Welcome back, and if
you're just joining us
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for today's
program, we've been talking
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about the benefits of hydration,
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drinking water rather
than some of the other things
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that are out there.
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And, Dr. Marcum,
we've had a question come in
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about hydrotherapy.
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Viewers, if you have a question,
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HeartWiseMinistries.org,
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that's where people
can submit health questions
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and get some general guidance
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about where to go
to get proper answers.
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But this person
writes in and says,
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"Is hydrotherapy
still used as a treatment
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for medical conditions?"
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First of all,
what is hydrotherapy?
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Yeah.
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Well, I'm not an
expert in hydrotherapy,
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but I can explain a little
bit, the basics of what it is.
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And that's what I like
about interacting on television
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as well as at the
website is we could disseminate
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information both directions.
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So if you think about it,
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we've talked so far
about the importance of water
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for every cell.
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We've also talked about
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how lack of
water causes problems,
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stress on the system,
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creates aging,
metabolic problems.
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We heard a case
of a drastic case
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of dehydration.
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And then we talked about,
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there's little
parts of dehydration
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that occur to everyone
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that doesn't
bring enough water in.
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So what is hydrotherapy?
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Well,
sometimes, throughout time,
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water has been used to
treat specific conditions,
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okay, specific conditions.
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Okay. So let's talk about that.
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We've talked a little bit
about how water changes are...
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thermostat, but we
know that water compresses,
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you know, hot water
that dilates blood vessels.
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You know, cold water
can constrict blood vessels.
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So just dilating blood
vessels and constricting them
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can help in the
blood flow to the body.
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And the better
blood flow to the body,
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the better oxygen, the
better our body can help
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heal itself and recover.
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So some people use that
for helping the circulation.
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So the idea is that hot
water compress on your arm
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or wherever may help
increase circulation,
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which then might help that
area feel better in the general?
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That's a general feel for it.
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Another thing is, it's
used for is to cleanse,
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to cleanse wounds, you know,
especially in burn patients.
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You know, hydrotherapy
to keep the woods clean,
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to keep some of
the contaminants off.
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We use water every day,
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hydrotherapy,
when we wash our hands.
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You know, we wash
the germs off our hands.
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Well, water can help
cleanse other parts of the body.
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Some people use it as
bowel to help cleanse the bowel.
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You know, they take
extra water in there
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to help move things through.
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And there're specific
regimens, I'm not familiar with,
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that they use to
help cleanse the bowel.
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In fact,
hydrotherapy has been around
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for a long periods of time.
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It's been used for pain
for quite a long time too.
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Have you ever had...
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You know, I know
you bicycle a lot,
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have you ever had a sore joint?
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Sure, okay. What
will you would put it?
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You're putting it in warm water
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can help some of
the inflammation,
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helps the blood flow,
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helps relax the
muscles around it,
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can be improved to
help the relaxing process.
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So there's certain
regimens of hot and cold,
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and water treatments
that can be used for majority
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of many different
types of situations.
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I tell people that are suffering
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from headaches that,
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it maybe that's
because they're dehydrated,
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maybe just
drinking a little more
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water would help with that.
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Yeah.
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So hydrotherapy
is a very valuable,
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not only used to
treat many different
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medical conditions but
it also, staying hydrated
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can help prevent
needing the hydrotherapy.
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Does that make sense? Yeah.
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So I've even seen
it use in infections,
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you know, people that have
chronic viruses or infections,
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they use it to
improve their circulation,
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help the blood move better,
help the body heal itself.
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So it can be used in
many different situations.
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And poultices, they put
water poultices on things
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that help the skin
and that stay hydrated.
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So there's many places
that people are still using
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hydrotherapy as a way to
treat many medical condition
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and it's very, very useful.
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So if someone's interested
in this type of treatment,
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I would suggest going to,
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you know, some reliable sources.
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There's many different places
that still do hydrotherapy.
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Do the research on
them and see which ones,
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talk to some people that
have had some good results,
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and this might be a treatment
that might benefit you.
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Yeah, it seems like a
pretty low risk attempt...
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Yeah. To find some benefits.
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You know, and I use hydrotherapy
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to some degree every
day, whether on my own body,
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whether it be washing
my hands or in the shower,
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you know, that warm heat
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that comes on that
sort of relaxes my muscle,
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makes me feel better.
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You know, when I
drink water in the morning,
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maybe help get
the digestion system
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a little bit more
functional, doing better.
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You know, I see a
lot of people that use it
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to help keep the body parts
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that might be
contaminated cleaner.
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There's lots of
different ways that...
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And I think people
should look into that
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as an
integrative part of healing.
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Yeah, you know I haven't
thought of it as hydrotherapy,
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but I've noticed
when we go to visit family
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who happen to
live at high altitude,
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they live in about 10,000 feet.
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Sometimes getting acclimated
can be a difficult process,
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and I get bad headaches.
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But I've discovered,
if I drink about twice
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the amount of water
that I normally drink,
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it helps acclimate me faster
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and reduce the potential
for getting those headaches.
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Yeah.
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And there's lots
of skin conditions
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and benefit from hydrotherapy.
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So I think
that's a great question.
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I just wish I knew more about it
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but I don't practice it.
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But I know that people
that's received hydrotherapy
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have had great benefits.
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It's been
around for a long time.
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So there must be
some benefit to it.
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And I've never heard of
anyone really getting hurt
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by trying this type of therapy.
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Especially, it's
useful for chronic pains,
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and it can be used
for different types
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of infections,
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to cleanse different
types of wound situations.
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And also people add
different things to the water.
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You know, the Egyptians
used to put different salts
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and different
things in the water
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to aid the water's
help in the healing process.
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So there's all sorts of
ways that people are doing this.
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When a person comes
in the emergency room,
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one of the first things we do
is make sure they're hydrated.
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We hook them up to some water,
you know, some normal sailing,
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get them hydrated,
get their body parts
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able to heal itself better.
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You know, when you're
dirty at the end of the day
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and you might have germs on you,
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you're taking that shower.
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Well, the same
type of principles
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in regulating the
heat, helping wipe off germs,
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treating inflammation,
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improving the body's
own ability to heal itself
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can be enhanced by hydrotherapy.
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Yeah.
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And let's change the
discussion a little bit.
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Let's talk about it
from a biblical perspective.
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Think for a second.
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What are the top
three, two or three examples
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you can think of from the Bible,
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where it talks about water?
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You know, there's so many.
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You know, I think
back into Genesis,
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you know, and Moses,
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you know, the people
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that they needed
water to survive.
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You know, and God
supplied them water, okay?
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I also think about,
you know, some of the way
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God used water to hurt,
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you know, the
Egyptians and water,
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the water fell on them,
to save His people, you know.
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So water has been
used throughout times.
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And you see examples
of God creating water.
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Droughts, you know,
the people without water.
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And you know, in Elijah's time,
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you know, they had this drought,
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everyone's panicking.
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They're losing their crops
because water is so important,
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not only for our
bodies, but to grow food for us,
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to hydrate ourself.
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You know, we can't
live very long at all
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without water, Nick.
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You know, we can
live more without food
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than without water.
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So water is so important.
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We see this throughout
Bible, the importance of water
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in a life and how God teaches us
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that physical
water is very important.
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But also with that, we
hear about living water.
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Yeah, I was just gonna say
about the women at the well.
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When Jesus met
the woman at the well,
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He was offering living water.
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What's the
implication for our health?
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How does the living
water and our physical health,
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how do those two go together?
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Well, we are now
learning through science,
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as people come
into states of worship,
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their physiology changes, okay.
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Andrew Newburg
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at the
University of Pennsylvania
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has studied worship,
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just short periods
of time with people,
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and show the part of the brain
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called anterior
cingulate cortex gets larger.
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There's others that
have done minor studies
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that show when we do
these repetitive prayers,
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the brain gets
bigger, it improves.
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We have physiological changes,
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it turns down chronic stressors,
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okay, which age us.
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So I'm working
on a worship study
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of 10 minutes of worship
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and seeing how that
changes our physiology,
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how it changes our
very genes that we're under.
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And I'm pretty confident
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that when we come
into biblical worship,
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we're going to see
improvements of our physiology.
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So God not only helps us
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to understand
the physical world,
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but the spiritual and
the physical walk together.
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And I like to think,
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when I'm
drinking a glass of water,
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I also want to
think about the importance
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of the healing
water, the water that...
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The woman at the well,
she had both the physical
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and the spiritual all at once.
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And they saw how the connection
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between that.
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Well, we see that over
and over throughout the Bible
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about the physical
and spiritual water.
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And this is the real healing
that occurs on permanently.
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You know, in the New Testament,
depending on who you read,
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there's 23 to 24
healings that occur.
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And all of those
people that were healed
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eventually died.
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Right.
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Even people raised
from the dead died.
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And several times,
Christ walked by people
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that needed healing
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but He really wanted
to present the gospel.
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And in the gospel,
when you accept the gospel,
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there you have the
healing, the permanent healing.
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That's the living water.
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When you have
Christ in your life,
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that's the
biggest miracle at all,
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that's the healing water
that can happen right now,
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right today.
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And when we have that,
we see these other truths
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that help us understand,
whether we need to drink
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more physical water
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or be out in the
light or move more.
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And that's what
Biblical Prescriptions
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is all about,
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letting people know that
the physical and spiritual,
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they work together.
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And God gives us
the power to do things
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for the right reasons,
including drinking water.
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We want to drink
water so we can honor
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and glorify Him.
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You know, we want to
stay with the living water
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because that will give
us a future hope for today
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and hope also for a long past
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when our physical
bodies might wear out.
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Yeah.
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You know, we're just about
out of time on today's program,
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but I want to make
sure that we mentioned
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our free guide to
Healing Hydration.
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It's more than
just physical water.
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It's talking about
both drinking water
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as well as being involved
in a healing relationship
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with our Creator who
gives us living water.
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And you can find
that free resource
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at
BiblicalPrescriptions.com/water
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and we encourage
you to look at that,
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learn more
about the Bible study.
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And if there's
something you're interested in,
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contact 3ABN and get your copy
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of Biblical
Prescriptions for Life today.
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Thanks so much for
joining us on today's program,
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and Dr. Marcum will close
in just a moment with prayer.
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I'm glad we've had the
opportunity to talk about
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the importance of water,
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the water that keeps
ourselves working well
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and keeps us out of trouble,
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the water that
can be used to treat
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specific medical conditions.
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And more
importantly, the living water
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that each one of us has
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as we walk with Christ each day,
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that helps us
see different types
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of health things that we can do,
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and helps us with
our medical problems,
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and also helps us
with healing eternally.
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There might be those out there
that need special prayer today,
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and I wanna have a
prayer for you in just a moment.
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But if you want special
prayer, go to our website,
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we have a prayer page,
HeartWiseMinistries.org.
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We'd like to pray for you
if you have a specific need.
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Let's bow our heads
together as we pray.
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Father, thank You so much
for being our living water.
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And help impress
each one of us today
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as we improve our health
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and the importance
of drinking some water.
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And if we're not
doing this, Father,
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please give us the power
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to drink a little bit more water
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and help us to
improve our health
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so that we might
serve You better.
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All that we do, we want to do
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to honor You and
glorify You, Father,
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and thank You again
for being our living water.
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Be with each need today, Father,
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and come close to
our hearts is our prayer.
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Amen.
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Thank you for joining us today
on the Ultimate Prescription.
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If you might have
a question for me,
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feel free to give us
a shout at our website,
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HeartWiseMinistry.org.
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