Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00044A
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00:48 Ahhh.. the beach! The sand, the sun, the surf!
00:53 You just feel GOOD! 00:55 But you're about to learn that something else 00:57 takes place there, something that's important for our health, 01:00 our hormones and our wellbeing. 01:03 Dr. Marcum, any treatment that includes a beach... I'm there! 01:07 Hey, that's pretty cool, Charles! 01:09 I like those sunglasses! Oh yes, yes 01:13 You know, what did we used to do before we had sunglasses? 01:16 I don't know! I have no idea. 01:18 I wasn't there, Dr. Marcum. Maybe YOU were! 01:20 I guess we had some eye burns back then... eye burns 01:23 You know, you can't put that lotion on your eyeballs, I guess 01:26 No, I guess you can't. 01:27 Hey listen, we've got an important topic today, 01:31 and that's about the beach! Yes 01:33 The other day, someone came in, 01:35 and I could see that they weren't having the best of days. 01:38 They were a little bit stressed out, not too much going on, 01:42 and I wrote a prescription and I was very serious about it. 01:46 I said, "Take beach, go 3 days, stay out 6 hours a day, 01:50 return... this and that. 01:51 And I gave it to them and I said, "Here's your prescription" 01:54 Take beach... Take the beach Take the beach. 01:56 Prescription for the beach. 01:58 Now you might laugh at that, 02:00 and there might be people out there that laugh, 02:02 but there are real truths to giving a 02:04 prescription for the beach. 02:05 There are real benefits that come from going to the beach, 02:09 and we're going to talk about those today. 02:10 You know, YOU ALWAYS ARE SURPRISING me at how 02:15 SIMPLE some of the rules that 02:17 you are saying for our health are. 02:19 You are talking about REST, you talk about FRESH AIR, 02:23 you talk about SUNSHINE. 02:24 You talk a... SUNSHINE - BEACH 02:27 I think I'm making the connection here... 02:28 There you go - exactly! 02:30 Are you telling me that sunshine is a prescription for health? 02:32 ABSOLUTELY! You know, we were made to be out in the sunshine. 02:36 We were made to benefit - 02:37 there are chemical reactions that come with that, 02:39 and the reason that got me thinking about that, Charles, 02:42 it wasn't too long ago - probably one of the most 02:45 common questions I get at Heartwise is about supplements. 02:50 You know, supplements - people want to take all sorts 02:52 of this and all sorts of that and we see them all around. 02:55 Supplements! 02:57 So I said, well you know, supplements, 02:59 let's think about that... 03:00 What do we really need on this earth? 03:02 And luckily God gave us most of the things we need 03:07 in the original form where we can eat the calories itself. 03:10 Now through the years, I said, some of our food sources 03:14 have been damaged and sometimes our soil doesn't give all the 03:17 minerals we need - like magnesium and the trace elements 03:20 and selenium. 03:21 If people are strict vegans, 03:24 sometimes they don't get B6 and B12 and sometimes 03:29 they run short on iron, but we usually don't need 03:31 to take a lot of supplements... 03:34 EXCEPT supplements from the sun. 03:38 Did you know that the sun gives us a supplement? 03:42 I think I'm going to find out and I think it has to do with D 03:45 Yes, it has to do with vitamin D Vitamin D, okay vitamin D 03:48 Yes, vitamin D is actually not a vitamin at all. 03:52 It's a prohormone. 03:53 It causes the reaction of a lot of other things to happen. 03:57 And, I like to think of the body as a magnificent orchestra. 04:01 You know, you have to have everything in the right amounts, 04:04 pulling in the same direction at the right time. 04:07 That's why when we talk about food, 04:09 I think that when God gave us the food, 04:11 it had all the right makeup, you know, 30% this, 04:16 20% that, 20%... it was all in the right - 04:19 how our body was designed... Packaging was perfect! 04:23 Everything was right how it was. 04:25 Now today, we seem to load up stuff. 04:27 We got 80% protein, or 20% that... 04:30 Well, when we take certain supplements - too much of them, 04:33 it's like we upset the orchestra; 04:35 40 French horns don't sound good, 04:38 even though French horns by themselves are not bad. Yeah 04:41 So when a lot of people take supplements, 04:43 no matter WHAT it is, and vitamin D is a supplement, 04:47 most of the people if they take too much, 04:48 most of the time we urinate it out... 04:51 But sometimes it can disrupt the other intricate balances 04:54 of the other instruments that are trying to play. 04:57 We got too much of this making noise, 04:59 and we can't get these other ones into the cell 05:02 doing what it wants to do in the right amount. 05:05 So this is a fine balance that we have 05:08 based on the way God made us... 05:10 And vitamin D is a hormone that's involved in 05:14 lots of reactions in the body. 05:17 But what I found even more interesting, 05:19 and why we have to talk about it today, 05:21 is that right now, we have 1 in 4 adolescents 05:25 deficient in vitamin D.. 1 in 4 05:28 Is sunlight the only source we have for vitamin D? 05:30 No, there are lots of different sources, 05:32 we're going to talk about that. Okay 05:33 ...Thirty-three, 1 in 3 young adults 05:36 are deficient in vitamin D. 05:38 Something's wrong here... Yes it is 05:40 And nearly 60% of hospitalized patients 05:44 are deficient in vitamin D. 05:46 And more than 90% of people 05:48 that are critically ill are deficient. 05:50 So many people are deficient in this valuable prohormone 05:55 that's in charge of making this beautiful orchestra sound good. 05:59 That orchestra's cause in our body. 06:02 Let's talk a little bit to let everyone know we recognize 06:06 vitamin D - it's important for a lot of reactions. 06:09 But let's talk about what it does... 06:12 Well it affects the brain; 06:13 it helps make a chemical called "serotonin" 06:16 which helps our moods. 06:17 It's a treatment for depression. 06:19 That's why people that are in the dark all the time 06:23 like the Eskimos, have the highest risk of 06:25 suicide in the world. 06:27 And serotonin, that's the one that keeps us awake 06:29 as opposed to melatonin which makes us go to sleep. 06:32 No, melatonin helps keep us awake too. 06:34 Oh it does? Okay 06:35 No, melatonin puts us to sleep, 06:37 serotonin keeps us awake. 06:38 So it's serotonin that gets off whack if we don't have vitamin D 06:43 Now, what are other things that go? 06:44 You're trying to confuse me, Charles... I'm sorry 06:46 Blood vessels - blood vessels are affected by vitamin D. 06:50 Muscles, kidneys... lots of things are affected by vitamin D 06:53 In fact, when our calcium level... 06:56 You know, calcium is very important in our body. 06:58 Vitamin D is important in calcium. 07:00 When that goes up, there's a chemical that's made 07:03 by the glands here... it's called "parathyroid" 07:07 This helps regulate calcium balance. 07:11 Well vitamin D is again needed for this balance, 07:13 and when that chemical gets off whack, guess what? 07:17 It turns on our blood vessels; 07:18 our blood vessels make chemicals called "renin and angiotensin" 07:22 which makes them smaller. 07:24 It also causes other bad things... 07:26 inflammation to happen in the blood vessel. 07:28 Just because of this, the parathyroid goes up 07:30 because we don't have a vitamin D 07:32 So, it not only does that but it works on the brain; 07:35 it works on the muscles, it works on all sorts of things 07:38 even some cancers have been associated with vitamin D 07:42 In the creation of cancer or in the fighting of cancer? 07:45 In contributing cancer. Oh my goodness... 07:47 Because anything that's out of whack, 07:51 puts stress on the body, could trigger other bad things. 07:54 So the point I'm trying to make to everyone out there is 07:58 vitamin D, the hormone, is very important. 08:01 There's lots of chemical reactions, 08:03 some is the trickle down effect. 08:05 You know, you don't have parathyroid, 08:07 it makes the vessels get bad, it makes this get bad. 08:09 If you don't have it, it makes your brain get bad. 08:11 So this is a hormone that goes 08:12 through all the cells in your body. 08:14 So when you have a deficiency 08:15 of ANY of God's vital nutrients, 08:19 it makes the chemistry everywhere go bad. 08:21 Now Dr. Hippocrates, I didn't know him very well, 08:25 but he was a Greek guy, 08:28 didn't have those fancy sunglasses, Charles... 08:31 But Dr. Hippocrates said, "Let food be thy medicine" 08:35 We are now learning that when these balances, 08:38 when all these chemical balances are in the right proportions, 08:41 playing the right tune with the right amount of instruments, 08:44 great things happen! 08:45 But when we don't have enough nutrients... 08:47 You know, nutrients get off base like vitamin D, 08:50 BAD things happen. 08:52 Well I can see where you're going with this thing 08:53 because here we have a deficiency 08:57 which causes a cascade of problems through our body 09:00 which may be ending up down here, 09:01 and so we go see the doctor 09:03 and they do everything they can for THAT... 09:05 Let's work on THAT! Let's see if we can fix THAT! 09:07 When the problem really is the vitamin D deficiency. RIGHT! 09:10 And it might not only be that deficiency but it could be 09:13 another deficiency - like you don't have enough 09:15 magnesium in your body or you don't have enough 09:18 this or that or all those vital nutrients that God gave us 09:21 just because we're not eating the whole foods anymore. 09:25 We're eating the packaged foods. 09:27 They don't have as many of the good stuff, the vitamins, 09:29 the minerals, the trace elements ... you've heard of those. Yes 09:32 Things like selenium and zinc; 09:34 all these things are needed to make the 09:36 chemistry in the body happen. 09:38 And when you get the right amounts of things 09:40 in the right proportions, EVERYTHING does better, 09:42 but when you don't get any of it right, everything gets worse, 09:45 and I wanted to make that big point that vitamin D is critical 09:49 You know, no one wants to be depressed. 09:51 You know, no one wants to have blood vessel problems. 09:54 No one wants to have bone problems. 09:56 No one wants to have aches and pains. 09:58 I've had a lot of people improve, 10:00 not only their depression would go away, 10:02 but aches and pains would go away just when they 10:05 started getting enough vitamin D in their body, Charles 10:07 All right, I can see a problem developing here immediately... 10:11 Vitamin D is important to us and one of the main sources of 10:14 vitamin D is the sun; so we go out under the sun, 10:19 and we lather ourselves with sunblock, 10:21 we put a big hat on our head, we cover ourselves, 10:24 we hide from the sun, we keep our children 10:26 from the sun which means we're keeping them from a 10:29 main source of vitamin D, am I on the right track here? 10:32 Oh man Charles, you're brilliant! 10:33 That's why 1 in 3 young adults; 1 in 4 adolescents, 10:38 all these people are vitamin D deficient and the subsequent 10:42 chemical cascades that occur. 10:44 Anywhere from the depression to the bones, 10:47 and then one thing leads to another and guess what? 10:50 You know, the real problem might have been vitamin D, 10:52 it might not have been depression. 10:53 The real problem might have been this or that or the other. 10:57 The blood pressure problem might have been vitamin D. 10:59 Vitamin D also helps lower the blood pressure 11:01 because of a chemical called renin and angiotensin go down. 11:05 It's a very complicated cascade, 11:08 but we don't have to know everything about it. 11:10 You don't have to be a physiologist, 11:12 all you have to do is say, "Listen, I trust God 11:14 that He knew what He's doing and I'm going to try to get 11:16 back to sort of His plan so I don't have to use 11:19 all this other stuff. " 11:20 Now think about it... The original plan was for us 11:23 to be outside - we didn't have an apartment or a condo 11:26 or anything like that... 11:27 We were supposed to be out in the buff, Charles. 11:30 You know, in the buff. Guess what, you get in the buff. 11:33 Where you can get lots of sun tanning! 11:34 Yeah that's right, you get a lot of it... 11:36 I know, but it's even! Yeah, even tanning 11:38 But you'd get a lot of exposure, 11:40 that's how we were originally designed. 11:42 We weren't originally designed to have all these clothes on. 11:44 Now I don't want you to start 11:45 taking your clothes off or anything! Thank you very much 11:47 ...Because we're not going to get much in here. 11:49 Even though now they've invented vitamin D lights 11:53 that can do that too. 11:56 So we were designed to be outside. 11:58 We weren't designed to be inside and yet more and more 12:01 time we spend indoors and then we cover up our skin, 12:04 and one thing after another so we don't get that vitamin D 12:08 activation which the sun takes to activate it from 12:11 the rest of our bodies. 12:14 Now the good news is this... 12:16 Even if we don't get it out in the sun, 12:18 we can still supplement. 12:19 There's an active form of vitamin D... 12:21 You know vitamin D has to be activated. 12:24 There's an activated form called "D3" 12:27 that we can actually buy, and there are people that 12:30 live up north and they can have the light. 12:32 So we can supplement our vitamin D levels 12:36 even if we don't play by the rules we were made by. 12:40 Well that's a problem because someone listening right now 12:44 will say, "If I go out in the sun, Dr. Marcum, 12:46 if I go out for more than an hour or so, 12:49 I turn as red as a beet and I start blistering. 12:51 That can't be good! No, that is not good 12:54 for that person, so that person has to back off and go less. 12:57 But, you know, you have to figure out how much 12:59 you can go out before you burn. 13:01 A general guideline is at least 30 minutes 3 times a week 13:06 if you're not burning. 13:07 Now if you're burning, it's a different story, 13:10 but most people can go out for a little while 13:12 and enjoy that sun and vitamin D 13:13 And then a lot of people are also deficient in it 13:17 from their diets as well. 13:19 Something I've noticed personally about this... 13:21 is when I went to a whole food plant-based diet, 13:24 and cut out the oils and everything from my diet, 13:27 I can stay out in the sun a whole lot longer without burning 13:31 For some reason, my skin CHANGED as my health improved 13:34 with that new diet, so there may be 13:35 something there - we'll talk about that. 13:37 We'll take a short break and when we come back, 13:39 we're going to answer some questions 13:40 that have come into the heartwiseministries. org 13:42 website - questions you've been asking about the SUN, 13:45 so stay tuned... |
Revised 2014-12-17