Praise God for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made!
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This is what David
proclaimed in a loud voice.
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I want to welcome each one
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of the viewers to
"Wonderfully Made"
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Thank you for taking the
time out of your busy schedules
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to think about your
health, and how God created you.
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We have an
exciting show today...
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We're going to be
talking about winning the war
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with cardiovascular disease.
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I'm so happy to have, as my
guest here today, Dan Miller
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Dan, welcome to
"Wonderfully Made"
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Nice to be here.
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Tell me a little bit about this
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"Heartwise Ministry"
we've been working on...
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Well Heartwise Ministry
was basically something that
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it was originated in 2005.
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It was basically a natural
creation from your books...
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I should say.
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It's a ministry that...
the basic core of the ministry
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their message is
Truth, Love and Healing
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Now, why did you set it up
with truth, love and healing?
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Is it a progression, or...
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It IS a progression, I believe.
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For instance, when you
find truth, you go to the Bible,
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and it's usually biblical...
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When you find truth in medical
fields, it's something that
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you've searched for.
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Once you've developed
the truth of something,
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then you go to the next
step which would be love.
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Love is something
that comes natural,
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and is a message from God.
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And then you go to
the healing process.
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So it's a 3-step
process, I believe.
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So in this, we
have to have truth
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to have true
healing, right? Right.
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You know, I see so
many myths out there about
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cardiovascular
disease every day... you know
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This diet is
better than that diet...
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You can see the lies
that are out there... Correct
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And especially in
the health care world,
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and it's hard for some people
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to sort of sort
through this sometimes.
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And it affects your
whole life you know... Right
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If what you know about
your life is not the truth,
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then, it's going to
affect you in a negative manner
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...sooner or
later, we all know that.
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So this ministry
really is dedicated,
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not only to finding
the truth in healthcare,
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but finding the truth in life,
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and the truth in
the Scriptures as well.
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So, I mean, there's a
lot to be said for that...
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and there's a group of people
out there, I believe, that
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are looking for this
kind of a ministry to look at.
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Now, we're talking
about winning the war about
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cardiovascular disease. Right.
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I was reading
something the other day, Jim
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It's just some statistics that
I'm going to throw out there
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to you to see what you
think about them... Okay
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Spending on healthcare...
Last year, in the United States
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2.2 trillion dollars!
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Now that's all healthcare all
together, everything? Correct
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Wow! That's a lot, a big number!
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That's an amazing number.
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In 2006, 900,000 heart attacks
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Wow, that's just in the
United States, right? Correct
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Think of a city maybe
the size of what... Atlanta?
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Wow, 900,000...
Everybody in Atlanta gets to
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have a heart attack
this year. That's incredible!
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Out of those
900,000, 600,000 were new,
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first ones... Okay Correct
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300,000 of them were 2nd,
3rd, and 4th heart attacks. Wow
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So that's interesting.
That's staggering...
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And out of the
900,000 heart attacks,
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42% of these people died.
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Wow, that's a lot of
deaths. That's amazing!
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You know, you would
think a little bit about that
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with all this going
on, you would think that
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you know, with that
kind of money involved,
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you would think the
government and everyone
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would be up in arms
about fighting this disease
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that's a lot more...
You would think that but
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it's probably not the truth. Wow
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...13 million around the world
die of cardio disease every year
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Every year... 13 million, Wow
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Now I'm not really sure how
to break those numbers down.
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In the first half
of the 21st century,
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we're going to have an
estimated 1 billion people die
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of cardiac-related disease.
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That's if we continue to have
... At the rate that we have
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Well you know, our job
here with Heartwise Ministries
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is to slow that
rate down. Correct
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And through the
truth part of our ministry,
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that's what we're talking about.
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Well that's why it's so
exciting about winning the war
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We just don't
want to win a battle...
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We want to win the war
against cardiovascular disease.
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It's a huge job... Okay
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Well we have some questions from
all over the world... We do!
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Let's go to our
first question Okay
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Our first question is
from Margaret in Texas.
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She says, "My name is
Margaret, but it could easily
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have been Winnie
the Worrier" Uh oh...
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I think we both
know somebody like that.
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"Let me explain... When I was
8, my mom had a heart attack.
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Her sister had a heart
attack a few years later.
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What can I do to lower my risks?
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Well, the first
thing, Winnie, you've already
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done to lower the risk...
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I mean Margaret... I
called her Winnie the Worrier
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SORRY! Margaret!
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Margaret, the first
thing you can do is recognize
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that there is a problem...
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Unless you
understand the problem,
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a solution cannot
be developed. Correct
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So we understand that
there's a problem here...
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There are several things
that raise a person's risk
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of having a heart attack.
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There are some things we can't
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do anything
about... What would those be?
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For instance,
your genetics. Right
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The genetic material...
the DNA that passed down
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from generation to generation
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Sometimes it's weeks...
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Sometimes we don't have
enzymes that digest the material
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I mean, the enzymes that
have to do with cholesterol
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but your genetics
can predispose you.
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Another thing we
can't do is age...
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Because as a person gets
older, the chance of having
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a heart attack goes up. Right
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I've heard statistics, or
percentages, I should say,
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that 90% of all people
create their own situation
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And only 10% is
purely genetic. Right
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That's pretty astounding
when you think about it.
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They estimate that a lot
of the heart attacks that are
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happening... a lot of
this number that happening
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can be prevented.
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Do you think that
she is part of that 10%?
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Well, I don't know...
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You know, she might have
genetics, she might not...
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But, Margaret, a
couple of other things...
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Now you can't do anything
about your genetics and your age
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But the things you
CAN do something about...
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Let's talk
about those. All right
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Your cholesterol level...
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The lower the cholesterol,
the less risk you have of
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having a heart attack,
and cardiovascular disease.
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What is cholesterol?
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Cholesterol is a
lipid which is a FAT
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that we usually eat in
our diet that gets deposited
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inside our blood stream.
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Specifically, in heart disease,
it gets deposited inside the
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arteries of the
heart, develops plaques
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...this gradually can
buildup inside the arteries
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and then break
loose. That's right
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Can break loose, or
it can cause a problem.
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The next thing that Margaret
can do is blood pressure...
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Blood pressure is that internal
pressure inside the vessels
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that if it's high
over long periods of time,
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you can literally damage
the inside of your vessels.
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They call high blood
pressure the silent killer.
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You know why they call it
the silent killer? No idea
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Well, because some
people don't even know
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they have high blood pressure...
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because they never
get it checked! Right
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Never get it checked!
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I think men are the
worst examples of this.
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They can go on for years
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and years and they
never get a physical...
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You know, someone might say...
Well you ought to get it checked
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And it's been up
for years and years!
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So would you say, even if
you don't go to the doctor,
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and get a physical,
would it be beneficial to you
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to stop in the mall if they're
having a blood pressure check
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and have that done
at least? I sure would!
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Now, most people take
their car in to get it looked at
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every so often...
get the oil changed
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I mean how much more important
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is your body...
than your heart check?
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I think I would get it
checked, you know, get my
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blood pressure
checked... that nature.
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So Margaret, there are
2 things right there...
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We can work on our
high blood pressure,
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we can work on
the cholesterol...
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The other thing is smoking.
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I think everyone knows
that smoking raises the risk
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of having a heart attack. Right
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There are lots of dangerous
chemicals in cigarettes
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that can raise our risk.
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In fact, it's been
estimated that if you can
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quit smoking cigarettes,
you've lowered your risk
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of having a heart
attack 50%... Right
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How about the fact
that she's a worrier?
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She even named herself
"Winnie the Worrier" here.
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Yeah, and what worry
does, is worry raises your
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stress level.
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And we know that
bodies are under stress...
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their chemistry changes. Right
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Specifically, the
level of stress hormones
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increase dramatically.
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The stress hormones might be
called adrenalin or epinephrine.
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Cortisol is another one,
aldosterone... These all go up.
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Growth hormone goes up.
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When these go up, you get
negative chemical reactions
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You start to store cholesterol.
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So chronic worrying, and
stress is not helping anything
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.. affects you in a real manner,
and not just a perceived manner.
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And later on, we're going
to talk a little bit, Margaret,
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about ways that we can
lower that stress level too.
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Now, other things
that we can lower the risk
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that you have control over.
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You know, you want to be
one of these that are not
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in the 10% that do
have heart attacks.
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Obesity... Obesity, inactivity
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That's associated with a
higher rate of heart attacks
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...it changes your
chemistry for the bad too
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And lastly, lastly
before we move on... is diabetes
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People that have diabetes,
it affects the blood vessels.
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They're more prone to
have heart attacks, stroke and
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cardiovascular disease.
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So there's a whole
host of things here, Dan
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But you know, a lot of
people worry a lot... They do
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You know, they worry about it...
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And sometimes that
worry, years and years out,
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it creates
negative coping habits...
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And your worried, you're
stressed, so what do you do?
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You know, some people SMOKE...
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We don't, in the United
States, take care of our stress,
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and worry in the manner that
other countries do, for instance
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We get in bad habits.
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Some people snack all the time.
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Yeah, some countries have a
nap in the afternoon... Right
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And those are some things
we should start looking into
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I think to lower this rate.
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But I hope that,
Margaret in Texas,
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I hope those suggestions
are some things that you can do
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to lower your risk of
having cardiovascular disease.
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All right... let's go to #2.
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This is from Frank in New
York City or at least N.Y.
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"My bypass
surgery was 5 years ago...
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My cholesterol is good. "
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"I exercise every day
for at least 30 minutes. "
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That's good! That's very good.
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"My blood pressure runs 120/70."
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"Is there anything else you
can think of that will lower my
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risk of having
more problems?" Okay...
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Now, when you talk
about cardiovascular disease,
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we talk about the battle.
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And it looks like Frank has
already suffered the battle.
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He has had bypass surgery.
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But bypass surgery does not
necessarily fix the problem.
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Remember, it
bypasses around the blockages.
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The blockages are still there.
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Now, we talked to
Margaret last about the things
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that she did to
lower her risk factors.
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It looks like
Frank is doing those...
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But there are
other things that...
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What can I think of
that would help him more...
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Well, stress... You know,
we've talked about stress.
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Well, what are things that a
person can do to lower stress?
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Well, you know, I think
there are many different things
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and what's interesting about
stress is what might work for
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YOU, might not
work for ME. Right
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A lot of people, just real soft
music will lower their stress.
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A lot of people think exercise
has a big benefit... For sure
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I would personally think a
lot of us dissipate our stress
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through the way we eat.
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Certain foods make us
very comfortable... Right
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In doing that, you
kind of compound the problem
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that you're already
trying to alleviate though...
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So there are good
ways to alleviate stress,
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and I think there are
bad ways to alleviate stress.
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Well, and Frank, in
talking about stress,
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one of the things that I
want to point you back to
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is the Bible...
Correct, very good point!
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You know, one of the
best treatments for stress is
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the God of the Universe worked
6 days, and what did He do?
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He rested... He rested.
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How many of us get rest?
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For instance...
true rest... Yeah
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If you jumped
off a building, Dan,
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okay, this is a natural law...
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You would break when you
hit the bottom, wouldn't you?
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Yes... whether you
believed it or not. Right
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When we violate God's
natural laws, for instance,
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the law of rest;
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when we violate that natural
law... we're affected. Right
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Whether we
believe it or not! Correct
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Our chemistry changes inside,
the stress hormones go up,
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and we predispose ourself to
having chemical problems inside.
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So that's one thing... Rest
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I would say that,
also being in the Bible
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through prayer, and the
Holy Spirit being able to
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come into your life and change
you from the inside out...
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I think is a huge thing
to deal with stress though.
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Now another thing
that we talk about stress,
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at nighttime, you know our
bodies are made to rest at night
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When we don't get good
rest at night, whether it be
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we stay up too late eating food,
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we're saturated by
stimulants like the internet,
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television, telephones, caffeine
yeah, cell phones, beepers
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Everything is going off.
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We don't naturally rest...
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And you've heard of the
circadian rhythms that we have
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Yes... Those get
disrupted, guess what?
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It puts MORE
stress on our body...
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The next thing happens, these
stress hormones, the epinephrine
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the cortisol, all these go
up again, and disease sets in.
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And it's an unending circle
if you don't get control of it.
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And the statistics
that you quoted earlier
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well, that's why we
have such high statistics
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because our
chemistry is changing...
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We're not taking
care of the insides,
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and we don't even recognize
what we're doing. Correct
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Now, I want to
get back to Frank...
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There are a couple
of other things, Frank
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that I could think
of that might help you.
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And we talked
about rest... Water!
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I think water lowers your risks
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...70% of your body is water.
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And I heart something to
the effect that a huge amount of
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people in the United States
are chronically dehydrated...
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Is that correct? Right
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And I've read a study
recently that said up to 70-75%
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are chronically dehydrated.
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We're drinking
Starbucks... Right
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We're drinking Cokes, caffeines
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But we're not drinking water.
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In the Garden of
Eden, for instance,
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you didn't see a Starbucks,
or a Coke machine out there.
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They drank water...
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It seems to me like water,
from a commonsense standpoint,
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that water would be a
natural agent... a washing agent
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you know, to clean
your system out with...
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And you think about all the
chemical reactions in the body
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depend on water.
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And without water,
everything can go haywire.
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Now, for instance, if
you were walking in a desert,
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okay... and
don't get enough water,
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does your mind work right?
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I don't think so, no. No
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You start seeing things. Right
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So, the chemistry
depends on water...
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And without water, it
puts stress on the body
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Stress on the body does
all these bad chemical things.
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So those are some
things that also...
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Now, one last thing
that I think would help is
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you've heard of antioxidants...
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I think those lower your risk.
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We've also heard about being
happy and laughing... Right
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I think that's
another biblical...
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And being happy and laughing
does what to your system?
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Well, in Proverbs, it says,
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"A merry heart doth
good, like medicine. " Right
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We know that people
that are laughing and happy,
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they make higher endorphins.
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So get out there and
have a good belly laugh!
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Don't take it so
seriously. Be happy!
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So I hope those are a
couple of things, Frank,
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that might help lower
your risk of having...
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Remember, we're
fighting the war, Frank
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And if we can get at what
caused it in the beginning
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stress, rest, diet...
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we have a chance of not
having to fight the battles
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Right... Very good.
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All right... #3 A
question from Joanne
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in Fresno, California Okay
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"I read your book "Heartbeat"...
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"It was easy to read, and
talked about acute and chronic
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treatment for heart disease. "
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"Why did you
divide treatment up?"
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"Would it be easier to talk
about treatment all together?"
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What's the difference between
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acute and
chronic... to start out with?
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Acute is something, Dan,
that needs to be done right away
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right now... while you're
having the heart attack. Right
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If you start having a
heart attack right now,
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here on the set... Okay, of 3ABN
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All the camera people are
going to come and help. Okay
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Hopefully, you'll
be the one to help.
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We'll be here helping you.
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We're going to get
the heart going again...
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Get the blood flowing.
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We're going to
deal with the problem.
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We might have to
take you to the hospital.
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We might have to do
an angioplasty or stent
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But we're not going to sit
there and talk about STRESS,
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and days of rest, and
your diet... at that point.
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I think modern medicine is
great for acute care. Right
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But for winning the war...
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That's a totally
separate issue... Exactly
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And you have to
sort of divide it up
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Because, you
know, the battle is over
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I think medicines
have their place. Correct
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But lifestyle change and
getting at what caused it
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For instance, if the cause
of your heart attack was stress
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then we would work on
ways to lower the stress level.
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And we'd have to determine what
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the stress is...
whether it was lack of sleep
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Let's say that you had a guilty
conscience because your mind
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wasn't free from some
of the things or untruths
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or anything that damages
the mind could have caused this.
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So that's what we try to do.
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We try to focus
on well, what caused
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the problem in the first place.
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And if we can get at
THAT, we've won the war.
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So then at that point,
what you're talking about
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is sitting down and
creating a game plan... Right
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And that's why I
divide acute and chronic
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because there
are so many people...
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For instance, they go
one route or the other...
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They fight the acute
battle, and then they don't
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think... Well, most people think
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to quit smoking cigarettes,
but a lot of people don't think
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"Well what did I
do in the first place
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to cause this
problem to happen. "
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And that's why I divided
the acute and chronic care.
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#4, Jim, I'm sorry... Okay
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"One of the
problems I have is stress"
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Once again, we've got a
question about stress...
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so, obviously,
everybody is stressed out.
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"My doctors have
tried everything"
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"My job, kids, wife and life in
general, nothing seems to help"
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"Any suggestions?"
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This is from
somebody in Pennsylvania...
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they withheld their name.
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Well, to my
friends in Pennsylvania,
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I think we've sort of
touched on some of these
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treatments of stress...
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and I think, for me, getting
back to the source of truth
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You know, you hear
so much out there...
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the treatment for stress now...
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Some people do
relaxation techniques...
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Some people take medications
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You've heard of Valium and Xanax
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But if we get back to the Bible
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Okay, get back to the Bible...
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What the Bible
teaches about stress...
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Why did God give
us these days of rest?
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Why did God make us a good diet?
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I think getting back to
the Bible, and getting back to
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your spiritual side... that's
going to help us find the TRUTH.
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And the truth sort of
frees us up from some of these
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things that are
causing the stress... Right
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And then it can
lead us to real healing.
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That why, you know,
when we talk about Heartwise,
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we start with truth...
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we move to love, and
then we move to healing.
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It's a natural progression
from one thing to another.
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In the Book of
John, what's that text...
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"Ye shall know the truth... and
the truth shall set you free"
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Right, the truth sets you free.
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The truth is
knowledge about God. Right
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Because when we know God,
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God sort of
teaches us what love is...
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And everything
sort of stems from that.
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It seems like that was
His greatest command in
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the New Testament.
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They've tried
everything else here...
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So I think that you are
hitting it right on the head
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whenever you say that the
spiritual aspect of prayer
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and asking God to
help with the situation.
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A lot of people, I
find, when they talk about
00:20:05.76\00:20:07.51
cardiovascular disease,
and we see the prevalence of it
00:20:07.54\00:20:10.61
...how it all over
America, and all over the world.
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You don't hear it commonly
to see a treatment for this...
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is getting into the Bible.
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Getting God to heal you.
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It's not a
popular way to do things.
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But you can change
your chemistry through
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that healing process too.
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You know, I believe
that God heals people acutely
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...You know, like raises people
from the dead... instantly.
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But another way, I
think, He heals us is slowly.
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By giving you the power
through that relationship
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...getting a
little truth And change
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having that love in your
life, and the next thing you do,
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you're able to
make a better decision!
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But say you're a smoker...
through the healing process...
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Right, you're
able to quit smoking.
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Were you able to
exercise every day...
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Or learn how to rest better.
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I've had a patient
recently from New York City...
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that he never was
able to take rest.
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And just learning the principle
of resting and vacations
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...his chemistry
improved dramatically.
00:21:01.89\00:21:04.32
So there's lots
of ways to do that...
00:21:04.35\00:21:06.12
but I want to try
to point people...
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One of the things I want to do
is look at your spiritual life
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...Get back in the Bible
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Pray that God will
help you find out the source
00:21:11.73\00:21:14.22
of your stress and He will be
the real treatment of the stress
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Okay, we have
another question...
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Okay, this is from
Rhonda in Indiana...
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"A book I read recently
had a ton of suggestions on
00:21:22.56\00:21:26.85
how to take
care of your heart. "
00:21:26.88\00:21:28.47
"Intellectually, I
know all this is true...
00:21:28.48\00:21:31.38
but making the change
seems impossible to me. "
00:21:31.41\00:21:34.65
"Am I alone in this?"
00:21:34.68\00:21:36.54
Wow, Rhonda, that's a
question I see a lot...
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is people know, intellectually,
what they need to be doing
00:21:40.95\00:21:44.67
For instance, people
know that they should be on an
00:21:44.70\00:21:47.01
exercise program.
00:21:47.04\00:21:48.65
And people know when
they're not eating right...
00:21:48.68\00:21:51.35
that they might be
eating differently.
00:21:51.38\00:21:53.93
I think people know that,
if they're in a stressful job,
00:21:53.94\00:21:56.74
they need to change that. Right
00:21:56.77\00:21:57.91
I mean, this is
common sense, related stuff.
00:21:57.94\00:22:00.91
It goes back to your example of
00:22:00.94\00:22:04.89
somebody falling
off a building. Right
00:22:04.92\00:22:09.05
It's a law... but "Am
I alone in this feeling?"
00:22:09.08\00:22:11.29
No, Rhonda, you're not alone.
00:22:11.32\00:22:12.66
A lot of people feel this way.
00:22:12.69\00:22:14.49
Now, what can we do about it?
00:22:14.52\00:22:16.96
Now how do we
actually take these principles,
00:22:16.99\00:22:20.08
that we've talked
about, to lower the risk of
00:22:20.11\00:22:21.87
cardiovascular disease
00:22:21.90\00:22:23.45
How do we actually
start an exercise program?
00:22:23.48\00:22:26.61
Where does that
ability come from?
00:22:26.64\00:22:28.66
Where does the ability to eat
a little bit better come from...
00:22:28.69\00:22:31.24
Or drink more water?
00:22:31.27\00:22:32.44
How does that happen?
00:22:32.47\00:22:33.71
That's a great question.
00:22:33.74\00:22:37.66
Yeah and in the end, we all
know where it comes from. Right
00:22:37.69\00:22:41.03
And I think it's getting
God to take control of the mind.
00:22:41.06\00:22:45.53
The mind is a
very powerful thing...
00:22:45.56\00:22:47.32
You know, it says...
"Create in me a new heart"
00:22:47.35\00:22:50.54
heart which is a new mind.
00:22:50.57\00:22:51.81
God wants to be in our mind
and take control of our thoughts
00:22:51.84\00:22:54.89
and our actions.
Everything we do...
00:22:54.92\00:22:56.88
And when he does
that, then we have a chance
00:22:56.91\00:22:59.34
of changing our behavior. Right
00:22:59.37\00:23:01.43
Now, you know, you
think, "Well, you know,
00:23:01.46\00:23:04.32
"I try to do these things"
00:23:04.36\00:23:05.40
Now, I see a lot of people
that they try to make changes
00:23:05.43\00:23:07.88
all at once, and then
when they make a mistake,
00:23:07.91\00:23:10.52
they fall off the wagon!
00:23:10.55\00:23:12.16
They beat themselves up! Yeah
00:23:12.17\00:23:13.46
...With guilt and everything
else connected with that.
00:23:13.49\00:23:15.60
"I'm not going to do this again,
you know, I'm done with this"
00:23:15.63\00:23:17.79
I think all of us have gone
through the guilt part of that.
00:23:17.82\00:23:20.03
But you now, one thing that
I try to point people to is...
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Remember that
God... God loves us
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He loves us more
than we could imagine.
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You know, He just doesn't
want us to hurt ourselves.
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With the things that He
points out that's dangerous
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When we break the
natural laws, we hurt ourselves.
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But as we get to know God,
and see how much He loves us,
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and wants to work with us,
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and forgives us
and takes us over.
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Then, as we make
one decision at a time,
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it gets a little
bit easier. Correct
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Now, let me give
you an example here...
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I had a patient who
came in the other day
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and she wasn't doing
very many things right.
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And, I didn't want to hit
her with everything at once.
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I said, well, let's
just start somewhere
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But where do you start with...
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Well, I want you to just pray...
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Pray that God will
come into your life.
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...And start reading the
Bible... the source of truth.
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And then the next thing is...
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Maybe try not to
eat big at night.
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And let's get back
together in a month.
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So she did that for a month.
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You know, she made
that decision... okay
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She started looking for truth
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God started responding to her,
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and she could do that.
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And she said,
"Yeah, I feel better. "
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I said, "Well, the next
thing, let's start exercising"
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You don't have to do
everything at once, but do this
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So, through a
series of slow changes,
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she has changed her chemistry.
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And that goes right back to the
game plan that we talked about.
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And that's why I don't think...
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You know, I think the
spiritual life, in treating
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any chronic disease, is so vital
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and imperative...
It's very, very important
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Because this is what
changes your body's chemistry...
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is when you have that freedom...
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when you're able to love...
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when you're able
to feel that peace.
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For instance, is it in Hebrews
it talks about resting in God?
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Yes... Hebrews 4:4, wasn't it?
That seems to me like that is
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It's that rest,
that peace you get...
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And when you have that
peace, ... Your life changes
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And your chemistry
changes with it... Right
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Now, think about,
if I were the enemy,
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what would I do?
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I would create so much stressful
situations, doubt, guilt
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You know, people
believing that they're not saved
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...that God doesn't love them.
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I would have the internet
and TV bombarding me with
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lies about healthcare.
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I would have all these other
things to sort of make me feel
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discouraged, so I
didn't feel I'd do enough
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and then I would want a
society to numb my senses
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so I wouldn't feel this
way anymore... And then it goes
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right back to where Heartwise
Ministries is concerned
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And, you know, people have to
find the truth for themselves.
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You know, I can't say, "This
is true and you believe it"
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You have to
find it for yourself.
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You have to go look
for it yourself... Right
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And we have a great textbook
for that in the Bible. Yes we do
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Which one are we on now?
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Let's see, we're on #6 Okay
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This is from Tom
in Missouri... Okay
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And this time, I have to break
up a little bit because it's
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a long question.
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"The other day, I was
channel-hopping and saw
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you and Dan Miller
talking about rest. "
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"You seem like regular guys. "
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"What you said
made sense to me. "
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"No one seems to listen to
me when I go to the doctor"
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"They just want to
write a prescription
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and send me on my way. "
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"I am a trucker
and at the age of 45."
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"I want to stay
away from pills. "
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"I know I'm rambling,
my question is this"...
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"Why do doctors just
want to give you a pill?"
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I know what Jim feels like.
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Yeah, I woke up one
morning and felt like I was that
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famous singer from Memphis...
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Was it... Oh, Elvis! Yeah!
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You know, I mean, I was
to the point where I just
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was taking a
pill for everything.
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And it got to the point
where finally we sat down,
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or I sat down with my
doctor and told him that
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it's really a concern
to me, and we sat down and
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talked about it.
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We talked about... made
a game plan just like you
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were talking
about for your patient
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And slowly, he drops
back the prescription,
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and so on and so
forth, so you can't just stop
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taking your pills
just cold turkey... Right
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You do have to have a game plan.
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If my doctor would not sit down
with me and discuss these things
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in a logical manner,
I would not continue.
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Well, back to his question
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A lot of reasons
people don't listen...
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I mean, very few people
listen like they should...
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And I don't know
if this is your case,
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but one of the things we
want to do is listen to people
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Meet them where they're at.
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And we want to
learn to love them.
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You know, love them, and
figure out... out of love,
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how to successfully
change their chemistry.
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And one of the things I try to
do is think about your chemistry
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How we can change your chemistry
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from what it is when
your sick, to a HEALING state.
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And it goes back
to those 3 things...
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We want to
teach you what's truth
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We want to love you
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and then,
hopefully, you'll be healed.
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We want to thank you and,
hopefully, you will win the war
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against cardiovascular disease.
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