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designed to promote good health
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Hi and welcome to
'Wonderfully Made.'
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My name is Sheryl McWilliams.
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And our guest today
is Dr. Timothy Howe.
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Hi, Dr. Howe, and
thank you for being here.
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It's a pleasure to be with you.
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This is a wonderful program on
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Wonderfully Made.
Certainly our creator
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has made us
wonderfully. Absolutely, today
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we're gonna be
talking about a topic that
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I find very interesting.
It seems that whenever
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I'm in the supermarket
or the store these days
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I'm seeing ads for
vitamins and supplements.
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Folks even knocking
on my door requesting
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that I listen to
their information about
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their particular
brand or vitamin.
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I'm really
confused on which ones
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are the best ones to
take and how do I know and,
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and really what
to do. So, I'm hoping
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you can shed some
light on this topic.
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Vitamins and
supplements are a very
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interesting topic.
We know from hundreds of
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scientific studies
that the more vitamins
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and minerals you
get in your food,
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the richer your
diet is in anti-oxidants,
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the less heart
disease you'll have,
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the less cancer you
have, the less infections
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you'll have. And
we are so interested
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as people of
course to have less cancer
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and heart disease
and less infections,
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less chronic
diseases. So, we assume that
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if you need more
and more is better than
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let's open up a
bottle and get them.
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Because of that
idea, scientists started
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several big studies
to answer the question,
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will taking vitamins help us.
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One of the best
studies done was published
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in 1994, in the
New England Journal of
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Medicine. It's referred today
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to as the finish
study. What they did is
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they took a large group of men,
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who were all
smokers, from our studies in
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populations
looking at their diets,
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we knew that taking
vitamin A, Beta-carotene,
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vitamin E,
Alfa-Tocoferol would lower
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the risk of cancer. If
you get it in your diet
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it lowers your
risk, let's give you a
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little more in a
pill form and see
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if it helps even more.
So, they did that study
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and they found
something very interesting.
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They found that in the men that
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they supplemented
vitamin A or a Beta-carotene
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and vitamin E, their
risk of cancer didn't go down,
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it went up, it actually went up.
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Now, that is a
little frightening.
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The last thing
that I want to do,
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is go out to the store
and buy these wonderful
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vitamins and find
out that as a result of
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taking them, I have
a higher cancer risk.
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Absolutely, we take
them supposedly to decrease
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our risk of
disease and not to mention
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they're extremely expensive
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or at least the
ones that I've seen.
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People spend a lot
of money on this stuff.
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They certainly do
spend a lot of money.
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They couldn't
believe that study you know,
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they, they, they,
they scratch their heads
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and they said, how can this be.
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We have hundreds of studies,
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literally hundreds
of studies showing that
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if we get more Beta-carotene
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and anti-oxidants
and vitamins in our diet,
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we'll have a
lower risk. And yet when
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we give them to
people from a pill bottle,
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the risk goes up.
What's at play here?
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Well, they had to repeat
the study and so they did
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another study, it's
called the caret study,
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not RROT, but CARET
study, published in the
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New England
Journal Medicine in 1996.
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In that study, they
also supplemented vitamin A
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and vitamin E. You
know, they found early
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on in this study
that cancer rates went up
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and heart disease rates went up.
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In fact, it was
such a mark change
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that they stopped the study.
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Because, people were
dying from supplementing
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these vitamins.
Wow! They went back
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and looked at the finished study
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and did subgroup
analysis and found something
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very interesting.
What they found is,
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in the people that
had the highest intake of
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Beta-carotene in their diets,
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they were the ones
that have the lowest risk
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of cancer at the
end of the study.
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So, you have sort
of a conundrum here,
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if you have a high
amount of Beta-carotene
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in your food, you
have a low risk of cancer,
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if you add
vitamin A or Beta-carotene
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in from a pill,
you have a high risk.
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Confusing, isn't
it? Very confusing.
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Yeah, interesting
though, what they fail to
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realize is, Beta-carotene
is only one of over 600
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different types of carotene.
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And I can't tell you
which one of those 600
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might be
important, but I can tell you
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that if you take
excess Beta-carotene,
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you will interfere
with the absorption of those
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other carotenes or carotenoids,
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carotene like
compounds. Balance is what
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we're after, it's
very important to maintain
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that careful
balance of nutrients
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found in our food.
So, what I hear you saying
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is that it's better
to actually get our,
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our nutrients, our
vitamins from the food
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that we eat as
apposed to a pill.
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Absolutely, you
know, I, I, when I eat
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my vegetables, and
when I eat my fruits.
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I, I'm, I'm kind of particular,
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I don't like to
eat old fruit you know,
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that's a little
bit bad or I don't like
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wilted
vegetables, I like them fresh.
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You know, the last
time you ate your vitamins,
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did you open up
the bottle and say,
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I wonder if
you're fresh, you know.
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How long has it been since those
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vitamins were
fresh? I simply look at the
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expiration date. Well,
is that what you do with
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fruit and vegetables? I
think it's very important
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to have your
vitamins fresh plus,
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the last time you
looked at your vitamin pill,
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your bottle you
know if you look at it.
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There's a whole
long list vitamin A,
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vitamin B, 1, 2, 3, 4, you know,
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all of these
things, but are you sure
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you're getting them
in the right balance?
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And what about the
ones that aren't mentioned
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there? For
instance, blueberries.
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Now, blueberries are
an interesting fruit.
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They're one of the
richest, the very richest
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in anti-oxidants. Do
you know that blueberries
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have over 150
phytochemicals in them.
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Wow! Now, does your
vitamin pill have over a
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150 phytochemicals? I doubt it,
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and that's only
one. But there are many
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other fruits and
vegetables, aren't they?
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Another one that
people have looked
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at is vitamin E. You
perhaps have some friends,
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I'm sure you
wouldn't take vitamin E,
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but you maybe have some friends
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that are taking
vitamin E. We used to say,
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you have-to-have
vitamin E for your heart,
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it will reduce
your heart disease risk.
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And indeed vitamin E
does seem to thin the blood,
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but it doesn't
reduce your risk of
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heart disease. In
fact, it's not recommended
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any longer that you
take vitamin E to reduce
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your risk of heart
disease. Not only does
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heart disease not
go down very much,
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but your risk of
having a hemorrhagic stroke
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goes up. So, you take
your vitamin E to help
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your heart. You
don't help your heart
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and on the other
hand, you have a stroke.
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What kind of a trade is that?
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Doesn't sound like
much of a bargain to me.
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Not one that I want.
Something that I've read
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recently is that, it
seems that and some of the,
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the cases of
vitamins that perhaps
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what's listed on
the bottle, is it
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necessarily what's
inside? Well, that maybe
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the case because they're
not controlled by the FTA,
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they put on there and
what they put on there
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and there's not a lot
of oversight. Furthermore
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just because it
has the vitamin on the,
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on the, listed on the
bottle doesn't mean that
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it is well absorbed. When
the vitamin is in the food
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usually it's very
well absorbed the way
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it's presented to your
body, but not necessarily
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so in the pill. I
have a saying that,
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if humans have messed with it,
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they probably
messed it up and this seems
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like a good example of that.
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Yes, I think
there's some truth in that.
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Another question I have
is related to the source
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of these vitamins. Not long ago,
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I was prescribed
a prenatal vitamin
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as a result of the pregnancy.
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And I went to the
pharmacy in order to;
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to inquire about
this and asked the source
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of the vitamin, where
did the vitamin come from?
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Was it an animal
source or vegetables source,
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synthetic, where
exactly did it come from?
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The pharmacist didn't
have a clue and was most
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uninterested in, in learning,
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he gave me a
number, I called the number
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and learned that
many of the vitamins
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in this particular
brand came from animal sources
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and a number of
them came from pig from,
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from swine that
was a problem for me.
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So, I went back to
the pharmacist and said,
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this is what I learned
and, and can you help me
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find the vitamin that
does not contain at least
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pig products and
that was a concern for him
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due to religious consideration.
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So, he started and of
that particular pharmacy,
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which is in a very
well-known pharmacy,
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they did not have a vitamin,
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a prenatal vitamin
which did not contain
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animal products and specifically
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you know pig. I mean
and, and that was primarily
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related to vitamin D,
but that was shocking to me.
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Yes, many of the
vitamins, their source
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is not identified on the
bottle. Vitamin B12 comes
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from animals
specifically. It is not
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naturally
occurring in plant food.
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It has to be
from an animal source.
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Even the vitamin B12 in the soil
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and this is one
question that has to be answered
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for vegans. Now, vegans
they don't have anything,
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they don't eat
anything that had a mother
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or has a face or
came from an animal.
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You know, it's just
fresh fruits and vegetables
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and grains and
nuts. And the only place
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that they get B12 is
from the little bacteria
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in the soil, on root vegetables
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and on vegetables as the
soil splashes up on them.
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And that isn't a
very rich source,
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all other B12 comes
from animal sources.
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Unless, it's synthesized,
made in the laboratory.
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You can get synthetic
B12, and then it doesn't
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come from your
animal source. Vitamin D,
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another classic example,
we get it from sunshine.
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You're a vegan I know,
so am I and we get vitamin D
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from sunshine, but
apart from that the only
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sources of vitamin
D are animal sources.
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Now, if your
pharmacist was a Muslim,
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or if he was a
Seventh-day Adventist
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that would be important
to him or Jewish to know
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that most vitamins contained B12
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from animal
sources. And almost always
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it's from pigs or
swine that they get it.
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Interesting, interesting.
Is there ever a time
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when a person should supplement
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and use vitamins from pills?
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That's a good question,
and let's first of all go
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back to B12. In the studies that
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had been done, if
today you had adequate B12
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in your system. And I said,
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alright no more B12,
none, it will take about
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20 to 30 years for you
to become deficient in B12
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if you didn't
have a problem with
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re-absorption of
B12 from your gut,
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backup to your
liver and if, as long as
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you were recycling it normally,
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you would not become deficient.
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What would cause
you to not be able
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to do that normally?
If you had a deficiency of
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intrinsic factor in
your gut. And that would be
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B12 deficiency
or pernicious anemia
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can cause that.
Now, there are varying
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diseases of
pernicious anemia or failure
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to absorb B12. You
can have someone who just
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has a slight problem
with intrinsic factor
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or absorption. People
that have for instance,
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had a partial
Gastrectomy for because
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they were obese and
wanted to lose weight.
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They maybe deficient or
if there is a disease of
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the terminal
ileum, they may become
00:14:22.87\00:14:25.35
deficient in B12,
if there's a question
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and you are on a
strict vegan diet,
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get a B12 level
tested. It's a very simple
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laboratory test and if
you are a little bit low
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or tending toward
that side even in the
00:14:38.35\00:14:40.86
normal range, it's
a good idea to have a
00:14:40.89\00:14:43.74
synthetic
supplement, but that's not
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the majority of
people. The majority of us
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get plenty of B12. B12
is found in many of our
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milk, milk
substitutes. Of course,
00:14:54.63\00:14:57.16
it isn't milk itself, but most,
00:14:57.19\00:14:59.83
much of the soy
milk and nut milks,
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they have B12 added,
so, that's not a problem.
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Many of the dry
cereals have B12 added too.
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So, that's a very
unlikely situation,
00:15:11.19\00:15:14.55
B12 deficiency. As long as you
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don't have a medical
problem, but if you are a
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vegan have it tested,
if you have a question.
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And particularly,
if you don't have a
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regular source of
B12. Apart from B12,
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I don't know if any
situation were taking
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multi-vitamins and anti-oxidants
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will help you except
there are a few studies
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in the elderly showing
that they may do better,
00:15:40.00\00:15:44.42
may do better, if
they have a multi-vitamin
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supplement. Well,
why is that? You know,
00:15:47.94\00:15:52.59
I do, we work with a
lot of elderly people
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and you will find that
after their spouse dies,
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it's really hard
to fix good food.
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And instead of having
their fresh vegetables
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and fresh fruit.
They just have something
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out of a box. Usually
pour a little milk on it,
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and they have dry
cereal or something like that.
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Breakfast, lunch,
and dinner, they don't,
00:16:17.67\00:16:20.23
they don't get
a good diet. Well,
00:16:20.26\00:16:23.25
is it better for
them to take it out of a
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pill bottle or would
it be better for them
00:16:25.70\00:16:28.63
to eat a wider
variety of fresh fruits
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and vegetables. Of
course, it would be
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better to get it
from a good source.
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If you just take
it out of the bottle,
00:16:38.66\00:16:40.88
you're going to
get Beta-carotene,
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but how about those
other 599 carotenes,
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you may need them.
And in fact, you do.
00:16:47.10\00:16:50.68
There are, are
many who talk about the
00:16:51.65\00:16:55.33
depletion in terms of soil and,
00:16:55.36\00:16:57.82
and that they take supplements
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because our soil
is in such poor shape
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in that without
supplements because
00:17:01.86\00:17:04.24
of the, the situation, the soil,
00:17:04.27\00:17:05.75
they just wouldn't
be healthy. I'm not sure
00:17:05.78\00:17:09.54
what to think about
that? Well, they have a point
00:17:09.57\00:17:12.55
because if your soil
is deficient in selenium
00:17:12.58\00:17:17.11
for instance. Then
the food isn't going
00:17:17.14\00:17:19.81
to contain as much selenium,
00:17:19.84\00:17:22.46
if it's deficient in
Boron, the food isn't
00:17:22.49\00:17:25.91
going to have
quite as much Boron,
00:17:25.94\00:17:27.95
but that's not
that common, number one.
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And number two, it
does not apply to vitamins
00:17:32.10\00:17:35.39
and the anti-oxidants
because they don't come
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from the soil. The
plants manufacture them
00:17:38.09\00:17:41.36
with sunlight. Even
if you have a hydroponic
00:17:41.39\00:17:44.18
tomato that's just
grown in the greenhouse,
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if it has that
good deep rich red color
00:17:46.53\00:17:50.68
it's going to have
plenty of those lycopenes,
00:17:50.71\00:17:54.04
that are so
important in the prevention of
00:17:54.07\00:17:56.44
prostate cancer, if
you have kale or collards
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grown wherever, if
the soil's deficient,
00:18:00.67\00:18:04.34
but they have
that deep green color.
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They're still going
to have their vitamin A
00:18:06.64\00:18:09.39
and their vitamin C.
They're still going to
00:18:09.42\00:18:11.45
have the folate,
they're still going to have
00:18:11.48\00:18:13.78
everything you
need maybe the minerals.
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I say, if in doubt
grow some your own,
00:18:16.96\00:18:21.07
grow your own. You
know, it's not a bad idea
00:18:21.10\00:18:24.86
in the summer,
try organic gardening.
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I have a son, lets
say, organic gardener
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and he has a main organic farmer
00:18:31.43\00:18:34.43
and gardening and
association, everything
00:18:34.46\00:18:37.33
he sells is certified organic,
00:18:37.36\00:18:39.91
and when I eat
that, I think well I'm set
00:18:39.94\00:18:42.73
and we usually are.
It doesn't hurt to grow
00:18:42.76\00:18:45.78
a few, or buy
organic, is it necessary?
00:18:45.81\00:18:48.68
No, it isn't,
absolutely necessary,
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are there toxins
in our food? Sure,
00:18:50.99\00:18:53.59
there are toxins in our food.
00:18:53.62\00:18:55.06
There's mercury
in water everywhere
00:18:55.09\00:18:57.78
on this planet, it's not
ideal, but it's important
00:18:57.81\00:19:01.84
for us to eat low on
the food chain to avoid some
00:19:01.87\00:19:04.99
of those and that's
fruits and vegetables,
00:19:05.02\00:19:08.26
nuts, and grains,
you'll get all of your
00:19:08.29\00:19:11.87
anti-oxidants. If
you want to make sure
00:19:11.90\00:19:14.76
you're getting the full
spectrum, you want to go
00:19:14.79\00:19:18.09
for the colors.
You want the deep reds,
00:19:18.12\00:19:22.33
you want the
greens, those living greens,
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you want the yellows,
they're very important.
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You want different
types at different seasons,
00:19:29.66\00:19:33.90
and you'll get the
full flavor and you'll get
00:19:33.93\00:19:38.12
all of the anti-oxidants
and vitamins you need.
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You don't have to
think about, what did I,
00:19:40.99\00:19:43.81
what am I gonna
do with my vitamin A,
00:19:43.84\00:19:45.53
if you're getting the
deep green and yellow.
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You don't need to
think about vitamin E,
00:19:48.04\00:19:50.38
if you're
getting seeds and nuts.
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It's not a
problem; you don't need to
00:19:52.80\00:19:56.05
think about. Well, am
I, am I getting enough
00:19:56.08\00:19:57.94
vitamin C to stop
my colds. You know,
00:19:57.97\00:20:01.17
the good thing
about vitamin C is it;
00:20:01.20\00:20:02.97
you don't get it toxic
very easily on it because
00:20:03.00\00:20:06.15
if you take it
and don't need it,
00:20:06.18\00:20:08.54
it's excreted in the
urine. Many of these are
00:20:08.57\00:20:12.05
you know, you might
say that it's wonderful
00:20:12.08\00:20:14.83
all the vitamins we're
taking in this country.
00:20:14.86\00:20:17.09
We have the most vitamin
rich sewers in the world.
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There are many
parents who out of concern
00:20:22.09\00:20:26.69
for their children,
give their children vitamins
00:20:26.72\00:20:29.48
and they usually wash it down
00:20:29.51\00:20:30.60
with a glass of
juice. What should parents
00:20:30.63\00:20:33.86
think about as it
relates to, to vitamin
00:20:33.89\00:20:36.27
supplementation? I
don't think parents should
00:20:36.30\00:20:38.69
supplement vitamins.
I think they should give
00:20:38.72\00:20:42.03
their children good
food. Good food is the
00:20:42.06\00:20:45.58
best supplement
there is, as far known
00:20:45.61\00:20:48.01
it is the best.
You're, that's what
00:20:48.04\00:20:50.56
the studies show, if
you get it in your food,
00:20:50.59\00:20:53.35
lower cancer risk,
lower heart disease risk,
00:20:53.38\00:20:56.73
lower stroke risk,
lower infection risk,
00:20:56.76\00:20:59.49
if you get it in
the bottle you maybe
00:20:59.52\00:21:01.91
harming yourself.
That's not only true
00:21:01.94\00:21:04.50
with the vitamins;
it's also true with iron.
00:21:04.53\00:21:07.25
You know you hear a
lot about anti-oxidants,
00:21:07.28\00:21:10.58
do you know that
iron is the most potent
00:21:10.61\00:21:13.88
pro-oxidant in your
body. Wow! Oh! You need iron,
00:21:13.91\00:21:17.88
you need it, but too
much iron will cause problems.
00:21:17.91\00:21:24.07
It will increase
cancer rates; it will increase
00:21:24.10\00:21:29.12
your problems with
heart disease. In fact,
00:21:29.15\00:21:33.22
some people think
and I think wisely so,
00:21:33.25\00:21:36.10
that one of the
main reasons why women
00:21:36.13\00:21:38.47
don't have the
rates of heart disease
00:21:38.50\00:21:40.24
that men do, is
because they're menstruating
00:21:40.27\00:21:43.20
every month and
they're keeping their iron
00:21:43.23\00:21:45.71
stores low. As
soon as that stops,
00:21:45.74\00:21:48.60
women's rate of heart
disease quickly catches
00:21:48.63\00:21:51.95
men, just from too much iron.
00:21:51.98\00:21:54.42
Now, iron
deficiency isn't good either,
00:21:54.45\00:21:57.27
but if you're
not iron deficient,
00:21:57.30\00:22:00.35
if your hemoglobin
and hematocrit are normal,
00:22:00.38\00:22:03.02
please don't supplement iron.
00:22:03.05\00:22:05.08
You won't be helping yourself,
00:22:05.11\00:22:07.07
you'll be hurting
yourself. There's a whole
00:22:07.10\00:22:09.80
disease category
of iron overload.
00:22:09.83\00:22:13.53
Hemochromatosis,
it's not that uncommon
00:22:13.56\00:22:16.87
and it's getting
to be a, a problem.
00:22:16.90\00:22:19.81
Hemochromatosis,
increase risk of heart disease,
00:22:19.84\00:22:23.38
increase risk of
cancer, increase risk
00:22:23.41\00:22:26.37
of diabetes, increase
risk of liver problems
00:22:26.40\00:22:29.84
all from iron
overload, don't supplement iron,
00:22:29.87\00:22:33.70
if you are going to
take a multi-vitamin
00:22:33.73\00:22:35.93
make sure it doesn't have iron.
00:22:35.96\00:22:38.06
Unless, you're iron deficient,
00:22:38.09\00:22:41.28
you have a low
amount of hemoglobin
00:22:41.31\00:22:44.67
or a low hematocrit
and that can be very
00:22:44.70\00:22:47.95
easily tested. So,
we should instead of
00:22:47.98\00:22:52.25
thinking about
which pill to take,
00:22:52.28\00:22:54.86
we should think about
the colors of the rainbow.
00:22:54.89\00:22:56.85
That's right. You
know, I often say,
00:22:56.88\00:22:59.00
if you're an
artist, you like a palate
00:22:59.03\00:23:02.32
with many colors on
it, when you're painting
00:23:02.35\00:23:05.20
your picture and think
of the artist when you eat,
00:23:05.23\00:23:08.37
you want many
colors to pass your palate,
00:23:08.40\00:23:11.63
if you do you'll get
plenty of anti-oxidants.
00:23:11.66\00:23:15.13
Some people ask
well what foods are best?
00:23:15.16\00:23:18.06
What foods are
richest in anti-oxidants?
00:23:18.09\00:23:20.78
Well, in fresh fruit,
fruits, the one that top
00:23:20.81\00:23:24.99
the list are the
ones I like the most
00:23:25.02\00:23:26.77
in the fruits. It's blueberries
00:23:26.80\00:23:30.21
and
strawberries. They top the list
00:23:30.24\00:23:32.08
for fresh
fruits, if you go to dry,
00:23:32.11\00:23:34.77
raisins are very high
and prunes are very high in
00:23:34.80\00:23:39.48
anti-oxidants.
They're also high in vitamins
00:23:39.51\00:23:42.22
of course. In the
vegetables it's kale
00:23:42.25\00:23:45.26
and then you go to
broccoli, you pick up
00:23:45.29\00:23:48.84
tomatoes, you pick up peppers,
00:23:48.87\00:23:50.68
you pick up collard greens,
00:23:50.71\00:23:52.86
all the green
leafy vegetables and the,
00:23:52.89\00:23:56.68
and the
vegetables with rich colors
00:23:56.71\00:23:58.80
are where you get
the anti-oxidants from.
00:23:58.83\00:24:01.11
And they're the
ones that will reduce
00:24:01.14\00:24:03.40
your risk of chronic disease.
00:24:03.43\00:24:05.11
So, if we eat our
food the way the good Lord
00:24:05.14\00:24:08.78
grew it then
perhaps we'd be better off
00:24:08.81\00:24:11.42
than trying to get
nutrition from a bottle.
00:24:11.45\00:24:13.51
You know, you'll never
find health in a bottle,
00:24:13.54\00:24:17.00
you will never find
it. You'll find health
00:24:17.03\00:24:20.40
in making wise
choices. And making decisions
00:24:20.43\00:24:24.34
and following through with them.
00:24:24.37\00:24:26.28
Sometimes we get
the idea that you know,
00:24:26.31\00:24:30.01
there's just
something missing in your
00:24:30.04\00:24:32.02
and in my diet.
You know, that is true,
00:24:32.05\00:24:34.61
there is something
missing in your diet
00:24:34.64\00:24:36.97
and in mine, but I don't think
00:24:37.00\00:24:38.97
we can find it here.
It left many years ago
00:24:39.00\00:24:42.77
and that, guess
what? The tree of life.
00:24:42.80\00:24:46.12
I think somewhere in our
collective consciousness,
00:24:46.15\00:24:49.93
if you will we know
that there is a, a missing
00:24:49.96\00:24:53.90
part in our lives. The
tree of life isn't here,
00:24:53.93\00:24:57.99
but we do have
something that is available
00:24:58.95\00:25:02.03
and Jesus told us what that is?
00:25:02.06\00:25:04.46
He said, if you want
life you must eat my flesh
00:25:04.49\00:25:09.67
and drink my blood,
you must dwell in me
00:25:09.70\00:25:13.92
and I in you, if
you want eternal life
00:25:13.95\00:25:17.16
and you know sometimes I think
00:25:17.19\00:25:18.78
this desire to
find that elixir of life
00:25:18.81\00:25:22.64
really what we're
doing is, we are looking
00:25:22.67\00:25:28.38
for life in the wrong
place. And if we would
00:25:28.41\00:25:32.36
focus on Jesus
and the life he gives.
00:25:32.39\00:25:35.08
And the food
he's given us, read it
00:25:35.11\00:25:38.10
right there in
Genesis, you'll find it.
00:25:38.13\00:25:40.26
And he gave them
and it tells you just
00:25:40.29\00:25:43.97
what to eat
right there in Genesis.
00:25:44.00\00:25:46.16
And if we follow
that and look for life
00:25:46.19\00:25:49.46
in our Lord and
savior, then we will have
00:25:49.49\00:25:54.50
not only abundant life here.
00:25:54.53\00:25:56.63
Remember what he said,
I came to give them life
00:25:56.66\00:25:59.62
and to give it more abundantly.
00:25:59.65\00:26:02.97
We'll have life here
and we'll have eternal life.
00:26:03.00\00:26:06.86
Instead of looking
in a bottle and counting
00:26:06.89\00:26:09.33
our pills and spent
you know, how much we spend
00:26:09.36\00:26:12.53
in this country on vitamins and
00:26:12.56\00:26:14.19
vitamin supplementation.
That's a lot. Billions,
00:26:14.22\00:26:17.32
three or four
billion dollars we spend,
00:26:17.35\00:26:20.58
and we are
helping ourselves? No.
00:26:20.61\00:26:22.96
We're hurting ourselves.
We are actually worsening
00:26:22.99\00:26:27.65
our health
instead of improving it.
00:26:27.68\00:26:30.51
Please, don't
supplement any Beta-carotene
00:26:30.54\00:26:34.60
or vitamin A, don't do it, don't
00:26:34.63\00:26:37.62
supplement
vitamin E, don't do it,
00:26:37.65\00:26:39.98
it raises your risk
of disease. Vitamin C
00:26:40.01\00:26:43.18
it's counted as
wonderful. We excrete
00:26:43.21\00:26:45.20
a lot of it, but
it, if you supplement
00:26:45.23\00:26:47.51
vitamin C there
is some evidence that
00:26:47.54\00:26:49.40
you will increase your
risk for heart disease.
00:26:49.43\00:26:50.40
Macular
degeneration, everyone's taking
00:26:51.16\00:26:54.66
vitamins for this.
Three fruits a day will reduce
00:26:54.69\00:26:58.86
your risk of macular
degeneration markedly.
00:26:58.89\00:27:02.33
Go for the fruits,
go for the vegetables
00:27:02.36\00:27:05.61
and most
importantly Jesus is the
00:27:05.64\00:27:10.05
word of life; he is
our tree of life here.
00:27:10.08\00:27:14.17
And if we focus
on him rather than
00:27:14.20\00:27:17.22
on a bottle ah!
Then we'll have life,
00:27:17.25\00:27:21.26
life not only now, but forever.
00:27:21.29\00:27:25.87
So, it seems that God
grew our food perfectly.
00:27:27.03\00:27:30.49
I think he did. You
know, it's unlikely that
00:27:30.52\00:27:35.04
he would design us
and give a poor fuel.
00:27:35.07\00:27:38.21
And, if we follow
his instruction manual.
00:27:38.24\00:27:41.61
I think our bodies
will run quite well.
00:27:41.64\00:27:44.68
It's obvious
that we are fearfully
00:27:46.06\00:27:48.19
and wonderfully
made and our food
00:27:48.22\00:27:50.26
was made well
too. So, if we follow
00:27:50.29\00:27:54.77
the instruction we've
been given then perhaps
00:27:54.80\00:27:57.15
we can spent less
money on supplements
00:27:57.18\00:27:58.94
and more attention on,
on eating the rich foods
00:27:58.97\00:28:01.80
that Christ has so abundantly
00:28:01.83\00:28:03.49
blessed us with.
Well, thank you Dr. Howe,
00:28:03.52\00:28:05.19
and thank you
audience for joining us today.
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