Nothing strikes more
fear in the heart of humanity
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than hearing a doctor
say in low even tones,
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"You've got cancer." Stay tuned.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum.
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Are you interested in
discovering the reason why?
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You want solutions to
your health care problem.
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Are you tired of
taking medications?
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Well, you're about to be
given the Ultimate Prescription.
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We're continuing
our series of programs
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on the top causes
of death in this world.
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And cancer has earned a solid
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and heartbreaking
place high on the list.
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I can almost guarantee
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that everyone
watching this broadcast
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either has or knows someone
who has this dreaded disease.
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Modern medicine is very
good at detecting cancer,
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but is it just as
skillful at treating it?
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Let's talk with
cardiologist Dr. James Marcum
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about diagnosis, treatment,
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and modern medicine strengths
and weaknesses in this area.
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Dr. Marcum, what
do we need to know?
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Yeah, there's so much we
need to know about cancer
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that we can never cover
it in one or two programs.
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But I want to
throw out some words
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that I want our listeners
to build a framework on.
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And if we think
back where we've been,
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we've talked a lot
about the causes of death.
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We talked about heart disease
specifically heart attacks.
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Then we talked
about the rhythms,
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many of them congenital,
many of them acquired.
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We've talked about strokes.
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So all this sort of
relates to the heart
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and cardiovascular system.
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Then we talked about
how medicines can kill.
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We've also spoken
about lung disease
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and how lung disease kills us.
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And also we talked a
little bit about lack of sleep
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and how that is a
devastating problem.
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And if you think about
it, there's couple of words
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I want our viewers
to put in their brain,
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as we cover these topics.
One is the original design.
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In each of these
systems that causes death,
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we get away from
the original design.
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The second word I want
them to remember or words
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is prolonged exposure.
For instance, heart disease,
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prolonged exposure to stress--
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Stress, yes.
Creates the disease,
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we need the modern medicine.
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Sleep apnea, we talked
about prolonged exposure
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to lack of sleep causing damage.
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It goes against
the original design.
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So you follow me
here? I understand. Okay.
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The original
design has a sleeping--
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Right, right.
Every night and having--
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We talked about lung
disease and cigarettes,
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prolonged
exposure to cigarettes,
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going against the
original design causing damage.
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So these prolonged
exposures to toxic substances
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whether it be whatever,
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stress causes us to
need modern medicine.
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And modern medicine we
talked about treat symptoms.
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Remember we talked about
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that medicines
don't fix the problem--
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That's right. That
they are for the short-term,
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but they don't get at the cause.
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I had a question
just yesterday about
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what the safest medicine
was and remember we couldn't say
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any medicine that was safe.
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But if I had to answer that,
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I guess, I'd say
Tylenol might be the safest,
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but it still has side
effects. Yes, it does.
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So no medicine's entirely safe.
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It bridges as a short-term
and yet long-term exposure
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to medications in high amounts
again can be a cause of death
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that we don't
like to talk about,
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which brings us to cancer.
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In the United
States, in the world,
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cardiovascular disease is still
the number one cause of death.
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However, we know that
cancer rates continue to rise.
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They go up.
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Now cardiovascular
rates have sort of stabilized
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and might be coming down.
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But cancer rates are going up
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and you have to ask
why is that happening?
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Why is that occurring?
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You know, our genetics,
and when you point it out,
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our genetics can't
change that quickly,
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why is the rates
going up so high?
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Why is cardiovascular rates
stabling and cancer catching up?
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Well, one of the
reasons is awareness.
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For instance, if I
ask you cholesterol,
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you understand what
cholesterol's all about.
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When heart
disease was at number one,
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we got a bunch
of acute treatments
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that you go into
the emergency room.
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There's tons of protocols,
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you know, to
treat the acute care.
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So we've got great at treating
acute care cardiac disease.
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And we can put a stent in.
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We can have all these devices
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and technology has helped
us abort that original damage.
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So we bought people some time
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so hopefully they can
change their risk factors.
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Everyone's pointing on
cigarettes and cholesterol
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and high blood
pressure. We're doing that.
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Now, hopefully,
with this program,
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we'll increase the
awareness of medications
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and other things, but
cancer we haven't arrived
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at that to this great degree.
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But the cancer rates
across the world are going up.
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And so for a few
minutes here today,
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I want to talk to our
audience about these two things,
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original design
and prolonged exposure.
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Now let's think
a little bit about
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the most common types of cancer.
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Now the most
common types of cancer
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overall is probably skin cancer.
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But the ones that are deadly,
let's talk about those first.
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Do you know which
cancer kills more people
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than anything else, Charles?
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Colon cancer?
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Well, the colon
cancer is number two.
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Okay. But lung
cancer-- Lung cancer.
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Is number one. Lung cancer kills
more people than anything else.
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Well, if you think
about what we talked about
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the original design
and prolonged exposure,
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what prolonged
exposure you think leads
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to most cancers in the lung?
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I would say toxins in the air
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or something
that we're ingesting.
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That's correct, cigarettes. Yes.
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In fact, if you
smoke cigarettes,
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you're 700 times more
likely to develop lung cancer.
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So the real
solution to lung cancer
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is to remove
cigarettes from the environment.
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And yet we haven't
totally removed cigarettes
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from the environment.
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And if you
think of all the 4,000
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toxic chemicals in a cigarette,
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you know, you smoke that,
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prolonged exposure in
the lungs damages the lungs,
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raises the rate
of you having cancer.
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Now let's think about
the lungs for a minute.
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You know, you got
these alveoli cells
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and when you bring
in cigarette smoke,
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it immediately comes in
contact with your circulation.
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It immediately
there, it gets in.
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That's why people
like nicotine so much.
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It's a quick fix.
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When they smoke,
it's right there.
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For instance, if
you want a quick fix
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from a pain pill to
get a high from that,
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you've to swallow it.
It has to be absorbed.
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It takes some time.
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If you want a quicker fix from
a patch like a fentanyl patch,
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it still takes
time for absorption.
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Even IV medications
take a little bit of time.
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But when you get a
chemical that you breathe in,
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boom, it's right in
contact with the alveoli,
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right in contact with the
blood, that's what you get.
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Now why do you think
people snort cocaine?
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Yeah. Why do you think
people have cigarettes?
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'Cause they get that
into the blood right away.
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In fact, my dad is
a nurse anesthetist
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and he used to
put people to sleep.
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You know, and if
you ever seen that well,
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you know, they
put a mask on you.
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Well, take some deep
breaths, boom, you go out,
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because the inhalational agents
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get in the
bloodstream so quickly.
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Well, if you
think about lung cancer,
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prolonged exposure to
nicotine and the carcinogens,
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it immediately
gets in the bloodstream.
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You have prolonged
exposure in your lungs.
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Eventually, it causes damage
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and it's been
associated with cancer.
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So the real problem
with cancer in this case
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is a prolonged
exposure to something
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that we weren't originally
designed to be exposed to.
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So I want you to
keep those concepts
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when we talk about the
different types of cancer.
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You know, skin
cancer is not that,
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you know, not a dangerous
thing, but what is that?
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Prolonged exposure
to, you know, the sun.
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Now we're
supposed to have some sun,
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but, you know, when the
burning happens and all that,
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this tanning
beds that's something
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we weren't designed to
have, so prolonged exposure.
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Now if you think,
well, our children,
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did you know
that secondhand smoke,
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they've done some
studies with little babies.
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And if you're a smoker
around a baby, guess what?
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Your baby gets
that secondhand smoke.
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And that secondhand
smoke in a baby's lungs
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again makes that baby's
risk of lung cancer going up.
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Prolonged exposure
over a long period of time
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raises the risk of cancer.
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So if you think of
it logically, Charles,
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the real problem
is not the cancer,
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it's the prolonged
exposure to an environment
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that we weren't
supposed-- designed to have.
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Genetics might play
a little bit of a role,
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but remember our genetics
don't change that quickly.
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So it's an exposure.
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Now later on,
we're gonna talk about
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what to do if you have that.
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So that's the number one
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cause of cancer
death is lung cancer.
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Now let's talk about number two.
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You got that right,
that's colon cancer.
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And so that begs a question
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what have we prolonged exposed
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our bodies to that causes that?
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Charles, right.
What's the prolonged exposure
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that causes colon cancer?
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Let's think
about it for a moment.
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Well, we were
originally designed,
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remember the
original design to eat plants?
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Plants, yeah.
We were herbivores.
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Our bodies look like herbivores.
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You know we have flat teeth.
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We don't make a lot
of acid in the stomach.
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We have a long
intestine to absorb things.
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We were designed to
eat a plant-based diet.
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That was what was given to us
in the original plan. Correct?
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Yes. Well, in colon cancer,
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okay, there's a
doctor named Dr. Burkitt,
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who did studies in
Africa at one time,
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Burkitt's lymphoma.
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Oh, yes. And he studied people.
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He said, "The
Africans never get cancer."
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And he looked at their
diet and they do not eat meat.
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They do not have these things.
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Well, if you look at carnivores,
what do they look like?
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They have big sharp teeth.
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They make 10 times
the acid that we do
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and they have a
very short bowel.
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So, you know, they're
used to having this, we're not.
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So if you think about it,
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when we have prolonged
exposure to meat carcinogens,
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that prolonged exposure,
you know, meat breaks down
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and has these bile salts.
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And we know that bile salts
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when prolonged exposure to the
intestinal wall causes cancer.
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So prolonged exposure to meat,
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dairy products
leads to colon cancer.
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Now how does fiber help?
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Well, fiber helps
improve the transit time
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through the bowel so things
don't stay around as long.
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In fact, it's estimated
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that if we have
about 12 grams of fiber
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or one big bran muffin a day,
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this can lower the
risk of colon cancer
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and may be save 50,000 lives.
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And how much fiber is in meat?
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You know very
little fiber. Okay.
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And yet, if you
think about it this way,
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normally meat, you
know, we have meat.
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Normally, we put meat, eggs,
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and cheese in a
refrigerator, yes.
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'Cause if we don't put in
a refrigerator, it spoils.
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So when you put
that into a system
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that wasn't designed to happen,
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a prolonged
exposure especially at night,
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it gets in you and
literally it spoils at night.
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A warm moist environment.
98.6 warm in you, you know?
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And it's not--we're
not made to be that way.
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So we have a prolonged exposure.
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We don't have the
acid to digest it easily
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'cause we're not a carnivore.
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So it sits and you're churning,
trying to digest that protein.
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It eventually
gets in the intestine.
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You have
prolonged absorption time
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'cause you're not having fiber.
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We have these bile salts
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and other carcinogens come into
contact with the bowel wall.
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All the diseases
that the animal have,
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all the hormones that
the animals have will get--
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and all the other
chemicals to preserve it
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get absorbed into your
body, goes to these cells
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that weren't designed to
happen and guess what happens?
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It raises the chance of
developing colon cancer.
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In fact, and I know you've
read T. Colin Campbell's book,
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"The China Study." Yes.
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He looked at people
in rural parts of China
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who ate a plant-based diet
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and he didn't find
this evidence of cancer.
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And then we looked
at the western world
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and cancer rates
were on the rise.
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Prolonged exposure to substances
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we weren't designed to
have causes chemical problems.
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It goes against
the original design.
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So just by eating
fiber, lots of fiber,
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avoiding these exposures, we
can lower the risk of cancer.
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Isn't that something?
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That is amazing. Not
only prolonged exposure,
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but also an abundance of,
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if you eat a
little piece of meat
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like they did a 100 years
ago, but vegetables all around,
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somehow your body
is able to handle that.
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But we have switched that.
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We eat more meat
than vegetables now
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and that prolonged
exposure over this time
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is causing all kinds
of problems in our bodies.
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Right. And if we
look at the diet,
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we've had more, you
know, we eat more animals.
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We eat more fast foods.
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We eat more processed foods
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and our stomachs
aren't designed to have
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and not only
does it cause cancer,
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but it causes acid reflux,
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acid bubbles up
into the esophagus.
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It causes esophageal strictures
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and yet we designed medicines
to treat those symptoms--
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Yes. To treat the
symptoms of cancer
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and we've got screening tests
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and we're gonna
talk about those later.
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But we don't get at the cause.
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So you're making
a connection then
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between cancer
rates and what we eat?
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Right, at least
on colon cancer. Yes.
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Now we're gonna go
to a break in a second,
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but after we come
back from the break,
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I'm gonna talk about
a third common cancer
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and the prolonged
exposure to that chemical
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and all women will
be interested in this
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'cause we're talking about
breast cancer next. Absolutely.
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So we're gonna talk about
that after we go to a break.
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Okay, we'll have our
break and when we come back,
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we're gonna be talking
about these topics and others,
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plus also
answering your questions.
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So stay right where you are.
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