Hi, friends, and
welcome to another edition
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of NEWSTART Now I'm
your host Ron Giannoni.
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In our studio, with me today,
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all the way from
Puerto Rico is Billy Culp.
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And Billy came as a translator.
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And get this, he
comes as a translator,
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we'll need to find
out that he needs it
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as much as the guy
he's translating for.
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So take a look at
when he first arrived.
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Yeah, I'm here, at first,
I was coming as translator
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for a pastor that was going
through tough health problems.
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And then Mr.
John Campbell asked me
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if I needed some help also,
so I'm here also for my health.
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I have rheumatoid arthritis
with gout before my arthritis,
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and almost all my
joints are deformed
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and also I have a
kidney renal failure,
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47 percent of working.
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Well, I have help
from God, by His grace,
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to improve my
health, better eating,
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and be able to do exercise also.
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Welcome back,
friends. Help me welcome...
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How are you, Billy?
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How are you,
Ron? I'm doing fine.
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I'm doing great too.
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It's so good to
talk to you. Thank you.
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And see your smiling face. Yes.
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You've been
positive since day one.
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Yes, I had a good NEWSTART.
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Yeah, now you got
even a better start.
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Yeah.
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But, you know, I
want to talk to you about
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what's happened with you.
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How are your hands doing?
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When you came here,
you couldn't walk too well.
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Tell me about what's going on?
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Yes.
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As you know, I came
here as a translator,
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Spanish translator for my
companion Pastor Rafael Reyes.
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Yes.
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And Brother John
Campbell asked me
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if I needed also help, support.
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And I said, "Yes. I need it."
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So Brother Campbell...
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John, thank you
if you're watching.
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And I know you're
going to see this someday.
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Thank you and God bless you.
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He was having
Pastor Rafael come here.
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Yeah.
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So John calls me and says,
"he doesn't speak any English
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or very, very
little he understands."
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I said, "Well, we
need a translator."
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He asked if we
could provide that.
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I said, no.
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And then he contacted you. Yes.
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And that's where
he contacted me also.
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And so he brought me
here also for the program.
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Yes. Yes.
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And so we see you, we understand
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that you need the program
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as much if not more than Rafael.
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Yes. Right?
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Yes I had been going
through arthritis problem,
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gout problems.
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Arthritis. Yeah, anemia.
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What's happening
with the gout now?
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Well, first of
all, since day two,
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my headache was going,
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I've been having headaches
every day for several months.
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Really? And that's a blessing.
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Was that from medications?
Yeah, probably. Yeah.
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And also, I couldn't walk a mile
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because I get tired
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and my feet hurt and everything.
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Now I'm walking 11 miles a day.
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And what happened to the gout?
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It's little better. No pain.
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I have no pain
right now. No pain.
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So no gout? No gout.
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Wow. What about the arthritis?
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Arthritis is a lot better.
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My hands are very flexible.
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They have more strength,
and I can grab things better.
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You can hold that
Bible in your hand now.
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Yeah, Bible and my cup also,
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my bottle of water,
drinking five bottles a day.
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Wow. Yeah.
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How is the walking?
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And you're walking 11 miles.
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How is it that you
got to that 11 miles?
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Just started
daily, slow by slow,
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started 3, 4, 6, 8, and now 11.
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Oh, praise God.
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And just in a week,
I can walk 11 miles.
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Wow.
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And how about the food?
How did you like the comida?
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Yeah, it's very good.
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Comida is very good. Very good.
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Yeah, all the nutrition like
the Bible says in Genesis 1:29,
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all of the food is there.
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All the nutrition,
protein, carbohydrate, the fats,
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everything is in the
grains, and the beans,
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and the
vegetables and the fruits,
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everything's there.
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It's all right
there. All right there.
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People call me and say,
"Well, what about the protein?"
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I go, "Well, open
up your encyclopedia
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if you have one
and look at an elephant
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and tell me what they eat."
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Yeah, and a
camel. They eat grass.
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And a camel, all right.
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And a bull. Yeah.
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Billy, would you
do me a favor? Yeah.
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Would you say, in
your native tongue
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to some of our Spanish
viewers, just keep it brief
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'cause we don't
have a lot of time.
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Tell them that if
they have a problem
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they can come here,
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and maybe you'll
even come as a translator.
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Yeah, anywhere,
I'm at your service.
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Please do.
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Well said.
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I couldn't have done that.
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You couldn't? Because
I don't speak Spanish.
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Oh, okay, that's
right, that's right.
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But, you know,
when you get home,
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now people are
going to want to know
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about this health message,
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they're going to
see the changes in you,
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what are you going to do?
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Well, I'm going to
tell my congregation
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about this better life now,
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this lifestyle and health food
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and NEWSTART exercising,
NEWSTART and everything.
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So you're going
to create a sermon?
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Yes. I'm
preparing myself for that.
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Awesome, awesome. Yeah.
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Now what about where you live.
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You know, do you gonna
have to throw out certain foods?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Would you give them
away or throw them out?
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No, I'll throw them out.
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Good. Like someone I know did.
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You're referring
to your brother Ron.
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Yes, I am.
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I know 'cause
that's what we did.
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Yeah.
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We learned so
much about the foods
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that we're eating then
that we couldn't give them away
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because we looked
at them as poisons.
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Yes, yes.
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Okay, so who's your doctor,
by the way, I didn't ask you.
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Here? Yeah.
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Dr. Gallant. Dr. Gallant.
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Yeah, very grateful for him.
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Yes, he's helped you great deal.
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Yeah.
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And Philip, the
therapist, everyone, the nurses,
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everyone, they're
excellent Christians
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and they pray
for you all the time.
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Isn't that marvelous?
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Yes, it is. This
is a great place.
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It's a little
piece of heaven in earth.
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Yes.
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Well, Billy, I
want to thank you again
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coming all the
way from Puerto Rico
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and being so
willing to come here
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to help your brother Rafael.
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And thank you for
being on our program.
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Thank you, Ron. I'm
expecting greater things.
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Yes, yes.
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And thank you,
friends. Praise the lord.
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Don't go away 'cause
Dr. Gallant is up next.
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Welcome back,
friends. Dr. Gallant.
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Ron, good to see you.
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It's always good to see
you. And it's good to be seen.
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Amen, amen.
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I want to just get
right into the Billy story.
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Yes. You know, he called...
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Actually, he didn't
call, a friend called
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and said he had these pastors
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that needed to come
here from Puerto Rico
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but he had won then,
but he didn't speak English.
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Right. So he got
Billy to interpret.
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What happened is that
Billy needed more attention
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than the guy he was here for.
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That's right, that's right.
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You know, tell me what you saw.
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Billy came to us,
initially, to be the translator,
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but then he
talked to his sponsor
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and said, "Hey, you know,
I've got some issues too."
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And I come to find out he does.
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He came and he told me he
has four types of arthritis,
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and it's bad arthritis.
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He has gout that has
deformed his hands and his feet,
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he has these nodules
that are, what we call,
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TOFI on his digits,
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and it just looks
very uncomfortable.
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And when he came here,
he was having a lot of pain.
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He couldn't walk, as I recall.
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Could barely walk.
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Barely, I mean, he
could walk, but barely.
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Yeah, barely.
Everything was uncomfortable.
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Big knot on his knee.
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Knot on his knees, and
he had them on his feet
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and his ankles, and
just very uncomfortable.
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He started
changing his lifestyle.
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We put him on a
fast for three days.
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He started to detox.
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We did hydrotherapy to help
him and massage to help him.
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Billy told me, within a
week, that his pain was gone.
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Oh, my Lord.
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By the time he left here,
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he was averaging
17,000 steps a day.
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How many miles is that? Six?
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Well, on
average, that's over five,
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maybe six or
seven, just depends.
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Wow. Yeah.
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Now you said he began
to change his lifestyle.
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Can you elaborate?
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What does that
mean, change lifestyle?
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Do I go get a
different job or what?
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Well, here at
NEWSTART, we teach them
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what we think is
God's health plan,
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and we use the acronym NEWSTART
to represent the new lifestyle.
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So the N stands for nutrition,
the E stands for exercise,
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the W stands for water,
the S stands for sunlight,
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the T stands for
temperance or balance,
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the A stands for air,
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the R is for rest,
which is so important
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because that's when
our bodies heal and repair,
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and the last T is trust in God,
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having a personal
relationship with God.
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When you start to
apply all of those things,
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it changes your life,
hence a new lifestyle.
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And so we see that
people start to change,
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they come here and we...
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The two things that
are the most obvious
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that start right
away is we ask them
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to walk for exercise
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and we ask them
to drink more water.
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But don't you think...
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I mean, I don't
know how old Billy is.
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He's 50 something maybe,
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and he's had
this arthritis hands,
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they're all
deformed, and in seven days,
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the pain's gone?
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Is this...
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I mean, can I
call this a miracle?
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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God is still in
the healing business
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and still does miracles.
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And, you know, by
the time he left here,
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he just said he felt so great.
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I would see him
walking all the time,
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getting lots of
steps, which is so important.
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But Billy also came here
with a burden on his heart,
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and that burden
started to ease up
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because of some things that
were going on in his family.
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And that also
contributes to your healing.
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And God also provides
not only physical healing
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but also spiritual and
emotional healing as well.
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Amen. You know, he's going to...
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I think he's going
back to Puerto Rico
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and then to Minnesota.
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That's right.
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And worked up
here in the States.
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Has he been in touch?
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I've tried to reach him,
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and because of
all that's happened
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with the weather and so on,
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I haven't had a
chance to be able
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to get through to him.
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Yeah, so aside
from the arthritis
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and these nodules
and all these things,
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what else has he
experienced that you know of?
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Well, when he came
here, he didn't know this,
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but his blood sugar
was little elevated.
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And so he was heading
down the road towards diabetes.
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And being here,
increasing his exercise,
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eating differently,
doing things differently,
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his blood sugars came down.
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So is it fair to say
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that anyone who's
watching right now
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who has diabetes
type 2, I'm gonna say,
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can reverse this diabetes?
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I believe by the grace of
God that that is possible.
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We've seen it
over and over again.
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Yes, yes. And I
would be one of those.
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Well, you know,
diabetes is a lifestyle disease.
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Yes.
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Two things impact
diabetes significantly.
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One of them is fat on your body
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and the second one
is fat in your diet.
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Mm-hm.
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People become type 2 diabetics
as they get older and bigger,
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you know, and so
you've got to change
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the fat in your diet
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and exercise to
change the fat on your body
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and your diabetes will improve.
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I once heard one of our doctors,
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maybe it was you, had said
00:15:57.75\00:15:59.75
the fat you eat
is the fat you wear.
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Well, it wasn't me,
but that's very true.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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We've run out of time.
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I want to thank
you, Dr. Gallant.
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I know you're a busy man.
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Well, good to see
you, Ron. Good to be here.
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Yeah, and thank you,
friends, but don't go away
00:16:11.43\00:16:14.17
'cause Damon Snead,
our pastor, is up next.
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Every year in America,
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there are over
one million deaths
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because of type 2
diabetes and chronic obesity.
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This includes heart
attacks and strokes.
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That's six and a half
747s crashing every day.
00:16:29.32\00:16:32.89
What's even more surprising
is that the fix is easy.
00:16:32.92\00:16:36.19
It's your lifestyle.
00:16:36.22\00:16:37.79
Wouldn't it be nice
if you could actually add
00:16:37.83\00:16:39.63
quality years to your life
00:16:39.66\00:16:41.00
rather than dying
one organ at a time?
00:16:41.03\00:16:43.97
Obesity and
diabetes are the cause
00:16:44.00\00:16:45.63
of over a
million deaths per year.
00:16:45.67\00:16:48.14
Most diseases are reversible
00:16:48.17\00:16:50.31
because most diseases
are lifestyle diseases,
00:16:50.34\00:16:53.17
especially type 2
diabetes and chronic obesity.
00:16:53.21\00:16:56.71
Seriously now,
they can be reversed
00:16:56.75\00:16:58.91
and the quality of
your life can be renewed.
00:16:58.95\00:17:02.52
Call NEWSTART
today at 1-800-525-9192.
00:17:02.55\00:17:08.72
You will see dramatic changes
00:17:08.76\00:17:10.19
in the first few
days of our program
00:17:10.23\00:17:12.13
and you'll be on
the road to a better,
00:17:12.16\00:17:13.90
more robust quality of life.
00:17:13.93\00:17:16.43
The NEWSTART programs
are simple and effective.
00:17:16.46\00:17:19.40
Welcome back, friends.
00:17:22.47\00:17:24.27
Pastor Snead,
how are you, brother?
00:17:24.31\00:17:26.84
I'm doing well, friend.
00:17:26.88\00:17:28.21
You look good as
usual. Thank you very much.
00:17:28.24\00:17:31.38
So what about Billy?
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Here he is, you're a
pastor, he's a pastor,
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he's translating for a pastor,
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I mean, how does
this work when you're...
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Do you feel different
when you're talking another
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man of cloth as they say?
00:17:48.13\00:17:50.57
Oh, yeah, every time I
get a pastor come through,
00:17:50.60\00:17:53.00
my first thoughts are...
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'Cause my idea is to mix
the spiritual and the health,
00:17:54.40\00:17:58.01
my first thoughts are,
00:17:58.04\00:17:59.37
"I ain't going to able
to tell this guy anything,
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I mean, he probably
knows more than I do."
00:18:01.91\00:18:03.68
So I always have that fear,
and so it's not just one guy,
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it's two pastors.
00:18:06.41\00:18:07.78
Yeah.
00:18:07.82\00:18:09.55
But I had a
pleasant surprise from Billy.
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You know, he was a very...
00:18:12.69\00:18:14.89
as you would expect, he
was very spiritual here,
00:18:14.92\00:18:17.83
he went around
praying for people,
00:18:17.86\00:18:19.59
and he had that
wonderful story of providence
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of how he needed to be here.
00:18:21.73\00:18:23.93
But a pastor, you know,
00:18:23.97\00:18:25.30
they don't make a
whole lot of money,
00:18:25.33\00:18:27.14
and so he
couldn't really get here
00:18:27.17\00:18:28.60
but he knew he
needed to be here,
00:18:28.64\00:18:30.54
and through this
door of his friend
00:18:30.57\00:18:32.37
that he came translating,
00:18:32.41\00:18:33.74
it's a wonderful
story of providence,
00:18:33.78\00:18:35.74
how God brought him here
to be part of this program
00:18:35.78\00:18:39.55
and the things
that he learned here
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was pretty profound.
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So even pastors
can learn. Oh, sure.
00:18:43.35\00:18:47.16
And again, like I
said, when I got here,
00:18:47.19\00:18:49.02
I was worried about
him for two reasons,
00:18:49.06\00:18:50.59
number one,
because he is a pastor,
00:18:50.63\00:18:52.63
and number two,
00:18:52.66\00:18:54.00
because he had
this debilitating,
00:18:54.03\00:18:55.63
crippling, deforming arthritis.
00:18:55.66\00:18:58.43
And my first
thoughts were how in the world
00:18:58.47\00:19:01.84
is this health
program going to help him?
00:19:01.87\00:19:04.57
And two, what am I
going to be able to give him?
00:19:04.61\00:19:06.81
But his story, at the end,
at graduation, was wonderful.
00:19:06.84\00:19:10.45
He talked about how even
though his hands are deformed,
00:19:10.48\00:19:14.48
how he can move them.
00:19:14.52\00:19:15.85
He held up a book, he
was holding a set of books
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saying, "I couldn't do
this before I got here."
00:19:18.09\00:19:20.29
And when he got here,
his feet were so deformed
00:19:20.32\00:19:22.39
and messed up, he
couldn't hardly walk.
00:19:22.42\00:19:24.23
And he was walking 11 miles now.
00:19:24.26\00:19:26.93
And so he got
the health benefits,
00:19:26.96\00:19:29.53
but then it was his
tie to the spiritual
00:19:29.56\00:19:31.53
that surprised me.
00:19:31.57\00:19:32.90
He said, "It was
the fresh start lectures
00:19:32.93\00:19:35.44
that re-geared my mind
towards what God can do."
00:19:35.47\00:19:39.34
And he attributed his healing
00:19:39.37\00:19:41.54
was not only from
the natural things
00:19:41.58\00:19:43.21
that we taught him
but also from learning
00:19:43.24\00:19:45.38
to re-devote his
life to God every morning.
00:19:45.41\00:19:47.42
And so he learned to
wake up in the morning,
00:19:47.45\00:19:49.55
devote his life to
God, and he believed
00:19:49.58\00:19:51.69
those two things
combined was the reason
00:19:51.72\00:19:53.96
why he was able
to walk, get around,
00:19:53.99\00:19:55.96
and feel much better.
00:19:55.99\00:19:57.33
Amen.
00:19:57.36\00:19:58.79
He's such a
wonderful guy, you know.
00:19:58.83\00:20:01.06
I know you didn't
see his interview,
00:20:01.10\00:20:03.20
but it was amazing
what he had to share.
00:20:03.23\00:20:06.10
And we asked him to
share in his native tongue
00:20:06.13\00:20:09.07
to those viewers
who were watching
00:20:09.10\00:20:11.37
and he gave us a little plug.
00:20:11.41\00:20:13.54
But nonetheless,
I'm happy to hear
00:20:13.58\00:20:16.31
of his response to...
00:20:16.34\00:20:19.15
And how well you
two communicated.
00:20:19.18\00:20:21.98
Actually, the three of you.
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Was there anything
that you would do different
00:20:24.29\00:20:27.89
for pastors than other
people who are not pastors?
00:20:27.92\00:20:31.93
Sure, thinking back,
and I've had several...
00:20:31.96\00:20:35.56
I mean, actually,
almost every other session
00:20:35.60\00:20:38.13
we have pastors come through.
00:20:38.17\00:20:40.30
And for me, I
would like to really
00:20:40.34\00:20:43.10
set a special time
aside for the pastors
00:20:43.14\00:20:45.51
and really tell them, "You know,
00:20:45.54\00:20:46.88
I'm not trying to teach you
00:20:46.91\00:20:48.64
some elementary
thing that you don't know,
00:20:48.68\00:20:50.51
but here are the things
that I've learned myself,
00:20:50.55\00:20:52.81
here are the
things that I didn't know,
00:20:52.85\00:20:54.42
and being a pastor for
15 years that I've learned."
00:20:54.45\00:20:57.12
And to set aside a
special time with them
00:20:57.15\00:20:59.02
and say, "Hey,
00:20:59.05\00:21:00.39
we're going to
learn something together,
00:21:00.42\00:21:01.76
because like Billy
said, and his friend Louise
00:21:01.79\00:21:05.46
who said, 'When I go back home,
00:21:05.49\00:21:07.30
I'm going to tell other pastors,
00:21:07.33\00:21:09.33
I'm going to tell
my church members.'"
00:21:09.36\00:21:11.27
And that fire that he had
is what pastors should get.
00:21:11.30\00:21:14.64
Coming here isn't about
because you just didn't know,
00:21:14.67\00:21:17.41
but it's about
learning something
00:21:17.44\00:21:18.77
that you can take
back to your congregations
00:21:18.81\00:21:20.91
and be a blessing to
others, to other pastors.
00:21:20.94\00:21:24.15
And then he was so fired him,
he can't wait to get back home.
00:21:24.18\00:21:27.42
And to spread this idea that,
00:21:27.45\00:21:29.22
"Hey, if they can help
this, all this arthritis,
00:21:29.25\00:21:32.32
and of course,
his friend lost weight
00:21:32.35\00:21:33.89
and he's feeling much better,
00:21:33.92\00:21:35.79
and if God can help a
pastor, he can help anybody."
00:21:35.82\00:21:40.50
That's true, but,
you know, I asked him,
00:21:40.53\00:21:42.76
I said, "Now
you're going to go back
00:21:42.80\00:21:44.13
and teach this
what you've learned?"
00:21:44.17\00:21:45.93
"Oh, yeah, I'm
working on my first sermon.
00:21:45.97\00:21:48.64
The health message and
how to evolved into..."
00:21:48.67\00:21:53.27
And of course, the
spiritual aspects of it,
00:21:53.31\00:21:56.81
you know, he's all in.
00:21:56.85\00:21:58.31
I'm telling you,
he's going to be an angel
00:21:58.35\00:22:00.98
for the NEWSTART
program as you are.
00:22:01.02\00:22:05.05
And I thank you
for the first day
00:22:05.09\00:22:08.29
you came on campus,
and when we first met,
00:22:08.32\00:22:11.29
you came up and
introduced yourself.
00:22:11.33\00:22:13.29
And I asked
someone, "Who is that guy?"
00:22:13.33\00:22:14.96
They told me, and they go,
"Right on, he's a good guy."
00:22:15.00\00:22:18.90
We've run out of
time. I want to thank you.
00:22:18.93\00:22:22.00
Thank you, Damon. God bless you.
00:22:22.04\00:22:23.51
You too, my
friend. We'll talk soon.
00:22:23.54\00:22:25.24
All right. And don't go away.
00:22:25.27\00:22:26.71
Stay tuned for the next segment.
00:22:26.74\00:22:28.44
Welcome to NEWSTART Now.
00:22:32.35\00:22:33.88
I'm Dr. Neil Nedley,
president of Weimar Institute,
00:22:33.92\00:22:37.09
and with me today
is Dr. Eddie Ramirez,
00:22:37.12\00:22:40.29
one of our
physicians and researchers
00:22:40.32\00:22:42.62
who is well published in
the scientific literature
00:22:42.66\00:22:45.33
and really
travels all over the world
00:22:45.36\00:22:48.16
presenting studies
about Weimar and NEWSTART
00:22:48.20\00:22:51.30
anywhere from Harvard
to China to many places
00:22:51.33\00:22:56.30
where there are
scientists gathered together
00:22:56.34\00:22:59.44
for him to present
the exciting things
00:22:59.47\00:23:01.94
that are
happening here at NEWSTART.
00:23:01.98\00:23:04.61
Today, we're gonna be
talking about the silent killer.
00:23:04.65\00:23:08.58
Dr Ramirez, what
is the silent killer?
00:23:08.62\00:23:10.79
The silent killer is
called high blood pressure.
00:23:10.82\00:23:14.26
Many people have issues
with high blood pressure,
00:23:14.29\00:23:17.99
and they don't even realize it,
00:23:18.03\00:23:19.83
and this has very
negative effects on the body.
00:23:19.86\00:23:23.93
The internal organs
00:23:23.97\00:23:25.43
cannot withstand that
excess blood pressure,
00:23:25.47\00:23:28.64
and the person, many times,
end up with severe problems
00:23:28.67\00:23:31.84
like heart failure
00:23:31.87\00:23:33.21
as a result of that
long-term high blood pressure
00:23:33.24\00:23:36.61
for long periods of time.
00:23:36.64\00:23:38.21
Yes, and of course,
00:23:38.25\00:23:39.58
it also increases the
risk of stroke dramatically,
00:23:39.61\00:23:42.75
both hemorrhagic
stroke and bleeding stroke.
00:23:42.78\00:23:45.69
And let me say,
although high blood pressure
00:23:45.72\00:23:49.12
can affect your kidneys
and all sorts of things,
00:23:49.16\00:23:51.19
and the worst thing it
can do is affect your brain
00:23:51.23\00:23:54.36
because that's who we are.
00:23:54.40\00:23:55.83
And so this is why
it's very important,
00:23:55.86\00:23:57.87
even if you don't have a stroke,
00:23:57.90\00:23:59.87
if your blood
pressure stays elevated,
00:23:59.90\00:24:01.60
you're gonna start losing
your memory a lot quicker,
00:24:01.64\00:24:04.14
age-related cognitive decline.
00:24:04.17\00:24:06.34
Half of the
patients, they are on dialysis
00:24:06.37\00:24:08.68
in a dialysis center are there
00:24:08.71\00:24:10.61
because their blood pressure
was not controlled earlier.
00:24:10.65\00:24:13.85
So find out what
your blood pressure is,
00:24:13.88\00:24:16.18
if it's above 115/80,
00:24:16.22\00:24:20.22
you're a candidate
to coming to NEWSTART
00:24:20.26\00:24:23.32
just for blood pressure alone.
00:24:23.36\00:24:25.16
How many patients were studied
in this particularly study
00:24:25.19\00:24:28.40
that was published in
the journal Atherosclerosis,
00:24:28.43\00:24:31.97
Thrombosis, And
Vascular Biology?
00:24:32.00\00:24:35.34
One thousand one
hundred and ninety-six.
00:24:35.37\00:24:38.24
Okay, so this is no small group,
00:24:38.27\00:24:40.61
and that's why it's
being accepted for publication
00:24:40.64\00:24:43.24
because this program
works for blood pressure.
00:24:43.28\00:24:46.48
And what did we find out
00:24:46.51\00:24:48.05
in these well
over 1,000 patients
00:24:48.08\00:24:50.15
who were on the verge of
silently killing themselves
00:24:50.19\00:24:53.36
before they came here?
00:24:53.39\00:24:54.72
Well, on average,
00:24:54.76\00:24:56.09
what we would
like for you to have
00:24:56.12\00:24:57.79
is a blood
pressure, a systolic number
00:24:57.83\00:25:00.40
of 115 or under that.
00:25:00.43\00:25:02.86
On average,
these patients had 132,
00:25:02.90\00:25:06.20
way too high.
00:25:06.23\00:25:08.40
And we took the
blood pressure many times
00:25:08.44\00:25:11.37
throughout the
programs so we could monitor.
00:25:11.41\00:25:13.34
We need to watch
out, and many times,
00:25:13.38\00:25:16.04
we actually decrease or
eliminate your medication
00:25:16.08\00:25:18.85
as you come to the program
00:25:18.88\00:25:20.72
because if we keep you
00:25:20.75\00:25:22.08
with the same
amount of medication,
00:25:22.12\00:25:23.45
you may go way too low
and you actually can pass out
00:25:23.49\00:25:26.09
or have some nasty side effect.
00:25:26.12\00:25:29.16
So look at the progression,
00:25:29.19\00:25:31.09
at time one, by the
end of the first week,
00:25:31.13\00:25:34.66
they had an average
blood pressure of 125,
00:25:34.70\00:25:38.00
very good number.
00:25:38.03\00:25:39.37
Okay, they've gone
down about 13, well about 7.
00:25:39.40\00:25:42.94
It was 132? 132.
00:25:42.97\00:25:44.54
Okay, so they've gone
down seven points in a week.
00:25:44.57\00:25:46.91
Then at time two, 121.
Okay, another four points.
00:25:46.94\00:25:51.48
And by the end, 121 again.
00:25:51.51\00:25:55.52
So that was a
very good improvement
00:25:55.55\00:25:58.25
in just 18 days.
00:25:58.29\00:26:00.86
See, the blood
pressure medication
00:26:00.89\00:26:02.56
that many times you're taking
00:26:02.59\00:26:05.06
doesn't lower your
blood pressure by many points,
00:26:05.09\00:26:08.53
you know, this is much
more efficient than that.
00:26:08.56\00:26:11.23
A lot of times,
these antihypertensives
00:26:11.27\00:26:13.57
that can be pretty costly
00:26:13.60\00:26:14.94
are going to lower it
about five or six points.
00:26:14.97\00:26:16.44
That's right.
00:26:16.47\00:26:17.81
And if they lower four,
they think that's great.
00:26:17.84\00:26:20.54
And so this is a program
that lowers it by well over 10,
00:26:20.58\00:26:26.25
and it will
continue to come down
00:26:26.28\00:26:28.32
gradually after that.
00:26:28.35\00:26:30.69
And so, in fact, as
we do follow-up programs,
00:26:30.72\00:26:33.86
we realize this is
a diet and a lifestyle
00:26:33.89\00:26:37.06
that you can be on for
life, and so your chance...
00:26:37.09\00:26:41.16
What is the chance
of being able to be
00:26:41.20\00:26:43.40
medication free
00:26:43.43\00:26:45.17
and have your
blood pressure controlled
00:26:45.20\00:26:47.74
if you have high blood pressure?
00:26:47.77\00:26:49.10
Do we have that?
00:26:49.14\00:26:50.47
I don't have that
number in particular here,
00:26:50.51\00:26:54.11
but we do know
that most of the people
00:26:54.14\00:26:57.08
that keep on the program,
00:26:57.11\00:26:59.35
they need to continue
working with their physician
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because, very soon,
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either they will
decrease your medication
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or you no longer will
have a need for medication.
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Also, another number
that we were measuring
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was diastolic, the other number.
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On average, they
started with a diastolic of 76,
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it came down, first week, to 72,
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to the second week to 70,
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and by the end of program to 69.
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Weimar continues to save lives,
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sometimes just by
controlling blood pressure
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through lifestyle.
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Thank you for
watching NEWSTART Now.
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I'm Dr. Neil Nedley,
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