Anytime we talk about water,
I get very thirsty, Dr. Marcum,
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so that's what
is happening here.
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We're talking about water today,
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and just how important it is
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that there is no
substitute for it...
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We cannot say, "Okay, I
drink my Coke or my coffee,
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or my fruit
juice... even fruit juice,
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it does not take
the place of water.
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Water is very important.
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Well you know, "very
important" is an understatement.
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I cannot tell you how
many health problems we cause
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just because we
don't drink enough water,
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and how much better
someone can feel RIGHT NOW
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by starting to hydrate himself.
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It's AMAZING, some people say,
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"Well, where should I
start in living healthy?"
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Well one of the first
places, I always start people
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is make sure they
learn how to breathe,
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learn how to drink
water, those are the basics,
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and those will get you feeling
better almost right away.
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All right, instead of going
chasing after that symptom,
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trying to figure out WHY IN
THE WORLD DOES MY JOINT HURT,
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or why in the world
does my stomach hurt,
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or why can't I think clearly
or why do I have a headache?
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It may be as simple
as just DRINK WATER.
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It's certainly worth a try!
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All right, okay questions from
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heartwiseministries. org website
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Again, we are going invite
our listeners to send their
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questions in there.
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You're getting
thirsty too, aren't you?
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Yeah I am, I got
a little thirsty.
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All right, here's question #1
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"I only have bottled
water available at work,
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is bottled water safe?"
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Well, you know, there's
lots of debates on that,
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but I think the big
thing is to drink WATER.
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The risk of NOT
drinking water is way up here...
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the risk of drinking
water is way down here
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REGARDLESS of
what source you get.
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The concerns are that
when plastics are heated,
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the plastic containers leach
chemicals called "phthalates"
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...that's a real
possibility out there.
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There are also people
that are worried about
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the water they get
from their supplies,
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but there are certainly other
options that people can take.
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They can get certain
filters, they can distill it.
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What really works for
you, at the same time,
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I do think - remember we
talked a little bit about
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being scared and
nervous all the time...
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You know, how much is
the theoretical risk of this
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versus the theoretical worst
... are you thinking it in.
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"As a man thinketh"
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If you think it might
be bad, it might BE BAD.
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So it's theoretical,
but I think each person
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has to examine the
evidence; what works for them.
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And for this fellow right
here, I would rather him drink
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out of a bottle, than not
drink water or drink coffee
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or something else
or even to do without.
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I think doing
without is a greater risk
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than even taking it in.
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So everything that we do
is about risks and benefits
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and it's about risk management.
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So for him, I think if he
doesn't have any other choice,
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I would rather take that
than not drink at all. All right
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Very good... This next
question, I'm assuming must
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come from Asia or something...
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"Is coconut water a
good thing to drink?"
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Have you ever
drunk coconut water?
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Have you ever chopped a coconut
off a tree and opened it up?
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Charles, a few
weeks ago, my wife and I,
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we like to go to
different places to eat,
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and a few years ago I
didn't eat very good at all,
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and for me, if I was
hungry, I just wanted to eat.
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Even if it was
bad, I would eat it.
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But my wife and my
daughter talked to me and said,
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"Listen, will
you eat tasty food?"
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And I found out
that if I had tasty food,
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I'd much prefer tasty, HEALTHY
food than eating bad food.
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Most people will discover that,
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and they're
surprised when it happens.
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And even on our
website today, we have a
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Heartwise Healthy
Eats where you can actually
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go in and look at
restaurants that are healthy,
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and you can
actually evaluate them!
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So a person could actually
go in and be a Heartwise viewer,
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go in to a healthy
restaurant, we have a form
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where they can
write out a review.
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They can help the
world become a better place
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because it's my
contention, like myself,
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if I have a choice of
eating good food and bad food,
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and I know when I'm
traveling, where to go,
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I will choose good food...
so that was the contention.
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So anyway... I'm regressing,
so we're eating at this
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healthy food and there it
is, COCONUT MILK on the menu,
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and I said, "I like to try
new things - coconut milk looks
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pretty healthy; I'm
going to have coconut water"
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...coconut water it was.
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So I had coconut water...
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It didn't taste
very good to me, Charles,
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BUT about 3 hours after
I had that coconut water,
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I felt like a NEW MAN!
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I mean, I was
REALLY feeling good!
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I looked at some of the
ingredients in coconut water,
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it has lots of electrolytes,
a lot of potassium in it.
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In doing my research,
coconut water also is a
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substance that helps
lower blood pressure,
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helps hydrate yourself - it's
something really good for you!
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It aids in the
hydration process,
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so I would say COCONUT WATER is
something really, really good,
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and not only got coconut
water I'm starting to like
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coconut milk as
well... Well, what do ya know?
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But the point is, is as we
get out and try new things that
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God made in this
earth and we research it,
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you never know how
it might make you feel,
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especially if you
might be missing something.
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So maybe I was missing a little
potassium I needed because
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I felt so much good.
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Now I will still
put down 2 or 3 of these
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when my wife will buy it for me.
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A week of this coconut water,
it doesn't taste very good,
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so you have to sip it,
but the nice thing about
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the sipping thing is you can
sort of sip a little bit of it
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for 3 or 4 hours
and it never goes away.
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But I feel so good, Charles,
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so I'm a big
coconut water person.
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I'm trying to
figure out why that is,
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and I think I
have a handle on it.
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When you take grapes
and you squish them down,
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and you make grape
juice or you take oranges
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and you squish them
down and make orange juice,
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there is still a lot of the pulp
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I see a lot of
the fibers in there,
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but coconut really is
pretty when you crack it open
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and you pour it
out, it's pretty clear,
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and so it's not a fruit juice.
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Coconut milk is not a fruit
juice, it's not like that at all
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It's water that happens
to be sitting in a coconut
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that has probably
produced it in there,
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and giving it all this
good stuff, okay, I understand.
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It's a little bit different
than any other thing out there
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that God has given
us, isn't it? Yes it is
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How many things have
liquid in the middle?
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In the middle - there's a little
thing there... it's own cup
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I'll have to think
about that for a while.
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I'm sure
something else has a liquid.
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You'll have to let us
know if there's something else
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you know that has
liquid in a shell.
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I can't think of any.
I know, I can't either.
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A cactus... there are cacti
that have liquid inside them.
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A cactus? A cactus - yes!
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No really, cactus. Oh yeah
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So you're telling
me there's a cactus,
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and I open it and
it pours out? YES, YES!
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A lot like a
coconut, right? I'm thinking
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All right, we're going to
search for that, aren't we? Okay
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All right, "Is it dangerous
to drink too MUCH water,
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and how much is too much?
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Yeah, we've
heard that a few times.
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It's very hard to
drink too much water,
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but it is possible. Really?
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You can get water-intoxicated,
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but it usually takes a person
that's drinking way, way, way
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too much or has an
underlying medical problem.
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So the answer to
that question is...
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It is possible, but
it's very, very hard.
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You have to really try to do it.
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Yeah, okay... I would
assume that your body would say,
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"No, I don't want anymore,"
FAR before that happens.
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That's a good point, Charles,
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if people would just
listen to their bodies...
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Their bodies will
tell you what to do.
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You know, it will tell you,
usually if you've walked to far,
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or done too much,
your body will tell it.
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Or if you've talked too much
to a guy about cactus juice.
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Your body will tell
you when enough is enough!
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We have a few
more minutes. We do!
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I haven't had enough yet!
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Here's your next question
Mr. Coconut-drinker guy.
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"Will dehydration
really shut down the kidneys?"
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Are the kidneys going to go DOWN
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when you don't
drink enough water?
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YEAH, they quit
working, they can,
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and actually sometimes I've
seen them entirely stop. REALLY?
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Because what happens is
the blood pressure goes down,
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the profusion goes down to
the kidneys and you get an acute
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damage to the kidneys
and they just sort of say,
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"I'm stunned, you
didn't give me what I need,
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I'm going to quit
working for a while"
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Now sometimes with
fluid, you can sort of
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prime them up again,
but sometimes they don't,
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and it's a real dangerous thing.
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Now what gets me
about kidney disease...
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remember, a lot of our drugs
are metabolized in the kidneys.
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If we are taking
lots of medicines,
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and we have a
decrease in kidney function
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especially because
we're not drinking enough,
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but we're still
taking our medicines,
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those medicines become a
lot more potent or risky for us.
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So you have to be careful...
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Because they're
more concentrated,
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they're not diluted
with the water. EXACTLY!
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EXACTLY! Our kidneys
are not breaking them down
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like they normally would,
like the drugs have been studied
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They build up in the body,
they become TOXIC a lot quicker
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if they're not
having the kidneys work.
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The same with the liver,
the kidneys and the liver
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take these
toxins out of our body,
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and the bowels
help a little bit too,
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but when we're
moving these wastes,
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if we have part of our
body that cannot remove wastes,
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and we take waste
in, the waste builds,
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and then we have these
little problems going on.
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All right... Now you
mentioned how great you felt
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after drinking the
coconut, here's a question from
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heartwiseministries. org
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It says, "Are energy drinks...
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Now I saw little bottles of
this - you drink this and for
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5 or 6 hours, whatever,
you're supposed to feel great.
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...little energy
drinks, are they good for
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hydrating the body and are they
good for you just in general?
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Why I laughed at
that question is...
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I don't watch TV
much, but I saw this guy,
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and he had something called...
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And I looked it up
because it was so interesting.
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He had this something and he
called it "5-Hour Energy Drink"
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and I saw him drink
this, and then he ran around
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and he fixed the
house and he fixed the car,
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and he passed a
test and he went to work,
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and he did this all in
a short period of time.
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And the bottom line is...
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these 5-Hour Energy
Drinks are the best.
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So I went to the store
and I looked at what the
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ingredients of a
5-Hour Energy Drink.
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They are almost all STIMULANTS.
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They will cause you to
get revved up and really
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speed up your metabolism.
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In a good way or a bad
way? No, no, no - in a bad way
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It could cause
dangerous heart rhythms.
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They have stimulants in them.
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Some of them have
chemicals like guarana and Cott
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that are from other areas,
large amounts of caffeine,
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lots of things in it
and they do provide energy
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on the short-term, but
long-term it's not a stable
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source of nutrition.
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The energy drinks - guess what?
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That will dehydrate you
if you don't drink water.
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Because if you don't drink
water and you have all this
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metabolism going, guess what?
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You burn off water with
it, so you can get dehydrated
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and hurt your internal organs.
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So you could have some
downstream consequences.
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So I don't really recommend
those 5-Hour Energy Drinks,
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and I'll tell you
this... what they said on TV
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was not true - you
couldn't do what that guy said.
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They lied... Nope, no
way, Charles, couldn't do it...
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BUT... WATER - if
you drink some water,
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you might not be
able to do all that,
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but at least it
will do a body good.
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It will be sort of
the way God made us to be;
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70% of its body, it
has followed all these
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natural laws.
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It follows the same principles
we use in the hospital.
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I can't tell you how
many... the best place I think
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if you want to start
good health is make sure
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every day you're
drinking enough water.
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All right, very good,
we'll take a short break
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and when we come back,
Dr. Marcum is going to talk
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to the Water of
Life, stay tuned...
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Well I've learned some
new things today from Charles
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who taught me about the cactus,
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and also our director,
Bill, who has taught me
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about the Saguaro
cactus and other people,
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I did not know we had
all these great sources of
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water and electrolytes, but I
want you to investigate it too
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But the BIG POINT here,
let's not lose the big point,
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WATER - you want to improve your
health, start drinking water,
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pay attention to
it, ask yourself...
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"Have I had my WATER
today? Am I well-hydrated?"
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Remember, we gave you
some simple steps you could do
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to check your urine to count
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how much water
you've brought in you...
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It's one of the
best things you can do
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every day to feel well,
not only to prevent disease,
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but also to treat disease.
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When someone
comes into the hospital,
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the first thing we do is
we give them some fluids,
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we give them a
liter, help them feel better
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so all their tissues can
work better, so guess what?
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You can actually heal yourself.
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We're going to take some time
now and pray for Living Water
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to be in our lives...
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Father God... Thank
You for giving us water
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to drink to make our bodies
better, but more than that,
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thank You for
being our Living Water -
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the Water that's
going to keep us alive;
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it keeps us vibrant
that brings us home to You
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every day Father. We
just want to thank You
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for being our Lord and
God and our Ultimate Healer
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and Friend...
is our prayer, Amen
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I learn as much
learning about these things
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as just about anybody else,
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and I love to answer questions
because when I don't know
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the answers, guess what?
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I have to look them
up and I learn something,
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and I can share it and I
want to invite you to go to our
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heartwiseministries. org website
00:13:33.74\00:13:36.56
read one of our
blogs, interact with us,
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and thank you for using
this ministry as a way to
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reach your friends and
neighbors with better health,
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and introducing them to
the "Ultimate Prescription"
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