Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00023A
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00:17 We all live in a very toxic environment.
00:20 Our homes, our places of business. 00:22 We can't escape. Or can we? 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 problems. 00:35 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:38 Well, you're about to be given the "Ultimate Prescription." 00:43 "You've got cancer." 00:45 Those are about the last words 00:46 you want to hear from your doctor. 00:48 I'm sure those are the last words 00:49 he or she wants to say to you, too. 00:51 But can we really do something and minimize our vulnerability 00:54 when it comes to this dreaded disease? 00:57 Let's talk with Dr. James Marcum about cancer, prevention 01:00 and what part nutrition plays in the battle 01:03 for survival in this cancer generating world. 01:05 It's part of our examination 01:07 of the major causes of death in this world. 01:10 Dr. Marcum, make the connections for us, toxins and malignancy. 01:13 Yeah, if we remember what we talked about 01:16 in our last program on cancer, we came up with these words. 01:19 Prolonged exposure and not following the way 01:23 we originally designed leads to difficult problems. Yes. 01:28 When it comes to cancer, Charles, 01:30 everyone is so scared about cancer. 01:33 The rates are rising. 01:35 Unfortunately, I think we're focusing too much 01:37 on acute care treatment even though that's important. 01:40 It's very important to get acute care treatment. 01:42 But we want to minimize exposures to toxins. 01:46 And we've talked about that a little bit, 01:47 both in our diet, our lifestyle, our weight. 01:52 Unfortunately, we can't take all toxins out of the world. 01:54 We can't do that. 01:57 The second thing we really want to do 01:58 is we want to detect cancer early. 02:00 And that's what I wanted to talk today about to let our 02:03 listeners know it's very important 02:04 to detect cancer early. 02:06 Because if treated before this malignancy spreads, 02:10 it can be cured early. 02:11 And then we can get back to doing all the things 02:14 we need to do to avoid the toxins. 02:16 It's not dissimilar from heart disease. 02:18 We want to take care of the acute care problem 02:20 and then get back to the ways to prevent the problem. 02:23 Now that was after you got a bypass surgery, 02:24 after you put a stent in, that patient needs to go back 02:28 and do some very different things. Right. 02:29 It didn't fix the problem but it bought him some time. 02:31 There you go. And that's the place 02:33 for modern medicine, maybe to buy some time. 02:35 If we pick this up early, before it becomes 02:37 a huge catastrophic problem, it's very treatable. 02:41 So what type of screening should be done? 02:43 Well, we talked about skin cancer a little bit 02:46 And now-a-days we have all these sun tanning beds. 02:49 You remember getting a sun tanning bed, do you, Charles? 02:50 I never have. I know some people that do. 02:53 They lay in those for hours at a time. 02:54 They get all this damage to the skin. 02:56 It mutates some of the cells. 02:59 Also, you know, the sunbathers-- 03:00 some people get out and sunbathe for hours and hours. 03:02 That I've done, yes. 03:03 And that's not good. Yeah. 03:05 And it's the burning into your skin, that's really the damage. 03:07 And prolonged exposure to sun-- burning type sun, 03:09 not the outside that you normally get, 03:11 that's good for you, but that can raise 03:14 the chance of having skin cancer. 03:16 And there's a very deadly form of skin cancer called melanoma. 03:20 And that needs to be detected right away 'cause it's not that 03:22 common, but it's a very dangerous cancer. 03:25 So if you are looking at your skin 03:27 and you see a mole that's discolored, 03:29 that's irregular, that's getting bigger, 03:31 you need to have that evaluated right away. 03:34 And part of a good exam a doctor will do for you is he will, 03:38 you know, look at your skin to make sure 03:40 there's no suspicious mole or nevus, sometimes we call it. 03:45 And if there is, they'll biopsy that to make sure 03:48 it's not a cancer and detected early. 03:50 Now the most common types of skin cancers 03:52 are the ones in the face. Usually those are benign. 03:55 But sometimes if they are not detected early, 03:57 they can continue to grow and eat into tissue. 04:00 So skin cancer is very important to detect early. 04:03 We talked about lung cancer. 04:04 There's not a good screening test for lung cancer. 04:07 Even though people have suggested that X-rays 04:10 and CAT scans might help, there's no great screening test 04:13 but I just recommend a good family history. 04:17 And if the cancer again in the lungs detected early 04:19 they can reset that and take that out of the body. 04:22 If it's spread, then that's a bigger problem. 04:25 It's harder to stop once cancer is spread 04:28 and got into the lymph system. 04:29 So once cancer is moved out, 04:31 it becomes a much tougher thing to treat. 04:33 That's when they start hitting you with chemotherapy 04:35 with its inherent risk, radiation, all those things. 04:39 So lung cancer, you know, we can screen with the family history. 04:42 And, of course, if you quit smoking, 04:44 that's gonna lower your risk quite a bit. 04:47 We talked about colon cancer. 04:49 Very important to screen for colon cancer. 04:51 We talked about prolonged exposure, 04:53 you know, especially to toxins in the gut 04:56 that we weren't designed to handle. 04:58 And we talked about new things that would help lower that risk, 05:01 to speed up transit time. 05:02 We talked about fiber. 05:04 Just if people would eat 12 grams of fiber a day, 05:07 that's a big bran muffin, they could eliminate 05:10 50,000 colon cancer cases around the world. 05:13 That's pretty powerful, just to eat fiber. 05:15 Now fiber doesn't get absorbed in you 05:17 but it helps move the transit time. 05:19 So if you eat bad stuff, I'd say, you know, 05:21 I don't want you to eat bad stuff, Charles. 05:23 But if you were to eat something bad, 05:24 I'd say, well, let's speed up the transit. 05:26 Let's stand up. 05:27 Let gravity help pull it through. 05:29 Let's drink a lot of water and eat some fiber. 05:32 Unfortunately, we eat our bad stuff late at night 05:34 or the couple of guys that go out 05:35 to the Golden Corral to eat a big meal at night. 05:37 They come home and watch their favorite TV and they lay down. 05:40 Well, their risk of colon cancer is going higher and higher. So-- 05:43 So--but we want to screen people. 05:45 And normally a person gets a screening test 05:48 which is called a colonoscopy at age 50. 05:51 Now if you've had a family history of colon cancer, 05:54 let's say, your dad had it at 45, 05:56 we recommend screening testing 10 years before. 05:59 So you would get yours at age of 35. 06:02 And what they'll do is, they put you to sleep. 06:04 And they have a small tube that goes up there with a light. 06:06 And they look for suspicious areas in the wall. 06:09 And we've talk about how the toxins, the bile salts 06:12 and whatever damage the wall. 06:13 It causes these cells to go. 06:15 And if they cannot see them early on 06:16 and if they can remove these parts before it gets serious, 06:19 it can prevent colon cancer. 06:20 Once colon cancer has spread, it's a beast. 06:24 It's a beast to kill because it's grown 06:26 and gets in the immune system. 06:27 It goes everywhere. 06:29 So screening for colon cancer is very important. 06:31 Breast cancer, everyone knows about breast cancer. 06:34 Women, you know, since there is a one in eight chance 06:36 of getting breast cancer, they're exposed to estrogen 06:39 in our environment, unfortunately, 06:41 they need to get screening mammograms to make sure 06:44 they're not-- and breast self-examination. 06:47 Examine your own breasts. 06:48 I had a lady that I saw in the hospital not too long ago. 06:52 They noticed her breast was dimpling. 06:54 She had a hard mass there. 06:56 And we asked her, "How long this has been going on?" 06:58 "Oh, about a year." 06:59 So by the time we, you know, saw where it was gone, 07:02 it had all gone throughout the lymph system. 07:04 It was already metastasized to the liver 07:07 and it had even gone to the brain. 07:09 So at that point, you know, it's--in modern medicine, 07:13 you're not gonna do a whole lot. 07:15 It's got, you know, sort of, the cat's out of the bag. 07:18 But the good news we're able to tell this lady is that, 07:20 you know, no matter what it is, we still have, you know, 07:23 a God that's gonna heal you. 07:25 And we hope, you know, to have that healing at some point, 07:28 you know, in heaven or sometimes miracles do happen. 07:31 So we always want to give people hope. 07:33 So another cancer we screen for is breast cancer. 07:35 We got colon cancer. We sort of screen for spleen. 07:38 In men, prostate cancer is a big deal. Yeah. 07:41 And that's, sort of, hard to take. 07:43 You know, prostate cancer in men, of course, 07:45 it's sort of an estrogen type situation. 07:48 Lot of the men have prostate cancer that never develops. 07:51 But in a man, you know, they get a routine prostate check, 07:54 usually, at age 50 with the PSA exam. 07:58 And they see if they have prostate cancer. 07:59 Now whether to treat that cancer is sort of controversial. 08:04 But, of course, if it's causing problems with obstructing 08:06 a neuron or if it's--if it looks like it's gonna spread, 08:09 there are multiple nodules, usually they-- 08:11 first they biopsy it. 08:13 And they usually resect the cancer 08:14 and get out the local cancer. 08:15 And, of course, they screen to make sure it hasn't spread. 08:19 So those are the main type of cancers. 08:21 And unfortunately, there's terrible cancers in our bodies 08:23 like pancreatic cancer, the bone marrow cancer, 08:26 if you have a family history that can usually be followed 08:29 by just a complete blood count. 08:31 And sometimes they can look for certain proteins 08:33 in your body if you've a family history of multiple myeloma 08:36 or some of the bone marrow cancers. 08:38 We don't routinely do bone marrow biopsy 08:40 of things of that nature. 08:42 But screening for cancer is very, very important because 08:45 modern medicine is great if it's picked up at an early stage. 08:49 You can cure cancer. 08:51 Now lot of people, unfortunately, don't get 08:54 those two pieces of information when they talk about cancer. 08:56 They don't get early detection. 08:58 For whatever reason they don't do that. 09:00 They're probably afraid. 09:02 They don't want to know about this. 09:03 And the second thing they don't want to do 09:05 is they don't want to change their exposure to toxins. 09:08 You know, prolong exposures for whatever reason. 09:12 You know, because the world is either told them that 09:14 they can't do this or, you know, they have to smoke cigarettes 09:18 or they have to eat this way. 09:19 There's societal pressures. 09:21 And when you think about pressures in the society, 09:23 Charles, I think about 150 years ago, let's say. 09:27 You know, we talked about-- earlier we talked about 09:29 if you weren't putting leeches on people 09:31 you're a bad doctor. Right. 09:33 But 150 years ago, if I came up to you and, Charles, and said, 09:36 "Charles, a plant based diet is the best diet for you." 09:41 They would think I was crazy. 09:43 I would be ostracized, you know? 09:45 Really, I would. Yeah. 09:46 But now we're saying this and they are saying, 09:49 "You know, there's something to this." 09:50 You know, people are beginning to listen. 09:52 The evidence is there. Society is understanding it. 09:54 This is important to our health. 09:56 Science has finally caught up with what God told us all along. 09:59 It's exactly correct. Wow. 10:00 But I'm gonna take that one step further is, 10:03 it's also our brains involved in all this, too 10:05 because our brain needs the power to help us 10:08 to make these changes 10:10 that society is pushing us the other direction, you know-- 10:12 Are we damaging our brain with our living? 10:14 Yes, yes. We are actually-- 10:16 when we do things, prolonged exposures 10:19 to things we weren't designed could damage the brain. Wow. 10:21 And I'm just gonna throw this out on this, 10:23 we're gonna do more programs about this. 10:25 But if you think about it, 10:26 we were never designed to watch violent TV. 10:30 We were never designed to see pornography. 10:33 We were never designed to have bad feelings about God 10:37 or feel like He's trying to hurt us. 10:39 We were never designed to have 10:40 bad relationship with our spouse. 10:43 We were never designed to live 10:44 in this anxiety, stress filled world. 10:46 But as we do these prolonged exposures to any toxin, 10:50 it can potentially damage the brain. 10:52 And we're just now learning about 10:53 how the prefrontal cortex interacts with the medulla 10:57 and all these other parts of the brain. 10:59 We know there's a problem 11:00 because we see mental health becoming a greater problem. 11:03 We see people's ability to change especially, 11:06 for things like cancer and heart disease. 11:07 It's hard to change. 11:09 We've also seen elevated rates of Alzheimer's disease 11:11 and other mental health disease. 11:13 So eventually we have to think about 11:15 what gives us the power to change our brain 11:18 because as you were pointing off of the camera 11:20 we have to do two things at once. Yes. 11:22 And we have to really treat the mind 11:24 and get a healthy relationship with God as well as 11:27 we have to treat the body because the mind 11:29 and the body really cannot be separated. Right. 11:31 And that's why we like at Heartwise 11:33 to also bring into this relationship with God, 11:36 help that to develop as a treatment, 11:38 you know, getting with the great Physician. 11:40 So we can understand that it's important to do these things 11:43 and also gives us the power to make 11:44 some changes one at a time 11:46 and have a healthy relationship with God. 11:48 Unfortunately, some people do not have 11:50 a healthy relationship with God. 11:52 Someone has a relationship with God 11:53 the way someone else tells him it should be. Yes. 11:56 And sometimes that prolonged 11:57 negative exposure can hurt a body too. 12:00 And also hurts our ability 12:01 since the mind controls the whole body to heal ourselves. 12:05 Because the mind and body, 12:06 especially, in all these cases of cancer 12:08 which everyone's scared, they go together. 12:11 That is such an important lesson there 12:13 that as we move toward that optimum health 12:16 that we want so much, we work on the two tracks, 12:20 getting to know God, bringing His power into our lives, 12:24 at the same time learning to live the way 12:27 God intended for us to live. 12:28 We need to work on both these simultaneously. 12:30 And they feed off each other. 12:32 God gives you the power to make the right choices. 12:34 The right choices gives your brain 12:36 the power to understand God better. 12:37 God gives you the power to make the right choices. 12:39 The right choices give you 12:40 the brain power to understand God better. 12:42 Around and around and it is a wonderful upward spiral. 12:45 It'd be nice for a doctor to see 12:47 upward spiral once in a while, wouldn't it? 12:48 And how would you like that relationship 12:51 as a treatment as well as a way to prevent disease. 12:54 You wouldn't want to write 12:55 a prescription for that, would you? 12:57 Get to know God better. 12:58 Healthy relationship, absolutely. Wow, wow. 13:00 We'll take a short break here. 13:02 When we come back, we'll answer your questions 13:03 on this topic of cancer and how we can prevent it 13:07 and how it can be treated on our return. 13:09 So stay right where you are. |
Revised 2014-12-17