Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00017A
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00:01 The following program presents principles designed
00:03 to promote good health and is not intended to take 00:05 the place of personalized professional care. 00:08 The opinions and the ideas expressed 00:09 are those of the speaker. 00:11 Viewers are encouraged to draw 00:12 their own conclusions about the information presented. 00:16 You'd think they'd know better, 00:18 surprisingly many do, they just don't bother to warn us. 00:23 Think of today's show as that warning. Stay tuned. 00:28 I'm Dr. James Marcum. 00:29 are you interested in discovering the reason why? 00:33 You want solutions to your healthcare problems. 00:36 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:38 Well, you're about to be given the Ultimate Prescription. 00:43 We've come to depend on modern medicine 00:44 to cure our ills, 00:46 one problem modern medicine can't even cure the common cold 00:51 what it can do and do very well 00:53 is keep us alive long enough for nature to take its course 00:56 and bring about the needed healing, 00:58 but sometimes in its attempt to keep us alive 01:01 modern medicine does just the opposite. 01:04 Let's talk with cardiologist Dr. James Marcum, 01:06 about what's killing us and what we need to know to survive. 01:09 Dr. Marcum, I think today's show 01:11 may surprise some people. I think so too. 01:13 A lot of people, we're talking about 01:16 the leading causes of death. 01:18 We're also talking about ways 01:19 we can lower the risk of death. 01:21 We're also talking about all these interesting things, 01:24 but lot of people don't realize and its not in the literature 01:27 that one of the leading causes of death 01:29 in the world is medications. 01:32 Medications can kill, I've seen it every single month 01:38 in my practice someone has a bad medical reaction. 01:42 There is a place for modern medicine, but you know, 01:45 Heath Ledger never planned on dying, 01:48 Michael Jackson never planned on dying. 01:51 Recently it's been found that people are mixing narcotics 01:54 and they're mixing alcohol with these medication and guess what? 01:58 They quit breathing 01:59 in the middle of the night and dying. 02:01 We have patients that don't take their medications correctly. 02:05 We have mistakes at every aspect in the production 02:08 you know, a lot of our active ingredients now 02:10 are not made where we think they are, 02:12 they might be made in a foreign country 02:14 like China or India. 02:16 These people are great people but we heard about 02:18 the heparin scare not too long ago. 02:20 Well, the active ingredients are often made somewhere else 02:23 and sometimes the people that are putting 02:25 these medications together aren't the best educated, 02:28 then when they get over here sometimes things are mislabeled 02:31 I can remember not too long ago I had a patient 02:34 that had a dangerous heart rhythm 02:37 and she got in the mail 02:38 something from her drug manufacturer said 02:41 oh, your medication might have three times 02:43 the amount of drug unit that its suppose to. 02:46 Oh, my goodness. 02:47 Well, you know, how would that feel, 02:49 and then we have people 02:50 that make mistakes in reading doctor's handwriting. 02:52 Now didn't they tell you that too, 02:54 didn't someone say to you, 02:56 Dr. Marcum, Cardiologist Dr. Marcum, 02:58 when you prescribed this medicine, 02:59 by the way it may have three times 03:02 the amount of potency that you think it is? Right. 03:04 And that kills people. 03:06 Yes, but they send it after effect 03:08 oh, a mistake has been made. 03:10 Well, in human nature mistakes made at every level. 03:13 Mistakes were made in the nursing, in the hospital, 03:17 mistakes were made by doctors, 03:18 they might write the wrong milligrams 03:20 you know, mistakes were made, 03:22 some of these medication had words 03:23 that sound a lot alike not only that, 03:27 but sometimes the mistake 03:28 were made by the patients themselves. 03:30 So mistakes at every level 03:31 and sometimes I see people on 15 to 20 medication, Charles, 03:35 that's a lot of medications. 03:37 So we want to let people know today 03:41 that medications can kill you, and if there's any way 03:44 you can change your chemistry 03:46 other than taking a medication 03:48 you know, medication just change your chemistry, 03:50 if there is any other way you can change your chemistry 03:53 let's do it, so we don't have to have all the medications, 03:57 all the medications side effects, 03:58 the mistakes that can be made at every level 04:01 from manufacturing, to doctors, to pharmacies, 04:04 to hospitals, to patients themselves, 04:07 to drug interactions, to well meaning people-- 04:11 Let me tell you a story not too long ago I heard. 04:13 A patient was in the nursing home 04:15 and she'd been taking a water pill 04:17 'cause her leg swell everyday, 04:18 that's called a diuretic and the water pills great 04:21 it takes fluid out of the bodies, Sodium, 04:23 but it also takes potassium out of the body. 04:26 Well, she got sick with an infection, 04:29 she wasn't eating or drinking, 04:30 but guess what was still being given to her? 04:32 Her water pill was still giving to her day after day 04:35 and sooner or later her potassium left her body, 04:38 her kidneys went into failure and she basically died 04:41 from dehydration and we see things like this all the time. 04:45 Another example I saw is someone that was taking 04:48 a blood sugar medicine, because they were diabetic 04:51 but they weren't eating or drinking, 04:52 their blood sugar went low, 04:54 they went into a coma and then we also-- 04:58 have you heard this word called anaphylaxis? 04:59 Oh, yes, oh, yes. Yeah. 05:01 Anaphylaxis is when the body's immune system 05:03 attacks the medication most likely 05:06 you see it with antibiotics, 05:07 you know, occasionally, you hear an antibiotic causing this. 05:11 I can remember as a third year medical student 05:14 at the University of Texas where I went to school. 05:16 I can remember a child in the emergency room 05:20 having an anaphylactic reaction from an antibiotic, 05:23 and they could not bring that child back, 05:25 he was only eight-years-old. 05:27 So medications do kill us, 05:30 it's a problem we have in American. 05:32 Now, Dr. Marcum, you have a display 05:33 right over here of a lot of medications 05:36 and what's surprises me is that 05:39 I see some herbs thrown in here. 05:41 Are we talking about the, the combinations there of, 05:46 I mean, if you take this herb 05:48 with that medication, you gonna have a problem? 05:50 Well, that's a great observation, Charles, 05:52 and remember medications change your body's chemistry. 05:56 So when we take a medication we're assuming 05:59 that its given to us for the right reason. 06:02 We're assuming that the person that prescribes this knows 06:04 all the intricacies of our body. Okay-- 06:08 How could, they can possibly know that? 06:09 Well, I know. There is no way. 06:11 And that's why there's always risk. 06:12 We're assuming that the body will not attack-- 06:16 have an anaphylactic reaction no matter what we take 06:19 and I've yet to see a medication 06:20 that doesn't have a side effect. Really? 06:22 I've yet to see one and you seen them on the you know, 06:24 they put the commercial up and they say 06:26 oh, this medication can help this and then he says 06:29 oh, by the way it can cause this, this, this 06:31 and you might die from the medication. 06:33 Yes. I mean, it is scary. 06:36 Take sudden death as a symptom 06:38 or as a side effect of a medication, 06:39 you should think--Yeah, but getting back 06:41 to your herb question, 06:42 and I think that's a great question. 06:43 Well, anything that we put in your body can change 06:46 a chemistry reaction and that's why we talked 06:49 on this program about you know, 06:50 our food that can change our chemistry 06:52 both the bad and the good. 06:54 The good food can treat us make better chemistry, 06:56 the bad food can damage us can cause stress reactions. 06:59 We talked about our thoughts, 07:01 our thoughts can change our chemistry reaction 07:03 we talked about noise, 07:04 the things we smell all have chemical reactions. 07:07 Well, herbs are nothing more to me as medications 07:11 in fact most of my prescription medications that I do 07:14 and there is a place for modern medicine, 07:16 but you always have to balance 07:17 the risk of the medication 07:19 versus the benefits of the medication. 07:22 And unfortunately people aren't doing that, 07:24 we're going to the office nowadays and someone says 07:26 oh, I can't sleep well, here's a sleeping pill, 07:29 I have acidity in my stomach, here's an acid pill, 07:32 I have a joint pain well, here's a pain pill, 07:36 you know, I'm anxious well, here's an anxiety pill, 07:39 I'm depress, here's a depression pill, 07:41 my blood pressure too high, here's a blood pressure pill. 07:43 You know, and before long you're on the lot of medications 07:46 that interact and then you see something 07:48 on the internet about an herb. 07:50 Now the herbs are not in United States 07:53 they are not regulated, so we really don't know 07:55 whether it's a placebo or a real pill 07:57 we don't know the amounts 07:59 and of course these can interact with other things too. 08:02 Now some herbs are very useful 08:03 and I use a few herbs in the practice of cardiology, 08:07 that strengthen the heart, that help the circulation. 08:09 I use a few but I know them very well, 08:11 I know the dosage and I know the manufacturers 08:13 are actually putting those substances in that bottle. 08:17 I'm not too long ago we tested one of these super pills 08:21 to see what was in it 08:22 and it was nothing more than a sugar pill. 08:24 Well, why did that make people feel better, placebo. 08:28 You know, if the mind thinks You're feeling better 08:30 so you do feel better, but medications can kill 08:33 so even I consider an herbal medication 08:35 anything you put in the body 08:37 that changes chemistry can be a-- 08:40 now what about these substances over the counters. 08:43 You know, we get this energy drinks. 08:45 Well, they have chemicals 08:46 likes inositol or ephedrine in them, 08:48 that make the heart race. 08:50 They have all sorts of things. 08:51 Now we also hear about chemicals 08:52 that people are putting in their bodies 08:55 that weren't made to put in their body 08:57 and it stimulates all sorts of things to go crazy. 08:59 So medications, herbs and all these things have their place 09:04 but they can also be very dangerous 09:05 and lot of people don't realize 09:07 that now its one of the leading causes of death in America. 09:11 And one of the problems we have is our society 09:13 is over medicated and for pain you know, 09:16 for while the doctors would say, 09:18 oh, you're ignoring chronic pain, 09:20 and so we went the other way 09:22 and now everyone gets a pain medication. 09:24 So they get lots of pain medications 09:27 they mix and match these, 09:28 the world is a stressful situation 09:31 and people want a quick fix. 09:33 We need to talk about a long term fix 09:36 and that's why at the Ultimate Prescription 09:38 we will let people know 09:40 there is a place for modern medicine 09:41 but its not what it is today 09:43 and medicines can kill you. 09:44 And--In other words the answer is not found here? No. 09:46 Don't think its here, 09:48 its not here. Where is the answer? 09:49 These are treating Symptoms, you know, 09:51 and we can treat symptoms other ways 09:53 and that's I wanna get hold of people and say, 09:55 listen, lets take example for sleeping pill. 09:58 Sleeping pills can kill people, the cognitive defects, 10:01 I had a gentleman in the hospital 10:02 couple of weeks ago, 10:04 he took a sleeping pill he was in his 80s 10:06 for the first time ever because he can't sleep, 10:08 its natural not to sleep in the hospital 10:10 but he took this common sleeping pill 10:12 and the next thing he knew 10:13 he was out butt naked in the middle of the street 10:15 he didn't even know he was out there. 10:17 It affects the way you think and he could get hit by a car, 10:20 he could have fell down the stairs 10:21 anything could have happened. 10:23 So that sleeping pill could have literally killed him. 10:26 For instance if you are on the sleeping pill 10:27 I would say, well, let's find out 10:29 why you don't sleep well. 10:30 Right. Let's be logical about this. 10:33 Is it because you take 10:35 too much stimulant early in the day 10:36 or is it because you're stimulating your mind 10:38 with television late at night. 10:40 Do you have medical condition called like sleep apnea 10:42 or prostate where you don't 10:45 empty your bladder well at night, 10:47 you have chronic pain, 10:49 you have other conditions that cause you not to sleep 10:51 and lets get at the cause rather than treat a symptom. 10:54 So if you treat a symptom 10:55 not only you still have the problem 10:57 but now you have the problem with the medicine 10:58 on top of that. Yes. But we see-- 11:00 And then they medicines that take care 11:01 of a symptoms of the medicines? 11:03 Exactly. Okay. 11:04 So, I had a fellow that came to me he was in his 30s 11:06 not too long ago and it all started, 11:09 you know, he had some pain blood pressure went up 11:14 and they started giving him a blood pressure medicine, 11:16 Okay, well, what that caused him 11:18 you know, to be weak and tired 11:20 so when he was weak and tired 11:22 you know, they gave him some supplements 11:24 sort of boost him up and that. 11:25 Well, one thing led to another 11:27 he started having some pain, they gave him a pain medicine, 11:29 he couldn't walk well at night, gained extra pounds, 11:32 develop diabetes, the diabetes got him bumped out, 11:35 so they put him on a antidepressant, 11:38 he gained some more weight, so he couldn't sleep all night, 11:40 took a sleeping pill at night. 11:42 He gained some more weight and he got sleeping apnea, 11:44 so they put a sleep mask on him, 11:46 he woke up in the morning, didn't have any energy 11:48 so he took it one of these amphetamine type pills 11:51 to speed him up during the day 11:54 because of all these, he had a lot of acid 11:55 build up in his body 11:57 so they put him on antacid pill, 11:59 he had a heart rhythm problem his heart started to go faster 12:01 they put him on a beta blocker before you know what, 12:04 he was in his 30s and on eight or nine medicines 12:07 and then guess what? 12:08 He comes and he says listen, I'm impotent what do I do? 12:12 So he says my doctor wants 12:14 to put me on an impotent medicine. 12:17 I go, wait a second here. 12:18 I go, two years ago what problem did you have? None. 12:24 You know, and the medicines might not have 12:25 killed him right away 12:27 but you do this long enough 12:28 there is this process called slow kill. 12:30 And how many people in a car 12:32 you know, that aren't thinking right 12:34 'cause there are medicines get in a rack. 12:36 Where they do things crazy because they're not under-- 12:38 because they're under the influence of medication. 12:41 So medicines can do- it can and do kill people 12:45 and I want our listeners to know this, it's a number one, 12:48 it's a large cause of death in America-- 12:51 Its climbing toward. Right, right-- 12:52 And you've made a prediction. 12:54 And in the world and we never can measure this, Charles, 12:56 we're gonna talk more about this later, 12:58 but we can't really put a measurement 12:59 because no one wants to admit they've made a mistake, 13:01 no one wants to admit that a medications 13:03 can kill people, they don't want to face up to it. 13:05 But medications is a leading cause of death 13:07 and if you're out there we want you to recognize this 13:10 and really question do I need this medicine, 13:12 or there's another way to change my chemistry. 13:15 I guess the message of today's program is 13:17 this is not the answer, 13:19 this is not a long term answer maybe a short term answer 13:21 it may get you through the event 13:23 that's happening in your life. 13:24 But the answer is not found here you go to the doctor 13:28 and you have something wrong and you ask for help 13:32 this will get you through the symptom, 13:33 but this is not the answer, very important. 13:37 When we come back we'll talk about the questions 13:38 that have been sent into Heartwise Ministries 13:40 and we'll answer those with Dr. James Marcum. 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Revised 2014-12-17