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01:12 Hi, friends,
01:13 and welcome to another edition of NEWSTART Now. 01:16 I'm your host Ron Giannoni. 01:19 In our studio today, I have a wonderful man, a rabbi, 01:23 by the name of Oscar Neuman all the way from New York City. 01:28 Let's take a look at when Oscar first arrived. 01:32 I'm here because I was here a year ago, 01:36 and you guys turned around 01:40 all the numbers and everything on me. 01:43 And then I fell off the wagon in between. 01:45 So I'm back now to... 01:48 This will be for the life. 01:50 I'm on Carvedilol, 01:55 Zetia, and insulin. 01:58 I want to see... And I'm also on dialysis. 02:01 So I want to see... 02:02 I'm hoping that we can get me off the dialysis. 02:05 That's the major goal that I have 02:08 so that I can get home, 02:10 and go to the doctors, and tell them, 02:12 "You guys take up my port, I don't want it." 02:18 Welcome back, friends. 02:19 In our studio, how are you, rabbi? 02:22 Thank God. 02:23 Thank God. Praise God. Yes. 02:25 You're here, and you're alive. 02:26 Yes. 02:27 So, you know, we know that 02:30 you've been dealing with a lot of issues 02:32 while you've been here. 02:34 And many of those issues have been taken care of. 02:38 But tell us, since you've been here, 02:40 have you've been taken off medications of any kind? 02:43 All the medications have been taken off. 02:46 What about medications were you taking? 02:48 I was on Zetia, Carvedilol, 02:54 some water pills, a whole bunch of other... 02:57 and then insulin. 02:59 And insulin. 03:01 So you're no longer diabetic either. 03:03 Well, the numbers are showing good. 03:05 Okay, good. 03:07 Good, good, good. 03:08 Now we also know that you had an episode. 03:12 You were here about a year ago as I recall. 03:15 Yes. 03:16 And you were doing well. 03:18 Yes. 03:20 Tell us what happened. 03:21 When you left here, you were doing so good. 03:25 I use that word, but tell us what happened. 03:29 Well, what happened was that 03:33 where I went for the High Holidays, 03:36 the people over there 03:38 didn't have any room for my stuff in the fridge. 03:42 So I was stuck, and I had no choice, 03:45 and I ate what they gave me. 03:47 And once I started, that was it, 03:49 I fell off the wagon. 03:52 Wow. Yeah. 03:54 And falling off the wagon all of a sudden, 03:57 you had an episode, 03:59 and you had to have a shunt put in. 04:01 Yeah. And where is that shunt? 04:04 It's not a shunt yet, it's over here. 04:06 I have to go for a shunt when I get back. 04:08 Okay. 04:10 And they put that in there to do a dialysis? 04:14 Yes. 04:15 Tell us about that dialysis. 04:16 Well, I hate it. 04:18 Yeah. 04:19 It's time-consuming, and it's a lot of hours 04:23 that you have to go and a lot of days, 04:25 and I just want to get off of it. 04:29 And that's why I decided to come back over here 04:32 to try to get off of it. 04:34 And so your kidney function, 04:35 has it improved since you've been here? 04:37 As thought, it did a little, yes. 04:38 Okay. 04:39 And now you know what you got to do when you get back home. 04:41 Definitely. 04:44 Rabbi, I asked you this before the interview started, 04:47 I don't mean to put you on the spot. 04:49 You don't have to answer this, but I got to ask it. 04:53 How does it feel being a rabbi 04:56 around all these Christians here, 04:58 the doctors, and the staff that want to pray on you? 05:02 Is that all right? 05:05 It's fine. 05:06 So there's no issues with that? 05:08 No. 05:10 And I said in response to you, 05:11 I said, "You know, if I was with a group of Jews 05:16 and the rabbi wanted to pray with me, 05:19 I would consider that a blessing as well." 05:22 As we have with people from all over the world. 05:24 We have Muslims that come here, 05:27 and people of various religious backgrounds 05:29 and Buddhist and such, 05:31 and they all respond very favorably 05:35 to our Christian campus, 05:41 if you will. 05:43 So what's the best part of this program for you? 05:48 The best part of this program is learning the foods, 05:53 the right foods what to eat, 05:56 and the exercise that should be taken. 06:00 And if I continue that, God willing, 06:02 I should be able to get myself back in shape. 06:05 Now the right foods, 06:08 what do you mean by the right foods? 06:10 Well, plant-based versus the American diet. 06:14 Yes. 06:15 And the American diet, as of now, is dead by me. Yes. 06:19 And many people who are eating that American diet, 06:24 whatever it consists of, some of them are finding out 06:28 because we have a million or a million and a half... 06:32 What am I talking about, a hundred million people 06:34 that are prediabetic don't even know it. Right. 06:38 And it's because of the foods. 06:41 You know, when I was in high school, 06:43 we had a machine that you can go 06:45 and get something out of. 06:48 There were apples in that machine. 06:50 Nobody took it. 06:52 Well, a few of us did whenever you're hungry enough. 06:55 But now they got candy machines, soda machines, 06:59 but I understand there's a big push 07:01 to remove those. 07:02 Yes. 07:04 So, rabbi, when you get back to New York, 07:07 when you get back home, 07:10 will you be teaching family and friends about... 07:12 I'm going to try. 07:15 It's a tough nut to crack. 07:16 It is a tough nut, isn't it? 07:18 'Cause they're all rather healthy. 07:20 Well, they think they are. They think they are. 07:23 And before you have an episode, everything's okay. 07:26 Yes. 07:27 All right, so Dr. Lukens has been following up with you 07:32 for about a year. 07:33 Yeah. 07:35 As well as myself. 07:36 And now Dr. Gallant is... 07:39 Also on the board. 07:40 He's on board with us. Yes. 07:43 And so we're going to be interviewing 07:44 Dr. Lukens and Dr. Gallant 07:47 and discussing some technical issues 07:52 with regards to your... kidney failure, 07:58 excuse me, diabetes keeps coming up in my head, 08:01 but you're no longer diabetic. 08:04 So any words of wisdom 08:09 that you can share with our viewers about... 08:13 People who are on dialysis 08:16 or starting with kidney failure, 08:19 is there something you can say to encourage them? 08:22 Definitely. 08:23 They should definitely call over here at NEWSTART 08:28 and to get on board and to get themselves into shape 08:31 and to get off all medications, 08:34 which I think would be the greatest thing for people. 08:37 Well, since you brought it up, pick up the phone, 08:40 and give us a call at 800-525-9192, 08:46 and ask for Ron, and I'll be glad to assist you 08:49 with your situation. 08:51 If you can't be here, 08:52 maybe I can coach you over the phone. 08:55 But I recommend, as the rabbi has, 08:57 to get here, to receive the services that we have 09:03 that people don't have to be diabetic, 09:06 they don't have to be with kidney failure. 09:09 And I'm so glad that you got here. 09:13 We were a little worried 09:14 whether you'd make it back or not. 09:16 Me too. 09:17 Yeah, I know you were 09:19 when we talked a couple of times. 09:20 But, rabbi, we'll be praying for you while you're here yet 09:27 and when you get back home. 09:31 Now the food, you don't have any issues with, right? 09:36 No. 09:37 If the same situation were to happen again, 09:40 were you are at a service 09:44 where only foods that you shouldn't eat are provided, 09:48 what do you do? 09:49 I'm not going to go there. 09:51 Well, for instance, I remember my old Jewish partner 09:56 used to have lox and bagels. 09:58 That's out of the question. 09:59 You can have the bagel maybe. 10:01 Yeah. But not lox. 10:02 Yeah, but not the lox. 10:03 Not the cream cheese and the lox. 10:05 No. 10:06 So we know that proteins are not good for the kidneys. 10:08 No. Yeah. 10:10 Well, Oscar, I want to thank you 10:13 and bless you, my brother. 10:16 And I know that all things are possible with God, 10:20 and He'll be watching after you I'm sure, 10:22 and we have a lot of people here praying for you. 10:25 So thank you again. 10:26 Thank you too and God bless you. 10:28 And God bless you, rabbi. 10:29 Thank you. 10:31 Friends, don't go away 10:32 'cause Dr. Gallant and Dr. Lukens are up next. 10:39 Every year in America 10:41 there are over one million deaths 10:42 because of type 2 diabetes and chronic obesity. 10:45 This includes heart attacks and strokes. 10:47 That's six and a half 747s crashing every day. 10:51 What's even worse is that the fix is easy. 10:54 It's your lifestyle. 10:56 Wouldn't it be nice 10:57 if you could actually add quality years to your life 10:59 rather than dying one organ at a time? 11:02 Obesity and diabetes 11:03 are the cause of over a million deaths per year. 11:06 Most diseases are reversible 11:08 because most diseases are lifestyle diseases, 11:11 especially type 2 diabetes and chronic obesity. 11:15 Seriously now, they can be reversed 11:17 and the quality of your life can be renewed. 11:21 Call NEWSTART today at 1-800-525-9192. 11:27 You will see dramatic changes 11:28 in the first few days at our program, 11:30 and you will be on the road 11:32 to a better more robust quality of life. 11:35 The NEWSTART programs are simple and effective. 11:42 Welcome back, friends, 11:43 help me welcome Dr. Gallant and Dr. Lukens. 11:47 Good to see you, gentlemen. 11:48 Nice to be here, Ron. 11:49 You know, this is the first time 11:51 we've had two docs in one room. 11:53 And what do you think we call two docs in one room? 11:57 A paradox. 12:00 I had to say that. Yeah. 12:02 Anyway, right over to Oscar, 12:04 why don't we start with you, Dr. Roger? 12:06 Sure. 12:08 And, you know, what I'd like the viewers to know 12:12 this is the second time he's here, it's no secret. 12:14 Yeah. He's already expressed that. 12:17 And maybe he waited 12:19 a little bit too long to get back here. 12:21 Can you tell us a little bit about that? 12:22 You know, he was here in one January of one year 12:26 and came back about a year later. 12:28 But when he was here, things went so well. 12:30 He was doing so well, he went home 12:32 and actually did well for a little while. 12:35 And then he started to backtrack a little bit, 12:39 started to slip a little bit, 12:41 and his health started to deteriorate. 12:45 And it's unfortunate that he waited to come back 12:48 until he had actually been put on dialysis, you know, 12:52 because when he was here, 12:54 his kidney function was improving, 12:56 his overall health, his diabetes was improving, 12:59 and he was getting better. Yes. 13:02 And it's so unfortunate that he waited until this point 13:04 to come back. 13:06 Now I know, Dr. Lukens, 13:07 you had been following up with Oscar over the last year. 13:11 In fact, you and I have talked to him 13:13 on a number of occasions. 13:15 And is it true that people who are on dialysis 13:20 can oftentimes, maybe not always, 13:23 but oftentimes get off of dialysis 13:26 and their kidneys will improve 13:28 if they make a lifestyle change? 13:30 In the medical profession, that is an absolute falsehood 13:34 and doesn't happen. 13:35 Yes. Yeah. 13:37 And in our profession? 13:38 Well, we've seen... 13:40 This is something that 13:42 I was down at Loma Linda University 13:43 with Dr. Souter Blum, and he was my attending back 13:48 when I was in medical school, 13:50 and Dr. Gallant remembers him as well. 13:52 Yes. 13:53 Very fine Christian, wonderful man, 13:56 and I said, "You know, 13:57 I hear the latest thing is that there's a heart-kidney axis 14:02 and there's a kidney-heart axis." 14:05 And he said, "There's five of them. 14:07 There's two things with the kidneys, 14:10 but two things with the heart, and then some noxious things 14:14 that comes along and poisons your kidney, 14:17 you could say it that way." 14:19 And the thing is is that Oscar, Rabbi Neuman, his was cardiac 14:26 and when he went back to Brooklyn 14:30 to see his doctors, they were shocked 14:34 because there's a test that you can do 14:36 to show whether the person has congestive heart failure 14:40 and if it's over 500, you have it, 14:43 and his was 87,000. 14:45 Whoa. 14:46 And they said, you know, that... 14:47 So I asked him, "Well, what do they think?" 14:49 And they said, "Well, we don't understand." 14:51 They don't understand what's happening, 14:53 but you're getting better and this can't happen you see, 14:56 'cause he wouldn't take the medicines, 14:57 he wouldn't even take Lasix. 14:59 I would have had him on some Lasix. 15:01 But the next time they checked it, 15:03 it was less than a third of that. 15:05 But then the trouble is... 15:07 And I want to talk directly 15:10 to the people that are watching. 15:12 This program will make you feel so good in three months 15:17 that you'll think, "I'm over it 15:19 and I can do all the things 15:20 that I thought I enjoyed before," you see. 15:24 And so before I went to Africa on one of our trips over there, 15:29 I wrote him a letter and I said, 15:31 "This is six, seven months now. 15:34 You've got to be careful. 15:35 You can't go off the program because you're doing well, 15:38 and you feel well, 15:40 and you've got to continue on with it." 15:41 Well, he said that he did. 15:43 Now when he came back, his heart had failed again, 15:47 his legs were swollen, and his weight went from, 15:50 well, they do it in kilos, about 92 kilos, 15:55 which is, you know, it's over, what? 15:58 Hundred and ninety five. Two hundred, yeah. Yeah. 16:00 And then he got down to... 16:02 I'm not sure exactly the numbers 16:04 but, he lost about five kilos 16:06 when he was here again this time, you see. 16:10 And they didn't come back on. 16:11 So they kept... 16:13 Every time he goes into dialysis, 16:15 they help his heart 16:16 because they take off 3-5 kilos, 16:18 maybe 15 pounds of water and they can do that. 16:22 But then each time he'd go back to dialysis, 16:25 his heart was stronger again and there was less... 16:28 So he lost about 5 kilos, which is about 12 pounds 16:32 while he was here. 16:33 True weight loss, 16:35 not because they had dialyzed it off 16:39 but because when he went in, it was that much lower. 16:43 So we're trying to follow him now 16:45 and a bunch of different things, 16:47 but the thing is that people... 16:50 And we talk about this all the time, 16:53 as soon as I start talking dialysis, 16:55 get here, get on the program, 16:58 and realize this is the part 17:00 that I want to emphasize day-by-day 17:04 those of you Christians, 17:05 I want to emphasize it you have to have the help 17:08 of the great physician 17:10 in order to do this day after day after day. 17:14 And the wonderful thing about that is He's helping you 17:18 so that you can spend an eternity with Him. 17:20 Amen. 17:22 Okay, I want to get back to you, Roger, 17:23 and ask you about people who come to our program, 17:28 they're doing well, and they go, 17:29 "Okay now I can start doing this, 17:31 not what I used to do," 17:33 and they start getting sick again. 17:35 What's the solution, the logical one? 17:38 The logical one is stick with the program. 17:41 Amen. 17:42 You know, just last night, I gave a lecture on cancer. 17:45 And we have some patients in our program 17:47 who are challenged by cancer right now. 17:50 And both Dr. Lukens and myself tell them, "You can never ever, 17:55 ever go back to eating any animal products 17:59 because cancer uses animal protein in your diet 18:03 to evade, to hide from your immune system." 18:07 Isn't that something? 18:09 And so, you know, 18:10 once you've made that lifestyle change 18:12 and your body has started to get healthier, 18:15 the more that you can continue that, 18:17 the better you're going to get. 18:19 But when you backslide, those paths, 18:23 you get into this trough and it just goes very quickly. 18:26 So there's no going back. 18:28 There's no going back, you've got to stay pure. 18:31 The other thing on the animal products, 18:34 you've got different prostaglandins 18:37 and there are 20 carbon fatty acids, 18:39 we know that meat, milk, and eggs 18:41 is a big problem and fishes too. 18:44 And then so your heart isn't as strong, 18:47 but falsehood out there, 18:51 if I could be so bold to say that, 18:53 is that you're getting a whole lot of protein 18:56 that your body can't use 18:58 and these are the very amino acids 19:00 that help your cancer grow so fast. 19:03 So you're saying that people are eating too much protein? 19:07 Well, no, too much animal protein. 19:09 Well, animal protein. 19:11 Because they need all those amino acids, 19:13 they're high in the ones that the plants don't have. 19:17 The plants have a small amount of those amino acids, 19:21 and the cancer loves the animal amino acids that are high. 19:25 And so they can just take off and grow. 19:28 The cancer also uses those animal proteins, 19:31 those animal amino acids to put a coating over its cells. 19:35 Yes. 19:36 And what happens is when we eat meat protein, 19:39 when we eat animal protein, 19:41 the pancreatic enzymes are used up 19:44 to digest the animal protein. 19:46 Those pancreatic enzymes, if they were not used up 19:48 digesting animal protein, could actually help 19:51 to attack those cancer cells and destroy them. 19:55 So a plant-based diet 19:56 is the way to go to fight cancer. 19:57 Amen. We're out of time. 20:00 Gentlemen, I want to thank you both. 20:02 I know you're both busy doctors here. 20:05 And I want to thank you, friends, but don't go away, 20:07 Dr. Ramirez and Dr. Nedley are up next. 20:47 Welcome to NEWSTART Now. 20:48 I'm Dr. Neil Nedley, President of Weimar Institute, 20:51 and with me today is Dr. Eddie Ramirez, 20:54 one of our researchers and physicians 20:56 here at NEWSTART, 20:57 who also teaches at Weimar College. 21:00 Actually, we've been teaming up together 21:02 to do quite a number of studies, 21:04 looking at NEWSTART and a lot of other things 21:06 that happen here at Weimar 21:08 in depression and anxiety recovery as well. 21:10 But today, we're going to take a look 21:12 at a subgroup of patients 21:15 that this scientific journal was very interested in. 21:18 It's a sub group called postmenopausal women. 21:23 And of course, a lot of women when they're younger 21:25 look forward to the days 21:27 when they won't have to go through 21:28 that monthly cycle 21:30 and they won't have to worry about that bleeding. 21:33 But unfortunately, when they are ready to go 21:36 through that cycle and afterwards, 21:39 they tend to get pretty unhealthy here in America, 21:42 their cholesterols go up, their waist lines go up. 21:46 And even though they're not having periods, 21:48 they're unhealthy and they're at the risk 21:50 of a lot of problems like heart disease, and stroke, 21:53 and breast cancer, and all sorts of other issues. 21:57 And so how many postmenopausal women 22:01 were looked at in this study, doc? 22:02 We had 793 ladies that have gone through this 22:08 14 years of data that we have on this NEWSTART Program. 22:11 Okay. So this was 14 years of data. 22:14 Of course, there's a lot more people 22:16 that have gone through the program on this, 22:18 but we didn't have that past data available for us. 22:23 So this is more recent, 14 years, so brand new, 22:27 modern women, many of them or most of them, 22:30 of course, they're still around. 22:32 In fact, if you came to NEWSTART, 22:33 I would imagine pretty much all of them are still around 22:36 as long as they're carrying through 22:38 what they've learned here, which most do. 22:41 And so tell us a little bit about what happened 22:43 to these almost 800 women? 22:45 Yeah, well, something we see in medical consultation, 22:48 as they pass through that change, 22:51 their numbers in cholesterol 22:52 and so forth start going in the wrong direction. 22:56 For example, on the LDL cholesterol, 22:58 very good cholesterol 23:00 that correlates to heart disease and stroke 23:03 and very negative events, 23:06 they were able to lower it very nicely 23:08 from 135 on average, 23:11 by the end 117 their average. 23:14 Okay, and that's not using any medicine at all? 23:17 That is actually without any medication 23:19 to lower cholesterol. 23:21 Just a few days of lifestyle changes. 23:23 It's amazing what can happen. 23:26 From years of beating your body up 23:29 through poor diet and exercise, 23:30 what can happen when you come to Weimar 23:32 in just a matter of a few days, 23:35 how quickly the body starts to heal itself. 23:37 And especially in this particular age group, 23:41 that's the time that people start taking medications. 23:44 And when a physicians start seeing these numbers, 23:47 he gets worried, and adding, and adding, 23:49 and adding more medications 23:51 that have side effects and so forth. 23:53 So the beauty of this is that 23:54 these ladies were able to improve those numbers, 23:58 and at the same time, 24:00 decreasing some of the medications 24:02 and feeling great. 24:04 Other number that improved very nicely 24:06 was their mean cholesterol from 221, 24:10 it came down to a 195 and a mode of175. 24:15 Most of the ladies had that one 175 number. 24:19 Okay. So that's significant. 24:21 That's about 50, sometimes a 50 number drop 24:26 in milligrams per deciliter 24:28 just in a few days by coming to NEWSTART. 24:31 Also their weight improved. Their waiting improved. 24:33 On average they were losing four pounds, 24:36 which is very good. 24:38 We don't want that huge drop in weight 24:40 because you're going to gain it back. 24:42 As you start losing weight little by little 24:45 and you continue that, these numbers, 24:47 the other numbers will actually continue to improve 24:50 as you improve that weight. 24:52 Yes, and it also shows that the drop in LDL 24:56 was not due to the weight itself. 24:58 Sometimes if you lose a large amount of weight 25:01 even on a bad diet, 25:02 your cholesterol can come down a little bit. 25:04 But this shows that the diet itself 25:06 had dramatic improvement, 25:08 as well as the other lifestyle changes 25:10 in the LDL cholesterol as well as the weight. 25:13 So if you know of a postmenopausal woman 25:16 who needs an additional boost in their health 25:19 and needs to lower their risk factors for death, 25:22 dying, stroke, and heart attack, 25:25 I would encourage you to call us 25:27 here at Weimar Institute 25:29 so you can be part of the positive studies 25:31 that continue to come forward in the medical literature. 25:35 I'm Dr. Neil Nedley, and this is NEWSTART Now. 25:39 Join us again next week 25:40 and you'll hear about another exciting study 25:42 that was recently published. 25:45 When we look at the health status of Americans today, 25:48 it's alarming to see that 60% are either overweight or obese. 25:58 In addition, diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cancer, 26:01 and heart disorders are the leading cause 26:03 of so many complications and deaths every year. 26:11 Could it have something to do with what we eat? 26:13 After all, every one in four Americans 26:16 visit a fast food restaurant daily. 26:18 And with such easy access to quick-fix foods, 26:22 we tend to forget the poor health value 26:24 those foods actually offer. 26:27 Maybe it's the sedentary lifestyle and lack of exercise 26:30 that we've become so accustomed to as a media-dependent world. 26:34 Whatever the cause of these diseases, 26:36 a solution has arrived. 26:40 The NEWSTART Lifestyle Center offers an enriching program 26:44 where patients can get a healing 26:45 of mind, body, and soul. 26:47 Located in the outskirts of Sacramento, 26:50 the NEWSTART Center is situated 26:52 on the beautiful campus 26:53 of Weimar Center of Health and Education 26:56 with scenic walking and hiking trails all around. 27:00 With a "whole plant foods eaten whole" motto, 27:03 the NEWSTART Center promotes a healthy plant-based diet 27:06 with an emphasis on natural foods. 27:09 The NEWSTART staff are made up 27:10 of California board-certified nurses, doctors, 27:14 dietitians, and therapists who work together 27:17 to assist each patient personally. 27:19 The staff are dedicated to each patient's success 27:22 in the program and are always there to guide, 27:25 advise, and encourage. 27:27 In addition to a healthy lifestyle, 27:29 NEWSTART also promotes a healthy exercise routine. 27:32 You're both in sequence, that's good. All right. 27:35 As part of the balance program, there is much opportunity 27:38 to get in the fair share of physical activity 27:41 from utilizing our fitness center 27:43 to taking a stroll around the peaceful grounds of Weimar. 27:47 It's amazing what a new start can do for you. |
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