Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00006A
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00:01 The following program presents principles
00:02 designed to promote good health 00:04 and is not intended to take the place 00:05 of personalized professional care. 00:07 The opinions and ideas expressed 00:09 are those of the speaker. 00:11 Viewers are encouraged to draw 00:12 their own conclusions 00:13 about the information presented. 00:17 Have you ever wondered why God created night? 00:21 So we can sleep, you say. 00:22 Then why aren't we? Stay tuned. 00:27 I'm Dr James Marcum. Are you interested 00:30 in discovering the reason why? 00:33 You want solutions to your health care problems. 00:36 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:39 Well, you're about to be given 00:40 the ultimate prescription. 00:44 The world is filled with rhythm. 00:46 The pounding of ocean waves in the shore, 00:48 the cadence of insect songs, 00:51 even the beating of our own hearts, 00:52 all seem to be gears in some great cosmic time piece. 00:56 On day four of creation week, 00:58 God put in motion a rhythm that if ignored 01:02 can bring dire consequences to our health. 01:05 Dr. Marcum, enlighten us. 01:07 Wow, Charles. When people think about rhythm, 01:11 you know, sometimes you think about music. Yes. 01:13 You think about all different things, 01:15 but there is a true cosmic rhythm that God designed, 01:18 given to us back in the book of Genesis. 01:21 The Bible being our Biblical prescription, 01:25 the Bible being our template for how we want to live, 01:29 talks about this importance of cadence, 01:32 of rhythm and how when we change 01:34 these natural walls and we don't live by them, 01:36 we again put stress on our system. 01:39 And just think about it. 01:40 We were designed to be at work all day long, 01:44 living in a garden. 01:45 We were designed to rest at night. 01:48 How many people are really resting at night? 01:50 Out there we have our biggest meal at night. 01:53 We sometimes, Charles, 01:54 we sometimes stay up late watching television. 01:57 We have ipods. And what about the computer, 01:59 an email? Yes. 02:01 Oh, no there is a phone call 02:02 that comes into my cell phone. 02:03 I've have to get it. But the original design 02:06 is we were in a garden taking care of it, 02:08 and we were supposed to rest at night, 02:10 be working in the day. 02:11 When we violate these laws, 02:13 these circadian rhythm become broken. 02:16 Stress is put on our system. 02:18 We do it long enough, 02:19 the stress cascade that we've talked 02:21 about before, gets turned on. 02:24 You know we look at people-- if you are prison of work, 02:26 Charles, and I wanted to torture you 02:29 I would make you sleep deprived. 02:30 I would keep lights on you all the time. 02:32 I would hurt your brain. I would try 02:33 to break you down. 02:35 Yes, yes. Well, guess what's happening 02:37 to us in the world today. Yeah. 02:38 We are being broken down. 02:41 We're not resting well at night. 02:43 Not only that, according to Genesis, 02:45 we are also designed to have a weekly rest. 02:49 The creator of the universe 02:50 do not have any health problems. 02:53 Perfectly well, and yet He knew in His wisdom 02:56 that we would need to rest a weekly rest well. 02:59 We came apart from everything that we done. 03:02 And how many of us now are violating 03:03 these laws at night as well as we're violating 03:06 this weekly laws and guess what happens. 03:08 There is dire chemical consequences. 03:11 So it's hard when I get someone in. 03:12 They want to not have heart disease, 03:14 or they don't want to have all 03:15 other health problems. 03:16 When you talked them about this 03:18 treatment called, Rest. 03:20 So rest is a treatment for disease. 03:22 It's also way to prevent disease, all in one. 03:26 Another Biblical technological principle 03:29 that we see today. 03:30 Now you're using even stronger language. 03:31 You're saying it's a law. Oh, yeah. 03:33 It's not just a principle. Oh, yeah. 03:34 Now this is something like gravity. Yeah. 03:37 If you jump off of a building you are going to-- 03:40 on this world, anyway, you gonna drop down 03:42 and you gonna do some bodily harm to yourself 03:44 and perhaps lie down there. 03:46 That is a law that if broken has consequences. 03:49 Are you saying that the circadian rhythm, 03:52 the sleeping, that if we go to bed 03:54 and if we changed our systems so much 03:58 that that we're sleeping in the day time 04:01 and working at night that we're doing something 04:03 that is breaking a law of health? 04:05 That's exactly right. 04:06 You know the sun needs to circle, 04:08 you know, the earth needs a circle to sun. 04:10 If it didn't do that, 04:11 we would have dire consequences. 04:12 That's true, that's true. When the body doesn't 04:14 do what it was designed to do, 04:16 why it end up in dire consequences. 04:18 It only makes sense. But you know what, 04:19 we're proving this chemically now. Yes. 04:21 We know that people that don't rest well at night. 04:24 They don't sleep well. 04:25 There is a medical condition called, sleep apnea. 04:27 Have you heard of that, Charles? I have. 04:28 Okay. That's a condition that affects many people 04:31 where they don't sleep well at night. 04:33 Well, one of the causes 04:34 of sleep apnea is being heavy. 04:36 You know, you get a lot of tissue around your neck. 04:38 You go to bed at night. 04:39 You can't get that air way open, 04:41 so you spend basically most 04:43 of your night gasping for air. 04:44 I've seen videos of this. 04:45 I mean they actually stop breathing for-- 04:48 for many seconds during this time. 04:50 And someone out there in the audience 04:52 might have sleep apnea. 04:53 So if you have a loved one 04:54 that at night they do like this. 04:58 And they had that startled response. 05:00 They might have sleep apnea. But can you imagine 05:02 what happens chemically to your body, 05:04 if you spend one-third of your life 05:07 not getting enough oxygen. Oh, my. 05:10 One-third of your life not getting enough rest, 05:12 the chemical consequence, so you don't get enough rest. 05:14 So the next morning you wake up tired. 05:16 Well, guess what, you drink, 05:17 smoke, and joke. Get drive up. 05:20 And then you run on with no energy all day long, 05:22 your body isn't allowed itself to heal at night, 05:25 symptoms of sleep apnea, you're being tired. 05:27 You might have headaches. 05:28 You might have high blood pressure and heart disease. 05:31 I see funny heart rhythms, 05:32 all these things just because people have sleep apnea. 05:35 Well, this is just one example 05:37 of not getting enough rest. 05:38 There is other examples of peoples-- 05:40 let me tell you a story here, real quick. Yes. 05:43 I had a gentleman that had been to some 05:45 of the best heart doctors in the United States. 05:47 He was in his 50s and already 05:49 had a second bypass surgery with a bypass around. 05:52 And yet he was still having chest pain. He came to me. 05:54 He was on all the right medicines, 05:56 all the right dose. 05:57 He just wanted a second opinion. 05:59 And as I do, I started 06:00 talking about the stresses 06:01 and he worked at a Fortune500 company. 06:04 He stayed up till 01:00 a.m. every night. 06:06 Just teaching him how to rest nightly, 06:09 his chemistry started to better. 06:10 His cholesterol came down. 06:11 His blood pressure came down. 06:13 His sedimentation rate came down-- 06:14 His cholesterol came down? Yes, yes. Wow. 06:16 You know, a lot of things happen great for him 06:18 and then the next thing we started him, 06:19 I said listen do you believe 06:20 this principle called nightly rest? 06:22 How about this weekly rest? 06:24 So he started taking a day off to rest. 06:26 All of a sudden his chemistry 06:28 started to improve dramatically. 06:30 So this rest is a treatment for disease 06:32 and how many times you go into a doctor's office 06:35 and they listen I need to write 06:36 a prescription for rest, 06:38 or they even ask you about it. 06:39 And yet this is not only a cause but it's a plangent. 06:42 If you're a baseball player, Charles, 06:44 and broke your arm, I wouldn't let you 06:46 keep throwing fast balls I would say 06:48 rest to arm and allow to heal. 06:50 Well, the ultimate physician okay, 06:54 in his knowledge knew that at night 06:56 we need to rest 'cause we need to take heal 06:58 from all the work we did. 06:59 We need to recover also. 07:01 We needed a weekly recover from the week. 07:04 And this is a cycle that exists 07:06 and if we break this cycle, bad things happen. 07:08 We need modern medicine to fix things. 07:11 So this rest is very important 07:13 as not only a treatment but a prevention of disease, 07:16 and if I wrote a prescription for you for rest every night, 07:20 rest one day a week, you would think I'm crazy. 07:22 But, you know what, if I was able 07:23 to do the chemical studies 07:25 and showed this is what's happening to your chemistry. 07:27 This is how your body is improving. 07:29 This is how you're avoiding infections. 07:30 You're avoiding heart disease, heart attacks. 07:32 You're sleeping better at night. 07:34 You have energy, no depression. 07:35 If I could show you that data, 07:37 boy, people would be in line for this. 07:38 Yes, absolutely. So the day-night cycle the-- 07:43 the fact that God put a sun up there that moves around, 07:47 the earth moves around I understand, 07:49 and the moon and the stars-- 07:51 they're not up there just for enjoyment. 07:53 They're not up there just to say, 07:54 oh, isn't that pretty? They're up there 07:55 for a reason to remind us that okay, 07:58 now it's time to sleep. 08:00 Now it's time to wake up. 08:02 Now it's time to work. Now it's time to rest. 08:04 And if we stay in the cycle 08:07 everything from our fatigue levels 08:09 to our cholesterol are effected, that's amazing. 08:12 that's amazing. Okay, let's say 08:15 that there is a viewer 08:16 out there right now saying, well, Dr. Marcum, 08:19 I'm eating good food 08:20 that you've talked about on the other show. 08:22 I'm deep breathing. I'm drinking water. 08:25 I'm doing fine here, but you know, 08:28 I just can't seem to get into the rhythm. 08:32 I can't seem to go to sleep at night. 08:34 I can't seem to get up in the morning. 08:36 I am just all messed up in my schedule. 08:40 What would you say to that person 08:41 to begin the journey back to being able 08:44 to be in sync with God's rhythm? 08:47 And that happens everyday 08:48 when people come to the office 08:50 and one of the most dangerous things 08:51 I see is people that works in nightshift. Yeah. 08:53 They have a hard time 08:54 straightening out their chemistry. 08:56 Well, the first step I try to really convince people, 08:59 Charles, is let them know 09:00 that this lack of sleep is lack of a pattern 09:03 has chemical consequences that's damaging the body. 09:06 And likewise when we can do it correctly 09:08 it's a treatment for the body. 09:10 So once they believe that, 09:11 I say listen now that you believe that-- 09:13 It's a prescription you say? Yes, it's a prescription. 09:15 All right okay. And I say comes 09:16 from the ultimate physician, okay. 09:18 So let him help us. 09:20 We need all the help we do. 09:21 You know, I believe that we can't make 09:23 these changes in our self. 09:24 We need the extra power. 09:26 If we do it in our self we become selfish. 09:30 So we wanna do it for the reason. 09:31 So I ask people, ask the power of God, 09:34 the Holy Spirit, to teach me about this. 09:35 And I say, well, let's try some things first. 09:38 Let's look at your sleep patterns. 09:39 What time you go to bed? 09:40 What are you doing at night? 09:42 Are you having a big meal night? 09:44 Are you taking prescription medicines 09:46 that might disrupt you? 09:47 Might you have a medical condition like sleep apnea? 09:50 Might you be doing things 09:52 that stimulate your mind at night? 09:54 A prescription you said just before, 09:56 what kind of prescription, what we're talking about? 09:57 What kind of pills? Well, certain medications 09:58 can stimulate the body, okay. 10:01 We have people that take diet pills. 10:02 Sometimes that can stimulate the body at night. 10:05 You know, they eat their big meal at night. 10:06 They want to speed it up. 10:08 So there are certain pills 10:09 that can sometimes keep us up. 10:11 These are called stimulates. Stimulates okay. 10:13 And you know, you hear methamphetamines, 10:15 you hear lot of legal and illegal stimulates. 10:17 You take a night cup of coffee. Right, right, yes. 10:19 And you just drink that. caffeine is a stimulant. 10:22 And alcohol messes up sleep patterns. 10:24 There is a host of chemicals that we take that mess, 10:27 even a big meal at night 10:28 messes up your sleep pattern. 10:29 One of the biggest things that I think 10:31 messes up sleep pattern is television. Television. 10:35 Television goes into the brain. 10:37 It gets our mind reds up. 10:38 We start turning on parts of the brain, 10:40 the limbic system, the stress part of our brain turns on, 10:43 the prefrontal cortex is not as activated 10:46 and this messes up sleep patterns. 10:48 There is a host of other stresses in our life. 10:50 So I try to walk a patient 10:52 through that in each individual thing 10:54 and try to make one change at a time 10:56 and when they do that we see 10:57 if they can sleep a little bit better 10:59 and the first thing is I always try to get people 11:00 is to cut back on television at night, 11:03 the big meal at night, 11:04 do that first maybe even exercise 11:06 who are the more tired during the day. 11:08 And then I also ask them after that, 11:10 I say listen you know you do this for a while. 11:12 And why don't you have a down day, 11:14 one day a week, why don't you have the down day. 11:16 It's a Biblical perspiration given 11:17 by the ultimate cardiologist. Yes, yes. 11:20 And why don't you just do down day. 11:21 And better yet if you could even choose to worship 11:23 that day that's even better than rest 11:25 and for other reasons. 11:26 So I start walking them through this 11:28 and I move them through. 11:29 So I say do this one thing at a time, 11:31 but we have to convince them 11:32 that their chemistry really changes. 11:34 This makes perfect sense. It does. 11:36 But why don't we hear about this. 11:37 We don't hear about it anyway. 11:38 If I was trying to destroy the world again, 11:41 if I was trying to mess everything up 11:43 I will take away a weekly rest 11:46 and that would damage our bodies, 11:48 not to mention damage the ultimate relationship 11:50 with the power came from. That's right. 11:51 Then I would mess up the nightly rest 11:53 and cause all these bad chemical stress reactions 11:56 too much adrenaline, too much cortisol, 11:58 no sleep at night messing up the way we think, 12:01 causing us to develop other habits that hurt us, 12:03 that's what I would do to destroy the world. 12:05 And, you know what, that's what's happening today. 12:07 Exactly yes that's seem-- And that's what I wanna tell 12:09 to our viewers out there. 12:10 You can do something about it in part of it 12:12 just knowing that this problem exists. 12:14 Yeah. I like that so you're telling us 12:17 that when the evening time comes 12:19 turn off the television, 12:21 don't eat that big meal, you might want to make sure 12:24 you're hydrated little bit, 12:25 just maybe a glass will be fine 12:27 not too much as you said before. Okay. 12:30 Those of us who are the types 12:34 who are our brains are just going constantly, 12:36 what can we do to slow our brains down 12:38 as we get towards the evening hours? 12:39 Well, couple of things that will turned down 12:41 our stress chemistry is taking deep breathes, 12:44 hold it five seconds, breathe out, okay. 12:46 I ask people to turn to the word, the word of God. 12:50 He says, "Come into me and I will give you this rest." 12:53 Well, that's a spiritual, physical rest as well. 12:56 So as we open up the scriptures 12:58 and open up God's word 12:59 and pray to Him that will also relax 13:01 and some people like to have a quite music, 13:03 some people like to have baths it relax them, 13:06 some people like to go on walks, 13:08 some people like to read other things. 13:10 So there is many different ways 13:11 based on who you are to help relax the body. 13:14 All right, very important stuff. 13:16 We're gonna take a break now. 13:18 When we come back we're gonna start 13:19 answering some questions from heartwiseministries.org. 13:22 You are invited to leave your questions there as well. 13:25 That's www. heartwiseministries.org. 13:29 Dr. Marcum is the founder director of that organization 13:32 and will be very happy to answer your questions. 13:34 Also there are other resources 13:36 there as well to help you live a happy 13:38 vibrant life that you want so much. 13:39 So we'll get to your questions 13:41 on a return so don't go away. |
Revised 2014-12-17