Participants: Charles Mills & James Marcum
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00002A
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00:01 The following program presents principles
00:02 designed to promote good health 00:04 and is not intended to take 00:05 the place of personalized professional care. 00:07 The opinions and ideas expressed 00:09 are those of the speaker. 00:10 Viewers are encouraged to draw 00:12 their own conclusions about the information presented. 00:17 You are about to hear the story of a man 00:19 who faced a death of his own making. 00:21 It could very well be your story too. Stay tuned. 00:27 I am Dr. James Marcum. 00:29 Are you interested in discovering the reason why? 00:32 You want solutions to your healthcare problem. 00:35 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:38 Well, you are about to be given 00:40 the Ultimate Prescription. 00:45 Welcome to Ultimate Prescription 00:47 with Dr. James Marcum. I am Charles Mills. 00:49 You know cardiologists deal with 00:51 life and death issues on a daily basis. 00:53 But what many cardiologists fail to share 00:55 with their patients is that most of those issues 00:58 are the result of simple lifestyle choices. 01:01 Dr. Marcum, you recently had a patient 01:03 that fits that description perfectly. 01:05 Tell us about David. 01:07 David, Charles, is a real person. 01:09 I actually see him in office on a regular basis. 01:12 But on Tuesday night I was awakened 01:15 in the middle of the night with a phone call. 01:17 And I groggily got out of bed and I said, 01:19 hey, hey, Dr. Marcum here. 01:20 And it was an emergency doctor that I knew very well. 01:24 And he says listen, 01:25 this fellow who became David is having a heart attack. 01:28 And for our viewers, 01:30 a heart attack is when an artery gets clogged up. 01:33 The artery gets filled with plaque. 01:34 The heart doesn't get enough blood 01:36 and it does crazy things. 01:38 So, David never had a health problem ever before 01:42 and all of a sudden he began to have chest pain. 01:44 He went to the emergency room. 01:45 They called me. They needed a cardiologist. 01:47 Cardiologist, heart doctor, that's what I do, Charles. 01:49 Yes. So I gave some quick instructions. 01:52 I said we have to have an aspirin, oxygen. 01:56 You know, the basics, you got to breathe, 01:57 you got to have an IV. 01:58 Give him some blood thinner, heparin, 02:00 and said, I'm on my way. 02:02 So, you know, I get to drive fast, Charles, 02:05 on the Interstate. 02:06 So they let me drive fast. 02:07 So I sped over to emergency room. I got to David. 02:10 And there was David and I started talking to him 02:12 as we got things going. 02:14 I looked at his EKG, sure enough 02:15 he was having a major heart attack. 02:18 And right there while I was talking to him, 02:20 his heart became totally unstable. 02:23 It went into a rhythm called ventricular tachycardia. 02:27 And immediately David was talking to me. 02:29 When you go into ventricular tachycardia, 02:31 no blood gets to the heart. 02:33 The heart's just fibrillating just like this. 02:35 No blood gets to the brain, you pass out. 02:38 And David just went black 02:40 and then all of a sudden the team got into action. 02:42 Now, nowadays, what we do is, we put pads on patients 02:45 and he already had the pads on. 02:46 They'd already prepared that this might happen 02:48 'cause this is an occurrence 02:49 that happens in heart attacks. 02:51 You've heard about the defibrillators. Oh, yes. 02:53 Same principle. Well, all of a sudden we saw that. 02:56 The next thing we do is we defibrillated his heart. 02:58 We just pressed the button. 02:59 It shocked his heart. 03:00 And David goes like this. 03:01 And whoa, you know, he comes back around. 03:04 And he goes, he goes, you know, where am I? 03:06 What's going on? Am I okay? 03:08 And, of course, the room was filled 03:09 with people at that time. 03:11 I said David, you're okay. 03:12 David, are you still having pain? 03:13 He says, well, the pain is not near 03:16 what it was before. Yeah. 03:17 So the next thing we did was we transported him 03:20 to a facility where we could go up to the groin 03:23 where a team opened up that artery and placed a stent in. 03:26 And that stent got David sort of out of the woods. Yes. 03:30 So, you know, we went and talked to his wife, you know. 03:32 We said listen, you know, 03:33 your husband's having a heart attack. 03:35 And she goes, how could David have 03:36 a heart attack? He's been healthy. 03:38 You know, he runs, he exercises, 03:40 not on any medicines. 03:41 He's in his mid 40's. 03:43 Never done anything wrong. 03:44 And I said, well, David had hidden disease 03:46 that was deep down inside of him 03:48 that he didn't even know 03:49 till this cascade of events happened that night. 03:53 You know, Dr. Marcum, that is a very common statement. 03:55 You probably hear it a lot. 03:57 I do everything right. 03:58 I eat right. I exercise. 04:01 I don't have a history of heart disease in my family. 04:05 Yet you're saying that 04:06 his artery was getting clogged up. 04:08 What was going on? 04:09 Yeah, a lot of people don't realize it, 04:11 up to half of people that have cardiovascular disease, 04:14 they don't even know they have it 04:15 till they have something catastrophic. 04:18 And in David's case, he was having a heart attack. 04:21 And if we don't get to him within five or six hours, 04:24 there's permanent damage, perhaps even death. 04:26 Cardiovascular disease is still the number one 04:29 cause of death in United States. 04:32 And it's growing in prevalence around the whole world. 04:34 So this is a big issue. 04:36 So we have this silent disease but Charles, but-- 04:38 Something is happening to cause this. Yes, yes. 04:40 The big problem that we have is 04:42 a lot of people have silent disease, 04:44 disease that's going on within us 04:46 that we don't even know about. 04:48 Whether it be cardiovascular disease 04:50 or the damage that comes by carrying extra weight 04:53 or the damage that comes from 04:54 many hidden things out there. Okay. All right. 04:56 You're saying the damage that comes 04:57 from carrying extra weight 04:58 and we're carrying a lot of extra weight. 04:59 Well, you know, you just look at, you know, 05:01 I read a statistic 60% of Americans 05:04 now carry extra weight. 05:05 Thirty percent of obese and the numbers keep going up. 05:08 And the chemistry that comes with that, 05:09 damages the body even though we can't see it. 05:12 Well, David, was having damages 05:14 inside the arteries of his heart 05:16 that have been going on for probably his-- 05:18 close to his entire life. Yeah. 05:20 He didn't even know it till a catastrophe. 05:22 So even though modern medicine was great 05:25 in keeping him alive, 05:28 you know in discussions with David, 05:30 I told David this didn't solve the problem. 05:32 You know, we kept you alive another day. 05:34 But now, let's look at the reason why this happened. 05:38 And that's, you know, when you're opening, 05:40 when you're talking about lifestyle, 05:41 well, something happened in the past 05:43 that brought this disease forward. Yes. 05:46 And it might've been lifestyle. 05:48 It might've been genetics. 05:50 It was some stress on his system. 05:52 You talk about stress a lot, Dr. Marcum, 05:54 and this is something that we all carry. 05:57 I mean if we think about it 05:59 and we look at our own lives, 06:00 we're gonna say, we're stressful. 06:01 There are things happening in our lives 06:03 that we may not understand. 06:04 There are things happening that we cannot control. 06:07 And these are stresses because it goes 06:09 beyond diet and exercise. 06:11 When you have a problem in your heart, 06:13 diet and exercise is one place to look 06:16 but there are others as well. 06:18 And Dr. Marcum, when you sit down with a patient, 06:20 what do you want to know in their history 06:23 that might give you a little indication 06:25 that there is a problem there. 06:26 Well that was-- you know, 06:28 when David came back to me, you know, 06:29 I made sure all of his medicines were adjusted. 06:31 That one's that helped the stent do well 06:33 but more than that--Modern medicine saved his life. 06:35 Yes, it did, it did. Okay, all right. 06:36 But I said, David, its now time to talk about 06:39 what caused this happen in the first place. 06:42 If we don't find out what the cause is, 06:44 we can't find the solution. 06:46 And this will happen again and again and again. 06:48 We don't want to keep having 06:49 heart attacks and stents and all this. 06:51 I thought a stent cures you. No. 06:53 You put a stent in there. 06:54 How about a bypass? You just bypassed it. 06:56 You're cured. Everything is fixed. 06:57 No, the bypass just bypasses around the blockages. 07:00 And so we can find out things 07:02 that we can do to actually reverse disease. 07:04 And we've a very famous president now that's doing 07:07 some things to reverse the disease in his heart. 07:10 We're hearing a lot more about 07:11 techniques that can reverse. 07:12 But back to David, Charles, I want to talk about David. 07:15 Well, David came to the office, 07:16 I said David, something caused this happen. 07:18 And I said, David, I want you to listen to me. 07:21 It's about stress on the system. 07:23 You know, and we hear about common stresses 07:25 in cardiovascular disease like the stress of cigarettes, 07:29 high blood pressure, diabetes, extra weight, 07:32 family history, high blood pressure, high cholesterol. 07:35 Everyone knows about these. 07:36 That's a lot of causes. 07:37 But there's more, there's more stresses that we don't. 07:40 And I took David back to the only time 07:43 when things were perfect to determine 07:46 what's the definition of stress was 07:48 and that was back at creation. 07:50 When everything was perfect 07:52 that was the definition of a stress free society. 07:55 And I started taking David one step at a time 07:59 and the things that he might be doing 08:01 in his life that caused stress. 08:03 Now, David was a smoker that caused stress in his life. 08:06 But David didn't rest enough. 08:08 And these were thought biblical principles. 08:11 And he thought he was being busy. Yes. 08:12 He thought he was just being stressful 08:13 and that's okay. Yes. 08:14 Resting who needs that, you know, 08:16 and he was paying an awful price for that. Absolutely. 08:18 And we went back to each and--each of those things 08:21 that he wasn't doing that was set up 08:23 when we were supposed to be perfect. Yeah. 08:24 The template, that creation, 08:26 anything that violates the owner's manual, 08:29 how God set us up to be would put stress on the system. 08:33 And in modern medicine, 08:34 we don't think about sometimes causes. 08:36 We wanna, you know, fix the acute disaster. 08:38 Yes, get me through the day. 08:39 Modern medicine is great at that. 08:41 But through the years, we focused more on that 08:44 and we haven't focused on the cause. 08:46 So I took David back. 08:47 You know, we're violating the owner's manual. 08:49 David wasn't resting well. 08:51 He was too busy. 08:52 He didn't take a day off a week. 08:54 He didn't sleep at night. 08:56 He smoked cigarettes. 08:57 He didn't drink water. 08:59 Lots of things he didn't do. 09:01 And you know what? 09:02 David looked to me and says, 09:03 you know, I am stressing my body. 09:04 And we talked about all the chemical reactions 09:07 that the stress causes. 09:08 The epinephrine, the adrenaline, the cortisol, 09:11 which raises your blood pressure. 09:13 We talked about the inflammatory reactions 09:16 that come with chronic stress. 09:18 You know, Charles, if I scare you like this. 09:20 Did I scare you? Yes, you did. 09:21 Yeah, immediately your stress chemicals go up, 09:24 right? Yes, yes. 09:25 But then, after the danger is over, 09:27 they go back down. I hope so. 09:28 But in David's instance, these stress chemicals 09:31 were up day after day, year after year 09:33 and sooner or later, they caused 09:35 this plaque to become unstable. 09:37 Eventually that plaque ruptured 09:38 leading to his heart attack. Okay. 09:40 So this is the journey. 09:41 I wanted him to understand why this happened. 09:43 And we had to get at some source of truth. 09:46 You know, truth is very important, 09:48 in medicine, in all points of life. 09:50 Truth is very important. 09:51 Now, Dr. Marcum, when you just frightened me, 09:53 when you just scared me, 09:54 I felt a lot of things happening 09:56 in our body-- my body. 09:57 Not a whole lot of good things happening there. 09:59 I felt my heart rate go up. 10:00 I felt my adrenaline go up. 10:02 It just changed who I am 10:05 and what I was thinking at that time. 10:07 It basically altered me. 10:09 Are you saying that that same thing, 10:12 that same change, that same alteration happens 10:14 when you have job stress. 10:16 When you have a co-worker that's mad at you. 10:17 Your child is not behaving correctly. 10:20 Is that the kind of stress that we are carrying 10:23 when someone doesn't frighten you but life gets to you? 10:26 Absolutely, Charles, and this is that hidden stress 10:29 because we're not living the owner's manual, 10:32 the plan we were originally given. 10:34 And we're not even thinking about 10:35 how we were supposed to live anymore. 10:37 Nothing frightened anything in Eden. 10:38 In other words-- No. 10:39 This response is something that came after sin. Right. 10:42 When things bad happen, the genetic stress 10:44 that we pass on from generation to generation. 10:47 Remember we were never designed to sit in chairs 10:49 all day playing with computers. Yeah. 10:52 We were never designed to eat some of the foods. 10:54 We were never designed to stay up late all night. 10:56 We were never designed to do these things. 10:58 And because we weren't designed that way, 11:00 guess what's happened? 11:02 Stress, the stress chemical goes in. 11:04 It activates our genetics. 11:05 It turns on all these things. 11:07 Then we need modern medicine right away, like David did. 11:09 Yes, yes, yes, yes. 11:10 And then, we put the stent in. 11:11 But, you know, what? 11:13 If we don't get at the cause of the problem, 11:15 guess what happens. 11:16 History repeats itself 'cause we don't solve the problem. 11:19 Now from a monetary-- from an economic standpoint, 11:21 this is very good. 11:23 Because people keep coming back for more. 11:25 More pills and bills for the ills. Yes. 11:27 But if you think about it in the ultimate solution, 11:30 this is not what we want to do. 11:31 We want to teach people how they can get back 11:33 to the plan when they were perfect. 11:35 And you can change your chemistry 11:37 by dealing with some of these stresses 11:39 much better than taking a lot of pills and bills 11:41 and all that kind of stuff. 11:43 We don't want that, Charles. 11:44 That's what I wanted to ask you 11:45 because if we take the time 11:48 to move back to this owner's manual. 11:50 You call this the owner's manual, the Bible. 11:52 If we go back to creation health--That's right. 11:55 And we find out how Adam and Eve 11:57 were living in creation, 11:58 is it possible for us to reverse 12:02 the stress in our bodies to some how mitigate it, 12:05 to somehow take the damage that's being done by stress 12:10 and healing ourselves from that stress 12:12 by changing our lifestyle? 12:13 Well, we can improve our chemistry. 12:16 Our genetics, we can't change. 12:18 But we can improve our chemistry 12:19 dramatically and I call this 12:22 biblical technology. Biblical technology. 12:24 By getting back to the principles of the Bible 12:27 that we're gonna learn about that I taught David about. 12:30 We actually change the chemistry. 12:32 Instead of taking pills 12:33 maybe we can exercise or rest more. 12:35 And it goes into every aspect 12:37 that God gave as a creation. 12:39 But likewise we have to first recognize like David 12:42 that things aren't all right in our bodies. Yes. 12:44 We assume they are. 12:45 We accept suicidal norms and before--before long 12:50 everything hidden in us blows up. All right. 12:53 Well, that's what we're gonna do 12:54 in Ultimate Prescription week after week. 12:56 We're gonna find out what those 12:58 new biblical technology, I guess, they are not new. 13:00 No, they've been around. 13:02 What they are and how they can help us. 13:03 And we'll come back and answer some questions 13:05 from our viewers after this break so stay tuned. |
Revised 2014-12-17