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01:12 Hi Friends and welcome to another edition of 01:15 NEWSTART Now. I'm your host Ron Giannoni. In our studio we 01:20 have an unusual visit today. We have a young lady who came in 01:25 support of her husband not knowing that she had some 01:30 problems herself. But let's take a look at when she first arrived 01:38 I'm here because of my weight and I'm a companion to my 01:42 husband who is not well, and anxiety. But the weight is a 01:48 problem and with the weight my blood pressure has increased 01:52 a little bit. So if I can improve my lifestyle and live a 01:57 longer life. 02:02 Welcome back friends. Cathy how are you dear? 02:05 I'm fine today. 02:06 Good. I know. 02:08 I thought I was fine last time I saw you. 02:11 You know I already let the cat out of the bag. You're here to 02:15 support your husband. So you decide to see the doctor while 02:19 your here. You do a blood draw and you find out what? 02:24 I found out that I had borderline diabetes. I had very 02:31 high sugar levels, my triglycerides were high 02:33 I had a urinary tract infection. Uh-huh. So I was in worse shape 02:39 than he was actually. Uh-huh. His cholesterol level was high 02:44 but that was about all. 02:45 That was about it? 02:46 Uh-huh. Yeah Of course I was worse off than him. 02:49 Isn't that something. 02:50 The doctor told me I needed some work to be done. 02:52 All right. Now your doctor is? 02:55 Dr. Gallant. 02:56 Dr. Gallant. Uh-huh. And so you saw Dr. Gallant before this 03:02 interview, right? Today. 03:04 That's correct. Uh-huh. Just was about 15 minutes ago. 03:07 OK, now what did he say about your numbers now? 03:10 They're incredible. My triglycerides went for 157 down 03:15 to 137, sugar level 109 down to 99. My cholesterol was 188 and 03:24 now it's 150. And my lousy LDL was 122, now it's down to 91. 03:33 Wow. Everything's down to normal 03:36 or below. Uh-huh. So I'm a lot healthier today. 03:40 Yeah and you told me before we started the program that you 03:44 lost something. What'd you lose? 03:47 I lost almost eight pounds. 03:48 And what did that do to your circumference? 03:51 It 2 inches around, completely around. I'm going to have to 03:56 have a safety pin to hold my skirt up for graduation tonight. 04:00 You know, it just amazes me when I see people come like yourself 04:07 to the NEWSTART program and they measure, because we do everyone, 04:14 and some people lose even more than that. 04:17 Yes they have. 04:18 We had a woman here many, many, many years ago; she lost four 04:24 dress sizes. Did not lose a pound, but lost four dress sizes 04:30 So she went (whistles) like that. 04:33 Boy that's amazing. 04:34 That is amazing. 04:36 Uh-huh. Give her several safety pins. 04:37 She didn't have anything that fit her. 04:40 So what do you think of this place? This place that's called 04:46 NEWSTART? 04:47 It's incredible. It does give you a new beginning in life. 04:50 Makes you more aware of your health and if you have a spouse 04:55 it gives you a longer life with your spouse and makes you a 04:57 better person, better wife. 04:59 Amen. So are you saying to our viewers then if they're 05:05 contemplating attending a NEWSTART program to bring their 05:09 spouse? 05:10 Absolutely. It's real educational. You can make meals 05:16 that are really tasty. You have a lot of time together. And the 05:22 spiritual, Damon Snead, he's wonderful. Actually we are 05:27 going to get baptized August the fourth up in Maine, my 05:31 husband and I. He's going to be rebaptized and I'm going to be 05:34 baptized. Really. Uh-huh. 05:36 Awesome. Now you were raised? 05:38 I was raised Mennonite. 05:40 Mennonite. I think you mentioned that before. 05:42 Yes, uh-huh, that's correct. 05:43 That's awesome. Congratulations. 05:46 Why thank you, thank you very much. Yeah, we're looking 05:48 forward to it. 05:50 So I'm going to be interviewing Damon a little while later as 05:53 part of this program. 05:55 Oh, good. You should give him credit for us being baptized 05:58 again. I certainly will. He gets a 06:00 lot of 'at a boys for doing that. You know actually he's baptized 06:05 more people here at Moses Rock I think than his three 06:09 predecessors. 06:11 Yeah he had offered to baptize us and we would have gone and 06:15 done it but we had already promised David's brother that he 06:18 could baptize us. Uh-huh. 06:20 Oh yes that would be special. 06:22 Uh-huh, yeah, yeah, that would be special. We could stay at his 06:23 place and he could baptize us up Maine. 06:25 So who's your favorite person? Besides me. No, of all the 06:33 people you've met here on staff? 06:35 Donna, Donna was really a friend to me. 06:38 Is she the sweetest person. 06:41 Yes, uh-huh she is. I had told her more about me in the first 06:44 massage that she had given me than I have told my best friend. 06:48 And just in that 45 minutes of the massage, I had told her more 06:53 about myself than I have told anybody. 06:55 You know Donna's a nurse? Yes, uh-huh, as well as a 06:59 massage therapist. 07:00 Yeah, she's does both jobs well. 07:01 And she loves it here and she is such a blessing to be a part of 07:08 the NEWSTART program. But thank you for mentioning Donna. 07:12 Yeah, Donna's wonderful and also Snead, Damon Snead. He was my 07:18 second favorite. He let us know that he wasn't perfect when he 07:22 got here either when he was baptized. 07:26 I don't think any of us were. Yeah. Well I know none of us are 07:29 Yeah, but he actually came out and told us, you know. That was 07:33 good. I knew that he was not saintly all the time. 07:39 Yes, he's a wonderful man. Yeah he is. 07:40 And so the cooking classes? Did you learn a lot? 07:44 Michelle, yeah, she's really energetic. Oh yeah, uh-huh, 07:48 she's terrific. Yeah, cooking class was wonderful and 07:52 everything was very tasty. And I can't wait to get home to 07:56 restock my kitchen with the supplies I need to make the 08:00 ice cream and the beans and a different way of making beans. 08:04 It was very valuable. 08:09 Well now that you've found out what you have and how are you 08:16 and your husband? Well I can talk to him about that but how 08:20 is he doing. 08:21 He's doing pretty good, he is. He's doing well himself but he 08:26 needs a lot of support and that's why he married me. Uh-huh 08:29 So he's doing very well and I'm going to go away after we get 08:33 home after two weeks. I'm going on a cruise to the Mexican 08:36 Riviera so I've got to be real careful. I'm going to call them 08:39 up because they do do vegan now if you tell them ahead of 08:43 time. So I'm going to package everything and put down one carb 08:46 like of a vege-burger so that way he'll know exactly how many 08:50 carbs he's eating, how many proteins he's eating so he can 08:53 just open up the freezer and pick out what he wants. 08:55 All right. 08:56 So I expect him to continue this when I'm gone because I'm going 08:59 to continue. 09:01 Cathy, I want to thank you for joining us. 09:03 Oh well think you for inviting me. 09:05 Yeah. May God bless you. 09:07 Oh why thank you. 09:08 And thank you friends. But don't go away because Dr. Gallant 09:12 will be up next. 09:13 ¤ ¤ 09:49 Welcome back friends. Help me welcome Dr. Roger Gallant. 09:52 Ron good to be here. 09:53 You know as I have told you in the past, I know you're real 09:56 busy. In fact, after this program you got to go do a 10:01 lecture so we're going to make it real quick. But I want people 10:04 to know that they can visit you at Stallant Health 10:08 which is right 10:09 on campus here at Weimar. All they need to do is give you a 10:13 call at 540-637-4025. They can call, make an appointment, stop 10:26 in and see you. I know they're going to want to after this 10:28 interview. 10:30 Well, praise the Lord. We're happy to see them. 10:31 Now let's talk about Catherine for a moment. I don't recollect 10:38 that she knew a lot of the problems she had been... 10:43 Well she knew some of them but came here and found she had a 10:46 couple of others as well. You know, when I first met her she 10:50 said, I really don't have a lot of problems. I'm actually doing 10:55 pretty OK you know. And then we started talking and checking her 10:59 out and actually found that her blood sugar was a little bit 11:03 high, so she was a borderline diabetic. She was... 11:06 What do you mean by a little bit high. Could you give me a number 11:09 I don't like to give a lot of numbers but this one is one you 11:13 can give. So a blood sugar of 99 and below is considered 11:17 normal. OK? So a blood sugar from 100 to 125 is considered 11:24 borderline or prediabetic. Yeah. And hers fell in that range of 11:29 being prediabetic. 11:31 And she didn't know that. 11:32 She didn't know that. So we started treating her and her 11:36 sugars came down but it was slow to come down. So it's a good 11:40 thing she was here and that she was doing the whole program, 11:43 because it made a difference. But by the end of the program 11:46 her sugar was much better, you know. 11:49 Praise the Lord. 11:50 So praise the Lord is right. 11:51 Now the other condition, how does she fare in that? 11:54 She did well. She'd had some back pain issues and she'd had 12:00 some anxiety and by God's grace all of those things improved. 12:05 We also found that she had a urinary tract infection. 12:08 That is interesting. 12:10 And so we were able to get that cleared up. She didn't realize 12:12 that she had that as well either 12:14 Now how would you clear that up? 12:15 Well in her case we actually put her on antibiotics for a little 12:20 bit and then we gave her some herbal treatments to help 12:22 complete the process and everything worked nicely. Yeah. 12:28 So praise the Lord for that. 12:29 How much weight did she lose, do you know? 12:32 She lost, I don't remember off the top of my head. I'm sorry I 12:34 didn't review that before we got here, but I will tell you this. 12:38 She and her husband both left here feeling a lot better having 12:42 lost weight. They came all the way here from Maryland and they 12:48 are Weimar friendly and they were walking, they were eating 12:53 healthy, drinking lots of water, and by God's grace they were 12:57 doing better. 12:59 Praise God. Yeah. So what can you tell our guests that are 13:03 viewing this program right now that might help them live a 13:09 healthier life? 13:10 So what I would say to you is this: There are very simple 13:13 things that can have a profound impact on your life. First of 13:17 all you need to exercise. You need to walk for exercise. 13:22 Walk only, can't lift weights or... 13:25 I recommend walking as the main source of exercise. If people 13:29 want to lift weights as a way to have some weight bearing 13:34 exercise, I'm OK with that, but I don't want people lifting 13:38 heavy weights, I don't want people trying to get big and 13:41 bulky and muscular. But walking is the best exercise because it 13:46 uses all the organs of the body, it improves our circulation and 13:50 our circulation is so crucial to our health. You know, our 13:55 circulation has to get good blood to every cell in our body 14:00 in order for us to be healthy. And the way that we get good 14:03 blood is to eat good food. As we eat good food it improves 14:08 our blood and as we exercise it circulates that good blood to 14:12 every single cell in our body and then our bodies just start 14:15 to get better. They do what God intended for them to do in the 14:18 first place. 14:19 So you mentioned two important components. I'm thinking of a 14:24 third one. Can you read my mind? 14:28 The third one is they need to drink more water, because as you 14:31 drink more water it improves your circulation and like I just 14:35 said, you've got to circulate that good blood to every cell 14:38 if you want to be healthy. So you've got to do those things. 14:41 And then another crucial one that's really important. 14:44 The people are starting to miss more and more in our society 14:47 today is sleep. You've got to get good sleep and going to 14:50 to bed earlier and waking up earlier is better for us than 14:54 going to bed later and waking up later. 14:56 So when you eat good food, you mean buy corn-fed beef and 15:01 farm roasted chicken or whatever I don't even know anymore. 15:06 Yeah, I'm just kind of joking. 15:09 Yeah, I know. You're leading me to a certain answer. 15:10 We recommend a plant-based diet. A plant-based diet is what God 15:15 intended for our bodies to use to be healthy and when we eat a 15:20 plant-based diet, it puts our body in the right condition so 15:23 that it can heal and repair itself the way God intended 15:26 for it to do. 15:27 Amen, amen. I'm so glad to hear you say that because I got my 15:32 water right here, I've had a good lunch, all plant based. 15:37 Praise the Lord. 15:39 But I want to thank you because I know you're a busy guy and I 15:42 know you've got to go to a lecture right now. Yeah. 15:45 So God bless you brother. 15:46 You too. 15:47 I'll see you around. OK. 15:49 Now don't go away. We'll be right back. 15:54 Welcome back friends. Damon, how are you chaplain? 15:57 I'm doing well friend. 15:59 Would you like me to call you chaplain or pastor? 16:01 You can call me whatever. It doesn't matter. 16:03 Just don't call you late for supper. 16:05 That's right. Be there on time for lasagna. 16:09 We'll have that lasagna soon. You know we have an interesting 16:14 subject here. This lady, I understand, was ready to 16:20 high tail it. She was on overload. Too much information. 16:25 Didn't she want to leave? Can you talk to that? 16:29 Yeah. You know I saw the first Sunday when we gathered together 16:32 in a big circle. And she's new to the Adventist message, 16:37 she's newly married, she's come really wanting to support her 16:41 husband. Her health is a wreck. She's wanting to get healthy. 16:45 So like a lot of people, she hears about this lifestyle 16:47 program and I'm sure she's... She told me she's thinking 16:50 OK come here, Jacuzzi, hang out, eat and learn some stuff. So her 16:57 first night here when the doctors begin explaining the 17:01 regimen of this place, what we're going to put you into and 17:05 through 17:06 her eyes are getting this big. My second week with her, my 17:11 second counseling session she tells me the story. She said 17:14 after the first four days, I was ready to pack up and leave and 17:19 was telling my husband I can't do this. We've got to go. She 17:23 said you starve me down for three days, then they threw me 17:27 in this room and shocked me with heat and cold and there's no 17:31 time to sleep and all this information overload is coming. 17:35 She's about ready to check out on us. 17:38 I'm laughing because I came through the program in 2005 and 17:44 I can remember all that. I didn't know if I could do it either 17:47 but go ahead. 17:49 But here's what's great too is because when you get through 17:52 that first week, I know the second week... I always tell the 17:57 class. You're going to be a different group the second 18:00 Monday so let's just hang in there with one another. And sure 18:03 enough she makes it through that first week and she doesn't 18:07 realize... It's not so much that she's deciding to stay. Now that 18:11 second week is starting to work and she's having the capacity 18:14 to stay. She's feeling better. The mind is cleared up. She's 18:18 able to understand more and she's seeing the daylight at the 18:21 end of the tunnel and now she has some fortitude to stay. 18:25 She was wanting her coffee. 18:27 Oh yeah, she was going through all kind of withdrawals and all 18:31 kind of issues going on. That's a good point you bring up. 18:34 You're going through caffeine withdrawals, or maybe nicotine 18:37 withdrawals, sugar withdrawals, alcohol, all kind of stuff. 18:41 Beef. Yes. And they're crying out. They're going insane 18:46 a lot of them. But her testimony to me this week was I'm so 18:52 grateful I stayed. I'm so glad I've done this. 18:57 Oh man. Yeah. That says it all right there. 19:00 Oh sure, because she knows that the reality of her health and 19:04 her husband's health is at that point where they can make 19:07 changes now and do good or continue the road they're on and 19:13 it's a dismal future. 19:16 Exactly. Well she's here supporting him and so for her 19:21 to leave how in the world could he go home and share with his 19:26 wife or anybody with their spouse what they learned here 19:31 in 18 days. This is something I see in a lot of couples. 19:34 They're telling me man I wish my spouse was here, I wish my 19:37 husband, I wish my wife was here. A lot of them pony up that 19:41 little bit of extra because the reality is if you can get your 19:45 spouse to come as a companion it is going to help you in the 19:48 long run big time. 19:49 You know while we're on that subject if you need to be here 19:54 and you have a spouse that you want to bring, you call me 19:57 direct, I'll help you financially. That's a commitment 20:01 Yeah, because we do have that scholarship fund. 20:03 Right and a lot of them take advantage of that and when 20:07 the two see it together there's just no describing how these 20:10 couples will be sitting in my office and just bubbling with 20:14 how excited they are. The spiritual, yes, they see now 20:19 they got help from God, they see how conversion works even 20:23 with our physical side, even with our health. So it's this 20:26 total transformation. They're getting closer to God, they're 20:29 remedying their maybe even relational problems. 20:32 Their emotions. Sure one looks at the other and says I'm not 20:36 going to lose my husband or whatever the case may be. 20:39 This is true. So it's like this place is not just health, it's 20:43 emotions, it's relational, it affects our marriages, it 20:46 affects our health in such a total workover that people are 20:51 grateful to come through here and that money that they spend 20:53 you know for the price of a decent vacation maybe even a 20:57 cheap vacation, right, it's the greatest thing they could ever 21:01 do for themselves. 21:04 Amen. Thank you brother. Don't go away friends; 21:07 we'll be right back. 21:09 When you look at the health status of Americans today it's 21:12 alarming to see that 60 percent are either overweight or obese. 21:21 In addition, diseases such as type II diabetes, cancer and 21:25 heart disorders are the leading cause of so many complications 21:28 and deaths every year... 21:35 Could it have something to do with what we eat. After all 21:38 every one in four Americans visits a fast food restaurant 21:42 daily and with such easy access to quick fixes we tend to forget 21:46 the poor health values they actually offer. Maybe it's the 21:51 sedentary lifestyle and lack of exercise that we've become so 21:55 accustomed to as a media- dependent world. Whatever the 21:58 cause of these diseases, a solution has arrived. The 22:05 NEWSTART Lifestyle Center offers an enriching program where 22:08 patients can get a healing of mind, body and soul. Located in 22:12 the outskirts of Sacramento, the NEWSTART Center is situated on 22:16 beautiful campus of Weimar Center of Health and Education 22:20 with scenic walking and hiking trails all around. With a whole 22:24 plant food eaten whole motto the NEWSTART Center promotes a 22:30 healthy plant-based diet with an emphasis on natural foods. 22:32 The NEWSTART staff are made up of California board certified 22:37 nurses, doctors, dietitians and therapists who work together to 22:41 assist each patient personally. The staff are dedicated to each 22:45 patient's success in the program and are always there to guide 22:48 advise and encourage. In addition to a healthy lifestyle, 22:52 NEWSTART also promotes a healthy exercise routine. 22:56 You're both in sequence, that's good. All right. 22:59 As part of the balanced program there is much opportunity to get 23:02 in the fair share of physical activity from utilizing our 23:06 fitness center to taking a stroll around the peaceful 23:09 grounds of Weimar. It's amazing what a new start can do for you. 23:15 Welcome to Weimar Institute Research. Glad to have you here 23:19 today and Eddie, this is kind of an exciting study that we're 23:22 about ready to discuss because this is talking about causes of 23:27 depression that are not thought to be reversible. And you know 23:31 Weimar Institute does treat depression. We have had a great 23:37 track record of success in those with the severest forms of 23:40 depression and anxiety here. But we're reversing the underlying 23:45 causes. You know, lack of exercise can be one of the 23:47 causes and poor nutrition and of course the good news is we 23:51 can change our exercise patterns and we can change what we're 23:56 eating. But these are causes that are a little more austere. 23:59 What were we studying here? 24:02 Well we're studying here what happens to those people that 24:05 have poor blood flow to the brain secondary to a stroke or 24:11 because of heart failure or some other condition that doesn't 24:15 send enough blood flow to the brain. We're studying what 24:18 happens to those people that aren't in mental health. 24:21 OK. Well obviously if our circulation to our brain is 24:25 impaired you would think it might affect the mental health. 24:27 And did you find a correlation there? 24:30 We found a very clear correlationship. Those people 24:34 that have that reduced blood flow to the brain actually on 24:38 average had moderate depression. This is in a community setting 24:43 program that was organized. 24:45 So the average person with a history of stroke or heart 24:48 failure by definition almost they're going to have some 24:51 depression. So they're moderate major depression. That's a 24:56 significant mental illness. So how many patients were involved 25:02 in this? 25:03 This was a big sample-5621 participants from all over the 25:08 world. 25:10 OK. And those with stroke and heart attack were a 25:15 smaller percentage. Is that right? 25:16 That's right. It was about four percent of all that population 25:20 had this problem. 25:22 As the underlying cause, one of the underlying causes. 25:25 That's right. There's a researcher by the name of 25:26 Gravitz. He had tried to answer the question of the chicken and 25:30 the egg. Does the depression cause reduced blood flow to the 25:33 brain or does the reduced blood flow to the brain cause the 25:36 depression, and he proposes that reduced blood flow to the brain 25:40 will trigger a depression. 25:42 Yeah. So that's what comes first the reduced blood flow and then 25:45 the depression. So these people with moderate depression went 25:52 to an eight-week educational program. Tell us a little bit 25:56 about that program. 25:58 We apply the principles of NEWSTART plus some cognitive 26:02 behavioral therapy principles and they were doing the exercise 26:06 the plant-based diet and all these healthy behaviors we took 26:10 a measurement again after the eight weeks. 26:12 And what did we find out? 26:14 We found out that their improvement was remarkable. 26:17 Ninety percent of those participants were able to 26:21 improve dramatically their mental health to the point that 26:24 finished with none or just mild depression. 26:27 That's amazing because this goes against what the medical thought 26:33 is, because you can't reverse a stroke. A stroke is a dead 26:38 portion of the brain. You can't bring that back. 26:40 And when you have heart failure due to advanced coronary artery 26:44 disease and the heart's not able to pump this isn't something 26:46 that you can you know put a magic wand on or a medicine and 26:50 get it to pump well. So these are thought to be irreversible 26:54 causes of depression. And we actually found out the opposite. 26:58 Ninety percent. I mean, that's better than you get in people 27:01 without heart disease and stroke by putting them on a medicine. 27:06 Some of the most potent medicines for antidepression 27:10 won't produce anywhere close to a ninety percent improvement 27:13 rate. 27:14 And because of the importance of this study, it actually came 27:18 out in the Journal of Neurology which happens to be the top 27:22 journal on this field. 27:24 OK. So Neurology is the top of all of the neurology journals 27:28 and it was published in the Journal of Neurology as well it 27:32 be. This is groundbreaking research. Not only were you and 27:38 myself involved in this research but one of the health science 27:42 majors at Weimar as well. 27:45 But by the end of this program she was actually able to finish 27:49 with six of these studies under her belt. 27:53 Six studies! Wow! Many people don't even publish one peer 27:57 review study their entire career and this student out of Weimar 28:02 published six. So pay attention to what comes out of Weimar 28:06 Institute and thanks for joining us today for 28:09 Weimar Institute Research. 28:13 ¤ ¤ |
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