The following program
presents principles designed
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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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The human brain is by
far the most complex design
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known to man.
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And our best and
brighter scientists
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from around the world
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are just now
scratching the surface
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when it comes to understanding
how the brain really works.
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But we have
learned a few things.
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And on today's
program, we'll be sharing tips
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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 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 better understand
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God's design for our lives
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and experiencing better
health 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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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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and tell us, as a cardiologist,
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how have you
learned about brain health?
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Well, I've had to understand,
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I specialize in
disease reversal.
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Okay.
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And what that means, you know,
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do we ever
actually reverse disease?
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Probably some
things we can slow it down,
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some people we can improve,
but we don't really reverse
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some of the genetic
tendencies that we have.
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Right.
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But one of the
things I've learned
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that the brain is a very
valuable way to improve things.
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And when we talk...
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Earlier, we talked
about all the stresses that
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cause the disease,
and we talked about
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how our genes are all bad
including our brain genes.
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Yeah.
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And the stresses
accelerate ageing
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and accelerate damaging,
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and often our body
compensates in some ways.
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Some ways good,
some ways not so good.
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In brain health, you
know, we talk about the inputs.
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You know, we
talked about in lifestyle,
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food, we talk a lot about food.
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But just as
dangerous to our health
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is having bad brain inputs.
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And we have brain inputs
over prolong periods of time,
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we can have damage to us.
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So that's why we
want to understand
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this complex organ.
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And the more we learn,
the less we know about it.
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It's more complex than
the internet could ever be.
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And it looks at all of
the advance programs it does,
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all the storage devices,
how do we recall things,
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how do we coordinate
things to get a response,
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you know, understanding
how dreams in the past
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and the future,
all plays a role.
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It's just amazing
what God has designed.
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And when I look at the structure
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and function of the brain,
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you know, you know
that there's a Creator,
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you know, you
appreciate the handy work
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and how it's done.
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But you also...
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All the good things out there,
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there's also bad
things, you know.
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As advance as God
has made the brain,
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there's people out there
that want to hurt the brain.
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When we hurt our brains,
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we can't communicate
with God as efficiently.
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And we want to try to
avoid the stresses on the brain.
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And I think we need to
talk a little bit about
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how the brain works
at a basic level today.
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Yeah, right.
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Well, throughout
the series of programs,
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we've been discussing
biblical prescriptions
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and how those can benefit us.
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And so we have a video
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from the Biblical Prescriptions,
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a small group
Bible study program
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that we'd like to share
with you on brain health
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and how the brain works
and what we know about it.
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Let's take a look now.
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Now the brain is very
vast and very interesting.
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And lot of people like
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to think of the brain
like the vast internet.
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But believe it or not,
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the brain is even more
complex than the internet.
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There is 100 billion
neurons in the brain.
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Now the neuron
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is the functional
cell of the brain.
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It's a very neat structure
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that contains a structure
called an axon and a dendrite,
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and they connect to each other,
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and they communicate both
via chemicals and electrically,
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so the brain is
an electromagnetic
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as well as chemical phenomena.
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For instance, if
you remember something
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in one part of the brain
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and it tells
your part of the body
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that this isn't
something you want to do,
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there's connections with that.
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There's been estimated that
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there is one quadrillion
connections within the brain,
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that's one with
15 zeros out of it.
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But the way we
learn about the brain
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is through different
types of technology like
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PET scans, MRIs, EEGs.
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Sometimes we can
learn by talking to people
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and we can
actually map the brain now.
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They're doing studies right now,
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we can actually put thoughts
into certain parts of brains,
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where we can get the brain
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to move different
parts of the body.
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But we've learned
the basics of the brain.
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It consisted of
three functional layers.
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And that's important for us,
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because we want to understand
how our behavior works.
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This is going to
help us this week
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as we learn about the brain
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and learn the importance
of our spiritual lives.
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Well, the first part of
the brain is the brain stem.
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This is the
stress part of the brain.
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This part of the brain
is great at staying alive,
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gathering foods,
seeking pleasure.
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Doesn't do
anything in the future,
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doesn't really
understand the past,
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just lives in the here
and now, wants to stay alive.
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This part is
not capable of love.
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The middle part of the brain,
which we share with mammals,
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is it called
the mammalian layer.
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And it sort of
sits on top of this part
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of the brain stem here.
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It does things like emotion,
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it does things
like our immune system,
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it's where we store our thoughts
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in the part
called the hippocampus.
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Also this stress
part of the brain,
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the amygdala is
located in this middle layer,
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and we share this with mammals.
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The third part of the brain
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is called the prefrontal cortex,
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this is the part
that's unique to humans.
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A few mammals have a
little bit of neocortex.
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Crows and
dolphins and some primates
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have a little bit of it,
but it's predominantly a part
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that's unique to the human race.
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And this is the part
where God communicates with us.
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This is the part called
the anterior cingulate cortex.
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That's the God brain.
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The studies have shown
that when we worship God
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and we're going to
study this next week,
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we grow these
neural connections,
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these neural pathways
in this part of the brain.
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Our goal is to live in
the upper part of the brain.
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We don't want to live in
the stress part of the brain
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just staying alive.
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And we call this
upshifting the brain.
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We want to live in
the God part of the brain,
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and not
downshifting and live constantly
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in the stress part of the brain.
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When a stress
occurs to this level,
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our brain downshift,
turns on all this chemistry,
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and all this
chemistry turns on chemicals
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that make it very difficult
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for us to have good thoughts,
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cognitive thinking,
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and also makes it
even harder to worship God.
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So our goal
basically is to be upshifted
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and not downshifted.
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And we can do that
through some skills
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we're going to
learn about this week.
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We're going to
learn about what do we do
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when we see that our brain
is downshifted, stressed out?
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How do we upshift our brain?
How do we move to worship?
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How do we change
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those neural
connections and the chemistry
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that will give us the strength
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to continue to improve
our physical wellbeing?
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And remember, that God wants
to create in us a new brain,
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and we're going
to learn this week
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that it's through
worship, spending time with Him
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that He's actually able to
create these new connections
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that takes us away
from anxiety, from fear,
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from all this chronic stress,
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and this is going to help
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be one of the
treatments for chronic disease.
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You know, that's a
great introductory lesson
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on how the brain works
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in the different
functional layers.
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Biblical Prescriptions for Life,
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it's a small group Bible study.
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If you want to learn more
about Biblical Prescriptions
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to treat your brain health
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and improve your brain function,
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call 3ABN and ask for your copy
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of Biblical
Prescriptions for Life.
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Dr. Marcum, we want
to talk a little bit more
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about the brain
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and what are some of
the most common treatments
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that modern medicine offers?
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What are the benefits of
those and what are the drawbacks
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or the risks of those compared
to biblical prescriptions?
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Yeah, well, if you look
about the history of the brain,
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we haven't known
much about the brain.
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In fact, in the Bible
says, "Create me a new heart."
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You know, that's before...
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You know, they didn't know
where thinking was occurring.
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So not through all our
time, we have not known that
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what the brain does or thoughts,
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and only in the
last few, you know,
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years have we had
these functional imaging,
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the MRIs, the way
to look at the brain
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and see what it does
under certain situations.
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A lot of the
patients we've learned from
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is from stroke patients.
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You know, people had a stroke,
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what part of the brain has died?
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What part of the...
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What did that brain do? Yeah.
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So we're actually
able to figure out
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different
neurons and what it does.
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Now the future of
brains, it just blows me away.
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You know, when we can
stimulate parts of brains,
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you know, put chips and
things that can move arms
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and things like that, who
knows where the future's going.
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Right.
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But what I want
to focus on today
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is to let people realize
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that the brain is
important that to our health.
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All of the inputs that we
put in our brain go somewhere.
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Okay.
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For instance, everything
you put in from the Internet,
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or from a cell
phone, or from a television,
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or for conversation is in there.
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All your past
is in there. Right.
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You know, the storage
part, the hippocampus,
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now whether it gets
activated or not is different.
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Some people keep
activating things
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that don't help them.
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You know, spiritually speaking,
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you know, when
you've done something bad,
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you ask God for forgiveness.
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He forgives it, He
throws it in the sea.
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He gets rid of it. Yeah.
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But some of us keep
activating dangerous memories
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and dangerous experiences
over and over and over.
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Living in guilt.
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Yeah, and that's sometimes
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when modern
medicine talk to you,
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you know, you always
thought, "Well, you know,
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whom is treated you as a child?"
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And you know,
there's a place for that
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but some people keep going
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over and over and
over their failures
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and don't ever
throw it into the sea
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or deactivate those programs.
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Yeah. So those programs keep...
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The software keeps
coming up all the time.
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And you, "Oh, I
failed, I failed,
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I'm discouraged, I'm down."
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And that software gets activated
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and the wires get
stronger, before you know,
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that's dominating you.
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So sometimes there's
therapists that deal in the past
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and all the harm that's done
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and keep those
circuits activated.
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But biblical, if
you think about it,
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you know, God forgives
you, He says, "Let's start over.
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Let's turn that
down a little bit.
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Let's look at
what you can do today
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and what I have
planned for you tomorrow."
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Yeah.
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So that's one thing that I
tried to emphasize to people.
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Yes, it's
important to know your past.
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But the bad parts, you know,
when you failed or you sinned,
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ask for forgiveness
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and throw into the sea like God.
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Don't continue to live that.
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So it hurts you,
you're downshift,
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so you can't hear God
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expressing His
will for you today.
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Kind of a deal
with it and delete.
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Yeah. Right. There you go.
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I like that, deal
with it and delete it.
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Yeah.
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Another thing that we
see, there's a lot of people
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when the brain malfunctions
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rather than to get at the cause,
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we just treat a
symptom, you know.
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What are some examples?
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Yeah, well, a person
that's anxious all the time.
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You know, they're
nervous and anxious.
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And they go to the
doctor and the doctor says,
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"Well, you have
anxiety disorder."
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And that might be true. Sure.
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But how can we
turn down the stress
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that's causing the anxiety.
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So rather than giving skills
that we can upshift our brain,
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whether it be good
nutrition, exercise, worship,
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some of the things
we've talked about,
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we just never deal with it.
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So we take a chemical
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that turns on a
bunch of neurotransmitters
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that might not fix the problem.
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Right.
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And then we might
have a new problem.
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And lots of side
effects potentially.
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Yeah.
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Now some people
have a genetic problem
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and they need it, okay.
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But that's a
very few people, okay.
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We see that
sometimes in depression.
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You know, some
people do not have
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genetically induced depression,
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but they have depression
just from a lifestyle event.
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You know, or a
vitamin D deficiency,
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or a chemical
deficiency like a B6, B12,
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or something other
simple that we could treat
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and get the brain
better right away.
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So you know, in
severe depression,
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you know, sometimes they do
all sorts of different things,
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and sometimes that's needed
if there's agenetic problem.
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You know, some
people have bad genes.
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They do all these things right.
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And there's a place
for modern medicine,
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but it's not as the
first step all the time.
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The first is
understanding the reason why
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turning to God,
you know, make...
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Because in that
place, we're safe.
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Now the problem with the brain
is it affects everything else.
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You know, if you had a
bad arm that hurt all the time
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and you're
rested, didn't get better,
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that would be one thing.
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But when the
brain is malfunctioning
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on different levels, it
affects the entire body.
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So the brain affects the
heart, it affects the kidneys,
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it affects the bowels,
it affects your joints,
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all sorts of things happen
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when the brain is
malfunctioning at any level.
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Now remember, when we
have pain in our lives,
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the brain is designed
to deal with pain, okay.
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In animals, they
want to avoid the pain.
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So we'll do anything
in life to avoid pain.
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And that's how we
deal with the pain.
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That's very important.
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Do we reach for
bad things, you know,
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just to deal with the
pain, deal with the symptom,
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or we try to get
at that cause of pain,
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the cause of the malfunction?
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And that's what I try to
focus on in the Bible study
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that we've been through
focusing on those things.
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Yeah, it's a great discussion,
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and we're going to get
back to that in just a moment.
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But first, we got
to take a short break.
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We want you to stay with us
as The Ultimate Prescription
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returns in just a moment.
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