Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00010B
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00:01 Now we take your questions
00:02 that are sent to heartwiseministries.org. 00:05 We'd love to hear from you. 00:06 Just go to that website and click on the... 00:08 ask the question link and put the question there. 00:11 And we'll be happy to get with it. 00:13 Because you know what, the best way of finding 00:15 healing is to find information. 00:17 Education is the most powerful tool 00:20 you have to live that happy healthy vibrant life 00:22 that you're looking for. 00:23 If you have the education you need 00:25 and information you need, 00:26 you can make informed choices. 00:28 And that can make a huge difference in your life 00:30 and also in the life of your family. Okay. 00:32 Here are some questions, Dr Marcum, 00:34 from the heartwiseministries.org website. 00:38 This is what's--this is a dairy farmer in Wisconsin. 00:43 Okay. Here we go. 00:44 My bowels are always malfunctioning. Oh, dear. 00:46 Sometimes severe constipation, sometimes diarrhea, 00:49 sometimes pain after eating. 00:52 The GI doctors have no explanation 00:54 and have put me on Lomotil. Any thoughts? 00:57 Well, that's a great question. 00:59 Many people have problems with their bowels. 01:02 And, again, I would want to know 01:04 why the bowels are malfunctioning. 01:06 And evidently they've looked at all the intrinsic things 01:09 that we sometimes see. 01:10 They look for things like cancer and other bowel type pathology. 01:14 One of the things that's underestimated 01:16 that happens is the different foods we eat. 01:19 Everyone's heard about gluten insensitivity. 01:21 They've heard about that. 01:22 But in addition to that many people 01:24 don't have the enzymes that work with milk. Yeah. 01:28 They call that lactose intolerance. 01:31 And also many people can have milk or dairy allergies. 01:34 And when you put things in our body 01:36 that that really they can't handle the body 01:38 actually attacks it. It's a foreign substance. 01:40 A foreign substance. 01:41 You have really an immune like reaction 01:44 where the body attacks itself. 01:45 So the bowels do crazy things 01:47 when these substances are introduced. 01:49 I can't tell you how many people 01:50 I've seen improve their GI symptoms 01:52 once they eliminate dairy like a milk and cheese 01:55 from their diet. 01:56 Other things that can cause it is gluten. 01:58 But I've also seen a host of other chemicals 02:00 cause different people, these processed foods, 02:03 anything can actually serve as an antigen 02:05 and mess up with the bowels. Now I'm gonna go on-- 02:08 I'm gonna say you're asking 02:09 a dairy farmer in Wisconsin. Yeah. 02:11 And he's not gonna wanna hear this. I guess not. 02:14 But, you know, that's-- if he's having problems-- 02:16 health problems, he's not absorbing the way he is 02:19 and having these problems. 02:20 He might want to try to give up dairy products 02:23 to see if his symptoms might improve. 02:25 I can't tell you how many people I've seen improve their health 02:28 dramatically by giving up cheese and dairy products 02:31 and also making sure you're not gluten insensitive. 02:33 Yeah. All right. Well, there you go. 02:35 I hope that you will take these words to heart 02:39 and recognize that they were given in a great deal of love 02:42 but that maybe the issue for the dairy farmer-- 02:44 I just want-- we just want him to feel better. 02:46 Yeah. Truth is truth. It is what it is. Yeah. 02:48 We have to let it now but, you know, again we want to 02:50 wrap the truth in love. 02:52 And let people, you know, have that relationship with God 02:54 and let God help them have the power 02:56 to make the decisions they need. Okay. 02:58 Very good. All right. 03:00 Another question here from heartwiseministries.org. 03:03 Being a diabetic-- this is Roy in Massachusetts. 03:06 Being a diabetic I recently was put on medication. 03:09 My physician did not mention a diet. 03:12 Now which book would you recommend? 03:14 Well, of course, we know that book. Yeah. 03:15 I'm gonna recommend The Ultimate Prescription. 03:17 Here it is. Right there. 03:18 But, Roy, this is a very good question. 03:21 And from your statement, I couldn't tell 03:23 whether you were type 1 diabetic or type 2. 03:27 Type 1 is when you're born that way. 03:29 Type 2 usually we get it because we acquire it. 03:31 And insulin--and we heard of insulin resistance 03:35 some people cause it. 03:36 The number one cause of insulin resistance is, 03:39 of course, gaining extra weight. 03:41 I don't know if you have extra weight on you 03:43 but that could be a cause of why you're diabetic. 03:46 Unfortunately or fortunately, 03:48 more people don't understand diabetes well. 03:52 But the treatment for diabetes, 03:53 medicines help but it doesn't fix the prob. 03:55 I've never seen anyone cured of diabetes 03:58 by taking a medicine. Okay. Yeah. 03:59 But I've seen people cured up to 90% 04:02 by getting in a real strict diet 04:04 and an exercise program losing this extra weight. 04:08 A lot of people say that type 2 diabetes is a disease of fat. 04:12 Too much fat on people that changes the metabolism, 04:15 changes the insulin sensitivity. 04:17 So a couple things, 04:20 the medicine might help as a bridge 04:22 but I'll work on diet and exercise 04:24 and work with Roy real carefully, 04:26 loving him into this health. 04:27 It might be possible as your blood sugar, 04:29 your weight, and you increase your insulin ability, 04:32 in your body that you might be able to be taken off 04:34 some of these medicines. 04:35 All the medicines that are used to treat 04:38 diabetes have side effects. 04:41 And the dangerous side effects of diabetes' medicines, 04:43 let's say Roy is really sick. 04:46 He's throwing up and doing poorly. 04:48 He doesn't eat or drink for a while. 04:50 Well, his blood sugar could go dangerously low. 04:53 And we know that blood sugars low 04:55 can actually lead to comas. 04:57 Another thing that can happen if the organs malfunction that 05:01 can also change the metabolism of the diabetes' medicines. 05:04 Certain diabetes' medicines have to be monitored 05:06 to make sure they don't damage organs especially the liver. 05:09 So if he could be off the medicine 05:12 he certainly could. Now which book? 05:13 Now I talked about the book 05:15 that I've just written "The Ultimate Prescription" 05:17 because I think it gives a balance. 05:19 But that's not the only book. 05:20 There is many great book out there. 05:23 I want to send Roy to the Bible too. 05:25 The Bible has a great diet in the Garden of Eden, 05:28 fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains. 05:30 In fact, the story of Daniel. 05:32 Remember that story of Daniel? 05:34 That was put in the Bible for a reason. 05:36 These fellows, Charles, they were brought to a foreign land 05:39 and their diets were much different. 05:41 And these fellows said, "Listen, we want to eat 05:43 what our parents taught us to eat was the healthiest diet 05:45 which is pulse and water. Vegetables and water." 05:49 The fellows didn't want to go along with those 05:51 'cause they had to conform to everyone else. 05:53 "You gotta to be like everyone else. 05:54 This is our society. This is the best thing for you." 05:56 You heard that before, right? Absolutely. 05:58 Everyday on the television. 06:00 Yeah, well, it's not necessarily the best thing 06:01 for these fellows and they stood up 06:03 for what was right. 06:04 They stood up for truth as they knew it 06:05 what their mom and dad taught them. 06:07 And after a short period of time 06:09 their brains they were 10 times smarter than the king's men. 06:12 Now these were-- this story was put in the Bible 06:15 for a reason that God can be trusted, 06:17 He is true and it does matter 06:19 what we eat to how our body functions. 06:22 So I wanna encourage Roy to get back to the Bible 06:24 not only to get the power to make the changes 06:27 but to learn about the different diets. 06:28 There's tons of great diet books out there. 06:31 But the bottom-line is as we eat more fresh stuff 06:33 fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains, 06:35 decrease our calories. 06:37 Exercise, exercise is important too. 06:39 He might--Roy, you might be up to be off these medications. 06:43 Now you've used the word "Excess weight" 06:45 several times in this program and other programs. 06:48 You say, "You know, if you have excess weight" 06:50 what do you mean by excess weight? 06:52 Give us a description for that. 06:53 There is some fancy things that you can do 06:55 and they call body mass indexes. 06:57 And if you add your body mass index 06:59 and it's above a certain number, you're considered obese. 07:03 If it's above another number, you're considered overweight. 07:05 But what I tell people if you wanna do it 07:07 simple just take all your clothes off, 07:09 get naked in front of the mirror, 07:11 look at yourself and you see things hanging, 07:14 you probably need to lose a few. Okay. All right. 07:17 But if you want to, go to google it body mass index 07:20 and you can look that up yourself. 07:21 And it's different for different ages and different genders. 07:24 Body mass index. Okay. 07:27 All right. Here is Lorie. 07:28 It doesn't say where she is writing from. 07:30 But Lorie says, "I am in a doughnut hole." 07:34 I guess that means something to where we live. 07:36 Are generic medications as good as the real ones. 07:41 And what about over- the-counter medications? Yeah. 07:44 Well, let me talk-- some of you might not know 07:46 what a doughnut hole is, some of you might. 07:48 That's sort of a term we use in medicine 07:50 it's right the few years before--when you quit work 07:53 you no longer have insurance and it's the years right 07:56 before you get qualified for government insurance. 07:58 Okay. All right. 07:59 We call that the doughnut hole. 08:00 You're sort of unprotected at that point. Okay. 08:03 And, you know, so all the healthcare 08:05 becomes much more expensive at that time 08:07 'cause you don't have any insurance to help defray costs. 08:10 Healthcare as everyone knows is expensive. 08:12 The medicines, the treatments these are gigantic bills. 08:15 And that's why we have all these healthcare problems 08:17 that we have in our country now. 08:19 And part of the problem, Charles, regarding this is 08:22 we are not doing what's right personally. 08:24 We've sort of created a lot of the problems 08:26 by the way we've lived. 08:28 But she wants--you know, when people are 08:29 in the doughnut hole medications real ones, okay, 08:33 the brand names can be very expensive. 08:35 But most of the brand names now have generic equivalents 08:38 that are much cheaper. 08:40 Some only costing $4.00-$5.00 a month. 08:43 And the way it is when a medicine is released, 08:45 it's so expensive for them to develop the research 08:48 and development that there's a pattern 08:50 and they're protected from going generic 08:52 for a period of years depending on the medication. 08:54 They wanna get their money back. Right. 08:56 Now is there some danger to generics? 08:57 Yes, there is some dangers. 08:59 There's dangers to every medicine. 09:00 There's danger generic. 09:02 Sometimes, you know, there's counterfeit medications. 09:04 That's sometimes people aren't giving you 09:06 what they say they're giving you. 09:08 That's mainly seen in foreign countries. 09:10 We see a lot of counterfeit medicines. 09:12 Also they package these medicines 09:14 in different products and sometimes 09:16 the amount in the medicines in milligrams 09:19 can be either less or more. 09:20 For instance, I prescribed a medication called Coumadin. 09:23 That's a blood thinner. 09:25 And that medicine engineered Coumadin, 09:27 which is called warfarin could be a little bit 09:29 less or a little bit more. 09:31 Well, when I'm adjusting your blood 09:32 to prevent blood clots, which can cause strokes 09:35 or if the blood is too thin you could cause bleeding, 09:37 I don't wanna 20 or 30% air in a medicine. 09:40 I wanna exactly as much as in it. 09:42 So in this medicine our practice never uses generics. 09:45 There are some other medicines that are generic 09:47 that probably work okay, but the dose isn't quite as exact. 09:51 The medicine is not quite as perfect, 09:53 but the savings, so you have to balance 09:54 the risk of the generic medicine 09:56 versus the benefits of the saving to the wallet. 09:59 You know, and sometimes the wallet factor's significant. 10:01 Yes. Absolutely. 10:02 And, you know, I've had some people on, 10:04 you know, $5 and $600 a month in medication bills. 10:08 That's not too uncommon in my practice. 10:09 I've seen some people on as many 10:11 when they came in as many as 15 to 20 medications. 10:14 And you add up all the costs of that 10:16 and that can be prohibitive not to mention the costs 10:19 in healthcare in side-effects. 10:21 So back to this question here from Lorie, 10:24 you know, are the generic medicines is good, Lorie? 10:27 They're not quite as good 10:28 but in some cases they are acceptable. 10:30 This is a good one to review with your doctor 10:32 and ask him is this worth the benefit? 10:34 And these over-the-counter, 10:35 she asked about the over-the-counter medications. 10:37 Can they be trusted? 10:38 Are they what they say they are? 10:40 Over-the-counter medications can be very dangerous, Lorie. 10:44 And we see some that have been, you know, these ones 10:46 that have pseudoephedrine, which makes methamphetamines 10:50 that can cause dangerous heart rhythms 10:51 and all sorts of addiction problems. 10:53 They use it to make methamphetamines. 10:55 We see Tylenol. 10:56 Tylenol right now is a number one cause of liver failure. 10:59 Some people abuse Tylenol. 11:01 Some of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, 11:04 the number one cause of bleeding 11:05 ulcers is that medicines. 11:07 So these over-the-counters we have to be very careful with. 11:09 Not to mix and match. 11:11 And not to mix them with your other medications 11:13 that your doctor might be prescribing. 11:15 So you got to be very careful with over-the-counters. 11:17 You got to know what you're doing what these medicines. 11:19 Because we're talking about a very serious thing here. 11:21 We're talking about a lot of people who suffered greatly 11:24 because of the prescriptions that they're downing. 11:28 And because of their not understanding it 11:31 or misdiagnosed or misuse of it. 11:34 We've to be very careful with this. 11:35 So if you have to take a prescription-- 11:37 if you've to take a medicine, please spend a lot of time 11:39 with your doctor and make sure you understand 11:41 exactly what that doctor wants you to do 11:44 and how he wants you to do it 11:45 and when he wants you to do it. 11:47 And just really, really concentrate on that. 11:49 Because the results of not doing it right can take you out 11:53 and we don't want that to happen. Okay. 11:55 When we come back 11:56 we're gonna have a piece of medicine for you 11:59 that is as powerful as any on earth. Stay tuned. 12:11 Unfortunately, there are deceptions 12:13 in the world we live in. 12:15 And there has been deceptions 12:16 all the way back to the Garden of Eden. 12:19 But also there is truth that exists as well. 12:22 And I want you as you watch 12:25 to think about truth in your life. 12:27 Do you understand where to find truth? 12:30 Are you being deceived out there? 12:32 Are there healthcare practices in your life 12:34 that might be hurting you? 12:36 These are all very important things to know 12:38 and to think about. 12:40 Many people call and write and email us 12:42 about wanting prayer for healing. 12:45 We always wanna do this. 12:46 This is the most valuable treatment 12:48 we can have for disease 'cause God can heal, 12:51 God can change lives. 12:53 And we wanna at this time bow our heads 12:56 and ask Him for His healing power right now. 12:59 Father God, we want to thank You for always being with us, 13:02 for giving us strength when we're tired. 13:05 For helping us to understand Your will in our lives. 13:08 We might be being deceived, Father, 13:10 and we want You to help show us the truth. 13:13 Father, there are those that need healing 13:15 and we wanna pray for each one of them 13:16 that has written in or called us 13:18 to the website that You might heal 13:20 according to Your will. 13:21 Father, there's some that might not have entered 13:24 into a relationship with You, Father. 13:26 Help that individual wherever they might be at this time 13:29 to make that decision to start this relationship with You 13:32 that will lead to ultimate healing. 13:35 All these things we ask acknowledging 13:38 that You're the Savior that we love 13:40 and want to be with forever. Amen. 13:44 I hope you've learned something today about your health, 13:47 about deceptions, about truth. 13:51 And I'm not claiming to have all the answers, 13:53 but I know where you can find the answers. 13:55 That's with the ultimate physician. 13:57 And thank you for joining us today 13:59 on the Ultimate Prescription. |
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