Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00018A
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00:16 Our bodies are pretty resilient...
00:18 They can take a lot of abuse, but there's one category 00:21 of abuse they CAN'T TAKE, stay tuned... 00:26 I'm Dr. James Marcum 00:27 Are you interested in discovering the reason WHY? 00:31 Do you want solutions to your health care problems? 00:34 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:36 Well, you're about to be given "The Ultimate Prescription" 00:43 Today we continue our discussion on the major causes of death, 00:46 and what we can do to minimize our risks. 00:49 We visit the doctor's office... 00:50 he or she hands us a prescription; 00:52 we merrily make our way to the drugstore, 00:54 and soon we're heading home with a brand new bottle 00:56 of pills sitting in that little white bag beside us. 00:59 All too often, what's in that little white bag 01:02 isn't what we need for healing! 01:04 As a matter-of-fact, we'd have a better chance 01:06 of survival if the bag contained a live rattlesnake. 01:10 Many medicines, even common ones, 01:12 ones that everyone is taking, 01:14 do more harm than good. 01:16 Dr. Marcum, am I being over-dramatic here? 01:19 Well you know, the rattlesnake was a little bit exciting there! 01:23 But no, you make some valid points, Charles, 01:25 and I think that we need to all think about 01:28 the points that you did make. 01:30 We have a billion dollar-plus industry going on here... 01:35 And whenever you have money and medicine mixed together, 01:39 there are going to be things that are done unscrupulously! 01:42 Whether it's as dangerous as a rattlesnake, I don't know... 01:45 But, if you add up some of the data that I've generated 01:48 over the last year, you might be right on base. 01:51 We talked earlier about how the medications 01:55 are sometimes not packaged correctly; 01:57 how mistakes are made... 01:58 And it only makes sense, the more and more 02:00 medicines you give, the more and more chance 02:02 you have to make a mistake. 02:03 But, what we didn't mention quite as much as I'd like 02:07 to emphasize in this program is how these medications 02:10 ...each one of them have what I call "an adverse reaction" 02:14 There's no medicine that acts alone, 02:16 it just treats one thing. 02:17 For instance, a blood pressure pill... 02:19 The blood pressure pill lowers your blood pressure, 02:22 but sometimes it can make it go TOO LOW. 02:25 How do I know what any pill on any given situation 02:28 what your blood pressure will be? 02:30 The same with blood sugar. 02:31 What about blood thinners? 02:33 All these medications can do some great things to help you, 02:37 but ALSO can do some great things to hurt you. 02:39 I think back about patients, 02:42 you know, whether patients even take these medications correctly 02:45 I remember a gentleman... 02:46 Now this is a story I heard... this is not my patient. 02:49 But he was told he had a condition called "angina. " 02:52 You know, one of the arteries was blocked, 02:54 and every time he walked, he would hurt, 02:56 and he would stop and it would go away. 02:58 So a treatment for that, one of the treatments, 03:00 is to give nitroglycerin and everyone has probably heard 03:03 of nitroglycerin. 03:04 Well this gentleman was given a nitroglycerin patch, 03:07 and his doctor wrote that off 0.4 mg every hour, 03:12 and he gave him a prescription for that patch. 03:14 Well this gentleman went home and he diligently 03:17 took that prescription day in and day out he took it... 03:20 And he said, "MAN DOC!" 03:22 He came back to the doctor a couple of weeks later 03:24 and said, "This medicine is making me feel WORSE" 03:27 "I feel like I'm going to DIE" 03:28 "I'm sick at my stomach all the time" 03:30 "I'm nauseated, I'm dizzy all the time" 03:33 He says, "I'd rather have angina than have this 03:36 nitroglycerin prescription. " 03:38 And he goes on and says, "You know, every time I eat it, 03:41 I get this funny taste in my mouth" 03:43 And the doctor goes, OH NO! 03:45 "You were eating the nitroglycerin patch?" 03:48 He said, "No, that is supposed to be put on your skin" 03:51 "You put it on your skin in the morning 03:53 and take it off at night" 03:54 The guy was eating the patch! 03:57 So this patch-eating fellow nearly killed himself 04:00 from the taking the medicine the wrong way. 04:03 Unfortunately, doctors aren't explaining 04:07 how to take medications; 04:08 they're not explaining what to watch out for. 04:10 One doctor will write for one medication; 04:13 another doctor will write for another one... 04:15 They will get in the body, they won't mix well. 04:17 Certain foods like grapefruit juice will inactivate 04:21 certain medications. 04:22 Certain conditions in the body, 04:24 whether it be dehydration or whether it be 04:27 lack of sleep even, or extra stress 04:30 can all make these medications act in ways 04:33 that we don't even explain. 04:35 But back to the adverse reactions... 04:37 I write medications all the time that help people's 04:41 heart rhythms. 04:42 The rhythms that go fast like atrial fibrillation, 04:45 or these dangerous rhythms... 04:47 Unfortunately, each of these medications, 04:48 on the bottom it says, 04:50 "This medication can also cause what we call, a "proarrhythmia" 04:54 Now that's not a professional rhythm, okay... 04:57 A proarrhythmia is a dangerous life-threatening rhythm. 05:00 Yes, yes, you don't want that. 05:01 No, and almost all these medications 05:03 can cause these extra fast rhythms, 05:05 and when they go too fast, guess what? 05:07 No blood pressure goes to the head, you pass out, 05:10 things go bad! 05:12 If that wasn't enough, if we talk about medications can kill, 05:16 I look back over all the medications 05:18 through the years that I used to give... 05:21 One for weight loss "Fen-phen" 05:22 We heard about that... 05:24 BOOM! It's off the market! Why is that? 05:25 Because it makes heart valves go bad. 05:27 For a while, we used to give a cholesterol medication 05:30 called "Baycol" 05:32 BOOM! It's off the market because it killed people's liver 05:35 I go back through the years... 05:37 One after one of these medications - off the market! 05:39 I'm sure people used to use Vyoxx and Celebrex... 05:42 that's off the market! 05:44 It caused people to have more heart attacks! 05:46 All the medicines that cause dangerous heart rhythms 05:49 ...once on the market, now OFF the market. 05:51 Now WHY didn't they figure this out BEFORE they gave it to us? 05:55 Well THAT is a GREAT question, Charles. 05:58 For years and years, it used to be the medications 06:02 used to be tested overseas on 06:04 the thousands and thousands of thousands of patients. 06:07 But now, and this happened probably about the time of HIV, 06:11 they wanted to get these medications 06:13 to the market quicker, 06:14 so all of a sudden, they became fast tracking medications, 06:17 so they didn't study them on as many people. 06:20 So literally, our PATIENTS are becoming the 06:24 post market surveillance system! 06:26 We're the TEST subjects in this stuff? 06:28 Unfortunately, so we're becoming... 06:30 you know they say, "Doctors write in when you see 06:33 bad things happen" 06:34 And unfortunately, medications can cause things to happen 06:37 and we don't even know it! 06:39 We've heard of some medications that cause people to think 06:42 crazy and even commit suicide. 06:44 We have some medications that it does what it's supposed to do 06:46 but, on some people, they don't take it right, 06:48 and it does MORE than it should do. 06:50 So as you can see, if you add up all the little things 06:53 that could happen with the medication, 06:55 not taking it right, mistakes in dosing... 06:59 and that happens in the hospital sometimes... 07:00 You know you make a mistake in dosing, 07:02 you put a little extra in the IV, 07:04 and things that we know the drug can do, 07:07 except it does it more than it should on any given person 07:10 ...All of a sudden, we have side-effects, people die, 07:13 and BAD things happen. 07:15 And it's just really, really sad because we need to 07:17 get the word out that these medications are a cause of death 07:21 They are used to treat symptoms, but we always have to balance 07:24 the RISK of the medication versus the benefit. 07:28 Every medication, Charles, is going to change your chemistry. 07:32 And what scares me the most is some of these 07:34 mind-altering medications. Oh my 07:36 And that would include things like... 07:38 anxiety pills, pills for sleeping at night, 07:42 pills for different psychiatric conditions, 07:46 and these medicines get in the body; 07:48 they make a person do crazy things, 07:50 and you don't even become yourself, 07:51 so you can't even think well! 07:53 So if you're not thinking well, and have to take medications 07:56 that could DAMAGE you, 07:58 sometimes you take more than you should; 08:00 sometimes you don't get it right, 08:01 and sooner or later, the chemistry inside 08:03 gets all messed up. 08:05 So I always wonder how many of the accidents that happen; 08:08 how many of the crimes that happen... 08:10 You know, how many of these guys you see are... 08:11 You know, we say, "Well, HOW COULD THIS GUY LOSE IT?" 08:14 Occasionally you hear some guy go CRAZY! 08:15 Well some of these might be medication or drug-induced. 08:18 And then, we have a lot of medicines that are legal 08:22 ...that maybe we shouldn't have them legal. 08:25 And we hear about these things like the amphetamines - 08:29 you know, you've heard about those. 08:32 They make these amphetamines and before not... 08:33 they take it to these met-mills... 08:36 They make methamphetamines... 08:37 They keep people literally addicted to these medicines 08:40 so they have to have more and more and MORE... and if I 08:43 think of the medications that cause addictions... 08:45 You know we have the pain medications, 08:47 that can lead to addiction... 08:49 You take one, it doesn't do the job, 08:50 you take 2, it doesn't do the job, 08:52 before you know it, you're taking WAY TOO MANY 08:54 to get the same effects. 08:55 The anxiety medicines, those are addictive medicines. 08:58 And before a lot, people are addicted to these medicines; 09:01 they can't come off it, they have to have their FIX 09:03 and at the same time, they usually make a person's 09:05 body do some bad things. 09:07 Some of these medications can cause 09:09 dangerous heart rhythms. 09:10 We think of the amphetamines, the Fen-phen. 09:12 Some of these can make you not breathe well 09:15 where you quit breathing at night. 09:17 So let's say you have a bad condition like sleep apnea... 09:20 You don't breathe well to begin with, 09:22 and you take too much narcotics - the pain medicine... 09:24 and then all of a sudden, your breathing mechanism 09:26 goes away and you quit breathing and guess what? 09:29 They find you passed away... 09:30 I saw a lady just 2 weeks ago in the hospital; 09:34 she was in the intensive care unit, 09:36 and she was 42 years old, and she had a hernia repair, 09:40 and she was addicted to narcotics. 09:42 She was taking pain medicines every day for a bad back... 09:45 And granted, she probably had a bad back, 09:48 but she kept taking those pain medicines day in and day out. 09:50 She also had to wear oxygen. 09:52 Well she came home and her husband noticed that, 09:55 you know, he put her to bed and sometimes she 09:58 got out of her head just because she took 09:59 too much pain medicines... he didn't worry about it. 10:01 So she was a little bit out of her head, not responding, 10:04 so he said... "Well I guess she needs more oxygen. " 10:06 So he turned up the oxygen. 10:09 He comes back 30 minutes later 10:10 and she's not responsive either. 10:13 So he calls EMS, they come and basically 10:15 she was flat-lined. 10:17 They work on her for 30 minutes. 10:19 The EMS, great guys, do everything they can... 10:21 GET her back! 10:23 Her heart is working fine, her kidneys start, 10:25 but the brain - the brain was hypoxic 10:27 for so long because of lack of oxygen, 10:29 it started to swell. 10:31 And she never got better for that, 10:32 and 2 days ago, they pulled her off the ventilator. 10:35 She was basically brain-dead. 10:37 Well, what caused that? 10:39 Well it was probably, she had gotten too much medication, 10:43 they didn't realize it. 10:44 Her loved ones said they were used to seeing this. 10:46 She got a little anesthetics 10:48 from the surgery the night before... 10:50 She got too much and before that she was unresponsive. 10:53 This kind of stuff HAPPENS EVERY DAY! 10:56 You know, I think about poor Michael Jackson... 10:58 He never planned on that; 11:00 he just wanted to sleep at night! 11:02 And over and over, we see people that mix drugs, alcohol 11:05 ...all these things together, 11:07 and they have some catastrophic events happen. 11:10 Dr. Marcum, I want to show you something over here... 11:12 You have a great display of drugs here, 11:15 and there are even some herbs thrown in here... 11:18 My question to you is... 11:20 Is there a database available to doctors that will 11:26 clearly say that this medication over here 11:29 should not be taken with this medication, 11:31 and if you're taking this herb, 11:33 you should not take that pill. 11:35 Is that database correct and usable? 11:38 Yeah well, there is information out there on the herbs 11:42 especially medicines like Coumadin, 11:44 which is a blood thinner that I use. 11:46 There is a whole list of medicines and herbs 11:49 and different things that can make it more active 11:51 than it should be so it makes you more likely 11:52 to bleed and also that makes it deactivated. 11:56 For instance, if you have blood clots... 11:57 Let's say you have a blood clot in your leg, Charles, 11:59 and I'm giving you Coumadin 12:01 to keep that blood clot doing well to thin out your blood... 12:05 And let's say you take some medications 12:07 or even EAT things that deactivate it... 12:09 Then all of a sudden, you're not taking a 12:11 blood thinner, you're taking nothing; 12:13 that clot could move around, go to your lungs, 12:16 cause a catastrophic pulmonary embolism, 12:18 and you can pass away. 12:20 So that medicine deactivated the medicine you need. 12:23 Or let's say you're on that medicine, 12:24 and you take some medicines that make it OVERLY active, 12:28 and you simply bump your head... 12:31 and normally you would just bruise a little bit, 12:33 but now because your blood is so thin, 12:35 the vessels are so fragile that you have a 12:37 terrible intracerebral bleed and you die. 12:41 OR, you're an older person and you get dehydrated 12:44 and you're mixing the medicines 12:46 and we measure how thin the blood is, 12:47 and you don't even know it, and you fall down the stairs 12:50 and break a hip! 12:51 And normally, you can stop bleeding from a hip fracture, 12:54 but when your blood is that thin, you don't stop bleeding, 12:57 and you literally bleed to death. 12:59 These things happen every day, Charles. 13:02 And medicines can kill, they're dangerous... 13:04 There are things available to look at it, 13:07 but how many people spend the time learning about 13:10 these toxic substances they put in the body. 13:13 Even doctors, as busy as we are nowadays, 13:15 we're not paying as much attention... 13:17 If I explained to every patient everything they needed to know 13:20 on every medication, I'd be there all day. 13:23 So there's a certain amount of personal responsibility 13:26 that each person has to take on THEMSELVES 13:29 to learn the medicines, the side effects, how to take them, 13:32 how NOT to take them, when to use them. 13:34 Now there is a place for modern medicine... 13:36 You know, medicines can really help, especially with symptoms. 13:39 Some medicines are very much needed even to help 13:42 save a life if you have a blood clot or serious condition... 13:45 But at the same time, these same medications 13:47 which help a person feel better, 13:49 can also have some dangerous side-effects... 13:51 that can also kill you. 13:53 And what I'm so concerned about now 13:55 is there are so many medications, 13:56 so many people taking them... 13:58 so many people wanting a quick fix, 14:00 that we have to have some real answers. 14:02 We have to find some real solutions! 14:04 And the solutions to our medical dilemma 14:07 is not to take another pill, not to have another procedure, 14:10 not to do this anymore! 14:11 We have to get at the real solution - 14:13 the real answers to health... 14:15 And that's why I like to get back to the Biblical model 14:18 that we have. Absolutely! 14:19 We'll take a short break and when we come back, 14:22 let's talk about some of the questions 14:23 that have been sent in to... 14:25 heartwiseministries. org 14:26 Everybody stay right where you are. |
Revised 2014-12-17