The word heart appears in
the King James Bible 884 times.
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Yes, I know that the Biblical
heart represents the human mind,
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but there are
parallels. Stay tuned.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum.
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Are you interested in
discovering the reason why?
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Do you want solutions to
your healthcare problems?
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Are you tired of
taking medications?
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Well, you are about to be
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The Bible describes the
human heart as stony, hardened,
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evil, un-repentant, failing,
cold, wise, foolish, willing,
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and even in need of
a complete transplant.
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Dr. Marcum, you've been
answering questions about
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the heart from the
heartwiseministries.org website.
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And I was just wondering,
do you see some similarities
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between the human
heart and the human mind?
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Yeah, there are a lot of
conditions, if you remember
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that text at that time, in the
world, they thought the heart
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was the center of reasoning.
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Only years later, even the
Greeks that, but years later
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some of the doctors, especially
in the Egyptian schools
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they realize that the center
of reasoning wasn't the heart,
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it was the mind. So I think
this that they are referring to,
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create in me a new
heart, was a new mind.
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A new mind, a
new way of thinking.
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And that's why I think a
lot, the disease that we have
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originates in
our mind many times.
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And yes, there's a lot of
similarities that have to do
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with the heart and the mind,
and there are some theories
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out there that the heart
and the mind are connected
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neurologically. Well,
we know that they are,
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we know that
adrenalin speeds up the heart.
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We know that the brain
has effects on the heart.
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There's lots of people that
thinks it goes vice versa too,
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and we might not know all
the complexities about the human
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body, and that's what I am
realizing, the more I learn,
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the less I know, but I
am always trying to learn
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something more that we
can apply to help our lives
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do a little bit better.
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To maybe help the world we
live in, to help the stress
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cause I see what's happening.
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The systems all
around us in the world...
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you know, the
systems are failing us.
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One of the big things that
has bothered me recently is
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how the relationships...
It used to be we had more
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relationships than we used to.
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We used to talk to each
other, now we text each other.
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We used to be
creative and make things,
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and now we watch things.
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You know, so our whole
world has changed and with that
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we sort of go against the
way we are designed to be.
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The left and right brains
don't interact as well as they
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used to, and there has
been some stress chemistry
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so as I've learned more about
how to study the scriptures,
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looking for science that I can
apply, I found some wonderful
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things that no one
else is talking about.
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Let's hear it,
that's wonderful. Yeah.
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There is wonderful things that
no one else is talking about
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and it has to do with
the way our mind works.
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And the fact that God
wants to be a part of our mind
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and to heal our mind.
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We already saw some
of the research about how
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spiritual things...you
know worship helps our mind,
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helps turn off
the stress chemistry.
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The altruistic' s that helps
us in service, all these things
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are wonderful.
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But now there are some
thing's that we can do when we
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understand that our very
thoughts, our very words,
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the way we act, all
have chemical consequences.
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That's why when words
come out of our mouth,
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we have to be so careful,
cause the word to my mouth
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might mean one thing,
but it might scare you
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and it might hurt you.
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Yes. And that can cause damage
to your very own brain Charles
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and all these things
that happen, all these complex
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interactions...The
same with food.
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You know when we eat some-
thing, it might have more effect
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on you than it would have on me,
even though it's a healthy food.
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Yes. Because our bodies are
genetics, the interactions that
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go on throughout our
body are so unique to us
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and only our
creator understands that.
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And some people say well, where
to I go, I feel like I am sick,
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where do I go?
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Well, I think that I have proven
that the first place to go
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is to the ultimate, the
Bible, the ultimate physician,
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have Him lead you
maybe to humanly physicians
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and then be our
physician ourselves.
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And as we add all of
these modalities to ourselves
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we can at least move
towards having better health.
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I just thought of something.
The very first time that
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that Bible text that we
often hear about the end time,
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where it says men's
hearts failing them for fear.
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Yes. I always thought
they were so afraid they had a
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heart attack, but if
the heart is the mind,
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it's almost like saying,
people going crazy for fear,
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their minds failing them for
fear, they can't think straight.
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They are so afraid of what'
happening that their reasoning
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powers are shot. Yes, yes.
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And we know that brains under
stress, that moves down to,
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they just want to stay alive.
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And that's what's
happening today. Yes.
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That's exactly what's happening.
And we are not using the
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higher parts of our
brains, the parts that we can
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figure things out, communicate
with God, and there is a reason
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for this, you know, I mean
God wants us to have control
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of our mind, He
wants to have our minds.
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But if we don't,
if we can't you know.
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In an argument they
say that you can only...
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When you are having an argument,
when you are stressed out
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you can only retain
15% of that information.
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Wow. When in argument.
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There's a recent study about
financial, financial problems
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and they found out that
people having financial problems
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their IQ's went
down about ten points
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just from the stress of that.
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And then when they got
their financials in order,
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their IQ came up again.
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But can you imagine all the
stuff that is going on in our
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lives. You know, our
brains, are we thinking any more
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or Charles, are we letting
someone else think for us?
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Yes, yes. Who's doing
our thinking for us anymore?
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And they look at the media,
what a major stressor there.
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People are spending up to
eight hours on the media a day
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and even if you think it
is not affecting me, it is.
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The words, the advertisements,
you know we were never
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made to see
people kill each other.
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We were never made to see...
live other people's lives.
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We were never be
made to be entertained.
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We were made to be
creative and to have service
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and as we've done these things,
we've created an environment
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that's not healthy chemically.
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Now in modern medicine, we
talk about pills, anxiety pills,
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depression pills, and
when things don't work well,
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your blood pressure
goes up and...but we never
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answer the question,
Why, why is this happening?
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Why is this going on? How
can I think outside of the box?
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How can I come to true healing?
Is it about money, or is it
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about doing what is right?
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And it's never been popular
to do what is right Charles.
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There's a question that came in
recently to Heartwise Ministries
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that really
highlights this whole idea here.
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This person says I
have advanced cancer.
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My Oncologist wants to
place me on a medicine,
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I do not want to
take this medicine,
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is this a poor decision?
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There is fear in every
word of this sentence here,
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this question. Yes
there is and that's the core
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of a lot of questions,
and to answer that question...
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you know, there is
nothing wrong with not taking
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the medicine if you
have advanced cancer.
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You know, in the treatment
of cancer, we want to try to
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prevent it from happening.
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We've talked about
ways we can do that...
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Look at our skin. Stay
out of the sun too long.
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We do need sun... Eat
healthy diets, which help us
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lower the risk of colon cancer.
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Avoid gaining weight,
which puts us at risk for
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different cancers and of
course you want to detect it
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early, especially if we
have genetic family histories.
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You know, screening
tests, we want to do all that,
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but when cancer has spread...
You know, if you think about it,
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a single bullet
might not be the answer.
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And if it was the
answer for metastatic cancer,
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why does the rates go
up. Single medical bullet...
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Well why are the
rates going up like crazy?
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We haven't really lowered
the risk, we have been spending
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billions and
billions of dollars on this.
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But you look at some of
the other ways of slowing down
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cancers, giving healthy
foods, diet, you think about
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our faith and even if this
person, even if this person
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with cancer succumbs that body,
that body, that doesn't mean
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the person is without hope.
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That doesn't mean they
are not going to be healed.
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It is just when, when
is healing going to occur?
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I want to say there
is always hope, in God,
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there's always hope.
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You know, our savior came down
and died to give us that hope
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so don't be despaired,
there's always some place
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where you can find healing.
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Sometimes we think
death is a terminal event,
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but God doesn't see
death as a terminal event.
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We are programmed to
think that, so we are programmed
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to do everything we can as
fearful as it can to not do that
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and if we can't do
that we are scared to death
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which adds to our own demise,
it doesn't make any sense to me.
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and we got a lot of ways
to numb our fears that aren't
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necessarily healthy for us.
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The next question
here that we have from
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heartwiseministries.org is,
why are heart attacks so high?
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And I can say along with that,
why is mental illness rising
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at the same level, in the
same rate as heart disease?
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Why are those
two running parallel?
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That's a great question cause
let's look at the evidence.
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Mental health
keeps deteriorating,
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even our children
have problems and...
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Diabetes, sleep apnea,
obesity, heart attacks, strokes,
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chronic disease, the
rates keep going up and yet,
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and yet, we write four billion
prescriptions every year,
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we have the best
technology in the world...
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We spend 1 in 6 dollars on
health care and that goes up
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it's because we are not looking
at the reason why and finding
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solutions and it's
the sinful world...
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It's in those single
bullets you were talking about.
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The single bullets, that's
why we got to get back to the
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complete plan that
was given to us by God
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and try to follow that plan
and find the appropriate places
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for modern medicine,
the appropriate places for
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taking a pill, but like I said,
we've turned it into something..
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we've lost track, we've
lost focus, we might see a tree,
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but we don't see the
forest, and it's becoming
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a real problem.
So why all of this,
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because all of the
stress has gone up,
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we are not living the
lives we are designed to live,
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our diets are terrible
now. We still fill our bodies
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with fatty foods. Out
there we still see advertising,
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we still...and we don't
even have ways to communicate
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healthy diets to people,
it's blocked at every avenue.
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I don't see lots of commercials
on TV celebrating a whole food
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plant based diet. I
just don't see that.
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You know, even some of
that information is belittled.
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Yes, yes. You can't do
this, this is not good for you
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ok, you don't have
this... It's belittled.
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And those are the
things that we have to change,
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we are not going to change
society, but maybe we can change
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people one at a time.
And that's what we try to do
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at Heartwise. We try to give
information, let people evaluate
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the evidence, but more than
anything, we want people to have
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relationships.
Relationships with God the most,
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but relationships with
each other. We were designed to
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help each other, we were
designed to teach each other,
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we were designed
to serve each other,
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and as we start to do those
things, we're going to find
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a level of healing.
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And Dr. Marcum, I
know that, you know that,
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the people who are
watching this program,
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if they are watching
regularly, they know the truth,
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they know where to find
it, what is wrong with the
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medical system? We've had
several questions that come...
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What is wrong with
the medical system?
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We, you guys are saying
these things and it's true,
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it's right before our eyes,
it's right there in the Bible,
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the studies have been
done, the China study has been
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written, Estelson has
done his thing, and McDougall,
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and Dr. Hans Diehl...These
people have all proven
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beyond a shadow of a
doubt that a certain lifestyle
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which includes diet and
exercise, and faith, and worship
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and all that, it is the
most healing way to live.
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Yet you don't go to your doctor
and come out with a prescription
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for worship, why is that?
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Well, you know Charles, and I
don't think it is the individual
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doctors per se, it's the system.
The system that has grown...
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It's like it has grown a
little bit bigger each year,
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the pressures that
are put on everybody,
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the people that are
making the advertising,
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What's been said in the Media,
um, even in the food industry
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they have profits to be made,
they have lobbyists that go
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to the government, all
these different pressures...
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The time allotted to physicians
and patients have gone down
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every year... Talk
about that, when you first
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started, how long did
you stay with a patient?
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At least 75% of the time with
a patient, 25% with paper work.
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But as time went on, 10
years ago, it was about 50/50
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three or four months ago,
it was about 75% of my time
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with paper and computers
and only 25% of my time
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with patients. Which that
works out to be about 10 minutes
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with the patient. Yeah and
the relationships have gone
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down. You can't have a
relationship when you don't
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have the time. And that
is one of the reasons I like
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answering peoples questions,
because they long for the
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relationship too, otherwise
they wouldn't have the question,
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it would have
already been answered.
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Yes. So I long to have that
relationship with my patients
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and with each other and I
think that our technology,
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even though it's important
and helpful in some instances,
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in some instance it
can actually hurt things.
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It's good to be together,
it's good to have families,
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it's good to have people
over, it's good to care for each
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other, it's good to talk to each
other. So those things I want to
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promote because there's healing
effects in relationships,
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healthy relationships
with each other because it
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leads us to love,
it leads us to service,
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and of course our relationship
with God leads us to His plan
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for our lives and we
don't know what that is,
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we just have faith
that He is going to move us
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one step at a time.
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We're going to take a short
break and when we come back,
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boy, do I have a
biblical prescription for you.
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Stay tuned.
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