Welcome back to the
Ultimate Prescription.
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I'm your host, Nick Evenson.
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And we are discussing food
as medicine on today's program,
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and specifically we're
talking about mushrooms.
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And Dr. Marcum, thank you for
sharing, and bringing some white
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mushrooms for us to
look at, and discuss today.
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Have you ever
picked your own mushrooms?
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Well, I've kicked mushrooms,
but I've never gone out to
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the woods and said,
This is a white mushroom.
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You love the way the texture...
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I mean I just love
the texture of mushrooms.
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You've gone through
the woods and kicked them?
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I've kicked mushrooms.
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You know, they
feel so neat, you know?
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But I've never just
eaten one from the woods,
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because I've
been nervous about it.
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Yep. Well, for good reason.
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I actually was taking a class
in outdoor education one time,
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and we were on a road trip
and stopped at a rest stop,
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and walked into the
woods just a little ways.
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And a friend of mine, who's
a naturalist, and really knows
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what he's doing in the woods,
picked a little mushroom off
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the base of a tree and
said, Here, taste this.
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And I was a little reluctant,
but everybody else was doing it,
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so I said, Okay, it must be
safe, so I tried a little bit.
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And he said, It's
called Chicken Foot.
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And it actually tastes
a little bit like chicken;
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kind of the texture of it.
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And it grew around
the base of this tree.
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And it was pretty neat.
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It was kind of tasty.
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It was a fun thing, but I
think that's probably a pretty
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dangerous thing to do if
you don't know what you're
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talking about, right?
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I think so, because remember,
there are poisonous mushrooms.
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You know? Not
everything in the plant kingdom
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necessarily is good for us.
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There's poisonous mushrooms.
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And, unfortunately, there's
mushrooms that have a chemical
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called psilocybin mushrooms,
and those are hallucinogens.
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And actually people take
that and it effects the brain
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in a different way.
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So the mushrooms
do have chemistry that
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effects the entire body.
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The same with medications.
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It effects all
sorts of cells as well.
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Well, God has put different
things in these mushrooms
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that can help us, you know.
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And these are good mushrooms,
because they help our immune
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system; they have
some trace elements.
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And I was surprised.
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You know, for years I was
told, Well, mushrooms really are
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sort of a neutral
food that you eat.
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You know it's sort of neutral.
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But it does have
some things that actually
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can help you in it.
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And one of the
biggest breakthrough's is this
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new type of sort of pseudo amino
acid, an essential thing called
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ergo Thiamine, which can help
the energy systems of the cells,
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which decreases cell death.
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So that's very interesting.
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We need these to help keep
our cells alive, especially the
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ones in the mitochondria,
which is the energy storehouse.
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So I wish I knew
more about mushrooms.
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I wish I could go out in the
woods and say, Hey, I want to
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eat that mushroom, and
not be worried that it might
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cause me to think funny.
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Yeah, right, right.
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You know, I was just
reading a fact about mushrooms.
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Many mushrooms
grow towards the light,
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just like a
plant follows the sun.
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But unlike plants, scientists
do not yet know how mushrooms
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use the sunlight;
only that they do.
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Well, you know, they don't
have; they're not chlorophyll.
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Yeah, there's no
green in them, I'm sure.
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But some of the mushrooms...
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Remember we've talked about
the nutrient value of pigments.
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You know, some of the different
things that are out there have
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different pigments
that have chemicals
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in them that are helpful. Sure.
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You know? And what color
was your mushroom that you ate?
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It was orange. Yeah, so that
orange pigment, I would be very
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interested in studying the
chemical composition of that
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pigment, and see if it has a
valuable biologic effect. Yeah.
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So I think the biochemistry
of plants would be very
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interesting to study. Yeah.
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You know, I just
wish we could have more
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information about them.
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And I'm continuing to dig
and look through the research
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that's done on the
chemistry of different fruits,
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vegetables,
nuts, and grains. Yep.
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Well, we've got a
question that's come in from
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our website, that's
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You can go there and
ask the doctor a question.
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And this person writes
and asks, I always get a cold
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in the wintertime, and
this lays me up every year.
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What can I do to
improve my immune function?
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Yeah. Well,
different things effect the
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immune cells in the body.
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And let's paint a big picture.
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Anything that causes stress
at any level is going to hurt
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your immune
system to some degree.
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For instance, if you
over exercise that can hurt
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your immune system.
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That stresses you out.
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If you don't get enough sleep,
that might stress you out,
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and hurt your
immune system. Right.
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If you eat the wrong
types of food, that might
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stress your immune system.
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Specifically we know that sugar,
processed sugar is sort of
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dampens our immune system.
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So first of all you
want to do things...
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People that don't move
around; we know that exercise
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can help our immune system.
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So we want to do things
that enhance our immune system.
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Okay? Now we've also learned
that certain foods help us,
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like a mushroom might
help our immune system. Sure.
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Different antioxidants
might help our immune system
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as well to function better.
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Because it
decreases this process called
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oxidation in the body.
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And if you take
the... If you think about a
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Biblical Prescription, whether
it be a thought, or an exercise,
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or something that God gives us
in the Bible, remember Biblical
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prescriptions help
every cell in the body.
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So even though it hasn't been
proven, I would like to think
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that the food, the healthy food
that God gives us: the fruits,
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vegetables, nuts, and grains,
in some way is going to enhance
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our immune system, even
though we don't understand,
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or don't have the studies.
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So eating a plant based
diet, being out in the sunshine,
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exercising, having good
thoughts, worshipping well;
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all of these things, I
think, can help the immune
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system to some degree.
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And avoiding those
things that stress our bodies
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can help our immune system.
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I feel that's some good advice.
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And we've got another Biblical
prescription for you today
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that Dr. Marcum recorded
previously, and let's have
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a look at that now.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum with your
Biblical Prescription for Life.
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You know, it's hard to know who,
or even what to believe in the
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world of health care with
the Internet, the print media,
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the television, your
doctors, your providers,
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Aunt Mabel, commercials.
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It's hard to
know what t believe.
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Well, I want to give you a
Biblical Prescription for Life
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today that's found in
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It says
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God's light, the Word of
God, has the answer to our
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health care problems.
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When you have a worry or concern
regarding your health care,
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I want you to turn to
Christ, the true light first.
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Go to that place for answers.
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And you know what? God
will illuminate your life
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and give you truth.
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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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And we're going to
talk a little bit more about
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Biblical Prescriptions for Life,
but I want you to write down
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this website first. It's
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And we have a
number of resources on the
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website that you can use.
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That video clip
is available there.
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You can download it and share
it with your friends on social
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media, play it in your church,
or how ever you want to share
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that, you're welcome to.
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We also have a leaders guide for
anyone who wants to lead this.
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If you could put the DVD
in the player and press play,
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and ask a few questions to
facilitate a discussion about
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health, you can lead this study.
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It's made for
anybody to be able to lead.
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And just go to the website,
and get some of those resources,
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and look into it, because this
is really a good tool to not
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only help yourself, but
also to reach out to others.
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You know, when we reach out to
others, and we sort of do what
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God has said, that's
going to help our belief system,
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because as we see God working
it's going to strengthen our
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faith in our belief systems.
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It also, when we care
for other people, you know,
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we're caring for Christ.
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And we're helping improve their
health by teaching them these.
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A lot of people don't know these
health principles that we've
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talked about. Right.
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I'm surprised! I go to
some people and they go, Wow!
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I can feel better if I sleep
more at night, or if I don't eat
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this, or if I do...
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They don't
understand these things.
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And just illuminating them with
truth that God has given each
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one of us, we can help move
them not only to better health,
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maybe come off of a prescription
pill, treat a chronic disease,
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but we could lead them to
the Ultimate Prescription.
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And that's what we're called
to do is to spread the gospel
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in whatever way God uses us.
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And it might be something
like talking to somebody.
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It might be
leading a Bible study.
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It might be helping
to spread the message in
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whatever way that be.
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It might be holding a camera.
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It might be working in a control
room to get this message out.
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But this is a new
way to evangelize.
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And in the world we live in,
God wants new ways to spread the
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gospel message to everyone.
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And it doesn't have to be
complex, it can just be meeting
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a need, introducing them to a
relationship, and showing people
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that it's not that hard
to do, and it's possible.
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God loves us;
wants us to be with Him.
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That's right. You know, I was
recently interviewing a pastor
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who used this
program in his church.
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And he actually preached sermons
based on the lesson studies for
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each week from
Biblical Prescriptions.
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And in the interview he
was talking about the program
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and how much it
meant to him personally.
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And he was sharing that, you
know, we talk about stewardship
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quite a bit, and we talk about
giving our tithe and offerings
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to God, and taking care of the
things that He's given to us.
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But the body is
one of those things.
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And he was saying, You know,
if we leave out our physical
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health, we're not
living as God intended.
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And that's a huge mistake.
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Yeah, you're right.
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And, you know, when we
made this, we tried to...
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You know, this has been around.
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You see, these aren't new ideas.
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These ideas have been
around a long time. Right.
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But we tried to
package this in love.
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It's how it's wrapped.
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It's how it's presented.
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And if you present the gospel
in love, and let Christ lead,
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then you're going to
have successful results.
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So I think this is a new
way that people can do personal
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evangelism, as well
as improve their health.
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So I want to encourage people
to go to the 3ABN website,
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check into this
Biblical Prescriptions.
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I think it's something that
can help everyone out this year.
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That's right. And
the website again is:
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Or you can go to the 3ABN store,
and you can also call 3ABN
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directly at:
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And just again, we have
resources on our website at
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BiblicalPrescriptions.com/3abn
where you can find videos
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to help promote posters,
and help promote your study;
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all the tools that you need to
let others know about your small
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group Bible study, and to get
the word out, and also to help
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you learn how to
lead this program.
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And this is just a tool.
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There's many
good tools out there.
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This is just one other approach
to help you lead people towards
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the design that
God gave us for health.
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And 3ABN has a
great amount of supplies.
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And we found out that
they can send them to anywhere.
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That's right.
All around the world.
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All around the world.
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It's exciting that God
can spread the gospel in this
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manner. So this is a way
that everyone can be involved
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in spreading the gospel.
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Yep. Dr. Marcum, thank
you for your insights on
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health, and on food.
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I know I learn a lot every time
I sit here with you and talk
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about different prescriptions
that God's given us.
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So thank you for that.
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And thank you at
home for joining us
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today on the broadcast.
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We hope that you've learned
a lot about food as medicine.
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And Dr. Marcum is going to
be with you in just a moment
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to close the
program with prayer.
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In addition to the
healing powers of mushrooms,
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I want you to remember
about how your spiritual life
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and physical
life are intertwined.
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When we have a
better physical life our
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spirituality can improve.
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When we have a better worship
life our physical lives improve.
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If you go to our
website: HeartwiseMinistries.org
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we have a place where
we can pray for each other,
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and we can also help
each other grow spiritually.
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I want to close our
time together in prayer.
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Let's bow our heads together.
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Father God, thank You for giving
us the ability to be with You
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and have a
relationship that's real.
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Help us to spread the message of
your love to the world that we
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live in, and help others to come
to that loving relationship,
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saving, healing relationship
that You've promised.
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Thank You for the
time we spent together.
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And there might be someone out
there, Father, that needs Your
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healing hand in a special way.
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Please be near them this very
moment is my prayer today. Amen.
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Well, I want to thank you for
spending time on this program.
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I hope you learned a little bit.
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And if you have questions, or
medical questions, or you need
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someone to pray for
you, go to our website at:
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It's a great resource where
you can watch radio programs,
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and clips, and you can share it
with your friends and neighbors.
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And I'm Dr. James Marcum
wishing you the best of health.
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