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Hey friends, welcome to
another edition of NEWSTART Now.
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My name is Damon Snead. I'm
filling in for Ron Giannoni and
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we have in our studio today
Pete Elloway. Let's take a look
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at Pete's life when he
first came here to NEWSTART.
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I'm here because I'm obese. I
need to lose some belly fat and
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I have high blood pressure and
I have some other minor issues
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with my health. I want to feel
good, more energy, I want to be
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able to walk. I've got a lot of
this from can't walk very far at
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all because of my hip and back
problems and I want to lose a
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bunch of weight. I weighed 165
pounds for many, many years and
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I want to go
back to that weight.
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Welcome back
friends. Pete, how you doing.
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I'm doing well, thank you.
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So tell me, how has it gone
for you here. What's been your
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experience here at NEWSTART?
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I've had a good experience.
I've been to a similar lifestyle
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center about 15 years ago and it
was very similar and now after
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Satan has knocked me down
for 15 years, I'm back into it.
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I love this place.
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Right, so tell me about some of
the big changes that you've had
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here, some of the things
that stand out to you the most.
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I know that others have
seen it, especially myself.
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Well I first arrived and
everybody was so loving and so
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kind and that was a good first
impression. The next thing is I
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got a schedule that I had
to follow and put down my major
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problems and that was I wasn't
walking enough. I couldn't walk
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very good with my bad hip and
back pain and so they assigned
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me a helper, Josh, and without
him it would have been more
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difficult but praise the Lord
I started to walk more and lose
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weight, feel
better. Praise the Lord.
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Now our last weekend together
we went to the Empire mine and I
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had asked you, you know,
because you were actually
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walking really well from when
I first saw you here, you were
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really struggling to walk. Then
we went to that mine. You had
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all the hills and the long
distances and you had really...
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It's a marked difference from
the time that you got here to
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where we are now. The walking
is way much better. Now what
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about your pills and your
medicines. You said you were on
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I think that you were one some
different pain killers, pain
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No, no I'm not taking any pain
killers, but my medicines, I had
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to keep taking and I was on a
bunch of herbs. I stopped those.
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And kind of
uneventful with the medicines.
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Now how much weight
have you lost you said?
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Thirteen pounds.
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Thirteen pounds. We talked about
that. Grab a 13-pound dumbbell
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and walk around with it
and you'll know how much weight
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that is to be carrying around.
Now tell me about your doctor.
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What was your
experience with Dr. K?
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Well he's very empathetic and
he asked a lot of questions and
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seemed to address them. Allowed
me to ask questions and answered
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them well. Good experience with
the medical doctors. I think he
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had a good training. Not the
typical training; well probably
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probably had the typical
training but then he had further
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training in Biblical medicine.
No meat, no dairy, Genesis 1:29.
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It was awesome. This is Biblical
lifestyle, Biblical health.
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Loved it.
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Now what did you
think about the food here?
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Awesome! Awesome! You know
we had lentil loaf with gravy,
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mashed potatoes and I said
to myself why are people eating
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filet mignon and mashed potatoes
You know Satan has the wool
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pulled over everybody's eyes.
This loaf and potatoes tasted
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much better. They really
specialize in taste over here
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and it's all no meat, no
dairy. It's just awesome.
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Sure, sure and the Cooking
school. Great experience with
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the cooking school. Michelle,
she's excellent isn't she?
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She talked too fast, she lost
me but that's OK I got a lot
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of it. Yeah.
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Right. So now your overall
experience in the place, what
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would be a take-away note
for you something that stands
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out the most with the
health side of things here?
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Well what they stress the most
is the healer that created us
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and now he's recreating us and
we are to blame for all of our
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maladies and the recreator
is addressing that, getting us
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healthy just from his word from
the beginning, Genesis 1:29.
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I praise the Lord. That one
verse in the Bible could cure
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all the illnesses that we have
today, the diseases that the
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Egyptians had and we
have today. It's like, yeah.
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Now you brought up the great
healer and that's an aspect here
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that they hone in on, the
spiritual aspect. So what is the
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take-away as how the spiritual
related to the health with you
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and what did you get from that
side of things with the Fresh
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Start lectures
and other such things.
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Well we started out with
stretching in the morning and
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I could feel something there
with my hip and back that I
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stretched out why I could
walk better. And then after the
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the stretchersize we went to
do lectures/sermon by you Pastor
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Snead. It was the greatest.
You're the greatest pastor on
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the earth. You went through the
cycle of faith and you started
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from the beginning and
throughout the whole 18-day
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session here we step by
step figured it all out.
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Yeah the point being too and
I think you got that in some of
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our conversations that this
is not just a spiritual journey
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that you can be blessed with
but it's also the same tool for
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your spiritual reformation and
revival is what will help you in
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your health. It's how it will
keep you in the health program.
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Keep things going your
way. Now so you've had a good
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experience. So going
home, what's going to be a big
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challenge and what's...?
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Going home this has got
to continue and what we've
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learned. I knew most of
the stuff but I learned so much
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more. It's going to be a
challenge to keep on keeping on.
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Now you mentioned something just
a second ago. You talked about
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stretching. Yeah. Now just this
little, small thing that most
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people wouldn't think of. I
think that NEWSTART is made up
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of a bunch of little things that
a person wouldn't think much
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about, but you string all these
little things together, whether
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it's stretching or a
little something in your diet or
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something as simple as water or
fresh air, or sunlight, and you
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compact all these things
together in a two-and-a-half
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week period you really feel
the difference. And with you
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we've seen it, especially in
your walking and even in your
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breathing and the way your feel,
your attitude. It's kind of come
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together for you, you think?
Would you recommend this program
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to someone else?
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Absolutely, 100 and 1000 percent
Especially when you start with
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the great creator and recreator.
You know, and we started that
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you I think the first day.
We stretched and we went and
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listened to Pastor Damon Snead.
Yeah, there's a spiritual and
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health experience.
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Now so you would say
you've had a great experience.
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Oh absolutely.
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Excellent, yeah. So any final
thoughts or final words that
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you would like to say about
this program to others maybe?
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You know I was texting my
family and my brother was there.
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He says, I don't have the time,
I don't have the money and I
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texted him back "Pray." God,
He does miracles. Pray about it.
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You'll get here.
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Well Pete, we appreciate you so
much. We're about out of time.
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God bless and thank you so much
for being a part of this program
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Yep, appreciate it.
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Friends don't go away. We'll
be right back with Dr. Kuninobo.
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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 at
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1-800-525-9192. You will see
dramatic changes in the first
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days of our program and you will
be on the road to a better more
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robust quality of life. The
NEWSTART programs are simple
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and effective.
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Welcome back friends. Today we
have in the studios Dr. Kuninobo
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Dr. Kuninobo, welcome.
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Oh thank you Damon. How are you?
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We're going to be talking
about our good friend Peter.
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Oh, OK.
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Peter is a guy with an
interesting story. Started out
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as a very young professional.
In his opening interview he said
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he was 165
pounds most of his life.
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And a giving
guy, it sounded like.
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Yeah, very giving.
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Working for the underserved
population or something
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like that.
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Yeah, very good. Dedicating
his life to helping the
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underprivileged. Decades of life
go by and then all of a sudden
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he wakes up. He's advanced in
age, he's extremely overweight
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he said I'm obese and he's
having a lot of health problems,
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mobility problems, issues
getting his health back and
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that's what he wants. He
says I want to get my life back.
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But how do you do that after
years of decay, the process.
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What did you see in him?
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What I saw in Peter was that
this is going to be a long road
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for him and so what Peter
needs and anybody needs in this
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situation is going to be
the mind set of just one step at
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a time, one step at a time.
Because even though he woke up
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one day and found that he
was where he is today, it didn't
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happen overnight.
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Right, biding time.
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Yeah but that's very typical
in America with what we jokingly
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call our SAD way of eating.
Yeah, the Standard American Diet
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and it's happened to probably
all of us. I don't know if it's
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happened to you but it happened
to me where you start off life
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fit and energetic and a
professional life whatever it
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may be and the pressures of
time you start eating what's
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convenient and you start eating
what tastes good and you get
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handed food maybe
sometimes in meetings.
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Oh the donut
machine. The quick McDonalds.
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Whatever, and the weight just
starts to slowly, imperceptibly
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go on. It doesn't take a lot.
When you think about 40 years of
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time we're not talking a huge
amount of weight, five pounds a
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year, you can do
the math you know.
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What did that weight do
to him eventually, what's...
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Like if somebody would
gain that much weight? Well it's
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interesting one of the things
he talks about is hip pain,
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mobility issues and many people
think of wear-and-tear arthritis
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as being accelerated purely
because of extra wear and tear,
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the weight on that joint.
It's interesting though they've
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found in studies that when you
carry excess weight, he used the
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term obesity, which is the
correct medical term for being
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heavily overweight, there's
something at a metabolic level
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that's happening. So it's not
just wear and tear on the joint
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but there's an inflammatory
process that takes place.
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You can actually see it in the
joints of the hands too. So even
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though that's not carrying any
of the weight like the hips or
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the knees, they see that same
process. So I didn't ask him how
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long it had taken him but it's
just interesting for a matter of
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interest that joint problems are
very common and it doesn't have
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to be a weight-bearing joint.
But that is one of his that
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he's challenged with and I
think it's interesting that we
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all have noticed during the two-
and-a-half weeks that he's been
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here so far that as he's dived
in, so to speak with both feet,
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pushing himself a little bit.
You know, it's been hard for
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him because of the pain. He's
had a lot of people pushing and
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working on him, to get him
to walk, he's walking better.
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Yeah, poor Josh got
the brunt of it because...
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The premed student that's been
working with him has been very
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good at reminding him even
though he doesn't feel like it
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you know, he's been pushed,
but he's seeing the rewards.
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He said he lost how much weight?
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Thirteen.
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Thirteen pounds.
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That's big for
someone in that situation.
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For having the challenges he has
with mobility and inability to
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walk. You know, normally you
would walk a lot to burn those
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calories, well he hasn't been
able to walk that fast to do
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that, but the NEWSTART
principles combining the diet
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with the exercise and drinking
the water and all of the other
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things just chipping away at it,
he's made progress and that's
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really encouraging.
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Sure, I mean 13 pounds is a
lot of weight on a frame that's
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stressed and another 13
and another 13 and then more
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mobility. You'll see it. And I
know that when he first got here
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I was watching him. He
struggled but when we take that
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little vacation time at the
end of the session and go to the
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Empire mine, he was struggling
but that's a long haul from the
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beginning up to the main house
and he did it. He was tired, he
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was wore out, he was grumpy
but he did it and I told him
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I reminded him, I said
you are doing much better,
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keep up the good work.
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Yeah, and I think that's the
other thing that you know with
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many times, especially with
today's television shows, people
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think things come easy. You know
the greatest loser or whatever
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and people don't see the work
behind it. You know he's had to
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work but he's had a wonderful
group of people working with
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him and that's one of the
beauties. If you have health
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goals, you need help, get
the help you need with either a
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program like NEWSTART.
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Come to NEWSTART.
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Yeah, you get
help, it's a long walk.
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It's a long journey and you're
going to have a swarm of people,
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10 or 15 people praying for you,
working for you, pushing back.
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Praying for you. None of
us can do this on our own.
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That's right and he recognized
that. He was one also that was
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really touched with the
spiritual concepts that he's
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going to need help when he goes
home by himself, but I believe
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that he's on a road to recovery.
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I believe so too.
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We're out of time again my
friend. Thank you so very much.
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God bless you.
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Yeah, you too.
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Don't go away
friends, we'll be right back.
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When you look at the health
status of American's 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-fix foods we tend to
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forget what poor health value
those foods actually offer.
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Maybe it's the sedentary
lifestyle and lack of exercise
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that we've become so accustomed
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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 and we have had a
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great track record of success
in those with the severest forms
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of depression and anxiety
here. But we're reversing the
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underlying causes, you know.
Lack of exercise can be one of
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the causes and poor nutrition.
And, of course, the good news is
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we can change our exercise
patterns and we can change
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what we're eating. But these
are causes that are a little
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austere. What were we studying?
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We were studying here what
happens to those people that
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poor blood flow to the brain
secondary to stroke or because
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of heart failure or some other
condition that doesn't send
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enough blood flow to the brain.
And we're studying what happens
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to those people that
are in mental health.
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OK. Well obviously if the
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
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depression. So they're moderate
major depression. That's a
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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
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world.
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OK. And those with stroke
and heart attack were a smaller
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percentage. Is that right?
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That's right. It was about four
percent of that population had
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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 ask the
question of the chicken and the
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egg. Does the depression cause
the decreased blood flow to the
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brain or does the reduced blood
flow to the brain cause the
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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
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about that program.
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We applied the principles
of NEWSTART plus some cognitive
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behavioral therapy principles.
And as they were doing the
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exercise, sticking to the plant
based diet and all this healthy
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behavior we took a measurement
again after the eight weeks.
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And what did you find out?
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We found out that the
improvement was remarkable.
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Ninety percent of those
participants were able to
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improve dramatically their
mental health to the point that
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they finished with none
or just mild depression.
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That's amazing because this goes
against what the medical thought
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is because you can't reverse
a stroke. A stroke is a dead
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portion of the brain. You can't
bring that back. And when you
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have heart failure due to
advanced coronary artery disease
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and the heart's not able to pump
this isn't something that you
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can you know put a magic wand
on or a medicine and get it to
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pump well. So these are thought
to be irreversible causes of
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depression and we actually found
out the opposite. Ninety percent
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I mean, that's better than
you get in people without heart
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disease and stroke by putting
them on a medicine. Some of the
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most potent medicines for
antidepression won't produce
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anywhere close to a 90
percent improvement 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 its 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
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should it be. This is a
ground breaking, this is ground
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breaking research. Not only were
you and myself involved in this
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research but one of the
health science majors at Weimar
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as well.
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That by the end of the 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
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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 Weimar Institute
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Research.
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Well friends that's it for
today but join us next week for
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another episode. In the meantime
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