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 6.5, 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
if you could actually add
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quality years to your
life rather than dying
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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 because most diseases
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are lifestyle diseases,
especially Type 2 diabetes
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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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of our program and
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to a better more
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Hi, friends, and
welcome to another edition
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of NEWSTART Now.
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I'm your host Ron Giannoni.
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In the studios with me
is a young man by the name
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of Marty Smith, all the
way from Auburn, California,
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which is about
11 miles from here.
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Let's take a look at
when Marty first arrived.
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So I'm here to change.
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I think I'm 63 years old
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and I think it's a
little bit of a reward to shed,
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I'm reasonably healthy
but I'm on about a dozen meds,
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I've had some...
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Just recovering
from my prostate cancer
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and had a stroke,
and I really want to have
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another 20-30
great healthy years.
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But mostly I am
looking at my future
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as to how long I
gonna be able to keep this
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and I really want to
be, get off all those pills.
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So I'm looking for
tools and a shift in attitude
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so that I can
live more healthily
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and learn some cooking, I don't,
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I've been
married most of my life
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and so I never learned to cook.
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So I'm hoping that
the lessons will...
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The cooking
lessons will help a lot.
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Yes, I definitely need to
lose quite a lot of weight,
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and get off of
the eight medications
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and I think it's a
bit of vicious circle.
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And so if I can
break that vicious circle,
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then the two
problems will resolve.
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Welcome back, friends.
As I promised Marty, fist.
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You know my shoulder, I hurt it.
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And it's hard for
me to shake. Got you!
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Anyhow, here you are,
you've been here 17-18 days
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and when you got here,
can we say you were a mess?
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Yes, I would admit
to becoming a mess.
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I was a mess.
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You told me before
the interview started,
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you said something that
I'd like our viewers to hear,
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you said, I
asked, how was it going,
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and you said,
remember what you said to me?
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No, I don't recall.
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You said, "This is way
beyond my expectations."
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Okay.
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Do you remember saying that?
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Now, now I do, and
I'd like to repeat it
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because after 17
years it's still way
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beyond my expectations
because of my experiences
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over the last couple of
weeks everything has just been,
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the more I see, the
more I'm just blown away.
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Now, why, why, I know
that you're on 10 medications,
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some of which you were
taking more than once a day.
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Yes.
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And so that makes like 15 or 20
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you were taking in a day, right?
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Yes sir.
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Even though some
of them are duplicate.
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Right.
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How many of those
medications you off of?
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I didn't count them completely
but certainly I was on three
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blood pressure reducing meds
and I'm off all three of those,
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and I'm feeling good about that.
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How did that change
your blood pressure,
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did it go up?
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It didn't change it, no.
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So I now have very
similar blood pressure
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than I did a
month ago or a year ago
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when my doctor was feeding me
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all of those blood
pressure medicines,
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and I'm pleased to be off them
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because they all
had side effects.
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Yes, I know, mine did. Yes.
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Every time I
stood up, I got dizzy.
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Oh, I didn't have that
problem, when I was lying down.
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Oh, when you were
lying down. Oh, wow.
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So and you are off
other medications as well.
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Yes, he's reduced
my arthritis medicine.
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He's also took
me off of prednisone
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because I used to
have a pretty upset stomach
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and took me off several
other folic acid and things
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because the diet
means that I don't need,
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I have plenty of
folic acid for lunch.
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Awesome.
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Tell us your experience
about the inflammation
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that all of a sudden
got your elbow and...
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Right. Tell us about that?
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Okay, yes, so after
the original consult
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with the doctor,
we went through a list
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and we wrote the few
that we're gonna keep
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and the once that
we're gonna take off
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and we talked about
reducing my prednisone.
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I was already on
a pretty low dose
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and he cut it in half
and when we cut it down
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and also took my...
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The other, sorry,
the turmeric, turmeric.
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Yes, so when he
took the turmeric off
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then couple of
my joints blew up,
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my this left, then my
right, and then my ankle,
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and then I felt
my knee was gonna go,
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and so he
intervened at the point.
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So that so reversed a
little, so now I'm back
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on that small amount of
turmeric and prednisone.
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And he prescribed
the charcoal poultice
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and it's a simple remedy
with a mixture of a charcoal
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and flaxseed and
you apply to the joint
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and it's a miracle non drug.
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Isn't that amazing?
It is absolutely amazing.
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I was a little cynical
about such a simple remedy
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but I'm a huge
believer right now.
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We've seen stories,
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people come here
with various kinds
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of sicknesses or even infections
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and that charcoal
just pulls it out.
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Yeah, it's amazing.
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It's just amazing. Yes.
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I had injured my
shoulder like I told you,
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and the gals were doing
some poultice on my shoulder.
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Every time they
did, it felt better.
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They were reducing
that heat and inflammation.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So how many
pounds have you lost?
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Eighteen pounds so
far. Eighteen pounds?
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Eighteen pounds, yes,
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a couple of inches
off the belly as well
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and that feels really
good, but what feels really good
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is that it feels sustainable,
my appetite is down,
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I am eating well.
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And just I'm really
excited, the next 18 pounds
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is probably gonna be
even easier than this.
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Yes, yes, so who's
at home waiting for you?
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My two cats. Your two cats.
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My two cats.
They're waiting for me.
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Are you gonna
have them go vegan too?
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No, probably not. Okay.
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No, they eat rats
for me, and I like that.
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Okay.
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Well, Dr. Lukas
used to have a vegan dog.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, he
loved ripe old age.
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I don't know what happen to him.
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Yeah, these are not
pets, these are working cats.
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Oh, okay, they get the rats.
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Absolutely. Okay.
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We don't want
to make them vegan.
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No.
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Not if they're
catching rats. No.
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So are you gonna
have any difficulty
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keeping the program as
you've learned it here?
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No, I don't think
so. I think I'm...
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And I've talked
to a lot of people
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who are also on the program
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and they're all gonna take it
their own, they understand it,
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so it's a lot of
detailed information
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and we all
process in different ways,
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and we've talked
about the challenges
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that we're gonna
have, the coffee and so
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butter on toast and some
of those eggs challenges.
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So everyone I
think is gonna adopt
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the part of the
program so seriously
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but we're gonna tweak
it to accommodate our needs
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and wants and our own things
that makes our life better.
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Well, you know,
you are fortunate.
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You live 10
minutes away from here.
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You can come and visit
anytime. And I will, yes.
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Walk the trails,
visit, come and see me.
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Yes. We can chat.
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Yes. And have lunch.
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And have lunch. Especially, yes.
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Absolutely.
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Now, what was your
favorite part of the program?
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Well, I love
the cooking classes,
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definitely.
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And Michelle is
absolutely amazing.
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Isn't she an angle?
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An inspiration, anyway,
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but a knowledge
of culinary arts,
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it's just amazing.
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And she showed us how
to make these simple foods
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that were better than a
lot of the replacements.
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For an instance
there's really great chick pea,
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no tuna salad,
that has chick peas
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rather than the tuna is...
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Better than any
tuna salad I ever had.
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Isn't that amazing? Yeah, it is.
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And tuna salad used to
be one of my favorites.
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All right, yeah.
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Well, yeah, I particularly
liked tuna sandwiches.
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But, of course, I
don't eat them anymore,
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but I've eaten that
chick pea that she does.
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Yes, isn't that
fantastic? Oh, my world.
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Yes, it's pretty amazing.
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Have you start up on cook books?
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Yes, I have.
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I've actually bought
four copies of the one
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that they gave us
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and my girlfriend
took the first copy
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immediately the first day.
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So I bought three more,
I've bought one for my son,
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who's a vegetarian
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but he's gonna be
a vegan hopefully,
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and also another friend so...
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And what cook book is that?
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The NEWSTART. Oh,
the NEWSTART. Okay.
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The one they
sell it in the store.
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Yes, that one's gonna
be moving around the world.
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And overall of all
your experience here,
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what do you think is
gonna be your most memorable?
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I know you
mentioned cooking but...
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Oh, the people, the people.
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The people. The people, yes.
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So in the last
18 days I've spent
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with probably
40-50 people, you know,
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a dozen to 20 people who
work here at the institute,
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and I think our
class was smallish,
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maybe about 18 I think.
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And so we all had time to
learn about each other and bond,
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and it's just been a
great experience, so yes.
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Definitely the people, I would.
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I came for the
people and ended up
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learning how to cook.
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Well, I want to take
this time just to thank you
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for coming here and sharing.
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I know that you are
gonna inspire people
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who are watching you
now, and I wish you well
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and we are gonna
see you soon, I hope.
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Okay, absolutely.
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And maybe I can just add
just one small experience
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this morning.
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I had my massage and I
laid on the table face down
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and I could breath.
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Three weeks ago I
could barely breathe
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because my belly was
pushing up on my lungs
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and the difference this morning
was dramatic and that was a...
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It feels pretty good.
Thank you for sharing that.
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You are welcome.
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And thank you,
friends, don't go away
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'cause Dr. Roger
Gallant will be right with us.
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When we look at
the health status
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of Americans today,
it's alarming to see that
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60% are either
overweight or obese.
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In addition, diseases
such as Type 2 diabetes,
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cancer and heart
disorders are the leading cause
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of so many complications
and deaths every year.
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Could it have something
to do with what we eat?
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After all, every
one in four Americans
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visits a fast
food restaurant daily,
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and with such easy
access to quick fix foods,
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we tend to forget
the poor health value
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those foods actually offer.
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Maybe it's the
sedentary lifestyle,
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and lack of
exercise that we've become
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so accustomed to as a
media dependant world.
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Whatever the
cause of these diseases,
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a solution has arrived.
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The NEWSTART Lifestyle
Center offers enriching program
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where patients can
get a healing of mind,
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body, and soul.
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Located in the
outskirts of Sacramento,
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the NEWSTART Center is
situated on the beautiful campus
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of Weimar Center of
Health and Education
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with scenic walking and
hiking trails all around.
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With a whole plant
foods eating whole motto,
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the NEWSTART Center promotes
a healthy plant-based diet
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with an emphasis
on natural foods.
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The NEWSTART
staff are made up of
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California board
certified nurses, doctors,
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dieticians, and
therapists who work together
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to assist each
patient personally.
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The staff are dedicated
to each patient's success
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in the program,
and are always there
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to guide, advise, and encourage.
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In addition to a
healthy lifestyle,
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NEWSTART also promotes a
healthy exercise routine.
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You're both in sequence,
that's good, all right.
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As part of the balance program,
there is much opportunity
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to get in the fair
share of physical activity
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from utilizing
our fitness center
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to taking a stroll
around the peaceful grounds
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of Weimer.
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It's amazing what a
NEWSTART can do for you.
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Welcome back, friends, and
in our studio, Dr. Gallant.
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Good to see you.
Good to see you, Ron.
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You know, every
time I look at you I say,
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"Well, there's a
handsome young man."
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You're too kind.
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But you are young,
we're just talking about that.
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Yes, I am young.
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Praise the Lord,
He's keeping me young,
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keeping me healthy.
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Another kind of a
joke we are sharing,
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it's good to grow
old because if you don't,
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you are not gonna be here.
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Amen. That's right. Amen.
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I want to talk about Marty. Yes.
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Marty has had some
very unusual experiences
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and I'd like you to
share with our guests,
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those viewers, what happened?
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You know, I
really appreciated Marty,
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the time we spent
together has been a blessing.
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Marty has a history
of rheumatoid arthritis,
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and he says that occasionally
he'll get these flare-ups.
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And while he was here...
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Now the flare-ups
are aching pains...
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Yes. Okay.
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He gets pain, he
gets joint swelling,
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he gets stiffness,
hard to move and so on.
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And he says he typically
gets them once or twice a year.
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While he was here, he
was doing more exercise
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and started to notice
some symptoms coming on.
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One other things we did
when he first came here,
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he was, he's on
chronic prednisone,
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and prednisone is a steroid,
it's not always the best thing
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to be taking all the time.
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So we were trying, he
was doing well when he came.
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We were trying to
see if we could just
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lower it a little bit,
and he was on a very low dose,
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so we cut it in half.
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And that may have
contributed to some of this,
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and also the more
activity may have contributed
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to this as well.
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But what we found is
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he was starting to get
some pain and stiffness
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first in his
left elbow and so he,
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we started talking
about it and I said to him,
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I made a suggestion
that was a little unusual,
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I said, "Why
don't we try and put
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a charcoal poultice on there."
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He kind of looked at me twice.
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He was worried. Yeah.
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He say, oh, what
kind of a doctor I have,
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get the charcoal?
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That's right, he
was a little skeptical.
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Yeah.
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But he was willing to try,
he was a good sport about it.
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We also increased his...
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Well, at that point
we haven't even increased
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his prednisone back up.
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We put some charcoal on there
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and he takes
turmeric from time to time
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which is a good
natural anti-inflammatory.
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So he started taking that again.
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And what we found is that
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he started to get
a little more pain,
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moved to this
elbow and this wrist,
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so we put poultices
on those three areas
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and gradually they
started to improve.
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They reversed the
direction they were going in,
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usually once it
starts, they progress
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to a certain point.
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And he said he was happy
to see that this has happened
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and it slowed down.
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Then he started getting
some symptoms in his knee.
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And in the leg? In the leg.
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And you shared, tell the
folks what you shared with me
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before we got started
about how long that one last?
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Well, he says that when
he starts getting symptoms
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in his knee, it gets very
bad and it usually puts him
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out of commission
for two to three weeks.
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And we put a
charcoal poultice on there,
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we kept praying
about it and he increased
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his prednisone
back to the low dose
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that he'd been on
when he first came,
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and he also
took another medicine
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that he occasionally
takes little bit of colchicine.
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But today he told me that
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he doesn't have any charcoal on.
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He says he feels great.
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He is a believer now in
the benefits of charcoal.
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A believer, right?
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And you know, there is a
lot of believers out there
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watching this program right now.
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You know they're
riddled with arthritis,
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and they live in pain.
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I get these calls all day long.
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Doctor, are you saying
that people with arthritis
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should be coming to
our NEWSTART program?
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I am saying that
I believe what we do
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can put your body
in the best condition
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and we have seen a lot
of people with arthritis
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who have had
significant improvements
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in their pain.
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Let me share two
other quick things
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with our guests.
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Arthritis oftentimes is related
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to dehydration.
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I have seen some
evidence in the literature
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that says that if a patients
is chronically dehydrated,
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they can have joint
pain that mimics arthritis
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which would make you
think that you have arthritis,
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but maybe you don't.
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What causes that, just
because of inflammation?
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Well, what happens
is if we're dehydrated
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the body will rob
liquid, will rob water
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from the areas
that are considered
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"non-essential".
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So the essential
organs get the liquid.
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So your brain, you
liver, your heart, your kidneys,
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those essential
organs will stay hydrated
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but it may rob liquid from,
may rob fluid from your joints.
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I'm getting thirsty.
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Just talking
about it, that's right.
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Just talking
about it, I'm going wow!
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That's right. I never knew that.
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The other thing
is you want to have
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low impact moderate exercise.
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As people get out and
exercise they will find that
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their stiffness and
their arthritic type pains
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start to go away.
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So increase in your hydration
and increase in your exercise
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typically makes
people start to feel better.
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Well, wouldn't we
bring the lifestyle as far as
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what we eat into that
phase as well, I mean, plants,
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don't they in fact do
something to the joints that...
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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A plant-based diet,
eating simple plant-based foods
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is better for your
overall body health
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including your joints
than any other type of diet.
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Amen. Amen.
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And it's 11 years
this August for me...
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Fantastic.
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And I've been
through a lot of changes.
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This is not about
me, this is about Damian
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and our viewers...
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No, this is about Marty.
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I mean Marty, Damian, I
got Damian on the brain,
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but Marty.
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And the viewers because I
know we've got the attention
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of many people
that have arthritis.
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And, friends, if
you have arthritis,
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you could pick up the phone
and give us a call right now.
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Call
800-525-9192, ask for me, Ron,
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and I'll be glad to get you here
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as quickly as we can.
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But more about Marty,
what's the prognosis now?
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What is he gonna do?
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Well, he is
doing very, very well.
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He has lost
weight, he's feeling better
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than he has ever felt.
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In fact, Marty told me
at our last appointment
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that he believes he
has dodged a bullet.
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Yeah.
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He has dodged a bullet. Wow!
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That's the biggie. Yeah.
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If you can dodge
a bullet, you'd...
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That's a beautiful thing.
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Yeah, especially one
of those to your head.
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Yeah, yeah.
Isn't that wonderful?
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So, now he is
doing very well, he...
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And I really think that he
is gonna be very successful,
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he is committed to
making the changes,
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he is committed to
changing his lifestyle,
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he's seen that he can do this.
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We've decreased his medications,
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and I really believe
that he is gonna do well.
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Doctor, were
there any other reasons
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that you know of as
a medical practitioner,
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why he should
have come here, I mean,
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couldn't he have
done this at home or?
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Well, it's sometimes harder
to know exactly what to change
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and how to
change it on your own.
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That's why I
always recommend that
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if you're gonna make
changes to your lifestyle
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and especially your medications,
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that you have some
supervision from somebody
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who has been through this before
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and knows sort
of what to expect.
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And so Marty was
appreciative of that
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because we were
able to do some things
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that got his body kick
started to losing weight
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and to changing his metabolism,
and he's able to walk now
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more than he
used to in the past.
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And he doesn't
get a short of breath.
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Overall he is just
feeling a lot better.
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Doctor, I want to
thank you for coming.
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God bless you. Thank you, Ron.
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And continue your good
work and thank you, friends,
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don't go away, we
have a tip for you.
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The next deadly
psychological sin is self pity,
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and I have a personal experience
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with self pity.
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In fact with my kind
of artistic temperament
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and my tendency
toward depression,
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I have raised self
pity to an art form
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at various points in my life.
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And I've repented
of the sin of self pity
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and I've learned a better way.
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So I want to
share that with you.
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But first I want
to share with you
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what science
says about self pity.
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Self pity has been
correlated with depression,
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with what we call
externality beliefs,
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the belief that
everything that affects me
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is happening outside of
me, that I have no power.
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Self pity is correlated
with internalized anger,
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increased rumination
thinking over and over and over
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and over about
things, ruminating on things.
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Self pity is
correlated with loneliness
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and with distrust.
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Self pity is
founded on the assumption
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that "I am a victim"
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that foundation needs
to change in order for us
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to get over with
the self pity thing.
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We have to move
from what is called
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an "external locus of control"
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toward "internal
locus of control".
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An external locus of
control sees everything
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that happens to me as
being in the power of things
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outside of me, life
just kind of happens.
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But in internal
locus of control says,
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"What can I do about the
things that happen to me?"
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I'm one of those people
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who have a number of mysterious,
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difficult to define illnesses
that cause me a lot of pain
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but don't end up killing me off.
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Sometimes I wish they would.
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When this first
started happening,
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I was just in my early 30s
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and the first mysterious illness
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that came upon me catapulted me
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I could say into
an abyss of self pity,
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it went on for months
and months and months.
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But ultimately I
got a handle on things,
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and I realized that the
way that I was processing
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what was happening to
me was making it worst
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instead of better.
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Recently I had another
health problem develop.
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But this time I knew
the pitfall of self pity
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and I didn't fall
into that slough of despond
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yet another time.
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This time instead, I
thought, "What can I do
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to manage this problem?"
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And I have to say
comparing those two approaches,
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I really like the
second one a lot better.
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The replacement for self
pity is "responsibility taking".
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You know, for some reason
human beings responsibility
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taking mechanism is off.
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We either tend to blame
other people for our stuff
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or we take up on ourselves
the blame that belongs to them.
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It's a sign of maturity
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when we can accurately
take appropriate responsibility
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for our situation.
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So I recommend that
the first thing you do
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in taking responsibility
is you list five things
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that might help
your current situation,
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write them down on paper.
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Then ask an
accountability partner,
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someone you trust
to step in and help you
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take responsibility
for your situation
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and pursue those five options.
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And finally I recommend that
you learn the serenity prayer.
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That you learn to say,
"God grant me the serenity
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to accept the
things I cannot change,
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the courage to
change the things I can,
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and the wisdom to
know the difference."
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Well, friends,
that's it for today,
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but join us next
week for another episode.
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