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01:13 Hi, friends, and welcome to another edition
01:15 of NEWSTART Now I'm your host Ron Giannoni. 01:20 In our studio, with me today, 01:22 all the way from Puerto Rico is Billy Culp. 01:29 And Billy came as a translator. 01:32 And get this, he comes as a translator, 01:36 we'll need to find out that he needs it 01:38 as much as the guy he's translating for. 01:41 So take a look at when he first arrived. 01:45 Yeah, I'm here, at first, I was coming as translator 01:50 for a pastor that was going through tough health problems. 01:55 And then Mr. John Campbell asked me 01:59 if I needed some help also, so I'm here also for my health. 02:03 I have rheumatoid arthritis with gout before my arthritis, 02:09 and almost all my joints are deformed 02:12 and also I have a kidney renal failure, 02:15 47 percent of working. 02:19 Well, I have help from God, by His grace, 02:23 to improve my health, better eating, 02:26 and be able to do exercise also. 02:32 Welcome back, friends. Help me welcome... 02:34 How are you, Billy? 02:36 How are you, Ron? I'm doing fine. 02:38 I'm doing great too. 02:39 It's so good to talk to you. Thank you. 02:42 And see your smiling face. Yes. 02:45 You've been positive since day one. 02:48 Yes, I had a good NEWSTART. 02:51 Yeah, now you got even a better start. 02:54 Yeah. 02:56 But, you know, I want to talk to you about 02:57 what's happened with you. 02:59 How are your hands doing? 03:01 When you came here, you couldn't walk too well. 03:04 Tell me about what's going on? 03:06 Yes. 03:08 As you know, I came here as a translator, 03:10 Spanish translator for my companion Pastor Rafael Reyes. 03:14 Yes. 03:15 And Brother John Campbell asked me 03:18 if I needed also help, support. 03:22 And I said, "Yes. I need it." 03:25 So Brother Campbell... 03:27 John, thank you if you're watching. 03:29 And I know you're going to see this someday. 03:31 Thank you and God bless you. 03:32 He was having Pastor Rafael come here. 03:37 Yeah. 03:38 So John calls me and says, "he doesn't speak any English 03:43 or very, very little he understands." 03:45 I said, "Well, we need a translator." 03:47 He asked if we could provide that. 03:49 I said, no. 03:51 And then he contacted you. Yes. 03:53 And that's where he contacted me also. 03:56 And so he brought me here also for the program. 04:00 Yes. Yes. 04:02 And so we see you, we understand 04:05 that you need the program 04:07 as much if not more than Rafael. 04:11 Yes. Right? 04:13 Yes I had been going through arthritis problem, 04:16 gout problems. 04:17 Arthritis. Yeah, anemia. 04:19 What's happening with the gout now? 04:20 Well, first of all, since day two, 04:24 my headache was going, 04:26 I've been having headaches every day for several months. 04:29 Really? And that's a blessing. 04:32 Was that from medications? Yeah, probably. Yeah. 04:36 And also, I couldn't walk a mile 04:41 because I get tired 04:43 and my feet hurt and everything. 04:45 Now I'm walking 11 miles a day. 04:49 And what happened to the gout? 04:50 It's little better. No pain. 04:52 I have no pain right now. No pain. 04:54 So no gout? No gout. 04:56 Wow. What about the arthritis? 04:58 Arthritis is a lot better. 05:01 My hands are very flexible. 05:04 They have more strength, and I can grab things better. 05:09 You can hold that Bible in your hand now. 05:11 Yeah, Bible and my cup also, 05:15 my bottle of water, drinking five bottles a day. 05:21 Wow. Yeah. 05:23 How is the walking? 05:24 And you're walking 11 miles. 05:27 How is it that you got to that 11 miles? 05:31 Just started daily, slow by slow, 05:34 started 3, 4, 6, 8, and now 11. 05:40 Oh, praise God. 05:41 And just in a week, I can walk 11 miles. 05:44 Wow. 05:46 And how about the food? How did you like the comida? 05:49 Yeah, it's very good. 05:50 Comida is very good. Very good. 05:52 Yeah, all the nutrition like the Bible says in Genesis 1:29, 05:58 all of the food is there. 06:00 All the nutrition, protein, carbohydrate, the fats, 06:04 everything is in the grains, and the beans, 06:09 and the vegetables and the fruits, 06:11 everything's there. 06:12 It's all right there. All right there. 06:14 People call me and say, "Well, what about the protein?" 06:16 I go, "Well, open up your encyclopedia 06:19 if you have one and look at an elephant 06:21 and tell me what they eat." 06:24 Yeah, and a camel. They eat grass. 06:25 And a camel, all right. 06:27 And a bull. Yeah. 06:29 Billy, would you do me a favor? Yeah. 06:31 Would you say, in your native tongue 06:33 to some of our Spanish viewers, just keep it brief 06:38 'cause we don't have a lot of time. 06:40 Tell them that if they have a problem 06:43 they can come here, 06:45 and maybe you'll even come as a translator. 06:47 Yeah, anywhere, I'm at your service. 06:48 Please do. 07:39 Well said. 07:41 I couldn't have done that. 07:43 You couldn't? Because I don't speak Spanish. 07:44 Oh, okay, that's right, that's right. 07:47 But, you know, when you get home, 07:50 now people are going to want to know 07:52 about this health message, 07:54 they're going to see the changes in you, 07:57 what are you going to do? 07:59 Well, I'm going to tell my congregation 08:03 about this better life now, 08:07 this lifestyle and health food 08:10 and NEWSTART exercising, NEWSTART and everything. 08:15 So you're going to create a sermon? 08:17 Yes. I'm preparing myself for that. 08:19 Awesome, awesome. Yeah. 08:21 Now what about where you live. 08:22 You know, do you gonna have to throw out certain foods? 08:26 Yeah, yeah. 08:28 Would you give them away or throw them out? 08:30 No, I'll throw them out. 08:31 Good. Like someone I know did. 08:35 You're referring to your brother Ron. 08:37 Yes, I am. 08:38 I know 'cause that's what we did. 08:40 Yeah. 08:41 We learned so much about the foods 08:42 that we're eating then that we couldn't give them away 08:46 because we looked at them as poisons. 08:48 Yes, yes. 08:50 Okay, so who's your doctor, by the way, I didn't ask you. 08:53 Here? Yeah. 08:54 Dr. Gallant. Dr. Gallant. 08:56 Yeah, very grateful for him. 08:58 Yes, he's helped you great deal. 09:00 Yeah. 09:02 And Philip, the therapist, everyone, the nurses, 09:05 everyone, they're excellent Christians 09:08 and they pray for you all the time. 09:10 Isn't that marvelous? 09:11 Yes, it is. This is a great place. 09:13 It's a little piece of heaven in earth. 09:16 Yes. 09:17 Well, Billy, I want to thank you again 09:19 coming all the way from Puerto Rico 09:22 and being so willing to come here 09:23 to help your brother Rafael. 09:26 And thank you for being on our program. 09:27 Thank you, Ron. I'm expecting greater things. 09:30 Yes, yes. 09:31 And thank you, friends. Praise the lord. 09:33 Don't go away 'cause Dr. Gallant is up next. 10:13 Welcome back, friends. Dr. Gallant. 10:16 Ron, good to see you. 10:17 It's always good to see you. And it's good to be seen. 10:19 Amen, amen. 10:21 I want to just get right into the Billy story. 10:24 Yes. You know, he called... 10:26 Actually, he didn't call, a friend called 10:28 and said he had these pastors 10:30 that needed to come here from Puerto Rico 10:33 but he had won then, but he didn't speak English. 10:38 Right. So he got Billy to interpret. 10:43 What happened is that Billy needed more attention 10:47 than the guy he was here for. 10:49 That's right, that's right. 10:50 You know, tell me what you saw. 10:52 Billy came to us, initially, to be the translator, 10:55 but then he talked to his sponsor 10:58 and said, "Hey, you know, I've got some issues too." 11:00 And I come to find out he does. 11:02 He came and he told me he has four types of arthritis, 11:07 and it's bad arthritis. 11:09 He has gout that has deformed his hands and his feet, 11:14 he has these nodules that are, what we call, 11:17 TOFI on his digits, 11:20 and it just looks very uncomfortable. 11:23 And when he came here, he was having a lot of pain. 11:26 He couldn't walk, as I recall. 11:28 Could barely walk. 11:29 Barely, I mean, he could walk, but barely. 11:31 Yeah, barely. Everything was uncomfortable. 11:34 Big knot on his knee. 11:35 Knot on his knees, and he had them on his feet 11:37 and his ankles, and just very uncomfortable. 11:42 He started changing his lifestyle. 11:44 We put him on a fast for three days. 11:48 He started to detox. 11:51 We did hydrotherapy to help him and massage to help him. 11:57 Billy told me, within a week, that his pain was gone. 12:01 Oh, my Lord. 12:03 By the time he left here, 12:05 he was averaging 17,000 steps a day. 12:09 How many miles is that? Six? 12:11 Well, on average, that's over five, 12:13 maybe six or seven, just depends. 12:15 Wow. Yeah. 12:17 Now you said he began to change his lifestyle. 12:23 Can you elaborate? 12:25 What does that mean, change lifestyle? 12:27 Do I go get a different job or what? 12:30 Well, here at NEWSTART, we teach them 12:33 what we think is God's health plan, 12:36 and we use the acronym NEWSTART to represent the new lifestyle. 12:40 So the N stands for nutrition, the E stands for exercise, 12:46 the W stands for water, the S stands for sunlight, 12:50 the T stands for temperance or balance, 12:54 the A stands for air, 12:56 the R is for rest, which is so important 12:59 because that's when our bodies heal and repair, 13:01 and the last T is trust in God, 13:04 having a personal relationship with God. 13:06 When you start to apply all of those things, 13:09 it changes your life, hence a new lifestyle. 13:12 And so we see that people start to change, 13:17 they come here and we... 13:18 The two things that are the most obvious 13:20 that start right away is we ask them 13:22 to walk for exercise 13:24 and we ask them to drink more water. 13:27 But don't you think... 13:28 I mean, I don't know how old Billy is. 13:30 He's 50 something maybe, 13:31 and he's had this arthritis hands, 13:33 they're all deformed, and in seven days, 13:37 the pain's gone? 13:38 Is this... 13:40 I mean, can I call this a miracle? 13:42 Absolutely, absolutely. 13:44 God is still in the healing business 13:46 and still does miracles. 13:48 And, you know, by the time he left here, 13:51 he just said he felt so great. 13:54 I would see him walking all the time, 13:57 getting lots of steps, which is so important. 14:01 But Billy also came here with a burden on his heart, 14:07 and that burden started to ease up 14:10 because of some things that were going on in his family. 14:13 And that also contributes to your healing. 14:16 And God also provides not only physical healing 14:19 but also spiritual and emotional healing as well. 14:22 Amen. You know, he's going to... 14:27 I think he's going back to Puerto Rico 14:30 and then to Minnesota. 14:31 That's right. 14:32 And worked up here in the States. 14:35 Has he been in touch? 14:36 I've tried to reach him, 14:38 and because of all that's happened 14:40 with the weather and so on, 14:41 I haven't had a chance to be able 14:42 to get through to him. 14:44 Yeah, so aside from the arthritis 14:48 and these nodules and all these things, 14:51 what else has he experienced that you know of? 14:54 Well, when he came here, he didn't know this, 14:57 but his blood sugar was little elevated. 15:00 And so he was heading down the road towards diabetes. 15:04 And being here, increasing his exercise, 15:06 eating differently, doing things differently, 15:09 his blood sugars came down. 15:12 So is it fair to say 15:13 that anyone who's watching right now 15:15 who has diabetes type 2, I'm gonna say, 15:19 can reverse this diabetes? 15:22 I believe by the grace of God that that is possible. 15:25 We've seen it over and over again. 15:27 Yes, yes. And I would be one of those. 15:29 Well, you know, diabetes is a lifestyle disease. 15:32 Yes. 15:33 Two things impact diabetes significantly. 15:36 One of them is fat on your body 15:39 and the second one is fat in your diet. 15:41 Mm-hm. 15:42 People become type 2 diabetics as they get older and bigger, 15:46 you know, and so you've got to change 15:48 the fat in your diet 15:49 and exercise to change the fat on your body 15:52 and your diabetes will improve. 15:55 I once heard one of our doctors, 15:57 maybe it was you, had said 15:59 the fat you eat is the fat you wear. 16:02 Well, it wasn't me, but that's very true. 16:04 Yeah, absolutely. 16:05 We've run out of time. 16:07 I want to thank you, Dr. Gallant. 16:08 I know you're a busy man. 16:10 Well, good to see you, Ron. Good to be here. 16:11 Yeah, and thank you, friends, but don't go away 16:14 'cause Damon Snead, our pastor, is up next. 16:21 Every year in America, 16:22 there are over one million deaths 16:24 because of type 2 diabetes and chronic obesity. 16:26 This includes heart attacks and strokes. 16:29 That's six and a half 747s crashing every day. 16:32 What's even more surprising is that the fix is easy. 16:36 It's your lifestyle. 16:37 Wouldn't it be nice if you could actually add 16:39 quality years to your life 16:41 rather than dying one organ at a time? 16:44 Obesity and diabetes are the cause 16:45 of over a million deaths per year. 16:48 Most diseases are reversible 16:50 because most diseases are lifestyle diseases, 16:53 especially type 2 diabetes and chronic obesity. 16:56 Seriously now, they can be reversed 16:58 and the quality of your life can be renewed. 17:02 Call NEWSTART today at 1-800-525-9192. 17:08 You will see dramatic changes 17:10 in the first few days of our program 17:12 and you'll be on the road to a better, 17:13 more robust quality of life. 17:16 The NEWSTART programs are simple and effective. 17:22 Welcome back, friends. 17:24 Pastor Snead, how are you, brother? 17:26 I'm doing well, friend. 17:28 You look good as usual. Thank you very much. 17:31 So what about Billy? 17:33 Here he is, you're a pastor, he's a pastor, 17:38 he's translating for a pastor, 17:41 I mean, how does this work when you're... 17:44 Do you feel different when you're talking another 17:48 man of cloth as they say? 17:50 Oh, yeah, every time I get a pastor come through, 17:53 my first thoughts are... 17:54 'Cause my idea is to mix the spiritual and the health, 17:58 my first thoughts are, 17:59 "I ain't going to able to tell this guy anything, 18:01 I mean, he probably knows more than I do." 18:03 So I always have that fear, and so it's not just one guy, 18:06 it's two pastors. 18:07 Yeah. 18:09 But I had a pleasant surprise from Billy. 18:12 You know, he was a very... 18:14 as you would expect, he was very spiritual here, 18:17 he went around praying for people, 18:19 and he had that wonderful story of providence 18:21 of how he needed to be here. 18:23 But a pastor, you know, 18:25 they don't make a whole lot of money, 18:27 and so he couldn't really get here 18:28 but he knew he needed to be here, 18:30 and through this door of his friend 18:32 that he came translating, 18:33 it's a wonderful story of providence, 18:35 how God brought him here to be part of this program 18:39 and the things that he learned here 18:40 was pretty profound. 18:43 So even pastors can learn. Oh, sure. 18:47 And again, like I said, when I got here, 18:49 I was worried about him for two reasons, 18:50 number one, because he is a pastor, 18:52 and number two, 18:54 because he had this debilitating, 18:55 crippling, deforming arthritis. 18:58 And my first thoughts were how in the world 19:01 is this health program going to help him? 19:04 And two, what am I going to be able to give him? 19:06 But his story, at the end, at graduation, was wonderful. 19:10 He talked about how even though his hands are deformed, 19:14 how he can move them. 19:15 He held up a book, he was holding a set of books 19:18 saying, "I couldn't do this before I got here." 19:20 And when he got here, his feet were so deformed 19:22 and messed up, he couldn't hardly walk. 19:24 And he was walking 11 miles now. 19:26 And so he got the health benefits, 19:29 but then it was his tie to the spiritual 19:31 that surprised me. 19:32 He said, "It was the fresh start lectures 19:35 that re-geared my mind towards what God can do." 19:39 And he attributed his healing 19:41 was not only from the natural things 19:43 that we taught him but also from learning 19:45 to re-devote his life to God every morning. 19:47 And so he learned to wake up in the morning, 19:49 devote his life to God, and he believed 19:51 those two things combined was the reason 19:53 why he was able to walk, get around, 19:55 and feel much better. 19:57 Amen. 19:58 He's such a wonderful guy, you know. 20:01 I know you didn't see his interview, 20:03 but it was amazing what he had to share. 20:06 And we asked him to share in his native tongue 20:09 to those viewers who were watching 20:11 and he gave us a little plug. 20:13 But nonetheless, I'm happy to hear 20:16 of his response to... 20:19 And how well you two communicated. 20:22 Actually, the three of you. 20:24 Was there anything that you would do different 20:27 for pastors than other people who are not pastors? 20:31 Sure, thinking back, and I've had several... 20:35 I mean, actually, almost every other session 20:38 we have pastors come through. 20:40 And for me, I would like to really 20:43 set a special time aside for the pastors 20:45 and really tell them, "You know, 20:46 I'm not trying to teach you 20:48 some elementary thing that you don't know, 20:50 but here are the things that I've learned myself, 20:52 here are the things that I didn't know, 20:54 and being a pastor for 15 years that I've learned." 20:57 And to set aside a special time with them 20:59 and say, "Hey, 21:00 we're going to learn something together, 21:01 because like Billy said, and his friend Louise 21:05 who said, 'When I go back home, 21:07 I'm going to tell other pastors, 21:09 I'm going to tell my church members.'" 21:11 And that fire that he had is what pastors should get. 21:14 Coming here isn't about because you just didn't know, 21:17 but it's about learning something 21:18 that you can take back to your congregations 21:20 and be a blessing to others, to other pastors. 21:24 And then he was so fired him, he can't wait to get back home. 21:27 And to spread this idea that, 21:29 "Hey, if they can help this, all this arthritis, 21:32 and of course, his friend lost weight 21:33 and he's feeling much better, 21:35 and if God can help a pastor, he can help anybody." 21:40 That's true, but, you know, I asked him, 21:42 I said, "Now you're going to go back 21:44 and teach this what you've learned?" 21:45 "Oh, yeah, I'm working on my first sermon. 21:48 The health message and how to evolved into..." 21:53 And of course, the spiritual aspects of it, 21:56 you know, he's all in. 21:58 I'm telling you, he's going to be an angel 22:01 for the NEWSTART program as you are. 22:05 And I thank you for the first day 22:08 you came on campus, and when we first met, 22:11 you came up and introduced yourself. 22:13 And I asked someone, "Who is that guy?" 22:15 They told me, and they go, "Right on, he's a good guy." 22:18 We've run out of time. I want to thank you. 22:22 Thank you, Damon. God bless you. 22:23 You too, my friend. We'll talk soon. 22:25 All right. And don't go away. 22:26 Stay tuned for the next segment. 22:32 Welcome to NEWSTART Now. 22:33 I'm Dr. Neil Nedley, president of Weimar Institute, 22:37 and with me today is Dr. Eddie Ramirez, 22:40 one of our physicians and researchers 22:42 who is well published in the scientific literature 22:45 and really travels all over the world 22:48 presenting studies about Weimar and NEWSTART 22:51 anywhere from Harvard to China to many places 22:56 where there are scientists gathered together 22:59 for him to present the exciting things 23:01 that are happening here at NEWSTART. 23:04 Today, we're gonna be talking about the silent killer. 23:08 Dr Ramirez, what is the silent killer? 23:10 The silent killer is called high blood pressure. 23:14 Many people have issues with high blood pressure, 23:18 and they don't even realize it, 23:19 and this has very negative effects on the body. 23:23 The internal organs 23:25 cannot withstand that excess blood pressure, 23:28 and the person, many times, end up with severe problems 23:31 like heart failure 23:33 as a result of that long-term high blood pressure 23:36 for long periods of time. 23:38 Yes, and of course, 23:39 it also increases the risk of stroke dramatically, 23:42 both hemorrhagic stroke and bleeding stroke. 23:45 And let me say, although high blood pressure 23:49 can affect your kidneys and all sorts of things, 23:51 and the worst thing it can do is affect your brain 23:54 because that's who we are. 23:55 And so this is why it's very important, 23:57 even if you don't have a stroke, 23:59 if your blood pressure stays elevated, 24:01 you're gonna start losing your memory a lot quicker, 24:04 age-related cognitive decline. 24:06 Half of the patients, they are on dialysis 24:08 in a dialysis center are there 24:10 because their blood pressure was not controlled earlier. 24:13 So find out what your blood pressure is, 24:16 if it's above 115/80, 24:20 you're a candidate to coming to NEWSTART 24:23 just for blood pressure alone. 24:25 How many patients were studied in this particularly study 24:28 that was published in the journal Atherosclerosis, 24:32 Thrombosis, And Vascular Biology? 24:35 One thousand one hundred and ninety-six. 24:38 Okay, so this is no small group, 24:40 and that's why it's being accepted for publication 24:43 because this program works for blood pressure. 24:46 And what did we find out 24:48 in these well over 1,000 patients 24:50 who were on the verge of silently killing themselves 24:53 before they came here? 24:54 Well, on average, 24:56 what we would like for you to have 24:57 is a blood pressure, a systolic number 25:00 of 115 or under that. 25:02 On average, these patients had 132, 25:06 way too high. 25:08 And we took the blood pressure many times 25:11 throughout the programs so we could monitor. 25:13 We need to watch out, and many times, 25:16 we actually decrease or eliminate your medication 25:18 as you come to the program 25:20 because if we keep you 25:22 with the same amount of medication, 25:23 you may go way too low and you actually can pass out 25:26 or have some nasty side effect. 25:29 So look at the progression, 25:31 at time one, by the end of the first week, 25:34 they had an average blood pressure of 125, 25:38 very good number. 25:39 Okay, they've gone down about 13, well about 7. 25:42 It was 132? 132. 25:44 Okay, so they've gone down seven points in a week. 25:46 Then at time two, 121. Okay, another four points. 25:51 And by the end, 121 again. 25:55 So that was a very good improvement 25:58 in just 18 days. 26:00 See, the blood pressure medication 26:02 that many times you're taking 26:05 doesn't lower your blood pressure by many points, 26:08 you know, this is much more efficient than that. 26:11 A lot of times, these antihypertensives 26:13 that can be pretty costly 26:14 are going to lower it about five or six points. 26:16 That's right. 26:17 And if they lower four, they think that's great. 26:20 And so this is a program that lowers it by well over 10, 26:26 and it will continue to come down 26:28 gradually after that. 26:30 And so, in fact, as we do follow-up programs, 26:33 we realize this is a diet and a lifestyle 26:37 that you can be on for life, and so your chance... 26:41 What is the chance of being able to be 26:43 medication free 26:45 and have your blood pressure controlled 26:47 if you have high blood pressure? 26:49 Do we have that? 26:50 I don't have that number in particular here, 26:54 but we do know that most of the people 26:57 that keep on the program, 26:59 they need to continue working with their physician 27:01 because, very soon, 27:03 either they will decrease your medication 27:05 or you no longer will have a need for medication. 27:09 Also, another number that we were measuring 27:12 was diastolic, the other number. 27:16 On average, they started with a diastolic of 76, 27:20 it came down, first week, to 72, 27:23 to the second week to 70, 27:25 and by the end of program to 69. 27:29 Weimar continues to save lives, 27:31 sometimes just by controlling blood pressure 27:34 through lifestyle. 27:36 Thank you for watching NEWSTART Now. 27:38 I'm Dr. Neil Nedley, and join us again next week 27:41 for another new exciting study. 27:46 Well, friends, that's it for today. 27:47 But join us next week for another episode. 27:51 In the meantime, pick up the phone 27:52 and give us a call at 1-800-525-9192. 27:58 Mention the NEWSTART Now program 28:01 and receive the NEWSTART Special. |
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