We're talking about REST
here and we have identified
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the fact that Thomas Edison,
inventor of the light bulb,
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in some cases did us a
disservice because we can
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burn the midnight oil
literally all night long,
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and not get the sleep we need...
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But before we
answer these questions from
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Heartwise
Ministries, I want to ask you
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to define for us what REST is?
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We need rest, we know that.
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Does it necessarily
mean sleep or are there
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ways that we could rest
that don't include sleep?
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And is there a
problem if you do that?
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Well let's talk about
that, I might not give you
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a specific answer.
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Everyone wants black and white
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and sometimes it's a little gray
but a couple of big principles
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Rest and sleep is a
way to treat disease,
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and a way to prevent disease.
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BOTH - rest and sleep.
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Both rest and sleep to prevent
and as well as treat disease.
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So they should both
be a part of your life
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whether you're preventing
disease or whether you're
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treating disease -
getting the rest you need.
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Now, during break, we were
talking to our friend, Bill...
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And he was telling us
that he rests at night,
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but when you think about
when you're laying down in bed,
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what are you resting?
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Are you resting your
muscles? Yes you are.
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Are you resting your GI
tract? Yes, you're not eating.
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Are you resting your ears?
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Well, you're not
listening to a lot of things,
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so you're resting your ears.
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Are you talking? No,
you're resting your ears.
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Now remember, the
lower parts of the brain...
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Resting your
mouth, in other words.
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Yes, hopefully,
you're resting your mouth.
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Unless you talk
through your ears.
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WHAT? Cause you said you were
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resting your ears if
you're not talking...
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WOW! That's
interesting. Only I didn't know
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how you did that. No,
I made a mistake, Charles
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I made a mistake on that one!
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But anyway...
You need more rest!
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Yeah, I do, probably. Yeah
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But the point I'm
trying to make is,
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you can rest lots of
things and still be awake.
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Now, of course, when
you go all the way out,
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the front part of your
brain, the prefrontal cortex,
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rests as well, but you can
rest that a lot by not using it.
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For instance, you're not
doing heavy work at night,
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heavy cognitive things at night,
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so you might take it from a
10 to a 5 or a 4 or a 3 or a 2
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You're not putting
it ALL the way to sleep,
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but you're resting
it as much as you can.
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And that's a relaxation
TECHNIQUE as well. YES!
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You can sort of relax that and
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so you can do a
little bit different,
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and then, of course,
when you go all the way out,
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of course you even rest
that part, the thinking part
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from doing
things, but you know what?
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There are still parts that
are having to do SOMETHING.
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The brainstem still has to
work to keep your breathing,
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to keep your heart beating,
to keep the basics going,
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but everything turns down to
as low as it can possibly go.
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Now, if you're
unconscious asleep,
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then that's probably more
optimal than if you aren't
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doing these other
things, but still doing those
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other things,
there's still a long way
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of going to help yourself out.
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So anyway, the big point
is that you can rest and sleep
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and still get chemical benefits.
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It both treats disease
as well as prevent disease,
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and of course, we want
people to sleep what they need.
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And of course, if there are
things preventing the sleep,
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we want to identify what
those are and take those away
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so they can rest
more because that is
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truly treatment for the body.
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Now when you're not
resting, guess what?
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It creates stress on the
body because of the chemicals,
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the circadian rhythms get off,
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your adrenalin goes crazy,
it turns on this bad cascade,
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so lack of sleep hurts the body,
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and anyone that is
sleep-deprived will know that
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their brain just
doesn't sleep as good.
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You saw when I just messed up
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saying that your
ears are talking...
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You know, I haven't seen an ear
talk in a couple of weeks now.
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It's been a couple of
months for me... You too, okay
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QUESTIONS! We
better get to questions!
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We got questions... I
guess the take-home message
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here and I want to make sure
that our listeners and watchers
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are knowing this - that
rest is important and it may
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include sleep, but if you wake
up at 2 o'clock in the morning
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and... "Man, I can't
sleep," you can still rest!
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You can still sit
there and 95% of your body is
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totally relaxed and if
you're thinking nice thoughts,
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you're thinking
pleasant thoughts
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and thinking kind
and loving thoughts,
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then your brain is resting too.
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If you happen to drift
into sleep, that's good too,
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but don't think
you failed your body
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because you don't have
that 8 hours of sleep at night.
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And it's not the end of
the world if you sleep 3 hours
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and say, "Man, I'm ready to
go do something for a while,
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and then lay back
down a little later"
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...Because I'm assuming
the body will just let you know
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in no uncertain terms when it's
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ready to sleep
and you WILL SLEEP!
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Your body will sleep-you.
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It's in good cycles if
you're having good sleep...
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Questions!
heartwiseministries. org
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You talk about this a lot...
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"How can sleep
apnea ever be cured?"
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"Can it be cured"
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Well, sleep apnea can if
it's obstructive sleep apnea.
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There are 2 types; one
that generates from the brain
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- that's called
central sleep apnea,
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and one that's
because too much tissues
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around the airway or
the airway falls back.
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About 20 million
people have sleep apnea.
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That's a condition where
you quit breathing at night.
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When you quit breathing at
night, the oxygen level goes
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lower and lower and
lower, and sooner or later
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an alarm goes
off... UH, UH, UHAA
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and you grab a deep
breath and you get the breath -
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and then you go
back to sleep again.
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You might not even
know this is happening,
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but what's happening
is - the alarm goes off,
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the adrenalin,
the stress goes off,
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the blood pressure and
all these bad things happen,
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and that goes on
8 hours a day. Wow
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So that goes on
year-in, year-out.
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That's a tremendous stressor.
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Now one of the large
causes, excuse the pun,
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of sleep apnea is people
carrying too much weight.
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So some people, if they
get enough weight removed
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from their neck
by losing weight;
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some people, of course,
have the mask that blows in air.
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There are now people that are
changing the shape of their jaw
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with a dental appliance,
some people having the
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back of their throat cut
out so the air moves in and out.
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MY... Yeah, so these are all
ways to deal with sleep apnea.
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Because sleep
apnea is a big problem.
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Even though you're asleep,
you're not really getting rest.
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Think about it -
your mind might be asleep,
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you might not be digesting,
but your body has to really
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fight to
breathe.. that's a stress.
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You're not really
resting when that's occurring.
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I guess getting
your throat reamed out
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is probably better than dying,
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but is there an alternative?
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If you have sleep apnea,
you mentioned losing the weight
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and whatnot, for most
people would that be sufficient?
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Well you know, a lot of people
even though I take care...
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I live in the real
world... a lot of people,
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they can't even do
that because it's so
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uncomfortable
to wear the mask...
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We encouragement
them to lose weight.
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Some people do a little bit
better if they lay on their side
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and not on their back
because that's when the tongue
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seems to come back in the back.
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People do better if they don't
eat big at night - our digestion
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So those are little
tips that might help
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if you have sleep apnea and
don't want to wear the mask,
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it might make it a
little easier for you.
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Okay, another question
from heartwiseministries. org
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This person must have done
a little bit of research...
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"Is it true that
eating processed foods,
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keeps the body from resting?"
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What is it in processed
foods that keeps you awake?
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Yes, there is a
truth to that. Really?
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Digestion starts in your mouth.
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When you eat a processed food,
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it has to start
digestion immediately,
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and digesting processed
foods and dealing with it
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is a lot harder than
dealing with natural foods.
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You have a bunch of chemicals
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your body is not used to having,
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doesn't know what to do with it.
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Some that they don't even
know that are actually damaging
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and stressing us out.
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Sometimes when you're
even cooking your food,
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can stimulate your
immune system some.
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So the immune system
is stimulated and says,
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"Listen, I've
cooked and processed foods,
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I have to have an immune
response to this situation,
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this is not a normal situation"
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So some people say that
even people that eat lots of
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cooked meals, stimulate your
immune response to that meal.
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So the answer is
"yes" processed foods do
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take a little more energy than
it would to do unprocessed foods
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or natural foods.
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You know what,
I will mention it,
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if a person really
wants to rest their GI tract,
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try some smoothies...
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You know they're already broken
up, don't have to break them up,
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you don't have to chew them.
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It goes right
through the digestive tract.
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Usually there's not
much protein and fat which
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it takes a lot of
energy to digest...
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And it's like instant energy
- now you might miss a little
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of the fiber, but
those are some great things
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for instant energy.
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We're talking about a
fruit smoothie here, right?
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Yeah, fruit
smoothie, but you know,
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some people put other things
in it too... Yeah, they do
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You know, if I were
you, I would take some cactus
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and put the cactus juice
in them... that's what I'd do,
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...a cactus juice smoothie!
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The man is learning about the
water in cactus.. another show!
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We'll continue here...
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Medications! You have written
a book about medications called,
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"Medicines That Kill"
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Can it also kill your sleep?
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Well certain medicines can.
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Certain medicines
can keep you up at night,
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and keep you doing
things you don't want to do.
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Certain medicines that wear
off in the middle of the night,
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like a pain medicine if
you are having chronic pain.
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Then the pain could come on,
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that could
disrupt the sleep cycle.
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But if you depend
on when you take it,
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sometimes your blood sugar might
be going too low or too high,
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that could trigger some
alarm in your body to wake up.
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A lot of the psychiatric drugs
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can disrupt
sleep patterns as well.
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If you take a
fluid pill at night,
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and you have to
go to the bathroom,
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that could disrupt
a sleeping pattern,
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so there are lots
of different medicines,
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and you need to talk to
your doctor about which ones
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that are interfering with sleep,
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but there are many
medicines and other things
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that just mess up our sleep.
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What is, in your estimation,
a good night's sleep?
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Just narrow this down to us now.
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At the end of a
good night's sleep,
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how should we be different
and how should our bodies
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be different - what should have
happened to us during that time?
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What happens in the
night is you want to rest
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as many parts as you
can and you want to feel,
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when you wake up in the morning,
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to have energy, vibrancy,
you feel like facing the day
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and going-going!
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Now if you feel like
that, some people can accomplish
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that with 3 or 4 hours of sleep.
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Some people do it with rest,
but when you feel that way,
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you feel like - I'm ready
to go and tackle the world;
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I have plenty of energy
to last me the whole day.
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Whatever you're
doing is working.
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And the general
principles we've talked about,
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you know, we want
people to rest or sleep more,
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have at least 3 hours at a time,
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try not to eat big at night,
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try not to do stimulants
which keeps the body working,
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try not to put chemicals
that keep the body working.
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Try to rest, you know,
try not to put a lot of
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mental things in
that keep you working.
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Try to rest that body at night
as much as you humanly can,
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and then you'll wake up feeling
as good as you possibly can.
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A lot of what happens to
us at night is based on what
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we've done during the day.
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And I really want to stress,
I think part of the nightly rest
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is that weekly rest
too, because you need a break
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where you break your routine,
however that might look,
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I think that's an important
thing that we need to do as well
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All right, well you know, I
love that text in the Bible,
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"Come unto me all you who
are weary and heavy-laden,
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I will give you rest"
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God understands the importance
of rest, mental, physical
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and spiritual rest and He wants
to be the Source of that rest
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for us when we come unto Him...
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And that's exactly what we're
going to do after our break,
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so stay right where you are.
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Each week, I try to
bring you something of value
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that you can apply to your
life, make it very practical,
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as well as something that
you can share with your friends
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and neighbors to
help their relationships.
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Two things today, I want
to remind you once again...
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#1- Rest and sleep is
a treatment for disease,
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whether that be heart disease,
or depression or whatever.
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Rest is a treatment
but also rest and sleep
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is a way to prevent disease.
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If you're not getting enough
rest and sleep - guess what?
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The stress cascade that we've
talked about becomes turned on,
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and unfortunately, in
our well-marketed world,
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we're not getting
enough sleep anymore.
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I'm going to pray
right now that you might have
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better rest today,
let's bow our heads...
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Heavenly Father...
There are many of us
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out there that need to
rest better, that need to sleep
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better because we want
to feel better and have more
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energy to serve you better.
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We also want to share this
with our friends and neighbors.
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Thank You for
helping in learning this,
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and please help us to
take this and apply it
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to Your kingdom,
is our prayer... Amen
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You know, it's not
enough to have knowledge.
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Lots of people can know
things but unless you take
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the knowledge and do something
with it, that's the challenge!
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So I want you to take
this knowledge that we've
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learned today and
DO something with it.
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Try to figure out
ways you can sleep better.
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Teach your friends
how to rest better.
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And you know what,
friend, when you're doing this,
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you are also a
healer for the entire world.
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Also, we want to encourage
you, go to our website that's
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heartwiseministries. org
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Leave your
questions, read our blogs,
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and I want to thank
you for your prayers as we
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help others understand what the
Ultimate Prescription really is.
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