The following program
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presents principles
designed to promote good health
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and is not
intended to take the place
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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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If you look up the word
cognition in the dictionary,
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you'll see, it's defined as
the mental faculty of knowing,
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which includes perceiving,
recognizing, conceiving,
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judging,
reasoning, and imagining.
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More simply put,
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it just refers
to simply thinking.
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Brain health is the
focus of today's program,
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and we'll be sharing
biblical prescriptions
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that you can use to
improve your brain health today,
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no matter where
you're starting from.
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The Ultimate
Prescription starts right now.
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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
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better understand
God's design for our lives
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and experience better
health by following His plan.
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I'm your host Nick Evenson
here with Dr. James Marcum
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for an excellent program today
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in which we'll be
discussing brain health.
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And, Dr. Marcum,
welcome to the program.
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Thank you.
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It's nice to be here, Nick,
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and I want to compliment
you on that lovely tie.
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Oh, thanks.
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We try and look our
best, look credible here.
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You know, my son Jake, okay.
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And he's in high school.
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And I've got a
bunch of ties at home
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and I offered to share him
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and he said, "Dad,
those are old men tie."
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He won't wear
any of the new ones,
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you got this new model
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so that's a very nice tie, Nick.
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But we're talking about a
very important subject today,
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and that's how our
brain affects our physiology.
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Yeah.
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So the way we treat our brains
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can be used to prevent disease
as well as treat disease.
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And we've gone
through some of this
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in what we use is our textbook
for biblical prescriptions
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and that's on the
Biblical Prescription for Life,
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seven-week Bible study.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, Dr. Marcum, the Biblical
Prescriptions for Life study,
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we wanna show this to folks
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and tell them a
little bit more about it.
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This is made to
be used as a tool,
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a resource for folks
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who want to have a
meeting in their home weekly
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or in their church
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to share what
we've kind of grown up
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with knowing the health message
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to share this with
other folks, right?
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That's exactly right.
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And we go through
biblical prescriptions,
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why we're sick.
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We come from the
basic biblical prescriptions
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that some people take
for granted like moving,
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being outside,
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but one of the
most important chapters
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that we have is
on mental health,
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treating the brain right,
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because what goes into the brain
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affects the entire physiology.
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You know, the brain is
made of three functional layers,
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the top part, the
prefrontal cortex,
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which we communicate
with God and each other,
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empathy, advanced thoughts,
knowledge, abstract thinking,
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the parts of the brain
that deal with emotions,
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and then the part
that we share with animals
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that just
basically keeps us alive.
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And this helps people
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understand the
brain a little bit better
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and how important it
is to our physiology.
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Yeah.
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And if you like to
get a hold of that,
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we encourage
you to contact 3ABN,
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it's available
through their bookstore.
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So Biblical Prescriptions
for Life, it's seven-weeks
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and we think that will
be a great resource for you
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to share with your friends.
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Yeah, in part of that study,
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I interview, I had
a patient that came in
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that had a lot of brain problems
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and the solution
to or that started
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in her health care prescription
was to deal with the brain.
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Awesome.
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Well, you know, let's
take a look at that clip now,
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The Biblical Prescriptions
for Life, Chapter 6,
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section on brain health.
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Jane was distraught,
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she found her husband of
11 years with another woman.
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Not only was she
working a 40-hour work week,
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but she was taking
care of her three children.
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She and her husband
had not communicated
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in some time.
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She was hurt,
ashamed, confused, and scared.
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All of these emotions
were causing her brain
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to be overloaded.
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She came to me for some advice
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and I believe the greatest value
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I had was in mere listening.
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Where do you start when
your world is upside down?
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The brain is on overload
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and you cannot even concentrate,
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nevertheless eat,
do good job at work,
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or even raise your children.
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Many of you watching this
have had similar experiences.
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These situations
are so complicated
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and yet this is life.
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As we've been studying together,
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I hope the first place
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we've all learned to turn
for help for clarity for hope
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for some sense of
normalcy is our great physician,
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for "I can do all things
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in Christ which
strengtheneth me."
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Notice,
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this biblical prescription
does not say some things
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but all things but
only through Christ.
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I asked Jane, if she
done this, and she done this,
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but she was not
seeming to hear God's voice
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or feel His comfort.
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I began to talk to Jane about
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what her brain was going
through the tremendous stress.
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How I turned on the
emotional system of the brain
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which is the limbic system.
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And her alarm system,
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the amygdala was doing its job
preparing the body to survive.
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The fight or flight
system was in full gear,
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but this constant
bombardment of chemical
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was not helping the situation.
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The adrenaline, the
cortisol, the cytokines,
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inflammatory proteins
were speeding up her heart,
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raising the blood pressure,
causing her to lose sleep.
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She was not hungry.
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But the most significant problem
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that I saw was she
could not think rationally.
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When the stress chemistry is on,
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the brain just wants
to be safe to stay alive.
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The body lives in the
here and now in that situation
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and not in the future.
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The higher
functioning parts of the brain,
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the prefrontal cortex is blunted
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as a body just wants to
stay alive and feel well.
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I explained to Jane that
God was there ready to help,
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but we needed her to
use the prefrontal cortex.
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But what does one do
when our world is crumbling
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from a broken relationship,
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an illness, a
death, loss of a job,
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or shaken belief system?
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What do we need to do
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when we are so shaken
that the part of the brain
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we need most is not working?
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How does God
create in us a new brain?
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What did he do in the past?
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What are the practical steps
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we can take if and
when this happens to us?
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Hopefully by the
end of this week,
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you'll have a prescription,
a strategy, a plan,
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a software program
uploaded to help us
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as well as
those we hold so dear.
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We have a lot
to cover this week.
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So let's start by
thanking and praising God
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and then ask Him
for the help and clarity
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as we learn and study together.
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You know, Dr.
Marcum, it's a tragic story.
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There's a lot of stress that
people are under these days.
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I wonder do you have an update.
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Does this end well for her? Yes.
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Jane is making progress.
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But like any chronic condition,
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she had to take
one step at a time.
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And, you know, when talking
about brain health today,
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we can't cover every
detail that's out there.
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It's too complex.
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But we can let people know
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that the brain is an
important part to health.
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And if the brain
is not working well,
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nothing else works well.
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If the brain doesn't work well,
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it puts stress on
the body like Jane.
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In fact, Jane had so
much stress on her body
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that she
couldn't think rationally.
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You know, she had so
much problems going on
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and sometimes even when
even she tried to worship,
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there was so much
stress on her body
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that she couldn't even worship.
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She couldn't even, she felt like
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she wasn't hearing God's voice
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even though God was
there working in her life.
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She felt like she couldn't do.
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There's some out there
that might feel this way too,
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you might be
under so much stress,
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so much brain problems
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that your prefrontal
cortex is not working as well,
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the stress part of
the brain that stay alive,
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the part that we turn
on that deal with pain.
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You know,
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when animals have pain
that they move away from that.
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When people have pain,
they have to do something
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to deal with the
pain they're under.
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Right.
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You know, they
have to deal with it.
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And Jane was
reaching for the wrong things
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to deal with pain.
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And so we had to start
all over in her brain health
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and teach her the
right things to do.
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Well, what's the first
steps in the brain health?
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What's the first
biblical prescription?
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And in Chapter 6 of
Biblical Prescriptions for Life,
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we go through
that in a more detail,
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but this is very
complex physiology.
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But how can you eat right
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if your brain
doesn't work right?
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How can you sleep well
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if your brain
doesn't work right?
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How can you make good decisions
regarding your health care
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if your brain doesn't work?
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How can you even
follow a doctor's appointment?
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So when I first started
working with Jane, Nick,
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it was hard to even
communicate with her
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because, you know,
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when we were in
the room together,
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you felt super
stressed, she was stressed.
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And, you know,
when you feel stressed,
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when someone's in
the room with you,
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you know that
something's not right.
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Yeah.
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And I wanted to help
her understand peace.
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And so we went through
biblical prescriptions,
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and the very first one
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we did is we had to
calm down her physiology,
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so in worship, so
she would know about God.
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So we taught her how
to do worship warm ups.
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Okay.
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How to warm up to worship,
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so she could turn down
the stress in her brain,
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she could worship better.
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So what does that mean?
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Well, I mean, you know,
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in the morning, you
get ready for breakfast,
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there's certain things you do.
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You get ready for work,
and you put on your clothes,
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and you get cleaned up,
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you prepare
yourself to go to work.
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Sure. Yeah.
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Well, the most important thing
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that I do every
day is my worship.
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Mm-hmm.
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So I want to
prepare for worship,
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just like I would prepare
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for any other
important activity.
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So I went through
some of the physiology of,
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how do we get our brains
prepared to meet our God?
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You know, how do we do that?
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And we went through the steps
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and we don't have enough
time to go through all of them,
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but we try to
activate the prefrontal cortex.
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Right.
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We try to turn down stress,
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whether it be
from deep breathing,
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or stretching,
or saying a prayer
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where we invite the Holy
Spirit to come into our lives.
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And when the
Holy Spirit is there,
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and God as Christ is making
us our worship acceptable,
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you know, remember,
make my worship acceptable,
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then things start to happen.
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And, you know, she said,
you know, I need a new brain.
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And she realized that she
couldn't do it on her own.
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And as she...
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The Holy Spirit
was working in her,
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things started to
improve one step at a time.
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And then as her brain,
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as she fed her
brain through worship,
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the brain started growing,
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turned down some of the
stress then she started,
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God was there all
along, God never left her.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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She just didn't
have that comfort.
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But as time has grown on,
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her worship has helped her brain
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turned down some of
the stress chemistry,
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she started to make
some lifestyle changes,
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things started to come
together for Jane, okay.
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And she realized that
none of us are perfect.
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We all have bad genes.
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We all have bad
genes in our brains.
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We have bad
genes at other places.
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And we all need a Savior, okay.
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And when she started realizing
that the real solution,
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the real biblical prescription
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was to start in
worship for her health,
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and that would
lead her to other things
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that would improve
her brain function,
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whether it be
drinking more fluids,
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or maybe taking antioxidants,
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or maybe eating
some nuts and berries
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and things that
help maybe exercise,
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treating these
other medical problems.
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As she started
in the right place,
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things started to come together,
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even though the world shouted,
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no, this is not
where you need to go,
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you know, some
of the other places
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they wanted to start with pills.
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Well, I said, well, some people
have genetic needs for that.
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But that's not where you want
to start as a source of truth.
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Let's try this first and
see if this doesn't improve.
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So the brain is
very complicated.
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But for our audience today,
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the main point I wanna give you
is pay attention to your brain.
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Okay, pay
attention to your brain,
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get it working optimally.
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Do things to help
take care of your brain.
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And one of the biggest
things that I want to emphasize
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in taking care of your
brain is the act of worship.
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You know, God wants to create
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a new heart, a new brain.
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And when you come into worship,
physiologic things that happen,
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when you invite the Holy Spirit
is that it works continuously.
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When you invite
God into your heart,
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it goes, you know, the memories
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and this goes into
the part of the brain
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that stores memories.
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It's working all day long.
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And when you have a text
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or something to
go over our prayer,
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you can keep worship going,
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even if you're
not conscious of it
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throughout the day.
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It's where you
turn over your brain to
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and the brain health is,
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that's one of the keys
to keeping people on track.
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I guess the verse coming to me,
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"All you who are
burdened heavy laden
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and I will give you rest,"
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that really
becomes really a mindset
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when you're
worshiping rather than a mindset
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of being stressed
and worried all the time.
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When you come into
worship with Jesus,
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you have rest in peace.
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And it's truly a gift and
there's nothing we can do.
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We have to accept that gift.
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We have to know where to get it.
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We have to feel
the need of this gift.
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We all need a savior,
we need this for our brains
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and the world is causing
more stress than ever before.
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It wants us to
get away from this.
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But think about it.
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In the Bible, it's
always been about worship.
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You know,
Daniel and his friends,
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who did they worship?
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You know,
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even when Christ was here,
did they worship the true God?
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Or did they worship
there some of the other things
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that was going on?
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Throughout the Old Testament
it's always been about worship,
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and if we start in worship,
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that's a good
place to start the day.
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It was a great place
for Jane's brain health
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when we have all
these other distracters
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that's turning on the
stress part of our brain,
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and she had to give up
some things she didn't like,
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you know, she was on
the media way too much
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that was stressing her out.
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She was worrying so much
about what other people thought
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and some of that stuff.
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She didn't need that,
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she's watching
the news too much,
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and that was clogging things up.
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So she had to have
a whole new mindset.
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She needed God to help
her create a new brain,
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a new way of
thinking and approach in life.
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Yeah.
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Well, Dr. Marcum, thank you
for sharing that story with us.
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I think there's a lot
that we can learn from that.
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We're gonna take a
short break and be back
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with more on brain
health in just a moment.
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