Every year in America,
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there are over
one million deaths
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because of type II
diabetes and chronic obesity.
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This is includes
heart attacks and strokes.
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That's 6.5 747s
crushing every day.
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What's even more surprising
is that the fix is easy.
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It's your lifestyle.
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Wouldn't it be nice
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if you could
actually add quality years
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to your life rather than
dying one organ at a time?
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Obesity and diabetes
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are the cause of over
million deaths per year.
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Most diseases are reversible
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because most diseases
are lifestyle diseases,
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especially type II
diabetes and chronic obesity.
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Seriously now,
they can be reversed
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and the quality of
your life can be renewed.
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Call NEWSTART
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You will see dramatic changes
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in the first few
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and you will be on road
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to a better more
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The NEWSTART programs
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Hi, friends, and welcome to
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another
addition of NEWSTART Now.
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I'm your host, Ron Giannoni.
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In our studios,
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we have Gary
Russell from Virginia.
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He has an interesting testimony,
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and I'd like you
to take a look at him
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when he first arrived.
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I don't want a stroke.
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I don't want a heart attack.
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I wanna be thinner,
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and I just have
a lot of work to do
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that requires me to be in shape.
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So the first thing is
frankly loosing weight
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and changing my
lifestyle for the long-term,
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not just loosing some weight
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and then, slowly gaining it back
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or quickly gaining
it back or whatever.
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Being in the same mess I am now.
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Second reason is, I
like my work too much.
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And all my co-workers
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and friends in Asia and my wife,
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and my daughter, they all say
I just don't know how to rest.
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I never quit.
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I have felt really crummy,
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especially for
the last two years,
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and I take a lot
of 14-hour flights.
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I do a lot of things
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that I feel some
other people are important,
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and I see all that
impact draining away
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because I'm so
tired, I'm so burned out,
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I don't have energy, I
don't have mental alertness.
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I forget things.
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And what I really want
out of this experience here
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is just to feel vigorous
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and sharp rather than sluggish
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and gradually
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death by degree.
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I feel like I'm
experiencing death by degree.
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And I want to feel life.
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Actually I got a text
from my daughter today
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saying that food is
supposed to give me life,
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but it's killing me.
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And my daughter
and I are very close.
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She's an only child.
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And just being great
blessing her whole life,
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and she wants
grandpa around for her boys.
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Welcome back friends
and as I promised...Gary,
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how are you brother?
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I'm good.
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You're looking good,
you're looking better.
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I would say the
word that describes
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how I feel is younger.
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Younger?
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People ask, "How
do you feel now after
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most of the 18 days, "
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and I say, "Younger."
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That's the word
that comes to mind.
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Amen.
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It's good to see you
in a different spirit.
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When you first arrived,
you seemed a little bit down.
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Yes.
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And now I see, you
know, it's kind of like
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seeing that the
look as I described
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in my
presentation is like the...
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you know, what's
gonna happen here,
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and I see that that's all gone
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and that you have
that look of confidence
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that you feel like.
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Well, you tell me,
how you are feeling.
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Well, in Chinese we say,
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"I feel Shufu."
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That means my
heart is comfortable.
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Ah-ah!
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It's kind of like
saying you are at peace.
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And I would say
that's how I feel,
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I feel settled, at peace.
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I don't feel anxious.
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I don't feel
distraught or nervous
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or unsettled in any way.
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So that tells me you are feeling
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that way when you got here?
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Yeah, I felt not only because
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I was coming to a new
place on an experience
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that I didn't know
what to anticipate.
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Sure.
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But I think just my
general underlying anxiety
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about my health, being obese,
it getting worse not better.
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I would try to
cut down on things,
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and I would still get bigger.
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Mmm.
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And I have two grandsons,
I want to enjoy for a while.
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Yeah.
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So that
underlying tone in my spirit
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was unsettled and also
just I do a lot of travel.
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I travel long
distance an awful lot.
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And I was just,
kind of, worn out...
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Right.
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in general.
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And so did the program
meet your expectations?
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Oh, exceeded them...
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Exceeded?
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Definitely exceeded them.
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I mean, I didn't
know what to expect.
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Right.
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But I tend to be an idealistic.
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I tend to be critical
not effusively flattering
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but this certainly
exceeded my expectations.
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It might have been vague,
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it might have been a
range from high to low...
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Sure.
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that was off the
top of the scale.
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As far as medications,
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you told me you were
off of some medications.
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Yes.
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I was on two
statins for cholesterol
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and omega-3,
prescription omega-3
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for the same.
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Mmm-hm.
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And as I was taught here
about some of the side affects,
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I really
identified with those things.
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Getting muddled
thinking for example...
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From the statin?
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From the... I definitely believe
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it was from the statins
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'cause at my
first appointment here,
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Dr. Gallant said to me,
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"Get rid of your
statins," and I did.
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And...
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You started feeling
better almost immediately?
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Oh, maybe three days.
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Oh!
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About three days, I
started feeling clear.
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I was just so
relieved and am so relived...
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Yes.
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to be off those things
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and have lost
significant weight,
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feel a lot better.
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How much weight did you lose?
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I lost 18 pounds...
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Eighteen pounds?
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which is exactly
what you predicted
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before I came.
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I'm so glad, I
hit it on the head.
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Yeah, you did that
one. I wish I just said 25.
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I wish you had too.
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Who knows?
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But it looked at first like
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I'd lose more
because I lost like 12
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in the first 3, 4 days.
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I remember you
saying something like that.
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But some of that,
of course, was water,
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Dr Gallant told me,
a lot of it's water...
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in the beginning.
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But now, it's not water.
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And I've lost two
inches off my waist,
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I was measure today.
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But you are
building muscle also.
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Yes.
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So that has to be
a factor in there.
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A factor, yeah, right.
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Sure.
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And I just, like I said,
I feel ten years younger.
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So what part of the
program do you like,
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did you like the best?
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I would say I
liked two parts the best,
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one was the
teaching and lectures,
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so I could understand
what was going on in my body,
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what happened when I
ate this or I drank that.
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Mmm-hm.
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And didn't get enough of this
or didn't eat enough of that.
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Understand instead of just,
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"Well, you need to walk
more which my doctor told me."
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Yeah, they all say that,
but, well, what does that mean?
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What happens when I walk?
Am I just burning calories?
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I can do that some other way.
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Right.
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So understanding the
chemicals involved in exercise
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and nutrition is
very, very helpful to me
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and medicine, the understanding,
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the chemical
effects of medicine.
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A lot of people
here were diabetics,
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I'm not diabetic.
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I'm not pre diabetic.
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But still understanding glucose
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and hardening of the arteries,
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how it occurs, how
it can be reversed,
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certainly, my, that
was happening in me.
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Yeah. Without a doubt.
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And so the
information was very motivating
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and as well as just nice to know
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what's going on and
how am I feeling and why.
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Why I used to
eat and feel a spike
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and then crash.
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Whereas here,
it's been so steady,
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it's just unbelievable to me.
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There is a three
day fast and it's like,
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"Oh, you want me to go
two more day, I don't mind."
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Oh, right.
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That was good.
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The difference
in not having sugar,
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not having other
things like that.
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So one thing
was the information.
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I liked the fast a lot.
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And I had a
second thing in mind,
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sorry, but I can't
remember what that was.
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That's okay.
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It might come
before we're finished here.
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Yeah.
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What about your walking?
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Were you able to walk
when you first got here?
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I know you could walk,
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but were you able to go
around the 0.5-mile loop, say?
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Yeah.
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A year ago, at my board's behest
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I started
walking not a whole lot
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but a little over
mile every evening.
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And I felt better and
then, I made another long trip
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and it broke my routine
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and when I came
back, I was out of it.
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But I like to walk.
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Mmm-hm.
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So I enjoyed the walking here
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that's something I
didn't follow through on
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as well as I could have.
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I think I didn't
feel as challenged.
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I was more concerned
about getting my diet in order
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and things like that
'cause I know I enjoy walking.
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So I walked mile
and a half most days
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and some other
people did here six miles
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and things like that.
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How many miles
are you walking lately
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in the last few days?
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About a mile and half.
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You didn't push
it beyond that? Okay.
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No, I didn't really push it.
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Yeah, okay.
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However, my treadmill tests
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improved a great deal
from the beginning to the end.
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Good.
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How about your cholesterol
and triglycerides and all that?
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Well, he told me to expect
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the triglycerides
and the cholesterol
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to go up some
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from being off the meds
that would change the number...
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and the affect of the diet
would take a longer to kick in.
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So, they did go up a little,
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but negligibly,
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so actually, I
was please with that.
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And, you know,
you would expect them
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to have gone up a lot more
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after over two weeks of
no anti-cholesterol drugs.
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And they went up
just very, very slightly.
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Gary, we run out of time.
In fact, we're way over time.
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I want to thank you so
much for coming and joining us.
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And God be with you,
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and we look
forward to seeing you
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on 3ABN one day soon.
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Friends, thank
you for joining us,
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don't go away
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'cause Dr Gallant
will be right with us.
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Welcome back,
friends, and as I promised,
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Dr Gallant in the house.
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Hey, Ron, how are you?
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I'm good, how are you?
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Doing well, thank you.
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I'm excited to be
talking about this gentleman.
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I really like this guy.
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There is something
that draws me to him.
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During our first interview,
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I felt he was
very compassionate.
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Why is that? Is he a
preacher or something?
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He didn't tell me here.
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Well, you know,
Gary is a great guy.
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I feel the same way that you do.
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I really appreciated
the time we spent together.
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I enjoyed interacting with him.
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He is a preacher.
He's actually a missionary.
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Missionary, that's
right, he did tell me.
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He's been a
missionary for 20 plus years,
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I wanna say
around 25 or 26 years.
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He has a mission,
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a ministry called China Harvest.
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So he's working in China.
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And the way he
describes it to me
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is he is a networker.
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So he helps to get things
done for the Chinese believers
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and then he also
helps to put them
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in contact with
people who can help them
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in with what
they're trying to do.
00:14:30.47\00:14:33.34
So how was he
doing on the program?
00:14:33.37\00:14:35.40
We noticed he's been
through some changes,
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I could see when
I've talked to him,
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it's like what's going on there.
00:14:40.24\00:14:42.01
Well, you know,
00:14:42.04\00:14:43.38
he's really been working hard
00:14:43.41\00:14:45.91
on making lifestyle changes.
00:14:45.95\00:14:50.49
Let me start here actually.
00:14:50.52\00:14:52.45
It's
interesting how he got here.
00:14:52.49\00:14:55.46
He works with...
very closely with a board,
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and his board from his ministry
00:14:58.93\00:15:01.93
realized that he
was getting burned out.
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And they decided that he needed
to do something different.
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He needed to make some changes.
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And they are the
ones who recommended
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that he come to NEWSTART.
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What a blessing!
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It is a blessing,
and I've gotta say
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that we've had
two or three pastors
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in the last six months
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that have been here for
the same identical reasons.
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Yes.
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You know, our pastors
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in all
denominations work way too hard.
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You know, they know
they have a deadline
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much like you doctors,
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you know, you only
supposed to work eight hours,
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but you work 24?
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Yeah.
00:15:41.14\00:15:42.47
You know, you've
told me you've done
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that especially being an ER Doc.
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Right.
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And so these
pastors gotta love him.
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You know, how do they do it?
00:15:49.31\00:15:51.11
I really feel for them, Ron,
I have a burden for pastors.
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You know, I've
traveled around the world
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doing different ministries
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and different health
educational opportunities
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and pastors are
under attack right now.
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I think it's
because time is short,
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and they are working hard,
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and the enemy
wants to keep them away
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from the sheep.
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Yeah. Or let the
sheep run astray.
00:16:17.11\00:16:20.58
So I really do feel for them,
but back to our friend Gary,
00:16:20.61\00:16:25.58
he has been here.
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He came here, he had
some emotional issues
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that he was working through.
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He was feeling a lot
of fatigue and burn out.
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And you know, just
today when we were talking
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as we were
having our last visit,
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he said to me
that he really feels
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that being here
has been a blessing,
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blessing from God.
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It has changed his perspective.
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He has enjoyed the
food. He has lost weight.
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His health has changed.
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And he's going back home
to do things differently.
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You know, it's so
good to hear that again.
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As you know, I talk
to guest all day long,
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and I talk to
people who've been here
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and people who
haven't been here yet.
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But all the ones
that I do follow up on
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and including the ones
that are here currently,
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all say the same thing,
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I wouldn't have believed
it if I didn't see it myself.
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It's true.
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And is so hard to
believe it's broader,
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I wanna call it
miraculous. Amen.
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Because we
could see very clearly
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that God's hand
is upon this place.
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Absolutely.
00:17:36.35\00:17:37.69
And we see people get healed
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that we don't
what's wrong with them.
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Right.
00:17:41.49\00:17:42.82
And yet they come
here and they get well.
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"Well, what was wrong?"
"We don't know, but he's well."
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Yeah. No, it's true.
00:17:47.53\00:17:48.86
You know what, and
that's not the typical,
00:17:48.90\00:17:50.90
but I remember an interview
with a guy that came here.
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He'd be all over the
country, nobody could help him.
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He came here, he got
well. Praise the Lord.
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We didn't know what's
wrong with him either,
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but he got
well. Praise the Lord.
00:18:01.84\00:18:03.45
That's how God's
health plan works.
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That's right. Absolutely.
00:18:05.35\00:18:07.15
And you know, I'd like
for you to take some time now.
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Tell us why is this so effective
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what we do? It
seems so simple, isn't it?
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Well, I believe that
the simple things of God
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can found the wise.
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And you know,
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what we do is we teach people
how to change their lifestyle,
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how to apply just
very simple principles.
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But I think
those principles come
00:18:32.54\00:18:34.18
from our
understanding of what God's plan
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is based on scripture
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and based on all
the information we have,
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scientific information
00:18:40.65\00:18:42.45
and inspired
information and all of that.
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And so, I really believe
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that God's plan is his
recipe for how to be healthy.
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Now, one of the
things I tell our guests
00:18:53.66\00:18:55.16
when they come
here is that health
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is not so that
we can live longer,
00:18:56.80\00:18:59.40
it's not so that we
don't have any aches and pains.
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We have an easy life.
00:19:02.30\00:19:03.97
It's not so we can
harder and make more money.
00:19:04.01\00:19:06.54
That health has a responsibility
00:19:06.57\00:19:09.04
on our part.
00:19:09.08\00:19:10.68
I believe God will
bless and preserve our health
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as we use that
health to serve him.
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Amen.
00:19:15.95\00:19:17.29
So I tell them, they have
00:19:17.32\00:19:18.65
to take what they've learned now
00:19:18.69\00:19:20.62
and serve him.
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Maybe, it's
something as simple as sharing
00:19:22.02\00:19:23.86
what they've
learned with others.
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It's kind of like
pay and then forward
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Amen, exactly.
00:19:27.06\00:19:29.13
Exactly, so
it's just another way
00:19:29.16\00:19:30.90
to kind of
reinforce what they've learned
00:19:30.93\00:19:34.20
by sharing it with others.
00:19:34.24\00:19:35.57
And then,
00:19:35.60\00:19:36.94
showing them how God can
change their lives as well.
00:19:36.97\00:19:39.77
Now, he said to me
and during our interviews
00:19:39.81\00:19:44.05
that he came here as depressed
00:19:44.08\00:19:46.01
and burn out
and had a little bit
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of this and that going on.
00:19:48.35\00:19:50.15
Is he off most of
his medications now?
00:19:50.19\00:19:53.39
He is off most of his
medications right now.
00:19:53.42\00:19:55.86
In fact, he came here
and had another disease
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he didn't even realize he had.
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You were telling me about this.
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He had a little bit
of borderline diabetes.
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Now, what's borderline diabetes?
00:20:02.80\00:20:04.70
It means that your
fasting blood sugar
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is above 100.
00:20:07.24\00:20:08.57
Okay.
00:20:08.60\00:20:09.94
Between 100 and 125
00:20:09.97\00:20:11.31
is considered
borderline diabetes.
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Can you live in that state?
00:20:13.38\00:20:15.34
Sure. Without
ever getting diabetes?
00:20:15.38\00:20:17.65
Well, no, you will
start to continue to progress,
00:20:17.68\00:20:20.58
but people are there
and lived there for sometime
00:20:20.62\00:20:24.32
without even knowing it.
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How were you able to
determine that A1C or was it...?
00:20:25.72\00:20:29.26
Actually just
through simple lab work.
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Oh, okay.
00:20:30.73\00:20:32.06
We didn't have to
do hemoglobin A1C,
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just simple lab work.
00:20:33.46\00:20:34.80
His fasting blood sugar
was between 100 and 125.
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Isn't that interesting?
00:20:37.97\00:20:39.30
And so, we
implemented lifestyle changes.
00:20:39.33\00:20:43.07
We showed him how to do things.
00:20:43.10\00:20:44.87
We had him drinking more
water, getting more exercise,
00:20:44.91\00:20:49.28
changing what he
ate, changing when he ate,
00:20:49.31\00:20:53.05
and changing what he drank.
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Amen. And that
made a big difference.
00:20:55.02\00:20:57.19
Yeah.
00:20:57.22\00:20:58.55
He told me that he
liked a lot of soda
00:20:58.59\00:21:01.32
before he got here.
00:21:01.36\00:21:02.69
Oh, the soda.
00:21:02.72\00:21:04.66
Boy, that has a lot of
sugar. Yeah, it can be.
00:21:04.69\00:21:07.96
And so,
00:21:08.00\00:21:09.60
simple things
had repeat lab work
00:21:09.63\00:21:12.40
just came back.
00:21:12.43\00:21:13.77
His numbers are
normal. Praise God.
00:21:13.80\00:21:16.00
Isn't it amazing? Praise God.
00:21:16.04\00:21:17.37
No, wonderful I
just wanted to hear that.
00:21:17.41\00:21:19.01
It is.
00:21:19.04\00:21:20.38
So he's probably still...'
00:21:20.41\00:21:22.04
cause he said he's
still taking medication,
00:21:22.08\00:21:25.75
I presume that's
for the depression.
00:21:25.78\00:21:28.55
Yes.
00:21:28.58\00:21:29.92
And is he taking
any other medications?
00:21:29.95\00:21:32.39
Or you got him off
of everything else?
00:21:32.42\00:21:33.76
I think we've gotten him off
of just about everything else.
00:21:33.79\00:21:36.29
Isn't that amazing! Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:36.32\00:21:38.36
Praise God. Amen. Amen.
00:21:38.39\00:21:40.00
And he's very
excited about that.
00:21:40.03\00:21:41.43
Yeah.
00:21:41.46\00:21:42.80
Now, he's gonna be
out in a mission field.
00:21:42.83\00:21:46.00
Is that problem
for these missionaries
00:21:46.03\00:21:48.64
as far as what to eat?
00:21:48.67\00:21:52.01
His ministry
takes him abroad a lot,
00:21:52.04\00:21:55.48
takes him to China
and other countries.
00:21:55.51\00:21:57.35
And we were talking
about that just today.
00:21:57.38\00:22:01.48
And he has some plans in mind
00:22:01.52\00:22:04.15
of how he can
continue this lifestyle
00:22:04.19\00:22:07.32
even when he's
out of the country.
00:22:07.36\00:22:09.12
Okay.
00:22:09.16\00:22:10.49
And so, we've tried to address
00:22:10.53\00:22:11.86
what some of the
potential scenarios
00:22:11.89\00:22:13.73
are and some
things that he can do.
00:22:13.76\00:22:15.73
He also travels
within the country
00:22:15.76\00:22:17.57
which will make
it easier for him
00:22:17.60\00:22:18.93
to continue the lifestyle.
00:22:18.97\00:22:20.44
But we're really
trying to equip him
00:22:20.47\00:22:22.70
with the right tools
00:22:22.74\00:22:24.07
so when he leaves
here, he can be successful.
00:22:24.11\00:22:25.91
I know we take our
guests down to a restaurant,
00:22:25.94\00:22:29.48
and we show them how
to eat in restaurants,
00:22:29.51\00:22:31.61
what to order and
how to order, etc.
00:22:31.65\00:22:33.85
Yes. And so that
helps a great deal?
00:22:33.88\00:22:36.02
Absolutely.
00:22:36.05\00:22:37.39
I've had a number of
people thank us or thank me
00:22:37.42\00:22:40.29
which I don't go on those trips,
00:22:40.32\00:22:41.99
but nonetheless they do...
00:22:42.02\00:22:43.49
Yes.
00:22:43.53\00:22:44.86
About the great experience
00:22:44.89\00:22:46.23
of being able to
go to a restaurant,
00:22:46.26\00:22:48.36
any restaurant and
order certain foods
00:22:48.40\00:22:51.40
knowing that they
are within the guidelines
00:22:51.43\00:22:54.07
that they have learned here.
00:22:54.10\00:22:55.44
Yeah. Absolutely.
00:22:55.47\00:22:56.81
We're running out of time,
Doc, but I wanna thank you.
00:22:56.84\00:22:59.74
Ron, thank you.
It's been a pleasure.
00:22:59.77\00:23:02.31
Pleasure is all mine.
00:23:02.34\00:23:03.68
And thank you,
friends, for joining us.
00:23:03.71\00:23:05.71
Don't go away, we
have an important message
00:23:05.75\00:23:07.78
following this.
00:23:07.82\00:23:09.15
Our next deadly
psychological cynic
00:23:15.32\00:23:17.53
is probably the
deadliest, bitterness.
00:23:17.56\00:23:22.20
Someone once
said that bitterness
00:23:22.23\00:23:24.43
is like drinking
poison and expecting
00:23:24.47\00:23:27.14
someone else to die.
00:23:27.17\00:23:29.80
Often when we're
hurt by another individual
00:23:29.84\00:23:32.57
or group of individuals,
00:23:32.61\00:23:34.28
we begin to think excessively
about that situation.
00:23:34.31\00:23:38.48
We suffer in an emotional wound
00:23:38.51\00:23:40.32
and it takes time for
us to process through that.
00:23:40.35\00:23:43.12
So some thinking
about it is okay,
00:23:43.15\00:23:45.75
but there is a certain point
where we're starting to think
00:23:45.79\00:23:48.32
about it too much.
00:23:48.36\00:23:49.69
And it begins to consume us.
00:23:49.72\00:23:51.49
And we call that rumination
00:23:51.53\00:23:53.50
when a certain
situation fills our thoughts.
00:23:53.53\00:23:56.36
What often happens with people
00:23:56.40\00:23:57.90
that have fallen into bitterness
00:23:57.93\00:23:59.60
is they may end
those relationships,
00:23:59.63\00:24:01.37
they may cut those off,
00:24:01.40\00:24:03.04
but as they move
forward in their lives
00:24:03.07\00:24:05.04
because that
bitterness is not resolved,
00:24:05.07\00:24:07.51
they will actually
find another situation
00:24:07.54\00:24:09.91
that is very
similar to that situation
00:24:09.94\00:24:12.71
to carry on the legacy
00:24:12.75\00:24:14.55
because they have
unfinished business
00:24:14.58\00:24:16.69
so to speak.
00:24:16.72\00:24:18.05
We can potentially
become really mean, angry,
00:24:18.09\00:24:21.19
negative people
through bitterness.
00:24:21.22\00:24:24.56
It's very interesting,
00:24:24.59\00:24:25.93
a study was done on the affect
00:24:25.96\00:24:27.33
of all things
Botox on mental health.
00:24:27.36\00:24:30.07
Can you believe it?
00:24:30.10\00:24:31.43
Botox impacts mental health,
00:24:31.47\00:24:33.23
not just 'cause it makes
people think they look better
00:24:33.27\00:24:35.84
but because those
expressions around the eyes,
00:24:35.87\00:24:39.44
the furrowed brow and so forth
00:24:39.47\00:24:40.81
can have a reflexive
effect on our psyche,
00:24:40.84\00:24:44.41
on our emotional life.
00:24:44.45\00:24:46.11
So these
individuals were given Botox
00:24:46.15\00:24:48.28
around their eyes
and it was found that 47%
00:24:48.32\00:24:51.79
of their depressive symptoms
00:24:51.82\00:24:53.96
were relieved
over a 16-week period.
00:24:53.99\00:24:57.03
The replacement for bitterness,
it's very simple, forgiveness.
00:24:57.06\00:25:01.90
Let me tell you a story.
00:25:01.93\00:25:03.30
In 2006, a man
named Charles Carl Roberts
00:25:03.33\00:25:07.50
walked into an Amish school
00:25:07.54\00:25:09.74
and shot five Amish school girls
00:25:09.77\00:25:12.34
in a cold blood.
00:25:12.37\00:25:14.28
Then, he shot
and killed himself.
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The amazing
thing about this story
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is that the compassion
from the Amish community
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toward an act that
would normally call forth
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all the vengeance and
anger of human nature,
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the compassion actually flowed
more freely than the blood.
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Only hours after the shooting,
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an Amish neighbor
appeared at the Roberts home
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to comfort the family.
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Visits were paid to his
widow, parents, and in-laws.
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One Amish man
spent nearly and hour
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with Robert's
sobbing father in his arms.
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Finally, 30 Amish
attended the killer's funeral.
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One Amish man said,
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"I don't think
there's anybody here
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that wants to do
anything but forgive."
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One of the reasons
people hesitate to forgive
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is that they confuse forgiveness
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with other things.
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Let me tell you
what forgiveness is not.
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Forgiveness is not
excusing what that person did
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nor is it
approving of what they did.
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Forgiveness is
not reconciliation.
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You don't necessarily have
to enter into a relationship
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with that person,
that's not always safe,
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not always advised.
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Forgiveness and
trust are related,
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but they are not the same thing.
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Separate forgiveness
out from those things.
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And define forgiveness
clearly in your mind.
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Forgiveness is you
releasing your right
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to hurt that other person
the way that they hurt you.
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Now, we could argue that nobody
has a right to hurt anyone
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under any circumstances.
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But in our minds, we
assume we have the right
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to hurt another
if they have hurt us.
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Forgiveness is the
voluntary releasing
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of that right.
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Sociologic research shows
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that those who
understand their own sinfulness,
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their own
capacity for hurting others
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are actually measurably
more inclined to forgive.
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So if you're having
trouble forgiving someone,
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remember times when
you've hurt another.
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Karl Menninger said
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that if he could
convince patients
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in psyche hospitals that
their sins were forgiven,
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75% would walk out the next day.
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When we accept that
we've been forgiven,
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we are going to
be much more inclined
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to be able to forgive others.
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See forgiveness
is a two way street,
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I receive forgiveness
from God and from others
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for the things that I've done
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and I bestow
forgiveness upon others.
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I know, in some ways,
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this way of life
seems irrational.
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We all have this
justice bone inside of us,
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the sense of justice,
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and we feel it
needs to be fulfilled.
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But good council says
leave that in God's hands
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and chose to forgive.
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It will be
better for your health,
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for your mental health,
and for your spiritual life.
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