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01:12 Hey friends, welcome to another edition of NEWSTART Now. 01:15 My name is Damon Snead. I'm filling in for Ron Giannoni and 01:19 we have in our studio today Pete Elloway. Let's take a look 01:24 at Pete's life when he first came here to NEWSTART. 01:26 I'm here because I'm obese. I need to lose some belly fat and 01:36 I have high blood pressure and I have some other minor issues 01:45 with my health. I want to feel good, more energy, I want to be 01:52 able to walk. I've got a lot of this from can't walk very far at 01:59 all because of my hip and back problems and I want to lose a 02:06 bunch of weight. I weighed 165 pounds for many, many years and 02:13 I want to go back to that weight. 02:17 ¤ ¤ 02:52 Welcome back friends. Pete, how you doing. 02:56 I'm doing well, thank you. 02:58 So tell me, how has it gone for you here. What's been your 03:02 experience here at NEWSTART? 03:03 I've had a good experience. I've been to a similar lifestyle 03:12 center about 15 years ago and it was very similar and now after 03:20 Satan has knocked me down for 15 years, I'm back into it. 03:25 I love this place. 03:27 Right, so tell me about some of the big changes that you've had 03:30 here, some of the things that stand out to you the most. 03:34 I know that others have seen it, especially myself. 03:38 Well I first arrived and everybody was so loving and so 03:42 kind and that was a good first impression. The next thing is I 03:48 got a schedule that I had to follow and put down my major 03:59 problems and that was I wasn't walking enough. I couldn't walk 04:04 very good with my bad hip and back pain and so they assigned 04:12 me a helper, Josh, and without him it would have been more 04:19 difficult but praise the Lord I started to walk more and lose 04:27 weight, feel better. Praise the Lord. 04:32 Now our last weekend together we went to the Empire mine and I 04:40 had asked you, you know, because you were actually 04:42 walking really well from when I first saw you here, you were 04:46 really struggling to walk. Then we went to that mine. You had 04:49 all the hills and the long distances and you had really... 04:53 It's a marked difference from the time that you got here to 04:58 where we are now. The walking is way much better. Now what 05:02 about your pills and your medicines. You said you were on 05:05 I think that you were one some different pain killers, pain 05:09 No, no I'm not taking any pain killers, but my medicines, I had 05:16 to keep taking and I was on a bunch of herbs. I stopped those. 05:23 And kind of uneventful with the medicines. 05:27 Now how much weight have you lost you said? 05:31 Thirteen pounds. 05:32 Thirteen pounds. We talked about that. Grab a 13-pound dumbbell 05:35 and walk around with it and you'll know how much weight 05:38 that is to be carrying around. Now tell me about your doctor. 05:42 What was your experience with Dr. K? 05:47 Well he's very empathetic and he asked a lot of questions and 05:55 seemed to address them. Allowed me to ask questions and answered 06:01 them well. Good experience with the medical doctors. I think he 06:09 had a good training. Not the typical training; well probably 06:14 probably had the typical training but then he had further 06:19 training in Biblical medicine. No meat, no dairy, Genesis 1:29. 06:29 It was awesome. This is Biblical lifestyle, Biblical health. 06:38 Loved it. 06:39 Now what did you think about the food here? 06:42 Awesome! Awesome! You know we had lentil loaf with gravy, 06:54 mashed potatoes and I said to myself why are people eating 06:57 filet mignon and mashed potatoes You know Satan has the wool 07:04 pulled over everybody's eyes. This loaf and potatoes tasted 07:10 much better. They really specialize in taste over here 07:15 and it's all no meat, no dairy. It's just awesome. 07:18 Sure, sure and the Cooking school. Great experience with the 07:20 cooking school. Michelle, she's excellent isn't she? 07:22 She talked too fast, she lost me but that's OK I got a lot 07:26 of it. Yeah. 07:28 Right. So now your overall experience in the place, what 07:32 would be a take-away note for you something that stands 07:35 out the most with the health side of things here? 07:38 Well what they stress the most is the healer that created us 07:49 and now he's recreating us and we are to blame for all of our 07:56 maladies and the recreator is addressing that, getting us 08:04 healthy just from his word from the beginning, Genesis 1:29. 08:09 I praise the Lord. That one verse in the Bible could cure 08:14 all the illnesses that we have today, the diseases that the 08:20 Egyptians had and we have today. It's like, yeah. 08:27 Now you brought up the great healer and that's an aspect here 08:30 that they hone in on, the spiritual aspect. So what is the 08:35 take-away as how the spiritual related to the health with you 08:39 and what did you get from that side of things with the Fresh 08:42 Start lectures and other such things. 08:44 Well we started out with stretching in the morning and 08:48 I could feel something there with my hip and back that I 08:56 stretched out why I could walk better. And then after the 09:00 the stretchersize we went to do lectures/sermon by you Pastor 09:12 Snead. It was the greatest. You're the greatest pastor on the 09:15 earth. You went through the cycle of faith and you started 09:20 from the beginning and throughout the whole 18-day 09:24 session here we step by step figured it all out. 09:31 Yeah the point being too and I think you got that in some of 09:35 our conversations that this is not just a spiritual journey 09:40 that you can be blessed with but it's also the same tool for 09:44 your spiritual reformation and revival is what will help you in 09:47 your health. It's how it will keep you in the health program. 09:50 Keep things going your way. Now so you've had a good 09:53 experience. So going home, what's going to be a big 09:57 challenge and what's...? 10:01 Going home this has got to continue and what we've 10:05 learned. I knew most of the stuff but I learned so much 10:10 more. It's going to be a challenge to keep on keeping on. 10:21 Now you mentioned something just a second ago. You talked about 10:25 stretching. Yeah. Now just this little, small thing that most 10:29 people wouldn't think of. I think that NEWSTART is made up 10:32 of a bunch of little things that a person wouldn't think much 10:37 about, but you string all these little things together, whether 10:40 it's stretching or a little something in your diet or 10:43 something as simple as water or fresh air, or sunlight, and you 10:46 compact all these things together in a two-and-a-half 10:50 week period you really feel the difference. And with you 10:54 we've seen it, especially in your walking and even in your 10:58 breathing and the way your feel, your attitude. It's kind of come 11:01 together for you, you think? Would you recommend this program 11:05 to someone else? 11:06 Absolutely, 100 and 1000 percent Especially when you start with 11:14 the great creator and recreator. You know, and we started that 11:19 you I think the first day. We stretched and we went and 11:23 listened to Pastor Damon Snead. Yeah, there's a spiritual and 11:34 health experience. 11:37 Now so you would say you've had a great experience. 11:38 Oh absolutely. 11:39 Excellent, yeah. So any final thoughts or final words that 11:44 you would like to say about this program to others maybe? 11:50 You know I was texting my family and my brother was there. 11:54 He says, I don't have the time, I don't have the money and I 12:01 texted him back "Pray." God, He does miracles. Pray about it. 12:10 You'll get here. 12:11 Well Pete, we appreciate you so much. We're about out of time. 12:16 God bless and thank you so much for being a part of this program 12:18 Yep, appreciate it. 12:20 Friends don't go away. We'll be right back with Dr. Kuninobo. 12:28 Every year in America there are over one million deaths because 12:31 of type II diabetes and chronic obesity. This includes heart 12:34 attacks and strokes. That's six-and-a-half 747s crashing 12:38 every day. What's even more amazing is that the fix is easy. 12:42 It's your lifestyle. Wouldn't it be nice if you could actually 12:46 add quality years to your life rather than dying one organ at 12:49 a time. Obesity and diabetes are the cause of over a million 12:53 deaths per year. Most diseases are reversible because most 12:57 diseases are lifestyle diseases, especially type II diabetes and 13:01 chronic obesity. Seriously now, they can be reversed and the 13:06 quality of your life can be renewed. Call NEWSTART today at 13:10 1-800-525-9192. You will see dramatic changes in the first 13:18 days of our program and you will be on the road to a better more 13:21 robust quality of life. The NEWSTART programs are simple 13:25 and effective. 13:27 Welcome back friends. Today we have in the studios Dr. Kuninobo 13:33 Dr. Kuninobo, welcome. 13:34 Oh thank you Damon. How are you? 13:36 We're going to be talking about our good friend Peter. 13:38 Oh, OK. 13:39 Peter is a guy with an interesting story. Started out 13:42 as a very young professional. In his opening interview he said 13:46 he was 165 pounds most of his life. 13:49 And a giving guy, it sounded like. 13:51 Yeah, very giving. 13:52 Working for the underserved population or something 13:54 like that. 13:55 Yeah, very good. Dedicating his life to helping the 13:57 underprivileged. Decades of life go by and then all of a sudden 14:01 he wakes up. He's advanced in age, he's extremely overweight 14:07 he said I'm obese and he's having a lot of health problems, 14:11 mobility problems, issues getting his health back and 14:15 that's what he wants. He says I want to get my life back. 14:18 But how do you do that after years of decay, the process. 14:25 What did you see in him? 14:26 What I saw in Peter was that this is going to be a long road 14:30 for him and so what Peter needs and anybody needs in this 14:36 situation is going to be the mind set of just one step at 14:42 a time, one step at a time. Because even though he woke up 14:47 one day and found that he was where he is today, it didn't 14:51 happen overnight. 14:53 Right, biding time. 14:56 Yeah but that's very typical in America with what we jokingly 15:01 call our SAD way of eating. Yeah, the Standard American Diet 15:06 and it's happened to probably all of us. I don't know if it's 15:12 happened to you but it happened to me where you start off life 15:16 fit and energetic and a professional life whatever it 15:21 may be and the pressures of time you start eating what's 15:28 convenient and you start eating what tastes good and you get 15:36 handed food maybe sometimes in meetings. 15:38 Oh the donut machine. The quick McDonalds. 15:43 Whatever, and the weight just starts to slowly, imperceptibly 15:47 go on. It doesn't take a lot. When you think about 40 years of 15:49 time we're not talking a huge amount of weight, five pounds a 15:55 year, you can do the math you know. 15:58 What did that weight do to him eventually, what's... 16:00 Like if somebody would gain that much weight? Well it's 16:04 interesting one of the things he talks about is hip pain, 16:07 mobility issues and many people think of wear-and-tear arthritis 16:14 as being accelerated purely because of extra wear and tear, 16:19 the weight on that joint. It's interesting though they've 16:21 found in studies that when you carry excess weight, he used the 16:26 term obesity, which is the correct medical term for being 16:29 heavily overweight, there's something at a metabolic level 16:34 that's happening. So it's not just wear and tear on the joint 16:37 but there's an inflammatory process that takes place. 16:40 You can actually see it in the joints of the hands too. So even 16:44 though that's not carrying any of the weight like the hips or 16:47 the knees, they see that same process. So I didn't ask him how 16:53 long it had taken him but it's just interesting for a matter of 16:59 interest that joint problems are very common and it doesn't have 17:03 to be a weight-bearing joint. But that is one of his that 17:07 he's challenged with and I think it's interesting that we 17:10 all have noticed during the two- and-a-half weeks that he's been 17:14 here so far that as he's dived in, so to speak with both feet, 17:22 pushing himself a little bit. You know, it's been hard for 17:25 him because of the pain. He's had a lot of people pushing and 17:31 working on him, to get him to walk, he's walking better. 17:34 Yeah, poor Josh got the brunt of it because... 17:38 The premed student that's been working with him has been very 17:42 good at reminding him even though he doesn't feel like it 17:45 you know, he's been pushed, but he's seeing the rewards. 17:49 He said he lost how much weight? 17:51 Thirteen. 17:53 Thirteen pounds. 17:54 That's big for someone in that situation. 17:55 For having the challenges he has with mobility and inability to 18:00 walk. You know, normally you would walk a lot to burn those 18:03 calories, well he hasn't been able to walk that fast to do 18:07 that, but the NEWSTART principles combining the diet 18:11 with the exercise and drinking the water and all of the other 18:15 things just chipping away at it, he's made progress and that's 18:20 really encouraging. 18:21 Sure, I mean 13 pounds is a lot of weight on a frame that's 18:25 stressed and another 13 and another 13 and then more 18:28 mobility. You'll see it. And I know that when he first got here 18:32 I was watching him. He struggled but when we take that 18:35 little vacation time at the end of the session and go to the 18:38 Empire mine, he was struggling but that's a long haul from the 18:45 beginning up to the main house and he did it. He was tired, he 18:49 was wore out, he was grumpy but he did it and I told him 18:53 I reminded him, I said you are doing much better, 18:55 keep up the good work. 18:57 Yeah, and I think that's the other thing that you know with 19:01 many times, especially with today's television shows, people 19:06 think things come easy. You know the greatest loser or whatever 19:08 and people don't see the work behind it. You know he's had to 19:12 work but he's had a wonderful group of people working with 19:15 him and that's one of the beauties. If you have health 19:18 goals, you need help, get the help you need with either a 19:21 program like NEWSTART. 19:22 Come to NEWSTART. 19:23 Yeah, you get help, it's a long walk. 19:26 It's a long journey and you're going to have a swarm of people, 19:30 10 or 15 people praying for you, working for you, pushing back. 19:33 Praying for you. None of us can do this on our own. 19:36 That's right and he recognized that. He was one also that was 19:41 really touched with the spiritual concepts that he's 19:43 going to need help when he goes home by himself, but I believe 19:48 that he's on a road to recovery. 19:49 I believe so too. 19:51 We're out of time again my friend. Thank you so very much. 19:54 God bless you. 19:55 Yeah, you too. 19:57 Don't go away friends, we'll be right back. 20:00 When you look at the health status of American's today, it's 20:03 alarming to see that 60 percent are either overweight or obese. 20:13 In addition, diseases such as type II diabetes, cancer and 20:16 heart disorders are the leading cause of so many complications 20:20 and deaths every year. 20:26 Could it have something to do with what we eat? After all 20:30 every one in four Americans visits a fast food restaurant 20:33 daily and with such easy access to quick-fix foods we tend to 20:37 forget what poor health value those foods actually offer. 20:41 Maybe it's the sedentary lifestyle and lack of exercise 20:45 that we've become so accustomed to as a media-dependent world. 20:48 Whatever the cause of these diseases, a solution has arrived 20:53 The NEWSTART Lifestyle Center offers an enriching program 20:58 where patients can get a healing of mind, body and soul. Located 21:03 in the outskirts of Sacramento, the NEWSTART Center is situated 21:07 on the beautiful campus of Weimar Center of Health and 21:11 Education with scenic walking and hiking trails all around. 21:14 With the whole plant foods eaten whole moto, the NEWSTART 21:19 Center promotes a healthy plant based diet with emphasis on 21:22 natural foods. The NEWSTART staff are made up of California 21:26 board certified nurses, doctors, dietitians and therapists who 21:31 work together to assist each patient personally. The staff 21:35 are dedicated to each patient's success in the program and are 21:39 always there to guide, advise and encourage. In addition to a 21:43 healthy lifestyle, NEWSTART also promotes a healthy 21:46 exercise routine. You're both in sequence, that's good. All right 21:50 As part of the balanced program there is much opportunity to get 21:54 in the fair share of physical activity from utilizing our 21:58 fitness center to taking a stroll around the peaceful 22:00 grounds of Weimar. It's amazing what a NEWSTART can do for you. 22:06 Welcome to Weimar Institute Research. Glad to have you here 22:11 today and Eddie this is kind of an exciting study that we're 22:13 about ready to discuss because this is talking about causes of 22:18 depression that are not thought to be reversible. And you know 22:22 Weimar Institute does treat depression and we have had a 22:28 great track record of success in those with the severest forms 22:31 of depression and anxiety here. But we're reversing the 22:35 underlying causes, you know. Lack of exercise can be one of 22:39 the causes and poor nutrition. And, of course, the good news is 22:43 we can change our exercise patterns and we can change 22:45 what we're eating. But these are causes that are a little 22:49 austere. What were we studying? 22:53 We were studying here what happens to those people that 22:57 poor blood flow to the brain secondary to stroke or because 23:04 of heart failure or some other condition that doesn't send 23:07 enough blood flow to the brain. And we're studying what happens 23:10 to those people that are in mental health. 23:12 OK. Well obviously if the circulation to our brain is 23:16 impaired you would think it might affect the mental health. 23:19 And did you find a correlation there? 23:21 We found a very clear correlationship. Those people 23:25 that have that reduced blood flow to the brain actually on 23:29 average had moderate depression This is in a community setting 23:33 program that was organized. 23:36 So the average person with a history of stroke or heart 23:40 failure by definition almost they're going to have some 23:43 depression. So they're moderate major depression. That's a 23:47 significant mental illness. So how many patients were involved 23:53 in this? 23:55 This was a big sample, 5621 participants from all over the 23:59 world. 24:01 OK. And those with stroke and heart attack were a smaller 24:06 percentage. Is that right? 24:07 That's right. It was about four percent of that population had 24:11 this problem. 24:13 As the underlying cause, one of the underlying causes. 24:16 That's right. There's a researcher by the name of 24:18 Gravitz. He had tried to ask the question of the chicken and the 24:21 egg. Does the depression cause the decreased blood flow to the 24:25 brain or does the reduced blood flow to the brain cause the 24:27 depression. And he proposes that reduced blood flow to the brain 24:32 will trigger a depression. 24:33 Yeah, so that's what comes first the reduced blood flow and then 24:36 the depression. So these people with moderate depression went 24:43 to an eight-week educational program. Tell us a little bit 24:48 about that program. 24:49 We applied the principles of NEWSTART plus some cognitive 24:53 behavioral therapy principles. And as they were doing the 24:56 exercise, sticking to the plant based diet and all this healthy 25:00 behavior we took a measurement again after the eight weeks. 25:03 And what did you find out? 25:05 We found out that the improvement was remarkable. 25:08 Ninety percent of those participants were able to 25:12 improve dramatically their mental health to the point that 25:15 they finished with none or just mild depression. 25:18 That's amazing because this goes against what the medical thought 25:26 is because you can't reverse a stroke. A stroke is a dead 25:29 portion of the brain. You can't bring that back. And when you 25:32 have heart failure due to advanced coronary artery disease 25:35 and the heart's not able to pump this isn't something that you 25:38 can you know put a magic wand on or a medicine and get it to 25:41 pump well. So these are thought to be irreversible causes of 25:47 depression and we actually found out the opposite. Ninety percent 25:50 I mean, that's better than you get in people without heart 25:54 disease and stroke by putting them on a medicine. Some of the 25:58 most potent medicines for antidepression won't produce 26:02 anywhere close to a 90 percent improvement rate. 26:04 And because of the importance of this study it actually came 26:09 out in the Journal of Neurology which happens to be the top 26:13 journal on its field. 26:15 OK. So Neurology is the top of all of the neurology journals 26:19 and it was published in the Journal of Neurology as well 26:23 should it be. This is a ground breaking, this is ground 26:26 breaking research. Not only were you and myself involved in this 26:30 research but one of the health science majors at Weimar 26:35 as well. 26:37 That by the end of the program she was actually able to finish 26:40 with six of these studies under her belt. 26:43 Six studies! Wow! Many people don't even publish one peer 26:48 review study their entire career and this student out of Weimar 26:52 published six. So pay attention to what comes out of Weimar 26:57 Institute and thanks for joining us today for Weimar Institute 27:01 Research. 27:02 Well friends that's it for today but join us next week for 27:09 another episode. In the meantime pick up the phone and give us a 27:13 call at 1-800-525-9192. Mention the NEWSTART Now program and 27:22 receive the NEWSTART special. 27:27 ¤ ¤ |
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