Welcome back to the
Ultimate Prescription.
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I'm your host, Nick
Evenson, and on today's program
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Dr. Marcum and I are
discussing food as medicine.
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And specifically we're
talking about beans, lentils,
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all kinds of legumes.
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And, Dr. Marcum, these
are some powerful foods.
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And I've got a
fun fact about beans.
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Okay, let's hear it.
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I looked this up earlier, and
it said that back in the 1980's
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an archeologist working in
New Mexico came upon a clay pot
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that had been sealed with
pine tar containing bean seeds
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that were 1500 years old.
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Oh! That's pretty old.
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And after all that they
planted them and they grew,
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they sprouted. Wow!
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So that's pretty
impressive, you know.
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The bean is very resilient.
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Yeah, and they can grow, too.
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Yeah, yeah. Also the world's
largest bean pods can grow
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up to five feet long.
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And I'd be
interested to see one of those.
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So if you're sitting at home,
and your know what I'm talking
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about, it's called the E. gigas
bean pod, and it comes from
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Central America, in the tropics.
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So if you're sitting at
home and you know about this,
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get on our website and contact
us: HeartWiseMinistries. org
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Tell us more about it.
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I'd love to see one.
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Wow! I'd like to see one, too.
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That would be pretty
cool; a huge bean pod.
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Would you eat it?
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Well, maybe. I don't know.
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If some, if the local prepared
it for me, you bet I would.
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Well, if you ate it you might
help get things like magnesium,
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and iron, and
potassium, which would help your
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cardiovascular system.
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It might lower your
estrogen levels in your body,
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which might improve your
risk of getting breast cancer,
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if you are a woman.
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It might help
improve your getting a clot.
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We've talked about all
the colorectal cancers.
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So beans are a
treatment for disease.
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You know, you can
prescribe beans as...
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And I prescribe beans in
my practice all the time.
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Uh huh. Eat more beans.
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Now one quick question.
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You mentioned earlier
about trace elements. Yeah.
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Are these just some of
the minerals that are found
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in small quantities, or
what are trace elements?
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Yes, those are
minerals that our body needs.
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You know, like we
don't need a lot of zinc,
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but we do need it in our body.
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Potassium, different types of
magnesium, those are elements,
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you know, Folate
things like that, those are...
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Iron would be considered,
you know, those are natural
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occurring elements,
but we need it in our body.
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Iron, of course, we
need for our blood. Right.
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You don't have
iron you get anemic.
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The prostate seems to need zinc.
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So potassium and magnesium
are needed for the nerve cells
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in our heart, and different;
every cell in our body
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needs these chemicals.
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So these are trace elements that
we need to get from somewhere.
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And unfortunately, you know,
if we eat animals we get it
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secondhand at best. Right.
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You know, not as good.
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So there's other things I
want to talk about beans that
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help us tremendously.
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Yeah, what are some of
the other conditions that
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might be benefited?
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If you are overweight beans
can be a treatment for obesity.
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Really? So would you rather
have a gastric bypass surgery?
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Would you rather
take a weight loss pill?
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Or would you
rather eat more beans?
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In fact, they studied this in
2012 in England, and the British
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Journal of Nutrition pointed
out that beans help lose weight
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as much as caloric restriction.
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Really? Yeah. Why would that be?
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Well, I mean, I didn't read it
word for word, but I think beans
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help you fill up, so
you're not as hungry,
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so you don't eat as much.
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It helps the
chemistry in many other ways.
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It helps speed up your
metabolism some. Right.
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So there's lots of
things that beans help with.
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So beans can
help you lose weight.
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Studies have also
shown that beans help you
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with your blood pressure;
can lower blood pressure.
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Is that because of
the composition of protein
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carbohydrates in it?
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No, it's lots of reasons.
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One is because of the fiber.
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One... It probably
works on multiple mechanisms.
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It effects potassium,
and the potassium effects
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blood pressure. Okay.
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And sometimes people that
eat beans don't eat things that
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raise the blood pressure.
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We know that things that
are processed, and preserved
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raise blood pressure,
because they usually have
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higher sodium contents. Right.
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And a lot of our potassium
we get in, good potassium we
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get in our vegetables.
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A lot of people don't eat as
many vegetables as we used to.
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Right. We get valuable
substances from the earth.
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You know, that's why
they call them elements,
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because we get
them from the earth.
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These trace elements,
these vegetables pull into them,
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and what's a part of
the vegetable in themself.
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But I want to talk a little bit
about the flora in the bowel.
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You know, within you is
this big tube that runs through
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you that you pull nutrients
out of, and it helps...
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In the bowel you have good
and bad flora, or the bacteria.
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Right. There about, there's
trillions of these in the bowel.
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There's more DNA going on
in the bowel than the rest
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of the body combined.
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And this DNA makes
things, it regulates things.
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So you've heard a lot
about prebiotics, probiotics,
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different things that regulates
this biosphere, or this whole
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zoological society
that lives in our bowel.
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It's scary to think of a
trillion different things
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living in your bowel that
has DNA that are doing things.
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It seems that there's a
lot that could go wrong.
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Yes, a lot could go wrong, but
a lot could go right, too. Sure.
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We know that people that
eat fiber, and beans have fiber,
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greens have fiber.
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People that eat lots of fiber,
when it gets into the bowel
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it makes a
chemical called butyrate.
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And butyrate is the food that
tends to feed our good flora.
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So our good flora gets
increased, so the good flora
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helps keep out bad things.
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The bad flora also
tends to make inflammation,
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and other bad things happen.
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So just eating beans
help your good flora grow.
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When your good flora
grows, less inflammation.
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It regulates things that
go in and out of our body
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to a greater degree.
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Even our brain chemistry
can be improved when our
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good flora improves.
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Depression can
come from the bowel.
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Anxiety can come from the bowel.
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Different chemicals
like dopamine, serotonin.
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So beans have an enormous
ability to help our body
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just from the fiber aspect,
separate from the cancer aspect,
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separate than the
trace element aspects.
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All of these things
beans can help us with.
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There's so many different
ways that beans benefit us.
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I'm going to write a
prescription for beans for
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you today, Nick, and you
can go and eat some tonight.
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Well, I will. I will for sure.
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I hope so. Alright.
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We're going to take a look now
at a short clip from Dr. Marcum
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quoting Bible
Prescriptions for Life.
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And then Dr. Marcum's going
to share with us about that.
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So let's have a look.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum with your
Biblical Prescription for Life.
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A patient with type 2 diabetes
came in the other day and wanted
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to take less medications.
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I referred her to
this Biblical Prescription
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for Life found in Genesis.
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When we walk, both physical
walk and spiritual walk,
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studies have shown it
helps lower our blood sugar.
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When we physically walk it helps
our insulin receptors do better,
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lowers the chance of
developing long term diabetes.
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When we walk with God,
Dr. Andrew Newburg says that
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that lowers some of
the cortisol in our body,
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which lowers blood sugar.
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So if you want to lower
your blood sugar naturally,
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walk in nature,
and walk with God.
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I'm Dr. James
Marcum, and this is your
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Biblical Prescription for Life.
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That's a really
great message, Dr. Marcum.
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And if you'd like to learn
more you can visit the website:
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And there's a
special gift there.
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You can download the free
first chapter of the book,
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and get a feel for it.
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There's so many things
that are important to our health
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besides just nutrition.
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You know, we're
focusing on food in this show.
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But tell us a little bit
about Biblical Prescriptions,
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and why this is needed.
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Well, in this Bible
Study what we've tried to do at
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Heartwise Ministries is
incorporate a lot of material
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into something that's
doable, that people can take
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one step at a time. Right.
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But it talks about things
that we don't think about.
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We spend one whole week talking
about stress; why we're sick.
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And then we go through
the different principles
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in the Bible that God can use
to help us change our health.
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Specifically we end in worship.
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We show how worship
changes our chemistry.
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We talked about walking
with God; how walking with God
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changes our
adrenalin, our cortisol,
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our brains, even our DNA.
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So this is a great
tool to improve health.
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It's also a great outreach
if you want to reach out to your
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friends and neighbors; help
them lower their blood pressure,
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help them maybe come off
of medicine, lose some weight,
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improve their mental health.
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So Biblical Prescriptions,
this is a great Bible study.
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And you told them how to get it.
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That's right. If you want
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you can call 3ABN. And
they can be reached at:
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Thank you so much
for tuning in today.
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We enjoy sharing
this information with you.
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And we pray that God will
lead you towards optimum health.
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Thanks for joining us.
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And Dr. Marcum will
close the program in just a
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moment with prayer.
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Sometimes I get a
funny look when I write
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beans on a prescription.
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Take two times a
day; dispense thirty.
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People are now beginning
to understand that beans are
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definitely a prescription
that they can apply to their
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lives for better health.
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You know, if you have questions
I want to encourage you to
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come to our website.
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That's HeartwiseMinistries.org
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Specifically look
at the prayer page.
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We have people
praying for each other.
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Because God can do things
for our health that we can't
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accomplish on our own.
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With that in mind I want to
have a prayer for you right now.
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Dear heavenly Father, I want to
pray for each person out there
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listening to this program, that
You be especially near to them.
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Provide healing in their hearts.
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Help them to feel calm,
and secure, and safe in this
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world that we live in.
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And help them to
realize that You are the
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Ultimate Prescription for
our lives, and for healing.
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This is our prayer today, Amen.
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Well, I hope everyone can
find some way that they can
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incorporate
beans into their lives.
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It might be as simple as taking
some food and putting some
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hummus with it, or it might
be eating bean soup tonight.
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But try to incorporate some
good old beans in your life.
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I think it's going to
make your life better.
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It certainly will
make it more healthy.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum.
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And as we talk about
beans, I want to wish you
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the very best in health.
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And we'd love to hear
from you, so go to our website:
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Until next time, I'm
Dr. James Marcum wishing you
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the best of health.
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