Did you know that
cardiovascular disease is a
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leading cause of
death in America?
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Stay tuned to learn how
you can live heart attack free!
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I'm Dr. James
Marcum, are you interested in
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discovering the reason why?
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Do you want solutions to
your health care problem?
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Are you tired of
taking medications?
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Well, you're about to be given
"The Ultimate Prescription"
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Every year more people
are experiencing heart attack;
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more people are
having bypass surgeries,
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and more people are
experiencing hypertension.
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Dr. Marcum, why
is this occurring?
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Well Nick, that's
a very good question,
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and we cannot stop there.
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If you look at the
health of the world,
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every year, like you
said, more heart attacks,
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more strokes, more
people with diabetes,
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more people with obesity,
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more people with
mental health illnesses.
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If we look, clearly,
something is not right,
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and, unfortunately, our
medical system primarily
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treats symptoms
and not causes. Correct
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And cardiovascular disease
is a disease that we're now
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learning more and more
about and I was recently
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up at the "Cleveland Clinic"
with my friend, Dr. Esselstyn,
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and he had a group of
people there that he was giving
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a special diet to and it
was a diet that had basically
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no fat in it and he
has followed these patients
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for years and he showed that
they can reverse heart disease
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and also become
heart attack free. Wow!
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Now, I think it's
more than just the food...
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I think the food is a very
important component of this,
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but I also think it's
the stress that's involved,
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and a few people
have bad genetics.
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But there's one or two
things that we can do today
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to help everyone out
there lower their risk of having
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cardiovascular
disease or heart attacks.
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What are a couple of
things that we can do?
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Well if you look here,
I'm going to show a picture
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of an artery and in this artery,
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this is a really
healthy artery here,
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and this group of cells that
goes around the artery there
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is called the "endothelium,"
and the endothelium is
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what regulates the
size of the artery,
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makes it bigger or smaller.
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Now, unfortunately, let's go
to a person that doesn't have
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a very healthy artery and that's
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what a standard
American artery looks like.
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Lots of fat in there,
lipids, fat gets in there.
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In fact, if you eat more
than 10 to 15% of your total
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food that you eat in
fat... fat is stored,
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either in the arteries or around
the waist and that's not good.
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Years ago, they looked
at the Korean soldiers,
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and they noticed that almost
all of them had significant
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plaquing in their body and these
fellows were just in their 20s.
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So we've discovered that
about 90% of heart disease
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is related to
the food we eat. Sure
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We eat too much fat...
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The fat has to
be stored somewhere.
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It damages this vessel
called the "endothelium."
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A doctor named, Dr. Vogel,
a few years ago, did a study
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and he looked at
the brachial artery,
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that's the artery
that's in the arm,
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and he fed these young fellows
a high-fat, fast food diet...
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And he found out that
when he fed them this diet,
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the artery could
not get bigger. Really?
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It could not get
bigger and they hypothesized
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that there's something in
fat that made a chemical called
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"nitric oxide" go down.
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And nitric oxide is a chemical
that makes the arteries bigger.
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So one of the things in
cardiovascular disease...
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we have
determined fat is our enemy.
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Now, in modern medicine,
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if someone is
having a symptom, Nick,
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I'd send them for a
heart attack, you know,
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if you're having a heart attack,
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I'd want to have a
stent in. A stent - okay.
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Yeah, if you're having a
lot of pain when you walk,
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and it's from your heart,
I'd want you to have a bypass,
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give them extra blood, but
it doesn't fix the problem,
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it treats the symptom. Right
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But we want to get at
the cause of the problem...
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One of the causes is
too much fat in the diet.
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So simply, what people
can do one step at a time is
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try to remove
fat from their diet.
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Now that's not so easy is it?
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No, it's really not... in
fact, it's quite difficult,
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particularly if you
eat out of restaurants,
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and you're not
preparing your own food.
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Right, so I think the
first thing that I want everyone
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to know is to be aware
that you can be your own
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best doctor when you
get fat out of the diet...
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because when you
get fat out of the diet,
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the nitric oxide levels go up.
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And guess what, the
arteries get bigger,
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and if you eat well enough,
Dr. Esselstyn, in his study
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that was
published just recently,
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has shown that you can
actually, in many cases,
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reverse disease.
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Take the plaque and
fat out of the arteries.
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It's pretty amazing
research, and if we think back
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through the years,
there's a famous Dr. Hippocrates
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that says, "Let
food be thy medicine,
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and medicine be thy food."
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And it only makes
sense that as we eat better,
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it changes the
chemistry of the entire body.
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It's like putting
the appropriate gas
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in the machine. That's right!
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We weren't made to rely on fat.
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Fat was sort of an
emergency storage fuel.
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So the more fat we
eat now, we get it stored.
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Now 200 years ago,
Nick, we used to exercise
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and burn a lot of
fat off, but nowadays,
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we just sit around,
we don't do anything.
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We take large
amounts of food in fat,
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and it gets
stored in our arteries.
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Now Dr. Esselstyn, in his
book "Reversing Heart Disease,"
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has suggested that we
have... virtually if you have
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active disease,
zero fat in the diet.
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And he has showed
that people can be healthy
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by eliminating fat.
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Most people cannot do
that, and I still think that
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if you eat fats from plants,
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that's actually
very good for you.
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I was just going
ask... what types of fats
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are good for
you, what are healthy?
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Well if you have active
disease, if you're having
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lots of chest
pain, heart attacks.
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I try to get zero fat. Okay
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Now if you just want to stay,
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if you're not
having active symptoms,
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I let people eat... I
recommend that they eat
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any fat that's not from
animals, so from plants. Right
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What are some examples?
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Coconuts, almonds,
walnuts, soy has fat in it.
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In fact, even a potato
has some amount of fat.
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And if you look at a
potato, for instance,
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a potato is about
80% carbohydrates,
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10% protein, 10% fat and that's
what the nutrient composition
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that people that
are like Peruvians,
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you know, they
were people of potatoes.
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You know, they
eat lots of potatoes.
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If you think about the Aztecs,
they were people of corn,
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and predominantly in
corn, it's about 80% carbs,
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10% fat, 10% protein.
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If you think about the
people that live in China...
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they like to eat lots of rice.
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Rice is
predominantly carbohydrates,
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not much protein,
not much fat. Right
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But as the eating of the
world has changed, guess what?
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We've acquired more
disease because we eat things...
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we mess up this composition
that our body is made to handle.
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So why do you think that's
been the case in North America,
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we don't eat a diet similar
to what you just described,
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why has the change occurred?
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Well, if you look at it, a
lot of change happened when
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we - the modern
industrial revolution moved in.
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People moved away from
the farms into the cities.
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When they moved into
the cities, guess what?
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They wanted to have
things that were convenient.
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Then all of a sudden
things became packaged;
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animals became a
big staple of food;
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people began to eat
less of the real foods.
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And then the
marketing got involved,
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and you know,
people market fast food.
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They market these
types of animal-based foods.
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And through the years,
we've seen more and more
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people eat it and we
haven't had alternatives,
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and people have
not thought about it.
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But the way we eat,
Nick, is not sustainable.
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The reason it's not sustainable
is because so many people
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right now are getting
diseases from the food they eat.
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That's not a very healthy
thing at all. Not at all...
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So in talking
about heart disease,
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now a lot of people
say, "I can't do this."
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"I can't do this
all at once because
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we grew up eating this way."
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So what I tell people is
try to make one step at a time,
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and we found out that one
of the best foods for the body
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is GREENS! Right
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So greens, when people eat
greens it increases a chemical
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called, "nitric oxide."
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It makes the arteries bigger.
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Another thing that greens do,
you know, green is chlorophyll,
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because it's green. Sure
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Chlorophyll helps absorb
toxins, it has magnesium,
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it helps the bowels work
quicker - so you don't absorb
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as many as the bad things.
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So I tell all my heart patients,
"Try to eat more greens."
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Kale, spinach, arugula,
anything that's green can help,
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and the
fresher, the better. Sure
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And if you start eating
greens and fill up with that,
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maybe you won't eat as
much of the fatty foods
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which trigger
disease to come on.
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But, when people start
doing this and they realize that
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they can change the
chemistry of the body;
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they can change the endothelium
from the food they eat.
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Now if you want to learn more,
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there's lot of
material out there...
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"The Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine,"
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pcrm.org if you go to
the website by Dr. Esselstyn,
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also the website by
Dr. T. Colin Campbell...
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All of these have suggestions
that you can start changing
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your diet and thus, taking
the disease out of the arteries
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and Dr. Esselstyn, if
you can get on his program,
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he can almost guarantee
you, you'll make yourself
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heart attack free.
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So one of the best things we can
do to help reduce our chance of
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cardiovascular
disease, it's put the right
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fuel in our bodies.
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Yes and get fat out of
the body, and of course,
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we want to do other
things that help the
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cardiovascular system.
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Basically the things that help
our arteries are things that
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lower chronic stress.
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We don't want the stress
of sitting too many hours.
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We don't want the
stress of being dehydrated.
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Also, we don't want
mental stress on the body.
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So any type of the
stress makes these chemicals
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adrenalin, cortisol
which gradually damaged the
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lining of the blood
vessel which raises a chance of
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us having
cardiovascular disease.
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Now in some countries, they
never had heart attacks at all.
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For instance, there are some
in the New Guinea highlanders.
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They eat, pretty
much, sweet potatoes.
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They don't have heart attacks.
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People in countries
like Uganda, where they eat,
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really all they
eat is carbohydrates.
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They don't eat fat, they
don't have these problems.
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In rural China, we
didn't have this problem.
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We also have noted that
as parts of the world become
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Westernized, eating more
fat, guess what they get?
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They have more
cardiovascular disease.
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And guess what, sooner or
later, they have a symptom;
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they have to go to the hospital;
they have to get a stent;
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they have to have a bypass...
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That's nice and
that's a place for that,
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but that doesn't
solve the problem.
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Doesn't get at the
root of the problem.
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We're just treating the symptoms
and if we can get at the
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cause of the problem, we can
get at cardiovascular disease.
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Now we've had several questions
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that have come
in to our website,
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the
heartwiseministries.org site,
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but before we go there,
you know, we're working on
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helping everyone
with a first aid kit.
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That's right and, you
know, first aid is something
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that's
important - you want to be
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prepared to serve other people
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when they have a need. Right
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So what are we
going to talk about
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out of the first aid kit today.
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What I have today,
this is called an "EpiPen,"
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right here, this is an EpiPen,
this has epinephrine in it,
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and this might be a good thing
for people to put in their kit
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because of the fact that a
lot of people have allergies
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to peanuts - if you
have what we call an
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"anaphylactic reaction"
the whole cardiovascular
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system shuts down.
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So this is specifically
used for people that have
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lots of allergies.
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I've used it for other
things in my history before
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in people that
have severe shock.
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Now I wouldn't
advise you to do that,
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but mainly it's for people with
allergies, peanut allergies,
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a child that gets what we call
an "anaphylactic-type reaction."
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And the way this is used, Nick,
I'm going to let you do that...
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What you do here is - here are
the real examples of it here...
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This is a training
module that we can do and it has
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instructions... it says, "Pull
off the blue safety release."
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So, you would have that
and this one has it too...
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So we pull that off like
that and the next thing we do
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is swing firmly and push
orange against the outer thigh."
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So you would want to actually
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push this
against your outer thigh
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and then you would hold
it tight for 10 seconds.
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Now I'm going to
pretend this is my thigh.
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Why don't you do it and
you need to push it there
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and hold it for 10 seconds.
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Go ahead and push
it against your arm
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and hold it for 10 seconds.
Push it into my thigh...
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And hold - did
you hear it click?
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1- 2- 3- 4- 5, the
medicine is going in...
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6- 7- 8- 9- 10... and at
that time you're delivering
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adrenalin or epinephrine
and that's going to support the
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cardiovascular
system and help prevent
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an anaphylactic reaction.
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And you've heard
of peanut allergies...
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You've heard of a lot
of people being allergic
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to certain things, bees, wasps.
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These are things and
this is called an "EpiPen."
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Now, it requires a
prescription from your doctor.
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So not anybody can
buy this? Not anyone...
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But this might be something
good for someone that had kids
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or people that had
allergies to bees or insects
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that they would
want in their supply.
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Now I had one person
that I knew once that had
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such a bad
reaction to poison ivy...
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They would
almost get anaphylactic,
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and they had to require one
of these because what happens
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is they have this
extreme systemic reaction;
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a lot of stress chemicals go
on because the body is trying to
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fight off this
foreign object and the whole
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cardiovascular system collapses;
the blood pressure goes down;
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the heart rate goes down;
they have this terrible reaction
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and this helps
negate that reaction,
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and supports the
cardiovascular system.
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Adrenalin is a stress chemical.
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It raises the blood pressure,
it constricts the arteries,
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it keeps the blood pressure off
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so people can fight off
this bad reaction that they get
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from whatever that
offending agent was.
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We see a lot of it with
peanuts, a lot of it with bees.
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Those are probably
the most common types.
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Now can this be dangerous
if it's not used at the
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appropriate time and
in the correct person?
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Anything that's not used
correctly can be dangerous.
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So yes, if you're
just giving it for fun,
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this can be very dangerous
because this is adrenalin. Right
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And you wouldn't want to give
it to someone unless certain.
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but it's mainly used
for people that are having
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anaphylactic reactions,
peanut allergies, bee allergy,
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an insect allergy -
these people are extremely ill.
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I've seen it used a few times in
people that have severe asthma.
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They get an
anaphylactic reaction,
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something
triggers severe asthma.
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This is in a
life-saving situation.
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So then after - say I'm
allergic to peanuts and I
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accidentally
ingest some peanuts,
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we've administered the
EpiPen, what should we do next?
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Well, I would head to
the emergency room. Okay
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That would be the next place
or get chronic care for this
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in case - you know, this
buys you time. That's right
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It doesn't
necessarily fix the problem,
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hopefully it will
get you over the hump.
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Okay, well I think
that's a great piece to have
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in your first aid kit.
Yes, another piece to add.
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And if you're allergic
to something - peanuts,
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or if your kids are
allergic to something,
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talk to your doctor and if
see if they would recommend
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that you have an
EpiPen in your first aid kit.
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from our website and
Dr. Marcum is going to
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tell us more about how we can
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