Welcome back - on today's
program we are discussing
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the gastrointestinal
system, and, Dr. Marcum,
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I think there's kind of
an overarching principle
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that you might apply to
this discussion, is that right?
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Yeah, and hopefully a
couple of points that I want to
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point out before
we answer questions.
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I think the questions are
really going to help us know
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and learn a lot about the
GI system and things we can do
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to improve it, but a
couple of principles that are:
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1. Don't put bad things in it.
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2. Let it get
enough rest, the system,
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let it get enough rest,
don't use it all the time.
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3. Give it the basic
things it needs to work well.
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And the basic things that
the GI system needs to work well
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are water and fiber. Okay
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Water and fiber - very
important for the GI system.
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Water, fiber, rest -
don't put bad things in,
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that is a great place to start.
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Now, why is the water and fiber
so helpful for the GI system?
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Water helps things move
through the system well.
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It keeps it lubricated.
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Every cell in
the body needs water.
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So the GI system to do
its job well, needs water.
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Okay...What about the fiber?
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The fiber helps motility,
it helps things move through
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so things don't stay in
it for long periods of time.
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You keep the GI system moving.
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When things are static,
when things in the GI system
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don't move, you have a
greater chance to absorb
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toxins and
byproducts of this ecosystem
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that we are going
to talk about. Right
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And really, the bowel has
its own ecosystem within it.
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It's almost like a
world within a world,
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and that's very important.
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We're going to learn
a little bit about that
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when we answer a
question about probiotics.
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All right, well let's
get right to the questions...
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Our first viewer asks:
"What is Barrett's esophagus?"
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Barrett's esophagus specifically
has to do with this middle
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part called the "esophagus,"
and the esophagus really
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just transports food from the
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mouth that we
start the digestion in,
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and moves it all
the way to the stomach.
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There's a valve at the
lower part of the esophagus
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that keeps the acid
in the stomach. Okay
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But when the
stomach is overburdened,
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makes too much acid - what
would make it too much acid?
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Eating too much,
too much protein.
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There are certain
metabolic conditions that cause
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lots of acid to be done.
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Bacteria can cause
acid, but if the body makes
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too much acid, you eat
late at night and you lay down,
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some people carry extra weight
or have hiatal hernias, then the
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acid can slip up this bowel
and get into the esophagus.
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Hydrochloric acid in
tissue that's not made
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to see
hydrochloric acid is not good.
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It damages the cell life. Right
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So when the hydrochloric
acid seeps up into the
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esophagus, a lot of people
have what we call "heartburn."
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We call that "reflux"
because the acid refluxes up.
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They call it
"gastroesophageal reflux,"
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acid refluxes up into that.
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If it happens long enough,
the acid actually damages
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the cells in the
esophagus and make them more
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prone to develop cancer.
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That type of esophagus we
call "Barrett's esophagus."
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So if lots of acid
bubbles up long enough,
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it can damage the cells
and it also can convert those
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normal cells into cancer cells.
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Cancer of the esophagus is a
very hard thing to deal with.
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Now the things that
happen with the esophagus, Nick,
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the main things that
happen is the reflux,
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and sometimes the reflux can
cause esophagus to get narrowed.
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We call that a
"stricture," and a person might
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not be able to swallow.
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Sometimes the
esophagus can spasm.
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You known when they have
spasm - you eat something
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and it won't go
through, that can be a spasm,
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and then, of course, we
talked about the cancer...
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those are some of the 3
more common things that happen
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to the esophagus.
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So Barrett's esophagus
is when acid refluxes up
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and it damages the
cells inside the esophagus.
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So that's something we
really want to try and avoid.
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Yes, we do not, and
people who have that,
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they have to have regular
looks and specimens drawn
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to make sure the cells
are not changing into cancer.
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And they want to
limit that acid reflux,
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so some of them have
to take special antacids.
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And then they want
to do lifestyle measures
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that lower their
risk of acid going up
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which would
include losing weight,
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eating a whole
food plant-based diet,
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stay away from a lot
of protein-like foods,
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make sure they
don't have infections.
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If they have hernias,
deal with those as well.
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I didn't realize
that acid reflux could be
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a really serious
condition like that.
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It can, it can, but one
of the more serious things
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is it can cause the
esophagus to get sticky inside,
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and when it gets
sticky, it sort of squeezes off
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so the food can't
get through. Right
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So we have some people that
the acid damages the esophagus
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so much, Nick, that they
can't get the food through.
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If you can't get
the food through,
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you don't get
any nutrition... Yeah
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So that is a very...
Now is it possible to
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transplant the
esophagus? Yes. Really?
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We've had some
esophageal transplants,
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but it's very hard to do.
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It's not our
first line of treatment.
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Right, not the
preferred way to go.
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So that's just part of the tube,
that's just some of the things
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that can happen to
the esophagus. Okay
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We've got another question
and sometimes these questions
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dealing with the GI can
be somewhat embarrassing,
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but she says: "I'm a
female with fecal incontinence,
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and it is embarrassing, what
are my options for treatment?"
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Well I think we need to
talk to people about what
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fecal incontinence is.
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Now remember, we've
talked about the tube,
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and it has like little
devices that keep things from
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going the wrong direction,
keep things moving in.
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The one at the
mouth and the esophagus
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is called the "epiglottis."
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We have one between the
stomach and the esophagus,
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the lower esophageal sphincter,
we got some sphincters there.
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Then as it moves through
the stomach where digestion
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and all the digestion
occurs through the small
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and large intestines, eventually
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the waste have to leave.
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And of course, we
have a sphincter down there
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that keeps it in as well.
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Sometimes that
sphincter wears out,
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and when it
wears out, guess what?
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The poop just comes out. Yeah
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And that can be
very embarrassing.
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It's a major
problem and it happens
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to a fair number of people.
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We don't hear
about it much because
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people are so embarrassed.
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And a lot of people, it happens
when people tend to get older,
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and sometimes they
have to wear diapers.
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And we hear of
stool incontinence.
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We call that
"fecal incontinence,"
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but it also comes
with the urine as well.
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So some people
just wear the diapers,
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and we never hear about it.
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Because the tube doesn't have
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ability to keep
what's in it, in it.
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So there are a couple of
things that people can do
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to help that situation.
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One, is a stool softener
to make sure the stool is not
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coming out really hard
- that can help protect
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that sphincter down there.
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Another thing is lots
of fiber, lots of water,
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we talked about that.
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There is an exercise called
"Kegel" exercises that work.
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They can go to the
internet and learn how to do
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those special exercises
- that helps the muscles.
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So it makes the muscles so
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that sphincter
works a little bit better.
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But one of the things I
learned not too long ago,
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from Heartwise
Ministries, one of our advisors,
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that happens to be
a colorectal surgeon.
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He says that there are
some very simple surgeries
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that they can do now on
that sphincter to tighten it up
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so people don't have
to have incontinence. Okay
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So a lot of people don't realize
it, but there are surgeons
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that specialize in this
and this is a great place
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for modern medicine.
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So a surgeon can do a
simple and some of them
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even robotic surgeries that
they do that they tighten up
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that sphincter so you don't have
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the problem with
fecal incontinence.
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So that's on the
lower part of the tube.
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What are some of the parts
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that have the
lower part of the tube?
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Well, we talked
about incontinence,
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of course cancers happen there.
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We also see hemorrhoids...
that's sort of veins
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sort of like varicose veins
down there that pooch through.
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That can be very painful,
can actually cause bleeding.
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When it gets
real dry, we can have
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what we call "fissures,"
and the skin there is
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very different than
other parts of skin,
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and it can have
fissures where you have bleeding
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that goes on in that
part of the tube. Okay
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So that's why the
things we talked about,
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and, you know, the same
help that part of the tube
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that helped the
other part of the tube.
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We want to avoid
toxins, lots of water,
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lots of fiber, but sometimes
the tube does get older,
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and this is one instance
where modern medicine is very
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helpful and find a
good surgeon that can
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fix that lower sphincter.
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And even though these
things are maybe embarrassing,
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you know, it's really
worth talking to your doctor
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and see what can
be done. Yeah it is...
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Our next question
comes from a viewer who asks:
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"What are "probiotics,
and how can they be useful?"
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Yeah, and that's what we
have to spend a lot of time on.
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We are just now learning, in
science, that the bowel is a big
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tube that has
trillions of bacteria.
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It is its own
ecosystem of itself.
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And these trillion
bacteria have to live in a very
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special environment.
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If you get one that
has overgrown the other,
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it makes chemicals,
it makes inflammation,
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it makes byproducts, it
does all sorts of bad things.
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A lot of people eat bad foods
and they mess up this ecosystem,
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and when the ecosystem is
up, it destroys everything.
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In fact, I've got some
examples of some people
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that have eaten foods
that damaged the ecosystem.
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Here, I have a
52-year-old woman,
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she had daily headaches,
everyday lots of migraines
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for years because the ecosystem,
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she damaged her flora
and it was making chemicals
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that caused
these migraines. Right
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So she found relief just
by getting her bowel flora
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back to normal and it
stopped the inflammatory
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mediators that were
causing her headaches. Wow
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And you know, you
have all sorts of different
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damages that
can occur from this.
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Another person, this happened
to be a 6-year-old girl,
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and she had behavioral problems.
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And, she was violent,
disruptive, depressive,
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all sorts of this and
her problem was happening
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because she had
bacteria overgrowth.
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She was eating the
wrong types of food.
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And what happened in this little
girl is the case study showed
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that when she was eating
lots of animal products...
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Okay, animal products
changes our ecosystem because
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a lot of antibiotics
are in animal products,
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and that kills off the bacteria.
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Some of the good
bacteria are killed,
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some of the bad take over,
some of the yeast take over.
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They start making all
sorts of bad mediators,
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it changes our
genetics and this was actually
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damaging this girl's chemicals
that affected her brain,
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and she was having
behavioral problems
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just because of the gut. Wow
Isn't that pretty interesting?
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Yeah, I wouldn't think
that behavioral problems
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or headaches are
things that could be related
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to what's happening
in your stomach. Right
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And that's why we
wanted to talk about this.
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Another case history
of a 3- year-old boy with
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autistic-like symptoms.
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They started treating a
parasite because his gut
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flora was abnormal.
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It was abnormal, he couldn't
get rid of the parasite.
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The parasite triggered the
change in this whole ecosystem.
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Remember, this
ecosystem has genetics in it.
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There are 100 more genes
in the bacteria in your bowel
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than throughout your body,
a hundred times more genes.
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So if you have all those
genetic material when they are
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turning on all sorts
of different proteins
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and different chemical
reactions that get absorbed
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into the body... the
toxins, the byproducts,
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and it goes places.
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It goes to the
heart, it goes to the brain,
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it causes all sorts
of bad things to happen.
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So a lot of good health
starts in the gut. Right
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Not only the
good things we get in,
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but the bad things that
we put in that are absorbed
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because of bacteria
which is normally protecting us
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from those evil empire,
the bacteria is messed up,
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the bad bacteria starts
saying, "Well, I have DNA too,
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I'm going to make whatever
I want and it goes somewhere."
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It gets in our blood system,
it messes up the balances
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in our brain, in our
endothelium and then the good
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bacteria are overrun.
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And we've seen that in all
the antibiotics we're using
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nowadays in animals.
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So people that eat lots
of animal-based nutrition,
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that's bad for the ecosystem.
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People that don't have fiber,
that's bad for the system.
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So in short, we mess up
this fine balance that we have
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in our system and that system
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literally
destroys us if we let it.
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So it goes from
anything from depression
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to heart
attacks, lots of things.
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The brain and the bowel
are intimately connected
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because these trillion
bacteria and the genetics
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that goes with it, makes
chemicals that throw things
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off balance.
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So once things
are out of balance,
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how can that be reversed?
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That's right and
that's one of the things,
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you gotta get
your bowel happy again,
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and we talked about
the basic principles...
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Drink lots of
water, lots of fiber,
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and you've heard about these
things that detox the system
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like greens - greens
are great for detoxing!
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It has all sorts of fiber in
it, chemicals like chlorophyll
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which helps set
up the good bacteria.
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And nowadays, people
that do eat bad foods,
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and don't eat a good
diet, I recommend that they take
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a probiotic. Okay
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Probiotics are lots of
good bacteria that we introduce
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back into the system. Okay
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In fact, this has
gotten so much press recently
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that sometimes people
that take too many antibiotics
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they get overgrowth
of bad bacteria that
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really cause lots of problems.
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One of them is
called, "Clostridium."
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It's even possible now...
a lot of people need to take
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probiotics - and even stress
can mess up the bowel flora,
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but we found out that sometimes
the bowel flora is so messed up,
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you even have to have
a transplant of bacteria,
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a good bacteria back
into the bowels. Okay
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And we actually do what
we call, "stool transplants
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or poop transplants" now.
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And what that does is when
someone has messed up their
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bacteria so much that
it's damaging the body
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these inflammatory things,
all sorts of those byproducts
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are making them, you know,
all that is just messed up...
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It's so bad that we can
take the poop from a good person
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that has healthy bowel...
we can isolate those bacteria,
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put it in a pill and
they can swallow that pill
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and they can restore that.
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That's sort of the
same principle we have with
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probiotics, and when you
go to the store there are
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many probiotics out
there, many out there.
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But what we want to do
is try to find ones with
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lots of colony-forming
units... that means there's
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lots in there, and also usually
it has a Lactobacillus species.
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But the one that a lot of
the GI doctors recommend is
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one called "Align,"
but many are very helpful.
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And unfortunately, in this
world where we don't eat right,
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and bring in other
toxins in the bowels,
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it messes up our bowel flora...
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The bowel affects the way we
think, the way our heart works,
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our entire ecosystem in our
body is affected by our bowels,
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and a lot of
people don't realize this,
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but a lot of important chemical
reactions start in the bowel.
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The bowel is in charge
of letting the good in;
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it also can keep the bad
out, if it's working well.
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If it's not working
well, the bad gets in
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and also their own system
can make bad that damages us.
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So that's a pretty
whole lot to handle here. Yeah
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Just remember, we
want our bowel to be happy,
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and to do that - fruits,
vegetables, nuts and grains.
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Avoid meat, eggs, cheese,
anything with a face on it,
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anything with a mother -
try to avoid those things.
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Avoid a lot of processed foods.
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Try to eat more fresh and real.
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Drink lots of water and
don't wear your system out.
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It needs to rest at night.
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It can't be working all
the time, give it a chance
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to rest and keep
things going good.
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So someone says, "Well
how do I know if my ecosystem
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is good in the bowel?" Right
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Well if you are going regularly
and have well-formed stools,
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not getting stick -
that's a good chance that your
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ecosystem is
doing very, very well.
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But if you have stools
that aren't well-formed,
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if you're having
cramps or other problems,
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one of the first places
to consider is the bowels.
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A lot of people with depression
and behavioral problems
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have that because
their bowels aren't happy,
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and it's making chemicals
that affect their brain.
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That's amazing... you know
I hadn't made the connection
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that the gut has that
big of an influence on us.
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Yeah, it does and
we're just now understanding
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the complexities of it,
you know, and we never can
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understand everything, but
we're just learning things,
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but it goes back that God's
plan is always the best plan.
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There are just some
simple things that we can do
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to keep learning...
Now we'll probably have to
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do another program
on this because there's
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so much more to talk about.
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But the main thing is that
we live in harmony with our
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Creator's design for us.
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Right, that's
what we need to do.
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We're going to be
back in just a moment as
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Dr. Marcum closes
the program with prayer.
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I know a lot of you out
there have been listening
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to the program and
said, "Wow, this is something
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I don't want to think about."
00:16:25.88\00:16:27.65
But you know, this is something
that we need to know about,
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and we need to know
that the food we eat,
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and the way our bowel functions,
it does affect our entire body.
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Before we go on, let's pray
that we all might learn more
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and do better in
taking care of our bodies.
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Father in Heaven, We
want to thank You for
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being our God that loves
us, that teaches us new things
00:16:43.77\00:16:47.30
and helps us to get
better one step at a time.
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We pray and thank You for Your
love that You give us each day,
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and thank You for
making us so wonderful, Father.
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Thank You for helping us
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learn more this day
is our prayer... Amen
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Wow, you know, when we
talk about the big tube,
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there's so much more
we didn't cover today.
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I want to encourage you to learn
more, go to our website that is:
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heartwiseministries.org
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where you could
ask me a question...
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And of course, we have a
prayer page there where we are
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praying for each one
of you that writes in.
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Thank you for joining us today
on "The Ultimate Prescription"
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