The following program presents principles 00:00:01.98\00:00:02.95 designed to promote good health 00:00:02.96\00:00:03.93 and is not intended to take the place of 00:00:03.94\00:00:05.80 personalized professional care. 00:00:05.81\00:00:07.73 The opinions and ideas expressed are 00:00:07.74\00:00:10.39 those of the speaker. Viewers are encouraged 00:00:10.40\00:00:12.82 to draw their own conclusions 00:00:12.83\00:00:14.26 about the information presented. 00:00:14.27\00:00:15.92 Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn and welcome to 00:00:34.18\00:00:36.74 Wonderfully Made. The Bible says we are 00:00:36.75\00:00:39.44 fearfully and wonderfully made. 00:00:39.45\00:00:41.05 We start off that way but what do we do 00:00:41.06\00:00:44.13 that can change that? You know behavior 00:00:44.14\00:00:47.36 develops patterns and patterns develop habits. 00:00:47.37\00:00:50.42 Are we programming our children with bad habits 00:00:50.43\00:00:54.41 that are leading to cardiovascular disease? 00:00:54.42\00:00:57.28 That's the question we're going to be 00:00:57.29\00:00:58.98 answering today. And I'm so pleased to 00:00:58.99\00:01:01.57 welcome Dr. Jim Marcum. 00:01:01.58\00:01:03.70 Hello. Jim, thank you for being here 00:01:03.71\00:01:05.75 with us today. Now you're with the 00:01:05.76\00:01:07.85 Chattanooga Heart Institute and you also 00:01:07.86\00:01:10.64 have a ministry called Heartwise. 00:01:10.65\00:01:13.33 Tell us as a cardiologist, 00:01:13.34\00:01:15.41 what you do and tell us a little 00:01:15.42\00:01:17.18 about your ministry? Well a cardiologist 00:01:17.19\00:01:19.90 is a physician, that's trained in 00:01:19.91\00:01:21.71 internal medicine and also cardiology 00:01:21.72\00:01:23.71 that deals with diseases and more importantly 00:01:23.72\00:01:27.45 prevention of diseases. Amen. 00:01:27.46\00:01:29.30 And I specifically deal with the heart 00:01:29.31\00:01:30.96 and the blood vessels. You know 00:01:30.97\00:01:32.62 Heartwise Ministries is a ministry that mainly 00:01:32.63\00:01:35.40 serves to answer questions about health, 00:01:35.41\00:01:38.03 to promote health but more importantly 00:01:38.04\00:01:40.42 to focus people on gaining better health 00:01:40.43\00:01:43.09 so that they can serve God better 00:01:43.10\00:01:44.91 and to have better relationships 00:01:44.92\00:01:46.99 with Christ. Amen. And it's so important 00:01:47.00\00:01:49.86 that our bodies, we treat our bodies 00:01:49.87\00:01:51.77 as a temple of God, because I can tell you 00:01:51.78\00:01:54.27 from personal experience when your health is 00:01:54.28\00:01:56.48 lost it is hard to maintain good 00:01:56.49\00:01:59.18 spiritual activity as well. 00:01:59.19\00:02:01.31 Now it's very interesting where we are 00:02:01.32\00:02:03.94 gonna with this topic today, because I think 00:02:03.95\00:02:07.08 you're gonna be talking about something 00:02:07.09\00:02:08.75 that most people don't consider. Yeah. 00:02:08.76\00:02:10.74 This is gonna be a hard topic for most people 00:02:10.75\00:02:13.70 to understand and think about because 00:02:13.71\00:02:16.57 it gets what, what it does is that it gets 00:02:16.58\00:02:18.72 at the core of all behavior and all disease. 00:02:18.73\00:02:21.53 And cardiovascular disease it's the number 00:02:22.12\00:02:25.08 one disease that we're seeing in America 00:02:25.09\00:02:27.04 world wide the rates of cardiovascular disease 00:02:27.05\00:02:29.68 is growing dramatically. We talk about 00:02:29.69\00:02:32.10 90 percent of this disease is preventable. 00:02:32.11\00:02:34.77 Well how do we really prevent this disease? 00:02:34.78\00:02:37.42 How do we keep it from happening? 00:02:37.43\00:02:39.06 How do we protect our kids in the future 00:02:39.07\00:02:41.40 generations from having cardiovascular disease? 00:02:41.41\00:02:43.58 People from all over the world have sent me 00:02:43.59\00:02:47.44 questions through the Heartwise Ministries. 00:02:47.45\00:02:49.34 And I'm gonna incorporate those 00:02:49.35\00:02:51.18 questions today with hopefully the answers 00:02:51.19\00:02:53.65 to give people a place to go as far as 00:02:53.66\00:02:58.52 preventing this disease. Amen. 00:02:58.53\00:03:00.37 Because this is such a wonderful topic 00:03:00.38\00:03:03.83 and still something new, why don't we open 00:03:03.84\00:03:06.69 the program with prayer, would you 00:03:06.70\00:03:07.97 like to prayer? Sure. Father in heaven, 00:03:07.98\00:03:10.80 as we talk about this new concept of changing 00:03:10.81\00:03:14.01 the way of we are at the core and teaching 00:03:14.02\00:03:15.91 our children to live better, we pray 00:03:15.92\00:03:18.57 for the Holy Spirit to speak through me Father 00:03:18.58\00:03:22.28 that I might touch our viewing audience 00:03:22.29\00:03:24.06 that they might understand how they 00:03:24.07\00:03:25.55 might have better health and serve you better, 00:03:25.56\00:03:28.11 is our humble prayer, amen. Amen. Okay. 00:03:28.12\00:03:32.67 Well as Jim has said we got questions from 00:03:32.68\00:03:36.07 around the world and we're gonna start with 00:03:36.08\00:03:38.02 one from Fay in Atlanta. And Fay wrote in to say, 00:03:38.03\00:03:41.26 my son had a congenital heart abnormality, 00:03:41.27\00:03:45.47 this was successfully repaired. 00:03:45.48\00:03:48.04 My friend's 7 year old died suddenly from 00:03:48.05\00:03:51.65 heart abnormality. What are the 00:03:51.66\00:03:54.13 cardiovascular causes of death to young children? 00:03:54.14\00:03:57.89 Fay, the cardiovascular causes of death 00:03:57.90\00:04:01.30 in young children, these in contrary 00:04:01.31\00:04:04.63 to the adults, the ones in young children 00:04:04.64\00:04:07.32 are usually genetically acquired. Okay. 00:04:07.33\00:04:11.18 The way our genes are, the way 00:04:11.19\00:04:13.19 they're formed in Utero. Where as the adults 00:04:13.20\00:04:16.26 most of that disease is ones we get from 00:04:16.27\00:04:18.74 our lifestyle habits. Let me throw up 00:04:18.75\00:04:21.02 the first graphic and we'll look down 00:04:21.03\00:04:22.59 some of the causes of abnormalities in kids. 00:04:22.60\00:04:27.34 First of all Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, 00:04:27.35\00:04:30.08 we'll talk more about that in detail. 00:04:30.09\00:04:31.99 A long QT syndrome and Congenital Abnormalities, 00:04:32.00\00:04:36.10 the way things are hooked up differently 00:04:36.11\00:04:37.91 in the heart and trauma. We also have Metabolic 00:04:37.92\00:04:42.11 Abnormalities. The way we process 00:04:42.12\00:04:44.21 our fats different. Infections can cause 00:04:44.22\00:04:47.16 cardiovascular disease and as a rare cause 00:04:47.17\00:04:49.70 in children is Acquired Disease. 00:04:49.71\00:04:51.75 Now why I say rare is you can start acquiring 00:04:51.76\00:04:57.23 your cholesterol in Acquired Disease 00:04:57.24\00:04:59.81 at a very young age, in fact as young as 00:04:59.82\00:05:02.51 two they starting to see plaques being 00:05:02.52\00:05:05.41 put down in coronary arteries as young as 00:05:05.42\00:05:07.95 two years of age. But some of these 00:05:07.96\00:05:10.06 genetic causes for instance 00:05:10.07\00:05:11.90 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, 00:05:11.91\00:05:14.61 audience might know what that is but people 00:05:14.62\00:05:16.73 are born with the wrong genetics 00:05:16.74\00:05:18.49 and the heart is abnormally thick. 00:05:18.50\00:05:20.59 Now that no one did anything to cause that. 00:05:20.60\00:05:23.47 That you, you were born in that way 00:05:23.48\00:05:25.15 and there are treatments identified 00:05:25.16\00:05:27.36 that we can do that in fact that is a 00:05:27.37\00:05:29.61 most common cause of sudden death 00:05:29.62\00:05:31.84 in young people. Some of these athletes 00:05:31.85\00:05:34.68 that you hear fall over dead suddenly. 00:05:34.69\00:05:36.38 They really have Hypertrophic 00:05:36.39\00:05:38.36 Cardiomyopathy, they have a dangerous rhythm 00:05:38.37\00:05:40.79 from that and fall over dead. 00:05:40.80\00:05:42.10 So there's nothing a person can do about that, 00:05:42.11\00:05:44.02 they're born with that. The other one a long 00:05:44.03\00:05:46.26 QT syndrome. That's another cause of 00:05:46.27\00:05:48.95 electrical disturbance in the heart 00:05:48.96\00:05:50.78 that makes the heart go haywire. 00:05:50.79\00:05:52.67 When the heart rhythm is not good you cannot 00:05:52.68\00:05:55.12 generate blood pressure to your head 00:05:55.13\00:05:56.85 and your vital organs. And that's another thing 00:05:56.86\00:05:59.40 that you're born with. There's nothing 00:05:59.41\00:06:00.78 you can do about that and we have to treat 00:06:00.79\00:06:02.90 that acutely. The Congenital 00:06:02.91\00:06:04.94 Abnormalities where things are hooked up on, 00:06:04.95\00:06:06.92 you might have one ventricle or you might 00:06:06.93\00:06:08.87 have this thing hooked up wrong. 00:06:08.88\00:06:11.78 Well those are thing that are again 00:06:11.79\00:06:13.10 you're born with. And so there is nothing 00:06:13.11\00:06:15.42 that we can do. No not about those things. 00:06:15.43\00:06:16.99 And the same with the enzymes. 00:06:17.00\00:06:19.64 You're missing enzymes that breakdown 00:06:19.65\00:06:21.04 certain cholesterol in your body, 00:06:21.05\00:06:22.63 that makes it build up. We cannot do 00:06:22.64\00:06:24.34 anything to change those. And those are some of 00:06:24.35\00:06:27.67 the more common cardiovascular causes 00:06:27.68\00:06:29.58 of death to young children. 00:06:29.59\00:06:30.88 But most of them you're born with. 00:06:30.89\00:06:32.66 Yes. Fay, we're sorry about your friend's child 00:06:32.67\00:06:36.37 but we are so thankful that your son 00:06:36.38\00:06:40.01 had a successful repair to his heart. 00:06:40.02\00:06:42.61 One more thing on that. Congenital Abnormalities, 00:06:42.62\00:06:44.91 it's very important that you know a child 00:06:44.92\00:06:47.04 sees a pediatrician, gets our heart listen to, 00:06:47.05\00:06:49.60 get an EKG. Just those two simple things 00:06:49.61\00:06:52.89 can limp, you know can tell a mother, 00:06:52.90\00:06:55.62 a family whether they might have 00:06:55.63\00:06:57.25 one of the these on Congenital Abnormalities. 00:06:57.26\00:06:59.45 That's good. Okay. Now this question comes from 00:06:59.46\00:07:02.72 Elizabeth in England. And Elizabeth writes 00:07:02.73\00:07:05.54 I try to get my children to exercise 00:07:05.55\00:07:08.59 with not much luck. What are other ways 00:07:08.60\00:07:12.76 to help my children lower the chance to 00:07:12.77\00:07:15.28 developing cardiovascular disease? 00:07:15.29\00:07:17.58 Okay. Elizabeth, that is a great question 00:07:17.59\00:07:20.60 and that's some of the mean of this talk today, 00:07:20.61\00:07:23.80 these are the things we wanna do, 00:07:23.81\00:07:25.04 how do we lower this risk? Well once we 00:07:25.05\00:07:27.52 assume that your children do not have a 00:07:27.53\00:07:28.90 genetic cause of cardiovascular 00:07:28.91\00:07:30.51 disease then, we're 90 percent you know 00:07:30.52\00:07:33.96 in good shape. Now the next graphic is gonna 00:07:33.97\00:07:37.39 show us a few of these suggestions. 00:07:37.40\00:07:39.57 One is make sure your children have 00:07:39.58\00:07:42.67 their low levels of Cholesterol in their diet 00:07:42.68\00:07:45.66 and make sure they avoid diabetes, 00:07:45.67\00:07:48.10 make sure hypertension is detected in early age. 00:07:48.11\00:07:51.10 Think about cigarettes and keeping them away 00:07:52.07\00:07:54.17 from not only direct cigarettes that they 00:07:54.18\00:07:56.98 might smoke but secondhand smoke 00:07:56.99\00:07:59.12 and today we're seeing very much 00:07:59.13\00:08:00.51 of a sedentary lifestyle. 00:08:00.52\00:08:02.97 This sedentary lifestyle is becoming 00:08:02.98\00:08:05.85 more and more problem with children all over. 00:08:05.86\00:08:07.87 Well, and you know you think about the various 00:08:07.88\00:08:11.35 video games that they have, the televisions 00:08:11.36\00:08:13.85 you know, it's become so popular now for children 00:08:13.86\00:08:16.39 to have a television in their own bedroom. 00:08:16.40\00:08:18.74 There are some things that as parents 00:08:18.75\00:08:21.70 that I think if we're going to try to 00:08:21.71\00:08:24.37 encourage our children to exercise, 00:08:24.38\00:08:27.36 we've got to make exercise fun. 00:08:27.37\00:08:29.36 What would you recommend, what do you 00:08:29.37\00:08:31.23 with your little ones? Well a couple things 00:08:31.24\00:08:33.42 is they have to see mom and dad following 00:08:33.43\00:08:36.00 these same habits. You know if they see 00:08:36.01\00:08:37.88 mom and dad not doing this, why should 00:08:37.89\00:08:40.33 they do it? They're leading role models, 00:08:40.34\00:08:42.44 the ones that they look up to the most, 00:08:42.45\00:08:44.18 don't do it, so why should I do it? 00:08:44.19\00:08:46.10 It's not a priority to them, 00:08:46.11\00:08:47.16 it's not a priority to me. So the first thing 00:08:47.17\00:08:48.89 is make it a part of the family. 00:08:48.90\00:08:50.79 You know, go and do things out there, 00:08:50.80\00:08:53.08 go to the park, do things that are fun, 00:08:53.09\00:08:54.99 ride bikes. Biking is lot of fun. 00:08:55.00\00:08:57.50 Go to the pool, go swimming, 00:08:57.51\00:08:59.41 and go camping, take them on hikes, 00:08:59.42\00:09:01.74 get them out of the house. 00:09:01.75\00:09:03.29 Get them out doing things. 00:09:03.30\00:09:04.74 Say when they come home in the afternoon 00:09:04.75\00:09:06.27 they wanna sit down and watch TV, say no, 00:09:06.28\00:09:08.10 we are a TV free family, we're gonna go 00:09:08.11\00:09:10.60 out and play, we're gonna go have fun, 00:09:10.61\00:09:12.39 we're gonna do this but it sets the leadership 00:09:12.40\00:09:14.57 that the family says up to the top 00:09:14.58\00:09:15.87 I think it's very important in getting 00:09:15.88\00:09:17.63 kids moving. Amen. Now what are some 00:09:17.64\00:09:20.05 other ways to lower their chances, 00:09:20.06\00:09:22.13 how about if Elizabeth is wondering 00:09:22.14\00:09:25.34 how she can prevent child or her children 00:09:25.35\00:09:28.18 from getting cardiovascular 00:09:28.19\00:09:29.85 or heart problems? What about diet? Yeah. 00:09:29.86\00:09:32.23 Well you've already taught Elizabeth 00:09:32.24\00:09:33.96 about diet, diet is very important 00:09:33.97\00:09:36.11 and we're gonna talk about this a little 00:09:36.12\00:09:38.42 as we go but the food you eat are programmed 00:09:38.43\00:09:42.49 into the likes and dislikes. 00:09:42.50\00:09:44.01 'Cause I can remember eating foods 00:09:44.02\00:09:45.80 that weren't good for me as young, 00:09:45.81\00:09:47.66 and I still have those likes even to this day. 00:09:47.67\00:09:50.23 My children for instance have never tasted 00:09:51.41\00:09:53.54 certain types of foods. So I offer, 00:09:53.55\00:09:55.72 if I offer them this, they won't even like 00:09:55.73\00:09:57.25 to taste it. So you're eating is 00:09:57.26\00:09:59.42 very much a learned behavior. 00:09:59.43\00:10:01.32 And if you can teach them quality nutrition 00:10:01.33\00:10:04.06 Elizabeth, then they're gonna follow these 00:10:04.07\00:10:06.60 habits for the rest of life and what a 00:10:06.61\00:10:08.32 great gift you can give your children. 00:10:08.33\00:10:10.04 Right. Conversely if you teach them to like, 00:10:10.05\00:10:13.44 you know a bad diet and I hate to say this 00:10:13.45\00:10:16.71 but the majority of food that comes fast-food, 00:10:16.72\00:10:19.27 quick-food, processed food. 00:10:19.28\00:10:20.80 Remember when people actually used to sit down 00:10:20.81\00:10:22.92 and have a meal together. Yes. 00:10:22.93\00:10:24.35 But do you know something I also 00:10:24.36\00:10:26.55 remember my mother used to serve us a 00:10:26.56\00:10:29.27 healthy portion and she would; 00:10:29.28\00:10:31.04 we had to eat every thing that was on our plate, 00:10:31.05\00:10:33.87 or we can not leave the table. 00:10:33.88\00:10:35.27 Now don't parents have a responsibility 00:10:35.28\00:10:39.84 to control the portions because 00:10:39.85\00:10:41.22 there are a lot of children are becoming 00:10:41.23\00:10:44.19 overweight probably because they're eating 00:10:44.20\00:10:45.86 a lot of fast-foods but also they're eating 00:10:45.87\00:10:48.95 too much. Oh yeah. So that's another way 00:10:48.96\00:10:51.44 Elizabeth that you could help your children 00:10:51.45\00:10:53.78 avoid cardiovascular diseases. Well how about 00:10:53.79\00:10:55.88 this? I mean if you do your home work Johnny 00:10:55.89\00:10:57.79 I'll give you Ice cream, or have a fruit bar. 00:10:57.80\00:11:01.57 You know it's never, you know if you 00:11:01.58\00:11:03.17 go that or you can ride around the block 00:11:03.18\00:11:05.00 a few more times. So we have to think about 00:11:05.01\00:11:07.47 these things but we also have to think 00:11:07.48\00:11:09.65 you know our habits now are setting up a 00:11:09.66\00:11:11.91 lifetime of either good health or bad health. 00:11:11.92\00:11:14.86 And as parents we're literally programming 00:11:14.87\00:11:17.90 our children at a young age to either 00:11:17.91\00:11:20.25 get cardiovascular disease or not. Amen. 00:11:20.26\00:11:22.79 And it's something we have to 00:11:22.80\00:11:23.77 think about. Amen. Okay. Robin from Kansas 00:11:23.78\00:11:27.03 writes in and says, the bet I have with 00:11:27.04\00:11:30.59 my neighbor is this, the neighbor says 00:11:30.60\00:11:34.38 heart disease can start when one 00:11:34.39\00:11:37.96 is in their 20s. I say no one knows 00:11:37.97\00:11:41.87 when this disease starts? Who's right? Okay. 00:11:41.88\00:11:45.25 Well the exact time of disease I don't think 00:11:45.84\00:11:49.35 anyone can knows but we do know that the 00:11:49.36\00:11:51.68 acquired disease, the cholesterol plaques 00:11:51.69\00:11:53.69 start as young as two. We also see from 00:11:53.70\00:11:57.62 autopsies studies done at the Korean war of all 00:11:57.63\00:12:00.33 those young soldiers, a lot of them had 00:12:00.34\00:12:02.71 80 or 90 percent blockages in 00:12:02.72\00:12:04.78 20 or 30 years olds. They did not get 00:12:04.79\00:12:07.06 that way overnight. As a practicing 00:12:07.07\00:12:09.64 cardiologist I look around, people around me 00:12:09.65\00:12:12.22 and I assume everyone has cardiovascular disease. 00:12:12.23\00:12:16.15 Whose disease is active and whose disease 00:12:16.16\00:12:18.98 is inactive? That's my biggest determination 00:12:18.99\00:12:22.61 during the day. So who's right? 00:12:22.62\00:12:24.81 Well as a whole we talked about it 00:12:24.82\00:12:27.12 before 10 percent of this disease is 00:12:27.13\00:12:29.11 probably genetic, you inherit it, 00:12:29.12\00:12:31.76 and then 90 percent is definitely acquired. 00:12:31.77\00:12:35.23 Now if you have 10 percent of genetic like 00:12:35.24\00:12:37.58 you're have a family history at a young age. 00:12:37.59\00:12:39.11 Well you should darn well sure gonna do 00:12:39.12\00:12:41.17 everything possible you can to prevent 00:12:41.18\00:12:43.59 any extra acquired disease from getting on 00:12:43.60\00:12:45.89 that you've acquired. Now with this in mind 00:12:45.90\00:12:48.81 I want to bring up a concept of how we are 00:12:48.82\00:12:52.36 self programmed here and before we do that 00:12:52.37\00:12:55.39 let's look at the next graphic here. 00:12:55.40\00:12:57.21 How does this, how does this disease happen? 00:12:57.79\00:13:01.64 Well, we've developed pathways called 00:13:01.65\00:13:04.63 neuro pathways. They're also these harmful neuro 00:13:04.64\00:13:08.31 pathways and beneficial neuro pathways 00:13:08.32\00:13:10.93 and I want to talk about this Shelley 00:13:10.94\00:13:12.55 by just playing a little game with you here. 00:13:12.56\00:13:14.91 First would you do me a favor? 00:13:14.92\00:13:16.72 Explain neuro pathway? Okay. 00:13:16.73\00:13:19.20 Well a neuro pathway is when you get into 00:13:19.21\00:13:22.16 habit the neurons form pathways 00:13:22.17\00:13:25.02 that go over and over in your mind, 00:13:25.03\00:13:26.99 they're the neurons, they're the brain cells. 00:13:27.00\00:13:28.76 And these pathways are turned on every time 00:13:28.77\00:13:31.44 you do something. For example let me ask you 00:13:31.45\00:13:34.06 if I get up in the middle of the night 00:13:34.07\00:13:35.66 and I can walk to my bathroom and if I need 00:13:35.67\00:13:40.16 to go to the bathroom and I can wash my 00:13:40.17\00:13:41.50 hands and I can comeback without even turning on 00:13:41.51\00:13:43.57 a light, it's because I've done 00:13:43.58\00:13:45.51 this repetitively I know the way 00:13:45.52\00:13:47.64 and there's a neuro pathway 00:13:47.65\00:13:49.27 that's in my mind. And you could almost do 00:13:49.28\00:13:51.37 these when they're developed at such an 00:13:51.38\00:13:52.66 extreme you can almost do these without even, 00:13:52.67\00:13:55.93 without even thinking, they're automatic, right. 00:13:55.94\00:13:57.91 Because we do it over and over, 00:13:57.92\00:13:59.38 these pathways are like roads traveled, 00:13:59.39\00:14:01.29 the more you travel the more extensive 00:14:01.30\00:14:03.70 the pathways. And for instance I can see 00:14:03.71\00:14:05.50 if you had some like, if I say 3AB, C, oh 3ABN, 00:14:05.51\00:14:10.47 3ABC, I thought you were gonna say ABC. Okay, 00:14:10.48\00:14:12.98 no, no 3ABN. And let's do this for the audience 00:14:12.99\00:14:16.06 out there. Go to the last, drop, right. 00:14:16.07\00:14:19.68 These are neuro pathways, have been programmed 00:14:19.69\00:14:22.81 over years and years and years 00:14:22.82\00:14:24.49 and every has these. Society programs 00:14:24.50\00:14:27.08 these pathways, well cardiovascular disease 00:14:27.09\00:14:30.14 is similarly programmed by the habits 00:14:30.15\00:14:32.68 we get into at a young age. 00:14:32.69\00:14:34.46 If you get into habit, a bad habit 00:14:34.47\00:14:37.22 at a young age, for instance not eating well, 00:14:37.23\00:14:39.30 not exercising, these habits the more you do 00:14:39.31\00:14:43.39 them the harder they are to break, 00:14:43.40\00:14:45.83 the more you do it automatically 00:14:45.84\00:14:47.34 it's easy to reach for a doughnut 00:14:47.35\00:14:49.13 instead of an apple. It's easy to reach for 00:14:49.14\00:14:51.49 the TV rather than to go outside 00:14:51.50\00:14:53.58 and ride your bike. But the more you choose 00:14:53.59\00:14:55.93 these bad neuro pathways the more 00:14:55.94\00:14:58.46 they're developed over and over and over. 00:14:58.47\00:15:00.75 Likewise if you can develop these 00:15:00.76\00:15:02.83 good neuro pathways and another way 00:15:02.84\00:15:04.74 I think of neuro pathways as habits. 00:15:04.75\00:15:06.28 Right. Habits, neuro pathways. 00:15:06.29\00:15:08.21 Smoking is one of the most difficult 00:15:08.22\00:15:10.47 neuro pathways to break. It involves tactile 00:15:10.48\00:15:13.45 stimulation, it involves pleasure 00:15:13.46\00:15:15.40 and that pathway is so developed. 00:15:15.41\00:15:17.33 The smokers have a very hard time breaking 00:15:17.34\00:15:19.96 these neuro pathways. But that's what I wanna, 00:15:19.97\00:15:22.48 started thinking about when we start thinking 00:15:22.49\00:15:24.97 about neuro pathways. Now I'm gonna bring up 00:15:24.98\00:15:27.05 a graphic about some interesting things 00:15:27.06\00:15:29.49 about the brain and we talk about these 00:15:29.50\00:15:31.44 neuro pathways. I don't know if people realize 00:15:31.45\00:15:34.36 but there are 28 billion neurons or nerve cells 00:15:34.37\00:15:37.99 in the brain. 100000 miles of nerve pathways 00:15:38.00\00:15:41.79 that these pathways travel on, each neuron 00:15:41.80\00:15:44.84 can handle 1 million bits of information. 00:15:44.85\00:15:48.22 1 neuron, 1 neuron, 1 brain cell can pass 00:15:48.23\00:15:51.57 information to 700000 neurons in less than 00:15:51.58\00:15:56.07 20 milliseconds. Amazing. And your brain handles 00:15:56.08\00:15:59.43 30 billion, not million, 30 billion bits of 00:15:59.44\00:16:03.64 information a second. Isn't that amazing? 00:16:03.65\00:16:06.53 Well why do I make such a point about 00:16:06.54\00:16:09.31 what the brain can do? Okay. 00:16:09.32\00:16:11.22 Why that's such a big deal? 00:16:11.23\00:16:12.36 Well if you can program your brain correctly, 00:16:12.37\00:16:15.39 okay, then you're gonna avoid a lot of disease 00:16:15.40\00:16:19.35 and heartaches in your lifetime. 00:16:19.36\00:16:21.27 For instance the chemicals that regulate 00:16:21.28\00:16:23.79 these pathways can be changed. 00:16:23.80\00:16:25.80 The host of things that could be done 00:16:25.81\00:16:27.97 from the mind and you hear the mind 00:16:27.98\00:16:29.35 and the body are together on this. 00:16:29.36\00:16:31.44 So as a man thinketh, so he does. 00:16:31.45\00:16:34.49 We hear these and these are, 00:16:34.50\00:16:35.96 this isn't a new concept, this is a 00:16:35.97\00:16:37.62 Biblical concept. Absolutely. You know, 00:16:37.63\00:16:40.08 now we're gonna talk little bit later about 00:16:40.09\00:16:41.96 how we might be able to change these things 00:16:41.97\00:16:44.10 and but once these habits are developed 00:16:44.11\00:16:45.83 you can not change them on your own. 00:16:45.84\00:16:48.05 They're too highly developed. 00:16:48.06\00:16:49.60 You saw all these pathways. 00:16:49.61\00:16:50.74 Once you travel down these roads 00:16:50.75\00:16:52.52 millions and millions of times you activate 00:16:52.53\00:16:54.76 these billions of patterns of neurons 00:16:54.77\00:16:56.45 you know a trigger and you're down it. 00:16:56.46\00:16:59.03 As Jeremiah wrote, in Jeremiah 13 he said, 00:16:59.04\00:17:01.62 you can't change yourself anymore 00:17:01.63\00:17:03.64 than a leper can change a spot 00:17:03.65\00:17:05.20 or an Ethiopian his skin. Exactly. 00:17:05.21\00:17:08.29 So I'm anxious to get to that part, 00:17:08.30\00:17:09.94 so let's continue on here then Susan from 00:17:09.95\00:17:13.03 Washington has written in and said I hear 00:17:13.04\00:17:16.00 the term cardiovascular disease frequently, 00:17:16.01\00:17:19.21 what does this include? Okay. 00:17:19.22\00:17:21.21 Well that's a good question. 00:17:21.22\00:17:22.34 Lot of people don't understand it, 00:17:22.35\00:17:23.39 they think cardiovascular disease 00:17:23.40\00:17:24.78 might just be heart attacks. 00:17:24.79\00:17:26.43 But there's a lot more to cardiovascular disease 00:17:26.44\00:17:28.63 and Susanne, one of the things it does 00:17:28.64\00:17:30.85 is the rhythms of the heart, 00:17:30.86\00:17:32.19 how the heart beats that's another 00:17:32.20\00:17:33.89 separate part of cardiovascular disease 00:17:33.90\00:17:35.68 the valves, how the valves move you know 00:17:35.69\00:17:38.23 some people might have valve abnormalities 00:17:38.24\00:17:40.69 some people might have leaky valves. 00:17:40.70\00:17:42.57 We can also have high blood pressure, 00:17:42.58\00:17:44.81 we can have aneurysms that's all 00:17:44.82\00:17:46.67 cardiovascular disease, we can have disease 00:17:46.68\00:17:49.12 in the kidneys, the blood vessels there. 00:17:49.13\00:17:50.89 So our kidneys don't work well. 00:17:50.90\00:17:52.25 We can have disease in our vessels 00:17:52.26\00:17:54.57 that go to the neck and head which can cause 00:17:54.58\00:17:56.81 strokes, and aneurysms. And we can also have 00:17:56.82\00:17:59.70 disease in the blood vessels that go through 00:17:59.71\00:18:01.59 the legs which cause pain when we walk 00:18:01.60\00:18:03.48 that's a symptom called claudication. 00:18:03.49\00:18:05.26 So we hear this term frequently 00:18:05.27\00:18:08.09 but encompasses quite a bit. 00:18:08.10\00:18:10.21 And a lot of it, the whole point of what 00:18:10.22\00:18:12.43 we're talking about. A lot of this can be 00:18:12.44\00:18:14.31 prevented. And especially if we jump 00:18:14.32\00:18:16.39 on it at a young age. Well then we're gonna, 00:18:16.40\00:18:19.29 want to talk about some of those. 00:18:19.30\00:18:20.86 So let's get first to this next question Janet 00:18:20.87\00:18:24.13 from Missouri who writes, why is 00:18:24.14\00:18:26.07 cardiovascular disease the number one killer 00:18:26.08\00:18:29.02 in America? Okay. And that's what, 00:18:29.03\00:18:31.72 that's the core of what I wanted to really focus 00:18:31.73\00:18:34.48 on today is that it's the core in America 00:18:34.49\00:18:38.51 because of the way we live, 00:18:38.52\00:18:39.92 the lifestyles we have. We are literally 00:18:39.93\00:18:42.99 killing ourselves by the choices we make. 00:18:43.00\00:18:45.37 We kill ourselves by our food choices 00:18:46.16\00:18:48.29 by our lack of exercise, by our way 00:18:48.30\00:18:50.39 we deal with stress and the list goes 00:18:50.40\00:18:52.13 on and on and on. That's why it's our 00:18:52.14\00:18:55.26 number of killer. For instance in China 00:18:55.27\00:18:57.51 they don't have much cardiovascular disease, 00:18:57.52\00:19:00.12 they're not killing themselves, 00:19:00.13\00:19:01.56 they're not eating themselves to death. 00:19:01.57\00:19:03.73 In Africa, the people in Africa are not dieing 00:19:03.74\00:19:07.52 of cardiovascular disease. 00:19:07.53\00:19:09.54 They die of infections, they die of starvation, 00:19:09.55\00:19:11.88 they don't die of these what we call diseases 00:19:11.89\00:19:15.09 of excess. We're very much in a 00:19:15.10\00:19:17.64 society of excess. And getting back 00:19:17.65\00:19:20.81 to our core problem, well how do 00:19:20.82\00:19:23.36 we prevent this excess. You know. 00:19:23.37\00:19:25.33 Once we recognize that we're developing 00:19:25.34\00:19:28.19 these neuro pathways, once we're promoting 00:19:28.20\00:19:30.24 them in our families how do we change that? 00:19:30.25\00:19:32.57 How do we change that? And I'm proposing 00:19:32.58\00:19:36.29 today that the only way we change 00:19:36.30\00:19:37.79 that is to have a new heart. 00:19:37.80\00:19:39.53 Create in me a new heart, O Lord. 00:19:39.54\00:19:42.19 You know take these away from me, 00:19:42.20\00:19:44.49 give them to someone else, you know. 00:19:44.50\00:19:46.35 You know I do not want these habits 00:19:46.36\00:19:48.79 and that's only way I don't think you can 00:19:48.80\00:19:50.23 just will yourself, once you have been 00:19:50.24\00:19:52.04 programmed. For instance if you had a family 00:19:52.05\00:19:54.87 just programmed you, this is the way 00:19:54.88\00:19:56.92 you're gonna be, this is the things you're gonna 00:19:56.93\00:19:58.78 wanna do and I know that eating is 00:19:58.79\00:20:00.26 very much programmed. Sure. I mean 00:20:00.27\00:20:02.02 you like the food your habit eating 00:20:02.03\00:20:03.69 and there's something you reach in the fridge 00:20:03.70\00:20:05.35 and get and you have to realize it, 00:20:05.36\00:20:07.42 listen I'm programmed this way 00:20:07.43\00:20:09.10 and I need a higher power in order to change. 00:20:09.11\00:20:12.07 And we have a name for that higher power. 00:20:12.38\00:20:14.66 That's right. And his name is? The Christ. 00:20:14.67\00:20:17.04 But why don't you think we do this. 00:20:17.05\00:20:18.74 I mean we recognize this as a real problem 00:20:18.75\00:20:21.51 in our lives and I think most people 00:20:21.52\00:20:22.95 intellectually can understand what 00:20:22.96\00:20:25.26 we're doing to our kids and our children. 00:20:25.27\00:20:27.37 But why is it so, so very hard to do 00:20:27.38\00:20:31.61 these changes and I've been struggling 00:20:31.62\00:20:32.83 with that myself and talking with patients 00:20:32.84\00:20:35.10 and families they can say, yeah, we shouldn't 00:20:35.11\00:20:37.49 this but you know what does it look like 00:20:37.50\00:20:40.29 in a family that wants to make this changes 00:20:40.30\00:20:42.61 and I'm not sure right now. 00:20:42.62\00:20:44.36 You know for me to make a change in my life, 00:20:44.37\00:20:47.97 it starts at that point of surrender. 00:20:47.98\00:20:50.45 Of just going before the Lord and say okay 00:20:50.46\00:20:52.88 I recognize I'm totally helpless over this 00:20:52.89\00:20:55.47 that you promised in Second Corinthians 12:9 00:20:55.48\00:20:58.44 you're power would be made perfect 00:20:58.45\00:20:59.81 in my weakness and it's that thing of coming 00:20:59.82\00:21:02.69 to where you were ready to surrender to the Lord 00:21:02.70\00:21:05.02 and ask him to work through you, 00:21:05.03\00:21:07.41 working into willing to act according 00:21:07.42\00:21:09.68 to his good pleasure. And it's not easy 00:21:09.69\00:21:12.32 but you have to you know I love 00:21:12.33\00:21:15.07 where you're going with this program today Jim, 00:21:15.08\00:21:17.01 because for those of us who have developed 00:21:17.02\00:21:21.13 bad habits starting from childhood, 00:21:21.14\00:21:23.39 it is a terrible thing to try to change 00:21:23.40\00:21:27.09 some of those habits and you usually have to, 00:21:27.10\00:21:29.07 you have to replace that negatively behavior 00:21:29.08\00:21:31.96 with positively behavior. Right. 00:21:31.97\00:21:33.82 But for those of you who are rearing children 00:21:33.83\00:21:36.59 or grandchildren right now, 00:21:36.60\00:21:38.17 you can make all the difference in the world 00:21:38.18\00:21:41.31 if you train the child up in the way 00:21:41.32\00:21:43.96 they should go when they're young 00:21:43.97\00:21:46.65 that when they're old they won't 00:21:46.66\00:21:47.92 depart from that. Right. And that's not just 00:21:47.93\00:21:50.13 the spiritual training but it is that 00:21:50.14\00:21:52.66 physical training. Right. And you know 00:21:52.67\00:21:54.86 society is not gonna help you out with this. 00:21:54.87\00:21:57.50 I mean you go to most physicians 00:21:57.51\00:22:00.37 and they're not gonna talk about your habits. 00:22:00.38\00:22:02.33 They're gonna say well here's a medication, 00:22:02.34\00:22:04.45 you know take a medication, 00:22:04.46\00:22:06.08 or you're diabetic, here you need to 00:22:06.09\00:22:08.04 take insulin, or you have high blood pressure 00:22:08.05\00:22:10.51 here's a medication, here you have 00:22:10.52\00:22:13.20 this problem of this problem, 00:22:13.21\00:22:14.75 there's this solution and also in society 00:22:14.76\00:22:17.41 itself I mean look at the habits that 00:22:17.42\00:22:19.82 they're promoting. I was recently in, 00:22:19.83\00:22:23.22 heard about some public schools 00:22:23.23\00:22:25.58 and they're promoting really 00:22:25.59\00:22:27.35 terrible nutrition. Yes. The fast-food industry, 00:22:27.36\00:22:30.53 I mean you know you look on your TV set 00:22:30.54\00:22:33.15 and, and saying oh this is good for you, 00:22:33.16\00:22:34.92 have this have that, we're having a 00:22:34.93\00:22:38.18 supplements now. You can't see, 00:22:38.19\00:22:39.81 you know take this supplement; 00:22:39.82\00:22:40.96 take that supplement, how does a person know 00:22:40.97\00:22:43.29 what to believe anymore. I mean you're just 00:22:43.30\00:22:45.10 bombarded so I think society and they want, 00:22:45.11\00:22:48.23 there's a lot of money to be made in all this 00:22:48.24\00:22:50.18 and I don't think they're gonna help a 00:22:50.19\00:22:51.49 family move towards good health 00:22:51.50\00:22:53.34 and we see the costs of insurance 00:22:53.35\00:22:55.18 going up the society is more in the hospital, 00:22:55.19\00:22:58.23 everybody is getting sicker and sicker 00:22:58.24\00:22:59.74 and sicker and we're not getting at the cause. 00:22:59.75\00:23:03.00 And no one's gonna help you but God 00:23:03.01\00:23:05.24 I mean I think he is, you know hopefully 00:23:05.25\00:23:07.37 this has enlightened some people to just to 00:23:07.38\00:23:09.51 get on their knees and say Lord, 00:23:09.52\00:23:11.16 I wanna have more information, 00:23:11.17\00:23:12.91 I want to know how I can change these habits 00:23:12.92\00:23:14.69 and that's the, what greater gift 00:23:14.70\00:23:17.09 could you give to your family. 00:23:17.10\00:23:19.85 And they say most lot of these habits 00:23:19.86\00:23:21.50 in the first years of your life. 00:23:21.51\00:23:22.90 What greater gift could you give a child 00:23:22.91\00:23:25.85 than to you know, oh I don't like this 00:23:25.86\00:23:28.51 because I've never tasted it. 00:23:28.52\00:23:29.84 Well you know it's so interesting because 00:23:29.85\00:23:32.59 our taste is acquired and I've seen children 00:23:32.60\00:23:35.71 in my own family for example when we were 00:23:35.72\00:23:38.06 growing up, we had dessert maybe 00:23:38.07\00:23:41.22 once a month or at least a sweet dessert 00:23:41.23\00:23:44.72 typically what my mother would do, 00:23:44.73\00:23:46.29 would give us a piece of fruit after dinner. 00:23:46.30\00:23:49.07 So I never really acquired that taste 00:23:49.08\00:23:52.29 for rich desserts and things, 00:23:52.30\00:23:54.65 now until I would later on in life I started 00:23:54.66\00:23:57.74 being around people who did this a lot, 00:23:57.75\00:24:00.25 so for a little while and I had to give it up 00:24:00.26\00:24:03.30 then go back more toward my fruit. 00:24:03.31\00:24:05.46 On the other hand I've met people 00:24:05.47\00:24:07.87 who and I got some family member of my own 00:24:07.88\00:24:11.81 whose children eat a lot of sweets, 00:24:11.82\00:24:14.49 a lot of fast-food and she'll say when they go 00:24:14.50\00:24:18.82 to school they of course they're gonna order 00:24:18.83\00:24:21.23 whatever the McDonald's menu has at school 00:24:21.24\00:24:23.74 because they won't eat anything else 00:24:23.75\00:24:25.57 I want my kids to eat. But this is an 00:24:25.58\00:24:28.01 acquired taste, isn't it? Yes. 00:24:28.02\00:24:29.91 And it's that neuro pathway you know 00:24:29.92\00:24:32.78 when you get them when they're young 00:24:32.79\00:24:34.85 they don't have any of that pathway. 00:24:34.86\00:24:36.28 You know I've seen unfortunately 00:24:36.29\00:24:39.26 parents giving young children soda pops 00:24:39.27\00:24:41.94 to drink from a bottle. Yeah. 00:24:41.95\00:24:43.53 You know I've seen that. And I've seen them 00:24:43.54\00:24:45.92 eating donuts and all sorts of things you know 00:24:45.93\00:24:48.80 what's gonna develop and as this child 00:24:48.81\00:24:50.43 gets into adolescence, how are they ever 00:24:50.44\00:24:52.51 going to overcome what's been programmed. 00:24:52.52\00:24:55.59 Now another thing that's sort of, 00:24:55.60\00:24:57.27 been bothering me lately is the smoking issue. 00:24:57.28\00:24:59.51 How does anyone deal with getting away 00:24:59.52\00:25:02.34 you know secondhand smoke and you know 00:25:02.35\00:25:05.22 you get that as a child growing up 00:25:05.23\00:25:06.95 and you know most kids from parents 00:25:06.96\00:25:11.07 that smoke are exposed to so much smoke 00:25:11.08\00:25:13.37 that it's gonna damage their bodies 00:25:13.38\00:25:15.29 in the format of years. Now you shared a 00:25:15.30\00:25:18.56 statistic with us a few programs ago that 00:25:18.57\00:25:21.04 I would like you to repeat 'cause 00:25:21.05\00:25:22.54 it's shocked me. You said that if someone 00:25:22.55\00:25:25.76 is living in a house where they smoke 00:25:25.77\00:25:28.71 two packs a day that if you were the passive 00:25:28.72\00:25:32.27 one the child say in that house 00:25:32.28\00:25:34.62 who's not smoking is getting the damage 00:25:34.63\00:25:37.56 done to their lungs and their heart 00:25:37.57\00:25:39.46 as if they were smoking half that amount 00:25:39.47\00:25:42.20 or pack a day. And that's amazing. 00:25:42.21\00:25:43.94 That's shocking. And here, here the children 00:25:43.95\00:25:47.32 are developing all these pathways 00:25:47.33\00:25:49.21 and in a cigarette there's about 00:25:49.22\00:25:51.10 200 chemicals that they're getting 00:25:51.11\00:25:53.12 that's gonna have to interact with all these 00:25:53.13\00:25:54.87 neurons that are forming. It's just, 00:25:54.88\00:25:56.92 it's just a travesty. And it's almost like, 00:25:56.93\00:25:59.26 could they possibly become nearly nicotine 00:25:59.27\00:26:02.83 addicted, yes, so that they're gonna be 00:26:02.84\00:26:04.64 then repeat that behavior. Yes. 00:26:04.65\00:26:06.32 And that's why we've heard that you know 00:26:06.33\00:26:08.47 as generations before the Bible speaks about 00:26:08.48\00:26:11.27 the sins of the generations, right, 00:26:11.28\00:26:12.85 and how it passes from generation to generation 00:26:12.86\00:26:15.21 you can't get away from it. I want to just throw 00:26:15.22\00:26:17.91 up put up the next graphic at this time. 00:26:17.92\00:26:20.25 These are the points that I want our 00:26:20.26\00:26:23.14 viewing audience to remember no matter what. 00:26:23.15\00:26:25.49 First of all that 90% of your 00:26:25.50\00:26:28.60 cardiovascular disease is acquired. 00:26:28.61\00:26:31.67 You know you give it to yourselves. 00:26:31.68\00:26:33.51 And we have to as society, we have to help 00:26:33.52\00:26:37.01 our youth not only youth but our 00:26:37.02\00:26:38.61 very, very young children developed 00:26:38.62\00:26:41.08 these good neuro pathways. It's critical, 00:26:41.09\00:26:44.23 in preventing cardiovascular disease. 00:26:44.24\00:26:45.84 Now Shelley, I want to tell you that 00:26:45.85\00:26:47.62 a lot of my colleagues don't want 00:26:47.63\00:26:49.14 cardiovascular disease go away. 00:26:49.15\00:26:50.89 They want to keep it coming on. 00:26:50.90\00:26:52.79 Because it's a good moneymaker. Right. 00:26:52.80\00:26:54.74 Fifty, sixty thousand dollars for a bypass. 00:26:54.75\00:26:57.45 $15000 for stent, a $100 a month for 00:26:57.46\00:27:01.01 cholesterol lowering medication. 00:27:01.02\00:27:02.58 Repeated doctor visits, repeated 00:27:02.59\00:27:04.70 hospitalizations. It's big business 00:27:04.71\00:27:07.27 and the people that lobby the government 00:27:07.28\00:27:08.78 it's big business, I mean there is no one 00:27:08.79\00:27:11.47 that's gonna help but you know but God in 00:27:11.48\00:27:13.81 overcoming some of these problems. 00:27:13.82\00:27:15.39 Okay. Let's, let's talk about just in a recap 00:27:15.40\00:27:18.34 for quickly here what we can do to prevent 00:27:18.35\00:27:20.87 cardiovascular disease so that people know 00:27:20.88\00:27:23.50 what to do with their children? 00:27:23.51\00:27:24.92 Exercise is important, number one, 00:27:24.93\00:27:27.37 one of the top ones. Good nutrition, 00:27:27.38\00:27:30.24 is so critical. And the more plant based 00:27:30.25\00:27:33.20 your diet that we stay away from the 00:27:33.21\00:27:35.31 cholesterol and the animal diet than 00:27:35.32\00:27:37.31 the better of you are. Rest, avoiding stress, 00:27:37.32\00:27:40.62 developing a spiritual life, 00:27:40.63\00:27:42.28 all of these things, avoiding smoke, 00:27:42.29\00:27:45.56 caffeine, drugs, alcohol, keep them 00:27:45.57\00:27:49.02 moving, keep them moving, keep them moving. 00:27:49.03\00:27:52.31 Jim, thank you so much you've given 00:27:52.32\00:27:54.03 our audience a whole lot to think about today. 00:27:54.04\00:27:56.52 Thank you. And for those of at home 00:27:56.53\00:27:58.66 I hope that you have enjoyed this program 00:27:58.67\00:28:01.15 and I hope you will if you have someone 00:28:01.16\00:28:03.90 in your family who didn't get to see it, 00:28:03.91\00:28:05.46 tell them about it because this is a 00:28:05.47\00:28:07.18 very important topic. God bless you very much. 00:28:07.19\00:28:10.90