We all live in a
very toxic environment.
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Our homes, our
places of business.
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We can't escape.
Or can we? 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 problems.
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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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"You've got cancer."
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Those are about the last words
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you want to hear
from your doctor.
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I'm sure those
are the last words
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he or she wants
to say to you, too.
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But can we really do something
and minimize our vulnerability
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when it comes to
this dreaded disease?
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Let's talk with Dr. James
Marcum about cancer, prevention
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and what part
nutrition plays in the battle
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for survival in this
cancer generating world.
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It's part of our examination
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of the major causes
of death in this world.
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Dr. Marcum, make the connections
for us, toxins and malignancy.
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Yeah, if we
remember what we talked about
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in our last program on cancer,
we came up with these words.
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Prolonged exposure
and not following the way
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we originally designed leads
to difficult problems. Yes.
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When it comes
to cancer, Charles,
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everyone is so
scared about cancer.
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The rates are rising.
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Unfortunately, I think
we're focusing too much
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on acute care treatment
even though that's important.
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It's very important to
get acute care treatment.
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But we want to
minimize exposures to toxins.
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And we've talked
about that a little bit,
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both in our diet, our
lifestyle, our weight.
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Unfortunately, we can't take
all toxins out of the world.
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We can't do that.
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The second thing
we really want to do
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is we want to
detect cancer early.
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And that's what I wanted
to talk today about to let our
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listeners know
it's very important
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to detect cancer early.
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Because if treated
before this malignancy spreads,
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it can be cured early.
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And then we can get
back to doing all the things
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we need to do to
avoid the toxins.
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It's not
dissimilar from heart disease.
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We want to take care
of the acute care problem
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and then get back to the
ways to prevent the problem.
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Now that was after
you got a bypass surgery,
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after you put a stent in,
that patient needs to go back
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and do some very
different things. Right.
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It didn't fix the problem
but it bought him some time.
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There you go.
And that's the place
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for modern medicine,
maybe to buy some time.
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If we pick this up
early, before it becomes
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a huge catastrophic
problem, it's very treatable.
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So what type of
screening should be done?
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Well, we talked about
skin cancer a little bit
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And now-a-days we have
all these sun tanning beds.
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You remember getting a sun
tanning bed, do you, Charles?
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I never have. I
know some people that do.
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They lay in those
for hours at a time.
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They get all this
damage to the skin.
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It mutates some of the cells.
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Also, you know, the sunbathers--
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some people get out and
sunbathe for hours and hours.
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That I've done, yes.
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And that's not good. Yeah.
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And it's the burning into your
skin, that's really the damage.
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And prolonged exposure
to sun-- burning type sun,
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not the outside
that you normally get,
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that's good for
you, but that can raise
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the chance of
having skin cancer.
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And there's a very deadly form
of skin cancer called melanoma.
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And that needs to be detected
right away 'cause it's not that
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common, but it's a
very dangerous cancer.
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So if you are
looking at your skin
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and you see a
mole that's discolored,
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that's irregular,
that's getting bigger,
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you need to have
that evaluated right away.
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And part of a good exam a doctor
will do for you is he will,
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you know, look at
your skin to make sure
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there's no suspicious mole
or nevus, sometimes we call it.
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And if there is,
they'll biopsy that to make sure
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it's not a cancer
and detected early.
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Now the most common
types of skin cancers
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are the ones in the
face. Usually those are benign.
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But sometimes if they
are not detected early,
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they can continue to
grow and eat into tissue.
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So skin cancer is very
important to detect early.
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We talked about lung cancer.
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There's not a good
screening test for lung cancer.
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Even though people
have suggested that X-rays
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and CAT scans might help,
there's no great screening test
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but I just recommend
a good family history.
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And if the cancer again
in the lungs detected early
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they can reset that and
take that out of the body.
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If it's spread, then
that's a bigger problem.
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It's harder to stop
once cancer is spread
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and got into the lymph system.
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So once cancer is moved out,
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it becomes a much
tougher thing to treat.
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That's when they start
hitting you with chemotherapy
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with its inherent risk,
radiation, all those things.
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So lung cancer, you know, we can
screen with the family history.
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And, of course,
if you quit smoking,
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that's gonna lower
your risk quite a bit.
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We talked about colon cancer.
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Very important to
screen for colon cancer.
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We talked about
prolonged exposure,
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you know,
especially to toxins in the gut
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that we weren't
designed to handle.
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And we talked about new things
that would help lower that risk,
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to speed up transit time.
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We talked about fiber.
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Just if people would
eat 12 grams of fiber a day,
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that's a big bran
muffin, they could eliminate
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50,000 colon cancer
cases around the world.
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That's pretty
powerful, just to eat fiber.
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Now fiber doesn't
get absorbed in you
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but it helps
move the transit time.
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So if you eat bad
stuff, I'd say, you know,
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I don't want you to
eat bad stuff, Charles.
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But if you were
to eat something bad,
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I'd say, well, let's
speed up the transit.
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Let's stand up.
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Let gravity
help pull it through.
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Let's drink a lot of
water and eat some fiber.
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Unfortunately, we eat
our bad stuff late at night
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or the couple
of guys that go out
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to the Golden Corral to
eat a big meal at night.
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They come home and watch their
favorite TV and they lay down.
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Well, their risk of colon cancer
is going higher and higher. So--
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So--but we want
to screen people.
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And normally a
person gets a screening test
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which is called a
colonoscopy at age 50.
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Now if you've had a
family history of colon cancer,
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let's say, your
dad had it at 45,
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we recommend screening
testing 10 years before.
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So you would get
yours at age of 35.
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And what they'll do
is, they put you to sleep.
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And they have a small tube
that goes up there with a light.
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And they look for
suspicious areas in the wall.
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And we've talk about how
the toxins, the bile salts
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and whatever damage the wall.
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It causes these cells to go.
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And if they
cannot see them early on
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and if they can remove these
parts before it gets serious,
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it can prevent colon cancer.
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Once colon cancer
has spread, it's a beast.
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It's a beast to
kill because it's grown
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and gets in the immune system.
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It goes everywhere.
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So screening for colon
cancer is very important.
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Breast cancer, everyone
knows about breast cancer.
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Women, you know, since
there is a one in eight chance
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of getting breast cancer,
they're exposed to estrogen
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in our
environment, unfortunately,
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they need to get screening
mammograms to make sure
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they're not-- and
breast self-examination.
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Examine your own breasts.
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I had a lady that I saw in
the hospital not too long ago.
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They noticed her
breast was dimpling.
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She had a hard mass there.
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And we asked her, "How
long this has been going on?"
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"Oh, about a year."
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So by the time we, you
know, saw where it was gone,
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it had all gone
throughout the lymph system.
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It was already
metastasized to the liver
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and it had even
gone to the brain.
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So at that point, you
know, it's--in modern medicine,
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you're not gonna do a whole lot.
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It's got, you know, sort
of, the cat's out of the bag.
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But the good news we're
able to tell this lady is that,
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you know, no matter what it
is, we still have, you know,
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a God that's gonna heal you.
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And we hope, you know, to
have that healing at some point,
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you know, in heaven or
sometimes miracles do happen.
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So we always want
to give people hope.
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So another cancer we
screen for is breast cancer.
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We got colon cancer. We
sort of screen for spleen.
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In men, prostate
cancer is a big deal. Yeah.
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And that's, sort
of, hard to take.
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You know, prostate
cancer in men, of course,
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it's sort of an
estrogen type situation.
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Lot of the men have prostate
cancer that never develops.
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But in a man, you know, they
get a routine prostate check,
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usually, at age
50 with the PSA exam.
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And they see if they
have prostate cancer.
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Now whether to treat that
cancer is sort of controversial.
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But, of course, if it's causing
problems with obstructing
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a neuron or if it's--if it
looks like it's gonna spread,
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there are multiple
nodules, usually they--
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first they biopsy it.
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And they usually
resect the cancer
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and get out the local cancer.
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And, of course, they screen
to make sure it hasn't spread.
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So those are the
main type of cancers.
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And unfortunately, there's
terrible cancers in our bodies
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like pancreatic
cancer, the bone marrow cancer,
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if you have a family history
that can usually be followed
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by just a complete blood count.
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And sometimes they can
look for certain proteins
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in your body if you've a family
history of multiple myeloma
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or some of the
bone marrow cancers.
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We don't routinely
do bone marrow biopsy
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of things of that nature.
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But screening for cancer is
very, very important because
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modern medicine is great if it's
picked up at an early stage.
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You can cure cancer.
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Now lot of people,
unfortunately, don't get
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those two pieces of information
when they talk about cancer.
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They don't get early detection.
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For whatever
reason they don't do that.
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They're probably afraid.
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They don't want
to know about this.
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And the second thing
they don't want to do
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is they don't want to
change their exposure to toxins.
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You know, prolong
exposures for whatever reason.
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You know, because the
world is either told them that
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they can't do this or, you know,
they have to smoke cigarettes
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or they have to eat this way.
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There's societal pressures.
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And when you think about
pressures in the society,
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Charles, I think about
150 years ago, let's say.
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You know, we talked
about-- earlier we talked about
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if you weren't
putting leeches on people
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you're a bad doctor. Right.
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But 150 years ago, if I came up
to you and, Charles, and said,
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"Charles, a plant based
diet is the best diet for you."
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They would think I was crazy.
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I would be ostracized, you know?
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Really, I would. Yeah.
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But now we're saying
this and they are saying,
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"You know, there's
something to this."
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You know, people
are beginning to listen.
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The evidence is there.
Society is understanding it.
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This is important to our health.
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Science has finally caught up
with what God told us all along.
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It's exactly correct. Wow.
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But I'm gonna take
that one step further is,
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it's also our brains
involved in all this, too
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because our brain
needs the power to help us
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to make these changes
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that society is pushing us
the other direction, you know--
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Are we damaging our
brain with our living?
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Yes, yes. We are actually--
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when we do things,
prolonged exposures
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to things we weren't designed
could damage the brain. Wow.
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And I'm just gonna
throw this out on this,
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we're gonna do more
programs about this.
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But if you think about it,
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we were never
designed to watch violent TV.
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We were never
designed to see pornography.
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We were never designed to
have bad feelings about God
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or feel like He's
trying to hurt us.
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We were never designed to have
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bad
relationship with our spouse.
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We were never designed to live
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in this anxiety,
stress filled world.
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But as we do these prolonged
exposures to any toxin,
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it can
potentially damage the brain.
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And we're just
now learning about
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how the prefrontal cortex
interacts with the medulla
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and all these
other parts of the brain.
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We know there's a problem
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because we see mental health
becoming a greater problem.
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We see people's
ability to change especially,
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for things like
cancer and heart disease.
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It's hard to change.
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We've also seen elevated
rates of Alzheimer's disease
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and other mental health disease.
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So eventually we
have to think about
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what gives us the
power to change our brain
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because as you were
pointing off of the camera
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we have to do two
things at once. Yes.
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And we have to
really treat the mind
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and get a healthy
relationship with God as well as
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we have to treat the
body because the mind
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and the body really
cannot be separated. Right.
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And that's why
we like at Heartwise
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to also bring into
this relationship with God,
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help that to
develop as a treatment,
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you know, getting
with the great Physician.
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So we can understand that it's
important to do these things
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and also gives
us the power to make
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some changes one at a time
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and have a healthy
relationship with God.
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Unfortunately,
some people do not have
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a healthy relationship with God.
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Someone has a
relationship with God
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the way someone else
tells him it should be. Yes.
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And sometimes that prolonged
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negative exposure
can hurt a body too.
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And also hurts our ability
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since the mind controls the
whole body to heal ourselves.
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Because the mind and body,
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especially, in all
these cases of cancer
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which everyone's
scared, they go together.
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That is such an
important lesson there
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that as we move
toward that optimum health
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that we want so much,
we work on the two tracks,
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getting to know God, bringing
His power into our lives,
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at the same time
learning to live the way
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God intended for us to live.
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We need to work on
both these simultaneously.
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And they feed off each other.
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God gives you the power
to make the right choices.
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The right
choices gives your brain
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the power to
understand God better.
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God gives you the power
to make the right choices.
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The right choices give you
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the brain power to
understand God better.
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Around and around and it
is a wonderful upward spiral.
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It'd be nice for a doctor to see
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upward spiral once
in a while, wouldn't it?
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And how would you
like that relationship
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as a treatment as well
as a way to prevent disease.
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You wouldn't want to write
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a prescription
for that, would you?
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Get to know God better.
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Healthy relationship,
absolutely. Wow, wow.
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We'll take a short break here.
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When we come back,
we'll answer your questions
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on this topic of cancer
and how we can prevent it
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and how it can be
treated on our return.
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So stay right where you are.
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