If your doctor told you
that you could have better hair,
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healthier skin, lose some
weight, maybe even lower your
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cholesterol just by changing
your nutrition, would you do it?
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On the Ultimate Prescription
today we're going to be talking
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about food as
medicine, so stay with us.
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The program
starts in just a moment.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum.
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Hello, and thank you
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Ultimate Prescription.
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I'm your host, Nick Evenson.
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And we're here
with Dr. James Marcum.
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And we are talking
about food as medicine.
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On today's program we're going
to be talking a little bit about
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flax seed, but before that Dr.
Marcum, welcome to the program.
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Thanks, Nick,
it's nice being here.
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And it's really fun to talk
about different ways we can use
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to treat the body, not
only to prevent the disease with
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nutrition, but also
to treat specific disease
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conditions with nutrition.
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And I'm just excited that we
now have the technology to have
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these studies, and
people are doing these studies,
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where we can sort of give
the evidence based medicine
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to support using different
foods to treat different
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medical conditions.
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What are some of the
really common therapies?
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I mean we have
medications, we have surgeries,
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we have physical therapy,
nutritional therapy? Uh huh.
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What would you call this?
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I would call it nutritional
therapy; that's good.
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You know, if we treat
brains and get people to think,
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we call that
cognitive therapy. Right.
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We can treat belief systems.
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We can treat habits
and get people moving.
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We can treat... We have
rest therapy where we teach
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people how to rest.
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There's music therapy.
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So there's a lot of
ways to change the body.
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Unfortunately, a lot of
them we don't have the studies
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to prove the efficacy.
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And the reason we don't
have the studies is because no
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one's funding them.
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It's very expensive
to do studies. Uh huh.
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Most studies now are done
by the pharmaceutical industry.
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The people making the money.
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Yes. Sure. They're the ones
that are evaluating the study,
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evaluating the data, so you
always have to look carefully,
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you know, if there's secondary
interest in this study,
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and who's funding the studies.
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But in general nutritional
therapy is great at treating
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lots of
different chronic diseases.
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What are some of the
most common diseases that are
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treated with nutrition?
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Well, you know, the ones
I've seen personally: obesity.
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Obesity is, of
course, treated very well with
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plant based nutrition. Uh huh.
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It's a great way to lose weight.
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And losing weight helps all
sorts of chronic disease states;
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helps take pressure off the
bones, just losing weight helps
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diabetes, high blood pressure,
you know, helps depression,
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helps many things
just by losing weight.
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Nutrition, plant
based, helps with that.
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There's specific diseases that
are ravishing us now in America:
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type 2 diabetes. That's where
the blood sugar goes too high.
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You have symptoms like being
thirsty, going to the bathroom
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a lot, some people lose
weight, some people gain weight.
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But, you know, the
hallmark treatment for that is
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different medications.
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And there's a lot of
different medications.
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But recent research is now
showing that these medications
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may not be doing much other than
making the numbers look better.
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So they're just kind
of masking the problem?
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Yeah. They don't really
solve the problem, you know.
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And they spend a lot of
money on the kilometers,
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and the measuring
sticks, and all that's okay.
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But for awhile they thought that
type 2 diabetes, if you brought
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the blood sugar down
you lowered the risk of
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heart attacks and strokes.
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Well, that's not really true.
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And lately they said, Well,
it helps protect the small blood
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vessels, which are
damaged by this blood sugar
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and the physiology of type 2.
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Well, now this thing.
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Well, the date on that
might be a little bit shaky.
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So people are wondering, Well,
if the medicines don't work,
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how do you
reverse type 2 diabetes?
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And in many cases if you
are still making insulin,
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you can reverse it
with nutritional therapy,
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and a great exercise program,
and not eating some of the bad
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things that feed type 2 diabetes
like fats, and sugars that have
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not a low glycemic interest,
the ones, the fast sugars,
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which spike your blood sugar.
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So that's one chronic disease.
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We've talked about obesity,
high blood pressure, okay?
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Okay. That can be treated very
well with nutritional therapy:
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eating the right foods,
avoiding the wrong foods.
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We've talked about different
foods in the last few episodes
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that lower the blood pressure.
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And again, we're going to talk
today about another one that
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can lower the
blood pressure in flax.
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And if you can lower the
blood pressure in diabetes,
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you decrease the risk
of stroke, heart disease,
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blood vessel
disease throughout the body.
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So that's another
chronic disease. Right.
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Other things that we don't think
about that's treated well with
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nutritional
therapy is inflammation.
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We can help our joints not wear
out as much if we don't have
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as much weight and inflammation
on the joints. Right, uh huh.
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If we don't have a lot of
foods that cause oxidation,
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or aging in the body, we
actually can slow down aging
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with plants and
antioxidants, not to mention the
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chronic disease of cancer.
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We now know that nutrition helps
lower the risk of many different
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types of cancer:
colon cancer, breast cancer.
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We can lower those risks.
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So if you start adding up, look
at all of the chronic disease.
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People that eat plant
based nutrition tend to
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sleep better at night.
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You don't need the
insomnia medicines.
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They tend to have lower
rates of depression. Right.
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So, and they have less rates
of side effects of medications
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that are used
for chronic disease.
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They can decrease...
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If they have to take pain
medicines they can decrease
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the amount of pain
medicines they have to take.
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So if you start adding up
you say, Wow! For almost all the
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chronic disease nutritional
therapy is used to treat it.
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And many times it
can actually reverse it.
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So why don't we talk about
this as first line treatments?
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Well, when I write a
prescription for, like today,
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I'd write one for flax.
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And people would go,
You know, you're loony.
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I just want
something that's easier to do.
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So it takes a lot of education,
it takes a lot of research
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by the patients, it takes going
against, sort of the easy way,
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in society to treat
different medical conditions.
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So those are some of the medical
conditions that, especially the
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chronic ones that
respond to nutritional therapy.
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Right. So it sounds like,
if we go back to the diabetes,
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type 2 diabetes, it's not super
commonly known in the public
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that you could get that
with a plant based diet.
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But amongst
medical professionals
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is it commonly accepted?
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Yes. Well, it's not
commonly accepted because it's
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not the easy thing.
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And a lot of physicians don't
have the skills to do that.
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You know, they
just don't know how...
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Haven't been trained.
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That's right. And
what does that look like?
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It takes time.
It takes education.
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You know, how do we educate
the patient to do that? Yeah.
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So those types of
things are a challenge.
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And that's what we have
to have extra support on:
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programs like this, websites
where people want to learn more,
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and eventually I think
it's going to be talked about at
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higher levels, because we
can't afford to spend money
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on symptoms anymore. Right.
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We have to actually fix
problems and improve the
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health of the world.
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We don't see some of
these chronic diseases
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in other countries.
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You know, in Africa they
don't have these problems.
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You know, they don't have
some of these chronic diseases.
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Now they have different diseases
from infections, and those types
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of things, but they
don't have some of the things,
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you know, sanitary
diseases that they pass.
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But they don't have some of
the disease sets that we have.
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We have diseases that are
stemming from processed foods.
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Yes, and chronic. We
have chronic problems that are
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because of our lifestyles.
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Yeah, yeah. Well, let's
talk a little about flax seed.
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We have some right here today.
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And this is ground up flax seed.
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And the reason that we
grind it up is because your
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body can't process it.
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The seed encapsulates the
nutrients too well if it's
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not ground up a
bit. Is that right?
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Yep, that's correct.
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You want to release.
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It's a powerful little
tiny seed wrapped in a hull.
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And you can't release the energy
of that seed when the hull
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is wrapped around it.
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Right. So what are
some of the ways that you
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like to use flax seed?
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Well, flax seeds, I use them
to treat many different medical
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conditions in my patients,
and I also use it as part of my
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diet to stay healthy. Right.
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I don't want to get
bogged down in the science,
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but there's a few key
things about flax I want
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everyone to remember. Okay.
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One is omega-3 fatty
acids, the healthy fats. Uh huh.
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That's one, and word number
two is a word called lignin.
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Okay, now what is lignin?
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And why do we need lignin?
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Lignin is a... Flax
is a good source of that.
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But in our body its converted
to what we call a phytoestrogen.
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Okay. And that, phytoestrogens
sort of dampens our own body
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response to estrogen.
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And so lignin's are important.
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And when we have less
of those, the estrogen,
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it helps in the male.
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It helps the testosterone go up.
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When estrogen levels go down
it does good things in females.
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If you have breast
cancer tissue it's very helpful.
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If you're a clotter, having
lower estrogen is very careful.
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And in studies done so far,
when you have more omega-3's,
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okay? the healthy
fats, this seems to help with
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inflammation in the body. Okay.
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So every inflammatory
condition this will help.
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Joint pains: it might
help problems in the bowels
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that have inflammation.
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It's helping this
inflammation that's going on;
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this bad inflammation, not
the good inflammation. Yeah.
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It lowers cholesterol.
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So this is a way you could
lower your cholesterol levels.
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When you have a lot of
omega-3's it can make the blood
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a little bit thinner.
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Omega-3's go into the brain,
so it can be a help with people
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that have depression.
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It also helps bone strength.
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It also helps
insulin resistance.
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What that means is it
helps insulin work better,
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so that insulin can
take sugar into the cells.
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So it's going to help
type 2 diabetes. Um, right.
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Now there's tons of good
studies, and I want to give some
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evidence behind all this.
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One of the studies for
the Journal of Hypertension,
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this was published just
a few years ago in 2013,
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it showed that high
blood pressure could be
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treated by taking flax.
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In fact they studied people
and the people when they started
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they did this for six months.
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When they started the top number
was 148, so after a period of
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time it got down to the 140's,
just on taking flax every day.
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Now just to give you a feel of
some of the medications we use
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to lower blood pressure, like
the calcium channel blockers.
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They just lower the top number
by 8 points, and the bottom
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number by 3 points over
the same period of time. Okay.
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So flax was
lowering it just as much.
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Another common type of
drug called an ACE inhibitor was
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lowering it 5, the systolic,
and 2 on the diastolic.
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And you see a 158
to 143, that's quite,
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that's a 10 to 15
point drop. Right.
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So flax was very impressive
in lowering blood pressure.
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Now it has all of
these good effects:
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the inflammatory effect.
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And some of the effect might
have been that when people eat
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flax they feel full,
they tend not to overeat,
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and it helps other
things in the body.
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It might even help the good
and bad bowel flora, which might
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be even playing a role.
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When these nutrients are in
the body, it probably helps by
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numerous different physiologic
mechanisms, because there's so
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many chemicals that make
up that little powerful seed.
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I was just going to say, it
sounds like we've got a battle
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of the chemists going on here.
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We've got the chemist
who made us our flax seed,
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which works in these cases, and
then we have our human chemists
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who put together
these pharmaceutical drugs,
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which do the same
thing, but maybe the flax seed
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is a better option.
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That is an
excellent observation.
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Because every, these foods have
chemistry in them that do things
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in the body, and, of course,
these plant based chemistry,
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our body tends to utilize it.
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It doesn't seem to hurt as much.
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There's been several
studies about breast cancer.
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And the National
Cancer Institute did a study,
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and it showed that it
lowers the risk of breast
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cancer taking flax.
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And also, if you've had breast
cancer it could lower the risk
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of recurrence with flax.
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Now for men, not to be under
sold, it also lowers the risk
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of prostate cancer, and it
can actually be used to treat a
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condition called
benign prostatic hyperplasia.
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As we age the
prostate can get bigger.
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We can have to go
to the bathroom a lot.
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And they've done a couple of
studies that say if you can take
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flax on a regular basis, it's
just as effective as taking some
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of the medications that we
use to shrink the prostate,
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and help the urine
get out of it better.
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So that is pretty... And
they were we're just taking
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1 tablespoon of
ground flax a day.
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And that tablespoon could
just be sprinkled on oatmeal,
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you could put it on a salad,
you could add it to some food.
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A lot of people now use
flax as an egg substitute.
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Yep. What they do is they
take about a tablespoon of flax,
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they mix it with some water.
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That's equal to about 1 egg
in your cooking. That's right.
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So you can use flax and have the
benefit of lowering the risk of
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breast and prostate
cancer, shrinking your prostate,
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lowering your blood
pressure, decreasing
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inflammation on your body.
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All those good things to help
flax, not to mention it also
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helps with constipation. Really?
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It can speed up your bowels,
because it makes more of the
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good bacteria. It's fiber.
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Fiber helps increase
the speed that things move
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through our bowels.
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Why is that so important?
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Well, if you put
something bad in your bowel;
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you say you eat something bad.
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Let's say you cheat.
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And it just lays in your
bowel for long periods of time,
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and it has a carcinogen.
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Let's say you eat something
really bad that's carcinogenic,
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and it just lays there.
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It doesn't move
through your bowel.
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It just sits there.
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It's not something
you want hanging around.
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Exactly! More of that
stuff gets absorbed in you.
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It damages the
mucous of the bowel.
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It gets absorbed in you more.
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Well, if you can keep the bowels
moving, you can exceed the
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transit time, and it won't
stay in contact with your bowel
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for long periods of time.
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That's why we've found that
people that eat heavy meat diets
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have higher rates of cancer.
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And people that speed up their
gastric motility with fiber,
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speeds up the gastric mobility,
they have lower rates of cancer.
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So here we have a nutrient
packed seed that you can add
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to your diet to treat
many of the disease conditions.
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You know, it's been
studies that help with diabetes,
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it helps blood pressure.
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It helps a lot of the chronic
disease that we have today.
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Now I think one thing that
I want to stress is that it
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really, the Omega-3's seem to be
very important in brain health.
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Right. You know you've
heard about Omega 3's, Omega 6.
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We've heard about
DHEA, that chemical,
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and how it helps brain health.
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Well, these Omega-3's in the
body can be made into Omega 6's,
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and that God has given us great
ways to use this chemical to be
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turned into other biochemical's
that we need in our body.
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It's almost like a
building block for other things.
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And what's neat, Nick, is
you've made the observation how
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pharmaceuticals
change our chemistry.
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These nutrients change our
chemistry, and we're just now
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scratching the surface
of what it does in many
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parts of our bodies.
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Especially about how things
that are antioxidants seems to
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protect our DNA, turn off
damaging things that cause
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mutations, and cause problems.
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This is a very
valuable and important concept
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as nutrition is medicine.
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But I don't want to think that's
the only way we have medicines.
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There's many other ways as well.
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Well, this is all very exciting,
and some great uses for flax
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seed here, and a
lot of health benefits.
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We're going to take a break,
and we will be back in just a
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moment with more food
as medicine here on the
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Ultimate
Prescription. Stay with us.
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