Are you tired of
prescription medications?
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On today's program,
we're going to talk about
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an approach that
just might help you
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get rid of those medications.
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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 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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Hi, I'm Nick Evenson...
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Thank you for joining
us for today's program.
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Why are we do
dependent on medications?
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And, is it
possible to get off of them?
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Dr. Marcum, thank
you for joining us.
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What do you think about this?
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Well, you know Nick,
I've thought a lot about this.
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In fact, a couple of
years ago, I wrote a book,
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"Medicines That Kill"
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Because in my research,
I realized that medications
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were the leading cause
of death in America. Really?
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And if you think
about the problem,
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if you look at the evidence...
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You know, every year more
heart attacks, more cancer,
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more stroke, more diabetes,
more sleeping problems,
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more chronic pain. Right
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Where does it end? Yeah
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And if you look at 4 billion
prescription medications,
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you can say, "Wow, are we
really fixing the problem?"
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And a lot of people
would like to come off their
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medications if we gave them
some other alternatives. Right
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But as a medical
profession, we treat symptoms
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and not causes - and this
is just not sustainable. Right
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So we have to find out
the cause of the problem,
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and treat the causes and try
to use as many natural remedies
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or getting back to God's
way to treat these things,
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so we don't have
to use medications
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that sometimes
cause more problems.
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If you think about,
Nick, if you have a problem,
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and you can change the
entire chemistry of the body,
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that makes a lot more
sense to me to change one
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chemical
pathway that can mess up
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a lot of other
chemical pathways. Sure
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The body is just
very, very complicated,
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and with medications,
there's not a medication
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that exists that
doesn't have risk. Right
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Now I'm a cardiologist
and I do use medications,
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but I always
talk to my patients...
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"Here is the risk,
here are the benefits,"
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and we monitor very
closely for side effects.
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And even if you're
perfect with your medications,
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there are certain
medications that can cause
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anaphylactic reactions - we
see that a lot with antibiotics.
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Certain medicines
interact with other medications.
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We know about pain medications,
how they become very addictive.
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Blood pressure medicines
can make your blood pressure
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go too low. Right
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Diabetic medicines can make
your blood sugar go too low.
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All of those can
have bad combinations.
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If you take too much
of anxiety medicines,
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that can cause bad
things to happen. Yeah
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So medications
are not without risk.
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So I think it's very worthwhile
that we talk about this,
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and answer questions about
specific instances where people
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might be able
to help themselves.
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Now the doctors aren't
really trained to do this, Nick.
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You know, we went
into medical school. Right
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What do they teach us about?
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Medications!
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They don't necessarily teach us
in how to treat in other ways.
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And doctors are very
good at treating symptoms;
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they're very good at
getting people over the humps.
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But I think we have more
work to do in understanding
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what causes disease,
talking and convincing people
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that there are
other alternatives...
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You know, loving
people, not judging them,
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and moving them one step
at a time towards health.
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We clearly need to move
in some other directions
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because what we're
doing, like you said,
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it's just not working.
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No, in the
United States right now,
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17% of the gross
national product now
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is spent on healthcare. Right
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You know, wouldn't it be better
to spend it on something else?
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You know, anything else...
And, I think that this is
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the discussion, but it's not
going to come from the system.
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It's going to come
from one person at a time,
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making changes -
learning to get back to the way
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they were designed,
learning to stay away
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from these chronic stressors
which turns on our diseases,
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which causes to need
these chronic medications...
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And I think this is something
that we need to talk about,
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and I want to give people today
a little bit of a strategy,
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at least a way to approach the
doctor, a way to think about it,
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if there is a medication
that you can possibly be off of.
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Now I'm not saying you
can, but I have lots of patients
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that - for instance, they start
exercising and eating right,
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then they don't
need their medicine
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for high blood pressure. Sure
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You know, they lose a
lot of weight, get rid of
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refined sugars, eat healthy...
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They don't need
their diabetic medicines.
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Get rid of the stimulants,
turn the TV off at night,
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they start sleeping
better, they don't need
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their sleeping pill. Right
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Maybe not have so
much caffeine and protein,
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and eating big at night - they
don't need their antacid pills.
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Maybe do some
exercising, eat some greens,
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maybe they don't need
their calcium pills. Right
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But there's no real
incentive to do that
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because if we did that,
the pharmaceutical industry
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would take a hit. Yeah, right
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So a lot of what we do in the
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medicine society is financial
and politics-driven, Nick,
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and I just don't like
that, but someone has got to
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step out and at Heartwise,
we try to get people to
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think about a balanced approach,
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you know - the
place for modern medicine,
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and there is a place - the
place for lifestyle changes.
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But what we do different than
other ministries, I think, is
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from a medical standpoint is...
we try to first focus on that
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relationship with the
Heavenly Father. Right
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Because that takes us
to the place we need to go,
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and even if we're on the
line of health and we just go to
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A to B, to B to C, C
to D and we go real slow,
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we know that our Heavenly
Father is going to make up for
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us and heal in His time. Yeah
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Now we're hoping He
will heal right away.
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You know these simple lifestyle
changes are often overlooked
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because people just
want to write a prescription
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and take a pill, but
they are really powerful
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when implemented
and we don't always have
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the willpower to
do it on our own.
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Right, we don't
and that's why we need
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help from others, encouraging,
and I found out that if
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people will just
take one-step-at-a-time,
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and then they say,
"Yeah, I do feel better."
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"You know, I'm drinking my
water, I'm getting my rest,
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I'm eating my greens,
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I'm not eating
as much fatty foods,
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I do feel better,
yes it can be done.
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God is working in
my life." That's right
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And that's what I like
about, getting at the cause
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of problems - we can affect
a whole generation of people.
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And when people start
doing this, they actually feel
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the power of God
transforming them.
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And, it's so easy to
get sort of sucked into the
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modern world that we live in,
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the technology and
what everyone says...
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You know, I have patients that
come to me... "Well I read this
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this on the
internet, it must be true;
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I saw this on the TV,
so give me this medicine."
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Well, have you ever looked
at the TV ads, Nick? Yeah, sure
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Well, we can have
this and this and this,
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but it can do this, this,
this, this, this, and this...
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all of them are bad. Yeah
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One benefit - at a lot of risks!
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Let me tell a story real quick
before I know we're going to
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talk about our
first aid kit in a minute,
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but I had a
patient not too long ago
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that came and he was impotent.
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He was 35 years old -
impotent, and he says,
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"Can I have this
medication for impotence?"
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I go - "Do we
really want to have that?"
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"And I know I could
give you that medicine,
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and I could write a prescription
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for you for the rest of
your life or we could try
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to get at the cause."
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So I said, "Well
some of the causes
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of this impotence
is maybe the food."
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We know that fat paralyzes
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arteries so they
can't get bigger. Right
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We know that stress increases
the chance of becoming impotent.
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I said, "For 10 days,
10 days, I want you to pray
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that God will help you
to eat a perfect diet,"
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so we talked
about a perfect diet.
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Get rid of all the
fatty, all the fast foods.
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He did that for 10 days
and he came back in 10 days
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and he could raise a flagpole.
He was a happy camper. Sure.
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No, but it just proves we
can do anything from 10 days
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when we let the Lord
work with us on these things,
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we can see all
sorts great things happen.
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That's why I think health
starts in that relationship
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that we have with our Creator.
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Because when we're doing things
because God is working with us,
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and we love Him, we do
it for the right reasons.
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We don't do it for
selfish reasons. Yeah
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And, we let Him move
us one-step-at-a-time
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and that's when we see the power
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that God has in
healing in our lives.
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Doctors treat
symptoms. God heals!
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And that's so neat, Nick,
and I like to talk about it.
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Now our first aid kit.
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That's right - we definitely
know that there is a place
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for medications and one
of the places is when we have
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emergencies - so we carry some
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medications in
our first aid kit.
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What are we going
to talk about today?
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Well we've been working on
our first aid kit in this series
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of programs because we
want everyone to have a
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first aid kit
that's well-stocked. Right
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If they have an emergency,
let's get them over the hump.
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Well one of the
things I think is very useful
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for a first aid kit is
medications to stop diarrhea.
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Let's say you're somewhere
and get some bad water.
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Let's say you're on a
mission trip in Africa,
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and got some bad water. Yeah
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Let's say you
go to a restaurant,
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and get some bad
things that cause diarrhea.
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When you have diarrhea,
you can lose your electrolytes
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and fluid very
quickly. That's right
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You lose your fluid, you
could lose your blood pressure,
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you'll lose your
potassium and magnesium,
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your heart could
do funny rhythms,
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sometimes dangerous rhythms.
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That's not a good thing
to lose a lot of your volume.
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And if you think, "Well what
do we need for good health?"
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Well, we need
fluids, we need to breathe,
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we need to rest...
those are the basics.
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And I found out in health,
we don't do the basics well.
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So in first aid, if
you're losing a lot of fluid
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from these and you need
to slow it down for a while,
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this is a medicine
called, "Imodium" that helps.
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This is over-the-counter and
it helps slow down the bowels
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so you don't move
as much of your volume.
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You know, don't lose
as many electrolytes...
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this is very helpful.
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Another thing that's very
helpful for a first aid kit
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that you might want
to is this device here...
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This is basically a pill
that sterilizers bad water. Okay
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Okay, so you can go
anywhere, if you wanted to drink
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out of the mud puddle
and put this chemical in,
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this would help make
that drinkable. Right
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Water is so essential to
our bodies and a lot of people
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don't realize, right now,
that up to 70% of Americans are
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dehydrated to some degree. Yeah
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Dehydration is not a good thing!
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When you're
chronically dehydrated,
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it turns on the
stress chemistry,
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raises the chance of a
lot of bad health things.
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So just by drinking your water,
so if you were out somewhere
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and couldn't get to water
for a long period of time,
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then this would help at least
the water that you could get to
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whether that be in a
mud puddle or in a swamp,
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you could sterilize
that water and drink that.
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And you would probably want
to make sure that there's not
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big particles in the
water... Yes, oh yeah!
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Maybe strain it first before
using this medicine. Absolutely!
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If you have the
ability to strain it,
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you might want to
do that, but remember,
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these products are just first
aid in an emergency situation.
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It hopefully will just
get you by until you can
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find some help.
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Stay with us,
we're going to be right
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back after the
break where Dr. Marcum
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answers your
questions on medications.
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