Are you interested in
foods that change your body
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and can dramatically
improve your health?
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You won't want to miss today's
program - stay right there.
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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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Hippocrates said,
"Let food by thy medicine."
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When it comes to supplements
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and nutritional
prescriptions, Dr. Marcum,
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how does that apply?
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Well that's great, Nick,
because I get a lot of questions
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at our website at
heartwiseministries.org
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regarding nutrients
and supplements. Right
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It's probably the most
common thing I hear about,
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and everyone wants to take
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something natural,
a natural remedy...
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You know, is
there some type of herb,
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some type of extra
vitamin that I take,
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and I wanted to
address these things today,
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and give a balanced perspective.
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There's a place for taking
supplements and nutritional aids
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but usually it's in
a disease state. Okay
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For instance, if you were
floating around in the sea,
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and didn't have vitamin
C, you know you've heard of
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these diseases like scurvy and
pellagra and things like that.
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Those are big deficiencies.
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If you're
iron-deficient, you need iron.
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So if you're
deficient in a substance,
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then you might need
to take supplements...
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But most people, if
they eat a well-balanced diet
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with lots of fruits,
vegetables, nuts and grains,
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hydrate
themselves well with water,
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they don't need to
take many supplements
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because God has given
us everything that we need
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to keep our body
running pretty smooth.
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Now some people I've
noticed that are on a whole food
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plant-based diet, do need
a little bit of supplements
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with the B vitamins,
B6 and B12. Why is that?
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Because they don't get it
in the food sources they eat.
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But your doctor
can check you for that
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or you can just take
a... I just take a B6 or B12
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occasionally and I have
plenty of high enough levels.
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So where does B6 and
B12... where do these come from?
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Well, it's in animals, but
it predominantly comes from
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the soil - it comes from that,
but nowadays, our soil is not
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as healthy as it used to
be, and you know of course,
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animal products have
that, but a lot of people don't
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want to take that in because of
the bad that they get with it,
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so they can take
supplements and a lot of the
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foods we eat, the soy
products, the different types of
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you know, are supplemented
with supplements as well...
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So they don't even
have to take a pill,
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you get it as some of the food
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we eat have these
supplements in them.
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Now I see a lot of
marketing about this supplement
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or that supplement...
if I'm young and healthy,
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and I don't feel any symptoms,
I'm not feeling any real needs,
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should I buy into the
idea that maybe I need a
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a supplement or
should I talk to my doctor?
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If you have a deficiency,
if you have a disease state,
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you might need
a supplement. Okay
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But if you're eating a whole
food diet, plant-based diet,
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maybe get a little B6 and
B12, you're getting everything
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you need and you don't
have a deficiency. Okay
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Now if you have a disease
state like you have a GI bleed,
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for instance, then
you'll lose extra iron,
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then you might need
supplemental iron in your body.
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If you have certain
problems with a gland,
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then you might be
short on something.
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So there are some cases
where you do need some things.
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If you don't eat
fruits and vegetables,
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you might need a supplement if
you don't take those things in
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because you might be short
on a nutrient and those people
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do need supplements,
but I look at it this way...
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Everything that we put in our
body has a chemical reaction,
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and the supplements and the
herbs have chemical reactions
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just like other
things too. Sure, yeah!
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And sometimes we take
in too much of them and it
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saturates our enzyme systems.
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Now what happens... can you take
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too much
vitamin C, what happens?
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Well, if you take too
much of any good thing,
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most of the time,
the body handles it. Okay
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But it's like - if you
have an orchestra with lots of
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French horns... let's say
you have 50 French horns...
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French horns are great,
but if you have too many
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French horns, you
can't hear the trumpets.
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Sometimes it
blocks the receptors
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when other needed
nutrients can't get in.
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So you want to balance... Yes
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Not just a whole lot of
one instrument but a balance.
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And that's what we want
in life, we want a balance.
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And you know, there's
a place for medicines...
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you know, when we need
medicines mainly to get us
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over an acute crisis.
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There's a place for
nutrition, but more than that...
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what I like to think
is, there's a place for God
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leading us in the
learning about our bodies
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because we're our
best physicians. Right
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So we have a lot of questions
that we're going to get to
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in a minute about
this, but before that...
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you know, we've been talking
about our first aid kits.
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So let's talk about
another thing that our viewers
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can add to their first aid
kit to help them be healthier.
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So, we're building our
first aid kit at home...
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what are some things that we're
going to put in there today?
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Well today, we're going to
talk about "bandages." Okay
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Bandages help if you're
having a situation where
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you're bleeding or
you're wounded or the tissue
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has been damaged.
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I don't know if
you have ever seen it,
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but we have all
sorts of bandages to help,
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not only keep the area clean
so it doesn't get infected,
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but also to keep, if
you're losing lots of blood,
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to help with that situation.
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Let's say that you're
in a first aid situation,
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and someone is
losing a lot of blood...
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what should you do?
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You need to stop the
bleeding first, right?
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And a lot of people, I would
recommend putting a glove on,
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and we want to put a glove
on your hand so a first aid kit
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should have some gloves. Right
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They don't
necessarily have to be sterile,
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but some gloves that
will help protect you and then
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depending on how
much bleeding is,
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we want to stop the bleeding.
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But a general
principle to stop bleeding
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we want to put
pressure on it. Okay
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And of course,
the more bleeding,
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the more
pressure you need. Right
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And if you usually put pressure
hard enough for a prolonged
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period of time, the body
will bring in clotting factors,
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it will stop the
bleeding on its own.
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Now I've had arteries
that were completely severed
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sometimes that I've had
o put tons of pressure on
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to stop the
bleeding. I imagine...
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Of course we just stop
the bleeding until we can get
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a surgeon or someone that can
ligate that or fix the problem.
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So if it's severe
bleeding, and you've seen people
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that had a bullet
wound or gunshot wound
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where they put
a lot of pressure.
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But a lot of pressure can
be lifesaving if they can stop
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that bleeding until help
arrives and keep the blood
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in the intravascular space where
it can carry oxygen around.
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Keep the blood
pressure up, we need pressure
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throughout the body to
take oxygen and nutrients.
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So putting pressure and it
depends on how much you need.
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Now some people
don't need much at all,
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and here are just
some little band aids.
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Every first aid kit
should have some band aids too.
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This is a butterfly band
aid to help keep a wound closed
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so it doesn't bleed very much.
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Then I've thrown in
my kit, I have some tape.
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Well, why would
tape be beneficial?
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Well let's say you hold pressure
on a wound and then later on
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you have to put a
bigger bandage on it
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and you might wan to
wrap the tape around it
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many times to help put
the pressure on the wound
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so the wound
doesn't continue to bruise.
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So a bandage will
help stop bleeding,
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but you have other parts
of your body that might not
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be bleeding that also
might help with the bandage...
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And I've had some
other things down here...
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What if you have
something in your foot?
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Very important - these
are if you have a blister,
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a corn or something on
your foot that causes a lot...
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you can put this over
it, it's not bleeding,
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but it can help protect
it against rubbing and pain
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that will keep you from walking
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until it can give
it some time to heal.
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Probably keeps a
little protection
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from infection as well.
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Yes, that will
help with that. Okay
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There's lots of other little
things I've thrown in here.
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This is a bigger
triangular bandage that we can
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put and wrap it if someone
has a big damage to the skin
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to help put pressure on
it, mainly to help the bleeding
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stop until you can
get some permanent help.
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So I think every
first aid kit needs to have
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an assortment of bandages.
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Bandages in case
you have big bleeding
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where you put
pressure on until you stop it,
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then you wrap it - you know some
tape around it until it stops.
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Lesser bleeding problems
might can just get by with
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band aids and then also
this very important too...
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we have some sterile
things that we can add to it.
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And you know if you
have to put some things
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around the bandage,
you can have some Betadine,
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some alcohol to help
keep it clean as well.
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That's something that's
very useful for a wound.
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And then until you
can get to a situation
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where you can
really keep it clean.
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So for everyone's first aid
kit today... Nick, I think it's
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very valuable to add
some type of bandage to that
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to cover every type of
scenario in case you're
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out far away from
home, you can have this done
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until you can see a provider.
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Sometimes it's so little
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that you don't even
have to see anybody.
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Right, yeah -
that's some great advice,
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and you know, it's important
just to have a glove available,
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don't be afraid of
people, do the best to
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protect yourself, but
use whatever gloves you have
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available to help
take care of people.
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I see some people, you
know, kids that fall down
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and they are bleeding
and they really need a stitch
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that you have to put a
bandage on it and hold pressure
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until they can get a
stitch or something like that.
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You don't want them
to have blood everywhere,
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and, of course,
that's not a good situation.
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So every first aid kit
needs an assortment of bandages.
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Don't forget to put pressure
on the wound if it's bleeding
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until the bleeding
stops or you can get
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further help - very important!
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That's some great advice
and I'm going to add some more
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bandages to my first aid
kit at home. More bandages!
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All right, we're going to
be right back in just a moment
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with some more
questions from our website
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heartwiseministries.org
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And today, we're
talking about supplements
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and nutritional treatments,
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so we'll be back
in just a moment.
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