Ahhh.. the beach! The
sand, the sun, the surf!
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You just feel GOOD!
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But you're about to
learn that something else
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takes place there, something
that's important for our health,
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our hormones and our wellbeing.
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Dr. Marcum, any treatment that
includes a beach... I'm there!
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Hey, that's
pretty cool, Charles!
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I like those
sunglasses! Oh yes, yes
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You know, what did we used
to do before we had sunglasses?
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I don't know! I have no idea.
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I wasn't there, Dr.
Marcum. Maybe YOU were!
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I guess we had some eye
burns back then... eye burns
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You know, you can't put that
lotion on your eyeballs, I guess
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No, I guess you can't.
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Hey listen, we've got
an important topic today,
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and that's about the beach! Yes
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The other day, someone came in,
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and I could see that they
weren't having the best of days.
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They were a little bit stressed
out, not too much going on,
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and I wrote a prescription
and I was very serious about it.
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I said, "Take beach, go 3
days, stay out 6 hours a day,
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return... this and that.
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And I gave it to them and I
said, "Here's your prescription"
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Take beach... Take
the beach Take the beach.
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Prescription for the beach.
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Now you might laugh at that,
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and there might be
people out there that laugh,
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but there are
real truths to giving a
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prescription for the beach.
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There are real benefits that
come from going to the beach,
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and we're going to
talk about those today.
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You know, YOU ALWAYS
ARE SURPRISING me at how
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SIMPLE some of the rules that
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you are saying
for our health are.
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You are talking about
REST, you talk about FRESH AIR,
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you talk about SUNSHINE.
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You talk a... SUNSHINE - BEACH
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I think I'm making
the connection here...
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There you go - exactly!
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Are you telling me that sunshine
is a prescription for health?
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ABSOLUTELY! You know, we were
made to be out in the sunshine.
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We were made to benefit -
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there are chemical
reactions that come with that,
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and the reason that got me
thinking about that, Charles,
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it wasn't too long ago
- probably one of the most
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common questions I get at
Heartwise is about supplements.
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You know, supplements -
people want to take all sorts
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of this and all sorts of
that and we see them all around.
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Supplements!
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So I said, well
you know, supplements,
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let's think about that...
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What do we really
need on this earth?
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And luckily God gave us
most of the things we need
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in the original form where
we can eat the calories itself.
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Now through the years, I
said, some of our food sources
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have been damaged and sometimes
our soil doesn't give all the
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minerals we need - like
magnesium and the trace elements
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and selenium.
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If people are strict vegans,
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sometimes they don't
get B6 and B12 and sometimes
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they run short on iron,
but we usually don't need
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to take a lot of supplements...
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EXCEPT supplements from the sun.
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Did you know that the
sun gives us a supplement?
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I think I'm going to find out
and I think it has to do with D
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Yes, it has to do with vitamin
D Vitamin D, okay vitamin D
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Yes, vitamin D is
actually not a vitamin at all.
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It's a prohormone.
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It causes the reaction of a
lot of other things to happen.
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And, I like to think of the
body as a magnificent orchestra.
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You know, you have to have
everything in the right amounts,
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pulling in the same
direction at the right time.
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That's why when
we talk about food,
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I think that when
God gave us the food,
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it had all the right
makeup, you know, 30% this,
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20% that, 20%... it
was all in the right -
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how our body was designed...
Packaging was perfect!
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Everything was right how it was.
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Now today, we
seem to load up stuff.
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We got 80%
protein, or 20% that...
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Well, when we take certain
supplements - too much of them,
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it's like we
upset the orchestra;
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40 French horns
don't sound good,
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even though French horns by
themselves are not bad. Yeah
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So when a lot of
people take supplements,
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no matter WHAT it is, and
vitamin D is a supplement,
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most of the people
if they take too much,
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most of the time
we urinate it out...
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But sometimes it can disrupt
the other intricate balances
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of the other instruments
that are trying to play.
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We got too much
of this making noise,
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and we can't get these
other ones into the cell
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doing what it wants to
do in the right amount.
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So this is a fine
balance that we have
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based on the way God made us...
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And vitamin D is a
hormone that's involved in
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lots of reactions in the body.
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But what I found
even more interesting,
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and why we have to
talk about it today,
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is that right now, we
have 1 in 4 adolescents
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deficient in vitamin D.. 1 in 4
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Is sunlight the only
source we have for vitamin D?
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No, there are lots
of different sources,
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we're going to
talk about that. Okay
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...Thirty-three,
1 in 3 young adults
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are deficient in vitamin D.
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Something's
wrong here... Yes it is
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And nearly 60% of
hospitalized patients
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are deficient in vitamin D.
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And more than 90% of people
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that are
critically ill are deficient.
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So many people are deficient
in this valuable prohormone
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that's in charge of making this
beautiful orchestra sound good.
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That orchestra's
cause in our body.
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Let's talk a little bit to
let everyone know we recognize
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vitamin D - it's important
for a lot of reactions.
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But let's talk
about what it does...
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Well it affects the brain;
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it helps make a
chemical called "serotonin"
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which helps our moods.
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It's a treatment for depression.
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That's why people that
are in the dark all the time
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like the Eskimos,
have the highest risk of
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suicide in the world.
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And serotonin, that's
the one that keeps us awake
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as opposed to melatonin
which makes us go to sleep.
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No, melatonin
helps keep us awake too.
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Oh it does? Okay
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No, melatonin puts us to sleep,
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serotonin keeps us awake.
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So it's serotonin that gets off
whack if we don't have vitamin D
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Now, what are
other things that go?
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You're trying to
confuse me, Charles... I'm sorry
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Blood vessels - blood vessels
are affected by vitamin D.
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Muscles, kidneys... lots of
things are affected by vitamin D
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In fact, when
our calcium level...
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You know, calcium is
very important in our body.
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Vitamin D is
important in calcium.
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When that goes up,
there's a chemical that's made
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by the glands here...
it's called "parathyroid"
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This helps
regulate calcium balance.
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Well vitamin D is again
needed for this balance,
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and when that chemical
gets off whack, guess what?
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It turns on our blood vessels;
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our blood vessels make chemicals
called "renin and angiotensin"
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which makes them smaller.
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It also causes
other bad things...
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inflammation to
happen in the blood vessel.
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Just because of this,
the parathyroid goes up
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because we
don't have a vitamin D
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So, it not only does that
but it works on the brain;
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it works on the muscles, it
works on all sorts of things
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even some cancers have
been associated with vitamin D
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In the creation of cancer
or in the fighting of cancer?
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In contributing
cancer. Oh my goodness...
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Because anything
that's out of whack,
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puts stress on the body,
could trigger other bad things.
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So the point I'm trying to
make to everyone out there is
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vitamin D, the
hormone, is very important.
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There's lots of
chemical reactions,
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some is the trickle down effect.
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You know, you
don't have parathyroid,
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it makes the vessels get
bad, it makes this get bad.
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If you don't have it, it
makes your brain get bad.
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So this is a hormone that goes
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through all the
cells in your body.
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So when you have a deficiency
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of ANY of God's vital nutrients,
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it makes the
chemistry everywhere go bad.
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Now Dr. Hippocrates, I
didn't know him very well,
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but he was a Greek guy,
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didn't have those
fancy sunglasses, Charles...
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But Dr. Hippocrates said,
"Let food be thy medicine"
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We are now learning
that when these balances,
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when all these chemical balances
are in the right proportions,
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playing the right tune with
the right amount of instruments,
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great things happen!
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But when we don't
have enough nutrients...
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You know, nutrients get
off base like vitamin D,
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BAD things happen.
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Well I can see where
you're going with this thing
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because here we
have a deficiency
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which causes a cascade
of problems through our body
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which may be
ending up down here,
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and so we go see the doctor
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and they do
everything they can for THAT...
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Let's work on THAT!
Let's see if we can fix THAT!
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When the problem really is
the vitamin D deficiency. RIGHT!
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And it might not only be
that deficiency but it could be
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another deficiency -
like you don't have enough
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magnesium in your body
or you don't have enough
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this or that or all those
vital nutrients that God gave us
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just because we're not
eating the whole foods anymore.
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We're eating the packaged foods.
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They don't have as many of
the good stuff, the vitamins,
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the minerals, the trace elements
... you've heard of those. Yes
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Things like selenium and zinc;
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all these things
are needed to make the
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chemistry in the body happen.
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And when you get the
right amounts of things
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in the right proportions,
EVERYTHING does better,
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but when you don't get any of
it right, everything gets worse,
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and I wanted to make that big
point that vitamin D is critical
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You know, no one
wants to be depressed.
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You know, no one wants to
have blood vessel problems.
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No one wants to
have bone problems.
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No one wants to
have aches and pains.
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I've had a lot
of people improve,
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not only their
depression would go away,
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but aches and pains
would go away just when they
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started getting enough
vitamin D in their body, Charles
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All right, I can see a problem
developing here immediately...
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Vitamin D is important to us
and one of the main sources of
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vitamin D is the sun;
so we go out under the sun,
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and we lather
ourselves with sunblock,
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we put a big hat on our
head, we cover ourselves,
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we hide from the
sun, we keep our children
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from the sun which means
we're keeping them from a
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main source of vitamin D,
am I on the right track here?
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Oh man Charles,
you're brilliant!
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That's why 1 in 3 young
adults; 1 in 4 adolescents,
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all these people are vitamin
D deficient and the subsequent
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chemical cascades that occur.
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Anywhere from the
depression to the bones,
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and then one thing leads
to another and guess what?
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You know, the real problem
might have been vitamin D,
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it might not
have been depression.
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The real problem might have
been this or that or the other.
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The blood pressure problem
might have been vitamin D.
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Vitamin D also helps
lower the blood pressure
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because of a chemical called
renin and angiotensin go down.
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It's a very complicated cascade,
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but we don't have to
know everything about it.
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You don't have to
be a physiologist,
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all you have to do is
say, "Listen, I trust God
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that He knew what He's doing
and I'm going to try to get
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back to sort of His
plan so I don't have to use
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all this other stuff. "
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Now think about it...
The original plan was for us
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to be outside - we didn't
have an apartment or a condo
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or anything like that...
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We were supposed to be
out in the buff, Charles.
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You know, in the buff.
Guess what, you get in the buff.
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Where you can get
lots of sun tanning!
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Yeah that's right,
you get a lot of it...
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I know, but it's
even! Yeah, even tanning
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But you'd get a lot of exposure,
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that's how we were
originally designed.
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We weren't originally designed
to have all these clothes on.
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Now I don't want you to start
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taking your clothes off or
anything! Thank you very much
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...Because we're not
going to get much in here.
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Even though now they've
invented vitamin D lights
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that can do that too.
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So we were
designed to be outside.
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We weren't designed to be
inside and yet more and more
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time we spend indoors and
then we cover up our skin,
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and one thing after another
so we don't get that vitamin D
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activation which the sun
takes to activate it from
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the rest of our bodies.
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Now the good news is this...
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Even if we don't
get it out in the sun,
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we can still supplement.
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There's an active
form of vitamin D...
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You know vitamin D
has to be activated.
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There's an
activated form called "D3"
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that we can actually
buy, and there are people that
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live up north and
they can have the light.
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So we can
supplement our vitamin D levels
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even if we don't play by
the rules we were made by.
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Well that's a problem because
someone listening right now
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will say, "If I go out
in the sun, Dr. Marcum,
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if I go out for
more than an hour or so,
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I turn as red as a
beet and I start blistering.
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That can't be good!
No, that is not good
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for that person, so that person
has to back off and go less.
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But, you know, you
have to figure out how much
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you can go out before you burn.
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A general guideline is at
least 30 minutes 3 times a week
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if you're not burning.
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Now if you're burning,
it's a different story,
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but most people can
go out for a little while
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and enjoy that sun and vitamin D
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And then a lot of
people are also deficient in it
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from their diets as well.
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Something I've noticed
personally about this...
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is when I went to a
whole food plant-based diet,
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and cut out the oils
and everything from my diet,
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I can stay out in the sun a
whole lot longer without burning
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For some reason, my skin
CHANGED as my health improved
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with that new
diet, so there may be
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something there -
we'll talk about that.
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We'll take a short
break and when we come back,
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we're going to
answer some questions
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that have come into the
heartwiseministries. org
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website - questions you've
been asking about the SUN,
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so stay tuned...
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