We look to it as our savior.
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We depend on it
to keep us alive.
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We place our trust in it each
time we swallow a dangerous drug
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Maybe that's not a
good idea 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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Are you ready for a
shock? Here we go...
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Researchers recently
reported that 70% of Americans
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are on a prescription drug. 70%
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That doesn't include
over-the- counter medications.
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We're consuming
drugs like candy,
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and paying a terrible
price for the privilege,
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but we're just doing
what the medical establishment
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tells us to do, right?
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Dr. Marcum, I know this
concerns you... tell us why.
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Yeah, it concerns me
for a number of reasons.
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One of the reasons is
sometimes medications,
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though there is a place for it,
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it's maybe not used the
way they were designed to use.
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Remember, medications were
originally made to get people
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over a short period of time.
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In order that they can get their
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own physiology back
to the way it should be.
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It wasn't necessarily
meant to be given for years,
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and years and years and years.
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Also, all the plethora of things
we see over-the-counter...
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Right now, about 4 billion
prescriptions are written a year
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and who knows how
many over-the-counters.
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The #1 cause of fatal
gastrointestinal bleeding
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last year, in America,
was by a class of drugs called
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"nonsteroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs"
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The #1 cause of liver failure,
causing transplantation,
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was too much of a
chemical called "acetaminophen"
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Sometimes that's
something that's even found in
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Tylenol as well as others,
and that's too much of it.
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The point is that we ingest a
lot of chemicals and sometimes
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we don't
necessarily have to have these,
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and yet, we're taking the risk.
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Everything that
we put in our bodies,
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hopefully, has some
benefit, but it also has risk,
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and we must constantly be
looking at the risk and benefits
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of everything
we put in our body.
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Now when you say
everything, you're talking about
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even the things
from over-the-counter?
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Yep, over-the-counter,
the different foods we eat,
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the different
toxins we're exposed to,
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even the
different thoughts we have,
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have a chemical consequence.
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So this article where
they found 70% of Americans are
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on a prescription drug, I
said, "Wow, that's amazing"
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Now these are Mayo
Clinic researchers,
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and they reported this
article to CBS in Atlanta,
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and they found that most
of the people that were on the
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medicine, 17% take antibiotics,
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13% of the population
are on antidepressants,
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13% in this study
were on pain killers,
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and, get this Charles,
20%, 1 in 5 of American patients
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were on 5 or more
prescription medications.
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So, if you look at
this, 2 of the reasons were
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for pain and depression.
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That's a large number of people!
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So, are there any
other things that we can do
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without taking this risk?
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Now, the
"Institute for Healthcare"
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...okay, everyone is
concerned about cost right now.
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They said that we could
save 213 billion dollars
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by just not
prescribing so many medications.
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Medication overuse...
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And if you think about
it, there are other flaws
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in the systems as well.
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Now we have an
"American Cancer Society"
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We have an American
Society to help heart disease...
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But I'm suggesting maybe we
need an American Society for
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the Responsible
Use of Medications! YES
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With that in mind,
that's why I wrote the book,
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"Medicines That Kill"
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so we could be AWARE
that there's a problem.
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A lot of people aren't
aware that there's a problem.
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Now I'm not saying that there's
not a place for medications,
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but I think we've
created a problem.
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And in this book, I argue
that the #1 cause of death
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last year, if you added up
from all the different causes,
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whether it be from people
not taking the medicines right,
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and adverse reaction, overdoses,
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foreign lands not putting
the active ingredient in it,
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doctors and
nurses making mistakes,
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patients making mistakes -
taking pills at the wrong time
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for different
medical conditions,
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that it would add
up to be the #1 cause
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of death in America. Scary huh?
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So here we are, dumping the
#1 cause of death in America
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down our throats,
as a regular basis...
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You make a case so often
on this program that it is not
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the medicines that cure us,
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it is the changes in our
lifestyle and the changes
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that we've been
reading about knowingly by the
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things that we do.
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Where are we
going with this thing?
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How can we make the
transition then from depending
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on medicines to depending on
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what God had in mind
for us to begin with?
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Well, I think the first is to
realize that there's a problem.
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You know, and for everyone out
there, I hope that they realize
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that this is a problem and if
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you're on a medication,
I would ask yourself...
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"Do I need to be
on this medication?"
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"Is there anything
else I can do to change my
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physiology, so I don't
have to be on the medicine?"
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That's it! Is there
anything else I can do...
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And you have told us time
and time again on this program
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that there usually
is, 95% of the time
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there's
something else we can do.
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I had a patient, Charles,
that came not too long ago,
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and she came to me
because of chest pain.
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She was in her early 50s...
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And if I weave
back through her story,
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it was very interesting.
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She had been an
executive secretary that
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needed to wear high
heel shoes every day,
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and she wore high
heels to work every day,
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and after 20 or
30 years, guess what?
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She had bad foot problems.
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When she had
these bad foot problems,
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she had to see a podiatrist;
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he had to do some operations
on her and guess what?
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She quit going to the
gym, she gained some weight.
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She's now taking
some medicines because her
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foot hurt so much,
she gained some weight,
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ended up getting diabetes
and high blood pressure.
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She couldn't
sleep good at night,
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so she took a sleeping pill.
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She noticed more
acid in her stomach,
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so she took an acid pill.
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She got a little
depressed, so she started
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taking a depression pill
and one thing led to another,
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and sooner or later,
she came to me because
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of chest pain.
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Well, if you look at
the whole situation here,
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you know, one
little thing, one stressor
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might have prevented
this terrible cascade...
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And I see that
sometimes with medications.
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I'll ask a patient, "Well
why are you on this medication?"
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And they go, "I don't remember,
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it was started 25 years
ago and I don't even know why"
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And everyone is
afraid to take it off.
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They're afraid that it was
for something important to do!
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And yet, everyone is
afraid to take it off.
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And it's very
interesting that scenario,
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so I think in
understanding this problem of
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medications and
how to get off of it,
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I think the first step is
to recognize that we have a
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problem as a society.
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The second thing that I
think is very important to know
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is that you can do
something about it.
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You know, you might
have to some research;
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you might have to
talk with your physician,
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but there are many medications
that you might not need to take.
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You can change your chemistry
by doing something else.
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For instance, one of the most
common classes of medications
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now are sleeping pills...
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You've heard of
those, haven't you? Oh yes
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Now sleeping
pills are very common.
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Well, if someone is
just not sleeping well
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because they're
drinking a Mocha Joe,
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and watching TV at night.
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Maybe they could quit doing
that and be off that medication.
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A lot of people, as we saw here,
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a lot of people
are on pain pills.
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Well maybe if we could find
out what's causing the pain,
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maybe some physical
therapy, maybe some exercising,
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maybe to fix something wrong,
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maybe they don't have to take
that THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.
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Maybe if we could find
the real cause of depression,
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is it
nutrition? is it vitamin D?
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is it situational depression?
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Maybe they could find out
what is causing depression,
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and they might not have to be
on THAT the rest of their life.
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What about blood pressure?
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Well maybe if
they start to exercise,
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and eat a little bit
better, maybe they don't have to
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be on a blood pressure medicine.
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Or one for diabetes
for the REST OF THEIR LIFE.
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So I think you can see
here, if people are willing
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to make some
changes on their own,
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they can change their chemistry.
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I tell people,
"When you exercise,
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it changes the
chemistry of the entire body.
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When you eat right, the
chemistry of the entire body
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When you rest well, the
chemistry of the entire body
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When you think
right and your happy,
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the chemistry of
the entire body...
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But the chemistry that
we did these medications,
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usually just change 1
or 2 chemical pathways.
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It doesn't affect the
whole body for the good.
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So, how would you want
to change your chemistry?
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I'm going to have that
more universal approach to it
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because everything we do...
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We're only here for, you
know, 4 score and 10 years,
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whatever it is we live.
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We want to make sure
that everything we do is
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good for the whole body
and we want to help our heart,
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when we help our liver,
when we help our kidney,
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and when we help our stomach
- we want to make sure that
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we do that from a universal way.
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WHAT ARE SOME OF
THE UNIVERSAL TOOLS
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you're talking about
here that we should be doing
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INSTEAD of taking
all these medicines?
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Yeah, and first you
have to talk with your doctor
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to see exactly why you're on
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the medication -
because THAT'S the Key
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is understanding WHY
you're on the medication.
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Why were you put on it in
the first place? That's the key!
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And then, once you understand
why, working with your provider,
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to come up with a plan.
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Is there some things
that you can do NATURALLY
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to maybe not need it?
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Can you exercise
more? Can you eat better?
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Can you be done
with this infection
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you know, or do
you have to take it.
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Some of the medicines
are just written because
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no one is willing to stop it!
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There's no even reason for it.
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One of the most things,
when I talk to people like
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Dr. Hans Diehl,
with the CHIP Program...
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When I talk to people
that live in institutions,
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what they discover is,
when people make these changes,
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the medicine load drops off.
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I mean, it's just - they
start, don't need that anymore,
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don't need that anymore,
don't need that anymore,
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so there is proof of
what you're saying here,
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so many times...
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WHY don't we want to do that?
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Why is it so hard for us to say,
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"Okay, I'm eating wrong or
I'm not exercising enough. "
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I can do that or I
can take the pill...
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TOO MANY PEOPLE, according
to your statistics here
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are taking the pills
instead of doing these changes.
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Why is it so hard to do that?
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Yeah, and they
look at this number 70%,
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that's a failing grade. YEAH!
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That's 70% of the
people who are refusing
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to make the lifestyle changes,
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and want to use the medicine
instead to fix the problem.
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Part of it is that and
part of it is their culture.
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You know, it's
easier to give a medicine...
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As a doctor, it's
easier to give a medicine,
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rather than to counsel them
and to make them responsible
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and teach them how to do things.
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As a patient, it's
easier to just take medicine
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rather than to make
the lifestyle changes
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that can change your
whole chemistry for the good.
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It's just, you know, for a
lot of our sake, it's easier.
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Now it's not this way
everywhere in the world.
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But in our country, 7 out of
10 people are taking medicines.
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Well now, you just said
something that's very important.
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Are there places in the world
where we can go see examples
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of this very thing -
where people are NOT depending
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on medicines so
much, where these
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lifestyle diseases don't exist.
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If we can find those
places, we should study them
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to find out what they're doing
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differently...
Has that been done?
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Yes, they have done that
and they've gone to different
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islands like Okinawa
and different rural areas
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where they didn't have
all this... and guess what?
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Those people don't
have the chronic diseases.
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Now a lot of the medicines we
are on, are to treat symptoms.
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They're not to treat causes.
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And symptoms of
chronic diseases. Exactly!
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So the problem is
the chronic diseases.
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And we talk about,
well the chronic diseases,
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where does THAT come from?
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And the chronic diseases
come from our lifestyle,
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the stress we're under as we've
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moved away from
God's perfect plan.
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It's put more
stress on the body.
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People want
solutions for that stress,
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so they look instead
of biblical solutions,
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sometimes they look for
just temporary solutions
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just help me numb the pain,
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just help me go to sleep,
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just help me get the
acid out of my stomach...
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Whatever that might BE...
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And people will do
that and they think it's the
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right thing to do because
their doctor told me to do this.
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You know, the
news... I saw a commercial,
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the commercial
SAYS - "If I want this,
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I'M GOING TO DO THIS!
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If I can't do this,
I'm going to do this!
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And it's sort of the
advertising, the marketing
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in our society has created
the place we're in today.
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So 70% in this Mayo
Clinic article, in my opinion,
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is a failing grade.
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Well, we need to do
something about that
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not only in our country,
but also in our own lives,
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and we're going to
talk about what we can do
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by answering
some of YOUR questions
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that have been sent
into heartwiseministries. org
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We invite you to do that
and we answer your questions
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here on the program,
also on our radio program...
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Put them there and we will
certainly ask them on the show.
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We will return with your
questions in just a moment,
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