Every year in America
there are over 1 million deaths
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because of type 2
diabetes and chronic obesity,
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this include 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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rather than dying
one organ at a time?
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Obesity and
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of over a
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because most diseases
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especially type 2
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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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I have an exciting
interview for you today.
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We have Brian
Morse, as in Morse code,
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from Organ in our studio.
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Brian, how are you?
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Real good. Real good.
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Good to see you. Oh, thank you
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I want get right
into this interview.
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I have lot of
questions to ask you.
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Shoot.
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You know, when we did
the first interview...
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In fact let's take a
look at that right now.
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I look at this-- I've
tried to go plan based
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and tried to do more
exercises and all that.
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And I look at
this as my last chance,
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this is my last hope.
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I just finally
realized and admitted to myself
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that I couldn't do it alone.
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I had to have
support, I had to have help.
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And for me as a man
that's a hard thing to do,
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"you don't ask directions
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when you still got
a quarter tank gas"
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type of a thing.
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So it was-- my blood
sugar was going out of,
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way out of balance, I
wasn't getting any exercise,
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I wasn't eating the right way,
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I knew it but I
wasn't able to change.
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I was on insulin the
last couple three months
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where I had never been.
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I've always been
able to keep things
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with eating
fairly reasonable and...
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the pills but now
I'm, I'm on insulin.
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I've got-- I've
got looking at the--
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one of them fill out the paper,
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I got an awful lot
of pills I'm taking
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and the idea that I can
get rid of some of them to,
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say you know, maybe all of them.
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But if I got
rid of a lot of them
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I would feel better.
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I've just
basically don't feel good.
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I have no
energy, I have no spark.
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I don't-- I'm not
enjoying life like I know should
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because everything
sort of puts together
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and keeps me down,
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and the more I
do what I was doing
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the worse I was getting,
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then I was just in
the downward spiral.
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Before I leave here, I
want to be off insulin,
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I want to have a lot
of the medicines I have
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reduced or gone.
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I want to be where I
can do the exercises,
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enjoy them being
able to have a...
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a life, a vivid life,
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something that you can enjoy
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rather than
just putting in time.
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Welcome back,
friends, okay we saw the tape.
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We saw you when
you first got here.
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You said you were out of energy.
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I mean, you
looked depressed to me.
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I was a little
bit, I was just down.
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I just didn't--
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wasn't up, wasn't
bright, wasn't happy.
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This was sort of--
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I was just sort of going
through the emotions of living.
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So what's happened
in-- That was 2 weeks ago.
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Mm-hmm.
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Now what has
happened in last 2 weeks.
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Let's start with-- Let's
talk about your weight first.
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Have you lost some
weight? I've lost 12 pounds.
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Okay, you've lost--
are you happy with that?
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Well, I wish I had -- lots more
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but, yeah, basically for
that short period of time, yes.
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You also mentioned
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that you're taking
a lot of medications.
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Now what do you mean by a
lot of medications-20, 30?
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No, probably 10 of
them. That's a lot.
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And since I've been
here, since I've been here,
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I'm off of two of them
and reduced on the third one.
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Okay.
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Most
importantly, to me personally,
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was I-- I was insulin dependent.
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Yes.
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I was taking 85
units of Lantus a day.
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I'm now taking 10.
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I was taking 45 units of NovoLog
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the short acting one,
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and I'm now taking
20-25 right in that area.
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All right.
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So I've seen a big difference.
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Huge difference. Yes.
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How long have you been diabetic?
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Twenty years, but
just recently on insulin.
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A third of your life.
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Uh-huh.
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Well, you know, it
gets better, you know that.
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Yes.
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You've been through
lectures you've had your--
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who is your doctor by the way?
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Ing.
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Dr. Ing and Dr. Doug Plata.
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Yes, last 3 days, yes.
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Yes, he'll be-- In
fact we're gonna interview
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Dr. Plata, right after this.
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But let's talk
about you some more.
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So you've gone off a
couple of medications,
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you've cut down your Lantus,
and what other medications
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have you omitted or cut back on?
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Cholesterol medicine is gone.
No more cholesterol medicine?
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No more cholesterol medication.
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I can never
remember all the pills.
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It doesn't matter.
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Anyway, and obviously
I'll see the doctor tomorrow
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just before we leave,
the day before we leave.
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And I'm assuming
that he's going to--
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he'll have the latest
lab results and I'll be...
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Right. ...off more or reduced.
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Right.
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That's what I'm looking
for is to get all the way off
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or get it way cut down.
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You had a blood
draw the Monday...
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actually, it was the
second day you were here
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which was the first
full day of the program.
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That Monday and you had another
blood draw the day before,
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or yesterday morning
you had a blood draw?
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I just came from it.
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Okay, so you're gonna
get your results by tomorrow.
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Yes.
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And I know that we're
gonna see a great improvement.
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Now.
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Giving example.
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Yeah.
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I was on the treadmill
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and I went a minute and
half longer on the treadmill
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at an angle than I was
able to do it 2 weeks ago.
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Oh, my.
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So I defeated my
legs and my lung capacity.
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Everything it's just better.
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Got better. Yeah.
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How do your legs feel?
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Strong. Okay.
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Before there really wasn't
walking or doing anything,
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they were just sort of soft,
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now, even right
now I can feel my leg
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and it's not
tense but it's firm.
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You got, you got
some muscle, huh?
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It's firm, it's
usable, where before...
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Yeah, well, you
know what they say,
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if you don't use
it you'll lose it.
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That is true and I
lost it for many years
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and this program was bringing
me back, I'm so blessed for it.
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Amen.
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What about this
program did you like the most?
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Oh, that's hard to say,
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because it's so
good all the way through.
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I'm glad that you say that.
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But...
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I guess, two things:
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The getting me on
a totally vegan diet
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and staying with it.
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I made the commitment
to do it when I came down,
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and now I honestly
feel I can't say with it.
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I can take-- go
home and it's just,
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it's just a different kitchen.
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Yeah.
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And the other thing is
the exercising, the walking,
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getting me, given me an example.
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I don't know
which actually did it.
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But when I came down here,
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my mind was
always sort of in a fog.
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Early in the morning,
you know, I could do stuff,
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do stuff on the
computer I didn't understand,
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I could learn stuff.
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Afternoon, no chance.
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Really? Evening time, no chance.
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Now I'm alert, alive,
clear any time of the day.
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Well, you know, there's
a lot of reasons for that,
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and you know the
nutrition is, is one good,
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another is you're off
a couple of medications
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that properly weren't
doing you a whole lot of good.
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But to me, I found that walking.
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What walking does for me,
it helps me breath deeper,
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it helps me breath
more, I'm getting more oxygen
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throughout my
body, into the cells,
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into my brain,
releasing endorphins
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and it's just like you
heard the runner's high?
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I get this walker's high.
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I-- Like this
morning, I told you,
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I walked 4 miles this
morning, before breakfast.
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And that's-- it just
feels good to do that.
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And I want to challenge
you, and we're gonna follow up,
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I'll be following up with you,
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I'll be calling you
and checking in on you,
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to do 5 miles a day
within the next 2-3 weeks.
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I know you're at 3-4 now,
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so increasing by
another mile is not a big deal.
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It's nothing. Yeah, yeah.
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You started using
walking sticks, did you not?
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I was gonna bring
that up. You were, huh?
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Yes, I was waiting for
you, I was waiting for you to...
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You were walking
with the walking sticks.
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You could barely stand up.
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If that-- If the truth be known.
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Are you using
walking sticks now?
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Yes. Oh, you are.
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When I go for walks,
not from here to there
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and, you know, building
to building or something.
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For long walks.
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When I take off
and go for walks.
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And I've always hated walking.
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My wife was always
into it and, you know,
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tries to keep me walking,
it hurt my hips, you know.
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Well sure. I hated it.
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But once they showed me
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how to set up the walking sticks
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and how to use them properly,
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it's-- you get lot more
of your arms and they'd--
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to sort of help propels
you ahead, I enjoy walking.
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The little
footpads in the bottom,
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I need a new set.
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But it just-- it
makes walking, fun.
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And they have a thing in
Norway called Nordic walking.
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Yes.
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And they just--
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they just out go for walk
with sticks, even in the city.
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Going from building to building,
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they're going like that.
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My neighbor is from Norway
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and she uses walking sticks.
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And we you know
for a fact they help,
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you know, in many
ways, you burn more calories.
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Oh, yeah.
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You get a better
workout on you heart,
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so that's a good thing.
I'm glad that you took that up.
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And we're real good about
continuing with those sticks.
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So I want to ask you,
what about when you get home,
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how are you gonna
continue this lifestyle?
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I've done a lot of
thinking about that,
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and I've laid
out my first 2-3 days
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not necessarily food
wise, I deal with it when I get,
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I expect to be get
home Friday afternoon,
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late afternoon.
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So I've got Saturday figured out
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what I'm gonna do food,
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but I've also got lists of stuff
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that I'm gonna be
picking up, going over to Costco
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I got a list over here,
I got one at Trader Joe's.
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I'm gonna be end
up at Bob's Red Mill
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and next couple of days
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and picking up different
grains and beans and sort.
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Remember to throw out
all those meats and stuff
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as soon as you get home.
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Brian, we've run out of time,
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I did want to
thank you for being here.
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And we're gonna be
doing some follow up.
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God bless you. Thank you.
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Friends, don't go away
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we have an important
massage following this.
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Welcome back, friends, in
our studio, Dr. Doug Plata.
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Thank you for
joining us, doctor.
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I want get right
into-- about Brian,
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he's, you know, he's had
a lot of issues in his life.
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Strokes and this,
that and the other.
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And he chose to come
here to change his lifestyle,
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how is that is gonna
affect what's already happened?
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Is there a
possibility that Brian,
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his arteries can get cleaned out
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and he can life a normal life
just by changing what he eats?
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Well, I think we need
to make a distinction.
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There are, there are some
basically injuries to our,
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to our bodies, to our health
that are difficult to reverse.
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For example, strokes
can be, you know, temporary,
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in which they can
completely recover
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or can be sort
of permanent damage
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in which the tissue is really
sort of irreversibly injured.
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And so there's
a couple of things
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one is, in some cases
the function can be revived
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if you haven't, if the
cells haven't died for example.
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On the other hand is, what is,
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what's called
secondary prevention
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and that is when
you've had a damaged
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and you want to
ahead and prevent it from,
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it from
reoccurring, for example,
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then that could
make a big difference.
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So him coming here, he's
learning a new lifestyle,
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eating differently,
he's lost some weight.
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Quite a bit of
weight, yeah, yeah.
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And, and he's gonna
continue to lose weight.
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And I see kind of a
bright future for him.
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Of course, you being a doctor
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maybe see things
a little differently
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but can we talk
about the effects
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the lifestyle
does have on weight,
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on our cardio-vascular system?
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Sure, well, just
using Brian as an example,
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he lost 10 full
pounds, during the program,
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and that's really
quite a nice thing.
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We find that men tend to--
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it's more easy for men
to lose weight than women.
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The body...
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Why, why is that, the muscle?
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It's the way
we're designed, I think,
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it has to do with women
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aren't intended to
have additional fat,
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because of child bearing.
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Whereas men don't,
don't so much have that.
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And so over the years,
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the NEWSTART program
has seen this difference,
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and it's well
known, that difference.
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But, yeah, I mean,
with the lifestyle changes
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leading to specially
the reduction of weight
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that can have
really a positive impact
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in many different
aspects of health.
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Certainly cardio-vascular
facts it can not only--
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Study, like, Dean
Ornish did a study
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in which he showed
you can actually reverse
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the clogging of the artery.
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Yes. The atherosclerosis.
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Is that your
experience as a doctor?
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Absolutely, in fact in
the, in the NEWSTART program,
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it can, it can happen
fairly quickly in terms of,
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for example, the angina,
the chest pain from the heart,
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study done a number of years ago
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here at the NEWSTART program,
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actually showed that
the reduction in angina
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just within the 18
days is easily shown by--
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during the studies,
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while they were on this
program within the 18 days.
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So this 18-day program is--
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would you say is
better than a pill?
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Generally, yes,
meaning that the philosophy of,
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of lifestyle medicines,
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we want to
maximize healthy lifestyle
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in order to minimize the
necessity for medications.
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So I think the
patients fully understand this
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when they come, given a choice,
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they would prefer to
be off the medicines.
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Yes.
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And, and we would like that too,
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but we're
rational so we understand
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that they're put on
the medicines for a reason.
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So let's go ahead
and maximize lifestyle
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and let's see
how things go to see,
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can we go ahead
and bring them off
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certain medicine or
do they need to be on it.
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Now where Brian's concerned,
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were we able to get
him off any medications?
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We, we were able to do that,
he came in on some medicines
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and as we
continued with the program,
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he was able to-- to reduce
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his blood pressure
medicine for example.
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Yeah.
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And what is his
blood pressure now?
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I thought I asked him but
don't recall what that was.
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As I'm-- I treat
many different patients
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so I'm trying to recall
myself, I believe that happens,
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he came in with
moderately well controlled
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and then we actually
cut his medicine in half
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and then as result he actually
with the lifestyle changes,
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even though we cut his
blood pressure medicine,
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his blood pressure
levels actually dropped.
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Again? Yes.
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So the next--
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Obviously he's very
happy with that, yeah.
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We hear these stories
from people coming here
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and their taken off
maybe half their medication,
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and then the blood
pressure continues to drop,
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the doctors take
them off the rest,
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and the blood
pressures continue to drop.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Is that mainly
because of the walking,
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the eating and
everything that we teach here?
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Well, it's
certainly a combination
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of all of those things,
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and when you're doing
all of them at the same time
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it's little difficult to
tell for sure what is the--
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what's the main thing.
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I think together
they all have an effect.
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Certainly the
diet, with being a,
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you know, a low-salt diet,
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which is
important in some patients.
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The exercise, I think,
is generally gonna help.
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As the cardio-vascular
system is improved,
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the blood vessels
dilate and you'll able
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to have reduction in
your blood pressure with that.
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So diet and exercise,
these things together,
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frankly losing
weight is itself gonna
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significantly
reduce blood pressure,
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that's well known.
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I've never asked this
to of-- to any doctor,
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but what is the significance
of the standards in BMI?
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Is there or does it
have something to do
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with the
composition of each individual,
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one guy being or one
girl being little thick,
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the other one being
little thin-boned or whatever.
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Yeah, that's a great question
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maybe more time than we
have to really get into it.
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But let me just say
in general that the BMI:
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Body Mass Index, for,
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you know, for the people
who are listening, is just--
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it's way for
clinicians to be able to say,
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well, you have
weight but, if, you know,
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I'm 6'2" I can
afford to have more weight
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than somebody
who's 5'4", let's say.
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Right.
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And so, to say a
proportionate number
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that helps us to
understand really
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how overweight or obese
a person is, by doing this.
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And BMI is just a major,
it's an important number,
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in the clinical
setting to help us understand
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where people are in terms of,
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do they have too
much body fat or not.
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However, you make up a
good point and that is,
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you know, if you--
if you go like this,
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if you wrap around with
your fingers don't touch
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or if they do touch or
if they tend to overlap,
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you're probably not
quite touching, right?
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Right
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Just, just almost
there, so, you know,
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it's like a
large body frame versus
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if you're really overlapping
sort of skinning people.
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Well, if you have,
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if you're a big-bone
or a thin-bone person,
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well, it makes a difference
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in terms of how much
weight you're gonna have.
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And so, it can,
it can mess up the--
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muddy up the
picture a little bit
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but BMI is certainly, generally
a good number that we use.
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The reason I even ask
is that at 195 I'm obese,
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at 194 I'm just
bellow the threshold.
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Okay.
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I don't know if one
pound should make a difference.
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Well, yeah, it's on a gradient,
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so there you have it.
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We're running out of time,
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I want to thank
you for being here.
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Sure
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Thank you for
taking your valuable time.
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It's always good to see you.
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And thank you,
friends, but don't go away.
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I have a tip for
you, following this.
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Welcome to "Ask the
Doctor," I'm Dr. David DeRose.
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We're taking your questions
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and we're going to Grace's
question from California.
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Grace asks,
"What's the one thing
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we shouldn't eat in 2012?
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What's the one thing
we should eat in 2012?"
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Well, if you're
listening to this broadcast
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or viewing it at any
time other than 2012,
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you might gather when
this question was submitted.
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Well, what should we
eat, what shouldn't we eat?
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Actually there are
some general rules of thumb
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I wouldn't want to narrow
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anything down to one single food
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because nutrition is
really about balance.
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Nutrition is about
eating a variety of things.
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And the variety of
things we want to emphasize
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what the research
more and more is telling us
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is we want to eat more fruits,
we want to eat more vegetables,
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we want to eat
more in the bean family,
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we want to eat more nuts
and seeds within moderation
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because the nuts and
seeds have quite a bit of
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what we call caloric density,
lots of calories per volume
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and many Americans are already
getting too many calories.
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But if I were to single
out one food that I think
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overlooked in 2012,
it would the legumes,
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it would be the bean family.
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I'm very excited about beans.
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I know that may sound like
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a strange thing
to be excited about,
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but I see many patients
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who have
problems with cholesterol,
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they have problem
with their weight,
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they have problems
with their blood sugar.
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Eating more beans has been shown
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to help all these conditions.
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Beans have something
called leguminous fiber.
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Leguminous fiber
helps to stabilize
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or steady blood
sugar after a meal.
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So we have
patients with diabetes
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going through
our NEWSTART program
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at Weimar Center of
Heath and Education.
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We are giving them
beans at every meal.
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Now we don't
force them to eat them,
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I mean, don't stay
away from our program
00:25:44.95\00:25:46.46
if you don't like beans
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but we do recommend to eat them
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because it will keep
their blood sugar more stable.
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Beans also have a
lot of filling capacity
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without giving
you lots of calories.
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They even
prolong levels, get this,
00:25:57.26\00:26:00.48
of a hormone in your blood
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called
cholecystokinin abbreviated CCK,
00:26:02.31\00:26:06.22
I know you're just
so excited about that,
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you say, well, who cares.
00:26:07.92\00:26:09.51
Cholecystokinin
actually is a hormone
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that helps the gallbladder
release bile for digestion
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but it's more than that.
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Cholecystokinin
actually is a satiety hormone.
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So you eat more of
this leguminous fiber,
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more of these beans,
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and it keeps you
satisfied longer between meals.
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So if you say, well, Dr. DeRose,
00:26:27.72\00:26:29.04
I eat breakfast but it
only holds me an hour or two,
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I can almost guarantee you
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that you didn't have
beans with breakfast, did you?
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So add beans to the diet,
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they can be used
to with any meal.
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By the way, that's
not the only thing.
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If you have an allergy
or just can't eat beans,
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of course,
that's not the one thing
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you should be
emphasizing in your diet,
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but it is an overlooked food
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and it brings us
back to that massage,
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one that I've tried to
give on this show before,
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eat more of those plant foods,
00:26:51.26\00:26:53.06
and you'll generally
have much better health.
00:26:53.09\00:26:55.58
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