Hey friends, welcome to a
new edition to Newstart Now.
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I'm your host Damon Snead,
standing in for Ron Giononni
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and we have in our studio
today Miss Beverly Haffner.
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Let's take a look at
her life before Newstart.
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I am here because
I love this place,
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I worked here for four years,
I've been to an 18 day program
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and I like what
happens when I am here.
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I want to lose weight...more
weight and I want to get off
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medications. I am not on a
lot but want back to where I was
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none. I'd like to get off
of the medications if I can.
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I do, I take Timolol for my
eyes, but that's another doctor
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and another problem.
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So, um, but that's all I'm on
and I'd like to get off of the
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blood pressure and so forth,
I don't want to have to take
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medication, if I can avoid it.
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Welcome back friends.
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Miss Beverly, welcome
to the program. Thank you.
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How are you doing?
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I'm doing very well, thank you.
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I had a good report.
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So tell us a little bit
about your experience here
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at Newstart.
This time. Yes ma'am.
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Oh yeah because
you were here before.
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I worked here for four years
and then I came back for the
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eighteen day program
four or five years ago.
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And so now you are
back again. Back again.
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So what's been something
that stood out to you this time
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that's really
been a blessing to you?
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I see a lot of changes, I
feel that it's beautifully run,
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everything runs smoothly,
they have it well planned.
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And the speeches that we hear,
the meetings have been very
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inspirational,yours was
especially inspirational
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and fulfilled my dream of being
re-baptized, for which I am very
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excited about.
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Yeah, now you bring that
out in the beginning here
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about your
re-baptism that you had.
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Can you tell us a
little bit about that,
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what brought you
to that decision or...
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Well, I had been thinking
about it for six or eight months
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and thinking about
it at home of course,
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and trying to figure out what
I wanted to do and so forth.
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But when I decided to come
here, I thought it would be fun
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to be baptized in Moses' rock.
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Just to something
exciting about that.
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And I have to bring someone
with me because of my eyesight
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and I can't see to do
things, so they make me bring a
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companion and I
thought, who can I take?
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I want to take someone who
also needs something from Weimar
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so they could get
some good out of it too.
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And I heard a friend across the
room at her table during lunch-
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time, and I heard
her say the word Weimar.
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I don't know what
she said before or after,
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what the sentence
was, I just heard the word.
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And since it was in
my head, it popped out.
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And after lunch, I saw her
outside in the hall and I said,
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did you say you
wanted to go to Weimar?
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She said well, I think I
need to. I said you are going.
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And that's Miss
Daisy. That's Miss Daisy.
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We'll be talking to her later.
Yeah and I just immediately
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thank God because
that was Him talking.
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That's right, providential
speaking, this is who
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He wanted to come now...
It's interesting you know...
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Cause she doesn't remember
saying Weimar at the table
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either. -That's right.
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Now how was the experience
here with the food for you,
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was that a good experience?
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It's been delicious and you
know the things I don't like,
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It's alright, I don't
like everything at home either.
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Alright. [Laughter]
And part of it is you just
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have to change your
taste buds and so...
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Now what kind of medical changes
did you...did you experience
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any positives, or any medicines
that you may have been of off?
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Well, they are trying to get
me off blood pressure medicine
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and I think he's going to
make it because it's going down
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and...- So you had
good gains in that then.
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Yeah, everything has gone
down, the sugar, the blood
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pressure and the weight, so
the weight hasn't gone much,
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but they told me last night
that I'd lost 3" in my waist
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so that was worth...
Well that's a big deal.
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So you see everything
moving down, the weight's down,
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the high blood pressure is
going down, the blood sugars
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have dropped. This is
what this program does.
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That's what I came for.
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Yeah and to boot, you got
the spiritual side as well.
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- Exactly. So tell us a
little bit about your doctor,
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Dr. Kuninobu...I guess...
Dr. K-Yeah, we call him Dr. K.
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He tells you, just say Dr.
K. So what was your experience
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with him. Oh, he's been very
good, he's kept up with it and
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ordered what I need so he
can tell how I am going and
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I just had an appointment
with him and he said everything
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is going the right
direction and so he's happy.
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Yeah. So. Yeah, so he's a good
man too, he's another praying
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doctor. You don't see too many
of those in the world today.
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No, you don't.
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So now your overall experience
you would say it was wonderful,
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great... I've been
very happy. Very very nice.
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And Daisy has been a
magnificent companion.
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Well, you all two have been
the grandmothers of the program.
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We're the oldest ones here.
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Yeah. I can't call her
mom though because she is only
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six months older than I am.
Right, she's almost at your age?
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She's at 87? She will be
next month and I'll be 87 in
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January. Yeah, that says a
lot, at that advanced age with
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many more years to come,
that you could come here in your
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late 80's, both of you 'all and
both experience a rejuvenation
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of spiritual and health.
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Well she didn't think
she could have anything done,
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she was just going
to be my "COMPANION"
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but we worked it out so that
she has and I am so thrilled
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cause she needs help too.
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She has some problems, physical
problems that need to be
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taken care of and I didn't
want to bring her here and
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take her home sick, so...
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So now, how did you do with
exercise out here, how was that
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for you? Well the walking
was wonderful, I walk a lot
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at home, so that was
no problem and the water,
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I drink lots of water at
home so that was no problem.
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It's the up and down the
hills, like at the baptismal
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and when we went to the
mine and the breakfast...
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You know it's hard in
some areas because I can't see
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where I'm stepping and that's...
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But you did well
physically though.
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Physically I am all right...
The very first day I tried
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to do the morning
exercises, the stretchercises
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and one of them is to put
your leg back and I did the
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prosthetic side where
my prosthetic hip is and
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that was a no-no, I shouldn't
have and so my hip has been
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hurting the whole
time. But I did it to myself
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and it will get better.
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So...So, yeah...So how
did you find the various parts
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of the program, the
various directors and therapists
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working together. Was it...how
did you feel about all of that?
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It's incredible. I just feel
that God has led in every area
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of this place because I thought
it was great when I was here
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and it just seems to
get better each time I come.
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Yeah, this is a great
group that is here. Yes.
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A great praying group...Yes,
everyone works together well,
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everything runs smoothly,
the food is good and even the
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way they serve that and get it
through and get it out and I've
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been very impressed.
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Very well, so what is going
to be the thing you take away
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from here from the
health perspective and from the
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spiritual perspective, what will
be the one things that you are
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going to remember
most about both aspects?
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Well health wise they helped
me get to a place where I can
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improve. Because the
eyes are not going to improve
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and I know that,
that's no problem.
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I'm living with it and have for
some time, but the other part,
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the physical, the exercise
and all, I'll just keep doing
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what I've been doing and
it should be getting better.
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The spiritual part
has been very very good,
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I appreciated every...your
programs in the morning and
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the part of the baptism
and everything and having
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Daisy do it with me,
was just beyond belief.
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Yeah, you' all two have been
a real blessing for the whole
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program. She's precious.
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Both of you.
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So now going home,
what are your plans,
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what are your thoughts?
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I'm already in my head thinking
how I am going to change my room
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get rid of...I've been
there for 12 and 1/2 years
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and when I came, I had two
weeks to plan, get rid of stuff
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and get here, and I
didn't get rid of enough stuff.
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The earthquake took care of
some of it, but the rest of it
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I am trying to get rid of and
see what I can give to Dorcas
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and so forth and pare down,
that's what I'm trying to do.
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I think that has worked
well, I mean I am planning on it
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working well. Yes yes.
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And we have worship
every morning where I am
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and the church is across
the street from where I live
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so spiritually we are
well fed and I appreciate that.
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So you going to keep
on doing what is good?
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Oh yes. I hope to do better.
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And do better and get
rid of what's no good?
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That's what I like about
this program, they teach you
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not just here but they are
caring for you when you go home.
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They want you to be
successful so they give you
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that information going
back home, ok let's do this,
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let's keep doing this
and I think that you are
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in a good place. I
appreciate that so much
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because just having it
here and going home with nothing
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kind of did that
the last time and so...
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Well listen Beverly,
we are almost out of time,
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we appreciate you so much.
Thank you, I appreciate you too.
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Friends don't go away, we will
be right back with Dr. Kuninobu.
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Welcome back friends.
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Today in the studio we
have with us Dr. Kuninobu
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Welcome my
friend, how are you doing?
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I am doing well
Damon, thank you.
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So today we are going to
be talking about Miss Beverly.
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Oh yes.
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Yeah, and she has a very
interesting story she tells
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about coming here and I think
that story reflects something
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that's very important,
especially to women of her age,
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how important it might be
and so what was your impression
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about Miss Beverly?
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I met Miss Beverly, well
let's talk about that story...
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Well, I think the point
with her is as she shared in the
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interview, so there's
no secret that she's 87,
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she turned 87 I
think while she was here,
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if I am not mistaken.
So by anyone's stretch,
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they wouldn't
call that still young.
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Nearly nine decades.
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Nearly nine decades, right.
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And she doesn't look
it, she doesn't act like it,
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even though she has many
challenges, legally blind,
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she uses a walker and
has difficulty there...
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But at any age, what I think is
important is that she recognize
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that she could do something
to help her health to be better.
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She knew that even though
she was 87, she could use the
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Newstart principals and get
healthier and then beyond that,
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she also knew that
she was going to need help
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because of her sight, but
she didn't want to just have
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anybody help her, she wanted
somebody who Newstart would help
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them. So she used the principle
of bringing in a friend
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who needed help.
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I don't know if she
shared that in the interview...
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Yes, she shared about how
God... She just started praying
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and then someone out
of the clear says Weimar.
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Um hum. And she knew right then.
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And it's been such a blessing
and she's repeated over and
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over, God arranged this so that
my friend could come with me
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because she really needed
to be blessed by this as well.
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Yes, so companionship is a big
thing and the right companion...
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because those two have been like
grandmothers to the program,
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they have been a
blessing to everyone...
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Just such sweet ladies
really really sweet ladies.
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Yes, so you know, what
can you gather from...I mean,
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why would an 86 year old
and a 87 year old lady come to
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Newstart? To re-boot their life
when most people would think
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okay, at 87 you lived
pretty much all your life,
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why come to places like
that? You see so many people in
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elderly care homes
that are just wasting away,
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but here are two women that
come and they are just getting
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ready to take off.
How important is that?
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I think they would probably
be the first to say that they
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recognize that they have a
life to live to glorify God.
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Um hum. You know I think
that they would probably say
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that and so knowing that there
is anything that they can do
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to represent
Him better, why not.
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And she came wanting to
be able to exercise better,
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to walk better, she
wanted to lose some weight,
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she had been told she had
pre-diabetes and she wanted
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to get that blood
sugar to back off a bit.
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And that's a point that
we should probably bring out
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regardless of age...there are
many viewers out there I'm sure
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who have been told
they are pre-diabetic,
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or maybe their parents have
diabetes and a lot of people
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out there hear that and
think oh well, here it comes.
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It's genetic, if I can't help...
I can't do anything about it...
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Which is not true, you
know they...she knew that,
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She knew that she
could keep it at bay,
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if she could just keep it
at bay...she took her sugar,
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which was on the edge of
pre- diabetes when she did her
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blood work at the
beginning of the program.
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And it has backed it off
almost down to low normal,
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not just normal but into low
normal so she's actually done
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very well with that.
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And I think there are
viewers that need to know that.
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You don't have to succumb to the
genetics that you've been given.
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This is true. Called
epi-genetics, our diet,
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our lifestyle can
affect that tremendously.
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in other words, the genes
may load the gun, but it's our
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lifestyle that
pulls the trigger.
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Right! And she knew that
and that's why she came here
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and she's done very well.
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Yeah and at 87 if you
can change at 87 years old,
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then there is no reason why
any of us can't come to a place-
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The adage of "you can't
teach an old dog new tricks"
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isn't true. Is not
true, we've learned this
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from these two ladies,
Miss Beverly. That's right!
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That you can re-learn to do
things and even at that age,
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you know. Oh, they're set
in their ways, you hear that
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all the time,
they're never going to change
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well, that's not true
if you want more life and
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abundant life. There is no
reason why you can't apply these
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principles and I know
that her sugar's come down,
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her blood pressure came
down, she was very happy about
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losing three
inches off of her waist.
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Yeah and she lost very well.
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She's done very very well.
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She's much more mobile, she's
moving around a little bit more,
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so yeah.
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So how do you see older
people like this benefiting?
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Being able to come
here, like her, what would be
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appeal to people her age?
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Good appeal to people her age.
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It really doesn't
matter how old we are,
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the same God created that body
and the machinery can improve.
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The same, no
matter what age you are.
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No matter what age.
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You know, there's a...I love
the phrase that says more of us
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rust out than wear out.
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Because we don't do enough
and there really is no limit
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and they've done studies on
this and even in nursing home
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patients who aren't
able to even get out of bed,
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if they put them on
an exercise programs,
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they can do things more for
themselves than they were able
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to before the exercise program.
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So there is no limit to
the age in which we can improve
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our fitness level.
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So if you have elderly parents,
if you have someone you are
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dealing with grandparents, this
is a great place to bring them
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to get them going again.
I would never have dreamed
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that my grandmother, you know
she became really infirmed...
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I wish I would have
known something like this,
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it's not that expensive compared
to what they can gain from that,
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to get off medicines, to be
able to have a more fruitful
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life, more
mobile life at her age.
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Because she could easily
vege out with her sight and just
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give up but she hasn't
done that. She hasn't done that.
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No, so I think that's a
great impetus for anybody
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to come here.
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Especially their age,
it's a wonderful thing...
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So what else
struck you about her?
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Maybe even from her
prayer, right, her prayer life
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and at that age still
actively asking God to...Whew!
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And she's still praying
about asking Him to lead her,
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she's not just stuck where she
is, she's looking for to improve
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where even she lives, she
has been talking about moving
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and finding...she's really
excited, she found a place
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that has a Vegan Chef in
an Assisted Living place.
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Isn't that something?
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And so those places, we've
talked about this other guests,
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those places can be death
traps for the diet for the
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elderly people. So she's going
back and who knows what kind of
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changes can come
in people's lives.
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She's been very
proactive about her diet. Um hm.
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Yeah, she was a very
blessing even talking to her,
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she'd just tear up and cry, just
so thankful that she came here.
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And she's helped me to look
at some of these older people
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coming to these
programs in a different way.
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I now know, from her personal
witness, she has taught me
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that anyone at any
age... So some of these people
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that come, I'm like
man, you can get out there,
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you can do what she did.
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She can probably tell you, it
wasn't just a physical blessing
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that she got her. Oh yes!
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The spiritual
blessing that she received.
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Yeah, because she was one
who really delved down deep into
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the gospel.
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Dr. K., unfortunately
we are almost out of time.
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It goes so fast.
God bless. Blessing.
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Don't go away
friends, we will be right back.
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Welcome to Weimar
Institute Research.
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Glad you're with us here today
and today Dr. Eddie Ramirez
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the head of our research
department at Weimar College
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who publishes about as
much research or more than
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the typical Harvard
professor is with us here today
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and Dr. Ramirez, who did
you do this research with?
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Yes, we are looking at
the participants of the
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Newstart program, there's a
particular sub-group of patients
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that worries us as doctors.
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And that is after females
go through their menopause
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sometimes things are fine
and suddenly they go through
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menopause and
things to out of whack
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and we are focusing on
that particular group of people.
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The female hormones actually
protect them some from chronic
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diseases like heart disease
and stroke and it actually
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raises their HDL cholesterol,
their good cholesterol some.
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And for years we thought that
just being a male was a risk
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for factor for heart disease.
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But then when we started
taking a look at post-menopausal
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women, we find out that their
heart disease is just as bad as
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males. In fact within ten years
of going through menopause,
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the rates are identical
again and so we're concerned
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about this
post-menopausal period.
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Now for years, doctors
though the solution is to keep
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these hormones around,
so they would give them
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more hormones as they
are going through menopause
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to help prevent the
heart diseases and strokes,
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but actually the women's
health initiative showed that it
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actually increase their risk
of stroke and heart attack more.
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Cause these female hormones
if they are used exogenously,
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meaning that we are swallowing
them or we're using them as a
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patch or something like
that, for the typical American,
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actually thickens their blood.
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So they are even more
likely to experience thrombosis
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heart attack, stroke, even
venous thrombosis and those
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sorts of things and so doctors
quit prescribing those drugs
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or those hormones carte blanche.
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But it's still a
dangerous period non-the-less
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and what did you
particularly study?
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So we are focusing on risk
factors, we are focusing on
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their weight, we are focusing
on their cholesterol levels
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and their bad
cholesterol, their LDL.
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What happens when
they participate of the
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Newstart program? Ok!
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So they are coming to
Newstart, their post-menopausal,
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they have high
cholesterol, they're overweight,
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their bad cholesterol
particularly is elevated,
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and what
happened here in 19 days?
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So as a result of
this intervention,
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their weight came down, they
lost an average of six pounds.
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Now people say oh, that's
not a lot, well what happened
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is that the objective is
to help the person lose weight
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little by little and
keep that weight off.
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Those type of crash diets in
which the people loses a lot of
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weight, usually they have
to yo-yo effect which actually
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end up being worse in
the long term. Exactly!
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So this was a very healthy
weight loss, about two pounds
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a week for the three weeks,
a little more than two pounds
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if they lost six pounds.
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And that actually is a very
good healthy way to lose weight,
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two pounds a week on a
healthy plant based diet.
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And what else did you find out?
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So, we were also
checking their cholesterol,
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their cholesterol at
the beginning of the program
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was 222 on average and by the
end of the Newstart intervention
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they have come down to
195, which is a good progress.
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As they continue home, eating
the food that they learned
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and applying those principles,
that cholesterol will keep
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coming down and down and down.
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Yeah, the blood is actually
drawn in about two weeks
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afterwards so we know it would
be even more in a three and
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four week period but
that's a dramatic drop.
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So 222 or so and down to
195, plus they lost weight
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and what happened to
their bad cholesterol?
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And also their bad cholesterol
went down from 136 at the
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beginning of the program to
117 by the end of the program.
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Okay, well that's a
dramatic difference,
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we know that in LDL above 130
is a heart attack and a stroke
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waiting to happen and
to be really protected,
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we want our LDL's down to
less than 90 or even ideally
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70 if we are trying if we
are trying to reverse something
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but they got down out of that
dangerous range in just 19 days
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and of course it
was still dropping.
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So if you have a family
or yourself or beyond that
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menopause time, this may
be one of the best investments
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you can do to come to
the Newstart program to
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improve those
health risk factors.
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Don't get on the
hormones, come to Newstart
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and you will do far
better than hormones.
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Thank you for tuning in
to Weimar Institute Research.
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