Participants: Charles Mills & James Marcum
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00004A
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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 their own conclusions 00:13 about the information presented. 00:16 You know, the next time you need 00:17 a powerful medicine to fight a disease. 00:19 You might want to start by the produce section 00:22 of the grocery store. Stay tuned. 00:26 I'm Dr. James Marcum. 00:28 Are you interested in discovering the reason 00:31 why you want solutions to your health care problems? 00:35 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:37 Well, you're about to be given the ultimate prescription. 00:43 On the third day of creation week, 00:45 God did something truly amazing. 00:47 He made it possible for this world to become 00:50 a treasure trove of disease fighting medicines. 00:54 It was and is all part of God's health plan. 00:57 Dr. Marcum, you're Cardiologist. 01:00 You often use pharmaceuticals to combat heart disease. 01:03 Does God offer viable alternatives 01:06 to all these pharmaceuticals 01:08 that you're offering to your patients? 01:09 Yeah, and what we want people to understand 01:12 that the most important thing 01:13 we can do is not need all these medicines we're taking. 01:18 Now lot of these medicines were derived 01:20 from plants at the very beginning. Yeah. 01:23 In fact there is a whole industry now 01:25 where they look at the plants and they extract substances 01:28 that might be beneficial to our body, these nutraceuticals, 01:31 and they made a whole industry of taking this 01:33 and giving these supplements, we've seen this. 01:35 And it helps, you know, different things 01:37 like antioxidants and different chemicals 01:40 we have that have helped 01:41 fight different diseases like inflammation. 01:43 So really God did give us 01:45 many different things to help fight disease. 01:47 But I want people to think of the nutrition 01:50 as a way to prevent disease. 01:51 In previous programs we talked about, 01:54 if you don't get good air, you body is damaged. 01:57 It put stress on the system. Yeah. 01:59 If you don't get good water, enough water, 02:01 that put stress on the system 02:03 and these chemical reactions occur. 02:05 Similarly if we don't put good fuel in our body, 02:08 if we don't eat good--right, 02:10 that also put stress on our body. 02:13 Back at creation, you know, 02:14 the original diet, the original God diet was one, 02:17 as you look in Genesis, the biblical technology says 02:21 let's have, you know, a plant based diet. 02:24 You know fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains. 02:27 That was the best diet that was given to us 02:30 way back at creation. Yeah. 02:31 And now science is proving that people 02:33 that can move towards that diet are healthier. 02:36 They have less heart attacks. 02:38 And they can reverse cardiovascular disease. 02:40 They feel better, less chance of becoming overweight. Yes. 02:44 And you know, overweight, 02:45 now there are 60% of people are overweight, 02:47 that's a major stress in America. 02:49 And I was recently reading an article 02:51 that comes from, you know, 02:52 people that are overweight and all the damaged organs 02:55 that we have from not eating well. 02:56 If you think about not sleeping well, 02:58 they get sleep apnea, headaches, heart attacks, 03:02 high blood pressure, diabetes, joint pains, 03:05 problem sleeping at night, depression, 03:08 all these things can be tracked back to our diet, 03:11 not eating the right foods. 03:13 Now three or four hundred years ago, 03:15 our society just did not have these problems. 03:18 So as part of good medical treatment 03:20 we want to get back to this biblical technology 03:23 of putting in our bodies what designed us 03:25 to so we can run more efficiently. 03:27 You know I was reading something the other day 03:30 about pharmaceuticals and you wonder-- 03:34 what you say is absolutely right 03:36 that pharmaceuticals used to be basically plants 03:38 and they would give them plants and they would feel better. 03:41 But why don't they do that anymore? 03:45 The reason is because you can't register 03:49 and you can't copy write a food. 03:51 You can't broccoli and make it a copyrighted element. 03:57 You have to do something to it. 03:58 That you can copyright. 04:00 So what they do is they take the plants 04:02 that God gave us and they synthesize them. 04:06 They make versions of them. 04:09 They go in and they change them just enough, 04:12 so now I can copyright that. 04:14 Now it's called XYZ medicine as opposed to broccoli. 04:19 So, okay, why don't we just simply eat the broccoli? 04:25 It's a lot cheaper and it's a lot better for us. 04:28 So the pharmaceuticals again 04:30 there's a place for modern medicine, 04:31 there's a place where we need pharmaceuticals. 04:33 But you know, the God gave us 04:34 the pharmaceuticals that don't cost a lot of money, 04:36 we can grow in our backyard 04:38 and we can enjoy the rich benefits 04:40 that God had in mind and even 04:42 when we simply eat the pharmaceuticals 04:44 that he created for us on this day of creation. 04:47 And you know what it gets me, Charles, is-- 04:49 that you see the supplemental business going on, 04:51 all these supplements, everything. 04:53 And I admit if you don't, 04:54 if you're not able to eat fruits, vegetables, 04:56 and nuts, and grains or your endures, 04:57 you might need some supplements. Yes. 04:59 However the food that God gave us 05:03 is so much more bioavailable 05:05 that means it gets absorbed better. Yes. 05:07 You know, our body was made to handle these 05:09 and not all these substances are wrapped 05:11 in special delivery packages. 05:13 I was recently there's a documentary-- 05:17 I saw not too long ago, 05:18 "Forks over Knives," have you seen that? 05:19 Oh, yes, Oh, amazing. 05:21 It's a wonderful piece. 05:23 And on that study they had T. Colin Campbell, 05:25 who wrote the book "The China Study." 05:28 That goes back and really proves scientifically 05:31 how important our nutrition is and how as we've gotten away 05:34 from this as a society, 05:36 all the rise in diseases that we've seen. 05:39 And you know, we've seen increasing rates 05:41 of cardiovascular disease, increasing rates of cancer. 05:45 We've also seen some infections. 05:46 You know, you look at all these infections 05:48 that we've gone up and more than that the big epidemic 05:51 that we gonna have now, you know, in United States 05:55 and perhaps the whole world is this epidemic 05:57 of being overweight. Oh, my God. 05:59 And the chemistry that extra weight causes. 06:01 Charles, do you know what they call extra weight? 06:04 You know what they call that? 06:05 Now you've told me, this is scary stuff. 06:06 Yes, yes, yes. This is very scary stuff. 06:07 They have actually given it a name-- 06:08 Yes, yes, just a bit. 06:10 They call it the Endocannabinoid System. 06:13 Yeah. So you, when you have extra weight 06:15 you have the endocannabinoid system 06:16 around your waist or wherever it might be. Yeah. 06:19 And this system wants to stay alive. 06:21 It makes chemicals, Charles that makes 06:24 the inflammatory marks go up. 06:26 It makes chemicals that make you more hungry 06:28 and eat the wrong foods. 06:29 It makes you depressed. 06:31 It makes you more likely to get diabetes 06:33 and high blood pressure, do not sleep well at night. 06:36 It literally wants to keep itself alive. 06:38 But when it makes these chemicals, 06:40 the real solution, guess what, 06:42 is not to, is just turn off the system. 06:44 Now what we've done 06:46 is we've created a bunch of medicines. 06:47 Well, if your blood sugar is high, let's give a medicine. 06:49 If your blood pressure is high, let's give a medicine. 06:52 You know, if you can't sleep at night 06:54 let's give a medicine. 06:55 If your joints hurt because you carrying an extra weight, 06:57 let's give a medicine. 06:58 But that's not always the solution to this problem. 07:01 And you know, if you're banging Charles, 07:03 if you keep hitting your head against the wall 07:05 and, you know, your head started hurting, 07:07 you would go to doctor and says, you know, 07:09 I'm gonna give you a pain medicine. 07:10 So that will make the pain not as bad. 07:13 But the real solution is to quit 07:15 banging your head on the wall. 07:16 Stop banging your head. Yes. 07:17 So in getting back to this epidemic crisis 07:20 we're gonna have and all the diseases 07:21 that we see related to being heavy, 07:24 the real solution is to get this weight off of us 07:27 and the real solution is eating better, 07:29 getting back to a plant based diet. 07:30 I want to recommend that documentary 07:32 "Forks over Knives" to everyone and "The China Study," 07:35 if you wanna learn about good nutrition. 07:37 But I want the point that, 07:38 I want our listeners to really and our viewers 07:40 to really understand today is this, 07:43 that your nutrition causes disease. 07:46 Your nutrition is also a treatment for disease. 07:49 And you're not gonna hear 07:50 about that in the textbooks all the time. 07:53 You know, we talked about that with air and water, 07:55 but you can treat yourself and also harm yourself 07:57 by the things you put in your body. 07:59 Now you didn't hear about this 08:00 in medical school either, didn't you? 08:01 No, we didn't have much 08:03 nutritional training at all in medical school. 08:06 In fact, you know, we had a few lectures about, 08:08 you know, nutrition effects diabetes. 08:10 But we went, we went to school and I said, 08:12 oh, I've learned most from talking to people 08:16 and I know you interviewed lot of people 08:18 through the years on your radio programs 08:19 as an editor of "Vibrant Life." 08:22 That--that you know, what are some pearls 08:24 that you might want to share with our viewers here? 08:25 Well, I tell you one of the things 08:27 that struck me the most is, 08:28 I was talking with T. Colin Campbell, 08:30 the very person that wrote "The China Study," 08:32 you're talking about. We've had him on the show before. 08:34 And he was talking about supplements. 08:36 He was talking about taking nutrition 08:39 from a food and isolating and for instance Vitamin C. 08:43 We think Vitamin C is so good for us. 08:45 Orange juice have a lot of Vitamin C. 08:47 So let's take an orange and let's go in 08:49 and let's take the Vitamin C out of the orange 08:52 and put it in pill and then we can sell the pill. Right. 08:56 Well, okay, there is Vitamin C in a Vitamin C pill. 09:00 But here is the problem. 09:01 And T. Colin Campbell and all of these people, 09:03 who have been looking in the nutrition 09:04 for the past 20-30 years, concur on this thing. 09:09 What you're doing is you're taking the Vitamin C 09:12 away from the delivery mechanism of that fruit. 09:18 When you eat an orange, 09:20 you're not only eating the Vitamin C 09:23 you're also eating all the phytochemicals, 09:25 you're also eating the fiber, 09:27 all of these are necessary for that Vitamin C 09:31 to be metabolize correctly in your body. 09:35 So when you eat the orange, 09:36 in goes the Vitamin C and the fiber carries it 09:38 slowly through the body 09:41 and the nutrients are absorbed slowly through the body. 09:45 And everything is done at the pace that God designed it. 09:48 Instead you take the Vitamin C pill 09:51 and in goes and the body, woo, what's this? 09:53 What am I supposed to do with this? 09:55 Looks like Vitamin C, it smells like Vitamin C, 09:58 but I'm not sure 09:59 because there's no way of delivering this to the body. 10:02 And so lot of it just passed us through 10:04 and doesn't help us at all. 10:05 So it's important that when we talk about God's creation 10:10 and we talk about the Garden of Eden diet, 10:12 we're talking about whole foods. Right. 10:15 We're talking about foods as grown 10:18 and when we eat fruits as grown as opposed 10:20 to isolated portions of that food, 10:23 that's the best way of eating it. 10:25 And these issues get more and more complicated 10:27 when you talk about generically modified-- 10:30 Oh, my. Oh, my. Foods versus organic. 10:31 So it really changes, you know-- 10:33 Why are we messing with God's food? 10:34 If I was trying, again if I was trying again 10:36 and if I was trying to hurt society and create an industry, 10:39 I would feed them the wrong deal. Yes. 10:41 If you put water or kerosene in your car 10:44 of course it wouldn't run as well. 10:46 And we've to put great things in our car. 10:49 And I know you've interviewed, 10:50 you know, people like Edelstein, out in Texas. 10:53 And we're learning more and more 10:55 and I want our audience to understand today 10:58 that God gave us a great prescription to treat ourselves 11:01 and keep ourselves from ill, and that's in the food we eat. 11:04 It literally changes our chemistry. 11:07 I see in the office everyday when people eat better, 11:10 you know, they're inflammatory markers 11:11 like C-reactive proteins, those go down. 11:14 Their inflammation, the arthritis that goes down. 11:17 There is a chance that they might not have diabetes 11:19 and have all the diseases-- you know 11:20 the side effects of the medicines. 11:22 There blood pressure goes down when they eat well. 11:24 They sleep better when they eat better, 11:26 and more then anything else, Charles, 11:28 they start to think better. Yes. 11:29 And everyone needs to think better 11:31 so they can have these truths 11:33 and so when people talk about nutrition 11:35 I want them to think at what they eat is not-- 11:38 is a treatment for disease 11:39 and it's a way to prevent disease. 11:41 And I think science is proving this and as we go along 11:44 we're gonna give some practical suggestions 11:45 about how people can start to do this in their own lives. 11:48 It is so important that we remember 11:50 that and we keep it in mind 11:51 because there is that connection again, 11:53 Dr. Marcum. Yes. 11:54 You're making that connection between the physical health 11:57 that we have and the spiritual health that we can enjoy. 12:00 They are so connected that if we're destroying one, 12:05 it goes both ways here. 12:06 If we're angry at God, if we're mad at God, 12:10 if we're just-- confused about God 12:15 and have a wrong perception of God, 12:18 it can affect our physical health. Exactly. 12:20 And when we're putting the wrong things in our bodies 12:22 and when we are hurting ourselves 12:24 and we're just filling ourselves up with food 12:26 that we were not designed to eat or digest, 12:29 our relationship with God suffers as well. 12:31 So that interconnection is so important. 12:33 So when we talk about-- 12:34 whatever we talk about on this show there is a physical 12:37 and a spiritual connection between the two of them. 12:40 And we have to always keep in mind 12:42 that modern medicine has its place. Yes. 12:45 Lifestyle has its place. 12:47 But these laws and that relationship 12:49 with the Heavenly Father that give us the power 12:51 to learn about these things and also the power 12:53 through the Holy Spirit to make changes one at a time. 12:56 So nutrition is a treatment for disease 12:59 and how many have you written prescription 13:01 for good nutrition in the office, 13:02 and also prevents disease. 13:04 Oh my, we have a lot to talk about-- 13:06 we're gonna take a short break 13:07 and when we come back we have some questions 13:08 that have been left for us 13:10 at heartwiseministries.org, it's the website. 13:13 Dr. Marcum here is the founder, 13:15 director of Heartwise Ministries 13:16 and he answers these questions. 13:18 Everyone that comes, and he and his staff-- 13:20 sometimes they group them together 13:22 and answer them in groups. 13:24 But if you have a question 13:25 that you'd like to have us address on this program, 13:27 we would like for you to www. 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Revised 2014-12-17