Welcome back. You're watching
the Ultimate Prescription.
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I'm your host, Nick Evenson,
here with Dr. James Marcum,
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and we're
discussing food as medicine.
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And more specifically on today's
program, which is our 100th
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program of
Ultimate Prescription,
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we're talking about beets
and how they have some fantastic
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medicinal properties,
and how they can help us
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live as God intended.
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Now I wouldn't say beets
are the ultimate prescription.
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In our study that have
been done, both in hypertension,
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and in the British
Health Foundation and others,
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beets are a treatment especially
for blood pressure. Right.
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It might be used
for trace elements.
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And I guess the next time you
and Leslie have a dinner party,
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you can tell everyone,
We're going to be serving beets.
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Come on over! Maybe so.
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I don't know. We
don't eat beets too often.
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Well, you could do great.
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You could have beet juice.
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You could have
a beet salad. Yep.
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And you can have a beet entree.
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And we could teach you how
to make some beet desserts.
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You can have a...
Oh, that would be great!
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That sounds like
a good challenge.
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People would love it,
love it, they would love it.
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But, you know what, this is
our hundredth program on beets.
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On the Ultimate
Prescription, not on beets.
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Not on beets, but... No.
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Yeah, we are focusing
on beets today, right.
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Focus on beets... But I want
to thank everyone that's been
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involved in this
program through the years.
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You know, a lot of people don't
see all the people involved,
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but we have people in the
control room that are doing
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all sorts of neat
things, much more hard than
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what we do out here. Sure, yep.
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We have people running
the cameras, and the jibs,
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and directors, and people
that do the sound, and graphics.
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And Kristina who helped things.
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So there's lots of people that
help to bring this message about
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the Ultimate
Prescription to people.
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And the Ultimate Prescription
is not a beet is it, Nick?
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No, definitely not.
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No, the Ultimate Prescription
that we want to focus on,
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and everyone that makes this
program is that relationship,
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that unique relationship that
we can have with our Savior.
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Uh huh. That's the
saving relationship.
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That's what really
heals people. Uh huh.
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And if we can make this program,
and people start thinking about
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this relationship and
give their hearts to Christ,
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and renew themselves every day,
that makes it all worthwhile.
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Everyone that's worked so
hard on these 100 episodes,
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that's what it's all about.
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And that's what makes us a
little bit different than other
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health programs, you know.
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Other health programs might
focus on the technical parts
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of it, or the acute care,
or some focus on the nutrition,
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but we like to focus on
the relationship with Christ.
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Because that's really
where the healing occurs.
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Yeah. You mentioned earlier
about healing beliefs. Yes.
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You know in the Scriptures
it tells us that God is going to
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heal us and make us whole.
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And we need to
really believe that.
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Whosoever believes in Me
shall have everlasting life.
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That is the
Ultimate Prescription,
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and that's what
this program's all about.
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Beets are a
prescription. That's right.
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Beets are not the Ultimate
Prescription. That's right.
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Not the most important anyway.
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Some people don't
like beets, you know? Yeah.
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My son does the beet
juice thing, but I don't think
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he really likes it.
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I sort of make him drink it.
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He's sixteen years old.
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And I said, Jake, it's
going to make you swim faster.
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So he gulps it
down, but I don't think...
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He threw up once when he ate it.
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But I think he believed
it wasn't going to be good,
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so, you know,
that self believing.
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If it's not good,
it's going to taste good,
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it's going to make me sick.
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So I think part of it
was the belief that he
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thought it wasn't good.
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If I'd have put it in
something else he might
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have liked it more, so...
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But I did the beet juice myself
a bit, but I'm going to try to
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start incorporating
more whole beets rather
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than just the juicing.
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Try that, and I
want you to have...
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You will be a crowd
pleaser if you have a whole beet
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dinner party at your house.
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A beet bean dinner party?
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Alright, challenge accepted.
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We're going to do it.
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Do that for your friends.
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Have them come over some
Saturday night, and you have the
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full beet, beet
thing, and they'll be happy.
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They'll lower
their blood pressure.
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They'll make some nitrates.
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See how it... Let
me know how it goes.
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Alright. You know you
just mentioned blood pressure.
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And we have a
question that just came in.
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Someone's asking,
What are some foods that
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lower my blood pressure?
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This is people who
write in to our website at
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There's an Ask
the Doctor form there.
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So you can contact us that
way if you have a question.
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But what are some foods
that help with blood pressure?
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Well, before I do that, a
lot of people really don't
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understand blood pressure.
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So I'm going to
talk a little bit about
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what blood pressure is.
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Blood pressure is when
the pressure inside our blood
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vessels is higher than normal.
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Okay. Okay. So what's normal?
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You know, number, normal,
once we start getting above 130.
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They call that pre-diabetic.
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Above 140 that's... I mean
pre-diabetic, pre-hypertensive.
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But above 140, 150 it's
starting to get higher. Okay?
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And if it goes high for long
periods of time, it damages the
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blood vessel, you know?
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And, for
instance, weight lifters,
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you know, when they
do all that grunting.
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Their blood
pressure goes really high.
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Long distance runners;
sometimes if they're sprinting,
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their blood pressure goes
up for short periods of time.
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It damages the blood vessels.
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So any time the blood pressure
is up day in and day out,
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we call that
hypertension. Right.
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And when a person comes in with
hypertension, I think of, Well,
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that's more of a cause.
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What causes it? Okay?
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I don't think
about, It's a symptom.
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It's the symptom
of a stressor. Right.
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And the most common
ones is the people's diet.
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They eat foods that
cause high blood pressure.
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Foods high in fat, high
in sodium, that's up there.
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Some people carry a lot
of weight and don't exercise.
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That can cause it.
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Some people are
stressed out all the time.
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That can cause
high blood pressure.
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And then there's
medical causes that cause it.
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So, like high blood pressure
can be triggered by sleep apnea.
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People don't
sleep good at night.
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They quit breathing.
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They breathe like this...
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They breathe like that.
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So they don't get good oxygen.
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Right, they
don't get good oxygen.
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When oxygen goes
down your body makes
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alarms to wake you up.
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You're in an emergency
state so you make adrenalin,
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and cortisol, and both
those raise your blood pressure.
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You know, it's just kind
of funny to watch you do that.
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But it's not a funny
condition if that's the future..
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You get tired and you wear out.
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It's a stressor. It
raises your blood pressure.
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Thyroid disease, kidney disease,
different medical conditions can
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raise your blood pressure.
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Even certain medicines
can raise your blood pressure.
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So anyway, once a
person has high blood pressure,
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the key is to check it at home
where they're nice and relaxed.
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Because some people just
have it because they get nervous
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in the doctor's office.
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We call that white
coat hypertension. Right.
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It's not really.
It's they just get scared.
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So you have some deep
breaths, take it with the
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appropriate sized cuff.
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If it's high every single
time, then see if you can find
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out the reason why.
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So some people's blood pressure
will come down just by eating
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less of the bad
foods, the salty foods.
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Some people will by exercise.
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Some people have a medical...
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But let's say you
look at everything,
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That no one can find it,
and it's still high, okay?
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Sometimes people
can go to medications.
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But we've learned that there's
foods, and it seems like we have
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proof, and I'm going to
give the ones that have the
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studies on it first. Okay.
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But there's also other inductive
reasoning that we can show that
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other foods would lower it.
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So we've talked
about beets. Right.
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Okay? We've also
talked about hibiscus.
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There've been studies
with hibiscus that shows it
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lowers blood pressure.
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Greens, because it has
nitrates lower blood pressure.
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Flax has been shown
to lower blood pressure.
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Also different things like
different fruits can sometimes
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lower it a little bit.
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But if you think about it, a lot
of the foods that have nitrates
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in them should be able to
lower blood pressure, too,
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even if the
studies haven't been done.
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So anything like the green
foods that we talked about:
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the arugula, the rhubarb,
the cilantro, the leaf lettuce,
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the greens; all of those that
may have nitrates in them should
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be able to help lower the
blood pressure, too. Right.
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Now some people that start
eating more plants lower their
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blood pressure, not only because
of the plants, but they quit
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eating all the other stuff that
makes the blood pressure go up.
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They fill upon the good
stuff, and therefore they eat
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less of the bad stuff.
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Yes, and you know,
things like salty foods,
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and some of the processed foods.
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All that stuff. And people don't
realize it, but in some meat
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products, they actually inject
salt to make it more puffy,
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and to keep it preserved.
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You know, that's how people
preserved things through the
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ages is they put
salt in it to preserve it.
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Well, salt also gets in our
body; we take too much salt,
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our blood pressure comes up.
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So I hope that answers
the blood pressure question.
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It's more complicated than
just taking a beet to lower
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the blood pressure.
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You want to know why
the blood pressure's caused,
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look at all your options.
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If you can get at the cause,
then maybe you don't have to
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eat as many beets, or whatever
way you and your physician
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decide to treat
your blood pressure.
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But blood pressure over
long term is a chronic disease,
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and it can damage your heart, it
can damage your blood vessels,
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it can damage your kidneys,
it can damage your brain artery.
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So we want to bring
that blood pressure down.
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Sounds like a good... I like the
idea of eating the good stuff;
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filling up on the good
stuff, so you don't need,
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or have the
hunger for the bad stuff.
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But if I can get people
to eat more plants, exercise,
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keep the stress down, deep
breathing, usually their blood
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pressure comes
down pretty easily.
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Well, we're going to
take a quick look at a
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Biblical Prescription for
Life, and then we're going to
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wrap up after that.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum with your
Biblical Prescription for Life.
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A patient came to the office the
other day having quite a bit of
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pain; already on
two pain medications.
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I recommended this
Biblical Prescription from
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Did you know that when we're
laughing, when we're happy,
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and when we're joking
around, and we're feeling good,
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it makes a chemical in our
body go up called endorphins.
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Endorphins are very
helpful in fighting pain.
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Endorphins also help
lower stress chemistry,
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and just makes us feel good.
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So by laughing, and being
happy, and joking guess what?
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You increase your
endorphins, and lower your pain.
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This Biblical Prescription
was given to my patient,
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and guess what? He started
having improvement in his pain
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almost immediately.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum with your
Biblical Prescription for Life.
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You know, Dr. Marcum, there's
so many ways, so many different
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things that we can do
to improve our health.
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It's not just eating beets.
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It's not just exercising.
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Worship, singing,
having a joyful spirit
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is also part of it.
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Yeah, and I wish I had
a good joke to tell you.
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I'd get your endorphins
to go up, lower your stress,
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lower your blood pressure,
if I could make a good joke.
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I'm going to work on that.
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Yep. If you'd like to learn more
about how you can experience
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better health, and live in
accordance with what God has
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designed, visit our website at:
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Thank you so much for
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And Dr. Marcum is going to close
in just a moment with a prayer.
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As we wrap up our 100th episode
of Ultimate Prescription,
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I want to have a
special prayer thanking our God.
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Let's bow our heads.
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Dear Heavenly Father, we want
to thank You for everyone that's
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been involved with this program,
for helping them to do their
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jobs to glorify You.
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We want to thank You for
being our Ultimate Prescription,
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our ultimate path to healing.
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And please help us to
keep You in our lives every day
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is our prayer today, Amen.
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You might have questions,
or want special prayer,
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or pray for others, I
want to encourage you to visit
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our website. That's
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You'll see the prayer page,
a place where you can ask the
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doctor; many
different resources there.
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And until next time, I'm
Dr. James Marcum wishing you
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the best of health.
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