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Hi friends and
welcome to another edition of
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NEWSTART Now. I'm your host,
Ron Giannoni. In our studio
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today we have a young man
by the name of Mark Jensen from
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Prescott, Arizona. I'd like you
to take a look at when he first
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arrived.
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Well approximately about five
years ago I started to develop
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some medical conditions. I've
dealt with type II diabetes for
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probably 10 years now, but
starting about five years ago
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I started to have some
heart issues and I developed
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congestive heart failure. My
infraction rate is down to about
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15 to 20 percent which is a
pretty weak heart. They don't
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know if it was a virus or what.
I also developed some kidney and
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liver issues as far as failure.
I developed ascites where I go
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and have a paracentesis, even
today once to twice a month.
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And my skin was diagnosed with
a skin disorder coming from my
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kidneys which called perforating
collagenases. So I have quite a
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few issues and that's what I'm
dealing with right now. What I'd
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like to see happen before I
leave here is to learn to live a
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different nutritional lifestyle
to battle these issues I'm
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dealing with. Through the
encouragement of the church and
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the sponsorship of a very
gracious couple in my church
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I'm here today.
Otherwise I wouldn't be here.
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Welcome back friends.
Mark how are you brother?
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Good to see you Ron.
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Man, you know, I'm so excited
for you for a lot of reasons.
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Because I remember when Paul and
I came to do the first interview
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and you said to us, You now I
might look okay but I'm a very
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sick man. And Paul and I kind
of looked at each other going
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what is he talking about here?
Then during the interview we
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find out that you've got
congestive heart failure, your
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heart isn't pumping the fluids,
your stomach is... Well tell us:
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Distended. I had ascites. I was
dealing with type II diabetes.
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I had a skin condition called
perforating collagenosis which
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was caused by a kidney problem.
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Amazing. How many
pills were you on?
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I was on six bottles of pills.
I was on two diuretics, two
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heart pills and I was on two
other heart pills. All six of
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those, I'm off, I'm
not taking those anymore.
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What about
medication for diabetes?
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Well that too.
Maybe I missed that one.
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Maybe you missed that one.
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I'm off six bottles, yeah.
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You're off all of them?
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Yes.
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What do you attribute that to?
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I attribute it to this program
and the lifestyle I've learned.
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The eight principles of this
program and of course God and
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his help.
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You actually are a miracle.
We look at you as a miracle.
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Because it was the second day
that you said to Dr. Kuninobo,
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you said Doc something happened
to me last night. Do you
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remember that?
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No I don't. What did he say?
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He said well what happened?
You said, I lost like five
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pounds. Something
happened. I'm a changed man.
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Yeah. I started
losing right away.
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I know. But 30, how
many pounds have you lost?
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Thirty-four pounds
totally in 18 days.
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Well it's not quite 18 yet.
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Well maybe I got a
couple more pounds to go.
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Ah, it's about 18.
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But 34 pounds. That is
unbelievable and off all your
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medications. Yes. So what
do you think of your doctor?
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Oh, I thought he was excellent.
I mean, how many times do you
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go into to your doctor and
he prays with you, he encourages
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you, he explains everything
better that any other doctor
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I've ever been with. He was
amazing, absolutely amazing.
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He's a wonderful man. Yes.
Truly blessed. You're lucky to
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be with him.
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Of course, you're lucky to
be with any of our doctors. It's
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divine providence a God thing.
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One other thing, his wife,
Eilene, she was the nutritionist
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for me and she was amazing too.
She really helped me get right
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on track with the diet and
everything I should eat, the
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portions. In fact, she was my
little I would say mafia guard
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behind my shoulder when I
went to the buffet. I'd see her
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behind me and I go, oh no, I'll
put that back, okay? But that
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was... She was a blessing.
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Man, you look different.
You're starting to glow.
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Yeah, that's awesome. So what
was your favorite part of the
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program?
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I'll say my favorite part was
probably Damon. Damon Sneed the
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pastor here, was absolutely
amazing, his spiritual insight.
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And today he ended this with
just the most amazing message
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I've ever heard. He gave me
trust and faith in God. How to
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go on with this program and
continue with it and the eight
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principles. He was a blessing.
That was probably my favorite
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part. But I would say all the
parts were very important. But
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second of all, the second most
favorite part for me was the
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education because I had trained
doctors teaching me in lectures
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every day on how to apply this
program. Not only how to apply
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this program but they would give
the scientific details of why
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and I'm a person that wants to
know why. But he would explain
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it and when I understood it, I
go yes, this is God's plan, this
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is the way we do it.
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It's God's plan that's for sure.
That's why it's so effective.
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Yes. You know we have an amazing
staff of doctors here. They're
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all wonderful and they are
the ones that do the lectures.
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I get to be involved in one and
there's a couple of the doctors,
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Dr. Bivens, I'm sure you've met
him. They all have this health
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message down pat. Dr. Kuninobo
has a master's in public health
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along with lifestyle and being
a family practitioner down in
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San Diego for a number of years
so, yeah, we have a great staff
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Did you find the food easy
to switch from your previous
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lifestyle?
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It was relatively easy at first
and then later got amazing.
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Amazing?
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Because one of my hobbies is
cooking so when I got in that
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culinary school with Michelle
Irwin it was amazing. So after
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all this time I mean she taught
us amazing recipes backed up by
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the book from NEWSTART on
great recipes I can take home.
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I bought a few books here at the
bookstore on vegan cooking and
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I'm so excited because the
flavors were great. All the
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buffets were great. The kitchen
staff was great. You know, it
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was wonderful.
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What did you think of Michelle
participating in the program?
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At first I didn't know who
she was and the first day I went
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into the buffet line and I
looked at the food and I go oh
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boy, I wonder what this is
going to taste like and she says
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don't worry brother it'll be
okay. But it was amazing when
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I found out that she was
going to be the cook and when I
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actually saw her in action,
I mean she is just amazing.
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Very talented lady.
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Very talented, yes.
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So was your room okay?
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It was very nice. I would
say five star. It was very
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comfortable, very cozy. The room
service was excellent. I mean,
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I think the only thing I missed
was maybe turning down the bed
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and the chocolate on there,
but I'm not supposed to eat
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chocolate so...
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Right, the carob. Okay.
You didn't get the carob.
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Not unless I put it there.
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Oh wow. Well it's just amazing
that you've gone through this
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experience and received so
much and I truly believe it's a
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miracle, it's God's hand at work
in you. So what are you going to
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do when you get home and all
these people are looking at you
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and going what
happened? What do you tell them?
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I'm going to tell them about
the lifestyle I'm in, about the
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eight principles, you know. The
nutrition, I mean everything.
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All eight of the principles.
The exercise, the water, the
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sunlight, the temperance,
the air, the rest, the trust.
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And when I say those words,
those are just words but you
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listen to those lectures
and they explain why it's so
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important, especially with
Biblical background to explain
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why it is important, why it
works. It's amazing and that's
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what I'm going to tell them.
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Is your family going to be
on board with you on this deal?
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Yes, they will be, I'm sure they
will. They're going to see a
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difference. If I can convince
them that this is the way to go
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and hopefully I'll
be the proof of that.
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When I went through the program
my daughter saw what I did and
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she said Dad would you teach me
what you learned. So I coached
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her and she lost 126 pounds. She
was quite large. But we see that
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here over the years.
Myself about a hundred pounds.
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I have a 36-year-old son who's
dealing with some of the stuff
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I was. He would desperately
need this program and he keeps
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calling me every other
day, every third day: How's it
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going Dad, how's it working.
You're kidding, you've lost that
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much weight? And he said Dad
will you show me something he
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when he gets home. And I
said only if you're coachable.
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If you're coachable I'm
right there with you. You know.
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Mark I want to thank you for
taking your time and God bless
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bless you. I hope to talk to you
in the near future. Thank you
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friends. Don't go away because
Dr. K, I like that, it rhymes,
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will be right with us.
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type II diabetes and chronic
obesity. This includes heart
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attacks and strokes. That 6-1/2
747s crashing every day. What's
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even worse than that is
that the fix is easy. It's your
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lifestyle. Wouldn't it be
nice if you could actually add
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quality years to your life
rather than dying one organ at a
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time? Obesity and diabetes are
the cause of over a million
deaths per year. Most
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diseases are reversible because
most diseases are lifestyle
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diseases; especially type II
diabetes and chronic obesity.
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Seriously now they can be
reversed and the quality of your
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life can be renewed.
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You will see dramatic changes
in the first few days of our
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program and you will be on the
road to a better, more robust
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quality of life. The
NEWSTART programs are simple and
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Welcome back friends.
Help me welcome Dr. Kuninobo.
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Thanks Ron, how are you?
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I'm well. You know I'm really
excited about talking to you
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about this guy. Oh, me too.
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You know here's another, I
don't want to call them patient,
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because they're not. They're
really guests. They're guests.
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And a miracle has happened.
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Yes, a miracle has happened.
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When I first went to grab him
for the first interview, he said
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to me, You know I know I look
pretty well but I'm a very sick
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man. I looked at him. I go, you
don't look sick to me. But what
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do I know anyway. But later
to find out he's got all these
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conditions and problems. Talk
about that, if you don't mind.
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Sure. Can we share that
with our viewers? Absolutely.
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Yeah, he came as a very sick
man and he's right, he didn't
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look that sick on the outside.
But, he has diabetes, but that
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wasn't the big thing.
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No that was nothing, right?
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His big problem is his heart.
He has been struggling with the
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heart for a number of years and
he has very significant heart
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failure, the kind of heart
failure that leads... really the
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technical term... It doesn't
matter, a concept of any pump
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that fails like when your sump
pump at home fails the basement
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backs up with water. Gives you
a pretty good idea that's where
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his heart was. Fluid was backing
up, it was causing problems in
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addition to his previous life
style with alcohol and things
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that had kind of affected his
liver already. And you add pump
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failure on top of it and his
liver was failing as well and he
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was filling up with fluid in
places that you're not supposed
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to, like in the abdominal cavity
and down in the legs. And it was
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so significant that his
specialist was having to
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drain fluid out of his abdomen.
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I understand once a week.
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Well it started off like monthly
like four to five liters, then
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it went to every two weeks
and just before coming to the
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NEWSTART program he decided that
he should go early only after
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one week from his last drain. So
two days before coming here he
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went to see the doctor and he
drained and he pulled off four
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and a half liters, just after
one week. He was accumulating
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so rapidly and even more
disturbing and concerning was
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that his leg swelling had just
dramatically worsened in just
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the last month to six weeks.
So he was going downhill. His
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specialist was saying ideally
in your situation we would like
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to really put a permanent drain
in that we can work with. But
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the problem with those is that
it's not if, it's when, they get
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infected which is usually the
end of a person's life. Oh boy.
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And actually his sister had died
of complications of the drain
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and they had similar problems.
Wow. So this is a very, very
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serious, serious situation. So
that was the condition that he
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came in.
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That's when he arrived. Now
let's get to the good stuff.
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Let's get to the good stuff.
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I know the second day he
was here he came and saw you.
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He did. And what
did he say to you?
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Well I saw him for his initial
visit with the doctor. We spent
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an hour talking. That's when
I got acquainted with all these
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problems. And we had
prayed together and I was really
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praying for him because I said
this is a serious situation.
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It's going to be nothing but
a miracle that's really going to
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start to turn things
around. Yeah, Tuesday morning at
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breakfast he came up to me
almost with a bewildered almost
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shocked look. He said something
happened last night. I go what
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do you mean something happened.
Okay what happened? Something
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bad happened. He goes, I lost
five pounds overnight look at my
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legs and you could see his leg
swelling was down. He says, I
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lost five pounds of fluid last
night. That's never happened.
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I said, no that doesn't usually
happen. And I was like...
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Now that's Tuesday morning?
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This is Tuesday morning.
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And he got here Sunday night?
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Sunday night.
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So a gain half a pass.
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Well nothing had
happened yet on Monday.
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Oh nothing happened Monday?
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No, that's when we got together
and he was concerned about how
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bad his legs were. I had talked
about a few simple things we
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were going to try, and modify
NEWSTART for to help proteins
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and various things in his system
but that was not enough time for
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that to start working. God did
something during the night for
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him. Amazing. Just amazing. And
from that point every day he was
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just losing fluid. His tummy
was just going down. His leg
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swelling was going down. Now he
has no, I mean, you just can't
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find the fluid that was on his
belly any longer. His legs are
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completely back to normal.
He has normal looking legs now.
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He's lost how much weight?
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Thirty-four pounds. Wow!
Thirty- four pounds. Amazing.
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And so rapid a loss of fluid
that we had to cut back on his
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medication because his blood
pressure was going to start
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going down. He's no longer
on the two medications we call
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diuretics that normally push
fluid out. He's no longer on
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those, hasn't been for the last
I forgot, close to a week and
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he's still losing fluid. We
had to put his heart medications
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down because his blood pressure
was too low. He's not on his
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diabetes medication or his
insulin any longer and his blood
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sugar is running a little
bit. He still wants it down
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lower. It's low 100s now.
I'm just sitting in awe of God
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because, make no mistake,
this is not we adjusted and did
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something with plant based diet
or something. Yeah, he did all
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of these things that God has
given us, but God did something
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very special for this man
and I can't help but think of
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something he told me that came
to his mind early on. It was
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either maybe that Monday night
he said he kind of went back
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after he saw the look on my face
going through all these things
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he said frankly Doc I was a
little discouraged that I could
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tell that you could see how sick
I was. He was a little scared.
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But he said you know I went back
and I just told God I'm at the
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point Lord that my life is
in your hands and whether I live
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or die it doesn't matter
any more. You know what, I think
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that when we come to the point
with God that you can just trust
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him, truly trust him. I
don't know if that's why God was
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unable to do something, I don't
know if it was the prayers of
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yourself, the rest of the staff
whose prayers. God has a very
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special purpose and He's
certainly glorified by this
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man's testimony that he will
have to share when he goes back
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to Arizona because it is a
tremendous testimony to the
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grace of God.
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Amen. You know this might be
a good time just to say to our
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viewers, if you have a condition
that you've given up you need to
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get here. We don't know if
you're going to get better, we
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don't know anything. We have
doctors who'll look after you
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but we've seen more times
where people have come here
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discouraged, ready to give up on
life and they get well. Most get
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better for sure but some of them
as we've seen with Dr. Kuninobo
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this man has experienced a
miracle and God does have a plan
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for him I'm sure of that. Maybe
it's back in Arizona I don't
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know. Maybe it's just for us
to view and give us more courage
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to bring more people here.
Because sometimes if people are
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too sick we can't help them,
at least was think we can't. But
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here's an example.
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And we can't, but we
don't know what God has planned.
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That's true and I just praise
God for this. You know just the
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opportunity to be here and
witness what's going on. I just
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want to thank you. Thank
you for your time for being here
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and all the work you do at the
NEWSTART program. I look forward
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to our next
interview. Absolutely.
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And thank you friends but don't
go away. Dr. Nedley and Dr.
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Ramirez are up next.
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Welcome to NEWSTART Now. I'm
Dr. Neal Nedley and with me is
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Dr. Eddy Ramirez. He's one of
the researching physicians here
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at Weimar Institute. He also
teaches the research methods
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and design class at the Weimar
Institute College which is an
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exciting place for
premed and health career type of
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researching students. But today
we are actually going to discuss
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a study that has been accepted
for publication in the journal
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Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and
Vascular Biology. Many of our
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studies that we produce here at
Weimar are looking at thousands
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of patients, or at
least hundreds of patients.
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Sometimes we'll take a look
at like just the pediatric group
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and look at eleven child cases
that came through with obesity.
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But today I'd just like to focus
in on a study that was published
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for one patient. Now why is the
journal allowing one patient.
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Here's the thing. Every one
of our studies is actually real
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people. This isn't data. When
we're dealing with hundreds and
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tens and thousands of patients
those are all real lives and
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times it's good to just focus
in on one patient and what they
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came with here to NEWSTART. And
this guy was a sick guy. Tell
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us a little bit about him.
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He had what we call
the metabolic syndrome.
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He had diabetes, he had
hypertension, his lipids were
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not very good and even though
he was taking three medications
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he was out of control. His blood
pressure was 150/78 when he came
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first here today. He was taking
three medications and still his
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glucose was not under control,
his blood pressure was not
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under control.
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Now ideally your systolic blood
pressure should be less than
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115. So he was 150
despite three different...
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Two medications
for the blood pressure.
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Yeah, okay he has two medicines
for blood pressure and one
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one medicine for diabetes. How
much did this gentleman weigh?
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When he came here he was
weighing 381 pounds and just
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in 18 days he was able to lose
16 pounds and one of the first
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first things that changed was
his blood pressure. He ended up
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with a blood pressure of 116/72.
We had to actually decrease
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some of the
medication he was taking.
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Okay, so now he's getting close
to that ideal, 116 and that's
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very good coming down from 150
and you're actually reducing the
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medicines at the same time.
Otherwise it really would have
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gotten too low.
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So this was in August when
he came and after he finished he
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didn't say oh I'm finished, I'm
going to go back to my old life
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style. No, he made a commitment
to change his lifestyle
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permanently. So in August
he comes. By the time that he
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continues interacting with his
head physician, by May the next
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year his physician had to
suspend all medications. He no
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longer needed that medication.
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Wow. So now he's off
all medicines and what is he
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weighing about this time?
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Two hundred and seventy pounds.
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Okay, so he's lost 100 pounds.
That's amazing and that's
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without the complications
of this gastric bypass surgery.
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A lot of people are going for
gastric bypass and I can tell
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you if you would find out the
complications of this surgery
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vitamin deficiency, all sorts
of things, the skin changes that
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take place, all the lifestyle
changes you're going to be
00:26:22.78\00:26:26.51
forced to do you're much better
coming to NEWSTART. Not only is
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it far less expensive but
it's a much healthier way to go.
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And then by July, that's from
May, by July we do a lab test
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everything perfectly
normal. Cholesterol's the most
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encouraging. Hemoglobin A1C of
5.5. He was no longer considered
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a diabetic. He actually had
stopped his diabetes completely.
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Wow. So he reversed the diabetes
he didn't even have to be called
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a diabetic. No longer having
high blood pressure and what is
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his weight
around this time then?
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I don't have the weight by then
by August I do have his final
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weight. So we started in August
2003. By January 2005 he had
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lost 141 pounds.
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A 141 pounds.
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So a totally new person. Now
energetic, now able to sleep,
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because of the excess weight
he was having issues with sleep
00:27:25.77\00:27:30.55
apnea and these type of things.
Those things reversed as a
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result of this intensive
life style intervention.
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A normal, healthy, good looking
individual, now disease free as
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a result of coming to NEWSTART
who was 380 pounds and way out
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of control at first. Well
it's exciting. I know why the
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journal accepted this for
publication because this can
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also be someone you know or
maybe yourself. And I'm Dr. Neal
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Nedley and this is NEWSTART
Now. Join us again next week.
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