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Hi folks and welcome
to another edition of
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NEWSTART Now. I'm your host
Ron Giannoni. In our studios
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with us today I've got a very
unusual young man. I'd like you
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to take a look at
when he first arrived.
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I'm dealing with... I have
sleep apnea, I have asthma, I'm
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dealing with congestive
heart failure. I have breathing
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problems. I have borderline
diabetes. I'm morbidly obese.
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I have problems with my
circulations. I have a lot of
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pains and aches all over,
obviously because of the weight.
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You know, when I leave this
place I expect to, you know I
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have a passion because I know
that health is very important
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and I am a literature evangelist
and I believe your body is the
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temple of God and I could never
be able to tell anyone about
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health if I'm in bad health
and I'm morbidly obese. I'd be
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looked as a joke. So I want to
get back on track. I'm expecting
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to lose an exorbitant
amount of weight. I want to be a
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vegetarian. I want to be the
best as far as my health could
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be and in the best shape. I
want to start the road to full
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recovery. My goal is to be 230
or 240 pounds and that's my goal
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that by God's grace I believe
that I'm going to do it within
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a year's time and I just need
something to help me to get that
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weight off so I can start and
I could be able to exercise and
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do it.
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Welcome back friends. Help
me welcome Big Joe. Wow, Joe you
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look great, man. You know, I
know a lot of the viewers are
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wondering Gee, I've seen this
guy before; who is he, Big Joe?
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Well I'm here to tell you that
I saw Joe before he came to the
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NEWSTART program on You Tube in
an interview. And if you want to
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go see that program it's on You
Tube "Big Joe Trump." Type in
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those words and you'll get to
see Big Joe and he's here now.
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So Joe, first thing I got to
ask you, what was your heaviest
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weight you ever weighed?
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My maximum weight would have
been about in December about
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maybe three months ago.
Basically I went to the doctor's
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office and I got on the scale
and I was about 495 pounds.
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And how much are you today?
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Today I am at
430 about 34 pounds.
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So you've lost about 60 pounds
in the last couple of months.
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Yeah. Awesome. God is good.
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Now since you've been here
Joe you've lost weight I know,
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what 30 pounds roughly?
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I lost precisely 21 pounds
from the time I came here.
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Good. Now how about medications?
Are you off medications.
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Um, everything that I was on
I'm totally off of it right now.
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You're off of all medications?
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I am not taking any meds.
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But aren't you diabetic.
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I was borderline.
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But now you don't
have to worry about it.
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Basically everything, my blood
pressure, I had a lot of things
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that was going on with me at the
time and I was on a lot of meds.
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OK. And coming here I'm not
taking anything right now and
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everything is under control.
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Now when you got here I know
that we have a half-mile loop
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and you couldn't walk that
half-mile loop. Are you able
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to do it now?
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Definitely. And actually it's my
custom being here now I actually
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do at least four times a
day and more. I've done a lot of
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things that I was not able to
do because I was not accustomed
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to moving around so much
and actually walking up. This is
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pretty terrainy and hilly
and I wasn't accustomed to that
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especially in the
city where I live.
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Now something very unusual
happened while you were here.
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All of a sudden, and people who
are watching us right now, a lot
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of them do not realize
the spiritual component of a
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NEWSTART program, but it hit
you in a big way and you were
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rebaptized.
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Yes I was. Yeah, and I'm so
happy I've done that. You know,
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I committed myself when I
decided to come to this program
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I knew that I needed to do a
change in my diet. I knew that
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my life depended on it. And I
wanted to be very serious about
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this because I've had a struggle
with appetite and diet. A lot of
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people do. But I wanted to make
sure that I sealed my decision
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with God and this was not going
to be just me doing this on my
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own in my own strength but me
doing it with the power of God
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in my life. So I made a
commitment to him that I'm so
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serious about this that I'm
going to recommit myself to you
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so that you can help me to do
this because I know I wouldn't
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have been able to
do it all by myself.
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He's been down here. Talk about
water he gave. Man this is going
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to be a resurrection all right.
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Joe, yeah, because of your
desire, yes, to enter into that
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door we spoke of as death, and
leave your old self behind and
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be resurrected in power of the
Holy Spirit, we now baptize you
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in the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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Cheering and
applause and singing.
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Amen. You know, no truer words
have ever been spoken and I read
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this morning in our Quarterly
how Peter got out of the boat
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and he was walking on water
towards Jesus but then he took
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his eyes off of Jesus and
you know the rest. Of course.
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But he sunk and he said Jesus
help me and this is the life
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that we live. We take our eyes
off the Lord and we start to
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sink, but then we cry out
and he reaches out his hand and
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lifts us out of despair and
that's what you just said to me.
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Right. Yeah. You can't
do nothing without him.
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OK. Now let me ask you a
question: Aside from me, who's
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your favorite person. No I
didn't mean to say it that way.
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What impressed you the
most about our program.
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Oh man, you have a really
comprehensive program. The fact
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that you're even out in
the country and the mountain
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scenery and
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you take someone out of the
city, because I'm accustomed to
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the pollution, the smog and
everything and out of the urban
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area into a country scenery,
a quiet, a beautiful mountainous
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region. I'm drinking healthy you
know, eating healthy food, water
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I'm meeting people from all over
the country that have different
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ailments but we all have
the same goals. I mean this
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environment, this environment
is so. I mean the rooms, the
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beds are so comfortable, very
rare that I find a bed that...
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So you're pretty
impressed about the whole thing.
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Yes the whole inside of the
lodge is very comfortable and
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accommodating. The people,
the workers are so friendly and
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they're really loving and
cooperative. You know everybody
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is there to assist you.
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What about your
doctor? Was he accommodating?
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Oh most definitely, definitely.
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And that was Dr. Lukens?
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Dr. Lukens, yeah he's my doctor.
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Do you find him different
than the doctors off campus.
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Oh yes. Dr. Lukens and also Dr.
Gallant these guys are really...
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The doctors I've noticed here
are very oriented in as far as
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getting cured but in the
holistic way and doing it by
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eating healthier and eliminating
the fats in our diet and things
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of that nature which is
very unusual. Whereas the other
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doctors outside of this place
more into pharmaceuticals and
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just giving your drugs to try
to... And it doesn't actually
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take care of the problem it just
takes care of the symptoms of
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what's going on but it doesn't
address the underlying issue
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which the doctors here address
the underlying and prevention
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all together. And if we could
prevent these we don't even have
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to worry about
dealing with these things.
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Joe, I want to thank you for
joining us here. We've run out
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of time. God bless you
brother. I'll be following up.
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Well thank you.
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Friends don't go away.
Dr. Lukens will be up next.
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Every year in America there are
over one million deaths because
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of type II diabetes and chronic
obesity. This includes heart
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attacks and strokes. That's
six and a half 747s crashing
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every day. What's even more
amazing is that the fix is easy.
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It's your lifestyle. Wouldn't
it be nice if you could actually
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add quality years to your life
rather than dying one organ at
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a time. Obesity and diabetes
are the cause of over a million
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deaths per year. Most diseases
are reversible because most
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diseases are lifestyle diseases,
especially type II diabetes and
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chronic obesity. Seriously
now they can be reversed and the
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quality of your life can be
renewed. Call NEWSTART today
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at 1-800-525-9192. You will see
dramatic changes in the first
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few days of our program
and you'll be on the road to a
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better more robust quality of
life. The NEWSTART programs are
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simple and effective.
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Welcome back friends. Please
help me welcome Dr. Lukens.
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Ron good to see you.
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It's always good to see you.
I want to talk about Joe but
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before we get in the subject
of Big Joe, I want to talk about
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Big Rick Lukens. No.
Yeah. you've been here what, 28
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years? Yeah 27. But who's
counting. No. You know you've
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just been such a great mentor
to me in both health and my
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spiritual path has changed. You
know you come to my office and
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pray together and I'm just
grateful for that. I wanted our
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viewers to know because an
integral part of our program is
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our spiritual
connection with the Lord.
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It has to be.
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It has to be. Otherwise things
just don't work. So Big Joe.
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What a guy. Big. Man, yeah he's
big. He picked me up and shook
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me like a rag doll and then
he did this with a couple of our
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staff members, picked up two of
them at the same time. This guy
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is huge and strong for a guy
with all these problems though.
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You know, we got to get him
in good shape. He is in better
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shape today. Oh yeah, yeah.
Than he was when he got here.
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Wouldn't you say?
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Well one of the things that was
really bothering him is that his
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legs were so swollen and so
I took my thumb as we do and
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pressed on the pretibial area of
the shin and I got all the way
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up to his knee and he still had
more. Then we always talk about
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this: when the heart gets
strong it's able to pump through
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the kidneys and I could see his
eyes going like that because he
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lost a lot of weight from one
Monday to the next, you know.
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Yes, but he must have gained
more muscle at the same time.
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Well he did. So after he lost
the water than he didn't lose
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as much because he was doing
pretty good exercise. One time
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I said Joe, look if you're going
to talk to somebody get out on
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the loop and walk and talk. He
was still talking, pictures, you
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picking people up. I said Joe
come here and I took him by the
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you know sort of and I said
let's go walk. Because sometimes
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you know his blood pressure
would go way up. Oh Yeah.
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You know our heart has to
pump through all of our body.
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We can't just say well today the
right leg isn't going to get any
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circulation. So that's the
reason why he was failing but he
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has a pretty healthy appetite
if you want to say healthy. It's
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beyond healthy.
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Wow. Yeah, yeah. You know
he wanted to go see Pastor Doug
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Batchelor. Oh yeah,
yeah, you took him down there.
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And so I took him down there.
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Did he pick him up and say hi.
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Well he did pick him up but all
he wanted to do is meet people.
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So hello to everybody. He's just
like this celebrity, you know.
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He's quite an amazing guy
and I've learned to love him.
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But I've got to cut him
short because he takes the show.
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I mean. You saw the baptism
which we showed our friends
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here and he had everybody on
top of the mountain. He wanted
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everybody to take a picture with
him with 100, 125 people there.
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And everybody had to
be there with Big Joe.
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Yeah, yeah that's Joe. You know
one of the things that I don't
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know, he said that he is a
literature evangelist but he
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said they bring in these truck-
loads of extra books, you know.
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People are wanting everything on
line now so books are not as...
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because they used to. And then
he helps people to learn how to
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give the books out and to
engage people. It isn't just
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like, you know, like this. He
talks to them a little bit and
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finds out and then he canvassed
one of our staff at... Yeah,
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yeah, he even said what church
you go to and what do you know
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about the Bible and then he
said, well I'm going to give you
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this book, will you read it.
And she said yeah, yeah, I'll
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read it you know. So
that's good you know. People...
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He's a little intimidating
though don't you think>
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Well his size has
something to do with it.
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Towering over you know
saying you will read this.
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But see the thing is that
people that are like that when
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they can get a hold of this
and actually do the whole plant
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foods eaten whole, then they're
just like some of pastors from
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other churches that have come
here. And the people are saying
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you've got to tell me pastor,
how did you do it, you know.
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Some of the people are well
known in the country and it's
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wonderful because then when
a person starts getting some
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victories in their life in the
area of health, then they say
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you know Lord you can help
me with my temper or my other
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addictions or whatever and then
that's a wonderful thing. That's
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why we're here.
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I think he's done remarkably
well. You're his doctor. I know
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he's had so many issues.
You know he's taken so much
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medication with all these
different things but he tells
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me that he's continuing on
the path and he's going to be a
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poster child for the NEWSTART
program, and we need to follow
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up on him.
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Yeah we do. Did he say how much
he's walking, because that's the
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main thing for him.
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He told me he's cut back but
I said you got to walk. Yeah.
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And we're out of time. See when
you're having fun what happens.
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Thank you so much.
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Everybody pray for Big Joe.
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Pray for Big Joe.
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I say Joe because we don't
want him to be big anymore.
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No. He's going to be
tall. But friends don't go away,
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Pastor Snead is up next.
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Welcome back friends.
Help me welcome Pastor Snead.
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How you doing.
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I'm doing good Brother. You know
I just found out today you have
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some Italian blood in you.
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Yes sir my...
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I got to relate to you a
little different. But I want our
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viewers to know that you are our
newest pastor and you've been
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here since June of 2016. Yes sir
And from my perspective you've
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baptized more people in the last
eight months than I think we did
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in the previous eight years.
So that tells me something.
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The work you're doing is
wonderful. I just want to
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thank you. But's
let's talk about Joe.
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Big Joe. What do you see here.
Help us to understand what we're
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seeing in this man.
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Well Big Joe, what I see in
Big Joe is typical in a lot of
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church members, a lot of
Adventists that come through.
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Big Joe was one of these guys
that he came, he's been a part
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of the church for a long time
but about half way through the
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program Big Joe began to have
a spiritual revival. The health
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starts working. By the second
week things are starting to
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change. I noticed the first week
it was kind of rough for Big Joe
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but by the second week he really
began to pay attention and come
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alive and it led to him being
baptized, to a spiritual revival
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for him.
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That was amazing. There had to
be 150 people at that baptism.
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Yeah, it was a
big one for a big one.
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For a big one. I recall that you
were trying to get him out of
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the water there that took
four people to get him out.
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Yeah if Kurt Kruger wouldn't
have been there it would have
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been an interesting baptism.
Because he came out of my arms
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That was a handful I had. Yeah.
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Such a blessing. You know, we
know that you have a lot to do
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with that Pastor and you know
to me, I want to talk about you
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just for a little bit. You are
such a loving man and I think
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I understand more after talking
to you a few times, but our
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guests who come through the
program feel that love. They
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feel your sincerity and I feel
that Weimar and the NEWSTART
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program is blessed to have you
here. And I'm not trying to give
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you a big head, you know that.
But it's by God's grace that
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you've been given this talent
and to see you use it so wisely
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is just awesome and
I want to thank you.
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I appreciate it.
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Again, back to Joe, what
else can we talk about with this
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big teddy bear?
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Big Joe. He is full of love and
to me he demonstrates the kind
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of people I love to see come
through with that openness, that
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genuineness, ready to listen,
you know as the health begins
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to work in his life he opens
up spiritually and he blossomed
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right there with us. What I love
about Big Joe was his honesty.
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He was almost toward the end
when, you know towards the end
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of the second week when we have
that call for really rebaptism.
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And you know, I've been here for
nine months now. We've had 200
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people come through NEWSTART.
Of those 200 people 168 of them
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have come to the Fresh Start
program and of those 168 we've
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had 27 of those people
either baptized, rebaptized or
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attending a local Seventh-day
Adventist church or in serious
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Bible studies. That's like a
16 percent revival in the church
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and that's in an 18-day turn
around. So could you imagine
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Big Joes like that in every
church everywhere in all of our
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sister churches. I mean, this
health message has a power in it
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unlike anything else that I've
ever seen. Of 13 years in the
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ministry in the dry desert of
doing whatever I can do it has
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been a blessing to come here
and see how health really works
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together with the gospel with
the spiritual to bring people
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like Big Joe into these
decisions and have a revived
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life.
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Amen. Thank you brother.
God bless you. And friends thank
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you too, but don't go
away. Dr. Nedley is up next.
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Welcome to Weimar Institute
Research. And today we have
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Dr. Ramirez, the head of our
research at Weimar College who
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teaches in our health science
department research methods and
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today we have another
angle looking at some health
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principles. Tell us about this
particular angle, Dr. Ramirez.
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Yeah, this one is dealing about
regularity and it's interesting
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because you know I've been
through more than 60 countries
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lecturing about these principles
of NEWSTART and people come to
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me and say you know this
is the first time I hear that
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regularity is
important for my health.
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Yeah. You know we know that
circadian rhythms are important
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and this is our daily cycle. And
we also know light helps set the
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circadian rhythms and if our
circadian rhythms are doing well
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we're going to be sleeping
better. But this is also taking
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a look at not only regularity
regarding sleep but regularity
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in another area.
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Also in your meals. Eating your
meals at the same time every
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day including the weekends.
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So if you have regularity in
eating it actually can improve
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your health.
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That's right.
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Now what area of
health were you looking at?
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We were focusing here on mental
health. What effect does regular
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eating and sleeping
have on your depression.
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You know, I went to a GI
conference a little over a year
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ago where they talked about even
our bowel has a circadian rhythm
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and it does much better if we
have that rhythm aligned and on
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a regular basis.
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And we have the solution to
the blue Monday that many people
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suffer from worldwide.
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Yeah, the blue Monday because
they get off on their sleep
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and they get off on their meals.
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That's right.
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So how many people
were you looking at?
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So this is a big sample, 5,621
participants that did an eight
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week community education program
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OK. And that community education
program was the depression
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anxiety recovery program and
by going to that program, they
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take a test at the beginning
to see where they're at and
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assess them. And what did
we find out in that first test?
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What we found out is that
those people that don't have
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regularity tend to have higher
levels of depression, 15 points
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on average, compared to those
that have that regularity; the
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mental health is much better.
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OK. So regularity in both things
(in both things) sleeping and
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eating will actually help
your depression and anxiety
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significantly or not make
it as severe if you have it.
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And we also found out
that those that are not regular
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about 30 percent of them, they
don't sleep good, they have bad
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sleep.
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OK. So it will also affect your
sleep. Now what happened during
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the eight weeks then?
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So during the eight weeks they
were educated on these NEWSTART
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principles that are so
important but also on that
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regularity because our
brain doesn't work when there's
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disaster in our lives.
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OK. So were some of them
convinced enough to change
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their lifestyle? I know
the program isn't just about
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regularity. There's a lot
of other things like cognitive
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behavioral therapy and nutrition
but did some people actually
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change their lifestyle habits.
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By the end of the program
12 percent of those nonregulars
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decided to become regular and it
was reflected in their scores.
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OK. So if they did
become regular, what happened?
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If they became regular it was
reflected in lower depression
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levels, some of them non
depression levels and also
00:27:11.13\00:27:14.70
their sleep quality. Only
eight percent by the end of the
00:27:14.73\00:27:21.94
program had bad sleep. So
from 30 percent that didn't have
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regularity, those that
are regular by the end, eight
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percent only had bad sleep.
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So just becoming regular in the
time you're going to bed, the
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time you're getting up and
regular in meals can turn you
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from a bad sleeper into a good
sleeper. That's correct. That's
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a dramatic improvement. The vast
majority of those who did that
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improved just by doing that.
That's right. And as a result
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of improving their circadian
rhythms of their sleep patterns
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and their meals their depression
and anxiety recovery scores
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became far better as well. I
would like to encourage you to
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to be regular in your sleeping
and eating habits. It can pay
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rich dividends in better sleep
and better mood. Thank you for
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watching Weimar
Institute Research.
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