Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00042A
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00:16 We look to it as our savior.
00:18 We depend on it to keep us alive. 00:21 We place our trust in it each time we swallow a dangerous drug 00:27 Maybe that's not a good idea Stay tuned... 00:32 I'm Dr. James Marcum 00:34 Are you interested in discovering the reason why? 00:37 Do you want solutions to your healthcare problems? 00:40 Are you tired of taking medications? 00:43 Well, you're about to be given the Ultimate Prescription. 00:50 Are you ready for a shock? Here we go... 00:53 Researchers recently reported that 70% of Americans 00:58 are on a prescription drug. 70% 01:01 That doesn't include over-the- counter medications. 01:03 We're consuming drugs like candy, 01:05 and paying a terrible price for the privilege, 01:08 but we're just doing what the medical establishment 01:10 tells us to do, right? 01:12 Dr. Marcum, I know this concerns you... tell us why. 01:15 Yeah, it concerns me for a number of reasons. 01:19 One of the reasons is sometimes medications, 01:22 though there is a place for it, 01:24 it's maybe not used the way they were designed to use. 01:28 Remember, medications were originally made to get people 01:32 over a short period of time. 01:35 In order that they can get their 01:36 own physiology back to the way it should be. 01:39 It wasn't necessarily meant to be given for years, 01:42 and years and years and years. 01:44 Also, all the plethora of things we see over-the-counter... 01:49 Right now, about 4 billion prescriptions are written a year 01:53 and who knows how many over-the-counters. 01:56 The #1 cause of fatal gastrointestinal bleeding 02:00 last year, in America, was by a class of drugs called 02:05 "nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs" 02:09 The #1 cause of liver failure, causing transplantation, 02:14 was too much of a chemical called "acetaminophen" 02:17 Sometimes that's something that's even found in 02:20 Tylenol as well as others, and that's too much of it. 02:24 The point is that we ingest a lot of chemicals and sometimes 02:29 we don't necessarily have to have these, 02:31 and yet, we're taking the risk. 02:33 Everything that we put in our bodies, 02:35 hopefully, has some benefit, but it also has risk, 02:39 and we must constantly be looking at the risk and benefits 02:43 of everything we put in our body. 02:45 Now when you say everything, you're talking about 02:47 even the things from over-the-counter? 02:48 Yep, over-the-counter, the different foods we eat, 02:51 the different toxins we're exposed to, 02:54 even the different thoughts we have, 02:55 have a chemical consequence. 02:57 So this article where they found 70% of Americans are 03:02 on a prescription drug, I said, "Wow, that's amazing" 03:05 Now these are Mayo Clinic researchers, 03:08 and they reported this article to CBS in Atlanta, 03:12 and they found that most of the people that were on the 03:15 medicine, 17% take antibiotics, 03:18 13% of the population are on antidepressants, 03:22 13% in this study were on pain killers, 03:28 and, get this Charles, 20%, 1 in 5 of American patients 03:33 were on 5 or more prescription medications. 03:38 So, if you look at this, 2 of the reasons were 03:41 for pain and depression. 03:43 That's a large number of people! 03:45 So, are there any other things that we can do 03:47 without taking this risk? 03:49 Now, the "Institute for Healthcare" 03:51 ...okay, everyone is concerned about cost right now. 03:54 They said that we could save 213 billion dollars 03:59 by just not prescribing so many medications. 04:02 Medication overuse... 04:04 And if you think about it, there are other flaws 04:07 in the systems as well. 04:09 Now we have an "American Cancer Society" 04:11 We have an American Society to help heart disease... 04:16 But I'm suggesting maybe we need an American Society for 04:19 the Responsible Use of Medications! YES 04:22 With that in mind, that's why I wrote the book, 04:24 "Medicines That Kill" 04:25 so we could be AWARE that there's a problem. 04:28 A lot of people aren't aware that there's a problem. 04:30 Now I'm not saying that there's not a place for medications, 04:34 but I think we've created a problem. 04:36 And in this book, I argue that the #1 cause of death 04:40 last year, if you added up from all the different causes, 04:44 whether it be from people not taking the medicines right, 04:48 and adverse reaction, overdoses, 04:52 foreign lands not putting the active ingredient in it, 04:55 doctors and nurses making mistakes, 04:57 patients making mistakes - taking pills at the wrong time 05:01 for different medical conditions, 05:03 that it would add up to be the #1 cause 05:05 of death in America. Scary huh? 05:08 So here we are, dumping the #1 cause of death in America 05:11 down our throats, as a regular basis... 05:14 You make a case so often on this program that it is not 05:18 the medicines that cure us, 05:20 it is the changes in our lifestyle and the changes 05:23 that we've been reading about knowingly by the 05:25 things that we do. 05:27 Where are we going with this thing? 05:28 How can we make the transition then from depending 05:31 on medicines to depending on 05:32 what God had in mind for us to begin with? 05:34 Well, I think the first is to realize that there's a problem. 05:38 You know, and for everyone out there, I hope that they realize 05:40 that this is a problem and if 05:41 you're on a medication, I would ask yourself... 05:44 "Do I need to be on this medication?" 05:46 "Is there anything else I can do to change my 05:49 physiology, so I don't have to be on the medicine?" 05:51 That's it! Is there anything else I can do... 05:52 And you have told us time and time again on this program 05:55 that there usually is, 95% of the time 05:58 there's something else we can do. 05:59 I had a patient, Charles, that came not too long ago, 06:02 and she came to me because of chest pain. 06:04 She was in her early 50s... 06:06 And if I weave back through her story, 06:08 it was very interesting. 06:10 She had been an executive secretary that 06:14 needed to wear high heel shoes every day, 06:17 and she wore high heels to work every day, 06:20 and after 20 or 30 years, guess what? 06:22 She had bad foot problems. 06:24 When she had these bad foot problems, 06:27 she had to see a podiatrist; 06:28 he had to do some operations on her and guess what? 06:32 She quit going to the gym, she gained some weight. 06:35 She's now taking some medicines because her 06:37 foot hurt so much, she gained some weight, 06:40 ended up getting diabetes and high blood pressure. 06:43 She couldn't sleep good at night, 06:44 so she took a sleeping pill. 06:46 She noticed more acid in her stomach, 06:48 so she took an acid pill. 06:50 She got a little depressed, so she started 06:52 taking a depression pill and one thing led to another, 06:57 and sooner or later, she came to me because 06:59 of chest pain. 07:00 Well, if you look at the whole situation here, 07:03 you know, one little thing, one stressor 07:07 might have prevented this terrible cascade... 07:10 And I see that sometimes with medications. 07:12 I'll ask a patient, "Well why are you on this medication?" 07:15 And they go, "I don't remember, 07:17 it was started 25 years ago and I don't even know why" 07:21 And everyone is afraid to take it off. 07:23 They're afraid that it was for something important to do! 07:25 And yet, everyone is afraid to take it off. 07:28 And it's very interesting that scenario, 07:31 so I think in understanding this problem of 07:33 medications and how to get off of it, 07:36 I think the first step is to recognize that we have a 07:39 problem as a society. 07:41 The second thing that I think is very important to know 07:44 is that you can do something about it. 07:48 You know, you might have to some research; 07:51 you might have to talk with your physician, 07:52 but there are many medications that you might not need to take. 07:55 You can change your chemistry by doing something else. 07:59 For instance, one of the most common classes of medications 08:03 now are sleeping pills... 08:04 You've heard of those, haven't you? Oh yes 08:05 Now sleeping pills are very common. 08:07 Well, if someone is just not sleeping well 08:10 because they're drinking a Mocha Joe, 08:12 and watching TV at night. 08:14 Maybe they could quit doing that and be off that medication. 08:16 A lot of people, as we saw here, 08:19 a lot of people are on pain pills. 08:22 Well maybe if we could find out what's causing the pain, 08:24 maybe some physical therapy, maybe some exercising, 08:28 maybe to fix something wrong, 08:29 maybe they don't have to take that THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. 08:32 Maybe if we could find the real cause of depression, 08:35 is it nutrition? is it vitamin D? 08:37 is it situational depression? 08:40 Maybe they could find out what is causing depression, 08:42 and they might not have to be on THAT the rest of their life. 08:45 What about blood pressure? 08:46 Well maybe if they start to exercise, 08:48 and eat a little bit better, maybe they don't have to 08:50 be on a blood pressure medicine. 08:52 Or one for diabetes for the REST OF THEIR LIFE. 08:54 So I think you can see here, if people are willing 08:57 to make some changes on their own, 08:59 they can change their chemistry. 09:01 I tell people, "When you exercise, 09:03 it changes the chemistry of the entire body. 09:06 When you eat right, the chemistry of the entire body 09:09 When you rest well, the chemistry of the entire body 09:13 When you think right and your happy, 09:15 the chemistry of the entire body... 09:17 But the chemistry that we did these medications, 09:21 usually just change 1 or 2 chemical pathways. 09:24 It doesn't affect the whole body for the good. 09:26 So, how would you want to change your chemistry? 09:30 I'm going to have that more universal approach to it 09:33 because everything we do... 09:35 We're only here for, you know, 4 score and 10 years, 09:37 whatever it is we live. 09:38 We want to make sure that everything we do is 09:41 good for the whole body and we want to help our heart, 09:44 when we help our liver, when we help our kidney, 09:46 and when we help our stomach - we want to make sure that 09:48 we do that from a universal way. 09:49 WHAT ARE SOME OF THE UNIVERSAL TOOLS 09:53 you're talking about here that we should be doing 09:55 INSTEAD of taking all these medicines? 09:56 Yeah, and first you have to talk with your doctor 09:59 to see exactly why you're on 10:01 the medication - because THAT'S the Key 10:02 is understanding WHY you're on the medication. 10:05 Why were you put on it in the first place? That's the key! 10:08 And then, once you understand why, working with your provider, 10:12 to come up with a plan. 10:13 Is there some things that you can do NATURALLY 10:16 to maybe not need it? 10:17 Can you exercise more? Can you eat better? 10:19 Can you be done with this infection 10:22 you know, or do you have to take it. 10:23 Some of the medicines are just written because 10:25 no one is willing to stop it! 10:27 There's no even reason for it. 10:29 One of the most things, when I talk to people like 10:31 Dr. Hans Diehl, with the CHIP Program... 10:32 When I talk to people that live in institutions, 10:35 what they discover is, when people make these changes, 10:39 the medicine load drops off. 10:41 I mean, it's just - they start, don't need that anymore, 10:44 don't need that anymore, don't need that anymore, 10:46 so there is proof of what you're saying here, 10:49 so many times... 10:50 WHY don't we want to do that? 10:52 Why is it so hard for us to say, 10:53 "Okay, I'm eating wrong or I'm not exercising enough. " 10:57 I can do that or I can take the pill... 10:59 TOO MANY PEOPLE, according to your statistics here 11:02 are taking the pills instead of doing these changes. 11:05 Why is it so hard to do that? 11:06 Yeah, and they look at this number 70%, 11:09 that's a failing grade. YEAH! 11:11 That's 70% of the people who are refusing 11:14 to make the lifestyle changes, 11:15 and want to use the medicine instead to fix the problem. 11:17 Part of it is that and part of it is their culture. 11:20 You know, it's easier to give a medicine... 11:22 As a doctor, it's easier to give a medicine, 11:24 rather than to counsel them and to make them responsible 11:26 and teach them how to do things. 11:28 As a patient, it's easier to just take medicine 11:31 rather than to make the lifestyle changes 11:33 that can change your whole chemistry for the good. 11:36 It's just, you know, for a lot of our sake, it's easier. 11:39 Now it's not this way everywhere in the world. 11:42 But in our country, 7 out of 10 people are taking medicines. 11:46 Well now, you just said something that's very important. 11:49 Are there places in the world where we can go see examples 11:53 of this very thing - where people are NOT depending 11:56 on medicines so much, where these 11:58 lifestyle diseases don't exist. 11:59 If we can find those places, we should study them 12:02 to find out what they're doing 12:03 differently... Has that been done? 12:04 Yes, they have done that and they've gone to different 12:07 islands like Okinawa and different rural areas 12:10 where they didn't have all this... and guess what? 12:13 Those people don't have the chronic diseases. 12:15 Now a lot of the medicines we are on, are to treat symptoms. 12:19 They're not to treat causes. 12:21 And symptoms of chronic diseases. Exactly! 12:23 So the problem is the chronic diseases. 12:27 And we talk about, well the chronic diseases, 12:29 where does THAT come from? 12:31 And the chronic diseases come from our lifestyle, 12:34 the stress we're under as we've 12:35 moved away from God's perfect plan. 12:38 It's put more stress on the body. 12:41 People want solutions for that stress, 12:43 so they look instead of biblical solutions, 12:46 sometimes they look for just temporary solutions 12:49 just help me numb the pain, 12:50 just help me go to sleep, 12:52 just help me get the acid out of my stomach... 12:54 Whatever that might BE... 12:56 And people will do that and they think it's the 12:59 right thing to do because their doctor told me to do this. 13:02 You know, the news... I saw a commercial, 13:05 the commercial SAYS - "If I want this, 13:07 I'M GOING TO DO THIS! 13:08 If I can't do this, I'm going to do this! 13:10 And it's sort of the advertising, the marketing 13:13 in our society has created the place we're in today. 13:16 So 70% in this Mayo Clinic article, in my opinion, 13:20 is a failing grade. 13:22 Well, we need to do something about that 13:23 not only in our country, but also in our own lives, 13:26 and we're going to talk about what we can do 13:27 by answering some of YOUR questions 13:29 that have been sent into heartwiseministries. org 13:31 We invite you to do that and we answer your questions 13:34 here on the program, also on our radio program... 13:36 heartwiseministries. org 13:38 There's a place to click for your question. 13:39 Put them there and we will certainly ask them on the show. 13:42 We will return with your questions in just a moment, 13:45 so stay right where you are. |
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