Hi, friends, and
welcome to another edition
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of NEWSTART Now.
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I'm your host Ron Giannone.
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In our studio with
me is Cynthia Prieto
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from West Texas.
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And hold on, we've got
quite an interview coming up.
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So let's take a look
at when she first arrived.
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Okay, the main reason I'm here
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is because I'm
a type 2 diabetic,
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ended up with high
blood pressure, not,
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which is not too
good for a diabetic.
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And main reason I came
because I could be leading like
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to the kidney, kidney problems.
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And, you know, if
there is something I can do,
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you know, to reverse
it, it would be great
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and that's why I'm
here to try to, you know,
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see that I can get the help.
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The most of all
that I would like to do
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is get off of my
medication, having to...
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At least having to
wake up and not know,
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oh, I forgot my shot,
oh, I forgot my pills,
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or I don't have to, you know,
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I don't want to
think about that,
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I just want to be able to get up
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and not have to
put any of the medicine
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in my body no more.
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Welcome back, friends.
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Cynthia, good to see you. Hi.
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Good to see you too.
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And I'm so happy to
hear all the good things
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that are happening with you.
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Oh, yeah. A lot of good things.
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So, you know, we
just took a look at
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when you first arrived,
and we thought initially
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or you thought
you were diagnosed
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with kidney
failure, diabetes, obesity,
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high blood pressure,
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high
cholesterol, high, what else?
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What else? What else?
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A lot of more. No, not really.
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No. I'm sorry.
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You know, that's all
right. Be yourself, be yourself.
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Okay. So now what's happened?
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What have our
doctors discovered with you?
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It's just changed.
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Everything has changed.
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Actually I feel,
I've got my life back.
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Not having to, you
know, put all these shots
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and take all this
medicine is just a relief.
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You're not taking shots anymore?
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No, no, the
insulin shots are gone.
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Gone, kaput. Gone.
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I would have to, I used the...
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Twice a day I would have
to use the oral medication.
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And that was
another in addition,
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and then still on
hypertension medication
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they had barely diagnosed
me with a high blood pressure.
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Okay.
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But as I continued
to do the exercise,
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everything has,
you know, exercise,
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drinking the
water, everything has,
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everything has changed.
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But you got to go
on dialysis, right?
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No. You don't?
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No, not on dialysis. Thank God.
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I know, I know you
don't. I just had to throw that.
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But you don't have
any kidney issue at all?
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No.
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And you no longer have diabetes?
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No.
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No longer have
high blood pressure?
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No. You're off all medication?
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All of medications, yes, sir.
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Folks, what can I
say? That is so wonderful.
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And you're here with
mom and your brother.
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Yes. Right?
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Yes. And the three of you...
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Have teamed up.
Have teamed up finally.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And I heard from you
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before we
started this interview,
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you've already walked six miles
and it's 11 am in the morning.
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Already.
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And your husband is saying,
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"How are you gonna do
that when you get back home?"
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I know.
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And you said what?
You're gonna do what?
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I'm just gonna keep at it.
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You know, every moment I
have, every chance I have,
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put in a mile, an
extra mile until I'm done.
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But I've been walking
the six miles already,
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but I'm closer to
the eight miles a day.
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Really?
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So by the time I'm done,
it's closely to an eight mile,
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which I couldn't even do that.
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It was just like
maybe two miles the most.
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And I was just tired still.
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You know, I was just like
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trying to drag
myself up the little hills.
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But now you're
doing great. Oh, yes.
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How much weight have you lost?
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I've lost a total of 10 pounds.
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Awesome, in 18 days.
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In 18 days.
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Okay, well, you
realized that when you lose fat,
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you may have lost
15 or 20 pounds of fat.
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Then you gain what?
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Muscle, right? Muscle.
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So it's hard to
determine how much fat we lose
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when we go through this program
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because we don't do the
wane and the water type thing.
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But you're doing marvelous.
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But I feel inches off.
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So my clothes are fitting loose
so that's what they told me
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that you will start if you,
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even though that
you couldn't tell you,
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you feel it on your clothes.
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I'm like "Wow! That's great."
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Yes. Yes.
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You know, you're gonna have
to keep buying new wardrobes.
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Oh, yeah.
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I'll wait till the
very last day, you know.
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And then buy extra tight. Yeah.
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So you can fit into
those after a while.
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Yes.
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So what was your
favorite part of the program?
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The favorite part of the program
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was being able to
be around doctors,
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around the staff.
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You know, they keep on
pushing you and, you know,
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encouraging you
every day, you know,
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and that was my favorite part.
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Being able to, you
know, have lunch with them,
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walk with them, you know,
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just be around them
if you needed anything.
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Have you ever been to a doctor
where they prayed with you,
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then took you out for a walk,
invited you into their home,
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walk with you, and
eat breakfast and lunch?
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Have you ever... Is
that ever happened to you?
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No, no, that has never happened.
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Never happened to
me until I got here.
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No, no, until you get here. Yes.
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That's right. They pray for you.
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They pray with you
and it's really nice,
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it's really nice.
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Comforting. Oh, yes.
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Now your doctor is
one of my dearest friends,
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Dr. Rick Lukens.
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Dr. Lukens.
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And we're gonna
interview him right after here
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and get his opinion
of how you're doing.
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He's always fun to interview.
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Oh, yeah, he's
a fun doctor. Yes.
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He likes to play basketball too.
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Oh, and he's good at
it. And he's good at it.
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Yeah, and I'm jealous.
But I shouldn't be jealous.
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There's some things I'm
good at and when I find out
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what they are,
I'll let you know.
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All right. All right.
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Okay, so when you get back home,
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will you be
teaching at the church
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and the rest of the family?
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What are you gonna do
with all this knowledge?
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We're gonna try...
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I'm gonna try to get
something together, you know,
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to help out our
church family there,
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members, my family especially,
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and anyone else that needs help.
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You know, trying to get
them to reverse their diabetes,
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it's a big help.
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Is it in the community?
In the community there.
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You know, I have a sister that,
you know, because of her...
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She had started
already, you know,
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doing the vegetarian to
do the lifestyle change.
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And I've seen
improvements in her,
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and it has really helped her.
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You know, she's suffered
with thyroid and arthritis and,
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you know, she's
energetic now just,
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just by changing the, you
know, the lifestyle of eating.
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Well, how does she change it?
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But she's at home,
right? And she's at home.
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And you've been
telling her what to do.
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No, she actually had
been telling me to...
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She had been telling me to...
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Oh, I see. Yeah.
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I see, and
that's how you got here.
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Yeah.
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And actually my
brother, my brother is the one
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that got us to come up here.
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I know he called me
a couple of months ago
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and said, they needed to
get you here before you die.
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Yes, he said...
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He said I have a
friend up there that told me
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about the program but
I didn't think, you know,
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we ought to try it
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or they were
gonna come drop me off
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and then they decided
that they wanted to join
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'cause they
wanted to learn more.
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He told me he was
gonna fly here with you,
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drop you off, then fly back,
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and then fly back
here to pick you up.
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And I don't... Wait a minute.
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I'm glad. I'm so glad for you.
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I'm glad that
they were able to stay
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and take this journey
together, you know, I mean,
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it was awesome, it was nice.
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Yeah.
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A family that prays together,
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and exercises
together, stays together.
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Yes.
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Okay, so what next?
What's your next goal?
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What are you gonna do from here
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as far as your
weight and your health?
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My goal is to, you
know, keep at it every day,
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you know, especially, you know,
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that personal
relationship with God,
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I think is gonna help too.
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And, you know, He
can keep us on track
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and just continue
going on and sharing
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this good
information with everyone.
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It's so awesome.
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You know, oh, we
forget but, you know,
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at our last graduation,
everyone that stood up
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and got that reward
or award, praise God,
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because of His presence
here and how they were healed
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from diseases that have
been years and years old.
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Oh, yeah.
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Cynthia, we're out of time.
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I wanna thank you for being here
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and God bless you.
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Thank you.
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But I'll be
following up with you.
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Okay. I'm checking in on you.
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All right. All right.
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So I better stay on
track. That's right.
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And, friends, don't go
away, Dr. Lukens is 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 crushing every day.
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What's even more surprising
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is that the fix is
easy, it's your lifestyle.
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Wouldn't it be nice
if you could actually add
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quality years to your life
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rather than dying
one organ at a time?
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Obesity and
diabetes are the cause of
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over a 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
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And you will be on the road
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The NEWSTART programs
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Welcome back, friends,
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Dr. Lukens in the house with us.
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Yeah.
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You know, I'm told
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you're such a
good basketball player.
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That is way, way over stated.
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But I do run, I can run.
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Well, at least you're playing.
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Yeah, I know, it's
good, sometimes but...
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Cynthia said,
"You play basketball."
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I said, I know.
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Well, yeah, I do, but
I over do it, you know.
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Now it's surprising
because some of these kids
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really run fast, and
I try to run after them.
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Yeah, but we're
not kids anymore.
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Oh, nuts.
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We got to go out
and hit the ball.
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We got to go and hit the ball.
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Yeah, yeah, that's...
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My shoulder is
getting better, so.
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Well, that's good.
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You know, a good Dr. reckon...
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No, there are...
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You know, okay.
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Cynthia, she got here,
she had all these problems.
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Yes.
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Her kidneys were
going bad, diabetes,
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high blood pressure, obesity.
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She was a mess she thought.
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What did you find in her?
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How do you mean she thought?
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She knew.
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Her A1C, you know,
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her sugar
levels were really high
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and, and she had and she did...
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You know, it's
such a pain in the neck
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or elsewhere to be injecting,
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injecting,
injecting all the time.
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They wanted to do daily
two, give the 40 in the morning,
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the 30 in the evening.
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And finally, I guess
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the doctors
were just the doctor.
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Doctors were
getting just like, you know,
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"Lady, are you gonna
get serious sometimes
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about what's going on?"
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She had...
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She had another
medicine that she had to take,
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which is supposed to
help lower the blood sugar.
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And then she was
on the original one
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that they give you,
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so that she don't
absorb so much sugar,
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and the liver
doesn't pour it out
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and that thus
sometimes give people diarrhea
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for the rest of the time.
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They are on and it's just...
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So anyway we
know the lifestyle is
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far, far beyond anything that
you can do with medications.
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And the more they look
into it, the more they study it,
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they say, "Lifestyle is
the way to treat disease,
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especially the diabetes."
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And they showed that
in the European study,
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we showed it on our Accord study
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over here that, you know,
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you can't bring
these numbers down,
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just treat the number, you know,
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treat the patient and so forth.
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So now what happens is
that there is a push back
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by the opposite of...
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I don't want to
call it the opposition,
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but the ones that are
making the medications,
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and they said, "No."
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But if you
catch it early enough,
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and this was
just a few months ago.
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And so they did
a worldwide study.
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Well, many, many side study,
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and they looked at
it, two doctors did.
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And they went
through all of these things
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that they found, you
know, actually those people,
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when they got early
treatment and so forth,
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those were more
like type-1 diabetics.
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So that's, they did
need the medications.
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And other ones,
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they were doing
better with the type 2s.
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They didn't need the medications
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and they could get away from it.
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Do you find from time to
time the people are diagnosed
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and properly, that
they're not really type 1?
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Well, it says it's a little bit.
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You know, they,
they've renamed it
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because after you've
been type 2 long enough,
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and the ones that
whipped the kidney,
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then your kidney can't
work as strong as it did.
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And then eventually
5 to 10 years later,
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you have to go on insulin.
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And then you can't
get your weight down
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and it just kind of snowballs.
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So no lifestyle and see
that's what I told Cynthia.
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I said, you know, "How
much I asked her the first
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or the second time.
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How much walking do you..."
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"Oh, maybe I could
get up to 2 miles or 3."
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I said, "By the end of the week,
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I want you to be
able to do more than 5.
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And then next week, I
want you to do 8 to 10."
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And she's gonna like "Me?"
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No. I said, "Yeah."
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And she did it.
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I know. Yeah.
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I mean, she's... She
walks 6 miles this morning.
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Yeah, I mean, then...
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And so the weight is coming off,
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the fat is coming off,
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the fats coming
out of the liver.
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She...
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We took her off of
all of her medications
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for her
diabetes before the fast.
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So she starts to fast on Tuesday
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and she goes
through the three days.
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It was kind of tough
for some of the people,
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but she's never
gone back on him.
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And her blood sugars
are better than they were
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when she came,
quite a bit better
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and she's not on any medication.
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Isn't that
wonderful? That is so awesome.
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Yeah, that's the
eight laws of health.
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Amen.
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What about type 3 diabetes,
I'm reading about that now?
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Is that just the
name they put on?
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Well, I think, they say to be
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and the
different things like that.
00:17:02.32\00:17:04.39
But what they're
saying is that, you've got,
00:17:04.42\00:17:06.65
your pancreas is burned out,
00:17:06.69\00:17:10.03
and so now you
have to be on insulin
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the rest of your life.
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And I'm not sure that...
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I'm not sure if
they lost the weight
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that they have to be on it.
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You know, but that's
just the conventional wisdom
00:17:17.90\00:17:20.24
that goes around.
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You know, I've learned
from you over the years
00:17:21.90\00:17:24.14
that even people on dialysis,
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people in kidney
failure can be reversed
00:17:27.21\00:17:31.65
and get them off dialysis
and strengthen their kidneys
00:17:31.68\00:17:35.65
as we have seen with many people
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in the past years.
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But she never had a
kidney problem, does she?
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Yeah. Well, it was starting.
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She was starting to
spill protein and so forth.
00:17:44.53\00:17:48.10
But see the thing is that,
I think, they were trying to,
00:17:48.13\00:17:51.33
you know, get
through towards that.
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You can go on dialysis
00:17:53.87\00:17:55.34
if you keep up what
you're doing, you know.
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So there was some
signs, but it wasn't.
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You know, it wasn't like
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some of the ones
that are coming in.
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And it hasn't been
years that I've told you this
00:18:02.88\00:18:05.51
because it's only been a year
00:18:05.55\00:18:07.35
and some that
they were realizing.
00:18:07.38\00:18:09.32
Hey, this is a
cardio renal axis here,
00:18:09.35\00:18:13.66
and sometimes it's a
heart that's failing,
00:18:13.69\00:18:16.29
and then the kidneys can't...
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They can't filter
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when they're not
enough blood coming through.
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Yeah.
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Well, it seems like years,
00:18:22.20\00:18:23.53
maybe because I've
known you for years.
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Anyway I know that,
that's, that's something that,
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that's exciting.
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Even people with hypertension
that have the kidney problems,
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we're finding out
that those respond as well.
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You know, what I'm
excited about for her as well,
00:18:38.95\00:18:41.78
is her brother is here
and her mother is here.
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They're a wonderful family.
00:18:44.32\00:18:46.29
Mom sat them down and
they had worship every day.
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The kids love the Lord.
They are just wonderful.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And they're gonna go
back and teach the church.
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Yeah.
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And the other people
in the Hispanic community,
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mostly Mexican, I understand.
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And...
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And they want to, they
want to get our chaplain
00:19:04.71\00:19:06.54
and our other
chaplain that plays a piano
00:19:06.57\00:19:10.45
to come down there.
00:19:10.48\00:19:11.81
We're just talking
about that at breakfast.
00:19:11.85\00:19:13.42
We got to get down there
00:19:13.45\00:19:14.78
and help the
people in their area.
00:19:14.82\00:19:16.15
Yeah, that would
be wonderful. Yeah.
00:19:16.18\00:19:18.35
So any last minute,
we've got a few seconds left.
00:19:18.39\00:19:22.12
Anything you can
say to our viewers
00:19:22.16\00:19:24.36
that might encourage them?
00:19:24.39\00:19:26.73
Walk, walk, walk,
walk, walk, walk, walk,
00:19:26.76\00:19:29.76
and you'll feel
better, and then you realize
00:19:29.80\00:19:32.07
you can make some
other life changes too.
00:19:32.10\00:19:33.50
Amen.
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Doctor, I wanna thank
you for taking your time.
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I know you're busy.
00:19:38.24\00:19:39.71
We've seen a lot of
guests, and patients, whatever.
00:19:39.74\00:19:42.64
Well, thank you so much.
00:19:42.68\00:19:44.28
It's my pleasure. Yeah.
00:19:44.31\00:19:45.85
And thank you,
friends, but don't go away.
00:19:45.88\00:19:47.98
We have a message coming up.
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Hello, I'm Dr. Neil
Nedley. This is NEWSTART Now.
00:20:27.12\00:20:30.79
And with me today
is Dr. Eddie Ramirez.
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And Dr. Ramirez,
this study actually got
00:20:33.53\00:20:36.26
a lot of interest when
it was presented by you
00:20:36.30\00:20:40.84
in Las Vegas at the
Sexual Medicine Conference.
00:20:40.87\00:20:45.04
Since that time,
it has been published
00:20:45.07\00:20:47.08
in the Journal
of Sexual Medicine.
00:20:47.11\00:20:49.24
We're actually going to
be talking about two studies
00:20:49.28\00:20:51.81
that were published
00:20:51.85\00:20:53.18
in the Journal
of Sexual Medicine
00:20:53.21\00:20:54.88
and produced a lot of
questions and a lot of interest
00:20:54.92\00:20:59.19
because it turns out...
00:20:59.22\00:21:00.62
This had not
really been looked at.
00:21:00.66\00:21:02.82
We're studying sex in all sorts
of different ways these days
00:21:02.86\00:21:06.80
in the scientific literature,
but sex in the context
00:21:06.83\00:21:10.77
of a marriage
relationship versus
00:21:10.80\00:21:13.40
not in a marriage relationship
00:21:13.44\00:21:15.40
is something that had
not really been looked at.
00:21:15.44\00:21:18.14
And so tell us
a little bit about
00:21:18.17\00:21:20.68
where these subjects came from
00:21:20.71\00:21:22.48
and what we were
actually analyzing.
00:21:22.51\00:21:25.35
This is a nice big
sample 5,621 participants
00:21:25.38\00:21:30.39
of the community
version of the depression
00:21:30.42\00:21:33.15
and recovery program
from all over the world.
00:21:33.19\00:21:36.86
And what we were looking
at is what relationship does
00:21:36.89\00:21:41.30
sexual relationships outside
of the context of marriage,
00:21:41.33\00:21:45.37
what effect does
that have on depression
00:21:45.40\00:21:49.04
and emotional intelligence.
00:21:49.07\00:21:51.57
So, Dr.
Ramirez, a lot of people,
00:21:51.61\00:21:53.88
they want to have
sex outside of marriage
00:21:53.91\00:21:56.91
because they think it's going
to increase their happiness.
00:21:56.95\00:22:01.02
They might even think
00:22:01.05\00:22:02.38
it's one of the
treatments for depression.
00:22:02.42\00:22:04.09
You know, they're depressed,
and so let's have casual sex,
00:22:04.12\00:22:07.56
let's have it
often, and let's have it
00:22:07.59\00:22:10.43
outside of a
marriage relationship
00:22:10.46\00:22:12.76
and, and thus
improve their mental health.
00:22:12.79\00:22:16.53
Is that what the study showed
00:22:16.56\00:22:17.93
that it improved
the mental health?
00:22:17.97\00:22:19.30
Not necessarily.
00:22:19.33\00:22:20.67
In fact, we found
the opposite. Okay.
00:22:20.70\00:22:22.57
Those people involved
in sexual relationships
00:22:22.60\00:22:25.07
outside of
marriage, they actually had
00:22:25.11\00:22:27.74
the worst indexes
among mental health
00:22:27.78\00:22:31.08
when we were
measuring depression
00:22:31.11\00:22:33.11
by a
standardized tool that we use
00:22:33.15\00:22:35.08
the depression and
anxiety assessment test.
00:22:35.12\00:22:37.82
Okay, so it's one of
those classic examples
00:22:37.85\00:22:40.12
of maybe short-term
gain, but long-term problems.
00:22:40.16\00:22:44.13
And of course, that's
why people turn to alcohol.
00:22:44.16\00:22:46.39
You know, they think it's
gonna help them out short-term,
00:22:46.43\00:22:48.50
but it ends up causing a
lot more problems long-term.
00:22:48.53\00:22:51.93
And so this group
that was having sex
00:22:51.97\00:22:55.64
outside of marriage,
00:22:55.67\00:22:57.61
how did their levels
of depression compare?
00:22:57.64\00:22:59.97
So they had a
moderate, higher on average
00:23:00.01\00:23:06.78
but some of them had
00:23:06.82\00:23:08.15
that type of
severe type of depression,
00:23:08.18\00:23:11.55
those that were involve
in the sexual relationship
00:23:11.59\00:23:14.09
outside of marriage.
00:23:14.12\00:23:15.46
While those that were
not, usually there are levels
00:23:15.49\00:23:17.89
were more of a
low moderate level,
00:23:17.93\00:23:20.63
mild, and so forth.
00:23:20.66\00:23:23.06
Okay, so it made a
significant difference
00:23:23.10\00:23:25.47
in the severity of depression.
00:23:25.50\00:23:27.34
And what else did you noticed?
00:23:27.37\00:23:28.90
Well, we found
that there is hope.
00:23:28.94\00:23:31.31
Even those people
that were involved
00:23:31.34\00:23:34.04
in sexual relationships
outside of marriage,
00:23:34.08\00:23:36.38
as they came to the program,
understood the negative effects
00:23:36.41\00:23:40.32
that this have in
their mental health
00:23:40.35\00:23:42.78
and stop that behavior.
00:23:42.82\00:23:44.95
There were among
those that improve the most
00:23:44.99\00:23:47.96
in the program and
were able to come down
00:23:47.99\00:23:50.26
to no level of depression.
00:23:50.29\00:23:52.59
Okay.
00:23:52.63\00:23:53.96
So if during the
eight-week program,
00:23:54.00\00:23:55.70
they change that practice,
00:23:55.73\00:23:57.70
they actually improved the most.
00:23:57.73\00:23:59.40
That's right.
00:23:59.43\00:24:00.77
And their levels of
depression and anxiety
00:24:00.80\00:24:02.80
were much more
likely to go away.
00:24:02.84\00:24:05.07
So if you make
mistakes and so forth,
00:24:05.11\00:24:06.78
well, there's hope.
00:24:06.81\00:24:08.14
You know, there's
hope of change of behavior
00:24:08.18\00:24:10.45
and a secondary to that,
you will have an improvement
00:24:10.48\00:24:13.98
in your mental health.
00:24:14.02\00:24:15.45
Okay, so not only
their depression scores
00:24:15.48\00:24:17.79
and anxiety scores improved
00:24:17.82\00:24:19.65
if they were not having
sex outside of marriage.
00:24:19.69\00:24:21.72
But you also
did a separate study
00:24:21.76\00:24:24.29
measuring what?
00:24:24.33\00:24:25.66
Emotional intelligence.
00:24:25.69\00:24:27.66
And those with
sexual relationships
00:24:27.70\00:24:29.70
outside of the
context of marriage,
00:24:29.73\00:24:31.63
at the beginning had
00:24:31.67\00:24:33.00
the worst
emotional intelligence.
00:24:33.03\00:24:35.87
Yet, those that were
able to stop that behavior
00:24:35.90\00:24:39.57
by the end of the program,
00:24:39.61\00:24:41.74
improved the most
their emotional intelligence
00:24:41.78\00:24:44.55
coming up to 109.2 on average.
00:24:44.58\00:24:49.02
The nice thing about this is,
00:24:49.05\00:24:50.42
this program is actually
available to anyone today.
00:24:50.45\00:24:55.42
They can do it
in their own home.
00:24:55.46\00:24:57.23
They can do it in a
community-based program
00:24:57.26\00:24:59.66
or they could actually
come to Weimar Institute
00:24:59.69\00:25:01.86
and do the residential program.
00:25:01.90\00:25:03.63
So three options
00:25:03.67\00:25:05.33
for
dramatically improving levels
00:25:05.37\00:25:07.64
of depression, anxiety,
and emotional intelligence.
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I'm Dr. Neil Nedley,
this is NEWSTART Now.
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And join us again next
week for another exciting study.
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When we look at
the health status
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of Americans today,
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it's alarming to see that 60%
are either overweight or obese.
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In addition, diseases
such as type 2 diabetes,
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cancer, and heart
disorders are the leading cause
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of so many complications
and deaths every year.
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Could it have something
to do with what we eat?
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After all,
everyone in four Americans
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visits a
fast-food restaurant daily
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and with such easy
access to quick fix foods.
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We tend to forget
the poor health value,
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those foods actually offer.
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Maybe it's the
sedentary lifestyle
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and lack of exercise that
we've become so accustomed
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to as a media dependent world.
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Whatever the
cause of these diseases,
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a solution has arrived.
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The NEWSTART Lifestyle
Center offers enriching program
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where patients can
get a healing of mind,
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and body, and soul.
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Located in the
outskirts of Sacramento,
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the NEWSTART Center is
situated on the beautiful campus
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of Weimar Center of
Health and Education
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with scenic walking and
hiking trails all around.
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With a whole plant
foods eaten whole motto,
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the NEWSTART Center promotes
a healthy plant-based diet
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with an emphasis
on natural foods.
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The NEWSTART staff are made up
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of California
board-certified nurses,
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doctors,
dieticians, and therapists,
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who work together to
assist each patient personally.
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The staff are dedicated
to each patient's success
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in the program
and are always there
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to guide, advise, and encourage.
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In addition to a
healthy lifestyle,
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NEWSTART also promotes a
healthy exercise routine.
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You're both in
sequence, that's good.
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All right.
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As part of the balanced program,
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there is much opportunity
to get in the fair share
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of physical
activity from utilizing
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our fitness
center to taking a stroll
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around the
peaceful grounds of Weimar.
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It's amazing what a
NEWSTART can do for you!
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Well, friends,
that's it for today,
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but join us next
week for another episode.
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In the meantime,
pick up the phone
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and give us a
call at 800-525-9192.
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