Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00014A
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00:01 The following program presents principles designed
00:02 to promote good health and is not intended to take 00:05 the place of personalized professional care. 00:07 The opinions and the ideas 00:09 expressed are those of the speaker. 00:10 Viewers are encouraged to draw their own conclusions 00:13 about the information presented. 00:17 There's a medical emergency in which the very first symptom 00:20 you experience is sudden death. 00:23 You might want to stay tuned. 00:26 I'm Dr. James Marcum, are you interested 00:29 in discovering the reason why? 00:31 You want solutions to your health care problems. 00:34 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:37 Well, you're about to be given the Ultimate Prescription. 00:42 Today we begin our series on what is killing us 00:45 at the very top of the list heart disease. 00:48 You think we take really good care of the one and only ticker 00:51 that we have, but we don't. 00:53 And we're paying a terrible price for that oversight. 00:55 Dr. Marcum is here to help us to learn 00:57 what to do and what not to do. 00:59 As we attempt to keep our hearts going and going and going. 01:04 Dr. Marcum, heart disease number one killer. 01:07 What are we doing wrong? 01:09 Yeah, well, one of the things 01:11 we are not doing well is the stress factor 01:15 and we think about what leads people to heart disease, 01:17 we think about these risk factors. 01:20 Everyone knows about cigarettes, 01:22 everyone knows that diabetes increase 01:24 the risk of heart attack, high blood pressure increases 01:27 the risk of heart attack, high cholesterol. 01:30 We now know that people 01:31 that gain extra weight are at increased 01:34 risk of having a heart attack. 01:35 But what I like to tell people is stress, 01:38 stress on a body raises the chance of us 01:41 having a heart attack and when you think about it, 01:43 what is the definition of stress? 01:46 If I scare you Charles. That would be a-- 01:48 Yeah, your adrenaline goes up. 01:49 Yes, thank you very much. 01:51 Well, can you imagine what would be the case 01:53 if your adrenaline's up day in and day out. 01:56 The chemistry that it makes, it makes adrenaline, cortisol, 01:59 inflammatory markers damages 02:02 the inside lining of blood vessels, 02:04 makes you more likely to constrict the blood vessels, 02:06 raises your blood pressure 02:08 and then we're under extreme stress, we had bad habits. 02:11 Some people drink alcohol, 02:13 some people sleep all day long, some people watch T.V, 02:17 some people smoke cigarettes or take drugs, 02:19 well, these aren't the way to deal with stress. 02:22 But stress day in and day out 02:24 raises the risk of heart attack. 02:25 Of course cigarettes cause stress, 02:27 diabetes cause stress but there is many things 02:29 that we don't even think about that causes stress. 02:32 So I define stress as anything that we 02:35 do that goes against the owners manual. 02:38 You know, God gave us this template back at creation 02:41 and we do things that stray from that, 02:44 these stress chemistries turn on. 02:46 Now unfortunately our relatives did things 02:49 and we had genetic stress 02:51 and there are some doctors out there that say, 02:54 you can never have a heart attack 02:55 if you eat perfect and exercise and do that. 02:58 Well, I disagree with that because one in five people 03:01 can still have a genetic stress that's passed out. 03:05 I took care of a gentleman not long ago, 03:07 57-years-old he comes in the office Charles 03:10 and he had a heart attack, and he says, 03:12 how could I have a heart attack? 03:14 You know, I'm a vegan I don't eat anything from dairy meat. 03:17 I exercise 45 minutes a day 03:20 and I had a heart attack at 57. 03:21 He was really bummed out 03:23 because he had done everything perfect. 03:25 And then I asked him how old was your dad 03:27 when he had his heart attack? 03:29 He said, how did you know? 03:30 He was 40 years old when your dad had his first one. 03:33 So in his case he had prevented a heart attack 03:36 by 17 years old--17 years just by taking good care of his body. 03:41 So anyway he felt bummed but he was glad 03:44 we did have modern medicine 03:46 because that stent helped open up his artery 03:48 and now we're doing everything else 03:50 we can to keep that stent happy, 03:52 so stress on a system, things that we do 03:54 that we weren't designed to do. 03:56 Remember we're originally designed to rest one day a week. 03:59 That's right. But when we don't do that, 04:00 stress on a body raises the risk of heart attack. 04:03 We're designed to drink water 04:04 and not a lot of other beverages, 04:06 when we do that stress on the body. 04:08 We were designed to be outside doing things, 04:11 when we don't do that, stress on the body. 04:12 We were never designed to sit at the desk all day long 04:16 working with computer. 04:17 Do you do that Charles? 04:19 Absolutely and unfortunately I try to find 04:21 as much time during the days 04:23 I possibly can to get out there and stop doing that. 04:25 You bring up and interesting point this genetics here. 04:28 So in other words even if we do all the other things 04:31 we can do right, there's still this possibility, 04:33 this one in five that there is going 04:36 to be an event in our lives that has to do with our hearts. 04:39 Is there anything we can do about that event? 04:42 Yes, and that's what I'm saying, 04:43 there are certain things that can trigger bad genetics. 04:46 Stress can trigger bad genetics. 04:48 And now that they sequence the genome 04:51 we know all about these cells and proteins. 04:53 We're now learning about different triggers 04:55 that raise the risk of having a heart attack. 04:58 We know that there's cancer genes, 05:00 we know things like cigarettes 05:01 and certain chemical turned on genome 05:03 and predisposed us to cancer. 05:05 Well, in the future our genetics 05:06 we might be able to figure out which people have genes 05:09 and what are susceptible things that cause it? 05:11 But we know for sure that stress on the body 05:14 raises the risk of having a heart attack. 05:16 So when I talk about what causes a heart attack, 05:19 I say anything that stresses the body 05:21 can cause a heart attack. 05:22 And now, I'm going to go off the road a little bit, 05:25 think about it we're also originally 05:27 designed to worship our God. 05:30 When we don't do that, 05:31 that could raise our risk of having heart attack. 05:34 We were originally designed to love each other. 05:37 When we don't do that, we can raise 05:38 the risk of having heart attack. 05:40 We're originally designed to serve each other. 05:43 When we're selfish, we could raise 05:45 the chance of having heart attack. 05:47 Also we now are finding out that our brain. 05:49 Its important things we eat that can raise 05:51 the risk of having heart attack. 05:52 And there some great books out and there are some documentary, 05:55 'forks Over Knives', let us know 05:57 that the vegan diet helps keep us 05:58 at the lowest possible risk. 06:01 Dr. Esselstyn's did some great studies 06:03 about diet lowing the risk of heart attack. 06:05 While I'm saying in the future, 06:07 we're gonna find out that the brain 06:08 is just as important as what we eat. 06:10 Did you know that people that watch violent T.V, 06:13 people that watch pornography, people that worry have guilt 06:17 that raises their risk of having a heart attack 06:19 by increasing the stress chemicals in the body. 06:22 So it might be more dangerous to watch a violent T.V, 06:27 than to smoke a pack of cigarettes, 06:28 what it does chemically. 06:29 And if you go back at creation, 06:31 we were never designed for these things. 06:33 Again another stressor, now, 06:35 we're learning all the mind stressors. 06:37 Guilt for instance, we weren't designed to feel guilty. 06:40 We were designed to be un-guilty. 06:42 Yes. We were designed to have a loving God. 06:44 Now when we see God as a mean God 06:46 that could create stress on our body too. 06:49 So all these things raise 06:51 a chance of having a heart attack. 06:53 Now, let me tell you little bit about what a heart attack is. 06:55 Lot a people don't understand what a heart attack is. 06:57 But what a heart attack is the blood 06:59 doesn't get to the heart muscle and then it malfunctions. 07:04 It can cause dangerous rhythm. 07:06 It can cause a valve to malfunction. 07:09 The heart wall could break open, 07:11 but the most common thing we have 07:13 is a condition called arrhythmia. 07:15 Now, there's four major causes of heart attack. 07:19 Now you can have a heart attack with a completely normal artery 07:22 and I see you've got an artery there. Yes, I do. 07:24 I've a representation for an artery, 07:25 this is not a real one. Our's are really small. 07:28 You now, that would be an elephant artery. 07:32 No, I'm looking at this first artery and it looks pretty good, 07:34 there's lots of room through here. 07:36 Now, did you know, that you can have a heart attack 07:38 with completely normal artery, 07:40 especially if it does something called spasm. 07:43 The artery can just clamp down and then open up. 07:46 Like a hose a garden of hose. Yes, exactly. All right, okay. 07:49 Now what might cause that? 07:50 Well, there are certain drugs that can cause that, 07:52 one that causes that it's called cocaine 07:55 that can constrict an artery. Even an open artery? 07:57 Yes, that's completely normal. 07:59 If people are high up in altitude, hypoxia, 08:03 low oxygen can trigger that artery to spasm. 08:06 We also know that cigarettes sometime can trigger a spasm. 08:10 But there is a condition called the broken heart syndrome, 08:13 were you have extreme emotion, 08:15 extreme--like someone dies quickly 08:18 and all that adrenaline comes a massive amount of adrenaline 08:22 can cause that artery to spasm and then it opens up. 08:25 So when we see that the person is having a heart attack, 08:27 the symptoms of the heart attack, 08:29 chest pain, they can't breathe, pain in the neck 08:33 and then we go in and take pictures of the arteries, 08:35 and we find that the arteries is crystal clear. 08:37 Now, those don't happen very much. 08:39 Another type of heart attack is 08:41 when you have a plaque in your artery. Oh, oh, oh, oh. 08:43 I think that's represented here, 08:44 I'm beginning to see something building up right here. 08:47 That's a little plaque 08:49 and it can actually start in your youth now. Okay. 08:52 Making those fatty deposits that lipids, 08:54 that's cholesterol in the arteries 08:56 and through the years it can get more 08:58 and then this plaque can actually explode, 09:02 rupture suddenly. 09:03 Other words it's like a little pimple--Yes. 09:06 With contents that there is calcium 09:07 and there's stuff in there, right? 09:09 Let me, show me the next one. 09:10 Okay, here's the next one right here, 09:11 look at this, look at this. 09:13 Yeah, and that is a little bit more lipid 09:15 or cholesterol in the arteries 09:16 and we can see it building up on the wall 09:18 which is called endothelium. 09:20 There all these stresses can cause plaque to rupture 09:23 and when it ruptures it's like a pimple 09:25 and what happens if I cut you? 09:26 All of a sudden your body 09:28 would try to repair by clotting it off. 09:30 So we can clot off this artery and no blood goes to the heart. 09:34 Dangerous rhythms, dangerous blood flow, 09:36 dangerous malfunctions of the heart. 09:38 Half of all heart attacks come without warning. 09:41 So heart attack is really a hidden disease. 09:44 So people can be walking around in the audience today 09:47 and have this type of blockage and not even know it. 09:49 And the way we prevent that is again, 09:52 get back to all the things that stress our body 09:54 whether that be cholesterol or blood pressure or smoking 09:58 or extra weight can stress us, lack of sleep can stress us, 10:01 lack of water, we want to lower those stresses 10:04 so that plaque doesn't rupture. 10:06 I would have imagined that if you have a build up like this 10:08 in your body and then you have the stress of loosing someone, 10:13 then you have the stress of the tiger chasing you 10:15 and this--doesn't have as much room to constrict. 10:17 It's that much worse. Okay, got you, got you. 10:20 Now, the last type of heart attack 10:22 is the heart attack that you gradually build up cholesterol 10:25 and lipids in your body year after year after year. 10:28 That's pretty bad. You clog up the arteries, 10:30 and this is not only happening in the heart, Charles. 10:33 But this can be happening in the legs, 10:34 in the brain and the kidney arteries 10:36 and then it gets so filled up with plaque. 10:39 Usually a person has a symptom first 10:41 when they have this type of heart attack. 10:42 They'll notice whenever they do too much 10:44 something doesn't feel right, 10:45 because you're not getting enough blood out to the heart 10:48 and then it needs more blood when you're exercising. 10:50 So let's say you're walking up the hill, 10:52 or you know, grocery shopping 10:53 and you feel something doesn't feel right here 10:56 'cause you need more blood in your heart 10:57 and you stop and it goes away 10:59 and that's what we call angina. 11:02 And you start feeling that. Well, this could be a sign that 11:04 this is going on in the arteries of heart. 11:06 And if it's ignored, it could lead to a heart attack 11:10 and a heart attack is devastating 11:12 'cause even in America people still die all the time 11:15 from having a heart attack 11:17 and that symptom that might be anything like us. 11:19 Some people think its indigestion, 11:21 some people think it's a pain in the chest that won't go away, 11:24 to some women all they feel is shortness of breath 11:26 or extremely fatigue. 11:28 But what I tell when it comes to symptoms Charles 11:30 is anything above the waist that doesn't feel right, 11:34 they won't go away or even going up to the neck 11:36 or the back that could be a heart symptom. 11:39 So if someone's feeling a heart symptoms, 11:41 the best thing not to do is sit at home. 11:44 You want to get treatment right away 11:46 'cause we have some great modern medicine 11:47 that can open up these arteries, 11:49 that can help avoid this big heart attack 11:51 which could kill you 11:53 and then after we get over that. 11:55 Then we work at all the 'causes that might be causing. 11:58 We work on all the stress 12:00 so this might not ever happen to a person again. 12:02 Of course this brings us a question. 12:03 If by chance you get to this point 12:06 where you have this kind of build up. 12:08 Is there anything you can do 12:10 I mean medicine of course will fill in the blood so 12:14 it goes through there easier. 12:15 Is there something that you can do 12:17 that will help you get rid of this stuff. 12:19 Yes, in fact, we have a very famous president right now, 12:22 that's working on things. He's doing a lot of exercise, 12:26 he's on a vegan diet. 12:27 We have shown people that exercise, eat a good diet, 12:31 have fresh, fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains. 12:34 Keep their cholesterol very low. Sometimes even take a Statin, 12:37 that can actually regress the artery. Wow. 12:40 And another thing that we can do that means 12:41 the plaque gets less over time.Right. 12:43 And it's really up to your genetics 12:45 whether that's possible. 12:47 But another thing that we can do 12:48 when we exercise and do these things is we help grow new, 12:51 new arteries around. Okay. 12:53 So we have a great blood supply that goes through these. 12:55 So we can actually bypass this somehow. 12:57 Yeah, we can send extra blood to the areas of the heart. 12:59 But the point I want to make 13:01 is heart attacks is a serious things. 13:02 So if your having symptoms, you don't know 13:04 what is from above the waist up, you need to get help right way. 13:07 You might be having one of these four types of heart attacks. 13:10 This is when you need acute modern medicine right away, 13:13 and after that's taken care of then we can back up 13:15 and talk about what cause it to happen. 13:17 Oh, that is perfect, that is a good example 13:19 then of the modern medicine and the lifestyle 13:22 both of them are important and both of them have a place 13:25 and if you look like this 13:27 it might be time quickly for a little bit of both. 13:29 You might want to check that out. 13:31 We'll take a short break and when we come back 13:32 we're going to answer your questions 13:34 from the Heartwise ministries web site, 13:35 so stay right where you are. 13:37 You won't want to miss this. |
Revised 2014-12-17