Participants: Ron Giannoni (Host), Gary Russel
Series Code: NSN
Program Code: NSN000172A
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00:12 Every year in America,
00:13 there are over one million deaths 00:14 because of type II diabetes and chronic obesity. 00:17 This is includes heart attacks and strokes. 00:20 That's 6.5 747s crushing every day. 00:23 What's even more surprising is that the fix is easy. 00:27 It's your lifestyle. 00:28 Wouldn't it be nice 00:30 if you could actually add quality years 00:31 to your life rather than dying one organ at a time? 00:34 Obesity and diabetes 00:36 are the cause of over million deaths per year. 00:39 Most diseases are reversible 00:41 because most diseases are lifestyle diseases, 00:44 especially type II diabetes and chronic obesity. 00:47 Seriously now, they can be reversed 00:49 and the quality of your life can be renewed. 00:53 Call NEWSTART today at 1-800-525-9192. 00:59 You will see dramatic changes 01:01 in the first few days of our program, 01:03 and you will be on road 01:04 to a better more robust quality of life. 01:07 The NEWSTART programs are simple and effective. 01:12 Hi, friends, and welcome to 01:14 another addition of NEWSTART Now. 01:16 I'm your host, Ron Giannoni. 01:18 In our studios, 01:20 we have Gary Russell from Virginia. 01:23 He has an interesting testimony, 01:25 and I'd like you to take a look at him 01:27 when he first arrived. 01:31 I don't want a stroke. 01:34 I don't want a heart attack. 01:37 I wanna be thinner, 01:40 and I just have a lot of work to do 01:42 that requires me to be in shape. 01:45 So the first thing is frankly loosing weight 01:49 and changing my lifestyle for the long-term, 01:52 not just loosing some weight 01:54 and then, slowly gaining it back 01:57 or quickly gaining it back or whatever. 02:00 Being in the same mess I am now. 02:03 Second reason is, I like my work too much. 02:08 And all my co-workers 02:10 and friends in Asia and my wife, 02:13 and my daughter, they all say I just don't know how to rest. 02:17 I never quit. 02:21 I have felt really crummy, 02:24 especially for the last two years, 02:27 and I take a lot of 14-hour flights. 02:31 I do a lot of things 02:34 that I feel some other people are important, 02:36 and I see all that impact draining away 02:42 because I'm so tired, I'm so burned out, 02:48 I don't have energy, I don't have mental alertness. 02:52 I forget things. 02:55 And what I really want out of this experience here 02:59 is just to feel vigorous 03:03 and sharp rather than sluggish 03:08 and gradually 03:15 death by degree. 03:16 I feel like I'm experiencing death by degree. 03:19 And I want to feel life. 03:23 Actually I got a text from my daughter today 03:27 saying that food is supposed to give me life, 03:29 but it's killing me. 03:32 And my daughter and I are very close. 03:35 She's an only child. 03:37 And just being great blessing her whole life, 03:40 and she wants grandpa around for her boys. 03:48 Welcome back friends and as I promised...Gary, 03:50 how are you brother? 03:52 I'm good. 03:53 You're looking good, you're looking better. 03:55 I would say the word that describes 03:57 how I feel is younger. 03:59 Younger? 04:00 People ask, "How do you feel now after 04:03 most of the 18 days, " 04:05 and I say, "Younger." 04:06 That's the word that comes to mind. 04:08 Amen. 04:09 It's good to see you in a different spirit. 04:13 When you first arrived, you seemed a little bit down. 04:16 Yes. 04:17 And now I see, you know, it's kind of like 04:20 seeing that the look as I described 04:24 in my presentation is like the... 04:26 you know, what's gonna happen here, 04:29 and I see that that's all gone 04:32 and that you have that look of confidence 04:35 that you feel like. 04:36 Well, you tell me, how you are feeling. 04:38 Well, in Chinese we say, 04:44 "I feel Shufu." 04:45 That means my heart is comfortable. 04:47 Ah-ah! 04:49 It's kind of like saying you are at peace. 04:52 And I would say that's how I feel, 04:54 I feel settled, at peace. 04:56 I don't feel anxious. 04:58 I don't feel distraught or nervous 05:02 or unsettled in any way. 05:04 So that tells me you are feeling 05:06 that way when you got here? 05:08 Yeah, I felt not only because 05:11 I was coming to a new place on an experience 05:13 that I didn't know what to anticipate. 05:17 Sure. 05:19 But I think just my general underlying anxiety 05:22 about my health, being obese, it getting worse not better. 05:28 I would try to cut down on things, 05:32 and I would still get bigger. 05:34 Mmm. 05:36 And I have two grandsons, I want to enjoy for a while. 05:39 Yeah. 05:41 So that underlying tone in my spirit 05:47 was unsettled and also just I do a lot of travel. 05:52 I travel long distance an awful lot. 05:55 And I was just, kind of, worn out... 05:58 Right. 05:59 in general. 06:01 And so did the program meet your expectations? 06:04 Oh, exceeded them... 06:06 Exceeded? 06:07 Definitely exceeded them. 06:08 I mean, I didn't know what to expect. 06:10 Right. 06:12 But I tend to be an idealistic. 06:14 I tend to be critical not effusively flattering 06:19 but this certainly exceeded my expectations. 06:24 It might have been vague, 06:26 it might have been a range from high to low... 06:27 Sure. 06:29 that was off the top of the scale. 06:31 As far as medications, 06:33 you told me you were off of some medications. 06:36 Yes. 06:38 I was on two statins for cholesterol 06:40 and omega-3, prescription omega-3 06:43 for the same. 06:44 Mmm-hm. 06:46 And as I was taught here about some of the side affects, 06:49 I really identified with those things. 06:53 Getting muddled thinking for example... 06:56 From the statin? 06:58 From the... I definitely believe 06:59 it was from the statins 07:01 'cause at my first appointment here, 07:03 Dr. Gallant said to me, 07:05 "Get rid of your statins," and I did. 07:08 And... 07:10 You started feeling better almost immediately? 07:11 Oh, maybe three days. 07:14 Oh! 07:15 About three days, I started feeling clear. 07:19 I was just so relieved and am so relived... 07:22 Yes. 07:23 to be off those things 07:25 and have lost significant weight, 07:27 feel a lot better. 07:29 How much weight did you lose? 07:30 I lost 18 pounds... 07:32 Eighteen pounds? 07:33 which is exactly what you predicted 07:35 before I came. 07:37 I'm so glad, I hit it on the head. 07:38 Yeah, you did that one. I wish I just said 25. 07:41 I wish you had too. 07:44 Who knows? 07:45 But it looked at first like 07:47 I'd lose more because I lost like 12 07:50 in the first 3, 4 days. 07:51 I remember you saying something like that. 07:54 But some of that, of course, was water, 07:57 Dr Gallant told me, a lot of it's water... 08:00 in the beginning. 08:01 But now, it's not water. 08:03 And I've lost two inches off my waist, 08:06 I was measure today. 08:07 But you are building muscle also. 08:09 Yes. 08:10 So that has to be a factor in there. 08:11 A factor, yeah, right. 08:13 Sure. 08:14 And I just, like I said, I feel ten years younger. 08:17 So what part of the program do you like, 08:20 did you like the best? 08:22 I would say I liked two parts the best, 08:26 one was the teaching and lectures, 08:29 so I could understand what was going on in my body, 08:33 what happened when I ate this or I drank that. 08:36 Mmm-hm. 08:38 And didn't get enough of this or didn't eat enough of that. 08:43 Understand instead of just, 08:46 "Well, you need to walk more which my doctor told me." 08:49 Yeah, they all say that, but, well, what does that mean? 08:52 What happens when I walk? Am I just burning calories? 08:55 I can do that some other way. 08:56 Right. 08:58 So understanding the chemicals involved in exercise 09:03 and nutrition is very, very helpful to me 09:06 and medicine, the understanding, 09:10 the chemical effects of medicine. 09:12 A lot of people here were diabetics, 09:13 I'm not diabetic. 09:15 I'm not pre diabetic. 09:18 But still understanding glucose 09:22 and hardening of the arteries, 09:26 how it occurs, how it can be reversed, 09:30 certainly, my, that was happening in me. 09:34 Yeah. Without a doubt. 09:35 And so the information was very motivating 09:40 and as well as just nice to know 09:44 what's going on and how am I feeling and why. 09:48 Why I used to eat and feel a spike 09:51 and then crash. 09:53 Whereas here, it's been so steady, 09:57 it's just unbelievable to me. 09:58 There is a three day fast and it's like, 10:00 "Oh, you want me to go two more day, I don't mind." 10:02 Oh, right. 10:05 That was good. 10:06 The difference in not having sugar, 10:09 not having other things like that. 10:11 So one thing was the information. 10:14 I liked the fast a lot. 10:19 And I had a second thing in mind, 10:21 sorry, but I can't remember what that was. 10:23 That's okay. 10:24 It might come before we're finished here. 10:26 Yeah. 10:27 What about your walking? 10:29 Were you able to walk when you first got here? 10:34 I know you could walk, 10:35 but were you able to go around the 0.5-mile loop, say? 10:38 Yeah. 10:39 A year ago, at my board's behest 10:44 I started walking not a whole lot 10:48 but a little over mile every evening. 10:52 And I felt better and then, I made another long trip 10:54 and it broke my routine 10:55 and when I came back, I was out of it. 10:58 But I like to walk. 11:00 Mmm-hm. 11:01 So I enjoyed the walking here 11:02 that's something I didn't follow through on 11:05 as well as I could have. 11:08 I think I didn't feel as challenged. 11:09 I was more concerned about getting my diet in order 11:13 and things like that 'cause I know I enjoy walking. 11:16 So I walked mile and a half most days 11:19 and some other people did here six miles 11:21 and things like that. 11:23 How many miles are you walking lately 11:25 in the last few days? 11:26 About a mile and half. 11:28 You didn't push it beyond that? Okay. 11:30 No, I didn't really push it. 11:31 Yeah, okay. 11:32 However, my treadmill tests 11:34 improved a great deal from the beginning to the end. 11:37 Good. 11:39 How about your cholesterol and triglycerides and all that? 11:43 Well, he told me to expect 11:46 the triglycerides and the cholesterol 11:50 to go up some 11:52 from being off the meds that would change the number... 11:56 and the affect of the diet would take a longer to kick in. 12:00 So, they did go up a little, 12:02 but negligibly, 12:05 so actually, I was please with that. 12:10 And, you know, you would expect them 12:14 to have gone up a lot more 12:16 after over two weeks of no anti-cholesterol drugs. 12:21 And they went up just very, very slightly. 12:26 Gary, we run out of time. In fact, we're way over time. 12:29 I want to thank you so much for coming and joining us. 12:33 And God be with you, 12:35 and we look forward to seeing you 12:38 on 3ABN one day soon. 12:40 Friends, thank you for joining us, 12:42 don't go away 12:44 'cause Dr Gallant will be right with us. 13:19 Welcome back, friends, and as I promised, 13:21 Dr Gallant in the house. 13:22 Hey, Ron, how are you? 13:24 I'm good, how are you? 13:25 Doing well, thank you. 13:27 I'm excited to be talking about this gentleman. 13:29 I really like this guy. 13:31 There is something that draws me to him. 13:33 During our first interview, 13:37 I felt he was very compassionate. 13:40 Why is that? Is he a preacher or something? 13:42 He didn't tell me here. 13:44 Well, you know, Gary is a great guy. 13:45 I feel the same way that you do. 13:47 I really appreciated the time we spent together. 13:51 I enjoyed interacting with him. 13:53 He is a preacher. He's actually a missionary. 13:56 Missionary, that's right, he did tell me. 13:58 He's been a missionary for 20 plus years, 14:02 I wanna say around 25 or 26 years. 14:05 He has a mission, 14:07 a ministry called China Harvest. 14:12 So he's working in China. 14:14 And the way he describes it to me 14:16 is he is a networker. 14:19 So he helps to get things done for the Chinese believers 14:25 and then he also helps to put them 14:28 in contact with people who can help them 14:30 in with what they're trying to do. 14:33 So how was he doing on the program? 14:35 We noticed he's been through some changes, 14:37 I could see when I've talked to him, 14:40 it's like what's going on there. 14:42 Well, you know, 14:43 he's really been working hard 14:45 on making lifestyle changes. 14:50 Let me start here actually. 14:52 It's interesting how he got here. 14:55 He works with... very closely with a board, 14:58 and his board from his ministry 15:01 realized that he was getting burned out. 15:04 And they decided that he needed to do something different. 15:08 He needed to make some changes. 15:10 And they are the ones who recommended 15:12 that he come to NEWSTART. 15:15 What a blessing! 15:16 It is a blessing, and I've gotta say 15:19 that we've had two or three pastors 15:21 in the last six months 15:24 that have been here for the same identical reasons. 15:27 Yes. 15:28 You know, our pastors 15:30 in all denominations work way too hard. 15:33 You know, they know they have a deadline 15:35 much like you doctors, 15:37 you know, you only supposed to work eight hours, 15:39 but you work 24? 15:41 Yeah. 15:42 You know, you've told me you've done 15:43 that especially being an ER Doc. 15:45 Right. 15:46 And so these pastors gotta love him. 15:49 You know, how do they do it? 15:51 I really feel for them, Ron, I have a burden for pastors. 15:55 You know, I've traveled around the world 15:57 doing different ministries 15:59 and different health educational opportunities 16:03 and pastors are under attack right now. 16:07 I think it's because time is short, 16:11 and they are working hard, 16:12 and the enemy wants to keep them away 16:15 from the sheep. 16:17 Yeah. Or let the sheep run astray. 16:20 So I really do feel for them, but back to our friend Gary, 16:25 he has been here. 16:28 He came here, he had some emotional issues 16:31 that he was working through. 16:33 He was feeling a lot of fatigue and burn out. 16:36 And you know, just today when we were talking 16:39 as we were having our last visit, 16:41 he said to me that he really feels 16:44 that being here has been a blessing, 16:46 blessing from God. 16:48 It has changed his perspective. 16:52 He has enjoyed the food. He has lost weight. 16:57 His health has changed. 16:59 And he's going back home to do things differently. 17:02 You know, it's so good to hear that again. 17:05 As you know, I talk to guest all day long, 17:08 and I talk to people who've been here 17:11 and people who haven't been here yet. 17:13 But all the ones that I do follow up on 17:16 and including the ones that are here currently, 17:19 all say the same thing, 17:21 I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it myself. 17:24 It's true. 17:25 And is so hard to believe it's broader, 17:29 I wanna call it miraculous. Amen. 17:32 Because we could see very clearly 17:34 that God's hand is upon this place. 17:36 Absolutely. 17:37 And we see people get healed 17:40 that we don't what's wrong with them. 17:41 Right. 17:42 And yet they come here and they get well. 17:45 "Well, what was wrong?" "We don't know, but he's well." 17:47 Yeah. No, it's true. 17:48 You know what, and that's not the typical, 17:50 but I remember an interview with a guy that came here. 17:54 He'd be all over the country, nobody could help him. 17:57 He came here, he got well. Praise the Lord. 18:00 We didn't know what's wrong with him either, 18:01 but he got well. Praise the Lord. 18:03 That's how God's health plan works. 18:05 That's right. Absolutely. 18:07 And you know, I'd like for you to take some time now. 18:12 Tell us why is this so effective 18:15 what we do? It seems so simple, isn't it? 18:19 Well, I believe that the simple things of God 18:22 can found the wise. 18:25 And you know, 18:26 what we do is we teach people how to change their lifestyle, 18:30 how to apply just very simple principles. 18:32 But I think those principles come 18:34 from our understanding of what God's plan 18:36 is based on scripture 18:38 and based on all the information we have, 18:40 scientific information 18:42 and inspired information and all of that. 18:45 And so, I really believe 18:46 that God's plan is his recipe for how to be healthy. 18:53 Now, one of the things I tell our guests 18:55 when they come here is that health 18:56 is not so that we can live longer, 18:59 it's not so that we don't have any aches and pains. 19:02 We have an easy life. 19:04 It's not so we can harder and make more money. 19:06 That health has a responsibility 19:09 on our part. 19:10 I believe God will bless and preserve our health 19:13 as we use that health to serve him. 19:15 Amen. 19:17 So I tell them, they have 19:18 to take what they've learned now 19:20 and serve him. 19:22 Maybe, it's something as simple as sharing 19:23 what they've learned with others. 19:25 It's kind of like pay and then forward 19:27 Amen, exactly. 19:29 Exactly, so it's just another way 19:30 to kind of reinforce what they've learned 19:34 by sharing it with others. 19:35 And then, 19:36 showing them how God can change their lives as well. 19:39 Now, he said to me and during our interviews 19:44 that he came here as depressed 19:46 and burn out and had a little bit 19:48 of this and that going on. 19:50 Is he off most of his medications now? 19:53 He is off most of his medications right now. 19:55 In fact, he came here and had another disease 19:57 he didn't even realize he had. 19:59 You were telling me about this. 20:00 He had a little bit of borderline diabetes. 20:02 Now, what's borderline diabetes? 20:04 It means that your fasting blood sugar 20:07 is above 100. 20:08 Okay. 20:09 Between 100 and 125 20:11 is considered borderline diabetes. 20:13 Can you live in that state? 20:15 Sure. Without ever getting diabetes? 20:17 Well, no, you will start to continue to progress, 20:20 but people are there and lived there for sometime 20:24 without even knowing it. 20:25 How were you able to determine that A1C or was it...? 20:29 Actually just through simple lab work. 20:30 Oh, okay. 20:32 We didn't have to do hemoglobin A1C, 20:33 just simple lab work. 20:34 His fasting blood sugar was between 100 and 125. 20:37 Isn't that interesting? 20:39 And so, we implemented lifestyle changes. 20:43 We showed him how to do things. 20:44 We had him drinking more water, getting more exercise, 20:49 changing what he ate, changing when he ate, 20:53 and changing what he drank. 20:55 Amen. And that made a big difference. 20:57 Yeah. 20:58 He told me that he liked a lot of soda 21:01 before he got here. 21:02 Oh, the soda. 21:04 Boy, that has a lot of sugar. Yeah, it can be. 21:08 And so, 21:09 simple things had repeat lab work 21:12 just came back. 21:13 His numbers are normal. Praise God. 21:16 Isn't it amazing? Praise God. 21:17 No, wonderful I just wanted to hear that. 21:19 It is. 21:20 So he's probably still...' 21:22 cause he said he's still taking medication, 21:25 I presume that's for the depression. 21:28 Yes. 21:29 And is he taking any other medications? 21:32 Or you got him off of everything else? 21:33 I think we've gotten him off of just about everything else. 21:36 Isn't that amazing! Yeah. Yeah. 21:38 Praise God. Amen. Amen. 21:40 And he's very excited about that. 21:41 Yeah. 21:42 Now, he's gonna be out in a mission field. 21:46 Is that problem for these missionaries 21:48 as far as what to eat? 21:52 His ministry takes him abroad a lot, 21:55 takes him to China and other countries. 21:57 And we were talking about that just today. 22:01 And he has some plans in mind 22:04 of how he can continue this lifestyle 22:07 even when he's out of the country. 22:09 Okay. 22:10 And so, we've tried to address 22:11 what some of the potential scenarios 22:13 are and some things that he can do. 22:15 He also travels within the country 22:17 which will make it easier for him 22:18 to continue the lifestyle. 22:20 But we're really trying to equip him 22:22 with the right tools 22:24 so when he leaves here, he can be successful. 22:25 I know we take our guests down to a restaurant, 22:29 and we show them how to eat in restaurants, 22:31 what to order and how to order, etc. 22:33 Yes. And so that helps a great deal? 22:36 Absolutely. 22:37 I've had a number of people thank us or thank me 22:40 which I don't go on those trips, 22:42 but nonetheless they do... 22:43 Yes. 22:44 About the great experience 22:46 of being able to go to a restaurant, 22:48 any restaurant and order certain foods 22:51 knowing that they are within the guidelines 22:54 that they have learned here. 22:55 Yeah. Absolutely. 22:56 We're running out of time, Doc, but I wanna thank you. 22:59 Ron, thank you. It's been a pleasure. 23:02 Pleasure is all mine. 23:03 And thank you, friends, for joining us. 23:05 Don't go away, we have an important message 23:07 following this. 23:15 Our next deadly psychological cynic 23:17 is probably the deadliest, bitterness. 23:22 Someone once said that bitterness 23:24 is like drinking poison and expecting 23:27 someone else to die. 23:29 Often when we're hurt by another individual 23:32 or group of individuals, 23:34 we begin to think excessively about that situation. 23:38 We suffer in an emotional wound 23:40 and it takes time for us to process through that. 23:43 So some thinking about it is okay, 23:45 but there is a certain point where we're starting to think 23:48 about it too much. 23:49 And it begins to consume us. 23:51 And we call that rumination 23:53 when a certain situation fills our thoughts. 23:56 What often happens with people 23:57 that have fallen into bitterness 23:59 is they may end those relationships, 24:01 they may cut those off, 24:03 but as they move forward in their lives 24:05 because that bitterness is not resolved, 24:07 they will actually find another situation 24:09 that is very similar to that situation 24:12 to carry on the legacy 24:14 because they have unfinished business 24:16 so to speak. 24:18 We can potentially become really mean, angry, 24:21 negative people through bitterness. 24:24 It's very interesting, 24:25 a study was done on the affect 24:27 of all things Botox on mental health. 24:30 Can you believe it? 24:31 Botox impacts mental health, 24:33 not just 'cause it makes people think they look better 24:35 but because those expressions around the eyes, 24:39 the furrowed brow and so forth 24:40 can have a reflexive effect on our psyche, 24:44 on our emotional life. 24:46 So these individuals were given Botox 24:48 around their eyes and it was found that 47% 24:51 of their depressive symptoms 24:53 were relieved over a 16-week period. 24:57 The replacement for bitterness, it's very simple, forgiveness. 25:01 Let me tell you a story. 25:03 In 2006, a man named Charles Carl Roberts 25:07 walked into an Amish school 25:09 and shot five Amish school girls 25:12 in a cold blood. 25:14 Then, he shot and killed himself. 25:16 The amazing thing about this story 25:18 is that the compassion from the Amish community 25:21 toward an act that would normally call forth 25:24 all the vengeance and anger of human nature, 25:26 the compassion actually flowed more freely than the blood. 25:31 Only hours after the shooting, 25:33 an Amish neighbor appeared at the Roberts home 25:36 to comfort the family. 25:38 Visits were paid to his widow, parents, and in-laws. 25:42 One Amish man spent nearly and hour 25:45 with Robert's sobbing father in his arms. 25:48 Finally, 30 Amish attended the killer's funeral. 25:52 One Amish man said, 25:54 "I don't think there's anybody here 25:55 that wants to do anything but forgive." 26:00 One of the reasons people hesitate to forgive 26:03 is that they confuse forgiveness 26:06 with other things. 26:07 Let me tell you what forgiveness is not. 26:10 Forgiveness is not excusing what that person did 26:13 nor is it approving of what they did. 26:15 Forgiveness is not reconciliation. 26:17 You don't necessarily have to enter into a relationship 26:20 with that person, that's not always safe, 26:22 not always advised. 26:24 Forgiveness and trust are related, 26:26 but they are not the same thing. 26:28 Separate forgiveness out from those things. 26:31 And define forgiveness clearly in your mind. 26:34 Forgiveness is you releasing your right 26:37 to hurt that other person the way that they hurt you. 26:43 Now, we could argue that nobody has a right to hurt anyone 26:46 under any circumstances. 26:48 But in our minds, we assume we have the right 26:50 to hurt another if they have hurt us. 26:52 Forgiveness is the voluntary releasing 26:55 of that right. 26:56 Sociologic research shows 26:58 that those who understand their own sinfulness, 27:02 their own capacity for hurting others 27:05 are actually measurably more inclined to forgive. 27:10 So if you're having trouble forgiving someone, 27:12 remember times when you've hurt another. 27:15 Karl Menninger said 27:17 that if he could convince patients 27:20 in psyche hospitals that their sins were forgiven, 27:23 75% would walk out the next day. 27:26 When we accept that we've been forgiven, 27:30 we are going to be much more inclined 27:33 to be able to forgive others. 27:35 See forgiveness is a two way street, 27:37 I receive forgiveness from God and from others 27:39 for the things that I've done 27:41 and I bestow forgiveness upon others. 27:44 I know, in some ways, 27:45 this way of life seems irrational. 27:48 We all have this justice bone inside of us, 27:51 the sense of justice, 27:52 and we feel it needs to be fulfilled. 27:55 But good council says leave that in God's hands 27:58 and chose to forgive. 28:00 It will be better for your health, 28:02 for your mental health, and for your spiritual life. |
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