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01:10 Hi friends and welcome to another edition of 01:13 NEWSTART Now. I'm your host Ron Gionnoni. In our studio with 01:18 me I have a lovely young lady by the name of Sherry Carole 01:23 right from Los Altos, California I want to take a look. Now watch 01:28 carefully when she first arrived and then we're going to take a 01:32 look at how she looks now. Within two months I went from 01:39 being fully capable of caring for myself, very active, just 01:44 really bubbly and vivacious in life having problems over here 01:50 but always a cheerful soul to having have someone prepare all 01:57 my food, do my hair, and dress me morning and night. And I had 02:04 to quit my job. So finally I went to a medical doctor and 02:10 he diagnosed me with a rapid, aggressive onset of rheumatoid 02:15 arthritis and that was just last Thursday. And so you need to get 02:20 on drugs right away; prednisone and this other cancer fighting 02:23 drug that really raises heck with your liver and your kidneys 02:27 and it is a really, really scary time because I kind of feel it 02:33 in my toe and in my knees. I'm fully committed to being here 02:38 I'm fully present. I'm willing to receive a healing. I'm 02:43 willing to receive the care and I'm really desiring to give back 02:48 while I'm here. I am looking for complete mobility in my hands 02:53 and to be comfortable in my entire body and knowing that 02:58 this disease has left my body permanently. And I believe that 03:03 that will happen. 03:11 type II diabetes and chronic obesity. This includes heart 03:12 attacks and strokes. That's 6-1/2747s crashing every day. 03:18 What's even more surprising is that the fix is easy. It's your 03:23 lifestyle. Wouldn't it be nice if you could actually add 03:26 quality years to your life rather than dying one organ at 03:29 a time. Obesity and diabetes are the cause of over a million 03:33 deaths per year and most diseases are reversible because 03:37 most diseases are lifestyle diseases; 03:42 Seriously now, they can be reversed and the quality of your 03:47 life can be renewed. 03:55 You will see dramatic changes in the first few days of our 03:58 program and you will be on the road to a better, more robust 04:01 quality of life. 04:07 Welcome back friends and in our studio is Sherry. Good to see 04:13 you. Good to see you too, Ron. 04:14 You are just glowing. 04:16 I feel a glow. 04:18 Yeah, you are. 04:20 I do. You know, I just feel this radiance and this light and this 04:23 transformation. 04:25 Do you remember 17 days ago when you got here? 04:29 I didn't until I was reminded. My doctor, by my doctor and he 04:35 said do you realize what you were like the first day I saw 04:41 you. And he reminded me that with the arthritis that was so 04:48 painful in my hands that he couldn't touch my hands. My body 04:54 hurt so badly because of just tension that I was under. 04:59 I think it was just so frozen with fear that I remember the 05:04 the first night's sleep I had I couldn't even turn over in bed. 05:07 I just had to lay there. Every time I tried to turn I was in 05:11 agony. When he tried to just put a stethoscope on my chest, I 05:16 go oh don't touch me. Don't touch me anywhere. Now when I 05:22 get reminded of it it's very vivid because when you and I 05:26 were sitting here before, the most important thing to me was 05:31 getting rid of the arthritis or finding out a solution and 05:35 that the fear, the gripping fear that I felt and the prognosis 05:40 if there's only one way out of this and that is through drugs 05:45 that they use for cancer, and prednisone, and not having taken 05:49 antibiotics for 30 years because for me they've created more 05:53 side effects than the actual condition that I had. I just 05:58 opted out of that solution. But I came up against rheumatoid 06:02 arthritis and I felt that I didn't think I had other 06:09 solutions and I went into panic. 06:11 Do you remember, you were in such panic, do you remember the 06:16 phone calls and the texting that we had? 06:17 The multitude of them. 06:18 The multitude we had where you said well I don't think I can 06:23 make it and you were coming in with all these excuses. Do you 06:27 remember what I kept saying to you? 06:29 You'll be blessed. Come and you'll be blessed. And now I 06:36 understand through this journey here that I had what you meant 06:42 by that. At least for me, because we all have our 06:44 individual blessings and by talking to everyone, if you 06:47 could interview every one they've all had a blessing 06:50 beyond their expectations. For me it was really extra special 06:55 because it was so profound and so unexpected. Because I came 06:59 here, I thought, for my crippling arthritis. That's what 07:06 I thought. But I marinated in the spirit of NEWSTART and 07:13 fresh start and new beginnings and a different way of living. 07:15 It was so congruent from every one. The love of Jesus is 07:20 preeminent everywhere. And whenever you were doubting they 07:26 say can I pray for you? Let's just pray together, right? But 07:31 for me it happened two days ago when I woke up and I thought 07:36 okay this program's about over and my pain is less but it's not 07:42 gone. I was expecting to be here on camera touting how my 07:46 rheumatoid arthritis was completely gone. But what 07:50 happened was far better because God spoke to me. And that 07:54 doesn't happen in such vivid language like we'd 07:57 love to have it 07:58 happen. For some people it does. For me the message that came 08:02 through to me from the Holy Spirit was you've been granted 08:07 the gift and the blessing that I had in store for you and that 08:13 gift was the certainty of my salvation through the teachings 08:19 that happened here through Damon the pastor and through everybody 08:24 that's so congruent. There isn't one individual here that doesn't 08:29 walk the talk of Jesus which is love and encouragement and 08:34 cheer leading. When everybody else is gloom and doom and 08:40 there's no your life from here on out is going to be struggle 08:45 and limitation and lack. And I accepted that gift. The old me 08:49 before I got here would have said yeah I know my salvation 08:54 Lord, I got baptized and I've been walking the walk and I 08:59 understand. I've been reborn and baptized. But the good Lord 09:03 convicted me here and I truly as God is my absolute witness 09:08 had I not come here I would not have eternal salvation. I really 09:15 know from the conviction that I got from the sermons every 09:20 single morning at 7 a. m. after we had our song worship and I 09:25 had the Bible study with Damon. He really has the modern day 09:30 Steps to Christ. So it transforms you. 09:34 I want to ask you another question. Yeah. What happened to 09:38 the fear? What happened to the anxiety? What happened to the 09:43 depression? What happened to that old self? Did she disappear 09:48 Is she in there somewhere. I don't feel her anymore like if I 09:55 really examine my soul. You know I think there's always if I feel 10:03 arthritis in my foot or I feel it in my hands and I wake up 10:06 and I have the pain, I no longer give it any energy on where that 10:15 might go because I'm too much focused on my future with God 10:22 and the richness of that. 10:24 You know what pleases me so much Sherry is that I remember 10:28 talking to you on the phone before you got here and then 10:33 our first interview and you were in a state of being or 10:37 mind state that you didn't think there was any hope but maybe you 10:41 find some here. And I saw when we met again not to many days 10:47 later, you saw it very clearly that there was hope. 10:52 Well, and it's not false hope. Yes. I think this world is full 10:57 of false hope and when you're not on the path... A realization 11:02 that came to me is you know so often we talk about the narrow 11:07 path, right, to salvation, and through this experience the path 11:12 might be narrow, but it is overflowing with beauty and it's 11:17 overflowing with grace and gifts along the way. And we all 11:23 kind of think oh I have to go on this narrow grinding path and we 11:30 walk five miles a day here. We do our hydrotherapy baths, we 11:36 have our morning stretch, 35 health lectures. So I've come 11:41 out far more educated so I feel more understanding of how to 11:46 structure my life so that cancer doesn't scare me because I 11:51 understand the cause now and have been. 11:54 And you've made it very simple. Then I had 12 cooking or 9 12:00 cooking classes. Eleven. Yeah 11, right. And I didn't ever 12:06 cook before. I'm 65 and I never cooked. So how I got this far in 12:12 life, my husband cooks incredibly well. 12:15 Maybe you can teach him a few things. 12:17 But I fell in love with cooking and I fell in love with the 12:21 flavors of the food and the healing, how food is my medicine 12:25 and that's they teach here. So it's been a transformation but 12:29 I know it was a transformation because I was immersed in God's 12:34 will and his way and his word. And it was very clear and I did 12:40 not think that this was going to be the outcome for me, I have to 12:45 say. I'm still pleasantly surprised and the doctor saw me 12:49 yesterday and he took a double take. He was waiting for me to 12:53 do my treadmill test and he took a double take and he goes 12:58 Oh my gosh. You're alive, you know you have a light in you 13:02 because I had so many phobias when I came with him and I was 13:08 distraught with them. One by one so patiently they worked 13:14 with me. So I feel the light of the Lord inside and I think 13:19 that's what's shining through but I connected here. 13:24 Connected all the dots. Sherry I want to think you. We're run out 13:27 of time. I understand. 13:29 God bless you. I want to hear more from you. 13:32 God bless you. 13:33 And so I hope to hear from you again real soon. 13:37 Friends, God bless you. Don't go away. Dr. Gallant is up next. 13:45 Welcome back friends and help me welcome Dr. Roger Gallant. 13:48 Ron, good to see you my brother. 13:50 Good to see you. I want to get right into talking about Sherry 13:55 because she's gone through this magnificent change. You know 14:00 when she got here she could just see... when she first arrived 14:05 she was in a little bit of a panic. 14:07 She was. 14:10 What do you think happened here? 14:11 She admits that, you know, that she was worried and that her 14:15 emotions were up and down and she wasn't where she wanted to 14:22 be. Through perseverance and talking through a lot of things, 14:28 that changed dramatically by the end of the program. 14:33 She shared with me that the chaplain and you and me, but 14:36 maybe she was just trying to flatter me, I don't know, but 14:42 certainly you and the chaplain had a significant what was the 14:48 word she used, I don't recall. But how you kind of led her 14:53 along the way and had this change, this epiphany of God and 14:58 who he is. Tell me a little bit about that. 15:01 You know, praise the Lord, she came here. She has a history of 15:06 rheumatoid arthritis and has a lot of pain and swelling in her 15:12 hands and as her emotions go up and down so does her rheumatoid 15:18 arthritis. Isn't that interesting. 15:19 And one of the biggest blessings for her was coming here and 15:25 reconnecting with God, having a spiritual awakening which led to 15:30 a physical improvement. 15:33 That's interesting how because this is about the second or 15:36 third time that you've said something similar to this. 15:40 You went to GYC and tell that story briefly. I know it'll take 15:44 about a minute. 15:45 Sure. There was somebody at GYC who mentioned that there was a 15:50 pastor who had lived a healthy lifestyle, eating a plant-based 15:55 diet, had a relationship with God and exercised, all the good 16:00 things and came down with cancer And what he came to figure out 16:04 as his nidus, his stimulus, if you would, for this cancer to 16:10 develop was his father had left when he was very young and gone 16:16 off and started another life and he realized that he had never 16:21 forgiven his father. So he called him up and said to him, 16:27 I forgive you. And they talked and they had a reconnection, if 16:32 you would. An that's when his cancer started to improve. 16:36 So our emotions and our lifestyle play a significant 16:41 role in how functional and how well our immune system is 16:45 working and if our immune system is not in optimal condition, 16:50 if it's not working properly then it's very hard for us to be 16:54 in optimal health because our immune system plays such a 16:57 crucial role. 16:59 You know, I hope you don't mind that I've been using that story 17:02 for the last couple of weeks since you went to GYC and I've 17:06 actually counseled people over the phone and I've asked them 17:10 who in your life have you not forgiven. And I had one lady 17:15 just two days ago just broke down in tears. She says myself. 17:21 She'd been through quite a bit as a young girl and we were 17:26 able to help her just over the phone. So now she's coming to 17:30 the NEWSTART program to boot. You know, a lot of our viewers 17:34 think and I know Sherry did as well, we'll come here to eat 17:38 right and exercise and get some hydro and see the doctor and 17:43 then get well. But you've really brought out a spiritual 17:48 component that needs to be talked about even more. 17:52 Absolutely. You know I'm reading a book by a neurosurgeon in 17:53 San Diego. He started incorporating prayer into 17:58 his practice and he found people started to do a lot better. 18:02 but he realized there were some patients who still had a hard 18:06 time. And what he found out is forgiveness is so crucial. 18:11 Sometimes they hadn't forgiven somebody else, sometimes they 18:15 hadn't forgiven, as you just said, themselves. So they have 18:20 this technically perfect, if you can use that term, procedure, 18:25 but it doesn't give the results that were anticipated and 18:30 expected and as he digs deeper and deeper he comes to find out 18:34 that they need forgiveness from others, they need forgiveness 18:38 from God and they may need forgiveness from themselves. 18:41 Well I see that this has happened with Sherry and I want 18:45 to ask you, you know the first week she was here she came to me 18:49 and says oh Ron thank you so much for pushing me to get me 18:54 here. My hands are, the swelling I can close them and I can do 18:58 things I wasn't able to do but then the second week they 19:02 started to swell again. 19:04 She's had challenges and I believe that part of this is 19:10 part of the whole great controversy, the battle between 19:15 good and evil and she's made decisions to be on the side of 19:21 good and I think she's seeing some increased tribulation 19:25 because of that. But the beautiful thing is she did a 19:30 treadmill yesterday, second to the last day of the program and 19:35 she went for 12 minutes. Wow. And did much better than I 19:41 thought she was going to do and I think better than she thought 19:46 she was going to do as well. So I was able to share with her 19:52 that she's actually healthier than she thinks she is. And I 19:56 was able to share with her that her outlook, how she looks 20:01 at things makes a big difference on how healthy her body reacts. 20:08 So I've shown her that by just changing her outlook it actually 20:13 improves her overall health and she is feeling so much better 20:19 today. 20:20 And she looks just totally different today. All of a sudden 20:24 her face is just glowing, she's just so happy and thrilled and 20:28 her husband, he couldn't be happier. 20:31 He's very supportive and I told her that's one of the blessings 20:34 that she needs to acknowledge and be thankful to God for. 20:37 Because her husband is running the business that they usually run 20:41 together and he's there by himself under stress and he 20:45 could be saying when are you coming back, when are you coming 20:48 back, but he's been very supportive about her being here 20:52 and getting what she needs in order for her to be healthy. 20:55 Now what's the prognosis for her. Do people when they leave 20:59 here do they all of a sudden go back to their old lifestyle and 21:03 all this goes away, I mean, what's your thinking? 21:06 The goal is we want them to not go back to their old lifestyle. 21:10 Because as they resume old habits the illness starts to 21:15 increase again. So we want her to be on a new lifestyle, on 21:19 God's lifestyle, if you would. And I think she will be able to 21:23 do that at home. She has a good support system and she has some 21:27 plans and we've been talking about how to incorporate what 21:32 we're doing here to her home. But I really find that the 21:35 support she gets from her friends and her husband and then 21:38 some other people that she knows is going to really be important 21:42 for her because she tends to be a person whose emotions can go 21:46 up and down. So she needs to have her emotions in check and 21:49 having this support will be helpful for that because that 21:52 will help to keep her body healthy. 21:54 One final question Doctor. For the people out there who have 21:58 arthritis, can we help all people with arthritis. 22:05 I believe that the lifestyle that we're promoting is God's 22:09 lifestyle and I believe that lifestyle is anti-inflammatory. 22:14 So I think it's going to make your inflammation, which a large 22:18 portion of the arthritis is inflammation, I think it's going 22:21 to make your inflammation less, make your arthritis less. 22:25 I can't tell everybody it's going to make everything go away 22:29 but we've had several people who've come here who have said 22:32 I'm not pain free, but it is so much better than it was before. 22:36 I can live with this and that's where we want to be. We want 22:40 to put your body in the best condition so that it can be 22:44 healthy and what I tell the guests when they're here is 22:47 we want to keep you healthy because you want to be able to 22:51 serve God and as you serve God it helps to keep your health 22:55 going because God wants you to be able to serve him. 22:58 True, true. We're out of time. I want to thank you Doctor. 23:02 Friends don't go away. Dr. Nedley and Dr. Ramirez 23:06 are up next. 23:10 Welcome to NEWSTART Now. I'm Dr. Neal Nedley and with 23:13 me today is Dr. Eddy Ramirez. There have been some exciting 23:17 things happening at the NEWSTART program and scientific journals 23:21 are very interested in the changes that take place in the 23:25 program, just coming here for 18 days, not only during the 23:30 program but what happens after the program. This is kind of a 23:36 unique study that was published in Obesity Reviews in April 2016 23:41 by Dr. Ramirez and myself and other members of the NEWSTART 23:47 team. We also often have students involved here at 23:50 Weimar Institute in our studies and that's one of the exciting 23:53 things about being a college student here at Weimar is we get 23:56 to see all of these changes and college students get to publish 23:59 in the scientific literature. Well Dr. Ramirez today we're 24:04 going to centering in on a major problem in this country 24:08 and that is of childhood obesity Now a lot of people think 24:14 NEWSTART is just for adults but this was a study done on 11 24:19 children who went through the NEWSTART program and they went 24:24 through due to having pretty significant obesity levels, even 24:29 levels of morbid obesity in childhood. I don't know if 24:32 you've seen these people but if you go to Walmart or if you go 24:36 to any mall in America you're going to see kids that are very 24:40 overweight and it sets them up for so many problems by the time 24:44 they're 25 or 30 even. Their risk of death from emboli and 24:49 all sorts of things goes up and so I'm very interested about 24:52 this, these 11 patients. And obviously Obesity Reviews was 24:56 very interested as well as they accepted the study for 24:59 publication. What did we found out about these 11 patients? 25:02 So tell us about them first before they came to the program. 25:07 That's right. Well these were a small group of patients that had 25:11 gone to the NEWSTART program and as you said so it's because they 25:15 had some significant health problems and we want to show you 25:20 here that when they came to the program they were able to 25:24 decrease their body mass index and also their overall weight 25:28 and also other markers. We were also taking things like 25:33 cholesterols, triglycerides, and these type of markers also 25:38 improved as they improved also their weight. On average the 25:43 loss was of seven pounds which may not sound like humongous but 25:48 it's actually very good. We don't want that type of very, 25:52 very dramatic weight loss because a person will gain it 25:56 again. But in this way if you can keep up that change, you 26:01 will keep losing weight and feeling better. 26:04 There's something that I personally have seen on the 26:06 medical consultation. I have gotten mothers to bring their 26:11 child to me and say Doctor I think my son has parasites. Look 26:16 how thin he is. I checked him and he is perfectly fine. He has 26:22 normal weight and that weight corresponds to the normal height 26:27 Why is the mother concerned? Because most of the other 26:30 children that he plays with, they don't have a normal weight. 26:35 And compared to them he looks too thin. So we actually are 26:39 changing the definition of what's normal to call it 26:42 abnormal and what is not normal into calling normal and that is 26:46 something that is worrisome. 26:47 Okay, so seven pounds in 18 days so that's a pound about every 26:54 two to three days they lost and if they continue on this program 26:59 at home, our research shows they will continue to lose weight 27:04 at about that same pace. 27:05 So if you're losing a couple of pounds a week 27:10 which is a good healthy thing to do in a year's time your down 27:15 well over 100 pounds. 27:16 And that's the idea. The idea is not just a temporary improvement 27:21 but we want the person to improve permanently, to change 27:25 the diet permanently. That's why we're going to teach you how to 27:29 cook at home. We're going to give you plenty of health 27:31 lectures so you can understand why we're proposing the changes 27:36 that we are proposing. Not only that this number is the average 27:40 which means some actually went a little bit more, some went 27:45 actually a little bit less, but the idea is for you to keep 27:49 going. Another paper that we published we showed that once 27:52 you reached your normal weight you will no longer continue 27:56 losing that weight and you will maintain that healthy weight. 27:59 That's exciting. Thanks for being here Dr. Ramirez and for 28:03 NEWSTART Now I'm Dr. Neal Nedley Join us again next week. |
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