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00:17 What can I do to lower the risk
00:18 of heart attack? Good question! 00:20 I believe that today we can offer some very 00:23 good answers. Stay tuned! 00:25 I'm Dr. James Marcum... Are you interested in 00:29 discovering the reason why? 00:31 Do you want solutions to your healthcare problem? 00:34 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:36 Well, you're about to be given the "Ultimate Prescription." 00:42 Today we begin a series of programs aimed at anyone 00:46 who has every worried about his or her heart. 00:49 We only have one each, unlike the redundancy 00:52 found with kidneys, lungs, eyes, ears, arms and legs, 00:56 our one heart has to last and last and last. 01:00 Unfortunately, problems with that one heart 01:03 has placed heart disease as our #1 killer in this world. 01:07 Dr. Marcum, how should we approach the subject 01:10 because we really need some good answers here. 01:13 You know Charles, and one of the things that, you know, 01:16 we talk about "heart," but heart is influenced by 01:20 every aspect of our body. 01:22 You know, for instance, if you're stressed out, 01:24 your heart is going to feel it. 01:26 If you're not eating well, your heart is going to feel it. 01:29 If you have pain, your heart is going to feel it. 01:31 Heart, throughout the centuries, has been used 01:35 interchangeably with mind. 01:36 You know, you've heard for a long time they thought the 01:39 center of reasoning was the heart. 01:42 Well, they found out that that wasn't true at all, 01:44 the center of reasoning, of course, is our mind, 01:46 but there has been a lot of research into the 01:47 mind-heart-body relationships. 01:50 And, of course, no one wants to have a heart attack, 01:53 but when we say "heart," it's like the soul of a person. 01:56 You know, the controller of all health. 01:58 So we could, you know, sort of use heart, brain, 02:01 however you want to say it, but I think the brain 02:04 is at the center of health and through this series of programs, 02:06 not only will we want to talk about the heart, 02:09 but we want to give people a framework 02:11 to think about their health. 02:13 Specifically, I want people to be their own best doctors, 02:17 and really people realize that they're the locus of control, 02:21 and we're going to sort of talk about ways that they can do that 02:24 as well as the place for modern medicine; 02:26 the place where we can eat healthy lifestyle. 02:29 In fact, Charles, every input that comes into our body. 02:33 whether that be the food we eat, the smells we have; 02:37 if we think about it, even the sounds, 02:39 the things we see - put in our brain, all of that has 02:42 chemical reactions. 02:43 And we're now learning through genetic research that a lot of 02:47 these inputs affects our genetics; 02:49 it turns on and off certain genes. 02:52 And, of course, we don't want to have stress on the system, 02:55 and we're going to learn that as we get back 02:57 to the way God originally designed us, 03:00 that really helps our chemistry as well as our genetics, 03:03 so this is really a very interesting subject for everyone 03:06 to talk about and we have lots of good questions 03:08 that have come in to our website at heartwiseministries.org 03:12 Charles, but I'm excited to talk about this because sometimes 03:16 in a doctor's office, you know, I see a lot of patients 03:18 every day and we don't have time to get into some of the 03:22 more important issues, you know, 03:23 you just got to put out the fire, you don't want to... 03:25 But now we're going to talk about what causes 03:28 the fire in the first place. 03:29 So, in other words, if you have a patient sitting across 03:31 from you and that patient is suffering from diabetes 03:34 or obesity or heart disease, you would basically 03:37 say the same things to them about their diseases 03:40 and how they can get over it? 03:41 Are we talking about the same nutrition, the same exercise, 03:43 the same mental attitude? 03:45 I wish I had the time to do that, but we have about 03:49 10 minutes with the patient, and you don't have time 03:51 to cover all those things, you know, you just sort of 03:53 focus on the big picture, you know, why they're here. 03:56 But all of these other things are important to healing, 03:59 and there's a difference between medicine and healing. 04:04 Say that again... There's a difference between 04:06 medicine and healing. Okay 04:08 I was trained in medical school; that doesn't mean I was 04:11 trained in healing school. Wow 04:13 And medicine is focused on treating individual 04:16 chemical pathways. 04:17 But our body, our hearts, our minds are much more 04:21 complicated than that. 04:23 So I like to give remedies that treats the entire system. 04:26 For instance, when you have good nutrition, 04:28 that changes all the chemistry of the body, all the DNA. 04:32 When we have good thoughts, have a healthy mind, 04:35 that changes the entire chemistry of the body. 04:38 Water changes the entire chemistry of the body. 04:41 But, in our medical system, we have single bullets 04:44 that just do one chemical pathway. 04:46 Well, we look every year, Charles, and see the rates 04:49 of heart disease go up, the rates of diabetes going up, 04:53 cancer, obesity, mental health problems - all of these, 04:57 the numbers are going up every year. 04:59 And yet we write 4 billion prescriptions, 05:02 we have all these over-the- counter medicines, 05:05 we have the best technology in the world, 05:07 and if you look at the evidence, 05:09 is our system really getting better? 05:11 So medicine doesn't always correlate with healing. 05:14 Now there's an important place for medicine, 05:16 especially when getting you over a disaster, 05:19 but it doesn't get at the core of what's causing disease, 05:22 what's causing the problem. 05:24 And that's what I want to educate people on 05:26 and get them to understand because if they can understand 05:28 the cause of the problem, they can find real solutions 05:31 that are lasting and maybe they won't be so dependent 05:35 on medicines that just treat small chemical pathways. 05:38 Boy, that is very important for us to know 05:40 right off from the very beginning that when we take 05:43 a medicine, we are not dealing with an entire disease. 05:48 We're dealing with a small section of it. Yes! 05:52 We're firing a bullet at blood sugar, insulin with the 05:55 insulin bullet, the Coumadin bullet, the statin bullet, 05:59 but the disease still roars on. 06:01 It still keeps on going even though we've shot one little 06:04 section of it, we've shot these diseases in the foot. 06:06 Yeah and the body is much more complicated. 06:10 And we want to, in modern medicine, we think we can 06:12 figure out everything, well I'm telling people, "we don't." 06:14 We don't know the half of it, but we do have a Creator 06:18 that does know how it works, 06:19 even though we don't understand it. 06:21 And yet, medicine - they want to understand everything. 06:24 You know, we sequence the DNA and I think that's great, 06:27 and now all of our funding is going at magic bullets 06:30 that treat our genetics, but our genetics are very complicated. 06:34 How the brain works - I've been doing a lot of 06:36 interesting study on the brain. 06:38 We don't even understand where the brain fits in in healing. 06:42 We're just now beginning to understand. 06:43 But we know it's tied in somehow to everything else. Exactly! 06:46 And universal truths have been there for years, 06:49 and now we're finding out the universal truths 06:51 even though we didn't the science behind it, 06:54 it's still true. Yeah 06:55 But now we're seeing the science, 06:56 we're seeing the science behind nutrition, 06:58 the science behind brain health 07:00 and how our bodies can heal itself given the right things. 07:04 But, there's not a large financial incentive 07:06 to do research on these things; to go on television and 07:11 have commercials about these things, 07:12 so the system, not individuals, but the system is not 07:17 doing what's right anymore. 07:18 Our health is tied to finances? 07:20 Yes it is, Charles, unfortunately. 07:22 And unfortunately, this broken system, if you look at the 07:25 evidence, the system is not healing people. 07:28 We're getting them over some illnesses, 07:30 but that's why each one of us can be our best doctors. 07:33 And we're going to talk to people, 07:35 not only answer their questions about their acute needs, 07:38 but teach them how to be their doctors, 07:40 how to approach health in a general picture 07:43 where they can go for good answers and how to 07:46 incorporate some of these things that have been around 07:48 for years and years even though we don't understand 07:50 all the chemistry, we know that there is 07:52 truth, there's healing in this. 07:54 So healing and medicine are very different subjects here. 07:57 All right, this is very important... 07:58 It all involves the heart, heart-mind 08:00 interactions, it's all very interesting. 08:01 So when we talk about the heart, when we mention 08:03 how we can bring healing to the heart, 08:06 that's also going to be bringing healing to our mind, 08:09 it's also going to be bringing healing to our kidneys, 08:10 to our pancreas, to our cancer-ridden bodies, 08:14 this same healing works across 08:17 the board, you're talking about here. 08:18 We're talking heart disease, but we're also talking about 08:20 disease in general, and that brings us right 08:22 to this first question that was sent in to 08:24 heartwiseministries.org 08:25 and I think this is a wonderful opening for this. 08:27 Here's what the question says: 08:29 "I am tired of all the sickness and suffering. 08:32 What is the cause of disease in the world?" 08:35 And, a couple of programs ago, you mentioned that it's tied 08:39 directly to here...to the brain. What's going on with that? 08:42 Well you know, I get this question quite a lot. 08:45 People that are suffering from, I can remember someone 08:49 that just wrote in recently... Their son has leukemia, 08:52 very young person and the doctors don't have much to offer 08:58 with modern medicine and this question keeps coming up. 09:01 You know, no one wants disease and suffering, 09:04 and we see it all over in our world, and everyone wonders, 09:07 "Well why me, what is the cause?" 09:09 And of course, this goes back for years. 09:12 You know, if you really got to the cause, you'd have to say, 09:15 "Well, the genes, you know genetics and the things 09:17 that influence genetics which is 09:19 our lifestyles and things like that. 09:21 But why do some people have it and other people 09:23 don't have it... You know, why? 09:26 Why do we have cancer, why do we have these things, 09:30 what's causing the disease in our world? 09:33 And if you really think about it, 09:35 it goes way back to that eternal conflict between good and evil. 09:39 Sin has caused disease in the world. 09:42 There wasn't disease in the world before we had sin. 09:45 Our genetics have been damaged through years of living 09:48 against the way we were designed. 09:51 That has caused problems in our genetics and, unfortunately, 09:54 our lifestyles have changed. Yes 09:56 Now, we eat foods that we really weren't designed to eat. 10:00 We watch things and hear things that we weren't designed to do. 10:04 We have things going on in our lives 10:07 that are just stressing us out, and as our body 10:10 is very complicated and all these interactions 10:13 chemically happen, our genes are 10:15 sometimes bad genes are turned on. 10:16 Sometimes disease shows its ugly head and then disease 10:21 comes up. Yes 10:23 And, everyone says, "Oh, disease comes from God." 10:25 I don't believe that. 10:27 What a masterstroke for the devil, for Satan 10:30 to make us believe that what he's doing is from God. 10:34 Masterstroke! Right... Oh my goodness! 10:37 You know, and if you really think about it, 10:39 what is the cause of disease in our world? Well, sin. 10:43 What is the cause? The evil one. 10:45 That's really the cause, because we didn't have 10:47 any of this before all this happened. 10:49 And the evil one wants disease and suffering to persist 10:54 and they want to come in with some, you know, 10:56 magic solution that we can be gods, we can heal ourselves, 10:59 we can fix things, we can do everything 11:02 better here, man can do it. 11:03 We have the technology to make the perfect individual. 11:06 Let's clone each other; 11:08 let's have genetic bullets that do these things... 11:11 And yet at the same time, in our opening, 11:14 we talked about fixing the problem. 11:17 Have we really fixed the cause of disease? 11:21 No, we haven't, because the evil one is 11:24 still out there working. 11:25 So as long as the evil one is out there working, 11:28 there's going to be disease, there's going to be sickness, 11:30 there's going to be suffering. 11:32 But there's also great hope in healing. 11:35 And that's the message we want. 11:37 So, why is the cause of disease? 11:39 Well, because there is a devil out there 11:40 and he's going to keep it going for all his 11:42 elaborate mechanisms and fooling people. 11:46 Recently I was reading something, Charles, 11:49 I thought that it was very interesting about how as the 11:51 world gets worse, there's going to be people come on the earth 11:54 and just heal people... just like that, 11:56 and there is going to be large followings of these people. 11:58 Well don't you think that the devil can't heal too. 12:01 You know the devil can, you know, 12:03 all those problems, they can do that too. 12:05 So it's going to be very important for people 12:07 to know the cause of suffering. 12:09 You know, the true cause of 12:11 the true healing that we all want. Very, very important. 12:13 And these are all big issues that each individual 12:16 really has to find answers themselves. 12:18 They can't depend on someone else. 12:20 They have to know in their heart, 12:22 and that's why a large part of healing 12:24 comes from relationships. 12:27 Relationships that we have with our God 12:29 who is the source of all truth, 12:31 who is the source of all healing. 12:32 And I don't know how physicians 12:34 cannot have God as part of the healing plan. 12:36 You know, medicine doesn't necessarily have God 12:38 as part of the healing plan, but I want to be healed, 12:41 I don't want to just fix one small chemical pathway. 12:44 And that's why, what is the cause of disease... 12:47 I'd have to say, "Well the cause is the devil and everything 12:50 that's come downhill from that day on. Yes 12:52 And all these elaborate discussions, 12:54 and I'm tired of all the sickness and suffering too. 12:56 But we can do something about the sickness and suffering, 12:59 but we're not going to fix the system. 13:01 But we can each, individually, know how to be own physicians 13:06 trusting on the great physicians for answers, 13:08 and being able to deal with sickness. 13:10 So this person that was suffering, 13:11 their young one was suffering from cancer. 13:13 You know, I wrote them an email and said, "Listen, I'm sorry, 13:17 but God is going to heal in His 13:19 time as long as we have that relationship. 13:22 Sometimes He heals through lifestyle changes. 13:24 He might heal through modern medicine. 13:26 But even if it's not healed that way, 13:29 God has promised that when we have a relationship with Him, 13:31 there is going to be healing in the end." 13:34 So that's a very important question, Charles. 13:36 When we start our search for healing, 13:38 when we try to get answers that we're looking for, 13:42 what I hear you saying, you're a medical doctor, 13:45 you're a board-certified cardiologist... 13:47 what I hear you saying is that our search must run parallel. 13:52 Yes, we can look for modern medicine for some of the 13:54 answers to get us through the process, 13:57 but our search also needs to be right along with what does 14:00 God have in mind for me? 14:02 What did He have in mind when He made me? 14:03 What are the laws that He put in place for me to follow to bring 14:07 healing continually into my life? Am I on the right track? 14:10 You're on the right track, and we have to take more... 14:13 each one of us has to take more responsibility. 14:16 And we have to realize that we do not have to depend 14:20 on systems that aren't really there to help us. 14:23 You know, we can use the system when appropriate, 14:26 but we can't solely depend on that system 14:28 because that system probably is inherently flawed, 14:32 and we can be deceived if we follow a system 14:36 that might be broken. 14:38 So that's the big message that I want to get out here, 14:41 and you're not going to hear a lot of medical doctors 14:43 saying these things, but just because you're a 14:46 medical doctor, doesn't mean you're a healer. 14:48 And, we've talked about this before, 14:49 we all heal when we turn people to that relationship with God. 14:53 There is healing in that. 14:54 We're healers when we change each other's chemistry. 14:56 The words I say to you, that affects your health. 14:59 All the inputs we have affects our health. 15:02 It's just not about the food, it's just not about the genes. 15:05 Everything working together, our body is much 15:07 more complicated and we can really never understand 15:10 our Creator. 15:11 Well I just want our listeners and watchers to know 15:13 that when we talk about issues on this program, 15:16 we're looking at it from those two parallel tracks; 15:19 we're looking at it from modern medicine, that's very important, 15:22 and we're also looking at it from what God had in mind, 15:25 what Dr. Marcum calls "biblical technology." 15:28 When we have this technology hand-in-hand 15:32 with modern medicine, that's where we find answers, 15:35 that's where we find reason behind what's going on. 15:38 There's where we find the truth 15:39 about what's going on in our lives and that's where 15:41 we find ultimate healing. 15:43 When we come back, more with Dr. Marcum, 15:45 so stay right where you are... |
Revised 2015-12-08