Hi, friends, 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
we have Martha Brown
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all away from North Carolina.
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I'd like you to
take a look at her
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when she first arrived.
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In watching 3ABN,
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I got interested in
the NEWSTART program,
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and I have obesity issues,
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I have sleep apnea issues,
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I have hypertension
issues, fibromyalgia.
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So my husband and I
kind of made a joint decision
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that I need to get my
health in better shape,
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and we decided that
I should come out here
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and come to Weimar.
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And I guess I'm to the point,
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I can't fake it
till you make it.
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But yeah, I think
there's some depression
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I think people don't
like to talk about depression,
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and some anxiety.
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So I think depression
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is probably really
what's really kind of
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brought me to the real
reason probably to seek help.
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It's impacting my
life in a negative manner.
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Welcome back,
friends, in our studio, Martha.
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I don't want you to let
go of those pretty flowers.
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No, I actually kind of
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stole them off
these beautiful trees
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on the way to talk with you.
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Well, I want to get
right into your being here
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at the NEWSTART program
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and to let our
viewers know how you did.
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I think amazingly well.
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Amazingly.
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And what makes you say it?
I haven't asked my doctor yet.
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What makes you say that?
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It's just been an
incredible process
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from the day I arrived.
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Weimar was not
what I had anticipated,
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I don't know that I was even
overly excited about coming,
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but my viewpoint has
changed tremendously.
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It has been
absolutely the best experience
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probably outside
of having my children
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and a wonderful husband
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who actually
encouraged me to come,
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and sent me here.
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It's an amazing experience.
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I just can't even tell you how,
how happy I am that I am here.
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What impressed you the
most about our program?
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You know, that'll actually
be kind of hard to identify
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to be honest.
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The grounds, the
facility, the food labs,
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our spiritual pastor,
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church this past
weekend in particular,
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the academy
kids, the college kids,
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just the care
that we have gotten,
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it's going to be hard
to go back to real life.
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You know, in
our first interview,
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you said you wanted
certain things to accomplish.
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Yes, and I and I
have accomplished
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a good share of them I think.
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I was disappointed
yesterday to find out that
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I had lost six
pounds the first week
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and yesterday,
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I really, eight pounds actually,
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excuse me, eight
pounds and then yesterday,
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I had probably
gained a couple of pounds
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maybe could've been
water weight, I don't know,
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but surprisingly I lost inches.
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Yes.
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And in a lecture
last night, they told me
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that we shouldn't be
worried about the weight,
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we should be
worried about the inches.
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Amen.
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And I did not believe that
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until I went to
try on some clothes
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and found out, guess
what, they are fitting.
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I can, I can actually
pull them together now
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without a safety pin.
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Well, you know, as we lose fat,
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and I speak from
my own experience,
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we gain muscle.
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So although muscle
weighs more than fat,
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when you start
shrinking this way
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and all the fat's gone,
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but you're not losing weight,
you're just adding more muscle,
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and getting rid of all the stuff
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that's blocking your
arteries and so on and so forth.
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But you showed us
before the program started
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how your jacket is
fitting when you got here,
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you couldn't
you put it together.
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Well, that may be gaping
now because I'm sitting down,
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when I stand up, it isn't.
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I think our
viewers got the point.
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Okay, okay.
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But I'm so happy to
hear you're doing so well.
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Well, and not only that,
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my blood pressure was
really high when I came,
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I have cholesterol problems,
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I haven't gotten
those test results back yet.
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But all I can say is we
are eating much differently,
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we eat at 8 in the
morning and 2 o'clock,
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and I wasn't sure I can do that,
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I wasn't sure I
could give up bread
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and I wasn't sure
I could give up oil,
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there are quite a few things
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that I wasn't
sure I could give up.
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I absolutely am dedicated
to going home and a new start,
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literally, a new start.
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Amen. I have
more energy, I just...
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Oh, I mean, we're
pampered all the time,
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the spa treatments,
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and you were
talking about the toxins?
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I did the charcoal
bath, and that was amazing,
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absolutely amazing.
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How about the
pills or medications,
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are you off any of those?
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Actually, I can't say
that I'm really off of them yet
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except I think I'm
going to be off blood pressure
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simply because my blood pressure
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has dropped drastically.
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Amen.
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I think it's
gotten a little too low
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and I've gotten a
little lightheaded,
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and they were saying,
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"Well, it might be that
your blood pressure medication
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needs to either be dropped
or reduced perhaps," you know.
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Like I haven't the
doctor will tell...
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I'll get that report
within the next day or so.
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Well, you're going to get
them today I know for sure.
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Oh, okay, okay. Then I'll know.
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I got the inside scoop. Okay.
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Well, I'm sure
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your doctor will have you
off those medications today.
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If he has anything to
say about it, he will.
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So what was your blood pressure
this morning, for instance?
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Oh, my goodness, it was like,
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I think, it was
like 114 over 66.
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Oh, my! Yeah.
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I mean, that's
just incredible for me.
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You know what I did? And
I'm not suggesting you do.
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But when my blood
pressure went down like that,
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I stopped on my own.
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Well, I'm here for
the doctor to tell me.
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Well, yeah, and
I have my doctor.
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Okay.
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But I knew what he's going
to tell me the day I decided
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and he agreed.
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Okay.
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So and my blood
pressure continued low
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without the medication.
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I'll tell you when I arrived,
I was on the ragged edge,
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I was so
lightheaded and so dizzy,
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and my flight didn't get
until about 9 o'clock at night,
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and I rented a car
and I drove to Auburn
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and spent the night and
checked in the next day.
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And I was absolutely,
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I felt like I
was going to faint,
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I really felt like
I was going to faint.
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Wow. And none of that.
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None of that. None of that.
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Well, you look so
joyful and so happy.
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Well, it's a happy place.
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But is that kind of
you though? Aren't you...
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Well, I think so, yes,
I think for the most part.
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But, you know,
there's an old saying,
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fake it till you make it too.
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And there were
times that I literally,
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I did literally fake it
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because I didn't feel that good,
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but to me, we've been watching
all these videos on depression
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with Dr. Natalie.
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Yes.
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And I identified
with many of the signs
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and symptoms of depression.
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Yes. And my weight gained.
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It impaired not only my life
but my husband's life socially,
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even dressing to go to
church became very difficult
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and I just didn't realize
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really until I
got into this program
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and then I heard
one of the girls say
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in one of our lectures,
our lectures are outstanding,
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they're absolutely outstanding.
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And, you know, it's kind of
bullet point and easy to follow
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and easy to understand.
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And, you know, each lecture
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is just something
new and interesting,
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and how can you have
that many lectures a day
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and still keep
learning something?
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Now are you walking
now or are you swimming?
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I know you were
going to the swimming pool.
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I was into the swimming program.
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But for me, I had
to make a decision
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and I was going to
miss the cooking lab
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if I did the swimming program,
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so I decided to do
the cooking program
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because I can swim at home,
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I have the way of doing that,
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and I'm going
to get a swim coach
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and do some aerobic exercises.
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And how is your walking? I
have a problem with walking.
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Well, I have a
problem with walking.
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Three years ago I fell
and I have rods and plates
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and so forth in my left leg.
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Yes.
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The walking, I tried,
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but I ended up with
such severe sciatica
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that I had to back
off from the walking,
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but everybody else
that's walking I mean,
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they're just doing incredible.
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And so do you feel those pins
and such that are in your...
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I think you said,
towards your ankle.
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My ankle and my,
yeah, my left leg,
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I've got a rod
that goes from here
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and plates on both
sides of the ankle yes.
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Martha, I want to thank
you for taking your time
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and being willing to
share your testimony.
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Well.
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Thank you so much,
Martha. We'll be in touch.
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Thank you.
Friends, don't go away.
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Dr. Roger Gallant up next.
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Welcome back, friends.
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Help me welcome
Dr. Roger Gallant.
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Good to see you.
Our Medical Director.
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You've been with us now,
what, two and a half years?
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Two and a half years, yes.
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Wow, seems just like yesterday.
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Yeah, that's right.
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You know, I want to
talk about Martha for sure,
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but I want to talk
about you a little bit.
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Okay.
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Because, you know,
the viewers don't know
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when they see here's doctor
so and so and such and such,
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they really don't know
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they just figure
just another doctor,
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and I have a
different perspective
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of our doctors here at NEWSTART,
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like when people call and say
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"Do you have a
cardiologist on staff?"
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And I go well, "We've got
that not only know cardiology."
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But you got your training
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basically in an
ER situation, right?
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I'm an emergency
physician, that's right.
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And you know when you say this,
it makes me think of a slide
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I just showed to
some of our guests that,
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"It doesn't matter
how good your physician is
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or how good your hospital is
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or if you're on the
very best medicines,
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that doesn't matter in longevity
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in making your life healthier."
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So what's the key?
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The key is the
choices you're willing to make
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because if you
make lifestyle choices,
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you don't need a cardiologist,
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you don't need a
super duper hospital,
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your body will
take care of itself,
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that's the way God created us.
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Amen.
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That's the
difference with our doctors here
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and the ones in the
world, I see that very clearly
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but you expressed it so nicely.
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So what about Martha now?
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You know, when
she first got here,
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she was all
bubbly and everything,
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but we could see through
that, little bit of anxiety,
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depression as she has expressed.
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Yes.
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So we're not letting something
out of the closet here.
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No. So, wonderful lady.
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Wonderful lady.
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Her husband is a surgeon?
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He's a urologist.
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A urologist, what do they do?
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They take care of
plumbing problems.
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Ah. Yeah, yeah.
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So he takes care of people
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with bladder,
kidney type disease,
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difficulty
urinating, things like that.
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And Martha is a
wonderful person.
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She's actually
from North Carolina
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before we moved here,
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we used to live
in North Carolina,
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so I feel a
special closeness to her.
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Well, she lives in the time
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where my
daughter just moved from.
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Oh, well, okay. She
now lives in Charlotte.
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Yeah.
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Just a little ways away, yeah.
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And we have some good friends
who live in Hendersonville
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where she's from so yeah.
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But Martha is a
wonderful person.
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She came here and she
has some health challenges
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including she has some
bladder problems herself,
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and gets frequent
urinary tract infections
00:13:18.69\00:13:22.60
and actually got
one while she was here
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and we did some natural things
that gave her some improvement
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but didn't
completely clear it up
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which is her track history.
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And so she actually ended up
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getting some treatment for that,
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and she did well
while she was here.
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She was walking
a little bit better
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because of the
situation with her ankle
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and some metal
plates and screws.
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That's right, that's right.
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And she also has some sciatica
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some pain that
radiates down her leg,
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and so it limited
some of her exercise,
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but she was willing,
willing to do what she could,
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and we even tried
using a stationary cycle
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and some different things,
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and she does do some
exercise in the water.
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Yes.
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And we didn't have
that as available here
00:14:06.68\00:14:08.54
as she does at home,
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and I actually
just talked to her today
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and she just got back home
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and is doing
some of that planning
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to get active again,
but she's still doing well,
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still losing weight and...
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That's awesome. Yeah.
00:14:22.22\00:14:23.76
You know this is a good
segue into a little commercial,
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you know, we're
building a new lodge.
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Yes.
00:14:30.40\00:14:31.73
Weimar's lodge
has been here for eons
00:14:31.77\00:14:34.67
and now we're
going to build a new one
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that will take care of
not only a NEWSTART guests,
00:14:36.97\00:14:40.31
but the
depression recovery guests.
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Yes.
00:14:42.74\00:14:44.08
And somewhere
around the center of it
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will be a swimming pool
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and, of course, an exercise room
00:14:48.88\00:14:50.69
with a lot of
various kinds of equipment,
00:14:50.72\00:14:53.36
we have one of those
right now but it's rather small.
00:14:53.39\00:14:55.72
Yes.
00:14:55.76\00:14:57.09
And if more than two
or three people in there,
00:14:57.13\00:14:58.46
it seems crowded.
00:14:58.49\00:14:59.83
Yes.
00:14:59.86\00:15:01.20
Nonetheless, if you feel
you want to make a donation,
00:15:01.23\00:15:02.63
please call us at (800) 525-9192
00:15:02.66\00:15:07.80
and we would welcome,
00:15:07.84\00:15:09.50
it's going to
take about $5 million
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for this new building.
00:15:11.47\00:15:13.21
Yes, it is.
00:15:13.24\00:15:14.58
Anyway, then we need
to get away from that?
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No, we need it desperately.
00:15:15.98\00:15:17.41
We're doing good
with what we have,
00:15:17.45\00:15:19.58
but could do better.
00:15:19.61\00:15:20.95
Yeah, yeah.
00:15:20.98\00:15:22.32
Now I understand
with our new clinic
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of which you are part of,
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business is just
exploding after two years.
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Yes, it is.
00:15:29.66\00:15:30.99
We are really busy
seeing a lot of patients
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and helping a lot of people.
00:15:33.96\00:15:35.60
You know, I have
people who come in to see us
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who say I've
never been to a doctor
00:15:37.60\00:15:40.07
who prayed with me before.
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Neither have I.
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And that, you know,
00:15:43.64\00:15:45.21
we're able to help them to
make some lifestyle changes
00:15:45.24\00:15:50.01
and get better health
00:15:50.05\00:15:51.71
without having to
use as much medications
00:15:51.75\00:15:53.92
and things and, you
know, what a blessing.
00:15:53.95\00:15:56.35
It is and truly is,
00:15:56.38\00:15:58.05
I feel blessed to
be a part of this.
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Amen.
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And when I had my doctor,
00:16:02.12\00:16:04.06
Dr. Michael Orlich was my doctor
00:16:04.09\00:16:05.73
back then 12 years
ago and he prayed with me,
00:16:05.76\00:16:09.20
I was just,
"Wow, this is amazing,
00:16:09.23\00:16:11.73
a doctor praying with me."
00:16:11.77\00:16:13.67
Then he goes for a walk with me,
00:16:13.70\00:16:15.40
invites me to
his home for dinner.
00:16:15.44\00:16:17.71
Yeah, that's
wonderful. That's just amazing.
00:16:17.74\00:16:19.41
Yeah, that's wonderful.
Doc, I know you're busy.
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I want to thank
you for stopping in
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and paying us a
visit, let us interview you.
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Good to see you, Ron, as always.
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We'll be in touch.
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But, friends, don't go away.
00:16:31.32\00:16:32.65
We have Pastor
Snead coming up next.
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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 II diabetes, cancer,
00:16:50.41\00:16:53.81
and heart disorders
are the leading cause
00:16:53.84\00:16:55.84
of so many complications
and deaths every year.
00:16:55.88\00:16:58.81
Could it have something
to do with what we eat?
00:17:03.28\00:17:05.85
After all, every
one in four Americans
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visits a fast
food restaurant daily
00:17:08.56\00:17:10.69
and with such easy
access to quick-fix foods,
00:17:10.73\00:17:14.23
we tend to forget
the poor health value
00:17:14.26\00:17:16.20
those foods actually offer.
00:17:16.23\00:17:19.27
Maybe it's the
sedentary lifestyle
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and lack of exercise
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that we've
become so accustomed to
00:17:22.47\00:17:24.04
as a media-dependent world.
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Whatever the
cause of these diseases,
00:17:26.54\00:17:28.41
a solution has arrived.
00:17:28.44\00:17:32.71
The NEWSTART Lifestyle Center
offers an enriching program
00:17:32.75\00:17:36.08
where patients can get a healing
00:17:36.12\00:17:37.75
of mind, body, and soul.
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Located in the
outskirts of Sacramento,
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the NEWSTART Center is situated
00:17:42.49\00:17:44.29
on the beautiful campus
00:17:44.33\00:17:45.66
of Weimar Center of
Health and Education
00:17:45.69\00:17:48.43
with scenic walking and
hiking trails all around.
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With whole plant
foods eating 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.
00:17:58.64\00:18:01.08
The NEWSTART staff are made
up of California board certified
00:18:01.11\00:18:04.71
nurses, doctors, dietitians,
00:18:04.75\00:18:07.82
and therapists who work together
00:18:07.85\00:18:09.38
to assist each
patient personally.
00:18:09.42\00:18:11.95
The staff are dedicated
to each patient's success
00:18:11.99\00:18:14.52
in the program
00:18:14.56\00:18:15.89
and are always there to
guide, advise, and encourage.
00:18:15.92\00:18:19.36
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, all right.
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As part of the balance program,
00:18:27.54\00:18:29.27
there is much opportunity
00:18:29.30\00:18:30.64
to get in the fair
share of physical activity
00:18:30.67\00:18:33.21
from utilizing
our fitness center
00:18:33.24\00:18:35.38
to taking a stroll
00:18:35.41\00:18:36.75
around the
peaceful grounds of Weimar.
00:18:36.78\00:18:38.75
It's amazing what a
new start can do for you.
00:18:38.78\00:18:42.52
Welcome back, friends.
00:18:42.55\00:18:44.05
Damon, how are you, brother?
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Doing well, my friend.
00:18:45.45\00:18:46.79
Pastor Snead I
want everyone to know
00:18:46.82\00:18:49.72
that you are a new pastor here
00:18:49.76\00:18:52.36
with the NEWSTART
program, new in that,
00:18:52.39\00:18:55.00
you've been here nine months,
let's see, from June of 2016.
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Yes, sir.
00:19:00.57\00:19:01.90
And this is your ninth session,
and I want to welcome you
00:19:01.94\00:19:05.81
and thank you for being here
00:19:05.84\00:19:08.21
because we've seen a
lot of baptisms with you
00:19:08.24\00:19:11.28
and I know there
are more to come.
00:19:11.31\00:19:13.98
You know, I want
to get right into this
00:19:14.02\00:19:18.42
Martha's program
00:19:18.45\00:19:20.02
and you being her
pastor and her chaplain
00:19:20.06\00:19:23.32
while she's been here.
00:19:23.36\00:19:25.19
And I want talk about the battle
00:19:25.23\00:19:29.96
that's going on in the world,
00:19:30.00\00:19:32.60
the battle between good and evil
00:19:32.63\00:19:35.10
or Satan and Christ
in your pastoral words,
00:19:35.14\00:19:40.74
how would you say this?
00:19:40.78\00:19:42.11
In my experience,
and what I've seen here
00:19:42.14\00:19:44.85
being from 13
years of pastoring,
00:19:44.88\00:19:47.12
you know, Texas and Oklahoma,
00:19:47.15\00:19:48.52
now coming to fresh
start, I've heard enough stories
00:19:48.55\00:19:51.95
and I've had enough testimonies
in counseling with these people
00:19:51.99\00:19:54.52
that I see that what
they don't realize is
00:19:54.56\00:19:57.33
happening to them at church,
00:19:57.36\00:19:58.89
and with Martha,
you know, we talked
00:19:58.93\00:20:01.13
and she explained to
me that she didn't realize
00:20:01.16\00:20:04.03
how far away from
God she was getting
00:20:04.07\00:20:07.50
and she realized that
00:20:07.54\00:20:08.97
her health was
playing a huge part in that.
00:20:09.00\00:20:12.51
She told me it began with
not wanting to read her Bible
00:20:12.54\00:20:15.61
and then it escalated
into not feeling like prayer
00:20:15.64\00:20:18.31
and then feeling
worse and discouraged
00:20:18.35\00:20:20.68
and not good about herself
00:20:20.72\00:20:22.05
and then not
wanting to go to church,
00:20:22.08\00:20:23.72
just rather sitting
at home watch it on TV.
00:20:23.75\00:20:25.85
And as her health is digressing,
00:20:25.89\00:20:29.26
so was her spirituality.
00:20:29.29\00:20:30.99
So there's a connection
between health and God.
00:20:31.03\00:20:35.93
Does that have anything
to do with letting us know,
00:20:35.96\00:20:39.53
the good book tells us, what,
00:20:39.57\00:20:41.97
that our bodies are the
temple of the Holy Spirit,
00:20:42.00\00:20:44.17
do not defile it.
00:20:44.21\00:20:45.74
And we know there is a
plethora of information,
00:20:45.77\00:20:48.34
Spirit of Prophecy, Dr. Nedley,
with these doctors out here,
00:20:48.38\00:20:51.41
Lukens and all
these men are telling us
00:20:51.45\00:20:53.68
that when the mind is
not getting blood flow
00:20:53.72\00:20:56.45
and the frontal lobe
is not accurately working,
00:20:56.48\00:20:59.15
and there's fat in the
blood and the sugar is high,
00:20:59.19\00:21:01.69
and you feel bad, you
don't feel very spiritual,
00:21:01.72\00:21:04.56
and that can have a big impact
on your relationship with God.
00:21:04.59\00:21:09.26
So with the pastors that
are watching this program now,
00:21:09.30\00:21:14.20
if they're
having any difficulties
00:21:14.24\00:21:15.64
with their members,
00:21:15.67\00:21:17.11
perhaps the best thing
to do is to send them here.
00:21:17.14\00:21:19.51
Oh, sure, send
them to a health program
00:21:19.54\00:21:22.21
'cause I mean,
I've seen it enough,
00:21:22.24\00:21:24.08
I've been on both
sides, that I've seen it.
00:21:24.11\00:21:26.35
And I'm so excited about
00:21:26.38\00:21:27.92
when a person's
health comes alive
00:21:27.95\00:21:29.98
and the blood's
flowing in the mind
00:21:30.02\00:21:31.55
and they're feeling good,
00:21:31.59\00:21:32.95
you see the
spiritual life come alive.
00:21:32.99\00:21:36.22
There's revival.
00:21:36.26\00:21:37.59
There's a much
more better chance
00:21:37.63\00:21:39.33
that they're going
to be good tithe payers,
00:21:39.36\00:21:40.96
that they're going to
come alive in the church,
00:21:41.00\00:21:42.76
that they're going to be active,
00:21:42.80\00:21:44.13
they're going to feel good,
00:21:44.17\00:21:45.50
and they're
going to be contagious
00:21:45.53\00:21:46.87
to the rest of your church.
00:21:46.90\00:21:48.24
Amen.
00:21:48.27\00:21:49.60
And this is what
you see in Martha?
00:21:49.64\00:21:50.97
That's exactly
what I've seen in her.
00:21:51.01\00:21:52.34
So she's made a big change?
00:21:52.37\00:21:53.71
That's right, and she
knows it and she feels it.
00:21:53.74\00:21:55.78
The difference is that
spiritual life is coming alive,
00:21:55.81\00:21:58.68
the health is working,
00:21:58.71\00:22:00.15
and that is the
testimony here at NEWSTART
00:22:00.18\00:22:03.79
for 90% of the
people that's come here,
00:22:03.82\00:22:06.55
Adventist, non-Adventist,
00:22:06.59\00:22:08.12
even non-Christians
have had similar experiences.
00:22:08.16\00:22:12.46
They've actually
noticed a change.
00:22:12.49\00:22:15.23
Sure, they felt
it. They know it.
00:22:15.26\00:22:17.03
They may attribute
it to a different power
00:22:17.07\00:22:19.37
but it's opening them
up to the realities of God
00:22:19.40\00:22:21.90
because that's what we're doing.
00:22:21.94\00:22:23.27
We're saying, "Hey,
this is from God's Word.
00:22:23.30\00:22:25.17
We didn't make this
stuff up. Look at it."
00:22:25.21\00:22:27.64
And they can measure
and feel it in their lives
00:22:27.68\00:22:29.88
and it opens them up to
our understanding of God
00:22:29.91\00:22:33.15
and creation and
the health message,
00:22:33.18\00:22:34.58
and all of that.
00:22:34.62\00:22:35.95
Amen. Amen.
00:22:35.98\00:22:37.55
I'm so happy to hear
you and talk like this
00:22:37.59\00:22:40.46
because this part of our program
00:22:40.49\00:22:42.72
that we haven't
done in the past,
00:22:42.76\00:22:44.59
this is brand new,
00:22:44.63\00:22:45.96
this is like our
third interview with you
00:22:45.99\00:22:48.00
and I think it's a
permanent part at this point.
00:22:48.03\00:22:51.83
And I want to thank you,
Damon, for taking your time,
00:22:51.87\00:22:54.40
and God bless you.
00:22:54.44\00:22:55.77
Thank you for
having me. God bless.
00:22:55.80\00:22:57.14
And thank you,
friends, don't go away.
00:22:57.17\00:22:58.87
Dr. Nedley, Dr
Ramirez are up next.
00:22:58.91\00:23:05.15
Welcome to NEWSTART Now.
00:23:05.18\00:23:06.78
I'm Dr. Neil Nedley,
President of Weimar Institute.
00:23:06.82\00:23:09.65
And with me today is Dr
Eddie Ramirez physician,
00:23:09.68\00:23:12.99
researcher, and
the author of a number
00:23:13.02\00:23:15.96
of peer-reviewed
scientific studies.
00:23:15.99\00:23:19.16
He also teaches in our college
and many of our young people
00:23:19.19\00:23:22.50
are learning how to do research
in nutrition and other...
00:23:22.53\00:23:26.43
And actually, getting published
in peer-reviewed trials,
00:23:26.47\00:23:29.34
and so we're very
grateful to have you here,
00:23:29.37\00:23:32.04
Weimar Institute, Dr. Ramirez,
00:23:32.07\00:23:34.21
and one of the big
questions as physicians
00:23:34.24\00:23:37.61
that we have is how can we
get people to be compliant?
00:23:37.65\00:23:42.78
You know, even when we
prescribe them a medicine,
00:23:42.82\00:23:46.76
there's a large
percentage of the public
00:23:46.79\00:23:48.69
that just won't even fill
it or take it and much less,
00:23:48.72\00:23:52.73
how do you get
somebody to exercise?
00:23:52.76\00:23:55.86
You know, exercise is
actually we know good for us,
00:23:55.90\00:23:58.93
physical exercise is good,
00:23:58.97\00:24:00.74
and sometimes we write out
00:24:00.77\00:24:02.50
a physical
exercise prescription,
00:24:02.54\00:24:05.34
but that isn't enough
00:24:05.37\00:24:07.04
to get people off of
the couch and moving.
00:24:07.08\00:24:09.91
And so this study
actually has to do
00:24:09.94\00:24:12.35
with the effects of exercise
00:24:12.38\00:24:15.05
on mental health
particularly depression,
00:24:15.08\00:24:18.92
and how many people was
it looking at, Dr. Ramirez,
00:24:18.95\00:24:23.19
and also where did
this get published?
00:24:23.22\00:24:26.19
This is 5,221 people
00:24:26.23\00:24:30.83
from literally
all over the place.
00:24:30.87\00:24:33.84
All over the
world. All over the world.
00:24:33.87\00:24:35.74
And this study is going
to be coming up later on
00:24:35.77\00:24:39.84
in the British
Journal of Sports Medicine.
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Okay.
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So published in the
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British Journal
of Sports Medicine,
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of course, they're
interested as well as to
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how we can get
people to exercise.
00:24:48.92\00:24:51.62
And so what did we find
out of these over 5,000 people
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that came to the Depression
and Anxiety Recovery Program?
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The community version.
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Yes, the community version
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of the Nedley Depression
and Anxiety Recovery Program,
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a program that you
can actually do at home
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or you can sign up to
do it and a community,
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if one is being
run in your area,
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you might look it up.
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But what did we find out?
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Well, we actually could predict
how depressed the person was
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according to what
exercise pattern they had.
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Okay.
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Those people that did not
have a regular exercise program
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had the worst
mental health indexes
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according to the study,
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and those people that
were that severely depressed,
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as they pass through
the eight-week program,
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started implementing
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all the aspects
of their lifestyle,
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by the end of the program,
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if you were able to get
in that exercise pattern,
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by the end, you
could be among those
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that had the best results
and no depression anymore.
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You know, Dr. John
Ratey, Psychiatrist from Harvard
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has done some
studies on exercise as well,
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and he has stated that exercise
is actually more for our brain
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than it is our body,
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and this study
actually goes along with that.
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So the most
severely depressed people,
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exercise the least,
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and if they want
to improve the most,
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it's not just
exercise or the other things
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that they learn in the program,
00:26:21.34\00:26:22.68
but if they exercise the
most and they get more fit,
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they're going to have
some very good response
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in the eight-week program.
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And not only the depression,
anxiety also improved
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the most among those that were
able to implement the exercise
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and also nice side
effect, emotional intelligence,
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your ability to
motivate yourself
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and get along with others
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also improved the
most with those people
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that improved the most
in their exercise patterns.
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Anxiety is known to be
more difficult to treat
00:26:49.80\00:26:52.67
than depression, and
so that's pretty dramatic,
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so the anxiety improved,
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emotional
intelligence score has improved,
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and that means your
future success and happiness.
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And so this program
actually was shown to
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help people be
compliant with things
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that they tend not
to be compliant with
00:27:08.76\00:27:11.06
like exercise and diet,
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and that's why it was
accepted for publication
00:27:13.36\00:27:15.80
in the British
Journal of Sports Medicine.
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So if you know someone
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who needs to
change their lifestyle
00:27:20.10\00:27:21.70
and improve their mental health,
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a great way of
changing them is getting them
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the Depression and
Anxiety Recovery Program,
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maybe the home-based version,
00:27:31.15\00:27:33.21
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.
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This is NEWSTART Now.
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Join us again next week
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