Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00044B
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00:01 Welcome back to the program!
00:02 We're at the beach today, thus the sunglasses! 00:04 We're talking about a vitamin that is essential to our health, 00:07 and it comes from the sun. 00:09 And what better place to get that vitamin than at the beach. 00:12 Dr. Marcum, you mentioned a couple of supplements 00:15 that we need to be taking. 00:16 Should EVERYONE take a vitamin D supplement just across the board 00:20 Is that the safest thing to do? 00:21 Well let's talk about that for a second because I don't think 00:24 there's one answer that goes for 00:26 everybody, but let's think about this. 00:28 Remember we talked about 1 in 3 young adults, 1 in 4 adolescents 00:34 that's a lot of vitamin D deficiency. That certainly is! 00:37 That's a lot of serotonin problems. 00:39 That's a lot of bone problems. 00:40 That's a lot of vascular problems. 00:43 That's a big issue! 00:45 So I think that if you're out there today, 00:48 and you want to take care of your family... 00:50 You know, say, "Listen, let's go to the beach" 00:52 or at least "Let's start taking a vitamin D supplement" 00:56 Let's look at our levels and make sure it is good enough 00:58 because we want to have that good. 01:00 Whether everyone should take it depends on 01:02 how much vitamin D you're getting in your diet; 01:05 how much you're getting outside, 01:08 you certainly could have it measured in a doctor's office. 01:12 And here are some numbers that might be interesting to people. 01:16 We can measure vitamin D in a blood test, 01:19 and the target level is about 20 nanograms per milliliter. 01:26 Now that's not very much and "The Institute of Medicine" 01:30 recommends that if you're less than 70 years old, 01:33 Charles, that would be you... Thank you 01:35 and have not had their level tested before, 01:39 you need to use about 600 international units a day 01:43 of vitamin D3 and you can look 01:46 at that in the store as vitamin D3 01:49 Now if you're greater than 70, you need about 800 IU 01:54 of vitamin D a day. 01:55 Now, are they assuming that the older you are, 01:57 the less you're outside... is that why it going down? 01:59 Less outside and the less you have in your body. Okay 02:02 It seems to be more deficient the older you get. All right 02:04 BUT, if you're deficient, you can certainly measure 02:07 it in a blood level and supplement - get extra. 02:10 In fact, in my practice, if I think people are deficient, 02:14 it's important to me for a couple of reasons. 02:16 One, is blood pressure. 02:18 I want the blood pressure to lower, 02:21 and I can lower the blood pressure by giving vitamin D 02:24 I can also lower the chance of someone having a bone fracture. 02:28 You know, we make so much big deal about these 02:30 bone supplements, but the simple things like walking, 02:33 and vitamin D which can help make the bones stronger - 02:36 we don't even talk about this! 02:38 Because remember, vitamin D deficiency, calcitonin comes up, 02:42 they try to steal calcium from somewhere. 02:44 They steal it from the wrong places - the bones and the cells 02:47 If the cells are getting calcium stolen from it because 02:52 there's not enough vitamin D... The cells in the bones, you mean 02:54 Well, cells in the bones and cells in the body. 02:55 All the cells in the body have calcium. Yes 02:58 Vitamin D is involved with calcium. 03:00 So if the vitamin D is not around, 03:02 you don't have enough calcium, 03:03 calcium is pulled out of the bones - bone fractures! 03:06 Pulled out of muscles - muscle aches... 03:09 Aches and pains - serotonin. 03:11 So lots of different things can happen. 03:13 So, yes, people need to take supplements in the wintertime. 03:17 I admit, I don't get out enough and I take 03:20 vitamin D3 in the wintertime and it makes me feel better. 03:24 It helps my moods out, helps me out until 03:26 I start getting outside more. 03:28 So I take vitamin D3 myself and 03:31 it makes me feel a lot better. 03:32 I don't necessarily have my number, 03:34 but let's say a person comes in and they're measured, 03:36 and their number is low... 03:37 Then I will vigorously supplement their stores 03:40 to get that up because remember, 03:42 when the vitamin D is good, the calcium, 03:44 these other chemicals are going to follow suit. 03:47 Everything is going to start working better. 03:49 So when you replace a nutrient that is low, 03:54 okay... that helps the entire body, 03:57 it's just not one chemical pathway. 03:59 Do you follow me? I do 04:00 And also, there are other nutrients that we might 04:03 be short on, that when we don't have enough, 04:05 it affects the entire chemical pathways, 04:08 and the real problem is not necessarily this, this or this. 04:11 The real problem might not be the blood pressure 04:13 or the lack of bone growth or the acid in the stomach, 04:17 or the muscle aches or the depression... 04:19 The real problem would be that chemistry that God made us for 04:23 that a chemical that we needed, that supplement that we needed 04:26 to begin with to have. 04:28 Now we're not talking about A LOT of something here... NO 04:31 Apparently a little bit of vitamin D goes a long way. 04:34 And that's a great question because everyone 04:37 is interested in taking supplements 04:39 because they think that that's good. 04:40 If you have a disease, you might need extra. 04:45 You know, you hear about vitamin C, extra for this... 04:48 Vitamin D extra... 04:49 So if you're in a diseased state, 04:52 depending on what that disease is, 04:54 you might need EXTRA nutrients, 04:56 EXTRA supplements... 04:57 But if you're pretty healthy to begin with, 05:00 then you just need the baseline. 05:02 And you get most of the baseline, 05:04 if you eat a diet that's full of fresh fruits, vegetables, 05:08 nuts and grains; that you try to get stuff locally 05:11 and not imported, that you have some soil... with it, 05:14 you get almost all the stuff you need. 05:17 Now wait... you have some soil with it, clarify that. 05:20 We're going to eat soil? 05:21 Well no, it has to be grown in soil... Okay 05:25 Because soil has some vital trace elements. 05:27 That's where you get your trace elements from. 05:29 There are some people that are farming 05:31 pretty much without soil nowadays, it's very interesting. 05:35 But anyway, nutrition is a very interesting field 05:39 that you can learn so much about, 05:41 but if you look at it, it does relate to medicine 05:44 because all these things are so valuable. 05:47 So that's why when someone asks me a question, 05:49 sometimes a question is not the real issue. 05:53 The real issue is... well what causes the need. 05:56 So, when someone talks to me about depression, guess what? 05:59 I'm going to think about vitamin D and the nutrients. 06:02 And if they happen to be depressed, then I say, 06:04 "Well maybe one of these nutrients are running real low 06:07 and they need EXTRA supplements, 06:08 EXTRA on this amount. 06:10 Just like you work very hard to get people off drugs. 06:13 Well, we really need to work ourselves pretty hard 06:15 to get ourselves off supplements if possible. 06:17 We want to get our vitamins, our minerals, 06:20 our elements and everything from the food we eat, 06:22 but there may be a time when we need a little shove, 06:25 but it shouldn't be a lifelong time commitment. 06:27 No, and the body does a pretty good job about deciding 06:30 what you need and what you don't need, 06:32 and getting rid of the extra, 06:33 and it's sort of an interesting thing but that might help. 06:36 I hope that answered that question. 06:37 That answered that first question right here. 06:39 The first person that asked a question at 06:41 heartwiseministries. org 06:42 asked what supplements should a 06:43 person be taking and you've covered that. 06:46 That's a general recommendation. 06:47 Okay, question #2... "I broke my hip and my 06:49 vitamin D level came back at 10" 06:52 Now you mentioned 20 someplace in there... 06:53 It came back at 10. 06:55 "I am just starting to take vitamin D, how much do I need?" 06:58 Now, is the body smart enough to take MEGA doses 07:02 of vitamin D and store it? Exactly! 07:04 It can use mega doses and sort of "catch up" 07:09 You're super deficient, you need some, 07:13 and the sooner you get it, the better. 07:15 So a person that's that deficient to breaking a bone, 07:18 they need about 5,000 international units a day 07:22 for 2 to 4 months, then 1 to 2,000 maintenance dose 07:26 after that and then they can also have their doctor check it. 07:31 We don't want to have another broken bone. 07:33 You know, we don't want to have another broken bone. 07:35 But I just wonder, all the broken bones you have out there, 07:38 when you see the prevalence of this, 07:41 and the prevalence of other things, 07:42 just think, the real problem might be that we're not 07:46 getting the things that God wanted us to have 07:49 as substrates to have our body to operate optimally. 07:53 Boy, we've talked about bones before... 07:55 We've done a show on osteoporosis, 07:56 and our poor bones, we need to do everything 07:58 we can to keep them... 07:59 But you know, all this affects the heart, the blood pressure, 08:03 it just affects different things throughout the body 08:06 when you get the proper building blocks to function 08:08 and have energy. 08:10 Now, I know there's going to be people listening to this program 08:13 right now who are saying, 08:14 "It's dangerous for me to be outside" 08:16 You're saying 30 minutes a day. 08:19 What can we do to get the sunlight we need if 08:24 #1, we live in Alaska, we don't have sunlight 08:29 or it's cloudy or whatever, what can we do 08:31 across the time? Yeah, there are lots of different things... 08:34 You don't have to be in the sunlight. 08:35 You can take the supplements, they're activated. 08:39 They have different lamps that you can put out. 08:42 So you... you think those lamps are good. That's good! 08:43 Well, they work on some people that need it. 08:45 They get those, so those are 2 things that we can do 08:50 that will help get our vitamin D levels up. 08:52 Now, the suicide rate and the depression rate 08:56 went down a lot in those northern countries 08:59 that are dark all year - once they just started 09:01 adding vitamin D to their diets. It's amazing... 09:06 And you know, I can't remember the last time you saw 09:08 someone at the beach that wasn't pretty happy 09:11 because they made all that serotonin. 09:14 And also, their bones seemed to be pretty good. 09:16 I don't see too many people that are beaching it, 09:18 having problems with their bones. 09:20 So it has a lot of good treatment, good prescription 09:24 for going to the beach. 09:25 So I'm going to start writing more of those to mainly 09:28 get people to think about all these nutrients, 09:31 especially vitamin D; those are just as important 09:34 as anything else for good health 09:35 because if you have enough of those, 09:36 you can maybe avoid getting into bad health. 09:39 Now, of course, for those who live in North Dakota 09:41 or Kansas or Illinois and there's not a beach nearby, 09:46 we're talking about sunlight here; 09:48 we're talking about sunshine on our bodies. 09:50 The beach is a great place because the beach has 09:51 some other good things, right? 09:52 Yeah, you can make an artificial beach, Charles. 09:55 You can make an artificial beach house. 09:57 You could have a pretend beach. 09:59 But you know, there's lots of things you can do. 10:01 I want to see you write a prescription for... 10:03 "Make a pretend beach" and give that to somebody. 10:05 Well I saw someone... I didn't think this was a 10:07 beach, but they went to a river and they called that a beach. 10:09 There you go! A stream, a lake... 10:11 A lake - you could call that a beach. 10:13 Lakes we have around here, yes. 10:15 But the point is, a beach substitute. 10:19 Like I'm going to go outside and walk outside 10:21 in the sunshine for a few minutes. 10:22 And when you do that, you take your hat off, 10:24 you have a short-sleeved shirt on if it's summertime, 10:27 you try to get that sun on your face and on your arms, 10:30 and on your chest if it's warm enough for doing that. 10:33 And I guess if you are in the middle of the woods 10:35 all by yourself and it was warm enough, 10:38 ADAM AND EVE TIME! 10:39 you could just start getting LOTS of sunshine! 10:42 But we recommend that for people who are just really 10:45 in the middle of the forest someplace. 10:47 Laughter is the best medicine, my friend Charles. 10:49 I could just see them arrest someone and say... 10:50 Well, Dr. Marcum said... 10:51 Laughter is the best medicine here... I guess so 10:53 Well we're going to take a short break, 10:55 and when we come back, Dr. Marcum is going to 10:57 talk more about this important topic of keeping ourselves 11:01 healthy by using the natural things that God has made for us, 11:04 the sunlight! 11:06 We've talked about fresh air and good food and rest, 11:10 and Sabbath worship and taking time to 11:13 have relationships with people. 11:15 We also need to include that other day of creation... 11:17 when that sun appeared... 11:18 And now I know why - there are just so many things 11:21 connected to it, it's not just do this and this, 11:27 it's do these things so this and this and this 11:29 can happen - they're all connected in there. Yeah 11:32 And, of course, the more we take care of our bodies, 11:34 the clearer our thoughts are, the clearer we can have a 11:36 good relationship, not only with other people, 11:38 but with our heavenly Father too and speak to our heavenly Father 11:41 When we come back, Dr. Marcum is going to speak 11:44 to the Ultimate Physician, stay tuned... 11:59 I really enjoy answering people's questions, 12:02 and you know, a lot of time you hear fancy medical jargon 12:06 and fancy modern medicine used, 12:08 but today, we talked about something basic but so important 12:12 as vitamin D. 12:14 This prohormone helps our entire body do well. 12:17 So if there are 2 things I want you to leave from this 12:21 talk from today... 12:23 #1- Go outside, enjoy some vitamin D, enjoy some sunshine. 12:29 #2- Tell your friends, remember a lot of kids are not getting 12:33 out as much as they should. 12:35 So if you see someone that's working on a cell phone 12:37 or a computer, say - "Hey, why don't you go outside 12:40 for a few minutes, make some serotonin, 12:43 make your brain better, make your bones stronger, 12:45 take away those muscle pains, come on and join me! 12:48 If we start working one person at a time, 12:51 I think we can really change the way people feel 12:54 getting them to feel better. 12:55 So don't forget the importance of vitamin D today. 12:59 I want to have a prayer with you 13:01 right now, let's just bow our heads... 13:03 Heavenly Father... I just thank You for helping us learn 13:06 so much today about how You want to take care of us. 13:09 We want to invite You to be our Ultimate Physician 13:12 to take care of us and today help us to find someone that 13:16 we can share this information to, so that we might make this 13:19 world a better place - is our prayer... Amen 13:23 You know, one of the things we like to give you value, 13:25 we'd like to leave you 1 or 2 things that you can do 13:28 to help others, but we also want to invite you to answer 13:31 your specific questions, go to us at our website, 13:34 heartwiseministries. org 13:37 We'll do the best we can to meet your needs 13:39 and to serve you, and we also want to invite you 13:42 to take this message and to spread it to all your friends 13:45 and neighbors making the world a better place to live. |
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