Hi, friends, and welcome
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to another
edition of NEWSTART Now.
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I'm your host Ron Giannoni.
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In our studio, with me,
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today is Richie Penhallurick
from Washington via Australia.
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We'll get into that in a moment.
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Well, let's take a look
at when Richie first arrived.
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I was put on to
four-muscle relaxations
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and during the
course of about five weeks,
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I gained about 100 pounds.
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And they also put me
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on to Escitalopram,
Metoclopramide, and Welchol
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for depression and
insomnia and other things.
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And so I've come here
to try to get off of those,
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and I'd like to lose the weight,
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and I'd like to get myself
onto a much stricter vegan diet
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and biblical principles to learn
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how to get back to
being healthy once again.
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Welcome back, friends.
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Richie, how you doing, brother?
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I'm better than I deserve.
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Yes, we both are.
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Richie, I want to get right
into when you first arrived.
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We know that you've injured
your back in a car accident
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and that you'd come here
hopefully to do a life change,
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why was it necessary
for you to do a life change
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to just lose weight
or strengthen your back,
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all the above,
tell me how is it going.
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That's going very well.
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I've lost about
18 pounds so far,
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and my back has gone from
being a constant source of pain
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to completely
being free of pain.
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How do you... what?
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How did that happen?
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I believe it
was through exercise
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which I was a little bit
afraid to do after the accident.
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Yes.
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And continuing afterwards
'cause the more I would walk,
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the more it would hurt,
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but as I stuck to the diet here,
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as I continued to
exercise, it got a lot better.
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Good. Now what kind of
exercise are you doing?
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I've been doing
a lot of walking.
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Okay.
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So everybody, most
everybody can walk, right?
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Yeah.
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So your back feels
better, you've lost 18 pounds,
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and where do you go from here?
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I'll be flying
to Washington State
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and staying for a couple days
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and then I'm off to Australia
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to get back to
doing Bible studies
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with people over there.
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So that's your
primary work in Australia
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is to do Bible studies?
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Yeah, we offer community
support and Bible studies
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and counseling if it's
needed to the people over there.
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And a lot of people
sign up for the services
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and get a lot of
blessing out of it.
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Awesome.
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Now how was this...
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You call it a diet,
I call it a lifestyle,
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I hope you can
remember that word lifestyle
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because it's really not a diet.
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Diets are things you
go on for a little while,
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let's see, you could do
something with your body
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and then you go off of it,
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this is a
lifestyle that we keep in
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for the rest of our lives,
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hopefully so we can live
longer and a healthier life.
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But how did you like the food?
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How did you transition
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from what you're
eating to the food here?
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Well, what I was
eating was a little more bland
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most of the time but I...
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More bland than this? Yeah.
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Oh, my.
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Sometimes it can be a bit
hard to acquire different spices
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and different
varieties of vegetables
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over there in Australia.
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It really depends
on the time of the year
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and what you're getting.
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Often I would look for flavor
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and I would go to
vegan burger joints
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and vegan pizzerias
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and I pick up a
little flavor there
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and I started to do
that a little too often
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when I injured my back.
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And that's when you
started to put on the weight?
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Yeah.
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Kind of how much did
you weigh when you got here?
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I believe I weighed 358.
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No! 358, wow!
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Yeah.
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And what do you weigh
today, about 340 or...
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Yeah. I'm down to about 340.
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Good. Good for you.
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And where do you
want to be like 200?
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Yeah, I'd like
to first get to 220
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and then work my way down
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to my ideal weight which is 190.
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This morning, I weighed 184.
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My heaviest weight was to 290.
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You got a little further to
go, but I'm proof you can do it
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and to others who are
going to come to the program.
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So what does your family
think about you coming here?
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They were very encouraging
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and they were very
much wanting me to come here
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after they had seen how much
weight that I was putting in,
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especially after they had seen
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how much pain I was
in daily for my back.
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They were looking at
various different programs
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and since I had
been here before,
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I suggested the NEWSTART program
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because I wanted
to reconnect with God.
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Amen.
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Is there an
aspect of this program
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that you learned more about God?
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Yeah.
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We have Fresh Start every day,
and that's a major blessing.
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And how does that go?
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Who runs that?
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We have Irwin that
plays the piano for us,
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and he's an
exceptionally good pianist.
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My sister does piano as well.
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I used to love listening
to her until she moved away
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but Irwin also
has a very, he's very,
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I can't think of the word.
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He's a concert pianist. Yeah.
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He's played all over the world.
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For young man, that's
quite an accomplishment.
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He can't be much older than 30,
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I guess, maybe
even younger than that.
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My sister's the same way,
you know, every once in a while
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you'll run into
somebody that just has,
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you know, have a
feel for the keys...
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Or for a guitar or
something like that,
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that something that
I really appreciate.
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How about our chaplain?
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Did he have services
in the morning as well?
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Yeah, he also had,
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and he took us through
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a redemption
process, and it was...
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I learned a lot and
picked up a lot of more verses
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that I've been sharing
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with my Bible study
contacts in Australia.
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And they're
becoming very keen for me
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to go through the same process
that he went through with us.
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Yes.
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They would love to know more.
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Now your
overall experience here,
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how was your room?
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How was the care?
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It was exemplary. Was it?
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I've been to quite a
few places around the world.
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Before I came here in 2009,
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my parents sent me to
various doctors across the world
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and you don't get this
kind of care anywhere else.
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Did you find it unusual
that when you go to visit
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with our doctors
that they pray with you?
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I mean, they don't do that
out in the real world like...
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Yeah.
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That I know of.
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It wasn't so unusual.
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It was actually
comforting to have a doctor
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that actually
wants to pray with you.
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I have only experienced that
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once with a
doctor back in the US
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who was not
Seventh-day Adventist
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but a Christian himself.
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And he came to pray with me
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before he went
through his procedure
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and that takes a
major burden off.
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Wow, that's awesome.
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So what was your
favorite part of the program?
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Probably the cooking courses.
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Oh, yeah, Michelle,
she's very energetic,
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and she adds a
lot of atmosphere,
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and she's very
open to experimenting
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and trying new things.
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In one of the
classes, one of the groups
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accidentally put a
whole jar of pimentos
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into the cheese sauce
that they were making.
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So the color
came out rather red.
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Oh, it was still the
same color and consistency,
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but it tasted a lot better.
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I had a more of a...
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They commented that it had
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a more of a
Monterey Jack flavor to it.
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Yeah, she's an excellent cook,
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and she's written
a couple of books,
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her name is Michelle Irwin.
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She'd been on our
staff for quite a while now,
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and she does have
cooking schools here
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on a fairly regular basis.
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But she's a wonderful lady,
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and we also understand
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that you've been
with Dr. Cooney Noble,
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who we're going to interview
right after we're done here.
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And he is a wonderful doctor.
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He has a
master's in public health
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as well as being an MD
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and I believe a
graduate of Loma Linda.
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So are you good to go now?
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You're going to be
okay when you get home.
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You're going to be
teaching this to other people?
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Yeah, I'm excited to share
this with a lot of my friends.
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In fact, back in Australia
we have a chef program there.
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And I'm very interested to see
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what they think of all the notes
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that I've been
taking here and...
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You're going to
educate them. Yeah.
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Richie, we've run out of time,
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but I want to
thank you, brother.
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And God bless you,
and keep up the good work.
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But we will be in touch.
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And, friends, don't go away,
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Dr. Cooney
Noble will be up next.
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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 a 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
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if you could actually add
quality years to your life
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rather than dying
one organ at a time?
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Obesity and diabetes
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are the cause of over
million deaths per year.
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Most diseases are reversible
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because most diseases
are lifestyle diseases,
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especially Type 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
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in the first few
days of our program
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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 welcome Dr.
Cooney Noble Andrew.
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Yeah. Good to see you again.
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Mind if I call
you Andrew? Please do.
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Okay, I was so
used to saying doctor,
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you know, 'cause I have
this great regard for you guys.
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Well, thanks, I answer
to "Hey you" also sometime.
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Okay. Hey you.
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You know, I want to
talk about this young man.
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This is unusual
because he is a young man.
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Yeah, Richie? Richie.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, oftentimes,
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you see a lot of older
people come into the program
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that are sick
and dying and then,
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but here's a case
where a guy comes here,
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he wants to get back on track,
he wants to lose some weight.
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And of all things,
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he wants to get his
back to feeling better.
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And this isn't a place
necessarily that I would say,
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"Well, yeah, go to
the NEWSTART program,
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your back will feel better."
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I wouldn't do that,
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you know, but yet he came here
in good faith from Australia
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where he did
colporteuring and Bible studying
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and all kinds of things.
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And, you know, it's good
that we can hear from you,
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from a doctor's perspective,
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what happened to this young man?
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What happened to Richie?
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Well, first of all,
backing up in case, he wasn't...
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I don't know how specific he was
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when he did his
interview about what happened,
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but he was an active person.
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Yes.
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You know,
backpacking with pathfinders,
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and mountain biking,
and doing a lot of things.
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And he had a very
unfortunate accident in October
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and was really laid up
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and was given a
lot of medication.
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Fortunately, no major permanent
visible damage to bones
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like breaks or
anything like that, but...
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But he put on 100 pounds!
Yeah, he wasn't doing well.
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He was on these medications
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that would give him
a lot of side effects,
00:14:11.85\00:14:13.55
you know, basically
they were knocking him out.
00:14:13.58\00:14:15.22
It sounded like to me that
00:14:15.25\00:14:16.58
he was just in bed all the time,
00:14:16.62\00:14:20.26
just would be
hungry all the time,
00:14:20.29\00:14:22.99
so he would just wake
up, eat, go back to bed.
00:14:23.02\00:14:25.43
Somewhere along the way there,
00:14:25.46\00:14:26.80
he put on
tremendous amounts of weight,
00:14:26.83\00:14:28.86
he said about 100 pounds.
00:14:28.90\00:14:30.83
Right, that's what he shared.
00:14:30.87\00:14:32.20
Yeah, which
would affect anybody,
00:14:32.23\00:14:33.57
of course, you
know, you wouldn't think
00:14:33.60\00:14:36.40
most young, active,
healthy people in their,
00:14:36.44\00:14:39.51
you know, early 30s
have an accident like that,
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they bounce right back.
00:14:41.94\00:14:43.61
You know, he didn't.
00:14:43.65\00:14:44.98
He didn't which
is unusual in itself,
00:14:45.01\00:14:47.45
what do you say?
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Kind of unusual in itself, yeah.
00:14:48.85\00:14:50.19
And so he came to us and...
00:14:50.22\00:14:53.59
So he came and
unable to hike and walk
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and he's really wanting
to be able to hike again
00:14:57.53\00:14:59.39
and get out and walk.
00:14:59.43\00:15:00.96
And he was just
really struggling
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with basically getting around
00:15:02.66\00:15:05.03
and doing just
activities of daily living even.
00:15:05.07\00:15:07.40
Well, after two
weeks here, what happened?
00:15:07.44\00:15:09.37
It wasn't even
two weeks. Wasn't?
00:15:09.40\00:15:11.07
No, you know, we
assessed him, prayed about his,
00:15:11.11\00:15:16.28
you know,
problem, his condition,
00:15:16.31\00:15:18.08
and started
hydrotherapy and massage
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which is part of
the NEWSTART program
00:15:20.45\00:15:21.88
in addition to your
more traditional nutrition
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exercise, water,
and all those things.
00:15:24.32\00:15:25.65
Yes, yes.
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And, wow, within a week,
00:15:27.06\00:15:29.62
he was feeling so much better
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that he decided to go
out on like a six-mile hike.
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And yeah, so next day
he was hobbling around,
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"What's the matter?
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Is it your back, you
know, giving you trouble again?"
00:15:39.73\00:15:41.07
"No, the back's fine, I
just worked out so much,
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my legs are hurting today."
00:15:42.70\00:15:44.31
So you he had to work
for all the muscle soreness.
00:15:44.34\00:15:46.01
Yeah, that
happened to me by the way.
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I had to go see the doc,
00:15:48.88\00:15:50.21
I said, Michael Orlich
was my doctor at the time.
00:15:50.25\00:15:53.85
He said, "Well, let me show
you what to do with your legs."
00:15:53.88\00:15:56.32
And I had to stretch
'cause I was so sore,
00:15:56.35\00:15:59.72
and that's what
happened with Richie.
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Yeah, eell, but of course,
the massage really helped that
00:16:01.36\00:16:03.96
to recover it quickly.
00:16:03.99\00:16:05.33
Absolutely, absolutely.
00:16:05.36\00:16:06.70
So, you know, he
did really, really well.
00:16:06.73\00:16:09.56
And he was very happy,
00:16:09.60\00:16:11.40
of course, that he could
hike and do those things again.
00:16:11.43\00:16:14.04
He tells me he loves the food.
00:16:14.07\00:16:16.27
You know, which is interesting.
00:16:16.30\00:16:17.64
Yeah, he better love it
00:16:17.67\00:16:19.74
'cause that's
part of its change.
00:16:19.77\00:16:21.94
Yeah, most
people, they really say
00:16:21.98\00:16:23.91
that it is interesting
'cause when you're older
00:16:23.95\00:16:25.85
and you've got these really
serious medical conditions,
00:16:25.88\00:16:28.48
sometimes
you're really motivated
00:16:28.52\00:16:29.98
to change a diet
and stick with it.
00:16:30.02\00:16:32.09
Yeah.
00:16:32.12\00:16:33.46
You know, he is young.
00:16:33.49\00:16:34.82
A lot of young people say
I'll try it for a little while,
00:16:34.86\00:16:36.73
but yet, he loved it.
00:16:36.76\00:16:38.09
He loved it.
Plans to stick with it.
00:16:38.13\00:16:39.89
Yeah, well, 12 years ago,
00:16:39.93\00:16:42.16
I was one of those older
people who came through here
00:16:42.20\00:16:45.33
and I love the
food, I'm still on it,
00:16:45.37\00:16:48.20
I'm still doing
well, I lost 100 pounds.
00:16:48.24\00:16:50.64
I guess one thing
wrong with that statement
00:16:50.67\00:16:52.01
you said, "Old?"
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Older, you're not older.
00:16:53.41\00:16:54.74
Oh, I'm not older.
00:16:54.78\00:16:56.95
I asked this lady I
met once, sweet older lady,
00:16:56.98\00:17:01.38
and I was in my 50s at the time,
00:17:01.42\00:17:03.62
I asked, "Where do
you get the energy,
00:17:03.65\00:17:04.99
how come you act so young?"
00:17:05.02\00:17:06.82
She says, "Well, two
things I learned, young man."
00:17:06.86\00:17:09.16
And I said, "What's that?"
00:17:09.19\00:17:10.53
She says, "I don't have
any mirrors in the house,
00:17:10.56\00:17:13.96
that way, I can't
see how old I'm getting."
00:17:14.00\00:17:18.70
I don't know if
that's going to help
00:17:18.73\00:17:20.07
anybody out there but...
00:17:20.10\00:17:21.44
No, but, you know, the
diet does make a difference
00:17:21.47\00:17:22.80
on how people feel.
00:17:22.84\00:17:24.17
Oh, absolutely.
00:17:24.21\00:17:25.54
And so even a young person
00:17:25.57\00:17:26.91
like Richie could
feel the difference
00:17:26.94\00:17:28.64
and very motivated
to stick with the diet,
00:17:28.68\00:17:33.11
and it is actually an
anti-inflammatory diet.
00:17:33.15\00:17:35.58
Yes.
00:17:35.62\00:17:36.95
You know, people that have
some various forms of orthopedic
00:17:36.99\00:17:41.89
or I would say
rheumatologic problems
00:17:41.92\00:17:44.26
are sometimes put
on a plant-based diet
00:17:44.29\00:17:46.63
to really help that.
00:17:46.66\00:17:48.43
Helps that inflammation.
00:17:48.46\00:17:49.80
The inflammations at their
joints move and work better,
00:17:49.83\00:17:52.23
and we see that all the time
00:17:52.27\00:17:54.34
with people who
come for other things
00:17:54.37\00:17:55.74
and then, you know,
their back gets better,
00:17:55.77\00:17:58.34
their knee gets
better while they're here
00:17:58.37\00:17:59.71
when they are
working on their diabetes,
00:17:59.74\00:18:01.08
so their heart.
00:18:01.11\00:18:02.44
And it's amazing how much
when you feel a lot better,
00:18:02.48\00:18:04.25
you're more active, and
the more active you are,
00:18:04.28\00:18:05.65
the more you do
00:18:05.68\00:18:07.02
and the better you
feel even on top of that.
00:18:07.05\00:18:08.38
It reminds me of a
story of a gentleman
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I interviewed a
couple of years back.
00:18:10.05\00:18:13.32
He'd been all over the country.
00:18:13.36\00:18:15.26
Nobody could figure out
what was wrong with him.
00:18:15.29\00:18:18.93
Someone suggested he come
00:18:18.96\00:18:20.30
to the NEWSTART
program, which he did.
00:18:20.33\00:18:23.90
Our doctors didn't know
what was wrong with him either,
00:18:23.93\00:18:26.33
but he got well.
00:18:26.37\00:18:27.70
He got better. He
got better. He was...
00:18:27.74\00:18:29.20
'Cause God knew what was wrong.
00:18:29.24\00:18:30.61
God knows, you bet.
00:18:30.64\00:18:33.71
So there's a lot
going on here than just,
00:18:33.74\00:18:37.88
you know, going to eat something
00:18:37.91\00:18:39.35
and doing a little
exercise, get the massage,
00:18:39.38\00:18:41.52
and hydro and such,
00:18:41.55\00:18:43.25
so I'm glad you brought that up.
00:18:43.28\00:18:45.39
Yeah. You know,
and Richie is a good...
00:18:45.42\00:18:46.89
It brings up a really important
thing too is that people,
00:18:46.92\00:18:50.16
especially in this day and age,
00:18:50.19\00:18:51.83
we're seeing a
lot more of people
00:18:51.86\00:18:53.36
gaining weight at a younger age.
00:18:53.40\00:18:55.43
That's really going to
affect them for the future.
00:18:55.46\00:18:57.63
And so many times it just added
00:18:57.67\00:18:59.00
to the NEWSTART's for
older people with illnesses.
00:18:59.03\00:19:01.80
NEWSTART's for people
who have gained weight
00:19:01.84\00:19:03.57
and are having trouble losing it
00:19:03.61\00:19:04.94
and they're young
and need to change
00:19:04.97\00:19:06.47
before they get
all those problems
00:19:06.51\00:19:08.64
like diabetes or heart diseases.
00:19:08.68\00:19:10.01
Amen. Yeah.
00:19:10.05\00:19:11.71
Well, doctor, time's runs out.
00:19:11.75\00:19:13.21
I want to thank you... Sure.
00:19:13.25\00:19:14.75
For coming here and
taking out the time.
00:19:14.78\00:19:16.12
It's always a pleasure,
Ron, always a pleasure.
00:19:16.15\00:19:17.49
Good to see again.
Good to see you too.
00:19:17.52\00:19:18.85
And friends, thank you.
00:19:18.89\00:19:20.22
But don't go away
00:19:20.26\00:19:21.59
Dr. Eddie Ramirez
00:19:21.62\00:19:23.22
and Dr. Neil Nedley are up next.
00:19:23.26\00:19:27.26
When we look at the health
status of Americans today,
00:19:27.30\00:19:30.03
it's alarming to see that 60%
00:19:30.07\00:19:32.27
are either overweight or obese.
00:19:32.30\00:19:34.47
In addition, diseases such
as type 2 diabetes, cancer,
00:19:39.77\00:19:43.35
and heart disorders
are the leading cause
00:19:43.38\00:19:45.28
of so many complications
and deaths every year.
00:19:45.31\00:19:48.32
Could it have something
to do with what we eat?
00:19:52.79\00:19:55.39
After all, every
one in four Americans
00:19:55.42\00:19:57.99
visits a fast
food restaurant daily,
00:19:58.03\00:20:00.20
and with such easy
access to quick-fix foods,
00:20:00.23\00:20:03.77
we tend to forget
the poor health value
00:20:03.80\00:20:05.70
those foods actually offer.
00:20:05.73\00:20:08.80
Maybe it's the
sedentary lifestyle
00:20:08.84\00:20:10.51
and lack of
exercise that we've become
00:20:10.54\00:20:12.44
so accustomed to as a
media-dependant world.
00:20:12.47\00:20:16.11
Whatever the
cause of these diseases,
00:20:16.14\00:20:17.85
a solution has arrived.
00:20:17.88\00:20:22.22
The NEWSTART lifestyle center
offers an enriching program
00:20:22.25\00:20:25.42
where patients can get a healing
00:20:25.45\00:20:27.19
of mind, body, and soul,
00:20:27.22\00:20:29.46
located in the
outskirts of Sacramento,
00:20:29.49\00:20:31.83
the NEWSTART center is situated
00:20:31.86\00:20:33.73
on the beautiful campus
00:20:33.76\00:20:35.10
of Weimar Centre of
Health and Education
00:20:35.13\00:20:37.90
with scenic walking and
hiking trails all around.
00:20:37.93\00:20:41.67
With a "whole plant
foods eating whole" motto,
00:20:41.70\00:20:44.97
the NEWSTART center promotes
a healthy plant-based diet
00:20:45.01\00:20:48.01
with an emphasis
on natural foods.
00:20:48.04\00:20:50.68
The NEWSTART staff are made up
00:20:50.71\00:20:52.35
of California Board Certified
nurses, doctors, dietitians,
00:20:52.38\00:20:57.29
and therapists who work together
00:20:57.32\00:20:58.92
to assist each
patient personally.
00:20:58.95\00:21:01.56
The staff are dedicated
00:21:01.59\00:21:02.92
to each patient's
success in the program
00:21:02.96\00:21:04.86
and are always there to
guide, advise, and encourage.
00:21:04.89\00:21:09.00
In addition to a
healthy lifestyle,
00:21:09.03\00:21:11.13
NEWSTART also promotes a
healthy exercise routine.
00:21:11.17\00:21:14.07
You're both in sequence,
that's good, all right.
00:21:14.10\00:21:16.97
As part of the balance program,
00:21:17.01\00:21:18.64
there's much opportunity to get
00:21:18.67\00:21:20.38
in the fair share
of physical activity
00:21:20.41\00:21:22.54
from utilizing
our fitness center
00:21:22.58\00:21:24.81
to taking a stroll around
the peaceful grounds of Weimar.
00:21:24.85\00:21:28.52
It's amazing what a
new start can do for you.
00:21:28.55\00:21:33.02
Welcome to NEWSTART Now.
00:21:33.05\00:21:34.39
I'm Dr. Neil Nedley,
President of Weimar Institute.
00:21:34.42\00:21:37.59
And with me today
is Dr. Eddie Ramirez,
00:21:37.63\00:21:41.00
one of our
physicians and researchers
00:21:41.03\00:21:43.40
who is well published in
the scientific literature
00:21:43.43\00:21:45.97
and really
travels all over the world
00:21:46.00\00:21:48.90
presenting studies
about Weimar and NEWSTART
00:21:48.94\00:21:51.84
anywhere from Harvard
to China to many places
00:21:51.87\00:21:57.01
where there are
scientists gathered together
00:21:57.05\00:22:00.02
for him to present
the exciting things
00:22:00.05\00:22:02.68
that are
happening here at NEWSTART.
00:22:02.72\00:22:05.15
Today, we're going
to be talking about
00:22:05.19\00:22:07.12
the silent killer.
00:22:07.16\00:22:09.29
Dr. Ramirez, what
is the silent killer?
00:22:09.32\00:22:11.33
Silent killer is
called high blood pressure.
00:22:11.36\00:22:14.70
Many people have issues
with high blood pressure
00:22:14.73\00:22:18.70
and they don't even realize it,
00:22:18.73\00:22:20.30
and this has very
negative effects on the body.
00:22:20.34\00:22:24.57
The internal
organs cannot withstand
00:22:24.61\00:22:27.01
that excess blood pressure
00:22:27.04\00:22:29.48
and the person many times
end up with severe problems
00:22:29.51\00:22:32.58
like heart failure as a
result of that long-term
00:22:32.61\00:22:36.28
high blood pressure
for a long period of time.
00:22:36.32\00:22:38.85
Yes, and of
course, it also increases
00:22:38.89\00:22:41.06
the risk of stroke dramatically
00:22:41.09\00:22:43.53
both hemorrhagic
stroke and bleeding stroke.
00:22:43.56\00:22:46.43
And let me say,
although high blood pressure
00:22:46.46\00:22:49.73
can affect your kidneys
and all sorts of things,
00:22:49.76\00:22:51.87
and what the worst thing
it can do is affect your brain
00:22:51.90\00:22:55.00
because that's who we are.
00:22:55.04\00:22:56.57
And so this is why
it's very important,
00:22:56.60\00:22:58.51
even if you don't have a stroke,
00:22:58.54\00:23:00.54
if your blood
pressure stays elevated,
00:23:00.58\00:23:02.31
you're going to start losing
your memory a lot quicker.
00:23:02.34\00:23:04.88
Age related cognitive decline,
00:23:04.91\00:23:07.08
half of the
patients that are on dialysis
00:23:07.12\00:23:09.42
in a dialysis center are there
00:23:09.45\00:23:11.12
because their blood pressure
was not controlled earlier.
00:23:11.15\00:23:14.56
So find out what
your blood pressure is,
00:23:14.59\00:23:17.03
if it's about 115/80,
00:23:17.06\00:23:20.93
you are candidate
to coming to NEWSTART
00:23:20.96\00:23:23.87
just for blood pressure alone.
00:23:23.90\00:23:25.83
How many patients were
studied in this particular study
00:23:25.87\00:23:29.07
that was
published in the journal
00:23:29.10\00:23:30.44
Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis,
and Vascular Biology?
00:23:30.47\00:23:35.81
One thousand one
hundred and ninety six.
00:23:35.84\00:23:38.95
Okay, so this is no small group.
00:23:38.98\00:23:41.22
And that's why it's
being accepted for publication
00:23:41.25\00:23:43.92
because this program
works for blood pressure.
00:23:43.95\00:23:47.16
And what did we find out
00:23:47.19\00:23:48.59
in these well
over 1,000 patients
00:23:48.62\00:23:50.89
who were on the verge of
silently killing themselves
00:23:50.93\00:23:54.06
before they came here?
00:23:54.10\00:23:55.43
Well, on average,
what we would like
00:23:55.46\00:23:57.27
for you to have
is a blood pressure,
00:23:57.30\00:24:00.00
a systolic number
of 115 or under that.
00:24:00.04\00:24:03.64
On average,
these patients had 132,
00:24:03.67\00:24:07.08
way too high.
00:24:07.11\00:24:08.94
And we took the blood pressure
00:24:08.98\00:24:11.21
many times
throughout the program
00:24:11.25\00:24:12.95
so we could monitor,
00:24:12.98\00:24:14.32
we need to watch out many times,
00:24:14.35\00:24:16.69
we actually decrease or
eliminate your medication
00:24:16.72\00:24:19.59
as you come to the program
00:24:19.62\00:24:21.46
because if we keep it
00:24:21.49\00:24:22.82
with the same
amount of medication,
00:24:22.86\00:24:24.19
you may go way too low
00:24:24.23\00:24:25.56
and you actually can pass out
00:24:25.59\00:24:26.93
or have some nasty side effects.
00:24:26.96\00:24:29.80
So look at the
progression, at time one,
00:24:29.83\00:24:32.87
at the end of the first week,
00:24:32.90\00:24:35.40
they had an average
growth pressure of 125,
00:24:35.44\00:24:38.74
very good number.
00:24:38.77\00:24:40.11
Okay, so that's gone
down about 13, well, about 7.
00:24:40.14\00:24:43.65
It was 132? 132.
00:24:43.68\00:24:45.18
Okay, so they've gone
down seven points in a week.
00:24:45.21\00:24:47.48
Then time two, 121.
00:24:47.52\00:24:50.22
Okay, another four points.
00:24:50.25\00:24:52.12
And by the end, 121 again,
00:24:52.15\00:24:56.06
so that was a very good
improvement in just 18 days.
00:24:56.09\00:25:01.36
See, the blood pressure
medication that many times
00:25:01.40\00:25:04.60
you're taking doesn't
lower your blood pressure
00:25:04.63\00:25:07.90
by many points,
00:25:07.94\00:25:09.27
you know, this is much
more efficient than that.
00:25:09.30\00:25:11.97
A lot of times
these antihypertensives
00:25:12.01\00:25:14.28
that can be pretty costly,
00:25:14.31\00:25:15.64
they're going to lower
about five or six points.
00:25:15.68\00:25:17.21
That's right.
00:25:17.25\00:25:18.58
And if they lower it 4,
they think that's great.
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And so this is a program
that lowers it by well over 10
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and it will continue to
come down gradually after that.
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And so, in fact as we
do follow up programs,
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we realize this is a diet
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and a lifestyle that
you can be on for life.
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And so your chance...
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What is the chance of
being able to be medication-free
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and have your
blood pressure controlled
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if you have high blood pressure,
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do we have that?
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I don't have that
number in particular here.
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But we do know
that most of the people
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that keep on the program,
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they need to continue
working with their physician
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because very soon
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either they will
decrease your medication
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or you will no longer will
have a need for medication.
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Also, another number
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that we were
measuring was diastolic,
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you know, the other number.
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On average, they
started with a diastolic of 76,
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it came down, first week, to 72,
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to the second week to 70,
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and by the end of
the program to 69.
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Weimar continues to
save lives, sometimes just by
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controlling blood
pressure through lifestyle.
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Thank you for
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I am Dr. Neil Nedley
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