When was the last
time you saw a commercial
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heralding the benefits of water?
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Nobody says,
"WATER, it does a body good"
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Well, that's about
to change, stay tuned...
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I'm Dr. James Marcum
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Are you interested in
discovering the reason why?
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Do you want solutions to
your healthcare problems?
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Are you tired of
taking medications?
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Well, you're about to be given
the "Ultimate Prescription"
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You've been going
all day in the hot sun.
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You're tired and thirsty,
so you reach for a cold one.
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You get a fruit juice
or a cola or lemonade.
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You drink it down...
Ahhh, that's more like it!
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Not so tired
anymore, but guess what?
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You're still thirsty,
maybe even DANGEROUSLY
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thirsty and you
just don't know it.
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What happens next
can be downright deadly.
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Dr. Marcum, what do
we need to know about
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good old-fashioned,
plain, normal, boring WATER?
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You know, Charles, I
wouldn't say water is boring.
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In fact, we're
dedicating yet another program
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to talk about the
importance of water... Amen!
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THAT is how
important it is... Yes, yes
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Let me just stress a
few things for you today.
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I'm getting
fired up, I can tell.
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.. 70% of our body is water.
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Every chemical reaction
in our body depends on water.
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How we think depends on water.
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The thickness of the
blood depends on water.
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Whether we're tired
or not depends on water.
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And the list - the kidney
function depends on water.
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EVERYTHING depends on water!
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Now, I was
thinking the other day,
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and I guess I shouldn't
think like this, Charles,
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and I'll share it with
our viewers out there today.
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How much do we
really do good in medicine,
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when you think about it.
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You know, that's a
very reflective thought.
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I've been practicing
for quite a few years now.
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Let's think about that...
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Infections - You know, we've
helped a lot with infections
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through the years,
but at the same time,
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we help some infections,
but then we started overusing
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antibiotics and now
we have super-infections.
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So maybe... I
don't know about that.
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Anesthesia - Well
that's a great thing because
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before people could be put
to sleep, they would have all
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sorts of bad things
inside that we couldn't fix.
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So I think surgery is
good to fix things that are
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broken inside, to
take out a bad gallbladder.
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I think surgery is
a good thing to do.
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And then heart disease
- of course, pacemakers.
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Before that, the heart would
stop and if you're having a
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heart attack, we
can help with that...
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But many of the things that
are trendy to talk about now
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are things that
have technology-based.
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I'M going to make today, WATER,
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something TRENDY to
talk about, Charles.
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We're going to be
SO excited about water
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that we're going to tell
the whole world that water
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it does a body GOOD! Yes
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There are going to be
commercials everywhere with
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people drinking water saying
how good it is to have that!
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NOW IF THEY DID THAT,
if we were able to make a
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commercial and 5 million people
watching this show decided
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that they're going
to drink more water,
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would it change your business
at all - as a cardiologist?
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Oh YEAH, YEAH -
Remember all the stressors?
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Lack of water is one of
the stressors on the body.
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Remember I said, it's a
little bit of this stress,
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a little bit of that stress...
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Well when 7 out of 10 people
now are dehydrated, guess what?
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7 out of 10... 7 out
of 10- that turns on the
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stress chemistry again.
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So if we add up all these
chronic things that we could do,
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all these stressors, we could
turn down those dramatically
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just by drinking enough water.
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Water helps thin out the blood.
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Water helps
lubricate the joints.
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Water helps
prevent Alzheimer disease.
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Water helps metabolize
those medicines you are taking.
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One of the most scary
things, occasionally, Charles,
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we see people
that don't drink water,
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and yet they take a fluid pill.
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Then they get dehydrated,
then all of a sudden,
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their little dose of a 5
mg of a blood sugar pill,
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equivalently becomes
50 and their blood sugar
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drops and they get in trouble.
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You tell a story
like this of a lady
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in a nursing home, would
you share that story with us,
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that's an important story.
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Yes, I had a lady that
I took care of one time,
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she was in a nursing home
and she came to the hospital
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in kidney failure and her blood
sugar was virtually nothing.
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And, everyone said, "What kind
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of strange
disease might she have?"
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Well what had happened
was, she had gotten sick
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at her stomach and wasn't eating
or drinking for a few days,
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and yet still
taking in the fluid pill.
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A prescribed fluid pill... Yes,
the fluid pill dehydrated her,
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and in the process
of dehydrating her,
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it made her kidney
functions get worse.
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She was also
taking a blood sugar pill,
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so now the blood sugar
pill couldn't get metabolized,
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it built up in the body.
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So the blood sugar
was chronically low;
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she was nearly in a
coma when she came in -
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all because of this terrible
dehydration that occurred
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because of this process.
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So, this is very important
- what got my mind on it
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this summer is I
wrote a blog, that's on our
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heartwiseministries. org website
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where they can ask our
questions and this came from
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George Washington
University in the D.C area.
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And they were noticing that
they had an increased number
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of patients that came for
hyperthermia - high temperatures
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Well why was that?
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Well people start not
drinking enough water...
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Water is used to
regulate temperature;
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all of a sudden the temperature
goes up and guess what?
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You can die from
high temperature... Wow!
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A few years ago, I
took care of this guy,
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and he was riding a bicycle.
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Now he had some mental
health illnesses, unfortunately,
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but he rode a bicycle 40
miles in 100 degree weather
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in the summer and he
didn't have any water with him
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on his whole trip.
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Needless to say, about 30 miles
into the trip, he collapsed.
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They brought him
into the hospital,
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he was severely hyperthermic,
temperature was real high
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because he didn't have water
to regulate his temperature.
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The temperature was
not regulated correctly;
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the kidneys went into failure;
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his muscles began to break
down, a medical condition called
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"rhabdomyolysis" where
the muscles break down.
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It was just a terrible thing.
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He ended up going into
multiorgan system failure
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because of the high temperature,
because of the lack of water,
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and all of this was just because
he did not drink enough water.
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Now this was a dramatic example,
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but what are each
one of us doing each day
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when we don't put enough
water into our own bodies.
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So a lot of things can happen.
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The first thing people are
going to say, Dr. Marcum, is
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"Well, I drink all the time,
I have my fruit juice here,
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I have my colas here, I
drink my tea and my coffee"
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"Why should I have
a problem with water
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when I'm drinking
all of this liquid"
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Is there a difference
between liquid and water?
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Water is liquid but
are liquids that are
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not equal to the
water? Yeah! Absolutely!
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I have people that come
and say, "I drink plenty;
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I drink my coffee and
my iced tea and my beer
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and my Coca-Cola
and everything. "
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And there's water
in those things, right?
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Well, it's not the same
way and it ends up actually...
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some of those - it doesn't get
in the bloodstream very quick.
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Some of it could
cause us to be dehydrated,
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especially if it
has caffeine in it.
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Of course, it has
all those chemicals.
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When a person
comes to the hospital,
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and they're in bad
shape, the first thing we do is
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put oxygen on them
usually, and then we start an IV
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Well, what are we
putting in that IV?
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Are we putting 1/2
caramel color and caffeine,
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and lots of sugar coloring?
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NO, we're putting 1/2
normal saline or normal saline;
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we're trying to match
the chemistry of the blood
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to sort of rehydrate the system.
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Because what happens
when we have hydration -
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every cell in our body depends
on water to run its machinery,
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and as soon as that's disrupted,
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everything is disrupted.
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And then when that's disrupted,
STRESS is put on the system
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and it just makes things worse.
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Spiral begins right there...
Right, again, the spiral
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starts right away,
it's gets bad and bad.
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Now if you think
about it, we've talked about
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the terrible examples,
the people that ride across
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the miles, the person in
the nursing home that got sick,
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but I also have more
subtle examples of dehydration.
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I had a lady that
came in not too long ago
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to the emergency room that
kept having her heart go fast.
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She had the skip all
the time, it was just SKIP,
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it would go
fast, it would go fast!
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So my approach, she was
fairly young and I said,
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"Have you ever had this
skipping feeling ever before?"
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And she says, "No,
I haven't had a skip"
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So I said, "Well, the
skip is due to some type of
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stressor on the system"
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"Now it can
certainly come from the heart,
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but it could come
from other things"
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"Let's look at the stressors"
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I said, "Are you in
pain?" "No, I'm not in pain"
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I go, "Did you
sleep enough last night?"
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"Oh I slept fine last night"
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"Did you have any toxins, you
know, did you have some drugs?"
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Some people do drugs and
that makes their heart skip,
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especially one called,
"methamphetamines and cocaine,"
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that skips the heart up quite
a bit in the practice that I see
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I bump into them.
"No, I haven't done that"
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So, in talking to
her, finally comes down to,
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she was just not
drinking enough water,
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and when she was not
drinking enough water,
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it made her
adrenalin level go higher.
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Adrenalin caused
her heart to skip more.
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We had a liter of fluid in her,
as soon as she got hydrated,
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the skips went entirely away.
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And that was a direct example
of how not having enough water
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in HER, made
adrenalin go up and of course,
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fear because she was
scared because something
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was going wrong, so
that even made it worse,
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and then as soon as she figured
out what caused the stressor,
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got her own self under control,
the skips went entirely away.
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Now, it takes time to
figure these things out.
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so this was a lesser
example, but how many of us,
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evidently 7 in 10 of us,
have some type of chemical
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reaction that's occurring
in our body maybe because
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we don't have enough water?
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Could it be contributing
to mental health illnesses?
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Absolutely!
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Could it be
contributing to joint pain? YES!
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Thick blood? YES
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Blood pressure problems? YES
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That would be the thick
blood, blood pressure. Yes
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Well, foot problems? Yes
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But when every
chemical in the body -
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kidney problems -
when every organ needs it,
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it only makes sense
that water is so ESSENTIAL.
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WATER - it does a body good!
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I don't think we can
talk enough about it because
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when people leave here
today, I want them to know
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that I have to pay
attention to how much water
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I'm putting in myself every day.
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All right, let's
talk about this...
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The viewer is
watching us as well...
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"How do I know that
I'm drinking enough water?"
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"Are there tests I can do myself
to indicate that I am dehydrated
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before I go crazy?"
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Yeah, there is and here are
the 2 easiest things to do...
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If you want to do it
fancy, you can take your urine
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and they can measure something
called the "specific gravity"
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where they tell how
thick or thin it is.
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If you want to do it
simply, you can look at it...
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"Is my urine clear?"
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Another general
guideline is - take your weight,
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divide it in 2 and that's about
how many ounces you need a day.
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Now if you're more
active, you even need more.
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Now if you're a sickly person
or have other medical problems,
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that might be different.
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So for instance, let's
say you weigh 180 pounds,
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you need about 90
ounces of water a day.
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So that's just a
general guideline or until your
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urine clears up.
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I tell people, don't
try to drink big at night
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or it disrupts
your sleep pattern.
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The first thing I do is
I get up in the morning,
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I drink a glass of water.
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I brush my teeth, I
drink another glass of water.
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Before each meal, I
drink a glass of water.
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So I try to get
it down up front.
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Now you might be going to the
bathroom a little bit quicker,
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but all the cells
have the needed substances
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at the very
beginning of the day.
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So a great way to start the
day is drinking enough water.
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Now, you mentioned,
let's go back to the urine
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just for a moment there
because I've heard other
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professionals talk
about how important it is
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that we examine this.
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As-a-matter-of-fact, in
Australia, if you go into the
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bathrooms in Australia,
right above the urinal,
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there is a chart - Yes
and it has different colors
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there and it says - If
your urine is like this,
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then you need to do
this; if it's like this...
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And as it got more
cloudy or as it got more yellow,
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then that's the
problem we're having.
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We need to have it
as clear as possible.
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What is happening exactly?
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Why does the urine, when you're
not drinking enough water,
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become more
yellowish or more cloudy?
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It's because your
body holds onto the water.
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It concentrates
it... Okay, so urine is
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water plus other things.
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Yes, you're holding
onto as much as you can get.
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Oh, I gotcha... You
know, your cells need
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every bit that
you get, so you're not
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losing any in the urine.
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But if you have clear urine,
that means your cells are happy
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More than enough water! Okay...
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All the cells
have what they need,
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it's just very, very important.
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And people are going to
say, "You know, I drink my coke,
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and I drink my tea,
but that does NOT do
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what water does
- is your message.
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No, it doesn't - it
does not move the way...
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God made us 70% water,
not 70% of these other drinks.
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Okay, so we need - we
NEED half of our weight
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in WATER ounces...
WATER, other liquids don't do it
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