Welcome back to the
program, I'm Charles Mills
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We're here with Dr.
James Marcum, cardiologist
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And we're talking
about sleep apnea today.
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Sleep is important to us;
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it's VITALLY
important - as-a-matter-of-fact
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It delivers for 8
hours or 7 hours...
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OXYGEN while the
body heals itself,
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and it does all
kinds of work there,
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and if you don't have
that oxygen during those
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sleeping hours, you can have
all kinds of medical problems
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as Dr. Marcum has been saying.
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And, the lack of
oxygen? can be deadly...
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And so sleep apnea is actually
one of the causes of DEATH
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around the world and
we're talking about the causes
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of death in this series.
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Dr. Marcum, a question here from
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the heartwiseministries.
org website...
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This person apparently
has sleep apnea and says,
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"I cannot STAND wearing my CPAP
mask... I don't want to wear it"
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"What are the options?"
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Well, you know, that's
something I hear very often.
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And, this is an Ambu bag
and if a person is in the field,
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not breathing, and we
place this over the mask
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and squeeze air
into that in the face,
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it BLOWS air into their airway.
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And, of course, the responder
will keep the airway open
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so the air will go in and out.
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Well sometimes... I'm
not going to do this to you,
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but you can see
if this was on you,
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blowing air in and out,
over and over, at night,
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that would not be comfortable.
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And some of the sleep masks
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are a little bit
similar to that sensation.
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Now they've improved over time.
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Well, they blow air
in you and most people
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say it's not
comfortable, so they have to try
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different things.
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So if a person has sleep apnea,
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and they can't tolerate
the mask for whatever reason,
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their options
are to fix the cause
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of the sleep apnea.
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And if it's losing
weight, try to lose the weight.
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If it's an
obstruction in the airway,
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sometimes there is some
surgery that can help with that.
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If it's a central problem,
sometimes the sleep apnea
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doctors can help
with that as well.
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But if they
can't wear the oxygen,
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they really have to
take care of their body,
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get the weight off, do well.
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And luckily, they're
always developing new types of
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sleep masks and
sleep aids that help.
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Some people can get by
with some type of devices
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that reposition their tongue,
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and they can
sleep well at night.
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Some people have
some devices where they
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move their head around.
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Well this is still
devices - you're sleeping with
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a device on your face. Yeah
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And so it's always best, if
it's caused by extra weight,
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to get the weight off.
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Now I wanted to review here...
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If one of our viewers out
there think they might have
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sleep apnea, see
if you have a symptom.
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...Headaches, funny heart
rhythms, high blood pressure,
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being tired all the time.
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If you have one
of these symptoms,
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you want to find
out, at a young age,
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you don't want to
go years and years,
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and have all that
damage that we talked about.
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Get a sleep test done
to see if you have it,
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and if you do have it,
some of the new devices
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might help you, but it
might not be a permanent thing.
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It might be you
can make some changes
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and you don't
need to wear oxygen.
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Because REST,
as we talked about,
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is such an important
treatment for the body.
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...You know, that
nightly rest, that weekly rest -
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We HAVE to have that!
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You know, after you've stood
on your feet the whole day,
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you feed need rest! Absolutely
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So rest is a treatment,
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and I wish I could
bottle up a pill-bottle, okay,
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and put a rest pill in there
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and you'd get the
equivalent of 8 hours of sleep.
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But you CAN'T do that!
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That's the next question -
Are sleeping pills good for you?
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You would think...
"Okay, I can't sleep,
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a sleeping pill would help me"
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There have been some
studies done recently that show
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that sleeping pills
actually are not helpful,
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and they actually
can damage people,
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and they
actually can kill people.
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Sleeping pills just
knock you out, Charles...
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They just like
whack you on the head
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and you don't sleep better.
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And you wake up - you might
have some cognitive defects,
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and remember... the sleep pills
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were NEVER
approved to take long-term.
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They were only
approved to do short-term sleep.
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So if you take them long-term,
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there are some
cognitive problems that happen;
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there are some dependency
problems that sometimes happen,
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so I do not recommend people
take sleep pills long-term.
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I recommend them to try to find
out WHY they don't sleep well.
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Do you sleep well,
Charles? I do, I do
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The answer just
keeps coming back that the
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prescription is not in
a bag, it's not in a pill.
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There's no potion for you.
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What you need to do
is CHANGE your lifestyle.
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Change when you eat...
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In this case -
don't eat late at night.
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Change HOW YOU LIVE!
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Because if you change
how you live, most cases,
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not all cases,
but in most cases,
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you're going to
find great benefit to you
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and all kinds of levels
and this is one of them.
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Charles, you know, I've
been practicing medicine,
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and I say "practicing" learning
medicine" for over 20 years now
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And what I've discovered is
that people need to think about
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these lifestyle
changes and these things that
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God taught us as
equivalent to taking pills...
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Because they change our
chemistry every bit as much
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and without side
effects that a pill does.
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So people need to learn that,
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and I think, as
history moves on,
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they're going to look back
at this stage of medical history
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and say, "Listen, what
were these guys doing?"
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You know, they were never
getting at the cause of problems
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They were just giving a
bunch of pills that might have
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made things worse... that might
might have even caused death.
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I think we're going to look back
in history and find out that,
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you know, the successful
healers were the ones that
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looked to the Ultimate
Prescription-the Great Physician
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to get recommendations to
learn that what people ate
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and put in their body
affected them, caused disease
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as well as TREATED disease...
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They are also going
to learn the THOUGHTS
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that we put in the brain
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also treated disease
as well as caused disease.
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Now, one of the leading causes
of people not resting well now
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is TELEVISION.
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We were NEVER designed for T.V.
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We were designed to work
out with the animals all day;
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have a garden - be outside
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- love each other -
serve each other - be happy
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- eat healthy - fresh fruits,
vegetables, nuts and grains...
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That's how we were made to be!
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And yet now, a lot of
people watch television,
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and it stimulates the
stress part of the brain;
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the amygdala...
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That part of the brain
that makes stress chemicals.
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Your brain is
working, and do you think you
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can rest well at night?
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Even if you're asleep,
you don't rest well because
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all those inputs
are still going on,
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especially if you
see violent things
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or things that
we weren't designed.
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So one of the
things that helps people,
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that I found sleep
better and rest better,
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is take television
out of the formula.
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They start resting
better, they sleep better.
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Another thing that I
remove is the BIG meal at night.
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Over 90% of people
take stimulants every day,
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and the stimulant that we
most often see is caffeine...
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And that revs
people up and that disrupts
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sleep patterns as well.
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Some people don't exercise.
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Remember... you sleep
better when you're tired!
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You're going to
probably sleep good tonight
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Absolutely... Because you're
going to feel good tonight...
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But when people
exercise and move around,
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they get tired so
THEY rest better at night.
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So if you can teach people what
causes them NOT to rest better,
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maybe you can give them
this good prescription of REST
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that might be worth 10
prescription medications
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and get at the REAL
cause of the problem!
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Now we need to
start changing our brains,
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both as people and medical
professionals to see this.
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Now also what I see is
a lot of people out there
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like to talk about technology,
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and there's a place for all
these fancy devices that we have
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There's a place for lifestyle...
that's important too,
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but where do people
get the power to change?
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Where do people get
the Ultimate Prescription
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...the ability to do
these things that society
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is telling them not to do?
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I found, in my life, it comes
from that relationship with God
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He might not
change me all at once,
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but He gives me power to
learn things one at a time,
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and I gradually
get my health back.
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So sleep - rest
very, very important!
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And that's why God says,
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"Remember to keep the
Sabbath Day - to rest"
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...to break your routine
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- to get your body -
give it a chance to heal!
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I like to go back in my mind
to that 7th day of creation.
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I invite you to do that also,
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listener and
watcher of this program.
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Adam and Eve
standing in the Garden of Eden
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...The Creator comes along
and they just sort of stroll
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through the garden.
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The most AMAZING thing
about that scene is that
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EVERY THING NEEDED for
their health and well-being
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Every thing they
needed to live FOREVER
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was right there right then!
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They didn't have to have drugs.
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They didn't have
to have television.
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They didn't have to
have any of the stimulants
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that we have today.
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Everything they
needed... What did they eat?
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I'll ask you... You
answer this yourself...
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What did they eat?
What did they drink?
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What did they
do with their time?
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How did they spend their days?
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How did they spend their nights?
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With whom did they
communicate on a daily basis?
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THAT is the
OPTIMUM... right there!
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And the further we take
ourselves away from that image,
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and from those
parameters, the SICKER we get!
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Isn't it interesting, Charles,
that as we've talked about this
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series so far, that we keep
coming back to the same answers!
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We keep coming back to the same
themes over and over and over
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no matter what the disease;
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whether it be heart
attacks or sleep apnea,
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we all come back
to these same themes,
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and there is truth in this.
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And we have to let
people know about this
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as this is the
solution to their healing.
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We need to spend
more time in our Bibles,
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and maybe a little less
time at the doctor's office.
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Would that be a
fair statement to say?
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Well hey - listen
to this one Charles...
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How would you like to have
a doctor that you could go to
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and you could go to this doctor
and no forms, no paperwork,
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no co-pay... you could go right
in to the room with the doctor.
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No appointment necessary. No
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You could sit there
and you could talk as
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LONG as you wanted
to... No interruptions
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He would just listen
to you hour after hour.
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You could tell him everything.
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Then he would maybe
give you some advice.
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...To help you feel better,
to help change your prescription
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Then you could go
outside and do whatever,
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and you know what...
if you got sick again,
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you could come
back the NEXT day,
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and repeat the process all over!
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We have that
Ultimate Prescription.
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We have that Ultimate
Physician who has the answers.
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And I want us as medical
professionals, as people,
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to acknowledge the
Ultimate Physician,
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that relationship with Him...
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That's where the answers are!
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We don't have the answers,
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we just scratch the surface.
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And the more we THINK we know,
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the less we REALLY know!
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The more I
learn, the less I know.
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The real truth comes from
that relationship with Him.
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That's the kind of
physician that I want to go to
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on a regular
basis... and guess what?
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There's no bill... no co-pay
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I always get good advice.
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I don't have to worry
about side effects unless
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I fail to listen to Someone
that loves me and made me,
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and then I bring the
side effects on myself.
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As we talk about these
things, program after program,
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again, we are just
drawn back to that time
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when Adam and
Eve and the Creator
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walked through the Garden...
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Everything seems to
just flow back to there,
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and the breaking
of those parameters,
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God's health laws we call them,
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Biblical technology -
as Dr. Marcum likes to say,
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as we break those health laws,
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we become sicker and sicker.
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As we distance
ourselves from those ideals,
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we become sicker and sicker...
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And the GOOD NEWS is...
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the GOOD NEWS is we can RETURN,
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we can go BACK.
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We can take our
lives, our families
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and take them
BACK to that moment,
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and look around and say...
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"That's the way I want to live"
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We'll take a short
break and when we come back
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let's TALK to that
Creator! Stay tuned
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We've been
talking today about rest,
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specifically about sleep apnea.
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We've been talking
about the importance of
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the weekly rest as
well as the night rest.
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We've talked about all
the things in our society
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that get us AWAY
from these things;
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whether it be
eating big at night,
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watching too much television,
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caffeine and other stimulants,
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lack of EXERCISE,
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having the brain just bombarded
with stress from all over,
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extra weight which causes us
not to breathe well at night.
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Well I hope you're not suffering
from any of these problems,
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but we want here, on
the Ultimate Prescription,
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to re-define the way
you think about health.
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We have many
people out there that use
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modern medicine and
there's a great place for that.
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We have many people
talking about lifestyle.
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But remember,
it takes a balance,
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but at the top of this pyramid,
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has to be the relationship
with the Ultimate Prescription,
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the Physician that you
can go to day-in and day-out.
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And remember, we are all healers
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when we make someone laugh;
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we make someone feel better;
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we SERVE them - we
change their chemistry.
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Let me pray with
you today that you might
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enter into this relationship...
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Heavenly
Father... As we come to you,
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there are some out there
that have not started that
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relationship with you...
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Please teach them how
this can happen, Father
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Help them to come into
that healing relationship
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and help us to see
medical and health in a new way
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based on You leading the charge,
is our humble prayer... Amen
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We have a Heavenly Father
who is the Ultimate Prescription
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and if you want to
learn more about Him,
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you can come to this network.
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They have many different
programs that you can watch
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to further
develop this relationship.
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We want to encourage
you in your health...
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Re-define the way
you think about health.
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Learn new truths.
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Ask God to teach you
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when to use lifestyle and
when you use modern medicine
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and we wish you the
BEST of health today!
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