Hi, folks, and
welcome to another edition
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of NEWSTART Now.
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I'm your host, Ron Giannoni.
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In our studios with us today,
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I've got a very
unusual young man.
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I'd like you to take a
look at when he first arrived.
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I'm dealing with...
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I have sleep
apnea, I have asthma,
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I'm dealing with
congestive heart failure,
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I have breathing problems,
I have borderline diabetes,
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I'm morbidly obese.
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I have problems
with my circulations.
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I have pains and
aches all over obviously
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because of the weight.
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You know, when I
leave this place,
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I expect to, you
know, I have a passion
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because I know that
health is very important,
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and I am a literature evangelist
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and I believe your
body is a temple of God,
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and I could never be able
to tell anyone about health
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if I'm in bad health
and I'm morbidly obese.
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I'd be looked as a joke,
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and so I want to
get back on track.
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I'm expecting to lose an
exorbitant amount of weight,
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I'm expected to...
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I want to be a vegetarian.
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I want to be the
best as far as my health
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to be in the best shape.
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I want to start to
devote to full recovery.
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My goal is to be
230 or 240 pounds.
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And that's my goal.
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By God's grace, I
believe that I'm going to do it
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within a year's time.
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And I just need
something to help me
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to get that weight
off so I could start,
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and I could be able
to exercise and do it.
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Welcome back, friends.
Help me welcome Big Joe.
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Hey.
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Wow, Joe, you look great, man.
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You know, I know
a lot of the viewers
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are wondering "Gee,
I've seen this guy before.
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Who is this Big Joe?"
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Well, I'm here to
tell you that I saw Joe
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before he came to
the NEWSTART program
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on YouTube in an interview.
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And if you want to
go see that program,
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it's on YouTube,
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Big Joe Trump
type in those words,
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and you'll get to see Big Joe.
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And he is here now.
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So, Joe, first
thing I got to ask you,
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what was your heaviest
weight you ever weighed?
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My maximum
weight would have been
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about maybe December,
about maybe three months ago.
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Basically I went to
the doctor's office,
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and I got on the scale,
and I was about 495 pounds.
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And how much are you today?
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Today I'm at 434 pounds.
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So you've lost about 60 pounds
in the last couple of months.
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Yes.
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Awesome. God is good.
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Now since you've been
here, Joe, you've lost weight,
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I know what, 30 pounds roughly?
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I lost precisely 21 pounds
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from the time I came here.
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Good.
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And how about medications,
are you off medications?
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Everything that I was on,
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I'm totally off of it right now.
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You're off from all medication?
I am not taking any meds.
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Weren't you
diabetic? I was borderline.
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But now you don't
have to worry about it.
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Basically
everything, my blood pressure,
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and I had a lot of
things that was going on with me
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at the time, and I
was on a lot of meds
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and coming here I'm not
taking anything right now
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and everything is under control.
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Now when you got here, I know
that we have a half mile loop
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and you couldn't
walk that half mile loop.
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No.
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Are you able to do it now?
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I am definitely.
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But actually it's
my custom being here.
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Now I actually do at least
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I do that four
times a day and more.
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I have done a lot of
things that I was not able to do
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as I was not accustomed
to moving around so much
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and actually walking up.
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This is pretty
terrainy and hilly,
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and I wasn't
accustomed to that especially
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in the city where I live.
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Yeah.
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Now something
very unusual happened
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while you were
here all of a sudden.
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And people who are
watching us right now,
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a lot of them do not
realize the spiritual component
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of the NEWSTART program.
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But it hits you in a big
way and you were re-baptized?
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Yes, I was.
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Yeah, and I'm so
happy I've done that.
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You know, I committed myself
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when I decided to
come to this program.
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I knew that I need to
do a change in my diet.
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I knew that my
life depended on it,
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and I wanted to be
very serious about this
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because I've had a
struggle with appetite and diet
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and a lot of people do,
but I wanted to make sure
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that I sealed my
decision with God
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that this was not
going to be just me
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doing this on my
own in my own strength,
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but me doing it with
the power of God in my life,
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and so I made a
commitment to Him
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that I'm so serious about this
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that I'm going to
recommit myself to You
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so that You can help me do this
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because I know I won't be there,
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I wouldn't have been
able to do it all by myself.
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I'm freezing down here.
Talk about watery grave.
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Man, this is going to be
a resurrection, all right.
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Big Joe. Yeah.
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Because of your desire. Yes.
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To enter into that
door we spoke of the death.
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Leave your old self
behind to be resurrected
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in the power of Holy Spirit.
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We now baptize you
in name the Father,
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the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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You know,
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no truer words
have ever been spoken
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and I have read this
morning in our quarterly hub,
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Peter got out of the boat
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and he was walking
on water towards Jesus,
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but then he took
his eyes off of Jesus,
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and you know the rest.
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He's sunk and he
said, "Jesus, help me."
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And this is the
life that we live,
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we take our eyes off the
Lord and we start to sink,
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but then we cry out,
and He reaches out His hand,
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and lifts us out of despair.
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And that's what
you just said to me.
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That's right. Yeah.
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You can do nothing without Him.
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Okay, now let me
ask you a question.
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Yeah.
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Aside from me,
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who's your favorite person here?
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No, I didn't mean
to say it that way.
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What impressed you
the most of our program?
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Oh, man, you have a
really comprehensive program.
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The fact that you're
even out in the country,
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and the mountain scenery,
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you take
someone out of the city,
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because I'm accustomed
to the pollution, the smog,
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and everything and
I'm out of the urban area
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and to a country scenery,
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a quiet beautiful
mountainous region.
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I'm drinking, you know,
eating healthy food, water.
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I'm meeting people
from all over the country
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that has different ailments
but we all have the same goal.
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I'm in an environment.
This environment is so...
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I mean the rooms, the
beds are so comfortable.
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It's very rare
that I find the bed...
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So you're pretty
impressed about the whole thing.
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Yes, the whole entire,
the lodge is very comfortable,
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and accommodating.
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The people are so, the
workers are so friendly,
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and they're really
loving and cooperative.
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And, you know, everybody
is there to assist you.
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What about your
doctor? Was he accommodating?
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Oh, most
definitely. He is definitely.
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And that is Dr.
Lukens? Dr. Lukens.
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Yes, my doctor.
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Did you find him different
than the doctors off campus?
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Oh, yeah.
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Dr. Lukens and, you
know, also Dr. Gallant,
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these guys are really...
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The doctors that I've
noticed here are very,
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they're oriented as
far as getting cured
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but in a holistic way
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and doing it by eating healthier
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and eliminating
the fats in our diet
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and things of that nature,
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which is very
unusual whereas other doctors
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outside of this place
are more into pharmaceuticals
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and just giving
you drugs to try it
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and it doesn't actually
take care of the problem.
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It just takes
care of the symptoms
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of what's going on
but it doesn't address
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the underlying issue
which the doctors here
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addressed the underlining
prevention altogether
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and if we can prevent this,
we don't even have to worry
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about dealing with these things.
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Joe, I want to thank
you for joining us here.
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We've run out of time.
God bless you, Brother.
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Thank you. I'll be following up.
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Well, thank you. Stay in tune.
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But, friends, don't go
away. Dr Lukens will be up next.
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Every year in America 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 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
if you could actually add
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quality years to your
life rather than dying
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one organ at a time?
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Obesity and
diabetes are the cause
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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 to a better more
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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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Please help me
welcome Dr. Lukens.
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Yeah. Good to see you.
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It's always good to see you.
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And, you know, I
want to talk about Joe.
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But before we get on
the subject of Big Joe,
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I want to talk
about big Rick Lukens.
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Yeah.
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You've been here what, 28 years?
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Yeah, 27.
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But who's counting? No.
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You know, you've just
been such a great mentor to me
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in both health
and my spiritual path
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has changed since, you
know, you come to my office
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and we pray together, and
I'm just grateful for that.
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And I wanted our viewers to know
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because an
integral part of our program
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is our spiritual
connection with the Lord.
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It has to be. It has to be.
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Otherwise, these
things just didn't work.
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Yeah.
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So Big Joe, what a guy.
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Big.
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Man, yeah, he's big.
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He picked me up, and he shook me
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like a rag doll.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And then he did this with a
couple of our staff members.
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He picked up two of
them at the same time.
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This guy is huge
and strong for a guy
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with all those problems though.
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You know, we got to
get him in good shape.
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He is in better shape today...
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, he is.
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Than he was when he
got here. Wouldn't you say?
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Well, one of the things
that was really bothering him
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is that his
legs were so swollen.
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And so I took my
thumb as we do and pressed
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on what we call the
pretibial area or the shin
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and I got all the
way up to his knee,
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and he still had more...
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Indents staying in there. Yeah.
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And then we
always talk about this
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when the heart gets strong,
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it's able to pump
through the kidneys
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and I could see his
eyes going like that
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because he lost a lot of weight
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from one Monday to
the next, you know.
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Yes.
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But he must have gained
more muscle at the same time.
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Well, he did.
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So after he lost the water,
then he didn't lose as much
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because he was doing
pretty good exercise.
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One time I said, "Joe,
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look if you're
going to talk to somebody,
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get out on the loop
and walk and stuff like it.
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So he was still
talking pictures, you know,
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picking people up as a joke.
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And then I took him
by the hand, you know,
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sort of and I said let's go walk
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because sometimes, you know,
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his blood
pressure would go way up.
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Oh, yeah.
00:14:24.36\00:14:25.79
You know, our heart has to
pump through all of our body,
00:14:25.83\00:14:28.10
we can't just say
"Well, today the right leg
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isn't going to
get any circulation.
00:14:31.13\00:14:33.54
So that's the
reason why he was failing.
00:14:33.57\00:14:35.54
But he has a
pretty healthy appetite
00:14:35.57\00:14:39.87
if you want to say healthy.
00:14:39.91\00:14:42.51
It's beyond
healthy. It's beyond.
00:14:42.54\00:14:44.41
Yeah, you know, he wanted to go,
00:14:44.45\00:14:46.11
see Pastor Doug Batchelor.
00:14:46.15\00:14:50.02
Oh, yeah, yeah. You
took him down there.
00:14:50.05\00:14:51.52
And so I took him down there.
00:14:51.55\00:14:53.42
And he picked him up
and say, "Hi, Pastor."
00:14:53.46\00:14:55.52
Well, he didn't pick him up.
00:14:55.56\00:14:56.89
But amazingly, all he
wanted to do is meet people.
00:14:56.93\00:14:59.76
He is saying hello to everybody.
00:14:59.79\00:15:02.50
He was just like
the celebrity, you know.
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He's quite an amazing guy.
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Yeah, he is.
00:15:07.64\00:15:08.97
And I've learned to love him.
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But I got to cut him
short because he takes the show.
00:15:10.37\00:15:14.21
I mean you saw the baptism
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which we showed
our friends here.
00:15:16.18\00:15:18.55
And he had everybody
on top of the mountain.
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He wanted everybody to
take a picture with him.
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There were 125 people there.
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And everybody had to
be there with Big Joe.
00:15:26.39\00:15:28.62
Yeah. That's right.
00:15:28.66\00:15:30.13
You know, one of the
things that I don't know,
00:15:30.16\00:15:33.66
he said that he is a
literature evangelist,
00:15:33.70\00:15:35.53
but he said they bring in
these truckloads of extra books
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or, you know, people are
wanting everything online now,
00:15:41.34\00:15:44.71
so books are not as
big as they used to.
00:15:44.74\00:15:47.41
And then he
helps people to learn
00:15:47.44\00:15:50.21
how to give the books
out and to engage people.
00:15:50.25\00:15:53.08
He isn't just like,
you know, like this.
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He talks to them a
little bit and finds out
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and then he canvassed
one of our staff that...
00:15:58.59\00:16:01.82
Oh, he told you. Yeah.
00:16:01.86\00:16:03.19
He said well
what church you go to,
00:16:03.22\00:16:05.03
and what do you
know about the Bible,
00:16:05.06\00:16:07.20
and then he said, "Well,
00:16:07.23\00:16:08.56
I'm going to give you
this book, will you read it?
00:16:08.60\00:16:10.27
And she says, "Yeah.
Yeah, I'll read it, you know."
00:16:10.30\00:16:13.94
So that's good, you know.
00:16:13.97\00:16:15.67
He is little
intimidating though,
00:16:15.70\00:16:17.11
don't you think?
00:16:17.14\00:16:18.47
Well, his size has
something to do with it.
00:16:18.51\00:16:20.08
This guy is
towering over you saying,
00:16:20.11\00:16:21.61
you will read this, won't you?
00:16:21.64\00:16:23.04
But here the thing is
that people that are like that
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when they can get a hold of this
00:16:27.18\00:16:30.89
and actually do the whole
plant foods eating the whole,
00:16:30.92\00:16:35.79
and then they're just
like some of the pastors
00:16:35.82\00:16:40.63
from other churches
that have come here.
00:16:40.66\00:16:42.63
And the people are saying,
"You've got to tell me, pastor,
00:16:42.66\00:16:45.53
how did you do it," you know.
00:16:45.57\00:16:47.44
Some of the people are
well-known in the country,
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you know, and
it's wonderful because
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then when a person
starts getting some victories
00:16:53.11\00:16:57.98
in their life in
the area of health,
00:16:58.01\00:17:00.58
then they say, "You know,
Lord, You can help me with,
00:17:00.62\00:17:04.09
you know, my temper,
or my other addictions,
00:17:04.12\00:17:07.82
or whatever," and then
that's a wonderful thing.
00:17:07.86\00:17:11.26
That's why we're here.
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I think he's
done remarkably well.
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You're his doctor.
00:17:14.76\00:17:16.13
I know he's had so
many issues and, you know,
00:17:16.16\00:17:20.10
he's taken so much medication
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with all these different things.
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But he tells me that
he's continuing on the path.
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He's going to be a poster
child for the NEWSTART program,
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and we need to follow up on him.
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Yeah, we do.
00:17:34.32\00:17:35.65
Did he say how much he's walking
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'cause that's a
main thing for him?
00:17:37.12\00:17:38.79
He told me he is
cut back a little
00:17:38.82\00:17:41.09
but I said you got to walk.
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Anyway we're out of time.
00:17:42.99\00:17:45.16
Our time, soon
when you're having fun,
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what happens.
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Doctor, thank you so much. Yeah.
00:17:47.96\00:17:49.53
Everybody, pray for
Big Joe. Pray for Big Joe.
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Actually, Joe
00:17:52.40\00:17:54.20
'cause we don't want
him to be big anymore.
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No. He's always
going to be tall.
00:17:55.60\00:17:57.61
But, friends, don't go
away. Pastor Snead is up next.
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Welcome back, friends.
00:18:04.45\00:18:06.15
Help me welcome Pastor Snead.
00:18:06.18\00:18:08.68
How are you doing?
I'm doing good, Brother.
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You know, I just found out today
00:18:10.85\00:18:12.19
you had some
Italian blood in you.
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Yes, sir.
00:18:13.59\00:18:14.92
So I got to relate to
you a little different.
00:18:14.96\00:18:17.53
But I want our
viewers to know that
00:18:17.56\00:18:21.46
you are newest pastor.
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And you've been
here since June of 2016.
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Yes, sir.
00:18:27.34\00:18:28.67
And from my perspective
you've baptized more people
00:18:28.70\00:18:32.67
in last eight months
00:18:32.71\00:18:34.41
than I think we did in
the previous eight years.
00:18:34.44\00:18:37.65
So that tells me something.
00:18:37.68\00:18:40.12
The work you're
doing is wonderful.
00:18:40.15\00:18:42.72
I just want to thank
you, but let's talk about Joe.
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Big Joe, yes. Big Joe.
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What did you see herein?
00:18:48.66\00:18:50.89
Help us to understand
what we're seeing in this man?
00:18:50.93\00:18:54.23
Well, Big Joe, what
I've seen in Big Joe is
00:18:54.26\00:18:56.77
typical in a lot
of church members,
00:18:56.80\00:18:58.53
a lot of
Adventists that come through.
00:18:58.57\00:19:00.00
Big Joe was one of
these guys that he came,
00:19:00.04\00:19:03.27
he's been a part of
the church for a long time,
00:19:03.30\00:19:05.67
but about halfway
through the program,
00:19:05.71\00:19:07.91
Big Joe began to
have a spiritual revival.
00:19:07.94\00:19:11.51
The health starts
working and by the second week
00:19:11.55\00:19:14.82
things are starting
to change and I noticed
00:19:14.85\00:19:17.59
the first week it was
kind of rough with Big Joe,
00:19:17.62\00:19:19.75
but by the second
week he really began
00:19:19.79\00:19:22.42
to pay attention and come alive.
00:19:22.46\00:19:24.89
And it led to him
being baptized too,
00:19:24.93\00:19:28.16
a spiritual revival for him.
00:19:28.20\00:19:30.10
That was amazing.
00:19:30.13\00:19:31.47
There had to be 150
people at that baptism.
00:19:31.50\00:19:33.70
Yeah, it was a
big one for a big one.
00:19:33.74\00:19:37.41
A big one for a big one. Yeah.
00:19:37.44\00:19:39.37
I recall that you were trying
00:19:39.41\00:19:40.91
to get him out
of the water there,
00:19:40.94\00:19:43.28
that took four
people to get him out.
00:19:43.31\00:19:45.41
Yeah, if Kirk Krueger
wouldn't have been there,
00:19:45.45\00:19:47.15
it would have been
an interesting baptism.
00:19:47.18\00:19:49.78
'Cause he came out of my arms
that was a handful, I had...
00:19:49.82\00:19:52.69
Yeah, such a blessing.
00:19:52.72\00:19:54.26
And, you know, we know
that you had a lot to do
00:19:54.29\00:19:57.16
with that, pastor.
00:19:57.19\00:19:58.53
And, you know, to me,
I want to talk about you
00:19:58.56\00:20:02.43
just for a little bit,
you're such a loving man,
00:20:02.46\00:20:06.03
and I think I understand
more after talking to you
00:20:06.07\00:20:10.04
a few times, but our
guests that come to our program
00:20:10.07\00:20:14.68
feel that love.
00:20:14.71\00:20:16.04
They feel your
sincerity and I feel that Weimar
00:20:16.08\00:20:20.32
and the NEWSTART program
is blessed to have you here.
00:20:20.35\00:20:24.02
And I'm not trying to give
you a big head, you know that.
00:20:24.05\00:20:28.32
And, but it's by God's grace
00:20:28.36\00:20:31.43
that you've been
given this talent.
00:20:31.46\00:20:34.03
And to see you use it
so wisely is just awesome.
00:20:34.06\00:20:38.40
And I want to
thank you. I appreciate.
00:20:38.43\00:20:40.54
Again back to Joe.
00:20:40.57\00:20:42.00
What else can we talk
about with this big teddy bear?
00:20:42.04\00:20:46.17
Big Joe? He is full of love.
00:20:46.21\00:20:50.81
And, you know, he is
to me, he demonstrates
00:20:50.85\00:20:55.08
really the kind of
people I love to see
00:20:55.12\00:20:58.19
come through with that openness,
00:20:58.22\00:21:00.22
that genuineness,
ready to listen, you know,
00:21:00.26\00:21:02.96
as the health
begins to work in his life,
00:21:02.99\00:21:05.03
he opens up spiritually,
00:21:05.06\00:21:06.66
and he blossomed
right there with us.
00:21:06.70\00:21:10.13
And what I love about
Big Joe was his honesty.
00:21:10.17\00:21:13.80
It was almost towards the
end when we had our, you know,
00:21:13.84\00:21:16.34
towards the end
of the second week
00:21:16.37\00:21:17.71
we had that call
for really rebaptism.
00:21:17.74\00:21:20.64
And, you know, I've been
here for what 9 months now.
00:21:20.68\00:21:24.38
We've had 200 people
come through NEWSTART,
00:21:24.41\00:21:26.82
of those 200 people, 168 of them
00:21:26.85\00:21:29.78
have come to the
Fresh Start program.
00:21:29.82\00:21:31.59
And of those 168,
we've had 27 of those people
00:21:31.62\00:21:35.32
either baptized, re-baptized,
00:21:35.36\00:21:38.29
or attending their local
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
00:21:38.33\00:21:41.76
or in serious Bible studies.
00:21:41.80\00:21:43.63
That's like a 16%
revival in the church.
00:21:43.67\00:21:49.34
And that's in an
18-day turnaround.
00:21:49.37\00:21:52.31
So could you imagine Big
Joes like that in every church,
00:21:52.34\00:21:55.94
everywhere in all
of our sister churches.
00:21:55.98\00:21:59.11
I mean this health
message has a power in it
00:21:59.15\00:22:01.58
unlike anything else
that I've ever seen of
00:22:01.62\00:22:04.15
13 years in the
ministry, in the dry desert
00:22:04.19\00:22:07.69
of doing whatever I can do,
00:22:07.72\00:22:10.53
it has been a
blessing to come here and see
00:22:10.56\00:22:12.56
how health really works together
00:22:12.59\00:22:14.83
with the gospel
with the spiritual tool
00:22:14.86\00:22:16.83
to bring people like
Big Joe into these decisions
00:22:16.87\00:22:19.73
and have a revived life.
00:22:19.77\00:22:21.34
Amen.
00:22:21.37\00:22:22.90
Thank you, Brother.
00:22:22.94\00:22:24.27
Thank you,
Friend. God bless you.
00:22:24.31\00:22:25.64
And, friends, thank you too.
00:22:25.67\00:22:27.01
But don't go away
Dr. Nedley is up next.
00:22:27.04\00:22:29.91
Welcome to NEWSTART Now.
00:23:06.08\00:23:07.68
I'm Dr. Neil Nedley,
president of Weimar Institute.
00:23:07.72\00:23:10.59
And with me today
is Dr. Eddie Ramirez,
00:23:10.62\00:23:13.05
physician,
researcher, and author of
00:23:13.09\00:23:16.22
a number of peer-reviewed
scientific studies.
00:23:16.26\00:23:20.03
He also teaches in our college,
and many of our young people
00:23:20.06\00:23:23.47
are learning how to
do research in nutrition
00:23:23.50\00:23:27.40
and actually getting published
in peer-reviewed trials.
00:23:27.44\00:23:30.27
And so we're very
grateful to have you here
00:23:30.31\00:23:32.94
at Weimar
Institute, Dr. Ramirez.
00:23:32.97\00:23:35.18
And one of the big questions
as physicians that we have is,
00:23:35.21\00:23:40.12
how can we get
people to be compliant?
00:23:40.15\00:23:43.75
You know, even when we
prescribe them a medicine,
00:23:43.79\00:23:47.76
there's a large
percentage of the public
00:23:47.79\00:23:49.69
that just won't
even fill it or take it,
00:23:49.72\00:23:52.43
and much less how do you
get somebody to exercise?
00:23:52.46\00:23:56.77
You know, exercise is
actually we know good for us,
00:23:56.80\00:23:59.87
physical exercise is good.
00:23:59.90\00:24:01.64
And sometimes we write out
00:24:01.67\00:24:03.51
a physical
exercise prescription,
00:24:03.54\00:24:06.41
but that isn't
enough to get people
00:24:06.44\00:24:08.88
off of the couch and moving.
00:24:08.91\00:24:10.78
And so this study
actually has to do
00:24:10.81\00:24:13.35
with the effects of
exercise on mental health,
00:24:13.38\00:24:17.75
particularly depression.
00:24:17.79\00:24:19.95
And how many people was
it looking at, Dr. Ramirez?
00:24:19.99\00:24:24.26
And also where did
this get published?
00:24:24.29\00:24:27.10
This is 5,221 people
00:24:27.13\00:24:31.90
from literally all
over the place and...
00:24:31.93\00:24:34.60
All over the world.
00:24:34.64\00:24:35.97
All over the world and
this study is going to be
00:24:36.00\00:24:39.17
coming up later on
in the British Journal
00:24:39.21\00:24:43.14
of Sports Medicine.
00:24:43.18\00:24:44.55
Okay.
00:24:44.58\00:24:45.91
So published in
the British Journal
00:24:45.95\00:24:47.28
of Sports Medicine, of course,
they're interested as well
00:24:47.32\00:24:49.68
as to how we can
get people to exercise.
00:24:49.72\00:24:52.52
And so what did we find out
out of these over 5,000 people
00:24:52.55\00:24:56.96
that came to the depression
and anxiety recovery program?
00:24:56.99\00:25:01.10
The community version.
00:25:01.13\00:25:02.46
It's the community
version of the Nedley Depression
00:25:02.50\00:25:04.73
and Anxiety Recovery Program.
00:25:04.77\00:25:06.67
A program that you
can actually do at home
00:25:06.70\00:25:08.94
or you can sign up
to do it in a community
00:25:08.97\00:25:11.71
if one is being
run in your area,
00:25:11.74\00:25:14.31
you might look it up,
but what did we find out?
00:25:14.34\00:25:17.18
Well, we actually could predict
how depressed the person was
00:25:17.21\00:25:21.82
according to what
exercise pattern they had.
00:25:21.85\00:25:25.55
Those people that did not
have a regular exercise program,
00:25:25.59\00:25:30.43
had the worst
mental health indices,
00:25:30.46\00:25:33.36
according to the study.
00:25:33.40\00:25:34.80
And those people that
were that severely depressed,
00:25:34.83\00:25:38.57
as they passed through
the eight-week program,
00:25:38.60\00:25:41.70
started
implementing all the aspects
00:25:41.74\00:25:43.97
of their lifestyle, by
the end of the program,
00:25:44.01\00:25:47.51
if you were able to get
in that exercise pattern,
00:25:47.54\00:25:51.58
by the end you
could be among those
00:25:51.61\00:25:53.72
that had the best results
and no depression anymore.
00:25:53.75\00:25:57.59
You know, Dr. John Ratey,
psychiatrist from Harvard,
00:25:57.62\00:26:02.26
has done some
studies on exercise as well.
00:26:02.29\00:26:05.46
And he stated that
exercise is actually more
00:26:05.49\00:26:08.56
for our brain
than it is our body.
00:26:08.60\00:26:11.23
And this study
actually goes along with that.
00:26:11.27\00:26:13.64
So the most
severely depressed people
00:26:13.67\00:26:16.24
exercise the least,
00:26:16.27\00:26:17.97
and if they want
to improve the most
00:26:18.01\00:26:20.48
it's not just
exercise, there is other things
00:26:20.51\00:26:22.41
that they learn in the program
but if they exercise the most
00:26:22.44\00:26:25.41
and they get more
fit, they're going to have
00:26:25.45\00:26:27.95
some very good response
in the eight-week program.
00:26:27.98\00:26:30.59
And not only the depression,
00:26:30.62\00:26:31.99
anxiety also
improved the most among those
00:26:32.02\00:26:35.22
that were able to
implement the exercise.
00:26:35.26\00:26:37.69
And also a nice side
effect, emotional intelligence,
00:26:37.73\00:26:40.83
your ability to
motivate yourself
00:26:40.86\00:26:43.16
and get along with
others also improved the most
00:26:43.20\00:26:46.80
with those people
that improve the most
00:26:46.84\00:26:49.27
in their exercise patterns.
00:26:49.30\00:26:51.14
Anxiety is known
to be more difficult
00:26:51.17\00:26:53.07
to treat than depression.
00:26:53.11\00:26:54.91
And so that's pretty dramatic.
00:26:54.94\00:26:56.38
So the anxiety improved,
00:26:56.41\00:26:58.28
emotional
intelligence scores improved
00:26:58.31\00:27:00.82
and that means your
future success and happiness.
00:27:00.85\00:27:03.69
And so this
program actually was shown
00:27:03.72\00:27:06.35
to help people be
compliant with things
00:27:06.39\00:27:09.92
that they tend not
to be compliant with,
00:27:09.96\00:27:12.26
like exercise and diet.
00:27:12.29\00:27:14.56
And that's why it was
accepted for publication
00:27:14.60\00:27:16.93
in the British
Journal of Sports Medicine.
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So if you know
someone who needs to change
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their lifestyle and
improve their mental health,
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a great way of changing them
is getting them the Depression
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and Anxiety Recovery Program,
maybe the home base version,
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maybe sending them to a
community based version.
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Or if they're
not going to do that
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come to Weimar itself, and
get the residential version,
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and change your
brain for the better.
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I'm Dr. Neil Nedley.
This is NEWSTART Now.
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Join us again next week
for another exciting study.
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