The following program
presents principles designed
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to promote good health
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the place of
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are those of the speaker.
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about the information presented.
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How is your
brain? My brain you ask?
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Yes, your brain is an organ
just like your heart or liver,
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certain health
rules apply, stay tuned.
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I am Dr. James Marcum.
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Are you
interested in discovering
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the reason why
you want solutions
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to your healthcare 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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Most of us give
little thought to our brains
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which if you think about it
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should be almost
impossible to do,
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yet brain health the persevering
of that all important thinking,
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remembering and
learning centre of your body
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is just as vulnerable
as anything else about you.
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You can damage it,
starve it, poison it, alter it
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and even kill it all
with the few bad choices.
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You can also repair
it, feed it, detoxify it,
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restore and save it
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with little thinking
itself with a few good choices.
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If you are interested in
keeping your brain healthy,
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you have come
to the right place.
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Dr. Marcum what do we
need know about our brain?
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There is so much
we can talk about
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regarding the brain, Charles.
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And if you think about it
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everyone's become a
lot more concerned about it
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because of the
increased dementias,
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you know, we heard
of Alzheimer's disease,
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unfortunately people
have a lot of toxins there
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hurting their brain
and some of the toxins
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we think about now is alcohol
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and drugs like amphetamines
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and cocaine
that hurts the brain.
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Marijuana hurts the brain.
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And there is many
things that hurt the brain
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and as you know
from working with me
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over the past period of time.
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What I tried to do is I go
back to biblical technology word
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that I coined actually.
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Where we look in the
Bible and look for text
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and then I go back and
try to find the science
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and then I try to apply it
to the treatment of people.
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Well this brain
thing have been puzzling me
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for a long period of
time and you know I went back
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and found the text about eating
a healthy diet, being outside.
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Well, one text kept
coming up to me in the Psalms
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and that was the
Psalms the text that says,
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"Create in me a
new heart, O God."
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What did that mean?
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And if you remember the story
this was the time where David,
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David had did
that terrible thing
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and they think the
prophet was coming to him
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after that
incident and he says listen,
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you know, you know it
was more than just a request,
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I'm sure it was a cry
from the bottom of his heart.
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He know that he was ill,
he might not have had diabetes
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or heart disease
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but he had
something that's far worst,
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he had a brain disease
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and the brain disease was so bad
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that he took
someone else's life.
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And this was a plea for
help, so what did this mean
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and how could this
be applied to us today
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to make our brains better.
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Well you notice he
used the word create,
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so there is nothing he could do.
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It was something that
had to be done to him,
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so I was very fascinated by that
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and then what
its mean a new heart?
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Was this the physical heart.
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Did David
actually need the stent
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or a bypass or some medicines?
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Well, well no, so I went
back to the Proverbs okay,
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Solomon I think Solomon
would have some line on this,
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he was the smartest guy
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and even Solomon
remember the thing
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that he said about
the heart in Solomon,
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as a man think it so he is.
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So Solomon the wisest
person in the world at that time
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thought that the
heart was the place
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where thinking occurred.
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So I said well, wow,
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I didn't think the
heart actually thought,
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I thought the brain
was doing the thinking.
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Well, I looked
back and at that time
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around that time one
of my favorite doctors
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Dr. Hippocrates came along
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and Dr. Hippocrates was
great I really admired him,
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he was far
ahead on time on food.
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He says let food be thy medicine
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and medicine be thy
food. He was great on that.
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Another thing he
said, first do no harm.
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Wow, he is pretty smart guy.
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What did he say about the heart?
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Well, he thought the heart
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was also the
center of reasoning.
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Now David lived about
a thousand before Christ.
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Hippocrates was more
in the 360 before Christ
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but later on there is
another Alexandrian physician
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that came along in Herophilos
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and he originally
did some dissection
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and he did some
dissection and found out
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the heart wasn't
the center of reasoning,
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it was the brain that was
at the center of reasoning.
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So all of a sudden
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things started to
make a little more sense.
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So David would say,
create me a new brain.
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So his brain wasn't
right, his brain was diseased,
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his brain was sick
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and that caused him
to do a terrible thing.
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So the brain wasn't right,
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so he was asking God
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to create in me a new
brain, not a new heart.
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So may be we should
start with illness in the brain
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and not a new heart
because he didn't say
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create me a new heart,
he said a new brain first.
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Well Solomon says
as a man thinks it,
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so-- so you know,
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so as the man think
it in his brain so he is.
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And in the Bible
there is over 700 texts
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referring to
heart and most of them
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also talk about
referring to the brain.
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So there is very
something chemically healing
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that comes from this new brain
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and in most of
those incenses it wasn't--
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that we did anything
to have this new brain,
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it was a gift.
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It was something
given to us from God.
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But we had to ask for it
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and then we had
to do something else.
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In Matthew 11:28 another text
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just kept jumping out at me,
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it says, come unto me
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all ye that labor
and are heavy laden
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and I will give you rest.
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Well, how does
that fit into thinking.
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Well, come into
me means to worship,
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have that relationship,
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have that relationship
if you are heavy laden,
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if you are stressed out
and I will give you this rest.
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Well, recently
Dr. Andrew Newberg
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at the
University of Pennsylvania
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has done some
outstanding research
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that help me understand
what was meaning in these text,
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when it says create me
a new heart, a new brain.
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He found out that
there is a part of the brain
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called the
anterior cingulated, okay.
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You know, the brain--
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part behind the brain is
called the prefrontal cortex,
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that's what does the thinking,
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the reasoning,
figuring things out.
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The stress part of the
brain is called the medulla
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that's the one
it makes adrenaline
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and cortisol and inflammation.
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Remember that word inflammation.
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Inflammation in the body is bad.
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Well, this part of the brain
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makes all these
inflammatory markers.
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The prefrontal cortex
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does the higher
learning, the thinking.
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And the anterior cortex
sort of coordinates the two,
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the anterior cingulate.
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Well and he did a study
where he had people worship,
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they worshipped for 12
minutes for two months.
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He found out after they
worshiped for 12 minutes.
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Is it 12 minutes per day?
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12 minutes per
day for two months
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the anterior
cingulate got bigger.
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It grew inside and he
measure these by PET scans,
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positron emission tomography.
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So he could see
the metabolic activity,
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he could see the
cells getting bigger.
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He also saw the cells
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in the prefrontal
cortex getting bigger.
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So this-- when they worshipped
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they had all these
neurotrophic factors.
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You grew new
connections, new brain growth,
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the brain is a remarkable
organ just to begin with.
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It was a physical change?
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Yes, physical change,
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not only that,
there is more to it.
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But there are
billions of cells in the brain,
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there are trillions of
supporting connections,
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there is a quadrillion
inner connections going on.
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Quadrillion is a lot, Charles.
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But when you worship,
that part of the brain,
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the anterior
cingulate got bigger,
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grew new brain parts
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and it turned off the
stress part of the brain.
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Okay, it turned off the medulla
so it made that part smaller.
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Now that's the part that
makes adrenaline and cortisol
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and all these
inflammatory marker,
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that got smaller.
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So by worshiping
12 minutes a day,
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he turned on the
good part of the brain,
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so we could reason more,
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we could change our
behavior, we could think better.
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The anterior cingulate growing,
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this is the part
that teaches us empathy,
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to teach us to love, to
teach us to love our enemies,
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to teach us to do something
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that our primitive
brain won't let us do.
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So we can change
behaviors for the right reasons.
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Now if you think
about that primitive brain,
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you know, animal behavior
is based on three things,
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that they call the
motivational triad Charles.
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Animals want to seek pleasure
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and they do that by
reproducing and getting food.
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They also do that by--
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another thing that
they is they avoid pain
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and the third thing is
they want to conserve energy.
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When we have that
similar with lower animals,
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butterflies, insects, frogs,
reptiles that's what they do.
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And that's where the old brain
that we all share in common.
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Now what us and
only a few primates have
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is this part of the brain
called the anterior cingulated,
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that can grow a new brain.
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So in this study
by Andrew Newberg,
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he found out that when
we worshiped a God of love.
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Now he found out
that if we worship a God
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that had anger or
guilt or resentment.
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He studied the brain,
the PET scans and guess what?
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That part of the
brain did not grow.
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The stress part of the brain
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that old brain
got big and strong,
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made all these chemicals
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that cause
damage if not treated.
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So we talked a lot
about stress on the system
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while the stress was
coming from the brains not--
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worshiping the
way God want us to.
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If we don't
worship a God of love,
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we can actually damage our brain
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and if you think back to
the Garden of Eden, Charles,
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just think about it,
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our brains were made to
worship God. Absolutely.
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And when we worship
anything else, anything else
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whether it be
football or ourselves
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or what our things, our car
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whatever else we
worship modern medicine,
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lifestyle, nutrition,
when we worship anything else,
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our brains
weren't made for that,
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that's not true worship.
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Our anterior
cingulate will get smaller,
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the stress chemistry will
turn on, disease will develop.
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So when you think about this,
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when David was saying
create me a new heart,
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he had to asked for it,
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so when you get this
text in Matthew come into me,
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worship me, be with me,
have a relationship with me,
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all you that are heavy laden,
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all that stress part of
the brain that's turned on
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and I will give you this rest,
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these real chemical
changes, new dendrites,
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new axons, new connections.
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It decreases the bad chemistry,
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adrenaline levels go down,
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inflammation goes down,
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and likewise the good chemicals,
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Dr. Newberg found
went up, the endorphins,
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those levels started to climb,
the dopamine started to climb.
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Now this was just
worship the way he defined it.
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Can you imagine the
studies in worship in people
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that were worshipped even more
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or worshipped
even the right way.
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Can you image us doing
the study with 100 people
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that worshipped this
ways, we'll do a PET scan,
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a 100 worshiped this
way, we PET scans it,
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listen you are not
worshiping correct,
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you are fearing God,
you are guilt in God.
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We need to
change us a little bit
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because you are not
having healthily worship.
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So there is two steps
here, we have to worship,
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but we have to be careful
about who we are worshipping--
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And how we are worshipping.
How we are worshipping.
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Who and how. All right.
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We have to worship God, so
in the story back in Daniel.
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We have to
worship the correct God.
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Exactly. All right.
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So the story back in Daniel,
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that Daniel made
him ten times smarter,
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you know if there is
other fellows had IQ of 120
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Daniel's sitting at 1200.
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It wasn't just about the food.
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It was also about the worship,
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the new mind,
worshiping the right thing,
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these new neural connections
that make you smatter,
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that turn off
that stress hormones.
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How do you
think those boys there
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loved those
people, those captives?
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That's anterior cingulated.
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How do you think
we love our enemies?
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Well, that part
of the brain grow
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so much that the
anterior cingulate develops
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so we can love our enemies.
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We can do things
for the right reasons.
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Can you image the
PET scans on Enoch,
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what his brain
might have look like.
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Can you image the
PET scans of Christ,
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what that might look like?
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So this creating a
new brain this worships,
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there is real
chemistry behind it
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and now we are having
the science to prove it.
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I think of all kinds of
text when you are saying that.
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Let not your heart be troubled.
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You're saying that the
brain as it develops there,
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fear and stress goes down,
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you know, I--
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And it also
affects the genetics,
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the epigenetics
of your body as well.
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Which genes are expressed,
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which cancer genes might be
turned on, how you behavior?
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It affects all
aspects of diseases.
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So worship,
worship the act of worship
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and also when we are
worshipping the true God,
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not the false
God, not the angry God,
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not the vengeful God, the
true God, the God of love,
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the God of grace,
the God of forgiveness
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actually brings
about a physical change
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in our brains
that suppresses fear,
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suppresses anger
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and brings up
the pleasure centers,
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the endorphins,
the joy, the happiness,
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true joy and worship,
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true joy with God, amazing.
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We'll be right back, stay tuned.
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