The following
program presents principles
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designed to promote good health
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and is not intended to take
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the place of
personalized professional care.
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The opinions and ideas expressed
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are those of the speaker.
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Viewers are encouraged to
draw their own conclusions
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about the information presented.
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You probably already know this,
but here's a good reminder,
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over 70% of the earth
surface is covered with water
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and roughly 50%
to 60% of our bodies
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are made up of water.
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It seems like such a widely
significant part of our lives,
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but how much
significance do we give it
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when choosing what
to pour into our cups.
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Stay with us on today's program
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and learn just how much
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you can actually benefit
from drinking water every day.
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Thanks for joining us here today
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on the Ultimate Prescription,
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a program dedicated to
helping us better understand
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God's design for our lives
and experience better health
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by following His plan.
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I'm your host Nick Evenson
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and I'm joined
by Dr. James Marcum.
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And on today program,
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we're gonna be talking
about the importance of water
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and how it can benefit
every cell in our body.
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Is that right, Dr. Marcum?
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Yes, we are, Nick.
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And the reason we
choose some of these topics
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is because a lot of
people don't realize
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the importance of it.
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You know, we talked
about things like movement,
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we've talked about nutrition.
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And one of these things
we talked about is water
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'cause if we don't get
enough water in our body,
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it puts stress on
us, accelerates aging,
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and it has a lot of bad things.
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The cells are
predominately made of water
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and if we don't
get enough water,
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bad things can
happen rather quickly.
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Yeah.
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Now you are a
practicing cardiologist.
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Yes. You're not a TV doctor.
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No, no.
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So in cardiology, water,
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I'm sure, it's very
important to our bloodstreams,
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you probably talk about this
with patients quite regularly.
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Well, I do 'cause it
regulates the entire body.
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You know, now if
someone has a weak heart,
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they have to be careful
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with how much
water they bring in,
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but water helps then the blood,
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water helps every
cell of the body do better.
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When we prescribe
a medication, okay?
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For instance, the
medications many of them
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are metabolized in the kidney.
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If the kidney
doesn't get enough water,
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it doesn't work as well.
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So 1 milligram dose
doesn't get execrated
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become a 2 milligram dose.
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So kidney function is
tied to water consumption,
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brain function, you
know, ties in with water.
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Even something
as common as fatigue
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can come in with water.
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If you're walking in a
desert, don't get any water,
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you can be chronically fatigued.
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Right.
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So a lot of people don't realize
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how fast
dehydration can cause a problem.
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Yeah.
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Now Heartwise Ministries
is the name of our non-profit
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that we do the
health education through.
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And if you would
like to visit our website,
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HeartWiseMinistries.org
is the site you can visit.
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There's a lot of resources there
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that we try and
make available to folks.
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There is a prayer form
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where you can list
your prayer request,
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there's a
newsletter you can sign up
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and receive a monthly message
of hope and encouragement
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from Dr. Marcum
regarding your health,
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and there's a lot of
programming there as well
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that you can watch and read
and share with your friends,
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and share on social
media and that kind of thing.
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So visit the website
and there is also place
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where you can ask
a health question.
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And one of Dr. Marcum's
team or Dr. Marcum himself
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will kind of
give you some advice
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to point you in
the right direction.
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And we've
received a question here
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talking about something
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that you just
mentioned actually, Dr. Marcum.
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The person says, "I've
been so tired recently,
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is there some specific
testing I should undergo
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considering my
state of fatigue?"
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Yeah.
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Well, being tired is,
lot of people have it, okay?
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And one of the things
that can cause fatigue
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is just not
drinking enough water.
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Yeah.
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You know, it's estimated that
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that's the number one
cause of day time fatigue,
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is just being dehydrated.
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So simple. Yeah.
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We drink a lot of
other things, you know,
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water should be
added to that list
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as the high priority.
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Other things
that can cause fatigue
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is not getting
enough rest at night,
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medical
conditions like sleep apnea,
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diabetes, certain medications,
an underactive thyroid, anemia,
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you know, all sorts of
chronic medical conditions
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can cause
fatigue like malignancy.
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So there's many
different causes of fatigue,
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you need to see your doctor.
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But, you know,
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if you wanna do
something simple,
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try drinking a
little more water,
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see if it gets better.
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So that's a very
important thing to think about
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as we get tired.
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All of us do get
tired from time to time.
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Yeah.
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Now you've written recently
a seven-week Bible study
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called Biblical
Prescriptions for Life.
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And there's a lot of
great resources there
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to help point us
back to biblical truths
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and help us live in line
with the way God designed us.
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But we've got a
story there from that study
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that we wanna share,
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a video about someone
who didn't drink enough water
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or plan their
workout quite accordingly.
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Let's have a look.
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Mark was an excellent athlete,
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and he prided
himself for staying healthy,
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he particularly enjoyed
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riding his
bicycle long distances.
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Now one Sunday,
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in the heat and humidity
of an August summer day,
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he set out on an
80-mile bike ride by himself.
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He usually didn't do this,
but he really wanted to ride,
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so he left his home at
about 8:00 in the morning
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and an hour to the
journey, he realized
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he left his
water bottles at home.
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Well, he decided
to venture on anyway
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and as he felt
pretty strong that morning,
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but about an hour later
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he had an unforeseen problem
with the chain on his bike.
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And it took him about an hour
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to repair the chain,
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and then he started
moving forward again.
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By now it was
starting to get hot
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and Mark was thirsty.
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Unfortunately,
there is no close houses
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or easy water access.
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Well, he decided to ride onward.
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Now by 11 am
that Sunday morning,
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the temperature was in the 90s
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and his
metabolism was increasing,
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the temperature
of his entire body
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was going up.
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We call this hypothermia.
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He kept riding but
eventually he had to stop
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because he was sick.
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Mark got weak, he was vomiting,
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he was having a hard time
forming coherent thoughts,
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he wasn't in good shape at all.
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Eventually, a car came
by and stopped to help Mark
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who was crumpled on the ground.
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Well, this good Samaritan
wisely called an ambulance,
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and Mark was immediately
rushed towards the hospital.
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There a group of
doctors, nurses, and others,
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including myself,
began to care for Mark.
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By that time
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he was experiencing
multi-organ failure.
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When he got to the hospital
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his temperature was 105 degrees,
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his blood pressure was 68/40,
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and his heart rate
was 160 beats a minute.
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He was breathing 30
to 35 beats a minute
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and he couldn't
even think clearly.
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Unfortunately,
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Mark was carrying
no medical information,
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he didn't even have a
contact number on his person.
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And the paramedic was
looking through his bike
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and eventually
found a driver's license
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tucked away in one
of the bags on his bike.
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Mark was not doing well,
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he needed every cell in his body
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to improve quickly,
or he was gonna pass on.
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Initial testing revealed
Mark was in renal failure
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with a condition
called rhabdomyolysis.
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Now this is a fancy word
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that means the
muscles just breaking down
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and this caused a condition
called metabolic acidosis.
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Fluids were given,
cooling blankets, ice,
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and support for
every system was begun.
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Well, Mark was out of it,
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didn't understand
what was happening,
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he was delirious,
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his brain was having the effects
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of the dehydration as well.
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Because of the renal
failure, dialysis was begun,
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and Mark was sick for
two weeks in the hospital.
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But thank God, Mark recovered.
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Before he left the hospital,
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I reminded him that
water is fundamental
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and necessary to life
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and every cell in
our body needs water.
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Now Mark takes water
with him everywhere he goes.
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You know,
drinking water seems like
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such a natural thing
that you would think to do
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and like it seems kind of absurd
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that someone would have
such a serious condition
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just from not drinking water.
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Yeah, that's a
very dramatic story.
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But as I remember what
happened that day to Mark,
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I remember, you
know, without water
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things happen very quickly.
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And it's been estimated
that up to 70% of people
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don't get
enough water every day.
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And let's say, you know,
Mark was the far extreme,
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you know?
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So he didn't have any water,
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everything
started to malfunction.
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Remember, water,
the universal solvent,
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all of our
cells depend on water,
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that they need water,
it's important, you know?
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But some of us,
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you know, might get
half of what we need
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or 70% but we don't get all.
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And when we don't
get the water we need,
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it puts some type of
stressor on our bodies.
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Again, we talked about
how stress ages the body,
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it changes the metabolism,
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it changes every
cell in the body.
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So something as simple as water
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can make some dramatic impacts.
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Now let me just go through
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some of the organ systems, Nick?
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Yeah.
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You know, water is
important for digestion,
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you know, you need the
mucous membranes moist,
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you need things
moving through you,
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you need some
water for digestion...
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This is how we
lubricate the system?
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Yeah, exactly. Okay.
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Have you ever had dry eyes?
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You know, water is
important for the eyes.
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What else, the
circulatory system,
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we've talked about that.
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Without water, you
lose blood pressure.
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Right.
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It's important for
the temperature regulation
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of the body.
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Our body is regulated
at a very narrow range
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and water helps regulate that.
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Without water, we
can't regulate that system
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as well at all.
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It helps our brain do better.
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Up to 70% of some
people's brain is water.
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Without water,
you don't think well,
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it helps our skin.
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With dry skin, the
skin can't protect us
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from all sorts of thing as well.
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Right. It affects our muscle.
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So basically, Nick,
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water helps
every cell in our body
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and if we even
short a little bit,
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we get dehydrated.
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So I tell people, you know,
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just drink till
your urine come out clear
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or try to bring half of
your body weight in ounces.
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You weigh 100 pounds,
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well you need at least
50 ounces of water a day.
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A Dasani bottle
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has about 20
ounces of water in it,
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but the bottom line is
make sure you're drinking water
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and thinking about
the importance of water
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in every cell of
the body as well.
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Now when I noticed
that I'm getting dehydrated,
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it's usually 'cause my fingers
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or my hands are
getting really dry
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or maybe my lips
are getting chapped.
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Yeah.
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Is that some of those
common indicators that you have?
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Yeah.
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And some other
signs might be headache,
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okay?
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Your heart starts
going to beat faster
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'cause you're trying to
compensate attack of cardio.
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Chapped or dry
skins, you might get dizzy
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when you change positions,
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especially if your
blood pressure is low.
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In extreme
conditions, you might not,
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you know, think as well.
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Yeah.
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You might not be going
to the bathroom as much.
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When you go to the bathroom,
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it might be
extremely concentrated,
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extremely dark.
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In Mark's case,
he didn't have water
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and his muscles
were breaking down
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and he had a
condition called rhabdomyolysis,
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that was extreme
condition as well.
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So there's a whole
host of different things
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that happened that's bad.
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But for extreme dehydration,
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it can be something as simple as
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"I'm a little bit
more tired than usual."
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And it could be,
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my heart's
racing a little faster.
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So all these are subtle symptoms
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that you might be dehydrated.
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In the hospital, we
can measure the blood work,
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we can measure the urine,
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we can actually measure
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the specific
gravity of your urine
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to see if yours
concentrated or dilute.
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You know, there's
little things that we can do,
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I can look at your tongue,
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and if your tongue
doesn't have any fluid on it,
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I can say you're
dehydrated. Sure. Yeah.
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I can look at your eyes to
see if they have fluid in them.
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So there's lots of
little subtle things we can do.
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We can change a
person's position
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so if they get up real
quick and they get dizzy
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and their heart
rate starts beating fast,
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that might be a sign
that the body is dehydrated
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to a certain degree.
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So there's lot
of different signs
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that we can do.
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The big point is, I
want everyone today to think,
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"Am I drinking water every day?
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And if I'm not,
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how can I
incorporate water into my life?"
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Yeah, I was just gonna
ask with your patients,
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say you have someone
who's a big coffee drinker
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or they drink a lot of soda,
cokes, and that kind of thing.
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The marketing out there,
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it does a very good
job of convincing us
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we need to drink
these other things.
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How do you get
them to substitute
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one drink a day for water?
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Or how do you get
them drink more water?
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First of all, I educate
them the importance of water.
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I also tell them that, you know,
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what these other beverages
might be doing to the body.
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You know, all the
chemicals, all the sugars
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that we're getting
in these beverages.
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If they're too caffeinated,
they can dehydrate you,
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so you don't have the water.
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I say you do
wanna get older quicker,
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that's always a good one.
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You know, do you
wanna wear out quicker,
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do you wanna get
dementia quicker.
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Sure.
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You know, do you
wanna have these problems.
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And because of Mark's situation,
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there's always a sort of
a constant reminder of me
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to stress this.
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And lot of
people don't understand
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the importance of water
in every cell in the body,
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you know, I tell
people with heart problems,
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"You got to be careful with it,
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but drink enough
water helps the blood a lot,
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it helps it not get
too thick or too thin,
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helps maintain
your kidney function,
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so I can give you
medicines correctly."
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It helps many different
physiologic mechanisms.
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And along with that, you know,
if they're still not convinced,
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I say, "Listen, you
know, our Creator knew
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that this earth was water,
He created water for a reason,
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He put water in every
cell more than anything else
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for a reason, you know,
we have to respect that."
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And as you get to
know God, the living water,
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it helps you remember
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the importance of
the physical water
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and vice versa.
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And then it becomes a habit.
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People start
drinking these yeti cups
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with maybe a
little bit of tea in it
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where you can hydrate yourself.
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They might find some
other flavored water,
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they might drink water plain,
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which is probably the
best way to hydrate yourself.
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Yeah.
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In fruits and vegetables,
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you also get a
large amount of water.
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So they might increase
their vegetable content
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'cause most of
vegetables and fruits
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are made of water as well.
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Right. Yeah.
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You know, it's such an
important thing for us to do,
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drink the water but
sometimes we just forget.
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Yeah.
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And that's why in the
Biblical Prescriptions for Life,
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we spend an entire
week of talking about water,
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little things that people can do
00:14:22.66\00:14:24.13
to remind
themselves to drink water,
00:14:24.16\00:14:26.13
but also focusing
on the living water,
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the water that
only Christ gives us
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that also improves our health.
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All right, on that note,
we're gonna take a short break.
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But stay with us,
as when we return,
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we're gonna talk more
about Biblical Prescriptions,
00:14:36.47\00:14:38.54
how faith in living water plays
a role in our physical health
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as well as, and we're
gonna answer a question
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on hydrotherapy.
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So stay right there.
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