Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00022A
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00:17 Nothing strikes more fear in the heart of humanity
00:20 than hearing a doctor say in low even tones, 00:24 "You've got cancer." Stay tuned. 00:27 I'm Dr. James Marcum. 00:29 Are you interested in discovering the reason why? 00:33 You want solutions to your health care problem. 00:35 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:38 Well, you're about to be given the Ultimate Prescription. 00:43 We're continuing our series of programs 00:45 on the top causes of death in this world. 00:47 And cancer has earned a solid 00:49 and heartbreaking place high on the list. 00:51 I can almost guarantee 00:53 that everyone watching this broadcast 00:54 either has or knows someone who has this dreaded disease. 00:58 Modern medicine is very good at detecting cancer, 01:01 but is it just as skillful at treating it? 01:04 Let's talk with cardiologist Dr. James Marcum 01:06 about diagnosis, treatment, 01:08 and modern medicine strengths and weaknesses in this area. 01:12 Dr. Marcum, what do we need to know? 01:14 Yeah, there's so much we need to know about cancer 01:16 that we can never cover it in one or two programs. 01:20 But I want to throw out some words 01:21 that I want our listeners to build a framework on. 01:25 And if we think back where we've been, 01:27 we've talked a lot about the causes of death. 01:29 We talked about heart disease specifically heart attacks. 01:33 Then we talked about the rhythms, 01:35 many of them congenital, many of them acquired. 01:37 We've talked about strokes. 01:39 So all this sort of relates to the heart 01:40 and cardiovascular system. 01:42 Then we talked about how medicines can kill. 01:45 We've also spoken about lung disease 01:47 and how lung disease kills us. 01:49 And also we talked a little bit about lack of sleep 01:51 and how that is a devastating problem. 01:54 And if you think about it, there's couple of words 01:56 I want our viewers to put in their brain, 01:58 as we cover these topics. One is the original design. 02:03 In each of these systems that causes death, 02:05 we get away from the original design. 02:08 The second word I want them to remember or words 02:11 is prolonged exposure. For instance, heart disease, 02:15 prolonged exposure to stress-- 02:17 Stress, yes. Creates the disease, 02:19 we need the modern medicine. 02:22 Sleep apnea, we talked about prolonged exposure 02:25 to lack of sleep causing damage. 02:27 It goes against the original design. 02:30 So you follow me here? I understand. Okay. 02:32 The original design has a sleeping-- 02:34 Right, right. Every night and having-- 02:35 We talked about lung disease and cigarettes, 02:38 prolonged exposure to cigarettes, 02:40 going against the original design causing damage. 02:43 So these prolonged exposures to toxic substances 02:46 whether it be whatever, 02:48 stress causes us to need modern medicine. 02:51 And modern medicine we talked about treat symptoms. 02:54 Remember we talked about 02:56 that medicines don't fix the problem-- 02:57 That's right. That they are for the short-term, 02:59 but they don't get at the cause. 03:02 I had a question just yesterday about 03:04 what the safest medicine was and remember we couldn't say 03:06 any medicine that was safe. 03:08 But if I had to answer that, 03:09 I guess, I'd say Tylenol might be the safest, 03:11 but it still has side effects. Yes, it does. 03:14 So no medicine's entirely safe. 03:15 It bridges as a short-term and yet long-term exposure 03:19 to medications in high amounts again can be a cause of death 03:23 that we don't like to talk about, 03:25 which brings us to cancer. 03:28 In the United States, in the world, 03:30 cardiovascular disease is still the number one cause of death. 03:34 However, we know that cancer rates continue to rise. 03:37 They go up. 03:39 Now cardiovascular rates have sort of stabilized 03:41 and might be coming down. 03:42 But cancer rates are going up 03:44 and you have to ask why is that happening? 03:47 Why is that occurring? 03:49 You know, our genetics, and when you point it out, 03:51 our genetics can't change that quickly, 03:54 why is the rates going up so high? 03:56 Why is cardiovascular rates stabling and cancer catching up? 04:00 Well, one of the reasons is awareness. 04:02 For instance, if I ask you cholesterol, 04:04 you understand what cholesterol's all about. 04:07 When heart disease was at number one, 04:09 we got a bunch of acute treatments 04:11 that you go into the emergency room. 04:13 There's tons of protocols, 04:14 you know, to treat the acute care. 04:16 So we've got great at treating acute care cardiac disease. 04:20 And we can put a stent in. 04:21 We can have all these devices 04:24 and technology has helped us abort that original damage. 04:28 So we bought people some time 04:29 so hopefully they can change their risk factors. 04:31 Everyone's pointing on cigarettes and cholesterol 04:34 and high blood pressure. We're doing that. 04:35 Now, hopefully, with this program, 04:37 we'll increase the awareness of medications 04:41 and other things, but cancer we haven't arrived 04:43 at that to this great degree. 04:45 But the cancer rates across the world are going up. 04:48 And so for a few minutes here today, 04:50 I want to talk to our audience about these two things, 04:53 original design and prolonged exposure. 04:57 Now let's think a little bit about 05:00 the most common types of cancer. 05:02 Now the most common types of cancer 05:04 overall is probably skin cancer. 05:06 But the ones that are deadly, let's talk about those first. 05:10 Do you know which cancer kills more people 05:13 than anything else, Charles? 05:15 Colon cancer? 05:17 Well, the colon cancer is number two. 05:18 Okay. But lung cancer-- Lung cancer. 05:20 Is number one. Lung cancer kills more people than anything else. 05:24 Well, if you think about what we talked about 05:26 the original design and prolonged exposure, 05:29 what prolonged exposure you think leads 05:32 to most cancers in the lung? 05:34 I would say toxins in the air 05:35 or something that we're ingesting. 05:37 That's correct, cigarettes. Yes. 05:38 In fact, if you smoke cigarettes, 05:40 you're 700 times more likely to develop lung cancer. 05:45 So the real solution to lung cancer 05:49 is to remove cigarettes from the environment. 05:52 And yet we haven't totally removed cigarettes 05:54 from the environment. 05:55 And if you think of all the 4,000 05:57 toxic chemicals in a cigarette, 06:00 you know, you smoke that, 06:01 prolonged exposure in the lungs damages the lungs, 06:05 raises the rate of you having cancer. 06:08 Now let's think about the lungs for a minute. 06:09 You know, you got these alveoli cells 06:12 and when you bring in cigarette smoke, 06:15 it immediately comes in contact with your circulation. 06:19 It immediately there, it gets in. 06:20 That's why people like nicotine so much. 06:22 It's a quick fix. 06:23 When they smoke, it's right there. 06:25 For instance, if you want a quick fix 06:26 from a pain pill to get a high from that, 06:29 you've to swallow it. It has to be absorbed. 06:31 It takes some time. 06:33 If you want a quicker fix from a patch like a fentanyl patch, 06:36 it still takes time for absorption. 06:38 Even IV medications take a little bit of time. 06:40 But when you get a chemical that you breathe in, 06:43 boom, it's right in contact with the alveoli, 06:46 right in contact with the blood, that's what you get. 06:49 Now why do you think people snort cocaine? 06:50 Yeah. Why do you think people have cigarettes? 06:53 'Cause they get that into the blood right away. 06:55 In fact, my dad is a nurse anesthetist 06:58 and he used to put people to sleep. 06:59 You know, and if you ever seen that well, 07:01 you know, they put a mask on you. 07:02 Well, take some deep breaths, boom, you go out, 07:05 because the inhalational agents 07:07 get in the bloodstream so quickly. 07:09 Well, if you think about lung cancer, 07:12 prolonged exposure to nicotine and the carcinogens, 07:16 it immediately gets in the bloodstream. 07:18 You have prolonged exposure in your lungs. 07:20 Eventually, it causes damage 07:22 and it's been associated with cancer. 07:24 So the real problem with cancer in this case 07:27 is a prolonged exposure to something 07:30 that we weren't originally designed to be exposed to. 07:33 So I want you to keep those concepts 07:35 when we talk about the different types of cancer. 07:38 You know, skin cancer is not that, 07:40 you know, not a dangerous thing, but what is that? 07:42 Prolonged exposure to, you know, the sun. 07:45 Now we're supposed to have some sun, 07:47 but, you know, when the burning happens and all that, 07:49 this tanning beds that's something 07:51 we weren't designed to have, so prolonged exposure. 07:55 Now if you think, well, our children, 07:58 did you know that secondhand smoke, 07:59 they've done some studies with little babies. 08:02 And if you're a smoker around a baby, guess what? 08:05 Your baby gets that secondhand smoke. 08:07 And that secondhand smoke in a baby's lungs 08:10 again makes that baby's risk of lung cancer going up. 08:14 Prolonged exposure over a long period of time 08:17 raises the risk of cancer. 08:19 So if you think of it logically, Charles, 08:21 the real problem is not the cancer, 08:24 it's the prolonged exposure to an environment 08:26 that we weren't supposed-- designed to have. 08:29 Genetics might play a little bit of a role, 08:31 but remember our genetics don't change that quickly. 08:34 So it's an exposure. 08:36 Now later on, we're gonna talk about 08:37 what to do if you have that. 08:39 So that's the number one 08:40 cause of cancer death is lung cancer. 08:42 Now let's talk about number two. 08:43 You got that right, that's colon cancer. 08:46 And so that begs a question 08:47 what have we prolonged exposed 08:49 our bodies to that causes that? 08:50 Charles, right. What's the prolonged exposure 08:53 that causes colon cancer? 08:55 Let's think about it for a moment. 08:56 Well, we were originally designed, 08:59 remember the original design to eat plants? 09:02 Plants, yeah. We were herbivores. 09:04 Our bodies look like herbivores. 09:06 You know we have flat teeth. 09:08 We don't make a lot of acid in the stomach. 09:10 We have a long intestine to absorb things. 09:13 We were designed to eat a plant-based diet. 09:16 That was what was given to us in the original plan. Correct? 09:20 Yes. Well, in colon cancer, 09:23 okay, there's a doctor named Dr. Burkitt, 09:25 who did studies in Africa at one time, 09:28 Burkitt's lymphoma. 09:29 Oh, yes. And he studied people. 09:31 He said, "The Africans never get cancer." 09:34 And he looked at their diet and they do not eat meat. 09:37 They do not have these things. 09:39 Well, if you look at carnivores, what do they look like? 09:41 They have big sharp teeth. 09:42 They make 10 times the acid that we do 09:45 and they have a very short bowel. 09:47 So, you know, they're used to having this, we're not. 09:50 So if you think about it, 09:51 when we have prolonged exposure to meat carcinogens, 09:56 that prolonged exposure, you know, meat breaks down 09:59 and has these bile salts. 10:01 And we know that bile salts 10:03 when prolonged exposure to the intestinal wall causes cancer. 10:08 So prolonged exposure to meat, 10:10 dairy products leads to colon cancer. 10:13 Now how does fiber help? 10:15 Well, fiber helps improve the transit time 10:18 through the bowel so things don't stay around as long. 10:21 In fact, it's estimated 10:22 that if we have about 12 grams of fiber 10:24 or one big bran muffin a day, 10:27 this can lower the risk of colon cancer 10:29 and may be save 50,000 lives. 10:31 And how much fiber is in meat? 10:33 You know very little fiber. Okay. 10:35 And yet, if you think about it this way, 10:37 normally meat, you know, we have meat. 10:39 Normally, we put meat, eggs, 10:41 and cheese in a refrigerator, yes. 10:43 'Cause if we don't put in a refrigerator, it spoils. 10:46 So when you put that into a system 10:48 that wasn't designed to happen, 10:50 a prolonged exposure especially at night, 10:53 it gets in you and literally it spoils at night. 10:55 A warm moist environment. 98.6 warm in you, you know? 11:00 And it's not--we're not made to be that way. 11:02 So we have a prolonged exposure. 11:03 We don't have the acid to digest it easily 11:05 'cause we're not a carnivore. 11:07 So it sits and you're churning, trying to digest that protein. 11:10 It eventually gets in the intestine. 11:12 You have prolonged absorption time 11:14 'cause you're not having fiber. 11:16 We have these bile salts 11:17 and other carcinogens come into contact with the bowel wall. 11:20 All the diseases that the animal have, 11:22 all the hormones that the animals have will get-- 11:25 and all the other chemicals to preserve it 11:27 get absorbed into your body, goes to these cells 11:30 that weren't designed to happen and guess what happens? 11:32 It raises the chance of developing colon cancer. 11:36 In fact, and I know you've read T. Colin Campbell's book, 11:39 "The China Study." Yes. 11:41 He looked at people in rural parts of China 11:44 who ate a plant-based diet 11:46 and he didn't find this evidence of cancer. 11:49 And then we looked at the western world 11:51 and cancer rates were on the rise. 11:53 Prolonged exposure to substances 11:56 we weren't designed to have causes chemical problems. 12:00 It goes against the original design. 12:02 So just by eating fiber, lots of fiber, 12:04 avoiding these exposures, we can lower the risk of cancer. 12:09 Isn't that something? 12:10 That is amazing. Not only prolonged exposure, 12:12 but also an abundance of, 12:16 if you eat a little piece of meat 12:18 like they did a 100 years ago, but vegetables all around, 12:21 somehow your body is able to handle that. 12:22 But we have switched that. 12:24 We eat more meat than vegetables now 12:26 and that prolonged exposure over this time 12:28 is causing all kinds of problems in our bodies. 12:30 Right. And if we look at the diet, 12:32 we've had more, you know, we eat more animals. 12:34 We eat more fast foods. 12:36 We eat more processed foods 12:37 and our stomachs aren't designed to have 12:39 and not only does it cause cancer, 12:41 but it causes acid reflux, 12:43 acid bubbles up into the esophagus. 12:45 It causes esophageal strictures 12:47 and yet we designed medicines to treat those symptoms-- 12:50 Yes. To treat the symptoms of cancer 12:52 and we've got screening tests 12:54 and we're gonna talk about those later. 12:55 But we don't get at the cause. 12:57 So you're making a connection then 12:58 between cancer rates and what we eat? 13:01 Right, at least on colon cancer. Yes. 13:03 Now we're gonna go to a break in a second, 13:05 but after we come back from the break, 13:06 I'm gonna talk about a third common cancer 13:09 and the prolonged exposure to that chemical 13:11 and all women will be interested in this 13:13 'cause we're talking about breast cancer next. Absolutely. 13:15 So we're gonna talk about that after we go to a break. 13:17 Okay, we'll have our break and when we come back, 13:19 we're gonna be talking about these topics and others, 13:22 plus also answering your questions. 13:24 So stay right where you are. |
Revised 2014-12-17