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My name is Yvonne
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Hello and welcome
to Urban Report...
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My guest today
is Dr. James Marcum
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Physician, Author and
Host of 3ABN's Program
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"Ultimate Prescription"
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Welcome to Urban
Report Dr. Marcum...
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Thank you... I'm
so glad to be here...
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I hope the weather is
good there as it is here...
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It is so beautiful here,
it's going to be in the 80s here
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we're at the... well,
I won't say where we are
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because we don't
want people to know
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we're taping this...
but it is wonderful...
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the weather here is beautiful,
what about... where you are?
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It's great... and
actually the sun's out today
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we want everyone to get out
in the sun at least 20 minutes
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three times a week...
that will help their Vitamin D
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which will increase the
medicine in the brain called
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Serotonin... which
will help fight depression
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Come on now... see,
already, we're learning
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stuff... already... you
know, Dr. Jim, some people
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might not know
about your background
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tell us where you
grew up and how did you get
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into this whole medical field?
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Well, you know, years
ago, I grew up in Florida
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and
subsequently I moved to Texas
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and I went to
School... Undergraduate...
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to the University of
Texas, and then after that
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I went to Medical
School, in San Antonio...
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and then I did Internal Medicine
and ultimately Cardiology
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and what I found out...
that modern medicine is great,
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at treating symptoms...
but it doesn't do a whole lot
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about getting at
the cause of disease...
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Come on... you're
talking my language now.
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So, about... in
2006, we formed a ministry
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to let people know
the truth of Medicine
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called, "Heartwise Ministries"
and slowly we started
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getting the word out...
we realized that the ultimate
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text book was the Bible,
and that within the Bible,
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we had tons of
great prescriptions
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for chronic
disease, ways to help us keep
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from getting sick,
and treatments for people
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that were actually
sick... So, you mean to say,
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that the Bible
which so many people
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especially in this
modern time that we live in...
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so many people think
that the Bible is irrelevant
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to modern-day
life... and certainly...
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not connected to
Science, you're telling us
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that the Bible has
prescriptions for living,
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for Health and Wellness,
Absolutely, Yvonne, and you know
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we don't want people
not to think that there's
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not a place for modern
medicine, there is a place
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for modern medicine...
especially in emergencies...
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if your heart's going too
slow, I want a person to have
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a pacemaker if you're
having a heart attack,
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I want to put in a stent...
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if you're bleeding to death,
I want to stop the bleeding...
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but for chronic disease, a
lot of the conditions we're in
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the Bible has
Science-proven methods to change
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our Chemistry to get us
back more to the original design
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which doesn't turn
on some of our genetics
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you know, there's a spiel
called epigenetics right now,
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where certain genes are turned
on by environmental factors
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so the Bible
dealt with all of this
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and helped us learn about
this many, many years ago...
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Wow, that is so
exciting... one of the things
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that affect African Americans
more than the general population
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in fact, about 40 percent
of adult African Americans
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have Hypertension...
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what would you say
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are some of the
causes of Hypertension...
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High blood pressure?
First, I want to make sure
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everyone
understands what Hypertension is
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or High blood pressure...
Yvonne, sometimes they call it
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the hidden killer...
because you don't even know
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that the blood
pressure is going so fast
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in your body...
but High blood pressure
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over time can
lead to heart disease
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can lead to strokes, it
can lead to kidney disease,
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it can cause aneurysms,
it can lead to dementia,
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and a lot of people
don't even have their
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blood pressure
checked, but everyone should
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get out there and get
their blood pressure checked
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it's the devise
that goes around your arm
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called a Blood Pressure
Cuff, a fancy name for what is
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called a sphygmomanometer
and if your blood pressure
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is above a 140 on the
top... that's when the heart
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first pumps... or
above 90 when it relaxes
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you might have
High blood pressure
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so, when anyone has
a diagnosis of this...
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let's say 3 or 4 times
when they're nice and relaxed
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their blood pressure is
high, now everyone goes up
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occasionally... you
know, you get excited when
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you're doing your
television program
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or you get
excited about something...
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it might go up,
but that blood pressure
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should come right back down...
so, if it's up all the time
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you might have
High blood pressure
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and when a person comes
in with High blood pressure
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first thing I want to
do is, first of all...
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make sure that no
organs have been damaged...
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and we do that by
checking the urine and EKG...
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making sure
they're thinking right...
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making sure the
heart's doing well,
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but the next thing I
ask, "Why... why do they have
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High blood pressure?
What is putting stress
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on the body that could
make the adrenalin and cortisol
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go up... for the
blood pressure to go up...
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and guess what that
the number one causes
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of High blood
pressure is now? What?
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just carrying extra weight, Wow!
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extra weight makes these
chemicals... adrenalin cortisol
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which raises blood
pressure... so some people...
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just by becoming
active and losing a few pounds
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their blood
pressure will come down...
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another cause of
High blood pressure is
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inactivity... well
when you sit around
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that leads to
High blood pressure...
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there are some conditions
that people don't even realize
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they have... one
that's called Sleep Apnea...
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where people don't
breath good at night...
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well when people
don't breathe good at night
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that makes the
stress chemicals go up
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which causes high
blood pressure as well
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So, there is a
relationship between Sleep Apnea
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and High Blood
Pressure... Absolutely...
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and other things
that people don't think
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Thyroid Disease can
cause High blood pressure...
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Kidney disease can
cause High blood pressure...
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chronic pain can
cause High Blood Pressure
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there are certain
things that we eat
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that cause High blood pressure,
everyone's heard of salt...
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but there's sodium in
almost all the processed food
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that we eat...
things like licorice
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can raise your
blood pressure, Yes...
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and even certain medicines
can raise your blood pressure
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as well... so, when a person has
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High blood pressure,
I go down that big list
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and see if I can figure out why
they have High blood pressure...
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And see, that's so important
because, one of the things
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that people are
told, many times...
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is... they're
given the diagnosis of
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essential Hypertension...
and that essentially means
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we don't know what
causes it... Exactly...
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So, it's so
important and this is why
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you are one of my
favorite physicians
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because... you really do
consider the root cause...
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you're not just
about treating the symptoms
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through
medication... you are... into...
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finding out, "What is the
root cause of this disorder...
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and it can also
be... related to emotions
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Exactly... Tell
us how unforgiveness,
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for example, can
lead to hypertension...
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Well, Yvonne, if you get
back to anything that stresses
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the body... makes chemicals
like adrenalin and cortisol
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which raises the blood
pressure, so any type of stress
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which I define as living in ways
that God didn't intend us to do,
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and that could
be living in pain...
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living in fear, and
also, having guilt...
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when you have this,
the part of the brain
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that governs our
stress part the Limbic system
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the medulla starts
firing like crazy...
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it makes all
these stress chemicals
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and stress chemicals are great
if you're running from danger
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or if you're
running away from a snake
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or if there is a
fire in your home,
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but you make
the stress chemicals
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chronically day after day
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year after year... it
starts to damage your body...
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so what happens...
all these chemicals raises
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your stress chemistry, so
it raises your blood pressure
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so you can run from the
danger, but it can also cause
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long-term
damage... also chronic stress
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chronic guilt, fear,
these types of things
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also damage the
front part of our brain,
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so we can't think as well...
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and things that can
also, in addition to guilt
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we think of fear, we
think of people who watch
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prolonged violence on
TV... that can also stimulate
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the stress cascade...
things like pornography
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or anything that our
body wasn't designed to have
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done to it... could
trigger the stress cascade
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which could raise
your blood pressure...
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So, "as a man thinketh"
has so much truth to it,
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just by controlling our thoughts
our fears, our anxiety...
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our guilt... we could
lower the chance of us
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turning on these chemicals
and lower our blood pressure...
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You know, it's so interesting
to me that there is this
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mind-body connection...
that God did not create
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us as these beings
that have isolated aspects
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but actually
inter-dependent aspects
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so that when we are
subjected to violence
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and a lot of video games,
I think for young people too
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and we're probably
finding more hypertension
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in younger people as
well now because of this whole
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thrust of violence, it's
so interesting to me that
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we have this connection
between the mind and the body
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and the spiritual
aspects of the person...
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one of the
things that I found also
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in my research
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was... because I used
to have a wellness practice
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in Dallas... and I had patients
that would come to me with
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Hypertension,
and one of the things
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can be a Magnesium deficiency,
that can be a source of
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the Hypertension as
well... and many people
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don't realize that if they test
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the Erythrocyte Magnesium
the Red Blood Cell Magnesium
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that's better than
the Serum Magnesium
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for determining that
there is a deficiency...
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some people don't even
know that they might have
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Hypertension just because
they have a Magnesium deficiency
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and if they eat
certain fruits and vegetables
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they can get more
Magnesium into their diet...
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Tell us how the Bible fits in to
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High blood pressure... health...
You know, I think Yvonne,
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the Bible fits into everything
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and God wants us to
feel well and be well
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and if we go back...
to the original design
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we weren't designed to
have High blood pressure...
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we were designed to
have normal blood pressure,
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our original design
was not to have stress
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on our body from all the
things we talked about...
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whether the low
Magnesium or extra weight
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or not sleeping good at night,
or putting a lot of sodium
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in our bodies...
having chronic physical pain
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or having chronic mental pain,
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all which can cause stress
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which raises the blood pressure,
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so what I
encourage people to do is
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get into the Bible,
and study how God made us
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originally... and
try to work towards that
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in our lives...
God made us to rest,
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so rest is a
wonderful, Biblical treatment...
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for High blood
pressure... both a weekly rest,
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as well as a nightly
rest, how many people now
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take a day off and rest?
Oh, Dr. Marcum, that is such
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a critical piece...
because if God hadn't built
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into the Ten Commandments...
the Commandments on rest...
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I think we'd just
work ourselves to death...
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That's right...
we just keep going...
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and keep going... and
you also said something
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that really, really
resonated with me... and that is
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chronic emotional pain
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Yes... so many people...
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are carrying these heavy
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burdens and they
don't realize that
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if they just take
their burdens to the Lord
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and leave them there,
what a physical blessing
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that would be...
involved in that...
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Can you give us an
example of one of your patients
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that had chronic emotional
pain that changed that through
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Biblical
principles? Well, I had a female
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that came to me
not too long ago,
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that had a plethora of
problems in her middle forties
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and it was a disaster
because originally it started
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because she had foot pain...
because she wore high heels
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to work every single
day and she started to have
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bad foot pain...
well, that led to a surgery
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gaining of 50 pounds
when she gained 50 pounds,
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she got High blood pressure,
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diabetes and sleep
apnea she kept adding on
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more and more medications,
they eventually fired her
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from her job...
because she was on narcotics
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and couldn't function well,
she didn't know where to go,
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she was on 7 or 8 medications
when I first met her,
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and the poor thing...
she didn't choose this
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and it all started with
pain from high heel shoes...
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and that was the
standard in their office
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to wear high heel shoes everyday
so, we slowly got her back
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to God's plan... we said,
00:13:26.01\00:13:27.54
"Listen, let's teach
her how to rest better...
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how to get some of
the stress off her life...
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to turn to God...
to eat healthy foods...
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to start an exercise program,
to come off some of these
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medications which were
causing side effects...
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and then, we also
talked to her about something
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that's very interesting now
Yvonne, you know a lot of people
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don't realize that everything
that comes into our body
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our food, our thoughts,
our fears, the way we view God,
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can affect our genetics,
there's an evolving field
00:13:53.45\00:13:57.43
out there called "Epigenetics"
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where we activate
genes by the way we think,
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the way we feel,
and the way we act,
00:14:02.33\00:14:04.56
and these genes can
make a lot of bad things
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that damage our bodies
too, it can cause mutations
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which can cause...
predisposes to all sorts of
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bad medical conditions...
so, as she realized that
00:14:13.23\00:14:16.21
modern medicine
didn't fix things...
00:14:16.24\00:14:18.38
but getting back to the way
God made her... in the beginning
00:14:18.41\00:14:21.59
could get her off
these medications,
00:14:21.62\00:14:23.58
the whole world
came alive to her...
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and then when she realized
that she could turn it over
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to God and He would love
her, and He would nurture her,
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because she was made
to have a relationship
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with her creator
and He was designed
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to help her learn the
truth, that sets her free...
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from all of these
medical conditions,
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she became a new
woman literally...
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That's a great story...
you know there's such an
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emphasis on
fashion... and these high heels
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can do so much
damage... to women
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without us really
realizing the kind of damage...
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that it can do... it
set off a whole cascade
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of issues... with
this young lady...
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Yeah... So, once
a patient finds out
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that there is hope
for them, that there is
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another way... that
includes wellness...
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it would seem to me...
that it would make such a
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difference to know
that... I don't have to be sick
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all the time... I
don't have to have
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these conditions... if I
follow Biblical principles
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Yeah, that's so
important to let people know...
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you know modern
medicine does not necessarily
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teach this all the time,
many times, I tell people that
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as a
cardiologist... a lot of times,
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I just treat the
symptoms I manage risks...
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that's what I
do in the office...
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but if they don't want
me to do these things...
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here is the plan...
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and you can get back
to a very healthy life...
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now, not everyone is
going to be perfect...
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because we do
have genetic disease,
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but as we get
back to God's plan...
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He can heal us now and
if He doesn't heal us now...
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He can heal us eternally...
and that's what we want
00:15:55.18\00:15:57.34
everyone... all your
listeners to know today
00:15:57.37\00:15:59.53
that you can be healed
eternally by plugging into this
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relationship that we
were designed to have
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with our creator...
Absolutely... absolutely...
00:16:05.07\00:16:08.92
plugging in... that
is such an important
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concept... we plug in because
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He is our power
source... Exactly...
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He is the source of our power,
what about hypercholesterolemia
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what about people
who have high cholesterol
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that need to
have bypass operations
00:16:23.25\00:16:28.26
and all of that...
what would you suggest
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to them... to do naturally to
A. perhaps dissolve the plaque
00:16:30.70\00:16:35.44
or to stop the plaque...
what would you recommend
00:16:35.48\00:16:38.89
to them? I get
that everyday, Yvonne,
00:16:38.92\00:16:41.41
because we do bypasses
and I tell the people...
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I say the Bypasses
just help your symptoms...
00:16:44.15\00:16:46.84
they do not take
away the problems
00:16:46.87\00:16:49.01
but I say, the
first place I start...
00:16:49.04\00:16:51.14
is in a relationship
with the Heavenly Father...
00:16:51.18\00:16:54.17
because in that
relationship, they find peace
00:16:54.20\00:16:56.80
which turns down
their stress chemistry...
00:16:56.83\00:16:59.36
it helps change their brains,
they can learn what the truth is
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and it's hard to find truth
in this well-marketed world...
00:17:02.89\00:17:06.31
and I'm glad you're
doing programs that help
00:17:06.34\00:17:08.20
bring truth to people,
another thing that it helps them
00:17:08.23\00:17:11.71
when they start on
this relationship is...
00:17:11.74\00:17:13.48
it gives them the
power to make changes
00:17:13.51\00:17:15.18
that might be hard
and some of these changes,
00:17:15.22\00:17:17.61
if you've had
blockages in the arteries...
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is... is try not to eat things
that have lots of cholesterol
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in them... try to
eat healthy things
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like lots of fruits and
vegetables and nuts and grains,
00:17:25.46\00:17:28.86
and eat less of the bad stuff
00:17:28.89\00:17:30.87
hopefully... none if
possible... and I tell people...
00:17:30.90\00:17:33.78
just eat enough of the bad
stuff just to make you happy,
00:17:33.81\00:17:36.65
because if you're
not happy inside...
00:17:36.69\00:17:39.26
that chemistry that comes
from being a grumpy person
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that's bad for you
too... so it's about balance...
00:17:42.67\00:17:45.97
so I start people
in that relationship
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and then I say,
"Well, let's talk about
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what would be the next thing...
well, let's drink enough water
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everyday... since 70
percent of your body is water
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then you won't eat as
much of the bad stuff...
00:17:55.11\00:17:57.60
let's try to focus on
not eating big at night,
00:17:57.64\00:18:00.10
because that
big meal at night...
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is when we store a
lot of that cholesterol
00:18:01.79\00:18:04.76
in our body... try to
eat 4 to 5 fresh fruits
00:18:04.79\00:18:07.69
and vegetables a day...
then if that's going good,
00:18:07.72\00:18:10.27
get on a Movement
Program... where you can walk
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you know, maybe start...
one minute, five minutes,
00:18:12.61\00:18:14.84
build up to 45
minutes a day of exercise...
00:18:14.88\00:18:18.81
and then if that goes good,
continue to follow God's leading
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and work on your
relationship with each other
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being happy... that
helps your chemistry...
00:18:26.33\00:18:29.12
listen to good
music, all of these things
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can help lower the
stress which will bring down
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our cholesterol
levels... that is great...
00:18:33.71\00:18:36.39
that is great... plugging in...
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to the source...
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and developing that
relationship with Jesus Christ
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to help us make
lifestyle choices that are
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healthier... you
know, you said something,
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and again... it's so true that
it is difficult for some people
00:18:49.68\00:18:54.14
to make
changes... in their diets,
00:18:54.18\00:18:56.53
and in their lifestyle,
I've had a patient in Dallas
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that... I was... she had...
00:18:59.49\00:19:02.13
breast cancer...
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and I was telling her
some natural things to do
00:19:03.27\00:19:06.85
and some changes in the
diet, and she began to cry
00:19:06.89\00:19:10.43
because she said,
"I don't want to...
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I really don't like those things
I don't want to change... "
00:19:12.21\00:19:15.45
and we need... if
you continue to do
00:19:15.48\00:19:18.71
the same things...
those are the things that
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triggered the disease
process in the first place...
00:19:21.70\00:19:25.13
so you have to make some
changes and God will help you
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to do that...
And you know, Yvonne,
00:19:28.60\00:19:31.08
one thing that I found
as I tried to meet people
00:19:31.11\00:19:33.82
where they're
at... we try to love them
00:19:33.86\00:19:36.02
and not judge them...
and I just pick one thing
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and I say, "Just stick
with it for one month...
00:19:38.73\00:19:41.34
and with God
helping you I guarantee you
00:19:41.37\00:19:43.94
when you come back next month,
you'll have something positive"
00:19:43.98\00:19:46.83
and then when they
see how God has led them
00:19:46.86\00:19:49.03
on that one thing... we
start on thing Number 2,
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Ah... remember...
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Rome wasn't built in
a day... and remember
00:19:52.61\00:19:55.15
the chemistry that comes from
00:19:55.18\00:19:56.68
not feeling like you can do it,
00:19:56.71\00:19:58.14
or being discouraged or stressed
that chemistry is just as bad
00:19:58.18\00:20:02.21
as almost anything else...
so we got to encourage people
00:20:02.24\00:20:05.60
and love them... and
try not to overwhelm them
00:20:05.64\00:20:07.92
as we move along this
path, to wellness and health...
00:20:07.96\00:20:11.04
Yes, how good...
to give them one thing
00:20:11.07\00:20:14.02
at a time... to
do which gives them
00:20:14.05\00:20:16.77
a sense of accomplishment,
because they've been able
00:20:16.81\00:20:19.49
to do that one thing...
and then they can add...
00:20:19.52\00:20:22.53
another modification
so that's a great idea...
00:20:22.57\00:20:26.19
Another thing is...
it's about relationships too
00:20:26.22\00:20:29.18
you know... we were
designed to be with each other
00:20:29.21\00:20:32.13
and encourage
and love each other
00:20:32.17\00:20:33.66
and all be
healers for each other
00:20:33.70\00:20:35.16
Yes... so when we embark
00:20:35.19\00:20:36.52
on these journeys, you know,
not only do we want God's help
00:20:36.55\00:20:39.47
but get other people's help...
get people praying for you,
00:20:39.50\00:20:42.38
helping you,
encouraging you, praising you,
00:20:42.41\00:20:45.16
learn as much as you
can about being healthy
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Absolutely... absolutely...
what about patients that have
00:20:47.91\00:20:53.44
congestive heart failure,
what would you recommend
00:20:53.48\00:20:58.05
for them? Yeah, well
you know all of these
00:20:58.09\00:21:00.90
principles luckily that
work for High blood pressure
00:21:00.93\00:21:03.68
and high Cholesterol...
also help for heart failure...
00:21:03.72\00:21:06.39
but when I deal with
someone with heart failure...
00:21:06.43\00:21:09.07
that's when the
heart's not doing it's job...
00:21:09.10\00:21:11.06
first again you have to ask...
00:21:11.09\00:21:12.87
"Why is the heart
not doing it's job?"
00:21:12.90\00:21:14.97
Is the thyroid overactive?
00:21:15.01\00:21:17.90
Is the heart weak?
Is there a bad valve?
00:21:17.93\00:21:19.95
sometimes if it's something
00:21:19.99\00:21:21.40
like a bad valve...
that could be repaired...
00:21:21.43\00:21:23.46
if it's
something more complicated
00:21:23.50\00:21:25.90
like a chronically ill heart...
then things like exercise
00:21:25.93\00:21:29.58
eating a healthy
diet, being happy,
00:21:29.61\00:21:32.22
keeping the blood pressure good,
00:21:32.25\00:21:34.07
and here's one...
getting enough rest...
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I had a
stockbroker from New York City
00:21:36.53\00:21:39.05
that came to me
recently... he had been
00:21:39.08\00:21:41.53
to see doctors all
over the United States...
00:21:41.57\00:21:44.62
on all the right
medicines, he already had
00:21:44.66\00:21:47.65
two Bypass surgeries...
he's on all the perfect
00:21:47.68\00:21:50.32
medicines... all
the dosages had been
00:21:50.35\00:21:52.54
titrated
perfectly... I asked him,
00:21:52.58\00:21:54.69
I started going through
God's certain plan for him...
00:21:54.73\00:21:58.24
and found out that he
didn't rest at night...
00:21:58.28\00:22:00.23
he stayed up to
11:30 every night...
00:22:00.27\00:22:03.18
he worked till 9 or 10
cell phones, iPads, e-mails,
00:22:03.21\00:22:07.78
you name it...
just by starting to rest
00:22:07.81\00:22:10.88
at night... his
blood pressure came down
00:22:10.91\00:22:13.91
he started having less angina,
his cholesterol came down,
00:22:13.94\00:22:18.00
his inflammation in
his body just came down...
00:22:18.04\00:22:20.63
just by keeping
a nightly rest...
00:22:20.66\00:22:23.01
well the next thing
I'm going to move him to...
00:22:23.04\00:22:25.64
is a weekly rest...
and can you imagine how his
00:22:25.68\00:22:28.24
chemistries then
continued to improve...
00:22:28.28\00:22:30.62
I love it... so,
with your patients,
00:22:30.66\00:22:32.94
you introduce that
weekly rest, that Sabbath rest
00:22:32.97\00:22:35.98
to your patients? Yes, I do...
00:22:36.02\00:22:37.78
how do they usually respond,
those who are not familiar with
00:22:37.81\00:22:41.83
the Sabbath rest... how
do they usually respond?
00:22:41.86\00:22:44.20
One thing I like to do
is... not everyone believes
00:22:44.23\00:22:46.49
in the Bible out there, Yvonne,
and in all of our principles...
00:22:46.53\00:22:49.92
are on the Bible... so
I talk to them first about
00:22:49.95\00:22:52.44
getting to know the Bible
and see if you think it's true,
00:22:52.48\00:22:56.17
and I try to give
them a lot of evidence
00:22:56.21\00:22:58.90
that the Bible is
true... both historically...
00:22:58.93\00:23:02.08
we've proven it
with modern medicine
00:23:02.12\00:23:04.71
archeologically, the
prophecies, and then I say,
00:23:04.75\00:23:07.69
"Well, why don't you
read the Bible yourself
00:23:07.73\00:23:10.63
and let God prove it to you... "
00:23:10.67\00:23:12.17
and I've not had
anyone that didn't believe the
00:23:12.21\00:23:14.95
Bible after they
honestly were searching
00:23:14.99\00:23:17.39
to see if it was true...
00:23:17.42\00:23:18.45
Well, that's so great...
because what you're doing...
00:23:18.49\00:23:22.15
again is you're showing
the relevance of the Bible
00:23:22.18\00:23:25.85
to modern times...
I think so many people
00:23:25.88\00:23:27.77
think that the Bible
is a book of antiquity...
00:23:27.81\00:23:30.52
and it's not relevant to
anything in our lives now...
00:23:30.55\00:23:34.69
and those
principles, the original diet,
00:23:34.73\00:23:37.51
in going back to
God's original plan...
00:23:37.54\00:23:40.19
which is the
"Ultimate Prescription"
00:23:40.22\00:23:42.80
if you will... it just
makes all the difference
00:23:42.83\00:23:45.72
And when they get back to that
00:23:45.76\00:23:48.02
and realize that
there's a God that loves them...
00:23:48.06\00:23:50.03
all of a sudden...
truth starts coming alive
00:23:50.07\00:23:53.04
in their lives...
they discover things
00:23:53.07\00:23:54.86
that they never heard before,
that goes with their health
00:23:54.89\00:23:58.28
that goes with the relationship
00:23:58.31\00:24:00.07
and the healing
actually starts at that place...
00:24:00.10\00:24:02.87
and when they
understand these things...
00:24:02.90\00:24:05.19
understand that
the Bible is true...
00:24:05.22\00:24:07.44
they start following
the principles in the Bible,
00:24:07.47\00:24:10.52
they fall in love
with the God of love...
00:24:10.55\00:24:12.60
they start having probably
00:24:12.64\00:24:14.04
the greatest healing
force in the universe...
00:24:14.07\00:24:16.07
and that's love
in their life, Yes...
00:24:16.11\00:24:17.57
God is love,
00:24:17.60\00:24:18.87
and once you have
love, that's a healing force
00:24:18.90\00:24:21.10
for your body too...
when you love people...
00:24:21.13\00:24:23.48
you make endorphins...
remember we were designed
00:24:23.51\00:24:25.89
to love each other,
and people that don't love
00:24:25.93\00:24:28.35
are selfish... and
that damages the body's
00:24:28.38\00:24:30.77
chemistry... so as they learn
00:24:30.81\00:24:32.77
all these things,
their body becomes chemically
00:24:32.80\00:24:35.50
more like what God
made them, and they...
00:24:35.53\00:24:37.62
get very excited...
they get very happy...
00:24:37.65\00:24:39.67
eventually, they want
to share this good news...
00:24:39.71\00:24:42.03
with other
people... and it's all very...
00:24:42.07\00:24:44.05
really... it's very
exciting when they realize
00:24:44.08\00:24:46.73
that their God
wants to heal them...
00:24:46.77\00:24:48.50
not only physically...
but also, emotionally as well.
00:24:48.53\00:24:52.98
Absolutely... you are one
of those enthusiastic Docs...
00:24:53.01\00:24:57.42
I love that about
you... because you're not
00:24:57.45\00:25:00.41
you're not just caught
up into the day-to-day...
00:25:00.44\00:25:03.82
you actually seem to
love what you're doing...
00:25:03.85\00:25:06.47
you have a passion
for what you're doing...
00:25:06.50\00:25:09.05
Oh yeah, Yvonne, but I
think we were all designed
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to heal each
other... we were designed
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to love each other...
and take care of the earth
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which includes... each
other... and help each other
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to come into a
relationship with God...
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this is sort of evangelism,
and as you talk to...
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your people out
there, just a simple thing
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as saying a
prayer... and ask God
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to start a
relationship with you...
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that can be a start...
of a healing relationship
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that you can't really put...
you can't really measure that...
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and all the good it
can do, and all the power
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it can give a person...
Absolutely... absolutely...
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I don't know where
our time is gone...
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but we're ending this program
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and you've just given
us so much information.
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Tell us... before we go...
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what you're doing now...
tell us about the Program
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that you have... and the book...
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and all of that...
Yeah, well we have a ministry
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called Heartwise
Ministries and they can
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plug into the website
HeartwiseMinistries. org
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we'd be happy to
answer your questions...
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we also have a
weekly live Program...
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that's going to be seen
on 3ABN starting in January
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where people can call in
and ask their questions live...
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we have another Program called
"The Ultimate Prescription"
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where we continue to
teach these principles
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so people continue
to learn more about
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taking care of their bodies,
coming into a relationship
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with the Creator, and
letting the Holy Spirit
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take each individual
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to that unique
place they need to be...
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Thank you so much
Dr. Marcum for today...
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would you come back
and share some of that
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information with us?
Absolutely, I will be happy to.
00:26:37.93\00:26:40.47
That will be
Great... may God bless you
00:26:40.50\00:26:42.22
as you continue to serve Him
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and help others to...
toward health and wellness.
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We know that Jesus
is the Divine Physician
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and that He, as our Creator,
has put certain laws into place,
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if we follow
those laws of health,
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we can be well...
illness ensues when we disregard
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those laws... a
lack of nutrition, rest,
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and a spirit of unforgiveness
can lead to disease...
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true health is
found in an integration
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of the physical,
emotional, and spiritual aspects
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of one's being...
Jesus asked the man
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by the Pool of Bethesda...
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"Wilt thou be made
whole, do you want to be well?"
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Do you want to be well?
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Well, if you do... then
you'll make healthy choices
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you'll plug into the Creator,
you'll develop a relationship
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with Him... you'll
ask Him for the power
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to make changes in your
life, because it isn't easy...
00:27:35.28\00:27:38.56
as Dr. Marcum
said... it's really not easy
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to make these
changes, but we can
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through the power
of the Holy Spirit...
00:27:43.72\00:27:46.48
and we can be made whole...
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and we can be
well... if we just follow
00:27:48.64\00:27:51.68
the laws of health...
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Well, where did our time go?
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We hope that you'll
join us next time...
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It just wouldn't be
the same without you...
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