Welcome back to the program!
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We're at the beach
today, thus the sunglasses!
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We're talking about a vitamin
that is essential to our health,
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and it comes from the sun.
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And what better place to get
that vitamin than at the beach.
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Dr. Marcum, you mentioned
a couple of supplements
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that we need to be taking.
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Should EVERYONE take a vitamin D
supplement just across the board
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Is that the safest thing to do?
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Well let's talk about that for
a second because I don't think
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there's one answer that goes for
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everybody, but
let's think about this.
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Remember we talked about 1 in 3
young adults, 1 in 4 adolescents
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that's a lot of vitamin D
deficiency. That certainly is!
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That's a lot of
serotonin problems.
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That's a lot of bone problems.
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That's a lot of
vascular problems.
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That's a big issue!
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So I think that if
you're out there today,
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and you want to take
care of your family...
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You know, say,
"Listen, let's go to the beach"
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or at least "Let's start
taking a vitamin D supplement"
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Let's look at our levels
and make sure it is good enough
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because we want
to have that good.
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Whether everyone
should take it depends on
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how much vitamin D
you're getting in your diet;
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how much you're getting outside,
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you certainly could have it
measured in a doctor's office.
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And here are some numbers that
might be interesting to people.
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We can measure
vitamin D in a blood test,
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and the target level is about
20 nanograms per milliliter.
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Now that's not very much
and "The Institute of Medicine"
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recommends that if
you're less than 70 years old,
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Charles, that
would be you... Thank you
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and have not had
their level tested before,
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you need to use about
600 international units a day
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of vitamin D3 and you can look
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at that in the
store as vitamin D3
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Now if you're greater
than 70, you need about 800 IU
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of vitamin D a day.
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Now, are they assuming
that the older you are,
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the less you're outside...
is that why it going down?
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Less outside and the less
you have in your body. Okay
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It seems to be more deficient
the older you get. All right
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BUT, if you're deficient,
you can certainly measure
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it in a blood level
and supplement - get extra.
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In fact, in my practice, if
I think people are deficient,
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it's important to me
for a couple of reasons.
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One, is blood pressure.
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I want the blood
pressure to lower,
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and I can lower the blood
pressure by giving vitamin D
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I can also lower the chance of
someone having a bone fracture.
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You know, we make so
much big deal about these
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bone supplements, but the
simple things like walking,
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and vitamin D which can
help make the bones stronger -
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we don't even talk about this!
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Because remember, vitamin D
deficiency, calcitonin comes up,
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they try to steal
calcium from somewhere.
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They steal it from the wrong
places - the bones and the cells
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If the cells are getting
calcium stolen from it because
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there's not enough vitamin D...
The cells in the bones, you mean
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Well, cells in the
bones and cells in the body.
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All the cells in the
body have calcium. Yes
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Vitamin D is
involved with calcium.
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So if the
vitamin D is not around,
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you don't have enough calcium,
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calcium is pulled out of
the bones - bone fractures!
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Pulled out of
muscles - muscle aches...
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Aches and pains - serotonin.
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So lots of
different things can happen.
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So, yes, people need to take
supplements in the wintertime.
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I admit, I don't get
out enough and I take
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vitamin D3 in the wintertime
and it makes me feel better.
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It helps my moods
out, helps me out until
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I start getting outside more.
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So I take vitamin D3 myself and
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it makes me feel a lot better.
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I don't
necessarily have my number,
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but let's say a person
comes in and they're measured,
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and their number is low...
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Then I will vigorously
supplement their stores
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to get that up because remember,
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when the vitamin D
is good, the calcium,
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these other chemicals
are going to follow suit.
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Everything is going
to start working better.
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So when you replace
a nutrient that is low,
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okay... that
helps the entire body,
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it's just not
one chemical pathway.
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Do you follow me? I do
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And also, there are
other nutrients that we might
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be short on, that
when we don't have enough,
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it affects the
entire chemical pathways,
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and the real problem is not
necessarily this, this or this.
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The real problem might
not be the blood pressure
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or the lack of bone growth
or the acid in the stomach,
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or the muscle aches
or the depression...
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The real problem would be that
chemistry that God made us for
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that a chemical that we needed,
that supplement that we needed
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to begin with to have.
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Now we're not talking about
A LOT of something here... NO
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Apparently a little bit
of vitamin D goes a long way.
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And that's a great
question because everyone
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is interested in
taking supplements
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because they
think that that's good.
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If you have a
disease, you might need extra.
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You know, you hear about
vitamin C, extra for this...
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Vitamin D extra...
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So if you're in
a diseased state,
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depending on
what that disease is,
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you might need EXTRA nutrients,
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EXTRA supplements...
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But if you're pretty
healthy to begin with,
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then you just need the baseline.
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And you get
most of the baseline,
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if you eat a diet that's full
of fresh fruits, vegetables,
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nuts and grains; that
you try to get stuff locally
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and not imported, that
you have some soil... with it,
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you get almost all
the stuff you need.
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Now wait... you have some
soil with it, clarify that.
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We're going to eat soil?
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Well no, it has to
be grown in soil... Okay
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Because soil has
some vital trace elements.
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That's where you get
your trace elements from.
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There are some
people that are farming
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pretty much without soil
nowadays, it's very interesting.
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But anyway, nutrition
is a very interesting field
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that you can
learn so much about,
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but if you look at it,
it does relate to medicine
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because all these
things are so valuable.
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So that's why when
someone asks me a question,
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sometimes a question
is not the real issue.
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The real issue is...
well what causes the need.
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So, when someone talks to me
about depression, guess what?
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I'm going to think about
vitamin D and the nutrients.
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And if they happen to
be depressed, then I say,
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"Well maybe one of these
nutrients are running real low
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and they need EXTRA supplements,
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EXTRA on this amount.
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Just like you work very
hard to get people off drugs.
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Well, we really need to
work ourselves pretty hard
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to get ourselves off
supplements if possible.
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We want to get our
vitamins, our minerals,
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our elements and
everything from the food we eat,
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but there may be a time
when we need a little shove,
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but it shouldn't be a
lifelong time commitment.
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No, and the body does a
pretty good job about deciding
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what you need and
what you don't need,
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and getting rid of the extra,
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and it's sort of an interesting
thing but that might help.
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I hope that
answered that question.
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That answered that
first question right here.
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The first person
that asked a question at
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heartwiseministries. org
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asked what supplements should a
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person be taking
and you've covered that.
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That's a general recommendation.
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Okay, question #2...
"I broke my hip and my
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vitamin D level came back at 10"
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Now you mentioned 20
someplace in there...
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It came back at 10.
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"I am just starting to take
vitamin D, how much do I need?"
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Now, is the body smart
enough to take MEGA doses
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of vitamin D and
store it? Exactly!
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It can use mega doses
and sort of "catch up"
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You're super
deficient, you need some,
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and the sooner you
get it, the better.
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So a person that's that
deficient to breaking a bone,
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they need about 5,000
international units a day
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for 2 to 4 months, then
1 to 2,000 maintenance dose
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after that and then they can
also have their doctor check it.
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We don't want to
have another broken bone.
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You know, we don't want
to have another broken bone.
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But I just wonder, all the
broken bones you have out there,
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when you see the
prevalence of this,
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and the
prevalence of other things,
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just think, the real
problem might be that we're not
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getting the things
that God wanted us to have
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as substrates to have our
body to operate optimally.
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Boy, we've talked
about bones before...
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We've done a
show on osteoporosis,
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and our poor bones,
we need to do everything
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we can to keep them...
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But you know, all this affects
the heart, the blood pressure,
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it just affects different
things throughout the body
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when you get the proper
building blocks to function
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and have energy.
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Now, I know there's going to be
people listening to this program
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right now who are saying,
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"It's dangerous
for me to be outside"
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You're saying 30 minutes a day.
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What can we do to get
the sunlight we need if
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#1, we live in
Alaska, we don't have sunlight
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or it's cloudy or
whatever, what can we do
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across the time? Yeah, there
are lots of different things...
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You don't have to
be in the sunlight.
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You can take the
supplements, they're activated.
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They have different
lamps that you can put out.
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So you... you think those
lamps are good. That's good!
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Well, they work on
some people that need it.
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They get those, so those
are 2 things that we can do
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that will help get
our vitamin D levels up.
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Now, the suicide rate
and the depression rate
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went down a lot in
those northern countries
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that are dark all year
- once they just started
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adding vitamin D to
their diets. It's amazing...
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And you know, I can't
remember the last time you saw
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someone at the beach
that wasn't pretty happy
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because they made
all that serotonin.
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And also, their bones
seemed to be pretty good.
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I don't see too many
people that are beaching it,
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having problems
with their bones.
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So it has a lot of good
treatment, good prescription
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for going to the beach.
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So I'm going to start
writing more of those to mainly
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get people to think
about all these nutrients,
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especially vitamin D;
those are just as important
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as anything else for good health
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because if you
have enough of those,
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you can maybe avoid
getting into bad health.
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Now, of course, for
those who live in North Dakota
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or Kansas or Illinois and
there's not a beach nearby,
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we're talking
about sunlight here;
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we're talking about
sunshine on our bodies.
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The beach is a great
place because the beach has
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some other good things, right?
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Yeah, you can make an
artificial beach, Charles.
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You can make an
artificial beach house.
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You could have a pretend beach.
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But you know, there's
lots of things you can do.
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I want to see you
write a prescription for...
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"Make a pretend beach"
and give that to somebody.
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Well I saw someone...
I didn't think this was a
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beach, but they went to a river
and they called that a beach.
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There you go! A
stream, a lake...
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A lake - you
could call that a beach.
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Lakes we have around here, yes.
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But the point is,
a beach substitute.
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Like I'm going to go
outside and walk outside
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in the sunshine
for a few minutes.
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And when you do that,
you take your hat off,
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you have a short-sleeved
shirt on if it's summertime,
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you try to get that sun on
your face and on your arms,
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and on your chest if it's
warm enough for doing that.
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And I guess if you are
in the middle of the woods
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all by yourself
and it was warm enough,
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ADAM AND EVE TIME!
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you could just start
getting LOTS of sunshine!
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But we recommend that for
people who are just really
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in the middle of
the forest someplace.
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Laughter is the best
medicine, my friend Charles.
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I could just see them
arrest someone and say...
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Well, Dr. Marcum said...
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Laughter is the best
medicine here... I guess so
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Well we're going
to take a short break,
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and when we come
back, Dr. Marcum is going to
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talk more about this important
topic of keeping ourselves
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healthy by using the natural
things that God has made for us,
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the sunlight!
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We've talked about fresh
air and good food and rest,
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and Sabbath
worship and taking time to
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have relationships with people.
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We also need to include
that other day of creation...
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when that sun appeared...
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And now I know why -
there are just so many things
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connected to it, it's
not just do this and this,
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it's do these things
so this and this and this
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can happen - they're
all connected in there. Yeah
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And, of course, the more
we take care of our bodies,
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the clearer our thoughts
are, the clearer we can have a
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good relationship, not
only with other people,
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but with our heavenly Father too
and speak to our heavenly Father
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When we come back, Dr.
Marcum is going to speak
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to the Ultimate
Physician, stay tuned...
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I really enjoy
answering people's questions,
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and you know, a lot of time
you hear fancy medical jargon
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and fancy modern medicine used,
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but today, we talked about
something basic but so important
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as vitamin D.
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This prohormone helps
our entire body do well.
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So if there are 2 things I
want you to leave from this
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talk from today...
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#1- Go outside, enjoy some
vitamin D, enjoy some sunshine.
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#2- Tell your friends, remember
a lot of kids are not getting
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out as much as they should.
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So if you see someone
that's working on a cell phone
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or a computer, say -
"Hey, why don't you go outside
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for a few minutes,
make some serotonin,
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make your brain better,
make your bones stronger,
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take away those muscle
pains, come on and join me!
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If we start working
one person at a time,
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I think we can really
change the way people feel
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getting them to feel better.
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So don't forget the
importance of vitamin D today.
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I want to have a prayer with you
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right now, let's
just bow our heads...
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Heavenly Father... I just
thank You for helping us learn
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so much today about how
You want to take care of us.
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We want to invite You to
be our Ultimate Physician
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to take care of us and today
help us to find someone that
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we can share this information
to, so that we might make this
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world a better place
- is our prayer... Amen
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You know, one of the things
we like to give you value,
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we'd like to leave you 1
or 2 things that you can do
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to help others, but we also
want to invite you to answer
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your specific questions,
go to us at our website,
00:13:31.36\00:13:34.01
heartwiseministries. org
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We'll do the best we
can to meet your needs
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and to serve you, and
we also want to invite you
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to take this message and to
spread it to all your friends
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and neighbors making the
world a better place to live.
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