Welcome back you are watching
the "Ultimate Prescription".
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I am Nick Evanson
here with Dr. Marcum
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and today we are answering
some of the most frequently
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asked questions that we
receive on our website at:
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heartwisemininsties.org.
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Dr. Marcum we've started
through our list of questions
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but we got plenty
more, so I am going to
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jump right into it here.
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Yeah and all of these have
to do with pain...That's right!
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We've tried to...Talk
about pain in the series.
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We didn't catch them with some
of the other programs that were
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catching up here. That's right!
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So the first question coming
back is "What are some natural
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treatments for pain?"
Ok. And I only get one...
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Ok. Because I have
been listening and learning
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something here.
What's that "Water"
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That's good...When you drink
water because our body always
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needs water and it
helps reduce inflammation.
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So the first thing is you want
to find out natural treatments.
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It's natural to find out what's
causing the pain and remove it.
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Okay. So if you are banging
your head or out in the sun
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you know, get rid of
the trauma if you can.
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Now I am talking about pain
that you can't find out what
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it is. Here's a gigantic
list of things that can help.
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Now this is for chronic pain,
maybe you can't find out...
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You can't get at the underlying
cause, maybe Neuropathy type
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pains, things of that nature.
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Increase your circulation,
okay, get better blood flow
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to the area to improve
the nerve and the whole organ
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function. How do we
increase circulation?
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The best way is we can
increase it by exercise,
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that's a great way.
Eating the right foods.
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We know that greens and beans
have things...They have nitrates
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that convert to nitric oxide
which makes the blood vessels
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bigger. Try to avoid fats.
Fats are in everything now,
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if you can move towards
your whole food plant based diet
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that will improve your
circulation along with exercise.
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Including natural
fats like avacados...
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Yeah, that would be as long as
you don't eat to much of those.
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So that would be ok as
long as I don't eat too much?
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Right! We don't want
it to go about 15% of
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your total calories. Ok.
So that's good, that's what
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we can do to help the
circulation to the organs
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as well as the nerves.
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Another thing, you mentioned
water, hydration, inflammation.
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Light can help,
vitamin D might be involved.
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In fact any type of
stress that we can turn down
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will help our bodies. So
if you are under work stress,
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mental stress, stress
from not resting well,
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getting more rest will help.
Music helps make endorphins,
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pets help endorphins and
oxytocin, which are natural
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pain killers.
What's the best medicine?
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That's a big quiz. Laughter.
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Yes! Laughter is the best
medicine, it helps chronic pain
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by making endorphins.
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We talked about specific
things that our nutrition that
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turns down inflammation.
Probiotics might help,
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cause it helps the bowel
not have all...make all these
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inflammatory
chemicals in the body. Right.
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A natural substance like
ginger turns down inflammation.
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Flax, the Omega 3 substance
turns down inflammation.
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There has been some
studies with root Turmeric,
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okay, that can
help with inflammation.
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We know Aloe Vera, we
talked about that, Willow Bark,
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we talked about the hydration
and then finally Worship.
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Worship also turns
down chronic stress.
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Chronic stress helps our
brain tolerate pain better.
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These are all different natural
things, there's many many more,
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but those are a list of a
lot of things that change our
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chemistry and if we
start moving... If we have pain
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and start adding
these one step at a time,
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then it's not
going to get worse, okay.
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And if we move this... On
that list, where would I start,
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I would start with "Worship".
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I am going to talk about
worship a little bit more here
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because that's an interesting
concept that maybe some people
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haven't considered before
and people worship in a lot of
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different ways and the
way I worship may not be
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stress reducing to somebody.
Right! So explain that for us
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a little bit. How
does worship reduce stress?
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Matthew 28:11 Come unto
me and I will give you rest.
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Okay! Come to me, worship
Me and God's going to give you
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this rest. The
opposite of stress is rest,
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so God gives us this rest.
Um, you know we see people that
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do better that have one
day a week of rest, that rest
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at night, it helps
our Circadium Rythyms,
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and when we worship God,
that might be many way...
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Adam and Eve worshiped
just by being with God,
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being out in the
garden, serving the animals,
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that's the way they worshiped.
I don't know how Noah worshiped
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you know, he was working
on the boat during the day
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I'm sure on the weekend
he talked to people and tried
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to serve them,
that's how he worshiped.
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Remember they didn't have
a Bible at that time. Right!
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Now days of course, we can
worship through Bible Study
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and prayer. Some
people worship out in nature
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seeing God's beautiful creation,
He speaks to them there.
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Some people worship through
service, some people worship
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of course through thanking God,
and praising Him for all the
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good things He has done. Some
people worship by taking care
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of His creation, including our
body, you know, that could be
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considered a type of worship.
So there's many types of
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worship, so when we
come unto Him, we worship Him
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and He's promised
to give us "rest".
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He changes our chemistry,
now we have proof that people
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that do worship turn on
the part of the brain that
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turns down stress. We
upshift our brain to the higher
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functions, we
turn off inflammation,
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we turn off adrenalin, down
Cortisol, some of the things
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that damage us chronically
it turns down also...
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We've had some studies that
rest and relaxation actually
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changes our very DNA, we call
this changes our epigenetics.
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So if I had chronic pain, I
think the place I would start...
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what I would find out.
How do I connect with God
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the best, worship there,
and develop that worship.
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One of the best places to
start is just opening the Bible,
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reading the Bible,
praying, coming unto Him,
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seeing how God did
things. You know, meet with Him
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and finding
Biblical prescriptions and
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applying them to your life to
improve your health. Yea, yea.
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Now that's some great advice.
Now let's move on to another
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question, um, "Medications,"
that's something that you've
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actually written a book
called "Medicines That Kill".
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Yea, it's back there, the
"Medicines That Kill" book.
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It sounds kind
of scary right? Yea!
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Well, it's not that medicine
should... It's a good title.
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Yea. It's a place.
Modern medicine has it's place
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and it's mainly used to
get people over the hump
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till they can get at the cause
as long as the risks are worth
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the benefits. In that book I
talk about a lot of the risks
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and how to use medicines
successfully, and then for
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chronic pain. You know
there's some people that have
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chronic pain either to
it's severe malignancy,
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severe neuropathies, severe
accidents, and the pain...
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the risk of the pain is just
enormous and treating that pain
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is definitely worth the risk of
the strong medications that are
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out there. Some of the
medications that are out there
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are the stronger ones or
they are "Narcotics" and we see
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"Vitanil" and
"Percocet," and "Oxycodone,"
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and some of those. There is
a place for that, unfortunately
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people have not paid
attention to that Nick and they
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started using it
because it does make you sort of
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feel better and euphoric
so people are using it for
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off label treatments. Um
hum. You know, they might
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just have life that is not to
good and they are under stress
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and they want to
escape it all, so guess what,
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they reach for this
type of stress. Right! Ok!
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The people are heavy
laden, okay and stressed,
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and instead of worshipping,
they pick up a pill.
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Right! That's not the
way to deal with stress.
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As a result they
do not have healing...
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they do not have true rest.
They might feel better in the
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short term, but in
the long term they don't.
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Many people are
addicted to pain medicines now,
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but for chronic pain,
for people that are truly in
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deep pain, the
benefits are definitely there.
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So you would advise
people to be very cautious when
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it comes to using
strong pain medications.
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Yeah, a long term...
to avoid it at addictions,
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and also there are a lot
of side effects we avoid.
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But the side effects, it's
addiction, it can change the way
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you think, it slows
down your respirations,
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it can slow down your
bowels. I would try to find out
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the cause first and then treat
the cause if you can for pain,
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and then work on natural things
to treat pain, and then I would
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save narcotis for the very very
last treatment for severe pain.
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Yeah. So aside from the
narcotics, what are some of
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the other treatments
that are common with pain.
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I think we've talked a little
bit about physical therapy,
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what are some other
thing else? We talked about
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physical therapy, we
talked about all the big chronic
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list that we went through,
but there is a class of medicine
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called Non Steroidal
Anti- Inflammatories... Umm...
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Motrin, they work by lowering
inflammation in the body.
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Okay, they can block
prostaglandin and things
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that cause inflammation.
Acetaminophen is another
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pain killer that's out there.
Sometimes pain is treated by
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muscle relaxants, that
relaxes the muscle that might be
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putting pressure on the nerves.
Sometimes it's the brain is not
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handling pain very
well. People are giving people
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anti-anxiety medicines
to help with chronic pain.
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One that is
commonly given is called a
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Tricyclic Anti-Depressant.
One that has been around
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for years is one
called amitriptyline,
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that people sometimes
give for chronic pain.
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If it's due to inflammation,
sometimes people give steroids
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for a short time. There's
creams that can be put on
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the body that have special
chemicals that also might
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with pain as well. Sometimes
some people...I've seen think
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that pepper, you know is
an active ingredient in pepper
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it's one thing
that can help with pain.
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Charcoal, we talked about
some of those things. Right.
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There's many different
way to deal with chronic pain
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and we've mentioned some
of those, and you just got to
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get with your provider,
but I want to encourage people
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first, let's see if we can
find out the cause of pain,
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and if you don't remove the
cause of pain, you are sort of
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chasing your tail.
Right. The pain never goes away.
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I think I gave this
analogy in a previous program,
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if you ar banging
your head on the wall,
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the treatment is not
going to be Turmeric,
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it's not going to
be a non- steroidal,
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it's not going to
be physical therapy.
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You got to stop banging
your head against the wall.
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Stop banging your head
against the wall, and sometimes
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believe it or not, people
do those things and it creates
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chronic problems for them.
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Now you mentioned anti-
inflammatories... Yep...
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and we discussed that
every treatment has a benefit
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and there is also a
risk. What are the risks
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when it comes to
anti- inflammatories?
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Well anti-inflammatories, they
can increase the risk of having
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ulcers in the stomach, they
increse the risk of bleeding.
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In fact there are some
anti-inflammatories around
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for awhile that were
actually pulled off the market
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because they increased the
risk of heart attack actually.
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So every medicine... everything
we do to our body, every input,
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either has a benefit or a
risk, and we have to assess
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whether that
risk is worth taking.
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I would imagine that
maybe when you get the stronger
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medications like narcotics,
are there even stronger risks
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that are associated? We talked
about addictions and what not,
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what are some of the other
side effects that can come?
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Well, I think that the
largest one is they take so much
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that eventually
they quit breathing,
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they don't think well,
their bowels can shut down,
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their blood pressure can
go low, because it affects the
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entire body, you know,
because when you are taking
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pain medications, it affects
the way the nervous system
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works, it doesn't work
quite as well, so it does affect
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everything, and when you take
the stronger medicines of course
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have stronger side effects.
Yeah. So my advice to people
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that do take narcotics is
try to find other medications
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so they don't
have to take as much,
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try to find natural remedies
that you can do so you don't
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have to take as much. Have
more water, more relaxation,
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of course more worship, those
things so you don't have to
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take as much. You get by
on just as little as you need
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to take the severe pain away.
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We've got time for
just one more question.
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Is it possible for
someone to be injured
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but not feel pain, and
what would cause that? Yes!
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It is possible to be
injured and have no pain
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and a couple of thing that
I have seen can cause that is
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that the damage to the injured
part... we see that in diabetic
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neuropathies, the feet
get damaged, infections,
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their nerves can't sense
it, and they have damage there.
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In some cases I've seen people
that are trying to save...
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or I haven't seen it myself
but you hear about stories...
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someone is trying
to save someone's life,
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that because they are
doing that, they are so focused
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on doing this that the
brain somhow turns off the pain,
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and you are able
to do amazing things.
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So it is possible to do
that in certain situations.
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Right! Well Dr.
Marcum, thank you for sharing
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the wealth of information there,
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and if you are watching at
home, we want to pray that you
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will feel no pain and
that God will restore healing
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in your life and
thank you for joining us,
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and we are going to
be back in just a second
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as Dr. Marcum prays with us.
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For those
suffering from chronic pain,
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I want you to realize
that Christ and worship
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is a potential, and the
solution to this problem
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at least in the long term,
so don't forget your worship
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or relationship with
God. Let's all pray together.
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Heavenly Father, I want to pray
especially for those who might
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be suffering and
in pain, come to them,
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enhance their
worship, give them the rest,
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and let them know that
you are going to heal them and
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just where, when, and
how. Comfort them and help them
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find relief from
this pain is our prayer.
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Amen!
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If you might
have more questions,
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we talked about some complex
topics. I want you to go to
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our website and that's
heartwiseministries.org
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where we have a prayer
page, and we want to wish you
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the best of health.
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