Growing Old, It's so much fun.
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You get to address
issues concerning body parts
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you didn't even know you had,
but there is hope, 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 health care problems?
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Are you tired of
taking medications?
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Well, you are about to be
given the Ultimate Prescription.
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As we age certain things
about us stop functioning.
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They just stop.
Both men and women
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face these changes
with a degree of resolve.
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We accept them as inevitable,
not much we can do about it
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right? Wrong!
There's a lot we can do
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to ease our way
through the elder years.
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We're all going to grow
old but we can certainly do it
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with grace, dignity, and a
surprising degree of health.
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Dr. Marcum, what
do we need to know?
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Whoa Charles, you always
ask what do we need to know.
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There is a lot to be
talked about in aging.
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What do I need to
know? You not so much.
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Everybody is aging
as each second goes by
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so it's something
that we all have to face
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and unfortunately as we
get older things change,
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parts wear out. Yes!
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One of the first parts
to wear out is the vision.
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You know the
vision starts to change,
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one of the first things
we have is vision changes
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and thank goodness
for modern medicine
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we have the ability
to take away cataracts,
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we can help improve
vision, we have glasses and
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they now call them
progressive lenses. Ok.
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I now have some bifocals
or progressive lenses myself.
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Hearing is another thing that
just progressively gets worse.
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Some people now, we have
modern medicine that can give
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people hearing aids.
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The joints, sometimes the
joints wear out and we have
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lots of problems, you
heard this bone on bone
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that also creates lots
of pain that comes with us.
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Everything sort of gets older,
the blood vessels get older.
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The brain, the
brain also gets older,
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we are not able to think
quite as quick as we used to.
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But there are some things that
we can do that we need to know
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about aging. There's
some things we can do to maybe
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slow it down a little bit.
There's things...bad things
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that we do that
speed it up a little bit.
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Now, let me talk a little bit
about some of the things that
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make us age quicker.
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Did you know Charles that
people that smoke cigarettes
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age quicker? They age quicker,
they get wrinkles on their skin,
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their skin olds quicker,
the aging in the body quickens.
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People that drink
alcohol age quicker,
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it wears out the
parts especially the brain.
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People that are obese, that
carry extra weight age quicker.
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People that have
obesity have this process called
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oxidation that goes on and
we've already discovered that
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that is not good, so
oxidation is not good.
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Did you know that people that
have high sugar in their diets,
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especially high fructose
corn syrup, they age quicker.
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And these call these
fancy name called AGE's,
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Advanced Glycolated
Products and what that is,
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is the sugar binds to
things especially DNA.
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In the body that's the
cellular part that regulates
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this, it doesn't do as
well. So there is lots of things
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and also lots of things...
Did you know people that
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don't exercise age quicker?
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Here is a good one and
I've seen this several times in
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practice. Someone is retired,
they get done with work,
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they used to be doing
stuff every day and they go home
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and they just sit in their chair
and they don't do anything.
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They don't get out and
talk with other people,
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they don't stay busy,
they just sit in that chair
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and take it easy. They
might watch TV, they might...
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they don't do anything.
Those people also age quicker.
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Did you know that your
spirituality also plays in
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in aging. If you have
a good spiritual life,
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good concepts of God,
we've already talked about this
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in other programs, the pre-
frontal cortex keeps growing,
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new neurons, new growth factors
when you do these things.
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And also the stress part
of the body which ages us
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is turned down. This process
that's numerous things called
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inflammation, we get
inflammation when our body
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is under stress
when we are worried.
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Chronic stress
causes inflammation,
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inflammation throughout
our body gets us older
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so if we have a life that's
full of worry, cares, stress,
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worry, guilt, chronic
pain, that ages us quicker.
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So all these things
make us age quicker,
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so it only makes sense the
opposite to keep us from aging
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quicker, is to
do all these things,
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but we have some really
good news about aging Charles.
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Absolutely and what I
hear you saying is that
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all of these items that
you listed, they cause stress
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in the body, they
cause the body to work harder
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than it usually would.
Yep! And that wears it out.
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Um hum, and it can
also affect our DNA.
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We've known how some of these
thing affect our epigenetic...
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turn on Genes that are
already there affecting our own
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aging process. So
all of these things...
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Aging is a very complex
thing that involves numerous
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different situations
from our diet to our thoughts,
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to our own
genetics, to our bad habits,
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you can accelerate aging.
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There's so many factors but
the good news that I wanted to
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get back to, the good
news is the way I see aging as
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this is just a temporary thing,
you know, we are going to age
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here, but some day we are going
to get everything brand new
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and some day we are
not going to age any more.
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Some day it is just going
to be great, no more of this
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imperfection that
we have to deal with,
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and that is good news just
having that hope and that faith
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that can help slow the
aging process here on earth
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because we have all that good
chemistry, we turn down that
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stress cause you and I
know where we are going.
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Yeah. We know what the ultimate
path is, the ultimate plan.
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Unfortunately Charles
there are some out there that
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don't know where they are going.
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They are fearful,
they watch TV, the news,
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and all that stresses them
and they are concerned about
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what's going to
happen when I age?
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What's going to
happen when I wear out?
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What's going to
happen when I can't see?
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What's going to
happen when I can't hear?
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What's going to happen
when I can't think there?
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Who's going to take care of me?
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Who's going to be there
for me, what am I going to do?
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What am I going to do when
my physical body goes away?
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These are all concerns that
are a part of the aging process
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and unfortunately one of
the biggest things that I see is
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when people get
older they get scared,
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they get more scared, they
are worried about things more.
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The brain does part of
this but we don't want people to
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have that, we want
them to have lots of love
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in their life because
love does cast out all fear.
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We don't want them to
have anxiety about the future
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we want to have
assured and hopes.
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So part of our discussion
on aging has to be that what's
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going to happen when
our physical bodies finish
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we are going to have
the assurance to know
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that we have a
relationship with a loving God,
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He's going to
make everything right,
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the aging process we don't
have to worry about anymore.
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Not that we want to
speed up our aging here. Right!
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Because we still want to
serve, so we still want to
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avoid those things
that want to age us quickly
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we want to avoid cigarettes,
alcohol, and extra weight
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and all these things
that cause inflammation,
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and all the stress
that turns on our DNA
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we want to avoid all of
that and go as slow as we can.
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But at the same time we know
when that day will inevitably
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come for all of us
if God doesn't come home
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we want to have that
reassurance, that hope
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to know that aging
is not that big a deal.
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It seems to me that you are
telling us that we need to start
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preparing for the aging process
now...Right! No matter how old
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we are, if you are a teenager
you start preparing for it.
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Right! Now is the
time to start doing it.
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So what do we do? What are
some of the thing that we can do
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starting right now
to lengthen our lives,
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and more importantly lengthen
the quality of the lives
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we have left. Well
you know if I would put up
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right at the top of
that list would be exercise
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exercise the body.
They say if you don't use it
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you loose it. And
that doesn't mean go to
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they gymnasium.
No, move those parts
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if you are not moving those
parts they don't do as well.
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That might not be excessive
exercise but keep moving,
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that's one of the biggest
things that helps the brain,
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the body, prevents
falls as we get older,
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exercise is one of the
best treatment that we have.
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So that would have to be
at the very top of the list
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would be to exercise,
also to stay active mentally.
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Some people when they
retire they quit doing things
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they withdraw, they don't
have the spirit of discussions,
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they don't read books, they
don't continue to grow and learn
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but that's the time we
can lean more than we've ever
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learned before. Keep
that mind active, working,
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keep that relationship with
God going even more stronger
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as we go to create
these new neuropathways
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to grow that part of your
brain that we talked about in
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previous shows called
the anterior cingulate.
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We want to grow that to
create new neurons, new growth
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within our brain and we want
to help ourself through that
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also we want to turn off
some of that stress chemistry,
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and that fear and
anxiety so when we keep
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worship is a part of that aging.
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Then we want to make
sure we have good nutrition.
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We want to make sure
we have lots of water.
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We want to avoid things
that are toxin that causes us
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oxidation that we've
caught and we know that
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certain diets that we
eat, a lot of processed foods,
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a lot of fats,
that causes oxidation,
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oxidation is going
to make us age quicker.
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We eat a lot of
processed sugar, especially the
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high fructose corn
syrup, those type of things
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are going to
cause us glycosylation.
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We know that type 2 diabetics,
that's a form of glycosylation
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the sugar pops on the hemoglobin
and that's a bad thing
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because it can actually...
All that glycosylation can
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change our DNA and
that is the way we function.
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So there are lots of variables
that come in when we are aging
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but one of the big
things we want to know is...
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I get a lot of questions
when people age is they worry
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about things, I can't hear
any more, some people don't
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smell to good, some
people don't taste good,
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some people don't see good.
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They have a lot of
worries and concerns
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and the worries and concerns
accelerate the whole process.
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So we want to have that peace
and joy that comes within us,
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we want to help people
make more endorphins and the
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dopamine's and all this
can come by specific things
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that we can choose to do.
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You know
laughter, the best medicine,
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laughter is a great
way to make endorphins,
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worship is a great
way to make endorphins,
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music makes endorphins,
all these can turn off some of
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our stress chemistry,
some of this bad stuff that's
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going on in our body that
accelerates the aging process.
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Whenever you talk about these
things I try to get practical,
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I try to figure out what
can we do in our lives right now
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and you've given
us some good ideas.
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It sounds like involvement,
it sounds like keeping involved
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keeping the mind sharp, reading
the books, doing the crossword
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puzzles, making the
puzzles there on the table,
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taking up a hobby like
photography or something
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that will get you out.
Hiking, biking, stay connected
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to the world, stay connected
to doing things, keep the mind
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active which will actually
help with the aging processing
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it will keep it from coming
along and the nutritional part
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is so important as well. We
were designed to be creative.
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We were designed to
be creative constantly.
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Not to be entertained. Yes!
We were designed to do things,
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we were designed to be
active and take care of people.
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We were designed to serve each
other. When we get away from
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these tenants, guess what
happens, we start to just get
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old. When we are watching
television, we are watching
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other people be
creative. Yeah. Right.
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We're not being creative
our- selves. No and sometimes we
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don't think, we just let it
just numb us, we just sort of go
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from there. That's the
beauty of book reading,
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I want to put this here
because I've heard about this.
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When you watch a television
program, you are in the
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passive mode, you are being
entertained, things are just
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coming at you and you
don't have to process anything
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other than oh, that's
interesting, that's fine
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I wonder what is
going to happen next?
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When you read a book your
mind is always active in the
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active way, you are
building what you are seeing,
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what you are reading, you
are building this in your mind,
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you are seeing these things
in your mind, your mind is
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actually doing things,
your mind is making connections
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that the book opens up for you.
So reading is a lot better than
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just watching which tells
us get away from the computer
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get outside, get out
there in the fresh air and enjoy
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the nature that God has
for us, that will help in the
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aging process. Balance will
help and you know what I've done
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on this program is we've
made a little change and if
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someone's real sharp they are
going to be able to tell what's
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been going on in our program
that will keep them sharp.
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You know, we have a little
doctor that we move around
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sometimes and you can
sort of see him...There he is.
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So people will stay in the
game so they will stay alert and
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notice what is going on.
Now isn't that a neat thing?
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For the last 13 programs we've
been moving this little doctor
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around on the set and maybe
you will be acute enough to
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see that and just wonder where
it is. In future programs you
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should find out where he
is at. Find out where he is,
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there's the doctor right there,
there he is sitting over by the
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table, we move him around in
the programs and just a little
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Keep your mind
active, check it out.
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