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Hi Friends and
welcome to another edition of
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NEWSTART Now. I'm your host
Ron Giannoni. In our studio we
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have an unusual visit today.
We have a young lady who came in
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support of her husband
not knowing that she had some
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problems herself. But let's take
a look at when she first arrived
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I'm here because of my
weight and I'm a companion to my
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husband who is not well,
and anxiety. But the weight is a
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problem and with the weight
my blood pressure has increased
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a little bit. So if I can
improve my lifestyle and live a
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longer life.
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Welcome back friends.
Cathy how are you dear?
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I'm fine today.
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Good. I know.
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I thought I was
fine last time I saw you.
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You know I already let the cat
out of the bag. You're here to
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support your husband. So you
decide to see the doctor while
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your here. You do a blood
draw and you find out what?
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I found out that I had
borderline diabetes. I had very
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high sugar levels, my
triglycerides were high
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I had a urinary tract infection.
Uh-huh. So I was in worse shape
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than he was actually. Uh-huh.
His cholesterol level was high
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but that was about all.
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That was about it?
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Uh-huh. Yeah Of course
I was worse off than him.
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Isn't that something.
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The doctor told me I
needed some work to be done.
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All right. Now your doctor is?
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Dr. Gallant.
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Dr. Gallant. Uh-huh. And so
you saw Dr. Gallant before this
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interview, right? Today.
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That's correct. Uh-huh.
Just was about 15 minutes ago.
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OK, now what did he
say about your numbers now?
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They're incredible. My
triglycerides went for 157 down
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to 137, sugar level 109 down to
99. My cholesterol was 188 and
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now it's 150. And my lousy LDL
was 122, now it's down to 91.
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Wow. Everything's down to normal
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or below. Uh-huh. So
I'm a lot healthier today.
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Yeah and you told me before
we started the program that you
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lost something. What'd you lose?
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I lost almost eight pounds.
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And what did that do
to your circumference?
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It 2 inches around, completely
around. I'm going to have to
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have a safety pin to hold my
skirt up for graduation tonight.
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You know, it just amazes me when
I see people come like yourself
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to the NEWSTART program and they
measure, because we do everyone,
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and some people
lose even more than that.
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Yes they have.
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We had a woman here many, many,
many years ago; she lost four
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dress sizes. Did not lose a
pound, but lost four dress sizes
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So she went
(whistles) like that.
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Boy that's amazing.
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That is amazing.
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Uh-huh. Give her
several safety pins.
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She didn't have
anything that fit her.
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So what do you think of this
place? This place that's called
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NEWSTART?
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It's incredible. It does give
you a new beginning in life.
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Makes you more aware of your
health and if you have a spouse
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it gives you a longer life
with your spouse and makes you a
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better person, better wife.
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Amen. So are you saying to
our viewers then if they're
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contemplating attending a
NEWSTART program to bring their
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spouse?
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Absolutely. It's real
educational. You can make meals
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that are really tasty. You have
a lot of time together. And the
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spiritual, Damon Snead,
he's wonderful. Actually we are
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going to get baptized August
the fourth up in Maine, my
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husband and I. He's going to be
rebaptized and I'm going to be
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baptized. Really. Uh-huh.
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Awesome. Now you were raised?
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I was raised Mennonite.
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Mennonite. I think
you mentioned that before.
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Yes, uh-huh, that's correct.
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That's awesome. Congratulations.
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Why thank you, thank you
very much. Yeah, we're looking
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forward to it.
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So I'm going to be interviewing
Damon a little while later as
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part of this program.
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Oh, good. You should give
him credit for us being baptized
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again. I
certainly will. He gets a
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lot of 'at a boys for doing
that. You know actually he's
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baptized more people here
at Moses Rock I think than his
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three predecessors.
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Yeah he had offered to baptize
us and we would have gone and
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done it but we had already
promised David's brother that he
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could baptize us. Uh-huh.
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Oh yes that would be special.
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Uh-huh, yeah, yeah, that would
be special. We could stay at his
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place and he could
baptize us up Maine.
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So who's your favorite person?
Besides me. No, of all the
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people you've met here on staff?
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Donna, Donna was
really a friend to me.
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Is she the sweetest person.
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Yes, uh-huh she is. I had told
her more about me in the first
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massage that she had given me
than I have told my best friend.
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And just in that 45 minutes of
the massage, I had told her more
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about myself than
I have told anybody.
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You know Donna's a
nurse? Yes, uh-huh, as well as a
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massage therapist.
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Yeah, she's does both jobs well.
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And she loves it here and she is
such a blessing to be a part of
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the NEWSTART program. But
thank you for mentioning Donna.
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Yeah, Donna's wonderful and also
Snead, Damon Snead. He was my
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second favorite. He let us know
that he wasn't perfect when he
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got here either
when he was baptized.
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I don't think any of us were.
Yeah. Well I know none of us are
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Yeah, but he actually came out
and told us, you know. That was
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good. I knew that he was
not saintly all the time.
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Yes, he's a
wonderful man. Yeah he is.
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And so the cooking
classes? Did you learn a lot?
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Michelle, yeah, she's really
energetic. Oh yeah, uh-huh,
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she's terrific. Yeah,
cooking class was wonderful and
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everything was very tasty.
And I can't wait to get home to
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restock my kitchen with
the supplies I need to make the
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ice cream and the beans and a
different way of making beans.
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It was very valuable.
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Well now that you've found out
what you have and how are you
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and your husband? Well I can
talk to him about that but how
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is he doing.
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He's doing pretty good, he is.
He's doing well himself but he
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needs a lot of support and
that's why he married me. Uh-huh
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So he's doing very well and I'm
going to go away after we get
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home after two weeks. I'm
going on a cruise to the Mexican
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Riviera so I've got to be real
careful. I'm going to call them
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up because they do do vegan
now if you tell them ahead of
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time. So I'm going to package
everything and put down one carb
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like of a vege-burger so that
way he'll know exactly how many
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carbs he's eating, how many
proteins he's eating so he can
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just open up the freezer
and pick out what he wants.
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All right.
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So I expect him to continue this
when I'm gone because I'm going
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to continue.
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Cathy, I want to
thank you for joining us.
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Oh well think
you for inviting me.
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Yeah. May God bless you.
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Oh why thank you.
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And thank you friends. But don't
go away because Dr. Gallant
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will be up next.
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Welcome back friends. Help
me welcome Dr. Roger Gallant.
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Ron good to be here.
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You know as I have told you
in the past, I know you're real
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busy. In fact, after this
program you got to go do a
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lecture so we're going to make
it real quick. But I want people
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to know that they can
visit you at Stallant Health
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which is right
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on campus here at Weimar. All
they need to do is give you a
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call at 540-637-4025. They can
call, make an appointment, stop
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in and see you. I know they're
going to want to after this
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interview.
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Well, praise the Lord.
We're happy to see them.
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Now let's talk about Catherine
for a moment. I don't recollect
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that she knew a lot of
the problems she had been...
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Well she knew some of them but
came here and found she had a
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couple of others as well. You
know, when I first met her she
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said, I really don't have a lot
of problems. I'm actually doing
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pretty OK you know. And then we
started talking and checking her
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out and actually found that
her blood sugar was a little bit
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high, so she was a
borderline diabetic. She was...
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What do you mean by a little bit
high. Could you give me a number
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I don't like to give a lot of
numbers but this one is one you
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can give. So a blood sugar
of 99 and below is considered
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normal. OK? So a blood sugar
from 100 to 125 is considered
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borderline or prediabetic. Yeah.
And hers fell in that range of
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being prediabetic.
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And she didn't know that.
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She didn't know that. So we
started treating her and her
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sugars came down but it was slow
to come down. So it's a good
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thing she was here and that
she was doing the whole program,
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because it made a difference.
But by the end of the program
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her sugar was
much better, you know.
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Praise the Lord.
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So praise the Lord is right.
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Now the other condition,
how does she fare in that?
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She did well. She'd had some
back pain issues and she'd had
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some anxiety and by God's grace
all of those things improved.
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We also found that she
had a urinary tract infection.
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That is interesting.
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And so we were able to get that
cleared up. She didn't realize
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that she had that as well either
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Now how would you clear that up?
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Well in her case we actually put
her on antibiotics for a little
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bit and then we gave her
some herbal treatments to help
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complete the process and
everything worked nicely. Yeah.
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So praise the Lord for that.
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How much weight did
she lose, do you know?
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She lost, I don't remember off
the top of my head. I'm sorry I
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didn't review that before we got
here, but I will tell you this.
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She and her husband both left
here feeling a lot better having
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lost weight. They came all the
way here from Maryland and they
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are Weimar friendly and they
were walking, they were eating
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healthy, drinking lots of water,
and by God's grace they were
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doing better.
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Praise God. Yeah. So what
can you tell our guests that are
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viewing this program right
now that might help them live a
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healthier life?
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So what I would say to you
is this: There are very simple
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things that can have a profound
impact on your life. First of
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all you need to exercise.
You need to walk for exercise.
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Walk only, can't
lift weights or...
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I recommend walking as the main
source of exercise. If people
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want to lift weights as a
way to have some weight bearing
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exercise, I'm OK with that,
but I don't want people lifting
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heavy weights, I don't want
people trying to get big and
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bulky and muscular. But walking
is the best exercise because it
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uses all the organs of the body,
it improves our circulation and
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our circulation is so crucial
to our health. You know, our
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circulation has to get good
blood to every cell in our body
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in order for us to be healthy.
And the way that we get good
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blood is to eat good food.
As we eat good food it improves
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our blood and as we exercise
it circulates that good blood to
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every single cell in our body
and then our bodies just start
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to get better. They do what God
intended for them to do in the
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first place.
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So you mentioned two important
components. I'm thinking of a
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third one. Can you read my mind?
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The third one is they need to
drink more water, because as you
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drink more water it improves
your circulation and like I just
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said, you've got to circulate
that good blood to every cell
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if you want to be healthy. So
you've got to do those things.
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And then another crucial
one that's really important.
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The people are starting to miss
more and more in our society
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today is sleep. You've got
to get good sleep and going to
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to bed earlier and waking up
earlier is better for us than
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going to bed later
and waking up later.
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So when you eat good food,
you mean buy corn-fed beef and
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farm roasted chicken or whatever
I don't even know anymore.
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Yeah, I'm just kind of joking.
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Yeah, I know. You're
leading me to a certain answer.
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We recommend a plant-based diet.
A plant-based diet is what God
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intended for our bodies to use
to be healthy and when we eat a
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plant-based diet, it puts our
body in the right condition so
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that it can heal and repair
itself the way God intended
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for it to do.
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Amen, amen. I'm so glad to hear
you say that because I got my
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water right here, I've had
a good lunch, all plant based.
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Praise the Lord.
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But I want to thank you because
I know you're a busy guy and I
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know you've got to go to
a lecture right now. Yeah.
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So God bless you brother.
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You too.
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I'll see you around. OK.
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Now don't go away.
We'll be right back.
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Welcome back friends.
Damon, how are you chaplain?
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I'm doing well friend.
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Would you like me to
call you chaplain or pastor?
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You can call me
whatever. It doesn't matter.
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Just don't call
you late for supper.
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That's right. Be
there on time for lasagna.
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We'll have that lasagna soon.
You know we have an interesting
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subject here. This lady,
I understand, was ready to
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high tail it. She was on
overload. Too much information.
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Didn't she want to
leave? Can you talk to that?
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Yeah. You know I saw the first
Sunday when we gathered together
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in a big circle. And she's
new to the Adventist message,
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she's newly married, she's come
really wanting to support her
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husband. Her health is a wreck.
She's wanting to get healthy.
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So like a lot of people,
she hears about this lifestyle
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program and I'm sure she's...
She told me she's thinking
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OK come here, Jacuzzi, hang out,
eat and learn some stuff. So her
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first night here when the
doctors begin explaining the
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regimen of this place, what
we're going to put you into and
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through
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her eyes are getting this
big. My second week with her, my
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second counseling session
she tells me the story. She said
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after the first four days, I was
ready to pack up and leave and
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was telling my husband I can't
do this. We've got to go. She
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said you starve me down for
three days, then they threw me
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in this room and shocked me with
heat and cold and there's no
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time to sleep and all this
information overload is coming.
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She's about ready
to check out on us.
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I'm laughing because I came
through the program in 2005 and
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I can remember all that. I
didn't know if I could do it
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either but go ahead.
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But here's what's great too
is because when you get through
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that first week, I know the
second week... I always tell the
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class. You're going to be
a different group the second
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Monday so let's just hang in
there with one another. And sure
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enough she makes it through
that first week and she doesn't
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realize... It's not so much that
she's deciding to stay. Now that
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second week is starting to work
and she's having the capacity
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to stay. She's feeling better.
The mind is cleared up. She's
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able to understand more and
she's seeing the daylight at the
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end of the tunnel and now
she has some fortitude to stay.
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She was wanting her coffee.
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Oh yeah, she was going through
all kind of withdrawals and all
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kind of issues going on. That's
a good point you bring up.
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You're going through caffeine
withdrawals, or maybe nicotine
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withdrawals, sugar withdrawals,
alcohol, all kind of stuff.
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Beef. Yes. And they're
crying out. They're going insane
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a lot of them. But her testimony
to me this week was I'm so
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grateful I stayed. I'm
so glad I've done this.
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Oh man. Yeah. That
says it all right there.
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Oh sure, because she knows that
the reality of her health and
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her husband's health is at
that point where they can make
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changes now and do good or
continue the road they're on and
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it's a dismal future.
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Exactly. Well she's here
supporting him and so for her
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to leave how in the world could
he go home and share with his
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wife or anybody with their
spouse what they learned here
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in 18 days. This is something
I see in a lot of couples.
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They're telling me man I wish
my spouse was here, I wish my
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husband, I wish my wife was
here. A lot of them pony up that
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little bit of extra because the
reality is if you can get your
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spouse to come as a companion
it is going to help you in the
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long run big time.
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You know while we're on that
subject if you need to be here
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and you have a spouse that
you want to bring, you call me
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direct, I'll help you
financially. That's a commitment
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Yeah, because we do
have that scholarship fund.
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Right and a lot of them
take advantage of that and when
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the two see it together there's
just no describing how these
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couples will be sitting in
my office and just bubbling with
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how excited they are. The
spiritual, yes, they see now
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they got help from God, they
see how conversion works even
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with our physical side, even
with our health. So it's this
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total transformation. They're
getting closer to God, they're
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remedying their maybe
even relational problems.
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Their emotions. Sure one looks
at the other and says I'm not
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going to lose my husband
or whatever the case may be.
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This is true. So it's like this
place is not just health, it's
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emotions, it's relational,
it affects our marriages, it
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affects our health in such a
total workover that people are
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grateful to come through here
and that money that they spend
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you know for the price of a
decent vacation maybe even a
00:20:53.75\00:20:57.89
cheap vacation, right, it's the
greatest thing they could ever
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do for themselves.
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Amen. Thank you
brother. Don't go away friends;
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we'll be right back.
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When you look at the health
status of Americans today it's
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alarming to see that 60 percent
are either overweight or obese.
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In addition, diseases such
as type II diabetes, cancer and
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heart disorders are the leading
cause of so many complications
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and deaths every year...
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Could it have something to
do with what we eat. After all
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every one in four Americans
visits a fast food restaurant
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daily and with such easy access
to quick fixes we tend to forget
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the poor health values they
actually offer. Maybe it's the
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sedentary lifestyle and lack
of exercise that we've become so
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accustomed to as a media-
dependent world. Whatever the
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cause of these diseases,
a solution has arrived. The
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NEWSTART Lifestyle Center offers
an enriching program where
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patients can get a healing of
mind, body and soul. Located in
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the outskirts of Sacramento, the
NEWSTART Center is situated on
00:22:12.29\00:22:16.30
beautiful campus of Weimar
Center of Health and Education
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with scenic walking and hiking
trails all around. With a whole
00:22:20.37\00:22:24.47
plant food eaten whole motto
the NEWSTART Center promotes a
00:22:24.51\00:22:29.98
healthy plant-based diet with
an emphasis on natural foods.
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The NEWSTART staff are made
up of California board certified
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nurses, doctors, dietitians and
therapists who work together to
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assist each patient personally.
The staff are dedicated to each
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patient's success in the program
and are always there to guide
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advise and encourage. 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 balanced program
there is much opportunity to get
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in the fair share of physical
activity from utilizing our
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fitness center to taking
a stroll around the peaceful
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grounds of Weimar. It's amazing
what a new start can do for you.
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Welcome to Weimar Institute
Research. Glad to have you here
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today and Eddie, this is kind
of an exciting study that we're
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about ready to discuss because
this is talking about causes of
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depression that are not thought
to be reversible. And you know
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Weimar Institute does treat
depression. We have had a great
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track record of success in
those with the severest forms of
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depression and anxiety here. But
we're reversing the underlying
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causes. You know, lack of
exercise can be one of the
00:23:45.12\00:23:47.72
causes and poor nutrition and
of course the good news is we
00:23:47.76\00:23:51.76
can change our exercise patterns
and we can change what we're
00:23:51.79\00:23:56.77
eating. But these are causes
that are a little more austere.
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What were we studying here?
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Well we're studying here what
happens to those people that
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have poor blood flow to the
brain secondary to a stroke or
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because of heart failure or some
other condition that doesn't
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send enough blood flow to
the brain. We're studying what
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happens to those people
that aren't in mental health.
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OK. Well obviously if our
circulation to our brain is
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impaired you would think it
might affect the mental health.
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And did you find
a correlation there?
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We found a very clear
correlationship. Those people
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that have that reduced blood
flow to the brain actually on
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average had moderate depression.
This is in a community setting
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program that was organized.
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So the average person with
a history of stroke or heart
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failure by definition almost
they're going to have some
00:24:48.82\00:24:51.82
depression. So they're moderate
major depression. That's a
00:24:51.85\00:24:56.26
significant mental illness. So
how many patients were involved
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in this?
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This was a big sample-5621
participants from all over the
00:25:03.70\00:25:08.87
world.
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OK. And those with
stroke and heart attack were a
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smaller
percentage. Is that right?
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That's right. It was about four
percent of all that population
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had this problem.
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As the underlying cause,
one of the underlying causes.
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That's right. There's a
researcher by the name of
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Gravitz. He had tried to answer
the question of the chicken and
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the egg. Does the depression
cause reduced blood flow to the
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brain or does the reduced blood
flow to the brain cause the
00:25:33.93\00:25:36.87
depression, and he proposes that
reduced blood flow to the brain
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will trigger a depression.
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Yeah. So that's what comes first
the reduced blood flow and then
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the depression. So these people
with moderate depression went
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to an eight-week educational
program. Tell us a little bit
00:25:52.71\00:25:56.89
about that program.
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We apply the principles of
NEWSTART plus some cognitive
00:25:58.29\00:26:02.46
behavioral therapy principles
and they were doing the exercise
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the plant-based diet and all
these healthy behaviors we took
00:26:06.56\00:26:10.10
a measurement again
after the eight weeks.
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And what did we find out?
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We found out that their
improvement was remarkable.
00:26:14.47\00:26:17.44
Ninety percent of those
participants were able to
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improve dramatically their
mental health to the point that
00:26:21.74\00:26:24.75
finished with none
or just mild depression.
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That's amazing because this goes
against what the medical thought
00:26:27.72\00:26:33.86
is, because you can't reverse
a stroke. A stroke is a dead
00:26:33.89\00:26:38.73
portion of the brain.
You can't bring that back.
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And when you have heart failure
due to advanced coronary artery
00:26:40.50\00:26:44.73
disease and the heart's not able
to pump this isn't something
00:26:44.77\00:26:46.80
that you can you know put a
magic wand on or a medicine and
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get it to pump well. So these
are thought to be irreversible
00:26:50.01\00:26:54.24
causes of depression. And we
actually found out the opposite.
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Ninety percent. I mean, that's
better than you get in people
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without heart disease and stroke
by putting them on a medicine.
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Some of the most potent
medicines for antidepression
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won't produce anywhere close
to a ninety percent improvement
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rate.
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And because of the importance
of this study, it actually came
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out in the Journal of Neurology
which happens to be the top
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journal on this field.
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OK. So Neurology is the top
of all of the neurology journals
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and it was published in the
Journal of Neurology as well it
00:27:28.18\00:27:32.05
be. This is groundbreaking
research. Not only were you and
00:27:32.08\00:27:38.05
myself involved in this research
but one of the health science
00:27:38.09\00:27:42.22
majors at Weimar as well.
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But by the end of this program
she was actually able to finish
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with six of these
studies under her belt.
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Six studies! Wow! Many people
don't even publish one peer
00:27:53.20\00:27:57.11
review study their entire career
and this student out of Weimar
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published six. So pay attention
to what comes out of Weimar
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Institute and thanks
for joining us today for
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Weimar Institute Research.
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