The following
program presents principles
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designed to promote good health
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and is not intended
to take the place of
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personalized professional care.
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The opinions, ideas expressed
are those of the speaker.
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draw their own conclusions
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about the information presented.
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Welcome to Wonderfully Made.
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My name is Dr. George Guthrie,
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I'm the Medical Director at
Lifestyle Center of America.
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I would like to discuss with
you today about cholesterol.
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Do you really
need to take a drug
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in order to
lower your cholesterol?
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With me to join in this
discussion is Dr. Tim Arnott.
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Thank you George, it's
good to be with you again.
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Well, Tim we are
looking at cholesterol.
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What is
cholesterol? Well George,
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its something very,
very important in fact
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if you don't have
cholesterol in your body and
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you're a lady you won't
be able to make Progesterone
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and of course if you don't
have Progesterone you won't
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be able to have
children. In fact George reality
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is that none of us would be
here if wasn't for cholesterol
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and we wouldn't be
able to have men and women,
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because of testosterone
and estrogen are made
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from cholesterol
Cholesterol is an important part
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of every cell in the
body, in fact the membrane
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or the valve that lines
the cell that actually encloses
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the cell has cholesterol in
it and it actually has a very
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important role at
making sure that, that membrane
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operates efficiently and
has the full function that
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it needs. So,
cholesterol is important.
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Well, here I
thought cholesterol was bad.
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Where did we get the
idea that if cholesterol is so
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good, where did we get
the idea so, that it's bad?
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Well it turns out
George that when cholesterol
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is damaged chemically
by something called a free
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radical which is simply a
form of oxygen in the body
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that's a toxic form and
a dangerous form of oxygen.
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When the cholesterol
is damaged by that oxygen
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it becomes oxidized. It
becomes chemically injured,
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becomes bruised if you
will and then the white blood
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cells sweep over and pick
up that damaged cholesterol
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and they quickly take it
out of the blood and put it
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into the nearest dump
side and that just happens
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to the valve of the
coronary artery and so overtime
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if you have high blood
cholesterol and it becomes
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chemically injured in this
way. You can actually fill up
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the valve of the artery
full of this cholesterol
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and that cholesterol
is unstable and especially
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if you have a lot of
inflammation in the blood that
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cholesterol can actually
rupture out into the flowing
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blood causing the blood
clot to form and that can be
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a heart attack or a stroke.
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So, this is pretty serious
business then? Absolutely
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Doctors are now seemed
to focus on the cholesterol
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and they want to get
the cholesterol down,
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so we can decrease the
risk of heart attack and strokes
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and those types of things.
There is a lot that we hear
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in the advertisements
and magazines and TV about
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drugs to help lower cholesterol.
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How do those drugs
work and are they really
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beneficial for us?
Well, those drugs are a number
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of different types, but
the most popular type is called
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a Statin. And these drugs
actually interfere with the
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enzyme that the body
uses to make cholesterol and
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so they are actually
quite effective at lowering
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the total cholesterol
and they can lower the total
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cholesterol anywhere
from 25 to 30 percent and
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these drugs are been shown
to lower the risk of developing
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a heart attack for
example about the same about 25
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to 30 percent, but
what we wanna talk about on
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this program is what is
the underline cause of that
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elevated cholesterol.
What's the underline cause of
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damaged cholesterol
and what if anything
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can we do about it?
Yes, at Lifestyle Center
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of America we have
focused on treating the cause
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of the disease rather
than just the symptoms and I
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suppose we could aim at
just lowering the cholesterol,
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but wouldn't it make
more sense to focus on
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decreasing or changing
those things that made the
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cholesterol go up. What
can we do to help lower our
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cholesterol or may be I should
say to help us understand it?
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What did we do to make
our cholesterol go up in
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the first place? Well,
one of the things George
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that we do without
realizing it we are involved
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in a society where
we are quite sedentary.
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No exercise? No exercise,
where we are sitting like
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you and I are sitting
here we gonna get some exercise
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after this. We are also
eating foods that are very
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calorie dense. They are
not 80 percent water like
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the beans, whole grains,
the fruits and vegetables
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that's cook beans and
cook whole gains of course,
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but these foods are,
they were eating a very dense
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in calories, it's not lot
of water or fiber in them and
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so its very easy
overtimes for over wait to creep
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upward and what some
people may not know is that
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if your weight creeps
up your body becomes more
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resistant to insulin and
so your pancreas has to make
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more insulin to
actually overcome the insulin
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resistance and so your
insulin blood levels go up
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and what its important
to realize is that insulin
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actually stimulates the
enzyme that the body uses
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to make cholesterol. So,
as your insulin level goes up,
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so does your
cholesterol level go up.
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So, body weight is
something that's very important.
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You know as I have tried
it to explain this to people
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in the past one of the
things, I have, I have looked
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at is cholesterol as a
soap. You know cholesterol
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is part of what
unable the body to move oil,
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fat and greace around
in a water system not only
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are the beans 80 percent
water, but we are pretty close
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to that as well, where in
the 60 to 70 percent range
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and so in water systems
oil and fat don't move around
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and the body has to make
this extra cholesterol to in
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order or soap, detergent
in order to move the fats
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surrounded the body. So,
high fat diet has something
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to do it as well especially
a fat called saturated fat.
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Saturated fat or some
people call it animal fat.
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These are fats that are,
are actually solid at room
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temperature in fact
these are fats were,
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were designed to be in
organisms that have a body
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temperature of in the 90s,
98.6 these are important fats,
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because if you are
going to have a fat be fluid
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in this kind of a creature
you need a fat that has more
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solidity to it and, but
when you put these fats in
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the diet they actually
raise the blood cholesterol in
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fact saturated fat such
you would find in butter
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or in red meat for
example. These fats are two
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or three times more
powerful and raising the total
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cholesterol level then if
you are to sit down and eat
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cholesterol itself. So,
certainly George moving away
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from the saturated fats
that are found in the meats
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especially the red meats
and also in the dairy products
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especially the full fat
dairy products and probably the
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most important source
the number one source of
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saturated fat is cheese,
especially the higher fat
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cheeses. So, moving
away from these sources
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of saturated fat can
drop the total cholesterol
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quite significant.
And so we get to our
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question we say do I
have to take a drug to lower
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my cholesterol or can I
change my lifestyle to get our
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focus can we can I
actually change what I am doing
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in such a way to
lower my cholesterol
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so I don't need to take a drug?
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Well, that's what we want
to share on this program we
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wanna share with you some
actually results from real
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people who actually did
embark on a lifestyle change
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program and some interesting
and dramatic changes took
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place in their
cholesterol levels. In fact,
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what this individuals did
for 19 days they came into a
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inpatient program, they
went on a total plant diet
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that means they ate only
beans, whole grains, fruits,
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vegetables nuts and seeds,
no animal products no dairy
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products and not even
fish for 19 day period.
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They engaged in
exercise. They were walking,
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they were rowing,
they were swimming,
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they went out for
walks in the sunshine,
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they were drinking
water, even carrying
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their water bottles, so
just like you and I are.
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And they were avoiding
coffee and, and the caffeine
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and alcohol and tobacco.
They were resting and they
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were learning how to
spend time with their creator.
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So, they were following
the creator's program of
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healing these eight natural
doctors if you will and what
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we wanna share in our
first light is what took place
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to their cholesterol level
a side affect if you will by
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following the creator's
program and what we see here
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is that the total
cholesterol level dropped
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significantly in those
who are using a Statin.
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Now, as you can it
dropped George about 31 points
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the total cholesterol
in those taking a Statin,
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by the way George
what is a Statin? What,
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what exactly if, if
somebody was on one and how
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would they know? I mean what?
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A Statin is a medication
which blocks the body's
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formation of cholesterol
and that's kind of science
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is modern sciences way of
dealing with the cholesterol
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problem rather than getting
to the source of the problem.
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Well, it stop their
body from making the stuff
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and you know, I suppose
that makes sense we know that
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it decreases heart attacks
when we take the medications.
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We know that it decreases
information in the body,
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so there is benefit, but
isn't it a bit foolish to just
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focus on blocking the
formation of cholesterol
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without getting to the
thing that made the body tried
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to make
cholesterol in the first place.
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Now, someone at this point
may be asking the question.
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Well, that's fine for those
people who are on a medicine
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just taking one of
these Statin medicines,
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but what if I am not
taking a Statin medicine.
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Well, we actually had
some patients who are not
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taking one of these Statin
cholesterol-lowering medicines
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and our next graphic
will actually show what happen
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to those individuals.
And as you can see these
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individuals had also
dramatic decrease in their total
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cholesterol level. In
fact, George you can see it went
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from an average of 192 to
right down into the 150 range
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and what we tell
patients at the Lifestyle Centre
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of America is if you can
get your total cholesterol below
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150 that's probably the
safest total cholesterol level
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and you can see from the
little P value on this slide
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that this result was highly
statistically significant,
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so probably not just a
result of chance there was real
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drops in cholesterol
for those who are not even
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taking a
medicine in just 19 days.
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Tim I noticed on
those slides a word Vegan
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isn't that a religion people
like they don't wear leather
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shoes or leather belts.
I mean it kind of brings up
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around some of these
thoughts I saw that word
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Vegan on the slide
may be you can clarify
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for it that for us.
Well, certainly there are some
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individuals who are
Vegans and its part of a,
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a broader health focus and
you might say even a religious
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focus and that's not what
we were talking about here.
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Vegan is simply a word a,
a tool to actually share that
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these individuals that
had these dramatic cholesterol
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reductions were eating
only plants and you could also
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use terms like a total plant
based diet or a 100 percent
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vegetarian diet its just a
tool to share that in order
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to get these results
the individuals were eating
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nothing, but beans and
whole grains, fruits, vegetable,
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nuts and seeds, no
animal products what so ever
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and so that's why
we use the term frankly
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we didn't have much
space on the slide and that was
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a powerful word to get
the point across without
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being too worried.
Well, thank you for clarifying
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that. Well, what
other changes do you see?
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Well, you know George the
American Heart Association
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has just come out
with some interesting data,
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showing that the LDL
cholesterol which some
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people call it the bad
cholesterol and LDL is stands
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for low density lipoprotein.
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I have a different word
that I sometimes use to yes
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get easier, yes sure,
share that, because people get
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lost in these acronyms of
letters. LDL in my vernacular
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stands for little
devil lipoproteins.
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Alright that your sounds
man, little devils a little
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devils and they are little
they can be little devils.
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Well, of course as
only if they get too high
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and if they become
chemically damaged as we talked
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about earlier and so the
LDL is a cholesterol level
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that we actually its
actually a packet of cholesterol
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it's a cholesterol
particle like a little suitcase
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that carries cholesterol
in the blood stream and
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this is the
particular cholesterol package
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if you will that's can
end up inside the artery valve
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forming these cholesterol
plaques that can rapture
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and cause and heart
attack and the stroke.
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So, this number is even
more important than the total
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cholesterol
number. Yes, yeah it can be
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in fact and what we
want to share also is that
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this recent
recommendation from the
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American Heart Association
is telling us for example
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if you are at the
highest risk of a heart attack.
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In other words if you
have type 2 diabetes and
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you've already had
some kind of a heart event
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may be you had a bypass
surgery or heart attack.
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Then they are telling
us you need to get that LDL
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or that bad cholesterol or
that little devil lipoprotein
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level down less than 70
and so that's it the piece
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of new information most
cardiologists, most heart
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specialists would like your
LDL level to be less than 100
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and so that's the kind of
ranges that we would wanna
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have if you've one of the
lower risk of a heart attack
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and probably the
lowest risk of a stroke,
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but the exciting thing
George is that patients on this
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Lifestyle program
were seeing changes also
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and LDL cholesterol.
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Yes, lets look at the
next slide and see what
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it looks like. When
we go to the next slide
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what you can see is
that in those individuals
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who were taking a Statin
drug in this case they were
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actually able to
lower their LDL or their bad
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cholesterol level from
74 down to 54 as you can see
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that's below 70. Yes
So, and these individuals
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did not necessarily have
the highest risk of disease
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they were had type 2 diabetes,
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but certainly did not
all have heart disease,
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but you can see that
they got their cholesterol
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level their LDL
below 70 even into the 50s.
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Now, you can also see
that not only did those
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who were taking a Statin
have a significant 20 point
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reduction in their LDL or
bad cholesterol level on a
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total plant diet, but
those who were not using Statins
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those who are not
using one of these powerful
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medicines to lower
cholesterol they also on a total
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plant diet lowered
their LDL or bad cholesterol
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almost 30 points 27
points and as you can see there
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its highly
statistically significant. So,
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both those who use
these medicines is powerful
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cholesterol lowering medicines
and those who don't were
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able with a plant diet
has significant further
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reductions that even
into the accepted optimal
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range for those at
highest risk of a heart attack.
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That's interesting Tim
but that those are numbers
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from Lifestyle Centre
of America is anybody else
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been able to
demonstrate these changes.
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Well, actually Dr
Jenkins at the University
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of Toronto in Canada did
something very interesting.
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He wanted to show or
he wanted to actually
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to find out if a plant
based diet could lower total
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cholesterol or LDL
cholesterol in this case as much
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as a Statin drug one
of these most important
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and most popular
cholesterol-lowering
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medicines and so he
took a largely a vegetarian
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diet like he was total,
it was a vegetarian diet
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was a total plant diet
and there were some dairy
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products and he
added to it some important
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cholesterol lowering
plant's ingredients such as
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almonds and soy protein
and a margarine made out
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of a plant substance like
cholesterol called Fitosterol,
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which actually blocks
cholesterol absorption
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and so you can remove
more cholesterol from your
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body and, and also
solvable fiber which can help
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to reduce the amount of
cholesterol that's again
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absorbed back up into
the blood stream and send
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more of it out of your
body, so he added these
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special plant ingredients
to these vegetarian diet
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and he showed that in
a several weeks of being
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on one program or the
other that the Statin drug
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and the vegetarian or
plant based diet had an quick
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a equal ability to
lower the LDL cholesterol.
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Well, that's good
news, so we can actually make
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changes in our lives
dealing with the cause the
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underlying causes of
the cholesterol elevation
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and see the same
change as we occurred
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from taking a drug.
Absolutely in fact one
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of the other
changes it wasn't just LDL
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that dropped about the
same on a plant based diet as
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what you would
see with a medicine,
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but something else call
the C-reactive protein which
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measures the amount of
inflammation in your blood
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stream and basically
what that is measuring
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the amount of activity
of the white blood cells
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and this is important
because the cholesterol inside
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the artery valve and it
actually white blood cells
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are mixed with that
cholesterol and if there is a
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lot inflammation in the
body these white blood cells
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are more active that
makes the cholesterol plaque
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more active its more likely
to rapture a clock to form
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in a heart attack and
this plant base diet lower
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the amount of
inflammation is measured by CRP
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ro C-reactive protein
as much as a Statin drug.
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This is really
earth shattering news.
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Oh, it's good news for
those of us who understand
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the importance of a
plant based diet. Especially
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note that the Statin
drugs do more than just lower
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the cholesterol. They
actually lower the inflammation
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as well and so when we
talk about a lifestyle treatment
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to lower cholesterol
you need to under that it
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not only lowers cholesterol,
but it also lowers the
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inflammation as measured
by the CRP or C-reactive
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protein. Well, that's good
news Tim a lifestyle change
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than could take a place
of a medication and that's
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really good news.
Now, there is some other
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cholesterol packages
that sometimes are changed
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and need to be
fixed tell us about those?
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Well, that's true George
and you know lot of people
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who are looking at treatments
or tools to help bring
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down the blood cholesterol
when someone mentions
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a plant based diet
which is rich in carbohydrates
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and again we are not
talking about a diet that's rich
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and white flour,
white bread and white pasta
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and refined sugars. But
what we talking about and
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when we talk about
high carbohydrate diet is
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whole grains, beans, vegetables,
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fruits, nuts and
seeds. When we talk about this
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kind of a program we are
actually talking about a,
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an approach to cholesterol
reduction that is a little
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bit different. It is a it
is beyond just simply using
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a medicine and some
people think well, that approach
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will lower the good
cholesterol, it will actually
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cause more harm than
good, because we need the
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good cholesterol to get
cholesterol out of the body.
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Now, that good
cholesterol is called HDL which
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confuses people all over
the place got another name
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that sometimes works for
that. Share that with us?
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Heavenly darlings
those are the good once.
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Heavenly darlings so you
know if you have difficulty
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remembering HDL just
remember heavenly darlings
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and really they
are heavenly George,
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because there are
people who have very high total
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cholesterol, very high
LDL or bad cholesterol,
00:22:42.36\00:22:45.83
but their good cholesterol
is also very high and those
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individuals are largely
protected from heart attacks,
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but what was seem in
this study at the Lifestyle
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centre where these
patients on a total plant diet
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was that HDL did something
surprising and if we can see
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that graphic now George
tell us what we saw or perhaps
00:23:04.97\00:23:09.97
didn't see with the
good cholesterol levels
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in these patients?
The good news is that on
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this slide it's demonstrated
that the HDL did not
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changed during the
program at Lifestyle Centre
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of America using
the plant based diet.
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Now, let me explain this to
try to make it clear for you.
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You see the literature reports
the scientific literature
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reports that when you
move to a high carbohydrate
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diet the HDL tense to
drop rather than go up and
00:23:37.92\00:23:44.31
so in the literature what
they are focusing on is much
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more a refined
carbohydrates when we deal with
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100 percent plant based
diet, the fiber and other
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things apparently keeps the
insulin levels low and makes
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the situation such that
the HDL does not have to
00:23:59.16\00:24:03.79
go down. The heavenly
darlings don't decrease
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they stay up a high
and that is good news.
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This is very good news
its very important that the
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HDL the good cholesterol
stays high, because that's
00:24:13.53\00:24:17.74
the cholesterol
package that they are sending
00:24:17.77\00:24:21.77
cholesterol out of the
body and if your able to send
00:24:21.80\00:24:26.16
cholesterol out of the
body with a lot of this good
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cholesterol as HDL then it
doesn't build up in the artery
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valve nearly as much. Now,
that was in, that was dated
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for those who are taking
a Statin drug a cholesterol
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lowering drug, but we can
go to the next slide George
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tell us what happened in
into the HDL or good cholesterol
00:24:43.93\00:24:47.50
and those who are not
taking a Statin drug which
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is going to be of course
more valuable for many people
00:24:50.35\00:24:53.54
in the audience who went
on one of these medicines.
00:24:53.57\00:24:56.05
Well, the results were
the same a plant based diet
00:24:56.38\00:24:59.19
did not make the
heavenly darlings go down
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and that is good
news. It is good news,
00:25:02.54\00:25:05.35
and also George I think
its important to understand
00:25:06.76\00:25:10.49
that one of the
reasons that people are getting
00:25:10.52\00:25:12.82
more and more heart
disease in America is that they
00:25:12.85\00:25:16.84
are becoming more insulin
resistant or weight is going
00:25:16.87\00:25:21.78
up or middle is going
out or we are gaining more
00:25:21.81\00:25:25.80
weight in the mid section
and that often will raise
00:25:25.83\00:25:28.60
the insulin level which
drives the good cholesterol
00:25:28.63\00:25:32.38
down and the triglycerides
are the fat in the blood up
00:25:32.41\00:25:36.23
and that can dramatically
increase or accelerate the
00:25:36.26\00:25:40.65
heart disease the
hardening of the arteries the
00:25:40.68\00:25:43.73
Atherosclerosis process.
So, when we see a program
00:25:43.76\00:25:46.90
that keeps the good
cholesterol stable while bad
00:25:46.93\00:25:51.20
cholesterol drops that's
what you want and that's what
00:25:51.23\00:25:54.07
you get when you do the
creators methods a total
00:25:54.10\00:25:57.72
plant diet and
exercise program and all of
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his other remedies.
So, we are back to the
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beginning Tim. Do I
really have to take a drug?
00:26:03.67\00:26:07.27
Well, you know there
are some people who may have
00:26:08.54\00:26:11.82
to take a drug to lower
their cholesterol level,
00:26:11.85\00:26:14.65
but I think what we
are pointing out George
00:26:15.28\00:26:17.56
in this program is
that perhaps if you have had
00:26:17.59\00:26:22.47
difficulty brining down
your total cholesterol your LDL
00:26:22.50\00:26:26.34
or bad cholesterol in the
past, perhaps what you wanna
00:26:26.37\00:26:29.54
do is take one more
step and that step is to move
00:26:29.57\00:26:33.29
to a total plant diet
and an exercise program and
00:26:33.32\00:26:37.71
particularly exercise out
in the air fresh and in the sun
00:26:37.74\00:26:41.54
light and you will not
only see your bad cholesterol
00:26:41.57\00:26:44.04
level go down, you
will see those Triglyceride
00:26:44.07\00:26:46.58
levels tend downward as well.
00:26:46.61\00:26:48.52
And I suppose the good
news is also that the lifestyle
00:26:49.00\00:26:52.61
change works as well
for those who are taking
00:26:52.64\00:26:56.53
the drug as those who
are not, so there is actually
00:26:56.56\00:26:59.07
some added benefit,
added benefit absolutely.
00:26:59.10\00:27:01.91
So, in the time
remaining is there anything
00:27:03.01\00:27:06.19
else that should be emphasized?
00:27:06.22\00:27:07.48
George there is something
that we do need to share
00:27:08.37\00:27:11.81
and that is there
may be people out there
00:27:11.84\00:27:14.58
who have tried to get
their cholesterol level down
00:27:14.61\00:27:17.71
and they have not
succeeded in fact they may
00:27:17.93\00:27:20.12
have even tried to plant
based diet and not succeeded
00:27:20.15\00:27:23.21
and there is such
a thing is heredity,
00:27:24.24\00:27:26.24
genes if you will and
some people have elevated
00:27:26.27\00:27:29.86
cholesterol, but what we
want to emphasize is protect
00:27:29.89\00:27:32.89
the cholesterol even
if its too high protected
00:27:32.92\00:27:35.91
from damage by using
anti-oxidants not pills,
00:27:35.94\00:27:39.91
but whole foods and
factored the beacon nut is one
00:27:40.12\00:27:44.38
of the most
powerful anti-oxidant nuts.
00:27:44.41\00:27:46.33
The blueberry is a very
rich in anti-oxidants and
00:27:46.85\00:27:50.31
so whole plant foods
beans are rich in anti-oxidants,
00:27:50.34\00:27:53.61
greens you want to
shield your cholesterol,
00:27:53.64\00:27:56.75
so its not damaged by
the oxygen free radical
00:27:56.78\00:28:01.28
and so in summary we
just want to encourage you
00:28:01.50\00:28:04.17
to follow the
creators lead and you will
00:28:04.20\00:28:07.21
discover how
wonderfully we are made.
00:28:07.24\00:28:11.04