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 our studio with
me is LeJon Stan...
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I just love that
name, LeJon Stanley
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from Lancaster, California.
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Let's take a look at a
clip when she first arrived.
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I came to the NEWSTART program
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because I have
high blood pressure,
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high cholesterol, pre-diabetic,
and I was having chest pains.
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So along with all the medication
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that I was taking
for the blood pressure
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and the doctor wanted me
to take another medication
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for the
cholesterol, and I refused.
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I said, no. No more medicine.
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I was barely taking that.
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And I was
investigating, you know,
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programs that I could go to
and never heard of NEWSTART.
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And through my
research, NEWSTART came up
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and that was on a Sunday evening
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and Monday morning,
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I was speaking to a
gentleman named Ron.
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Before I leave NEWSTART,
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I would love for all
my numbers to be down.
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I would love to
have lost some weight.
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And I would love for
my spiritual connection
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to God to be closer.
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And I want all this
because I want to live
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the latter part of my
life healthy and strong
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for my grandchildren
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and my great
granddaughter, Carter.
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And I just believe
that being here at NEWSTART
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will do just that,
give me that new start
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that I'm looking for.
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Hi, friends. And
heartily welcome, LeJon.
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How are you, dear? Great.
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It's so good to see you.
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It's good to see you too.
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Yeah, I love
your smile by the way.
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Oh, thank you.
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You know, you got this
really great, great smile.
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Thank you. I'm
very excited. Good.
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I want to talk about
what's happened to you,
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since you've been here.
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Now, I interviewed
you over the phone,
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I know you remember that?
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Yes.
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And from that day,
tell us what happened
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real briefly
about how you got here
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and what's happened
since you been here?
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Well, after talking to you,
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I immediately began
to get prepared to come
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because I knew I
needed to be here.
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And when I came in,
I had medical issues,
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high blood
pressure, cholesterol,
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little depression
going on, and obese.
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And since I've been here,
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my blood pressure
has gone down to normal.
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What's normal?
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Normal, now I'm
averaging like 120
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and under over 80 and under.
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So it's... Wow.
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Yes. Are you on medication?
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No. So no medication?
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No medication.
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Your blood
pressure is normalized.
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Yes.
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My cholesterol
was 229 when I came in
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and it has gone down to 217.
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So it's gone down a
little bit which is great.
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And let's see, oh,
I've lost ten pounds.
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All right.
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Yes, five inches off the waist.
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Five inches? Five whole inches.
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You know, we've had
people here in the past,
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the lady in specifically.
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She lost four dress sizes. Wow.
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And not one
pound. And not one pound.
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Oh, she lost all inches.
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She lost inches, gained muscle,
got rid of some fat of course.
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Yes, yes.
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So we see people
start to shrink this way,
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so the weight isn't
really that important.
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No.
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It'll fall away as
you continue on the path.
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And I was telling
someone earlier that I know
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that you're going
to be a good instructor
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for some of your church family.
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Oh, yes.
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I'm going to start
with my family first.
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Yes.
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And then as I teach
them then I will, you know,
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reach out to my church family,
those that want to learn,
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because it is a
phenomenal program
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and I won't say a
program, I'll say lifestyle.
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Amen.
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Because I've
learned to cook the foods,
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because if anyone had
said to me before, you know,
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eating vegan, I would have said,
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"No, thank you."
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Because it just sound
boring, but I'm just so excited
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about the foods and
learning to cook them
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and, you know, they look good,
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they taste
good, they smell good,
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and so it has
all the components,
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so, and I'm satisfied.
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I am satisfied.
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You know, aside from the
food, what revelation have you,
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I mean, you had an
epiphany while you're here,
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is the term that I would use.
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Yes.
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Well, while here
I have reconnected.
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I thought that I had
a connection with God
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and I do but I have reconnected
because I've realized
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that the
overeating and depression,
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those are not from
God and by having that
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fresh start every
morning with the word,
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it just gave me the...
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I can't think of the word,
but it gave me what I needed
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to reconnect with God.
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And the
spiritual component of it
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is the most important part.
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So we're talking
about NEWSTART now.
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Right.
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Which is an acronym. Right.
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Nutrition, Exercise, Water,
Sunshine, Temperance, Air,
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Rest and Trust in God.
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Yes.
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So all these things put together
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is what you're experiencing
now and that's helping you
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with a new lease
on life so to speak.
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Yes. Your
depression is subsided.
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Yes.
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It's no longer...
You see the smile?
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Do I look depressed?
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No, you don't
look depressed. Right.
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When I first met you,
you didn't look depressed.
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I know.
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Well, you know,
depression can be hid.
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Yes. It definitely can be hid.
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You did a pretty
good job. Oh, thank you.
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So now I'm just...
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I feel like I'm 95
percent of the LeJon
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that God wants me to be.
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Amen.
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And as I continue on
this road of NEWSTART,
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you know, I'm going to be
fine, I'm going to be fine.
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And it's amazing
how each component
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works together like you said,
I was this kind of blown away
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learning about how important
air, fresh air and rest...
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And I used to stay up
late and get things done
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because I thought
everything needed to be done,
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you know, before I went to
bed and now I realize, you know,
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going to bed, going to sleeping,
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getting the proper
rest gives me a fresh start
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for the next day.
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You know, and nothing is
as important as your health.
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And I wish I had
learned that 40-50 years ago.
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Don't we? Yes, yes.
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But the good part is
you can turn it all around.
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That's right. Yes.
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And God can do wonders. Yes.
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All you got to do is ask.
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Ask. Amen.
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And you could ask too,
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but then you got
to come here, right?
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That's right. So
what about water?
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I know you've learned
something about water.
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Yes, water.
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Oh, wow.
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Well, there's drinking water
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and then there's
water therapy, right?
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Yes, tell us about both.
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Okay, well, drinking water
just gives your body new life.
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It...
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You don't have to
get scientific with me.
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I just want to know.
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Well, it just
refreshes your body
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and nourishes your
body, you know, and...
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Okay. You gotta drink
it. You gotta drink it.
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Yeah, and if you don't drink it,
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you get dehydrated.
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Exactly. And then
you get depressed.
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Exactly.
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And a whole lot
of other illnesses.
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And I did exactly
and I didn't drink
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a lot of water before I came.
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And when I got here,
one of the first things
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they did was to
give me a water bottle.
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Welcome to NEWSTART, you know.
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With your name on it?
Yes, with my name on it.
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And I...
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now it's like
where's my water bottle?
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You know,
where's my water bottle?
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Who is your doctor? Dr. Lukens.
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And what do you
think of Dr. Lukens?
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Oh, I love Dr. Lukens.
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He was there every
part of the way, you know,
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I went into to
visit him as a doctor
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but then he ate
with us in the cafeteria,
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he prayed with me
every time I saw him,
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we went hiking,
and everybody was like,
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"If Dr. Lukens can
do it, we can do it."
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You know, I have
to ask this question.
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When was the last
time you went to a doctor
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and they took you to lunch?
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Or even talk to
you except to say,
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"Okay, take two of
these, see you in a month"
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or three months or whatever.
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I don't want to
put down the doctors
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but we have an
unusual group of doctors here.
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Right.
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They are totally dedicated
to the well-being of all of us
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who come through
the NEWSTART program.
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Yes. Staff.
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Yes. I just love them.
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Everybody.
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And with each session...
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like you said
not only the doctor,
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the therapists,
the gentlemen who did
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the
stretchercise in the morning,
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we prayed every
time before we began
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and when we finished.
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And I just love that.
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I even had the
opportunity to pray with them
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because I know they
always pray for everybody.
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So I took the
opportunity to pray with them
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and it's just a new start.
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A new start.
LeJon, let's wrap it up.
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We're really out
of time here. Okay.
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But I want to thank
you for your willingness
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to come on the program
and give your testimony
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and just speak
your word of truth.
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Amen.
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Well, thank you, Ron,
for sharing your testimony,
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that's what got me here.
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Amen. Amen.
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And, friends,
thank you for joining us
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but don't go away,
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Dr. Lukens will
be right with us.
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Every year in America
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there are over
one million deaths
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because of Type 2
diabetes and chronic obesity.
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This includes heart
attacks and strokes.
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That's six and half
747s crashing every day.
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What's even more surprising
is that the fix is easy.
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It's your lifestyle.
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Wouldn't it be nice
if you could actually add
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quality years to your life
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rather than dying
one organ at a time?
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Obesity and
diabetes are the cause
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of over million deaths per year.
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Most diseases are reversible
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because most diseases
are lifestyle diseases,
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especially Type 2
diabetes and chronic obesity.
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Seriously now,
they can be reversed
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and the quality of
your life can be renewed.
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Call NEWSTART
today at 1-800-525-9192.
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You will see dramatic
changes in the first few days
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of our program and
you'll be on the road
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to a better more
robust quality of life.
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The NEWSTART programs
are simple and effective.
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Welcome back, friends.
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Help me say hello to Dr. Lukens.
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Very, very
good. Good to be back.
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Good to see you. Yeah.
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It's really nice. So
much good to see you.
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You're looking well. So are you.
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And your numbers
have gotten so good,
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I think that it's hard
to keep you humble anymore.
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I know, I know. Yeah.
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Well, you know, we...
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Well, it's been 11 years.
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It's about time. Yeah.
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I just had read the
draw, I guess they're wondering
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what we're talking about.
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The best numbers
I've had in 11 years.
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So I'm grateful.
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And they're all
in the safe range.
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Yes. Totally safe.
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So I'm safe. Yeah.
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I can go run marathons now.
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Okay, all right. Yes.
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I want to talk about LeJon,
isn't that a beautiful name?
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Yeah, it is.
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And, you know,
when she got here,
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she was dealing
with a number of issues.
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Tell us about that real quick?
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Well, one of the
things is that, you know,
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when you get up every
day and you start working
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and you're doing your
routine and stuff like that,
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she was getting depressed.
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Yes.
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And she was getting
anxious, and her blood pressures
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were going up, and
they're getting her
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on different
medications and so she just...
00:14:21.82\00:14:27.50
she was getting more
and more down all the time.
00:14:27.53\00:14:30.47
So she comes here and, you know,
00:14:30.50\00:14:33.97
that the joints are
the problem and, you know,
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this hip and
that knee and so forth
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which is kind of common.
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Because people
that are eating the diet
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like the standard American diet,
00:14:45.25\00:14:47.52
they have so many
things that go wrong with them.
00:14:47.55\00:14:50.22
And after a while, you
know, she's had a lot of stress
00:14:50.25\00:14:56.99
and we might
talk about that later.
00:14:57.03\00:14:58.63
But anyway, so being
in a situation like this
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is just like I
must be getting old,
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I must be wearing out,
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there must be no future for me,
and I'm still young, you know.
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So, you know, it's tough to see
00:15:13.04\00:15:15.61
these things
going wrong with you.
00:15:15.64\00:15:17.18
And some people
say when you're 40,
00:15:17.21\00:15:19.38
then you're over the
hill and you're going down.
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But, you know,
she didn't want that.
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No, 60s and then the 40s now.
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Well, I don't know what it is.
00:15:27.59\00:15:28.92
But I want to touch on
something you just said,
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because I know there's
a lot of viewers out there
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that are depressed.
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Some of them don't even know it.
00:15:36.36\00:15:38.63
But the majority
of people come here.
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When you say the
majority are depressed
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and then they leave
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and they're not
depressed anymore.
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Well, that's how we see
and you know why that is.
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My wife...
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I got a feeling that
you're going to tell me.
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My wife's psychiatric...
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Clinical Psychiatric
News, years ago said,
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"If you're going to put somebody
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on an antidepressant,
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50 percent of their
therapies are exercise."
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And, you know, if
you've got a joint that hurts
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and you can only go
to a swimming pool to,
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and the doctor says, "You know,
00:16:13.87\00:16:15.20
you've got a bad hip or
a bad knee" or whatever,
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you got to take care of that.
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And then, you know,
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there's a muscle
twitch or a pain,
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you know, in an
area then you just say,
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"Well, every
time I move, it hurts
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and you're telling me to move."
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So they'll come in
and they'll be walking
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maybe just around the
flagpole and then when they get
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to the place where they can walk
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the half mile loop,
especially the up part
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and then, you know,
they're just kind of like...
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you know, and when they
start feeling better and...
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I guess we should talk
about the depression part.
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Her mother has quite
advanced Alzheimer's disease.
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And when she
goes there, you know,
00:16:56.48\00:16:58.88
it's getting worse and
her mom really, you know,
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isn't her mom anymore.
00:17:02.98\00:17:04.79
But she said, "You know,
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I retired a
couple of years ago."
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And I said, "Well,
what are you going to do,
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you know, you're only, you know,
00:17:11.03\00:17:12.66
you're two or three
years from retirement."
00:17:12.69\00:17:14.83
She said, "You know,
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I'm going to go back to school."
00:17:16.23\00:17:17.90
But the greatest thing
that has happened with her
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is that she's
having a spiritual renewal,
00:17:20.44\00:17:22.94
and that's why we're opened.
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Amen. Yeah.
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Yeah.
00:17:25.71\00:17:27.04
You know, a lot of
people don't realize
00:17:27.08\00:17:28.41
but there's a
spiritual aspect of the program.
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You know, NEWSTART
acronym, the last letter "T"
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Trust in God and, you
know, there's an emphasis here
00:17:35.45\00:17:40.49
because truly, God's
presence is here on the campus.
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He's everywhere,
He's with our doctors,
00:17:45.46\00:17:47.86
He's with our nutritionists,
certainly our cafeteria,
00:17:47.90\00:17:52.53
our massage therapist,
and with Beth and myself
00:17:52.57\00:17:56.84
as we work together to help
bring people into the program.
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And I think we need to
elaborate on that trust
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that we have in God and
how He performs miracles.
00:18:05.81\00:18:09.65
You're looking
at one. Absolutely.
00:18:09.68\00:18:12.05
You know, I would be
dead if I didn't come here
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to the NEWSTART program.
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Yeah. Yeah, I know.
00:18:17.39\00:18:18.79
You know that and I know that.
00:18:18.83\00:18:20.96
Now, one of the things
is we have a chaplain here
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that takes people
through a spiritual journey
00:18:24.80\00:18:27.77
right out of the Bible.
00:18:27.80\00:18:29.77
I left him out, I'm sorry.
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No, no, no but this is
her, what do you call it
00:18:31.61\00:18:36.04
the epiphany, this is
her spiritual epiphany,
00:18:36.08\00:18:39.48
and she is so thrilled
that she has a loving savior
00:18:39.51\00:18:44.12
who is the great physician,
00:18:44.15\00:18:46.12
and she's doing these
eight natural remedies
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and one supernatural.
00:18:49.56\00:18:52.03
And we put
everybody in the hands
00:18:52.06\00:18:54.16
of the great
physician and he says,
00:18:54.20\00:18:58.03
"Look, this is my
way of healing people.
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And when you do
it, I'm right there
00:19:01.64\00:19:04.01
and I'm going
to make it happen."
00:19:04.04\00:19:05.84
You know, when
she gets back home,
00:19:05.87\00:19:07.84
I can just see, she's
going to be a teacher.
00:19:07.88\00:19:10.45
She is going to be
teaching at her church.
00:19:10.48\00:19:13.08
An example. She'll
be a living example.
00:19:13.11\00:19:16.32
People will look at her
and go, "Wow, what happened?"
00:19:16.35\00:19:19.32
And she'll be talking
about the NEWSTART program
00:19:19.35\00:19:22.06
as most people do.
00:19:22.09\00:19:24.86
So, you know, I
want to encourage you...
00:19:24.89\00:19:27.30
But I want to tell people
don't get overly exuberant
00:19:27.33\00:19:31.20
and make them, you know...
00:19:31.23\00:19:33.00
Live the life, and
when they keep seeing it
00:19:33.03\00:19:36.24
like one of our other
patients, everywhere he goes
00:19:36.27\00:19:39.57
people look at him and they say,
00:19:39.61\00:19:41.18
"You've got to tell me now."
00:19:41.21\00:19:42.81
Because he was way overweight
and now he's coming down
00:19:42.84\00:19:45.98
and coming down and
people give anything
00:19:46.01\00:19:47.95
to be able to do that.
00:19:47.98\00:19:49.32
And they look at
his face and they say,
00:19:49.35\00:19:51.42
"I can see it in your face."
00:19:51.45\00:19:52.92
You're talking about the Rabbi?
00:19:52.95\00:19:54.59
No. No? Okay.
00:19:54.62\00:19:55.96
You don't want to
mention any names.
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It's okay.
00:19:57.36\00:19:58.69
We have a lot
of people like that
00:19:58.73\00:20:00.06
that call us all the time.
00:20:00.10\00:20:01.43
Yeah.
00:20:01.46\00:20:02.80
Send us emails and thanking us.
00:20:02.83\00:20:04.17
It's just so...
00:20:04.20\00:20:05.53
Well, then there
are advertisement
00:20:05.57\00:20:06.90
and that's where...
00:20:06.94\00:20:08.27
Well, we did a survey one time
and 95 percent of the people
00:20:08.30\00:20:10.97
that come here,
it's not a blast,
00:20:11.01\00:20:12.97
it's not a brochure,
00:20:13.01\00:20:14.34
it's not a big claim
or something like that.
00:20:14.38\00:20:16.51
They say, "Listen, you tell
me what you're doing, you know."
00:20:16.54\00:20:21.05
And they say, "Well, you
know, I changed my diet."
00:20:21.08\00:20:23.35
And they keep
watching and they say,
00:20:23.39\00:20:25.22
"Listen, you tell
me, I'm readying."
00:20:25.25\00:20:29.52
I used to talk to
people telling her eyes
00:20:29.56\00:20:31.73
are glazed over, you know.
00:20:31.76\00:20:33.36
The funny thing,
how do I get this
00:20:33.40\00:20:35.16
none out of you, you know.
00:20:35.20\00:20:37.40
I've got my half
of my shopping card
00:20:37.43\00:20:40.47
filled with beef and fish and...
00:20:40.50\00:20:43.10
Oh, here comes Dr.
Lukens, let's go that way.
00:20:43.14\00:20:45.74
No, no, no they
don't know me from anybody.
00:20:45.77\00:20:47.11
Okay.
00:20:47.14\00:20:48.48
But I'm so
excited about was that,
00:20:48.51\00:20:49.84
that's when I first got here.
00:20:49.88\00:20:51.21
Now I'm learning
to temper it down
00:20:51.25\00:20:52.91
just a little bit.
00:20:52.95\00:20:54.28
And I was just
telling Dr. Gallant,
00:20:54.32\00:20:56.35
how well poised you
are that it's no big deal
00:20:56.38\00:21:00.16
if people's numbers are high,
00:21:00.19\00:21:02.12
because you've been
doing this for 27 years,
00:21:02.16\00:21:05.29
you know that the
numbers will come down.
00:21:05.33\00:21:07.86
If they will
keep in touch with us.
00:21:07.90\00:21:10.93
And that's what we're doing now.
00:21:10.97\00:21:12.30
Yes. Yeah.
00:21:12.33\00:21:13.67
And you're doing a good job.
00:21:13.70\00:21:15.04
We're trying to follow people
that are ready for dialysis
00:21:15.07\00:21:17.67
and keep them off of it.
00:21:17.71\00:21:19.04
Yes.
00:21:19.07\00:21:20.41
And we have plenty of
people who have been here
00:21:20.44\00:21:22.31
with kidney failure in
the last several sessions.
00:21:22.34\00:21:25.61
Yeah. We've had seven or eight.
00:21:25.65\00:21:27.28
Yeah, yeah, we have.
00:21:27.32\00:21:28.65
And now they're all doing well.
00:21:28.68\00:21:30.02
So if you've got
a kidney condition,
00:21:30.05\00:21:31.82
you should get here real quick.
00:21:31.85\00:21:33.46
Even if it's hypertensive.
00:21:33.49\00:21:35.16
Even if, whatever that is. Yeah.
00:21:35.19\00:21:36.86
Most of them are
diabetic with hypertensive ones,
00:21:36.89\00:21:39.49
they said, "There's
nothing you can do."
00:21:39.53\00:21:41.56
And we found out that...
00:21:41.60\00:21:43.60
Some people are
told that they have to go
00:21:43.63\00:21:45.13
on dialysis four
and a half years out,
00:21:45.17\00:21:47.44
they haven't started.
00:21:47.47\00:21:48.80
We're out of time.
I got to cut you off.
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Thanks Doc.
00:21:50.21\00:21:51.54
It's always good
to see you. Yes, sir.
00:21:51.57\00:21:53.24
And, friends, don't go away,
00:21:53.27\00:21:54.61
we have an
important message for you.
00:21:54.64\00:21:56.81
Hi, I'm Dr Neil
Nedley of NEWSTART Now.
00:21:59.95\00:22:03.05
And with me today
is Dr. Eddie Ramirez.
00:22:03.08\00:22:06.49
We, at the NEWSTART program
have been publishing a lot
00:22:06.52\00:22:10.06
in the peer reviewed
scientific literature
00:22:10.09\00:22:12.69
on what is happening to
even the average patient
00:22:12.73\00:22:16.67
that comes through
Weimar's NEWSTART program.
00:22:16.70\00:22:20.97
And, you know, one
of the major problems
00:22:21.00\00:22:22.77
we have in the world today,
Dr Eddie Ramirez, is obesity.
00:22:22.80\00:22:27.54
Tell us a little bit
about the problem of obesity.
00:22:27.58\00:22:30.51
It's not just an
American problem anymore.
00:22:30.55\00:22:33.01
That's right.
00:22:33.05\00:22:34.38
Both of us have traveled
quite a bit around the world
00:22:34.42\00:22:36.38
and this is a
problem we very often see.
00:22:36.42\00:22:39.99
The problem with obesity
is that as you gain weight
00:22:40.02\00:22:43.53
apart from
talking about the statics
00:22:43.56\00:22:45.89
or this other type
of topics, the health,
00:22:45.93\00:22:48.96
it has a negative
effect on your health.
00:22:49.00\00:22:51.73
You increase many
other risk factors
00:22:51.77\00:22:55.87
that actually
increased your risk
00:22:55.90\00:22:57.84
of dying sooner
than what you should be.
00:22:57.87\00:23:01.14
And that's why
authorities around the world
00:23:01.18\00:23:04.08
are investing lots of
money to try to understand,
00:23:04.11\00:23:06.61
why people are gaining weight
and what can we do about it?
00:23:06.65\00:23:08.98
Well, I think we have
a very tangible solution
00:23:09.02\00:23:12.35
to that problem.
00:23:12.39\00:23:13.72
Yes, you know, in America,
over one out of three people
00:23:13.76\00:23:17.16
are overweight.
00:23:17.19\00:23:18.53
Almost one out of two
people are overweight.
00:23:18.56\00:23:22.66
And that is a major problem
00:23:22.70\00:23:24.87
in regards to
their future health.
00:23:24.90\00:23:27.27
And fortunately, it's
something we can reverse.
00:23:27.30\00:23:29.64
You know, we've often thought,
you know, if you're just obese,
00:23:29.67\00:23:32.44
it's kind of your metabolism
or you're kind of born
00:23:32.47\00:23:34.84
with those genes
00:23:34.88\00:23:36.21
and there's not
much you can do about it.
00:23:36.24\00:23:39.11
But as you have discovered
along with other researchers,
00:23:39.15\00:23:43.39
and my own name as on this trial
00:23:43.42\00:23:46.25
obesity reviews in
April 2016, published a study.
00:23:46.29\00:23:50.99
And tell us a little
bit about how you did this
00:23:51.03\00:23:54.86
and what came forward?
00:23:54.90\00:23:56.23
That's right.
00:23:56.26\00:23:57.60
Here we're using
17 years of data.
00:23:57.63\00:23:59.67
We're talking about
close to 1, 200 patients
00:23:59.70\00:24:03.00
in this important study.
00:24:03.04\00:24:05.04
And what we were doing?
00:24:05.07\00:24:06.41
We were separating people
00:24:06.44\00:24:07.78
according to
their different weights.
00:24:07.81\00:24:09.84
There are some people that have
normal weight that participate,
00:24:09.88\00:24:12.31
some are
underweight, some are overweight
00:24:12.35\00:24:14.68
and some are obese.
00:24:14.72\00:24:16.48
And what we found out
here as we divided the groups
00:24:16.52\00:24:21.06
is that the plan based
diet and the interventions
00:24:21.09\00:24:24.39
that we're doing
with the NEWSTART program,
00:24:24.43\00:24:27.66
if you are
underweight, you shouldn't worry
00:24:27.70\00:24:30.20
because you're not
going to lose weight
00:24:30.23\00:24:31.57
on this full plant based diet
00:24:31.60\00:24:33.80
that you're
going to be receiving.
00:24:33.84\00:24:35.74
If you have normal weight also,
you should not be worrying,
00:24:35.77\00:24:39.44
your weight will
maintain the same.
00:24:39.47\00:24:41.44
But if you have
overweight or obesity,
00:24:41.48\00:24:45.68
your weight loss
will be proportionate
00:24:45.71\00:24:48.15
to how much
excess weight you have.
00:24:48.18\00:24:50.12
In other words,
the more obese you are,
00:24:50.15\00:24:53.05
the more weight you will
lose in these 18-day programs
00:24:53.09\00:24:56.22
according to their
data as we process it.
00:24:56.26\00:24:59.26
Well, that's pretty exciting
because a lot of people think,
00:24:59.29\00:25:01.56
you know, "I'm probably too fat
to experience those benefits."
00:25:01.60\00:25:07.07
But actually the
fatter the people are
00:25:07.10\00:25:09.90
the better their response...
00:25:09.94\00:25:11.27
That's right. When
they come to NEWSTART.
00:25:11.31\00:25:13.01
And the beauty of
this is that, you know,
00:25:13.04\00:25:16.68
this is not like a crash program
00:25:16.71\00:25:18.55
that you're
going to lose 30 pounds
00:25:18.58\00:25:21.38
or some incredible number,
00:25:21.42\00:25:23.75
those type of
programs in which you lose
00:25:23.79\00:25:25.95
a lot, a lot of weight
very rapidly studies show
00:25:25.99\00:25:29.02
those people are going
to gain that weight back.
00:25:29.06\00:25:30.83
Yeah, called yo-yo dieting.
00:25:30.86\00:25:32.89
So rather we're
going to give you the tools
00:25:32.93\00:25:36.53
so that you can
start losing weight
00:25:36.56\00:25:39.73
step by step as you are enjoying
00:25:39.77\00:25:42.94
the good food, and the
exercise, and so forth.
00:25:42.97\00:25:46.74
This is something
that you can maintain
00:25:46.78\00:25:49.21
at the long-term.
00:25:49.24\00:25:50.65
This is not just
a plan of 18 days
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and then you go home
to the old lifestyle,
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we'll train you,
we'll give you the tools,
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so you can learn how to
maintain this change at home.
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Well, that's exciting.
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You know, the
study looked at BMI
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which is Body Mass Index
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and if you want to
look that up at home,
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just know your weight in pounds,
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and how tall you are, and
you can calculate your BMI.
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So this works for BMIs over 25,
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which means that
you're overweight,
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if you're over 30, you're obese.
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And I would encourage
you overweight, underweight,
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or normal weight experience
the benefits of NEWSTART
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and invest in coming to
this nice vacation land here
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at Weimar Institute.
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Dr. Ramirez, any closing words?
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Yes, I just want to
tell you that the patients
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as we interview them at the end,
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they were
saying, "You know what?
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It's so easy to lose
this type of weight."
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As some people have been
struggling for years and years
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and now they're able to finally
get a solution to that problem
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that they were facing.
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For NEWSTART Now,
I'm Dr. Neil Nedley.
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Join us again next week.
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