Feeling a bit out of
rhythm or under pressure?
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Hey... such is life, right?
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Not if that describes your heart
THAT can be deadly... 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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Do you want solutions 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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Welcome to part 2
of a conversation with
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cardiologist Dr. James
Marcum concerning your heart.
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Last time, we spoke of heart
failure and coronary disease,
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today, we examine
hypertension and arrhythmia.
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Two conditions that
can lead to some rather
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unpleasant consequences.
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What can we do to fight
back? Surprisingly, a lot.
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Dr. Marcum, I see
that you've included many
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natural remedies in this battle.
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Can we really trust our one
and only hearts to such simple
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and inexpensive treatments
as you're about to suggest?
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Yeah, well
that's a good question,
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and I want to
throw that back at you.
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Can you really trust
your life and your health
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to the God that made you?
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Can you do that? Good answer
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If the answer to
that question is "yes"
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then I'm asking
you and our listeners
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to look at the evidence.
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Look at the evidence out there,
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look at the scientific evidence
that has been reproduced
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by other
physicians, other doctors,
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and in yesterday's conversation
we talked about natural remedies
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And we define
"natural" as God's way,
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you know, God's way
as in the Scriptures
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and we've proven,
chemically, how it did.
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We talked a little
bit about nitrous oxide,
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making the arteries bigger
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so the heart gets more
blood flow, so everything
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functions better.
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We also determined that this
process doesn't just stay at the
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heart - it goes in
ALL the blood vessels,
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so it helps all the organs.
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So today, we also want to move
that discussion to things like
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high blood pressure...
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And do you know what high
blood pressure is, Charles?
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I would assume that is
pressure in your arteries
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that is higher
than it should be.
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Yes, it's high and a
lot of people don't know...
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I mean there has to
be some pressure there
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for it to move around the body.
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But when the
heart pumps out blood,
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that pumping is called "systole"
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and that puts pressure in
the arteries to pump everywhere.
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And that number, in general,
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should be a little
bit less than 140 mmHg
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and we measure it
with a fancy device.
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We have one of those
called the "sphygmomanometer"
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...blood pressure cuff. Okay
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And we measure the
pressure when the heart pumps
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and then the heart
relaxes and there's still
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pressure in the blood vessels.
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We call that
"diastolic pressure"
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when the heart is relaxing.
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We want that to be less than 90
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Well when blood pressure is
up for a long period of time,
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it can damage that
lining we talked about yesterday
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called "endothelium" and it
can damage it in all the organs.
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So when a person comes in and
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says they have
high blood pressure,
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the first thing I want to make
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sure is if the
reading is correct.
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The second question
I want to know is...
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high blood
pressure is a symptom...
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WHY do they have
high blood pressure?
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You know, what is the cause?
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Is it something scary happened?
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Thank you... Okay Yes
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Is it because they
don't sleep well at night
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and sleep apnea and make
lots of stress chemicals?
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The reason that we
just had that conversation
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was that yesterday he scared me,
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and I told him,
"today, you must not scare me"
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So that's why he was
smiling when he just said,
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"Did something scare you?"
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I might have to
inflict pain today to raise
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your blood pressure
good, so we might do that.
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We got some little things
that are pain inflictors...
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Yes we do, lots of little things
over there, but anyway back
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to our discussions
on high blood pressure.
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Anyway, so we want to know
what causes high blood pressure.
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And a lot of people come
and say, "I don't want to take
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a medicine that my doctor put
me on for high blood pressure. "
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Well, the first
thing I ask them is,
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"Well, maybe you don't
have to IF we understand
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if your blood pressure is
really high, so take it at home
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when you're relaxed and I
want everyone to do something
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to lower your blood pressure
right now and this will do it.
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Take a deep breath
in, hold it 5 seconds,
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blow it out slow.
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If you will do that 10 times,
the part of your nervous system
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called the "parasympathetic"
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will help lower
your blood pressure.
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So I ask people that might have
high blood pressure to do that;
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measure your blood
pressure after that,
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after you're
relaxed and see what it is
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on several occasions.
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If you're at night at home
and... you know everyone is high
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when they come to
the doctor's office.
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Yeah, I was going to say, just
visiting the doctor's office
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may not be the most
relaxing thing that we do.
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And what can be dangerous
is if you give a medicine
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for high blood pressure
and the blood pressure is not
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really high - then it goes
really low and you could get
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dizzy and pass out
because enough blood doesn't go
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to the vital organ
called "the brain. "
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So anyway, once we
determine that they do have
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high blood pressure, and
that sometimes takes some time,
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we say... WHY do you
have high blood pressure?
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You know, and we go
through all the different things
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it could be - from sleep apnea
to problems with the kidneys,
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thyroid disease,
chronic pain, chronic stress,
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certain medications, DIET.
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In other words, high blood
pressure is a natural thing
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the body does - it raises
the pressure in the arteries;
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your blood pressure goes
up under certain circumstances
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and that's a good
thing when that happens. Yeah
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But it should go right down,
if it stays up all the time,
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we look for the reason
why because then it can
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damage these blood vessels,
cause endothelial damage
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which predisposes to plaques.
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It can cause aneurysms, lots of
problems if it goes untreated.
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High blood pressure can raise
the chance of having stroke;
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raise the chance of
heart disease, kidney disease,
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aneurysms - it
affects, again, the whole body.
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So once we determine a
person has high blood pressure,
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we want to know WHY.
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So we start looking and,
unfortunately, in this country
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that we live in, a lot of
people have high blood pressure
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just because they
carry extra weight.
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Extra weight
raises the blood pressure.
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How does extra
weight raise blood pressure?
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When you have extra weight,
usually people don't exercise
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when they have extra weight.
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It makes a bunch of chemicals
that put stress on the body.
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The stress cascade
raises the blood pressure...
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So extra weight - sometimes
just losing extra weight
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LOWERS blood pressure.
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Any type of stress on
the body - chronically
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can raise blood pressure through
chemicals like adrenalin.
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So, we look and we see
why a person has stress...
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Some people have stress
because of the food they eat.
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There are certain foods
that raise the blood pressure.
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Let me give you an example...
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People that eat high fat,
high processed foods and diets
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of what I call a "meat-based
diet" - they have lots of
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chemicals and lots of
sodium in those things,
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and when you do that, the
viscosity of the blood gets
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thicker because we have
lots of fat in the blood.
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I mean it
literally gets thicker;
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the blood gets sludgy...
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Because we have this lipoprotein
... fat in the blood!
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So fat in the blood,
the blood gets sludgy.
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We have shown that people
that eat a plant-based diet
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and drink lots of
water, that helps get the
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sludge out of the blood
so the viscosity is less
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so the blood pressure goes down.
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Another thing that happens
is this endothelial lining
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can now get bigger.
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So the process of eating a lot,
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you get a bigger endothelium,
you get less viscosity
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that can also
lower blood pressure.
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So if diet is
causing it and exercise -
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Sometimes I can just
simply recommend exercise
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and a plant-based diet and
they bring it down themselves,
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so they don't need
a blood pressure pill
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And that's being natural
because we've discovered that
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natural is God's way
and exercise and diet
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certainly was
something that He created for us
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right there in Eden. Exactly!
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So if you could
understand the reason why...
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Now a lot of people
want natural remedies,
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they don't want to do the work.
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You know, they just
want to a natural pill.
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And I tell them, there's
really no difference between
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that and the pill I give you.
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You know, let's
get at the cause.
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Now some people,
have sleep apnea...
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They get the mask, their
blood pressure comes down;
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a thyroid
problem that's treated,
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come off the medication,
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but what I see
nowadays is most people really
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don't really know what
their true blood pressure is
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because they're
always in a state of STRESS!
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Emotional stress - they come
to the doctor, they're stressed,
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their blood pressure is
always going to be high...
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And the doctor's tendency is
to give a person the medicine...
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And they don't really
know what it really is
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when a person is
nice and relaxed...
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Things like
music, relaxing, worship;
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all those things
have also been shown
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to lower the blood pressure
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because there is
chemistry behind that.
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Sometimes I have to
drive in to Washington, D.C.
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for my work from where I live,
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and the closer
I get to the city,
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I start changing the radio
channel to a classical station.
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It just makes a big difference
when I'm driving into the city
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with all the noise and commotion
going around the traffic,
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and I turn on that beautiful
music - the classical music.
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I could actually feel my
blood pressure going down.
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Right, you can and when
your body is under stress,
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the blood pressure goes up,
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so when it's
under chronic stress,
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the blood pressure also goes up.
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So the treatment for
that is not necessarily a pill
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because one pill
might lower it some,
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but then you're under
stress - A Beethoven pill!
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Right, you're under more stress,
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so you take another
pill and you take another
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stress and
you're on another pill,
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so the real solution of
your blood pressure problem
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might be to find
a different route
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or to listen to nicer music
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or DON'T GO
into Washington, D.C.
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Some people might be healthier
living AWAY from stress.
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Amen! Think about that...
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You might be
healthier avoiding your stress
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no matter what that is.
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You might be able to avoid it.
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It might be a chemical stress.
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It might be a physical stress.
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It might be emotional stress.
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Because you might not be
able to handle the stress...
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That's the thing - some
people just have a hard time
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handling certain
things that happen in life,
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and the answer may
be GET AWAY FROM THAT,
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and that may mean
a change of job...
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We have to decide
what is important.
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What is the
most important thing?
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Your job or your health?
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If you don't have health,
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you're not going
to keep your job...
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So maybe health is #1
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Maybe we need to make that an
absolute priority in our lives.
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HEALTH over job,
over anything else,
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even location where we live.
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Well your most valuable asset,
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is it your car? is
it your bank account?
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it's your health, you
lose that, you lose everything,
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and YOU are your best doctor.
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We have to take responsibility.
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So in blood
pressure, that's sort of a
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general approach.
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A lot of people come
with funny heart rhythms.
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And a lot of the heart rhythms
are not dangerous rhythms,
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but they are just
stress-related rhythms.
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These palpitations - when your
body makes a lot of adrenalin.
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The heart is going to go
faster when it's stressed out,
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and sometimes it
will skip as well.
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Now, there are tests we can do
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to see if these
skips are dangerous,
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if they're pathological rhythms,
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but a lot of people
just have palpitations.
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They feel their heart beating.
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Again, all the
stress we have in our world,
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all the symptoms
we have in our world,
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the real treatment for
that is not necessarily
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to reach for the pill first.
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It's to make a clean
diagnosis, ASK the reason why,
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figure out what the stress is;
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see if that individual
is willing to maybe change
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things that's
stressing their lives.
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It's either causing their
blood pressure or their heart
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to skip or
something else to go wrong,
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and see if they
can change the mindset,
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and bring down the
chemistry naturally,
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and let the body heal itself.
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Now sometimes, most people
nowadays, the mentality is
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they want a pill.
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That's what they hear all over,
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and blood pressure
is a rising problem.
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Skipped beats is
a rising problem.
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Well, it only
makes sense because
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over the last 100 years
the stress levels have gone up,
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up, up - it's going to be more
of a problem so - guess what?
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There's going to be
more blood pressure;
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there's going to
be more skipped beats;
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there's going to
be of all of this,
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and people are going
to search for solutions,
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and I want to tell
people the search for solution
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is the natural reasons...
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Find out the cause,
plug back into God's ways,
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and not necessarily
look to the pills first
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even though
there's a place for it.
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You know, if we brought a
farmer back from 100 years ago,
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and brought him
in the studio here,
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and he'd say, "Well
yeah, we had stress,
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but we didn't
have it all the time"
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That's the thing - the
chronic stress is the problem.
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That farmer
would say - you know,
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"The storm came and I
was worried about my crop"
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That was stressful.
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But, we have storms
coming all the time.
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We are worried about
our crops all the time,
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day and night -
when we try to sleep,
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we are not thinking
about restful things.
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We're thinking about
things that are bothering us,
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and that are causing
us fear and trepidation.
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We need to just really get back
to this natural way of living,
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and that's important.
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And you can do that in the city!
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There are people who can
drive into Washington, D.C.
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and have absolutely no
problem with the stress level,
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and don't have to listen
to classical music like I do.
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These people have the
ability, but some people don't.
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And if you are
one of those people,
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if you cannot
control the stress,
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it is time to make some changes.
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We'll take a short
break and when we come back,
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questions from
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