attitude
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and feels pretty positive
about the Newstart program.
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Yes. Yeah.
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She is really excited
getting off these medications.
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Well, see that was
basically her primary thing
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that she is wanting to do is
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there is couple of
things for cholesterol medicine
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and her blood pressure medicine.
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Those were, she
is heard of focused
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on that throughout the program
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and she want to go ahead
and get off those things.
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I like to talk
to you for a moment
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having had taken both
those medications myself
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I get off the blood
pressure medications,
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it never elevated or
is continued to drop.
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But we know there that some
people on the cholesterol meds,
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they may come here
with cholesterol 270, 280
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and we are expected
to drop scientifically
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and all of a sudden it goes up.
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Sometimes that happens.
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That does happen.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And why is that?
What is that all about?
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Well, one thing we
have to remember is just
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almost every laboratory value
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will have some
natural degree of variation.
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So there can be, there
can be that where as just
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when you take a blood test,
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it's really like
throwing a dart at a point
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and sometimes little
high, sometimes little low
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that's what the nature of lab.
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So that can explain
little minor, minor changes.
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Other times there can
be thriven underlying cause
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for what that might be.
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And I know through the years
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I've come to this campus to
sort of cover for physicians
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as they are on vacation or
they are speaking somewhere.
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And so over the years I've seen,
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most people do really
well to achieve the goals
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but for other
people, some question mark.
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Why did they not
lose this much weight
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as they are
hoping to or why does,
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you know, their
cholesterol go up or down
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or special like triglycerides
will tend to bound around.
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And there can be
really a variety of reasons
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that we have to sort of look
into their specific situation
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to find out what might
be the reason for that so.
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I want to ask you
a direct question.
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I mean, I've been, I
battled with this my own life.
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I know that in my experience
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I'm taking
these cholesterol meds
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and they bring the numbers down
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but is that a real number,
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because as soon
as I stop the med
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the number goes right back up.
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Well, that's a good point.
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So, so what it is,
medications they work.
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They work, on specifics sort
of biochemistry of our bodies.
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And so they can
and in fact the FDA
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will not allow
medication to come on the market
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unless it actually
shows an actual impact.
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They have to show that first
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before they are
allowed to sell it.
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And so they generally do work
at least in terms of changing
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the factors that were majoring.
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For example,
cholesterol medicines
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or looking at cholesterol
and some of the other lipids
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or fats in the blood.
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And so they can go
ahead and work on that,
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but the challenge really is
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and I've seen this
in my medical career
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as different studies come out is
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that typically
this is how it works.
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You have study that text look
at population to be able to see
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do some blood test for example
and compare that with outcomes.
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Whether its
cardiac outcome or cancer
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or whatever the outcome may be
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and they find that if
somebody's vitamin D levels
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elevated or lower,
somebody's cholesterol
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or somebody's hypertension
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or all of these
different things,
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what are they correlate with
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and they find that
there is correlation.
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So you would think that oh,
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if you could just
get the cholesterol down
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then we should be able
to prevent heart attacks
00:18:42.73\00:18:44.47
because people in
the population study
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with low
cholesterol level has had,
00:18:46.86\00:18:49.69
found to have reduced
rates of heart attacks.
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But unfortunately
over time what happens is,
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when we develop a medicine
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through research
to be able to adjust
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these lab values
and we expect that
00:19:01.89\00:19:05.78
if you improve the lab
value that you would expect
00:19:05.81\00:19:08.59
that there will be a good,
ultimate clinical outcomes.
00:19:08.62\00:19:11.62
Some times when
we do the actually
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what's called
perspective studies or studies
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where you do an
intervention, you treat patients
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and you go ahead
and see over time
00:19:19.33\00:19:21.29
how does that
actually impact really
00:19:21.32\00:19:23.85
the important
outcome such as mortality,
00:19:23.88\00:19:27.22
you know, death, or
other such outcomes.
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We find that it didn't
really match what we anticipated
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based on those
original population studies.
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And as a physician I can
be frustrated some times.
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You think you
know what's gonna work
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and then when you do the studies
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mainly it doesn't quite
come out the way we had hoped.
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So from my perspective
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this where the
lifestyle medicine perspective
00:19:52.95\00:19:55.91
is we would like
to be able to try
00:19:55.94\00:19:58.15
to get people back to
their natural physiology
00:19:58.18\00:20:01.29
and that is to where the
way our body is designed as to--
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designed to try to
maintain our health
00:20:05.16\00:20:07.69
or if we get out
of that equilibrium
00:20:07.72\00:20:11.25
to try to bring us
back to a healthy state.
00:20:11.28\00:20:14.20
And so that's where
we try to take people
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who have been
living a sort of a modern
00:20:16.41\00:20:18.76
unhealthy lifestyle
where, through lifestyle choices
00:20:18.79\00:20:22.26
there are sort of
insulting their body,
00:20:22.29\00:20:25.21
their health, their physiology.
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We try to get them
back to a natural lifestyle
00:20:27.34\00:20:29.88
so that all of those mechanisms
00:20:29.91\00:20:31.43
that have been
given to us in our bodies,
00:20:31.46\00:20:33.55
its a costly
bring us back to house,
00:20:33.58\00:20:35.76
to health that
we sort of relieved
00:20:35.79\00:20:38.29
the body of the
unnatural stresses,
00:20:38.32\00:20:41.47
through an
unhealthy lifestyle choices
00:20:41.50\00:20:43.13
try to get them back to,
00:20:43.16\00:20:44.60
where the body is able to
get back to the level to help
00:20:44.63\00:20:47.62
that the body is
designed to achieve.
00:20:47.65\00:20:50.46
So with regards to Shela,
00:20:50.49\00:20:52.97
Shela would be fine
as long as she continues
00:20:53.00\00:20:59.64
this change in lifestyle.
00:20:59.67\00:21:01.94
I eating plant based
diet or plant based lifestyle,
00:21:01.97\00:21:07.81
her numbers will
continue to drop,
00:21:07.84\00:21:10.95
she will continue to lose weight
00:21:10.98\00:21:13.25
and that will
bring the numbers down.
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She will continue to exercise.
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So she is in good
shape in other words.
00:21:17.59\00:21:21.02
I think she is in good shape.
00:21:21.05\00:21:22.32
It was-- when we came in
00:21:22.35\00:21:25.39
basically the question of,
00:21:25.42\00:21:26.45
how much her cholesterol
was within normal limits,
00:21:26.48\00:21:29.48
and the question was
to what extent is that
00:21:29.51\00:21:32.15
as a result of the
cholesterol lowering medicine
00:21:32.18\00:21:34.62
that she is on and, or
to what extent is lifestyle,
00:21:34.65\00:21:40.32
her lifestyle having an impact.
00:21:40.35\00:21:42.74
So during this intensive
lifestyle intervention program
00:21:42.77\00:21:45.92
it was decided to let's
go ahead and suspend her
00:21:45.95\00:21:50.19
or take her off of
both of the medicines
00:21:50.22\00:21:52.83
that she is wanting to get.
00:21:52.86\00:21:54.15
And so while under this
physician supervised program
00:21:54.18\00:21:57.25
let's go ahead
and take her off those
00:21:57.28\00:21:59.31
and then maximize
lifestyle intervention to see
00:21:59.34\00:22:02.55
does she really need
those medicines or not, okay.
00:22:02.58\00:22:06.28
And so I just
saw her earlier today
00:22:06.31\00:22:08.43
and we ran
through the second laps
00:22:08.46\00:22:10.82
and what have turned out
what as I was expected is
00:22:10.85\00:22:14.34
her cholesterol
levels in fact did go up
00:22:14.37\00:22:16.87
because she was off the medicine
00:22:16.90\00:22:18.67
even though she is eating
a zero cholesterol diet here.
00:22:18.70\00:22:21.67
you know, So what gives clearly
00:22:21.70\00:22:23.65
the cholesterol medicines
were reducing her cholesterol
00:22:23.68\00:22:27.23
and then when we took her off
00:22:27.26\00:22:28.55
that it sort of
came back to the level
00:22:28.58\00:22:30.29
that she would
normally be having.
00:22:30.32\00:22:33.06
So then the question is
00:22:33.09\00:22:34.96
how should we look in terms
of the future for strategy?
00:22:34.99\00:22:42.34
And so what I've
shared with here is
00:22:42.37\00:22:44.47
let's go ahead
and continue with her
00:22:44.50\00:22:47.52
off the both her cholesterol
00:22:47.55\00:22:49.39
and her blood pressure medicine.
00:22:49.42\00:22:50.53
She has done very
well for blood pressure
00:22:50.56\00:22:52.69
and then have her
repeat those laps in six weeks
00:22:52.72\00:22:55.65
to see as the
lifestyle continues to kick in,
00:22:55.68\00:22:59.36
does she really
need that medicine.
00:22:59.39\00:23:01.70
For example does she have this
familial hypercholesterolemia
00:23:01.73\00:23:05.67
or can she, you
know, can she be off
00:23:05.70\00:23:07.67
and that's what we will
find out in the six weeks.
00:23:07.73\00:23:10.22
Well, Shela is close enough
00:23:10.25\00:23:11.71
by where she could come visit us
00:23:11.74\00:23:14.48
and continue seeing
our doctors on campus
00:23:14.51\00:23:17.84
whether it be you
or one of our docs.
00:23:17.87\00:23:21.01
We are running out of time.
00:23:21.04\00:23:22.85
I want to thank
you for joining us.
00:23:22.88\00:23:24.58
Sure.
00:23:24.61\00:23:25.66
It's always a
pleasure to chat with you.
00:23:25.69\00:23:26.75
My pleasure.
00:23:26.78\00:23:27.83
And God bless you
in your work you do.
00:23:27.86\00:23:30.26
And thank you
friends but don't go away
00:23:30.29\00:23:32.14
we have a tip for
you following this.
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Welcome to "Ask the Doctor."
00:24:28.03\00:24:29.47
I'm Dr. David DeRose.
00:24:29.50\00:24:31.29
We are taking your questions
00:24:31.32\00:24:32.71
as we always do
on this broadcast.
00:24:32.74\00:24:34.83
We are going all the
way to Florida and to John.
00:24:34.86\00:24:38.12
His question is as follows.
00:24:38.15\00:24:40.66
What are the nutritional
differences between canned,
00:24:40.69\00:24:45.47
frozen, and fresh
vegetables and fruits?
00:24:45.50\00:24:50.14
Well, John, this is a question
00:24:50.17\00:24:51.47
that's been asked
many times over many years.
00:24:51.50\00:24:53.55
It's a great question
and it's not a simple answer.
00:24:53.58\00:24:56.97
Some people in rural
parts of America are getting
00:24:57.00\00:24:59.87
very excited about organic foods
00:24:59.90\00:25:01.62
and by the way, great options.
00:25:01.65\00:25:03.47
I work at a center called
00:25:03.50\00:25:05.02
Weimer Center of
Health and Education
00:25:05.05\00:25:06.93
and we have a
certified organic farm here.
00:25:06.96\00:25:08.91
So we believe
in organic produce.
00:25:08.94\00:25:11.11
But I've noticed as I
traveled around the country,
00:25:11.14\00:25:13.07
sometimes you go to some
little out of the way place
00:25:13.10\00:25:15.72
and you look at
that organic produce
00:25:15.75\00:25:17.43
and it looks like its been
00:25:17.46\00:25:18.77
sitting there for maybe a month.
00:25:18.80\00:25:21.14
It's kind of shriveled up
and looking in poor condition.
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Actually some of that
poor condition fresh produce
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whether it's organic or not
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may have less nutrients
in it than frozen produce.
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In general if you
just go right to the farm
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and you can eat the
food right out the farm
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that's gonna be the
most nutritionally dense,
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the best
nutrition that you can get.
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But there are loses
as food is transported.
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So fresh food sometimes
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if it's been in
transit a long time,
00:25:49.42\00:25:51.91
sit in the shelf a long time
00:25:51.94\00:25:53.27
actually can have
significant nutritional loses.
00:25:53.30\00:25:56.86
Frozen foods preserve
those nutrients pretty well.
00:25:56.89\00:25:59.88
Some things are
preserved better than others.
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And then canned foods
because of a heating process
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some of the nutrients or
what we call heat labeled
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that means the
heating process destroys
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some of those nutrients,
vitamin C would be an example.
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So the best rule of thumb
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listen, if you are
canning your own foods
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out of your
garden, that's great.
00:26:16.19\00:26:17.46
Include those in your diet.
00:26:17.49\00:26:18.97
If sometimes you are using
canned items that's not wrong.
00:26:19.00\00:26:22.48
But if you can
use more fresh fruits
00:26:22.51\00:26:24.19
that's going to be the best
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especially if they are
grown from your own garden
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or you are getting
them from a local source,
00:26:27.37\00:26:29.50
they have not been in transit
00:26:29.53\00:26:31.12
for many days or weeks or months
00:26:31.15\00:26:34.01
and beyond that frozen
food is also good alternative.
00:26:34.04\00:26:37.47
Bottom line don't
get so preoccupied
00:26:37.50\00:26:39.49
with all these questions.
00:26:39.52\00:26:40.63
Just eat more
fruits and vegetables,
00:26:40.66\00:26:42.87
whole gains, nuts and seeds
00:26:42.90\00:26:44.14
and you are gonna
have better health
00:26:44.17\00:26:45.72
but those best sources
00:26:45.75\00:26:47.28
fresh right out of the
garden you can't beat it.
00:26:47.31\00:26:49.22
That's why many people
00:26:49.25\00:26:50.48
are moving to community
gardens to personal gardens.
00:26:50.51\00:26:53.82
Think about that next time
00:26:53.85\00:26:55.36
when you are in the
store just think boy,
00:26:55.39\00:26:57.35
I could be growing
some of these own things
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