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01:12 Hi friends and welcome to another edition of
01:15 Newstart Now. I'm your host Ron Giannoni. 01:18 We have a gentleman here... I'm going to let him tell you 01:21 where he's from, but his name is Jaques. 01:24 Let's take a look when Jacques first arrived. 01:30 I'm on five medications, one for my blood vessels, 01:38 the big blood vessels, one for my heart, and I have also one 01:45 my blood and that is for to make it thinner, blood thinner. 01:50 Another one for my kidney, and one to keep all of these 02:00 medications in control and I want to get off 02:05 all these medications. 02:10 Welcome back friend, help me welcome Jacques. 02:12 How are you brother? Thank you. I am good. 02:15 Now you're going to tell us where you are from. 02:17 I am at the moment from the island St. Eustatius, 02:21 that's where I live. Originally I am from Sudan, 02:25 I lived a few years, well a lot of years in Holland 02:30 and now I moved to the island of St. Eustatius. 02:34 Okay now we just, we know what conditions you are dealing with 02:40 when you got here, congestive heart failure, perhaps a little 02:46 of kidney situation. You are on several medications, 02:50 we know that. Are you off all your medications now? 02:55 No, not yet. And so how are you doing so far in the program? 03:04 Well, I'm doing very very well for what I think about my 03:10 expectations. I'm off my kidney medication and with my 03:21 heart medication and my blood vessels it's...I'm like 03:25 let's say 30%, so 60%, 70% is off. 03:30 Good, that's good. Now you understand you got to 03:34 walk, right? Yep! There's a lot of walking involved. 03:37 A lot of walking involved. Have you lost any weight 03:39 while you were here? 03:41 I lost some weight in the beginning, I gained some 03:44 weight afterwards, but I'm under the weight that I 03:48 came in with. 03:50 Now Jacques, were you one of the ones, one of the guests 03:54 that was out eating the persimmons? 03:55 Um! You don't have to answer that. 04:00 Okay. You just did. 04:05 Yes. You know we had some guests here, they're on a fast 04:09 and they're eating eight or ten persimmons a day. 04:12 Well that's a lot. No, you can't do that. 04:14 No, no, not while you are fasting. No, no, no. 04:17 So, how did you adjust to the food here? Did you find that 04:23 difficult to adjust to? 04:25 No, not really. Well, I'm accustomed, kind of when I was 04:32 younger, I used to kind of experiment with vegetarian 04:36 food so I didn't have such a hard time of adjusting... 04:41 As a matter of fact, I was surprised in the different 04:47 variations of the dishes that they have here. 04:54 Um hum, now your doctor is Dr. Lukens or Gallant? 04:59 Dr. Lukens. Dr. Lukens. And was he different than your 05:04 doctors back in the islands? 05:06 Yes, of course. Doctors back at the islands, they... 05:10 You are diagnosed of sickness and they make sure you get 05:17 the right medicine and that's it. For the rest, there's no 05:22 coming off, you can't start talking about coming off a 05:25 medication. If you talk about coming off one medication, 05:29 they will ask you ok, well then, what shall we do in the place of 05:34 the one you are coming off? 05:36 So, they're not lifestyle doctors? No, they are not 05:40 lifestyle doctors. Do you find the doctors here are just 05:44 different, period? 05:46 Yeah, the different period. They're different because... 05:48 what they do, they don't only talk about your condition, 05:56 they also explain how you come off the condition. 06:02 They explain the different nutrition and the values of 06:07 nutrition. The different... the different things to eat 06:13 that would get you where you want to be. 06:16 So, did the program meet your expectations? 06:21 Yes, it met my expectations. I know I am not there yet 06:26 but I feel that I am on the right track, I have a lot of 06:30 doctors there that I know this is good, this is good, 06:33 but now I have a line to walk to know that if I walk this line 06:37 I'm really going to get off my medications. 06:40 That's right, that's right. 06:42 And better yet, you're going to get healthier and healthier 06:45 and healthier. Yeah. It happened to me as well Jacques, 06:49 as I told you before the interview. 06:51 So you're on the right track, your wife is with you, right? 06:56 Yes. Which is the good thing because how are you going to 06:59 go back home and explain what you learned? 07:02 Yeah, that would be very difficult. Very very difficult. 07:04 I mean after all these years, it's hard for me to explain, 07:08 but my wife came with me as well. Okay. 07:10 So you are a lucky man. Yes, definitely. 07:14 The cooking classes, were they of a benefit to you? 07:20 Yes, definitely. You know there's something about 07:24 reading it from the paper or seeing somebody doing it, 07:29 somebody explaining it. They always tell you their own 07:33 secrets that normally is not in the book or on paper, 07:38 so that was very beneficial. I can see myself going through 07:44 the process of doing certain things 07:45 and Knowing how to do it. 07:47 Yes. Especially with things like and a...like help tools 07:53 like a food processor and which one... 07:56 Yeah, they are very important to know. 07:59 Right! Um, before I ask you your favorite part of the 08:04 program, how did you enjoy your massages? 08:07 Oh, massages were great. 08:11 How many did you receive while you were here? 08:13 Ah, eight. Eight? Yeah, three every week and two 08:18 the last week. That's wonderful. 08:21 Yeah. Did that help you? Were you struggling with 08:24 your legs and your hips when you started walking? 08:28 Yeah, well not really...well after a while you get something 08:36 like...you feel some volunteer coming up, you feel some 08:40 kind of...you feel something in your hip. 08:42 But, like I said, I used to walk in the mountains 08:47 and so I can adjust very very quick. 08:52 You're used to it. Yeah. One last question, 08:54 we're running out of time. 08:56 Ok. What was your favorite part of the program? 08:58 My favorite part...I think the lectures that kind of... 09:08 how you say it? Something that you know already, but they 09:15 promote what you know. Amen! Amen! 09:21 Jacques, I want to thank you brother. God be with you. 09:24 Thank you. We will doing some follow up. 09:26 Yes! Thank you friends but don't go away, 09:28 because Dr. Lukens is up next. 10:07 Welcome back friends, help me welcome Dr. Lukens. 10:11 Very nice, very nice to be here. Good to see you. 10:14 I know you are a busy guy like the rest of these doctors. 10:18 You guys are taking on guests eight, nine and ten at a time. 10:22 Let me tell you how bad it is here. We have to go on a picnic 10:27 with our guests. That's pretty bad, that must... 10:31 It's wonderful, they love it, they say they never had a chance 10:34 to really sit down and chat or walk and chat with their 10:38 doctor. Well, yeah but you guys do that and you are one on one 10:42 with them on five different occasions, 10:44 I know that for a fact. Yeah. 10:46 At least that is what I tell them before they get here. 10:48 I hope you are doing that. Yeah. 10:51 Incidentally, the first one is an hour long visit than the other 10:55 four half hour visits. 10:57 Yeah. And we do a treadmill and a lot of other testing. 11:03 We do lab work and we can find out what's going on and 11:10 some of the time, some of the time it's like a miracle, 11:15 we just had another one this session where the guy's 11:18 triglycerides were around a thousand and they came down 11:22 to 200. Wow! Yeah well I mean he never... 11:27 Oh, I haven't seen that in 30 years. 11:30 Well, I've never heard of it either obviously but... 11:32 What about Jacques? Now this is a guy that we are talking about 11:36 here and he seems to be doing okay, his attitude is 11:39 really good, he seems like he is going through some changes, 11:43 what say you? 11:45 He's 60 years old and he's from the Caribbean 11:50 but he's worked for years in Holland as well. 11:55 He has an interesting history because when he was 12:00 10 years old, he came down with a kidney disease 12:03 and my ancient past, they used to call that 12:08 Lipoid Nephrosis. I don't hear that term so much, 12:12 because I'm not a Pediatrician. 12:14 But he said from being a well kid and it just comes on like 12:19 that and hopefully you get older and it goes away, 12:23 but he said that his legs swell so much that the skin in his 12:29 ankles was hanging over his shoes. 12:31 Wow! So he was really... It was really wonderful 12:37 and he didn't tell me what all they did, but he got over that 12:42 and then he was going along pretty good and his... 12:46 I see this almost never. But the atrium...most people have 12:53 never heard atrial fibrillation where the top is just quivering 12:57 and that can be really expensive to try to get that ironed out. 13:02 Well, his is a flutter so it's going like this instead of 13:05 like this and he was so tired, he just couldn't function 13:13 and there's something called the injection fraction 13:16 and every time your heart beats, 45 to 60% of the left ventricle 13:23 is supposed to squeeze out and go into your circulation. 13:28 Well, his was down to 14. Umm! And that was really tough. 13:34 He's been on some medication for it and he has gotten better, 13:37 he's been able to do some exercising and so forth but 13:41 he just wants to get off of it- some of the time it makes him 13:45 feel tired and I said well, if you get off of it, 13:50 and your doctor's not happy about it because you 13:54 go into an arrhythmia, that could be tens of thousands 13:58 of dollars to have to catheterize your heart and do things 14:01 like that to get that to go away. 14:04 So we got it...he came and he decided man, 14:09 I came here to get off of all my medicine, 14:12 so I had to talk to him like a Dutch Uncle...and anyway... 14:16 I said look you have done so well here, he's walked up to 14:20 seven miles and a... Per day you're saying. 14:25 Yeah, his average is five but he's walked up to seven miles. 14:30 Um hum. And he feels great, he lost a little bit of weight 14:34 but his numbers are good and his kidneys are better than 14:41 normal actually. 14:43 Wow! So, he's happy, but I guess we tell people 14:50 come to Weimar and we'll get you off your medications 14:54 but sometimes you have to be judicious and he understands 14:59 that and everything. But I think that probably they can 15:04 put another halter on him and when it doesn't show the 15:09 arrhythmia any more and then he can do it again in a couple of 15:11 months, I think his doctor will let him go off his meds. 15:15 Well for the most part people that come here do get off their 15:19 medications. I know that happened to me and 15:21 several people since I've been here, I've watched these 15:25 miracles happen as I call them. So but once in awhile 15:29 it's just not happening and I know that you doctors know 15:35 best and so you don't take him off these medications. 15:38 Not right away but he cut his in half all the way around by... 15:42 On his own and he said what do you think of that and I 15:46 said, well, it's been enough days and I'm not going to 15:49 jack him back up but I'm not responsible. 15:53 All right. We've run out of time. 15:55 I want to thank you for taking your time and God bless you 16:00 and God bless your work. Very good. 16:02 Good to see you again. I'm glad he came. 16:04 Yeah me too. Thank you friends and don't go away 16:07 because Pr. Damon is up next. 16:14 Welcome back friends. Pr. Snead, speaking of friends. 16:20 How are you? I'm doing great brother. 16:22 Good to see you. Thank you. 16:24 I want to talk about Jacques. 16:26 Is that how you pronounce his name? Jacques, yes. 16:28 Jacques. That's an unusual name isn't it? 16:32 For us over here. Yeah. Over here yeah. 16:34 But none-the-less, I know that in some ways Jacques 16:39 is struggling and I know it has a lot to do with his 16:44 physical self, with his heart and some other things he's 16:48 dealing with but none-the-less, how is he coming 16:52 along spiritually? 16:53 I think that spiritually- he came here on a spiritual high. 16:59 I listen to him and he tells me that's great, that's a 17:03 wonderful sermon, but he's already at a fevered pitch. 17:07 He's there in other words. Yes. 17:10 I contributed little to him. Really. 17:13 I think it's his condition that brought him to that place. 17:19 He's had a rough childhood, raised by a grandparent, 17:23 mother died at a very young age from a heart condition later. 17:28 He didn't understand why his mother died so young 17:31 until he found out that he had that same kind of condition 17:33 where his heart is enlarging and then thins and then can 17:36 explode. 17:39 How did he get this spiritual attitude? 17:42 This conviction that is... where did that come from? 17:46 Something that he told me in one of our interviews that 17:49 that just profoundly impacted me personally because 17:54 I though this is a great thought. 17:55 Now I don't want to be in his physical condition, 17:57 who would want to have a heart that is thinning and thinning 18:00 and thinning that it could explode and you have to be on 18:02 medicines and...But he told me when he realized 18:06 when they told him what he had and his mother had died of... 18:09 He realized right then, that he has to live a very different 18:12 kind of life than the average person. 18:14 He cannot afford to go weeks, days, months without connecting 18:20 with God because literally at any moment his life could end. 18:24 So that has driven him into this consciousness that 18:29 I've got to be right with God and of course he's working on 18:31 his health, that's why he's here, he's doing all he can 18:33 in that way, but he knows, I've got to keep my spirituality 18:36 at optimum at all times, I can't afford to ever let up. 18:41 So he's blessed. Yes, that's strange 18:45 I don't know if I want that kind of blessing. 18:47 But I do, but I don't, but that's the beauty of it. 18:53 It was such a spiritual lesson for me to think, 18:56 man, that's how we all need to be at all times. 18:59 Amen! When you think about it, look, what do we have here 19:02 70, 80, 90, years. What do we have when we leave here? 19:06 We have eternity, when you compare 90 years with eternity, 19:12 this is nothing. That's right. 19:15 That's what I meant by he's blessed because he's really 19:20 is getting it. This could be his last breath that he is 19:23 taking right at this moment. 19:25 He's not distracted with the things that we're 19:27 distracted with. Maybe not us but others. 19:31 Me myself at times...He's just not in to the things 19:33 that distract us because he's constantly being reminded 19:36 every time he wakes up... 19:37 Every time he hears his own heartbeat, he's thinking... 19:42 Is this it? Is this the big one? 19:44 That's disturbing to me and yet, I wish I could live that way 19:48 constantly. Every time I hear my heart I'm thinking 19:51 well is today my last day, is tomorrow my last day. 19:54 You know, you look at the newspapers today, good men, 19:57 Christian people are dying all the time, all around us 20:00 and so there's nothing to say that tomorrow's not mine. 20:05 That's right. There's nothing to say that. 20:08 So I should have the same attitude that Jacques does. 20:11 I mean, I was really impressed with him. 20:15 From my perspective, you do and what you shared with us 20:21 at church last night on your "Wheel of Faith" presentation, 20:25 I see the only thing that Paul got wrong... 20:31 I'm not saying that Paul is wrong, but if you were to 20:34 re-write it, he might say, I die moment by moment 20:38 rather than I die daily. Oh yes. 20:41 Because isn't it a moment by moment that we need to 20:44 surrender and give our heart to the Lord? 20:46 We can't trust ourselves as far as we can throw ourselves. 20:49 By moment by moment, you are right because I could 20:51 walk out of here, spiritually doing so great, 20:53 everyone loves me and then run into someone in the hallway 20:56 and then just have a moment. 20:57 That's right. Forget what I'm doing a get upset or... 21:00 literally moment by moment is how we...heartbeat by heartbeat 21:04 like our brother. 21:07 Man, it's so good to talk to you like this. 21:09 We're running out of time. I want to thank you brother. 21:12 All righty my friend. God bless you and your ministry. 21:14 Don't go away, Dr. Nedley and Dr. Ramerez are up next. 21:23 Every year in America there are over 1 million deaths because of 21:26 Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Obesity. 21:28 This includes Heart Attacks and Strokes. 21:30 That's six and a half 747's crashing every day. 21:34 What's even more surprising is that The Fix Is Easy. 21:37 It's Your Lifestyle. 21:39 Wouldn't be nice if you could actually add quality years 21:42 to your life rather than dying an organ at a time? 21:45 Obesity and Diabetes are the cause of over a million deaths 21:48 per year. 21:50 Most diseases are reversible because most diseases are 21:53 Lifestyle Diseases. 21:54 Especially Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Obesity. 21:58 Seriously now, they can be reversed and the quality 22:01 of your life can be renewed. 22:10 You will see dramatic in the first few days of our program 22:14 and you will be on the road to a better, more robust quality 22:17 of life. The Newstart Programs are Simple and Effective. 22:23 Welcome to Weimar Institute Research. 22:26 Today we have Dr. Ramirez, the head of our research at 22:31 Weimar College who teaches in our health science department, 22:34 research methods and today we have another angle at looking at 22:41 some health principles and tell us about this particular angle 22:46 Dr. Rameriz. 22:47 Yeah, this one is dealing about regularity and it's interesting 22:51 because I've been to more than 60 countries lecturing about 22:54 these principles of Newstart and people come to me and say, 22:58 you know this is the first time I hear that regularity is 23:01 important for my health. 23:02 Yes, we have a...we know that circadian rhythms are important 23:08 and this is our daily cycle. 23:12 We also know that light helps set the circadian rhythms 23:16 and if our circadian rhythms are doing well, 23:18 we're going to be sleeping better. 23:22 But this is also taking a look not only at regularity regarding 23:26 sleep, but regularity in another area. 23:29 Also in your meals, eating your meals at the same time 23:36 every day, including the weekends. 23:37 Ok, so if you have regularity in eating, it actually can improve 23:44 your health. 23:45 That's right. Now what area of health are you 23:48 looking at? 23:49 We were focusing here, on mental health. 23:52 What effect does regular eating and sleeping have on your 23:57 depression? 23:58 I went to a GI conference a little over a year ago 24:02 where they talked about even our bowel has a circadian rhythm. 24:06 Um hum. It does much better if we have that rhythm 24:10 aligned and on a regular basis. 24:13 We have the solution to the Blue Monday that many people 24:18 suffer from worldwide. 24:21 Yeah, the Blue Monday because they get off in their sleep 24:26 and they get off in their meals. That's right. 24:29 So how many people were you looking at? 24:31 So this is a big sample 5,621 participants that did an eight 24:39 week Community Education Week program. 24:42 Okay, and that Community Education Program was the 24:46 depression and anxiety recovery program. Um hum. 24:49 And by going to that program, they take a test 24:53 at the beginning to see where they are at and assess them. 24:57 What did we find out in that first test? 24:59 What we found out is that those people that don't have 25:03 regularity, tend to have higher levels of depression. 25:07 Fifteen points on average compared to those that 25:11 have that regularity that their mental health is much better. 25:15 Okay, so regularity in both things then. 25:19 Both things. Sleeping and eating will 25:21 actually help your depression and anxieties significantly, 25:25 or not make it as severe if you have it. 25:27 We also found out that those that are not regular 25:31 are about 30% of them, they don't sleep good, 25:36 they have bad sleep. 25:38 Okay, so it will also affect your sleep. 25:40 Now what happened during the eight weeks then? 25:43 So through the eight weeks, they were educated on this 25:47 Newstart principles that are so important, 25:50 but also on that regularity because our brain doesn't 25:54 work when there is disaster in our lives. 25:57 So were some of them convinced enough to change 26:00 their lifestyle? I know the program isn't just about 26:03 regularity, there's a lot of other things like... 26:05 That's right. Lots of Behavioral therapy and nutrition, 26:07 but did some people actually change their lifestyle habits? 26:12 By the end of the program, 12% of those non-regulars 26:17 decided to become regulars and it was reflected 26:20 in their scores. Okay, so if they did become 26:23 regular, what happened? 26:24 If they became regular, it was reflected on lower depression 26:29 levels, some of them non- depression level 26:32 and also their sleep quality. Only 15%, no only 8% 26:38 by the end of the program had bad sleep. 26:42 So from 30% that didn't have regularity, 26:46 those that are regular by the end 8% only had bad sleep. 26:50 So just becoming regular in the time you are going to bed, 26:53 the time you are getting up, and regular in meals 26:56 can turn you from a bad sleeper into a good sleeper. 27:01 That's correct. That's a dramatic improvement. 27:03 The vast majority of those who did that improved 27:06 just by doing that. 27:08 That's right. As a result of improving their circadian rhythm 27:12 of their sleep patterns and their meals, 27:14 their depression and anxiety recovery scores became 27:18 far better as well. 27:20 I would like to encourage you to be regular in your sleeping 27:25 and eating habits. It can pay rich dividends in better sleep 27:30 and better mood. 27:31 Thank you for watching Weimar Institute Research. 27:39 Well friends that's it for today, but join us next week 27:43 for another episode. 27:45 In the meantime pick up the phone and give us a call at: 27:52 Mention the Newstart Now program and receive 27:56 the Newstart Special. |
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