Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00025A
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00:01 The following program presents principles designed
00:02 to promote good health 00:04 and is not intended to take the place 00:05 of personalized professional care. 00:07 The opinions and ideas expressed are those of the speaker. 00:10 Viewers are encouraged to draw their own conclusions 00:13 about the information presented. 00:18 If you have type 2 diabetes, 00:20 today's program just might change your life. 00:23 If you have type 1, 00:24 pay close attention to it. 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." 00:44 Today, we continue our discussion 00:45 on the major causes of death on this planet. 00:48 Diabetes is one of those causes, 00:51 but we've got good news for you today. 00:53 Diabetes, that dreaded debilitating disease 00:56 responsible for the mutilation 00:58 and death of thousands each year, has met its match. 01:02 The evidence is overwhelming. 01:04 And you can take full advantage of what has been learnt. 01:08 Dr. Marcum, I have a feeling today's show 01:09 we're gonna change some lives out there. 01:11 Well, I certainly hope so. 01:13 And it's my goal and prayer that every day that we live 01:16 some lives are changed by what--the things we do. 01:19 And lot of people don't realize. 01:20 Before I went into medicine, Charles, 01:22 I taught high school math and science. 01:25 And I found out that in teaching 01:26 it was very important to have review sessions. 01:29 So, you know, we worked on the series 01:31 about the causes of death in the world, the leading causes. 01:35 We found some trends going on. 01:37 We found out that all these can be associated 01:39 by not living by the way God originally designed us. 01:42 And also prolonged exposures to bad things, 01:46 toxins, prolonged exposures. 01:49 And we talked last program about diabetes, 01:51 the diagnosis, having high blood sugar. 01:54 They're the symptoms. 01:55 We also see the numbers rising, 01:57 especially, for type 2 adult-onset. 02:00 The numbers-- and as these numbers rises, 02:02 the damages to the organs, it's just tremendous. 02:05 A lot of people are walking around. 02:06 There's people out there, they're talking to us 02:09 and listening to us today. 02:10 They're talking about diabetes 02:12 and they don't even know they have it. 02:13 You know, they're walking on diabetes. 02:14 It's a hidden time bomb, just like cardiovascular disease. 02:17 And unfortunately, these illnesses, 02:19 you're seeing the overlap, you know? 02:21 Diabetes causing heart disease, you know. 02:23 Which comes first? The chicken or the egg? 02:25 High blood pressure damages this organ system. 02:27 You know, that causes you to have to take medicines 02:29 which will also hurt you. 02:31 So all these things that can actually 02:32 destroy our bodies and our minds, 02:35 there's just a lot of overlap here 02:36 in all these chronic medical conditions. 02:39 But there's good news with diabetes. 02:41 And I have a study I wanted to quote here. 02:43 I want to-- I did my cardiology fellowship 02:46 at the University of Kentucky. 02:48 And one of the professors there, his name, James Anderson. 02:52 And he did a very interesting study. 02:54 And what he did is he took people, 02:56 young men in their twenties. 02:58 And he wanted to study glucose metabolism. 03:01 We talked about diabetes. 03:03 We can't get the glucose into the cells needed for energy. 03:06 No energy, that's why some of the symptoms. 03:08 You are tired, you go to the bathroom a lot, 03:10 you're very thirsty because we're not getting the energy 03:13 we needed in blood sugar. 03:15 Well, he fed this twenty-year-olds 03:16 one pound of refined sugar, sucrose. 03:20 So he said, "Listen, you're gonna have 03:21 a pound of sugar every day." 03:23 So he made sugar 80% of their calories. 03:26 That's a lot of calories. Lot of calories. 03:28 So he-- you know, 03:30 and the question he wanted to know is 03:31 what caused type 2 diabetes. 03:33 Is it a problem with sugar? 03:35 So he fed them this. 03:36 And at 10 weeks--after 10 weeks of feeling this diet, 03:39 I'm sure they gained weight, 03:41 but he did a glucose tolerance test. 03:44 And it showed that there was no evidence 03:46 that they were having problems 03:47 metabolizing the glucose in these young people. 03:49 So the insulin was getting it into the cells, no problem. 03:52 Glucose did not cause type 2 diabetes mellitus. 03:57 So that was very encouraging. 03:58 He'd learnt something. 03:59 Then he said, "You know, listen, 04:01 you know, I want to find out, 04:02 you know, ways to help type 2 diabetes. 04:04 What else can we do?" 04:06 So what Dr. Anderson did, he says, "Listen, 04:08 let's give people a high fat diet." Okay? 04:11 So he gave them a diabetic diet. 04:14 No, he gave them a diet. 04:16 It actually precipitated problems. 04:17 He gave them, 65% of their diet was fat. 04:20 He didn't know he was giving them a diabetic diet. 04:22 And he-- they ate a lot of this food. 04:24 And in just two weeks after giving this high fat diet, 04:27 all of them had abnormal glucose tolerance tests. 04:31 So this high fat diet could not-- 04:34 you know, they developed this abnormal metabolism. 04:37 So again they were exposed to a chronic situation 04:40 that we weren't designed, a high fat diet. 04:42 We weren't designed to have. 04:43 They were exposed to it. 04:45 And two weeks is not a long time. No, it's not. 04:46 And two weeks of that high stress diet caused 04:50 the development of glucose impairment. 04:52 One person even got diabetes. 04:54 So if you think about it logically, 04:56 if we--you know, normally people, 04:58 now it's estimated that in the States 05:00 about 40% of our diet's non fats. 05:03 40%, that's quite a bit. 05:05 And if you take more fats than that, 05:07 that's more than we really need in our bodies. 05:09 And if the fats that we're taking are not the healthy fats, 05:12 you know, you've heard of things like, 05:13 you know, the saturated fats, 05:15 we put a lot-- fat makes you feel good. 05:17 It helps the dopamine receptors, makes everything better. 05:20 But if you take these high fat diets day in and day out, 05:24 you damage your receptors. 05:26 You damage your ability to move the sugar into your cell. 05:29 Because what happens is 05:30 the fat takes up space in the cell, 05:32 you can't glucose-- it also hurts receptors. 05:34 Lots of problems with that. 05:35 This gentleman, Dr Anderson proved 05:37 that the problem in type 2 diabetes is fat. 05:41 So the real solution to type 2 diabetes is to remove fat. 05:46 Remove fat from the diet. 05:48 Remove fat from the tissue. 05:50 And there's a lot of doctors around the country 05:52 and I think of Dr. McDougall. 05:54 He's out in California. 05:56 He can cure most type 2 diabetics 05:58 if they remove fat from their diet 06:01 and they go on these excellent vegan type diets 06:03 that are low in fat and exercise. 06:06 In fact, if you exercise one hour a day, 06:09 that's equivalent of taking five units of insulin 06:11 and what it can do to move sugar in the body. 06:13 So you can reverse this disease by getting fat out of the body, 06:18 fat out of the cells, fat out of the diet and exercise. 06:22 You can help reverse type 2 diabetes in most cases. 06:25 Now there's a few cases it cannot be. 06:27 But this is not getting out there. 06:28 And what's happening 06:30 is Americans are choosing to take medications. 06:33 And we got to talk about the medication. 06:35 And I wrote down a long list of the medications 06:37 that we have out here. 06:39 Many are out there. Now everyone's heard of insulin. 06:40 You've heard of insulin. Sure. 06:42 Now unfortunately, type 1 diabetics 06:44 have to take the insulin. 06:45 But you know what, type ones that exercise a lot, 06:48 they do a lot better and using less insulin levels 06:50 if they're type ones. 06:52 But insulin really is a growth hormone. 06:55 Did you know that? 06:57 So insulin, guess what? 06:58 It makes you hungry, you know? 06:59 Insulin actually makes you hungry. 07:01 So insulin doesn't solve the problem in type 2 diabetics. 07:03 It actually makes them hungry and they tend to gain weight. 07:06 Their blood sugar might look good, 07:07 but again we are not fixing the problem. 07:10 Are we taking fat out of the body? No. 07:11 Sometimes we're even giving the hungry to eat more. 07:14 So the real solution is not taking insulin. 07:17 And if you think about it is we have a type of diabetes 07:21 called gestational diabetes and this is a great example. 07:24 And, you know, pregnant woman they have the diabetes 07:28 and they take insulin to help control that. 07:31 Well, the insulin also goes down to the baby. Okay? 07:34 Now the baby doesn't have a problem 07:35 with fat in their diet. So guess what happens? 07:38 All this insulin serves as a growth hormones 07:40 and these babies become very big. 07:43 And we call macrosomia. 07:45 And we see some of the babies that weigh 12 to 14 pounds. 07:49 Their mother's in gestational diabetes 07:52 because insulin is a growth factor. 07:54 So for type 2 diabetes, insulin is really not the answer. 07:58 Now is insulin used in emergencies? Yes, it is. 08:00 We talked about one in last program. 08:02 How in an emergency situation, 08:03 we need to bring down that insulin 08:05 to turn off the fat metabolism 08:06 that was making acids in the body. 08:09 But, but insulin is not a real solution. 08:12 We see some of these other medicines. 08:14 Years ago, when I first started 08:15 we used these class of medicines called sulfonylureas. 08:20 One of them out there was glyburide 08:22 and the other one was called glucotrol. 08:24 And I can remember, 08:26 I'm getting calls at night 08:27 saying, "Listen, you know, 08:29 this patient has a low blood sugar. 08:31 Can we send him home from the emergency room?" 08:33 And I said, "Well, you know, is he on insulin?" 08:35 "Yes, he's on insulin." 08:37 "Did you give him some sugar to bring it up?" 08:38 "Yes, he did." 08:40 I said, "But did you also-- is he on any other medicines?" 08:43 "Oh, yeah, he's on glucotrol. 08:45 Well, glucotrol's a medicine that lowers blood sugar 08:48 but it stays around for a long time. 08:51 So you have to watch those patients a long time 08:53 because a low blood sugar can be deadly. 08:56 So can you imagine there are some people 08:58 that take their blood sugar medicines 08:59 and don't monitor their blood sugar? 09:01 They go into these comas. 09:02 They don't ever wake up. 09:04 So if we send someone home that the blood sugar-- 09:06 you know, for instance they've had problems 09:08 with their kidneys or their liver. 09:09 They're not metabolizing these medicines. And it's low. 09:12 And we say, "Well, just go on home." 09:14 Well, they might go to sleep and never wake up again. 09:16 So that was the real negative about these glyburides. 09:19 They lasted a long time in the body. 09:21 And anything that affected metabolism 09:22 can make the blood sugar go low. 09:24 So in that sense, 09:25 did that medicine cure the type 2 problem? No, it didn't. 09:28 But it also created it own set of problems 09:31 just to make the numbers look good. 09:33 But the numbers look good 09:34 but they also could kill you too. Absolutely. 09:36 Another medicine that's out there 09:38 that's very common was one called metformin. 09:41 And that's a medicine-- glucophage is another name. 09:45 And one of the serious side effects of that one is 09:47 metabolic lactic acidosis. 09:49 It can cause severe build up of acid. 09:52 We've had some agents who've been on the market 09:54 they said, "We can't put it on the market 09:56 'cause it will hurt your liver." 09:57 Some of them raise a chance of developing heart attacks. 10:00 But if you think about it logically, 10:02 the solution for type 2 diabetes 10:04 shouldn't start with medications. 10:06 It should start with getting fat out of the diet. 10:10 It should be working with people to get them to exercise, 10:13 to get them to eat smarter, to bring the fat content down, 10:16 to quit eating so much fast food, 10:18 the ones that make you so happy. 10:19 That's gonna be the real solution to type 2 diabetes. 10:22 So type 2 diabetes can be cured. 10:25 And you don't have to have all this end-organ damages 10:28 with your eyes and your heart and your joints 10:30 and you don't have to have all these problems 10:31 that we see in diabetes. 10:34 This is a curable disease. 10:35 That is about the best news 10:37 I think that we have given on this program. 10:39 We talk a lot about diseases and conditions 10:41 but type 2 diabetes, 10:43 it can actually be cured, be reversed. 10:46 So you don't have to take those medicines anymore. 10:48 And all of those dangerous things 10:49 he was talking about, you don't have to live with that. 10:52 It doesn't have to be there. No. 10:54 And the bottom line is we want to restore 10:56 our normal physiology. 10:58 We want to restore the way our body was designed to be. 11:01 Now let's spend some time right there. 11:03 Restore the way our body was designed to be. 11:06 How do we know what God had in mind for our bodies? 11:10 Where do we find that? Well, you know that's right. 11:11 Nowhere in the Garden of Eden 11:13 when the only time for a perfect-- 11:14 did it say you needed this much percentage of this, 11:16 this much percentage of that, that. It wasn't an issue. 11:18 He didn't say that but at the same time, 11:20 we look at the Garden of Eden and see what we don't see there. 11:22 Yes. We didn't see refined foods. 11:24 We didn't see all these fats in our diets. 11:27 We didn't have a heavy meat related diet. 11:30 Eggs, cheese, all those things that contain lots of fat. 11:33 So we look at it and those substances just weren't there. 11:36 We introduced those at a later time. 11:38 And as a result, we've changed our own chemistry. 11:41 Now we've adapted to it but it's come at some expense. 11:44 So I mean, I think it's really excited 11:46 that the real answer to type 2 diabetes 11:48 is found in the scriptures 11:50 back when they gave this perfect diet. 11:51 In fact, we also see an answer in Daniel. 11:54 The book of Daniel has an example of a person 11:57 that says, "Listen, I'm just gonna 11:58 have pulse and water, vegetables and water." 12:00 And in a short period of time he was 10 times smarter. 12:03 So it helped his brain function. 12:05 We know that diabetics, of course, aren't as sharp, 12:07 you know, because their blood vessels are damaged 12:09 everywhere throughout the body. 12:11 So this is a real major problem 12:13 but the good news is this is reversible, Charles. 12:15 We can restore our normal physiology 12:18 if we get back to the principles that was given us to creation. 12:20 So the real solution for type 2 diabetes is not insulin. 12:24 It's not medications. 12:25 It's getting back to diet and exercise. 12:28 It's being monitoring that blood sugar. 12:30 That's gonna be the key to reversing all these. 12:32 That's exciting. 12:34 You bring up an interesting point there. 12:35 I remember talking with the health professional 12:37 that runs diabetes program-- Yes. 12:39 Based on this model. 12:41 And it was a radio interview and I asked this person, 12:43 "What is the number one benefit 12:46 that the people who go for the program recognized? 12:50 What's the number one benefit they recognize the fastest?" 12:53 And I was expecting more energy. 12:54 I was expecting I can taste food better 12:56 like when a smoker stops smoking. 12:58 I was expecting I can sleep better. 13:02 The number one benefit the diabetics 13:05 enjoyed when they switched over to the diet 13:08 that God had in mind was 13:10 they said their brain fog lifted. Right. 13:14 Their brain fog and I said, 13:15 "What in the world is a brain fog?" 13:17 And he explained this very situation 13:19 which wraps right around to what you always say here. 13:22 We want to have a relationship with God. 13:24 We want to make sure that our love exchange 13:28 with our Heavenly Father is on-going. 13:31 But when you're having a brain fog, 13:32 do you feel loving about anything? 13:35 Do you feel loving about your spouse? 13:37 Do you feel loving about your neighbors? 13:39 Your community? Yourself? 13:43 Brain fog, that ability of bad choices 13:47 to affect our thinking also affects how we perceive 13:51 and how we have a relationship with God the Father 13:54 and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. 13:56 Something to think about. Excellent point, Charles. 13:58 We'll take a short break. 13:59 And when we come back we'll talk more about diabetes 14:02 and give you some more good news. 14:04 And there's lots of it so stay tuned. |
Revised 2014-12-17