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Hi and welcome
to Wonderfully Made.
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My name is Sheryl McWilliams.
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Our guest today is Dr.
Timothy Howe from Parkview
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Adventist Medical
Center. Welcome Doctor Howe.
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Thank you Sheryl it's a pleasure
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to be with you today.
Good, we are gonna be talking
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about the Immune
System today which
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I find intensely interesting.
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It's a system that I
don't know a lot about,
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but I understand it
works really hard to keep me
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and all of our
viewers healthy. Absolutely,
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so help me
understand how it works?
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The Immune
System is a very complex
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and interesting system.
I suppose the easiest way
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to understand it
is to think of your
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Immune System as
you are military.
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As in the military,
there are various branches
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of your Immune System.
You have the Command Center
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that would be a
specialized type of lymphocyte
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called the T lymphocytes.
You have the infantry
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if you will. The
ground forces called them
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what you will those
would be the phagocytes.
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Phago means to
eat, cyte means cell.
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Those are the cell
eaters or actually the cells
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which eat
neutrophils and macrophages.
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Then you have B cells.
They are type of lymphocyte
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as well and they
work under the direction
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of the T cells and
they manufacture antibodies.
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Antibodies are very
interesting compounds.
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They have two arms and they have
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if you will hands. These
hands are very specialized.
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They are particularly
designed to identify one
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and only one invader in
from that would be coming
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into your body. Let's
say that someone comes
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or a bacteria comes
and tries to get into
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your body. If your body
has been exposed to that
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before and made
antibodies to that bacteria.
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Once that bacteria is
picked up by a macrophage,
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which is really the
macrophages or eaters,
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but they are also border patrol.
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The macrophages are
found under our skin,
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they are also found
along the blood vessels
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when they are
inside the blood itself,
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we give them a different name,
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we call them monocytes,
but they do the same thing.
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They pick up these invaders,
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these not you if you
will. Bacteria, viruses,
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pollen on occasion
they take it in their hand
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and present it to a T
cell for identification
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unless it's been there
before. If it's been there
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before the body
recognize it almost instantly
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and the B cells
start turning out millions
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and millions of
antibodies. A B cell, one B cell
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can make as many as
ten million antibodies
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in an hour. Wow. That
flood into your system
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any of those
foreign invaders are tagged
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as soon as the
antibody latches on to them
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they are marked for
death. The antibody attaches
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that marks them as an
invader and then the host
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of phagocytes come
out and chew, chew, chew
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and eat them up
and destroy them.
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Actually, they pull
them inside and dissolve them
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inside the macrophage or
the neutrophil primarily.
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It's a very interesting system.
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It's important for the
system to be able to tell
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the difference between
what you and what's not you
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and in the not you
category to tell the difference
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between what's a danger
and what's not a danger.
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Of course, there are many
things that find their way
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inside that aren't
danger like dust particles.
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They are not a danger, but
sometimes the immune system
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gets a little bit
confused and mounts a reaction
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to that we call that allergies.
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Allergies are
really the immune system
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on hyper alert and a little
confused as to what is you
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and not you and in
that not you category
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what's dangerous
and not dangerous.
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So it sounds like this
is a pretty complex system,
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but its one that is in
very, very, very important
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to keep me safe
and to keep me well?
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Absolutely you know
Sheryl if you don't have
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an immune system. If
you are born without one,
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you don't live long,
even if you are in total
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isolation from any
bacteria or viral particles
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and fungus or any other
pathogens as we call them.
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Even if you are in
total isolation from those
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you still have
cancer and cancer is almost
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you in fact it was
you, but it has changed
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and become something
that is not good for you
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and the immune system
needs to identify that too.
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Interesting, so how
does the immune system
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try to keep me free of cancer?
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The immune system
has specialized cells
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that look throughout your body,
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looking for aberrations
in the coding of the cell,
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the cell wall because
when you have the mutation
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inside the cell often
you have a mutation outside
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the cell as well.
When you are small,
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your body has to get
to know you and it does
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that primarily
through the T Cells.
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T Cells are
lymphocytes that come
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from the bone marrow
and go to the thymus gland,
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which is right
here low in your neck
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high in your chest and
there they are instructed.
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God knows how, we don't
understand it completely
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in what is you
and what is not you
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and for the rest of
their lives which T cells
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are very long life. They
help us detect what's you,
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what's not you, what's cancerous
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and what's not cancerous,
but if the immune system
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gets depressed by
anything and they loose
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that sharp ability
to detect the cells
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in your bodies that have changed
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or if on the other hand
more and more cancer cells
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are produced and
they are overwhelmed
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in their ability to
identify the cancer cells
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then we are at
increased risk for cancer.
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So whatever you
are saying is that,
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we are all
exposed to cancer cells
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on a fairly regular
basis and something happens
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that causes these
cells to not be identified
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by the immune
system or to not work well?
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That's correct they
estimate that each of us
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has a cell or two or
three as many some people think
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as six or more incidences
per day of cells developing
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a mutation and
becoming potentially cancerous.
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Fortunately our
immune system gets the
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majority of those
and destroys them before
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they can become
a problem for us.
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We are incredibly
well made, well designed
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and despite the multiple
problems our immune system
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can go in there,
destroy the cell that's changed
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and we keep living
very well for many years.
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Okay I now have a
very strong respect
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for my immune system.
What can I do to strengthen it
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or to make sure
it stays healthy?
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You know we
talk a lot about diet
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and diet is important, but
let's start with an article
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that was published
in the summer issue
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of Journal
Advancement in Medicine in 1995,
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a very interesting
article. In this study,
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they took a group of
people and they wanted to test
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their immune system
function specifically
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they wanted to look at
an antibody called IgA.
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IgA that they measured
was found in the saliva,
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but IgA is also found
in the nasal secretions.
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It's found in the
tears of the tear ducts.
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It's found in
the alimentary canal
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or in the GI tract,
it's found under the skin.
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In essence IgA is
the first line of defense
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against infection, so
it's very, very important.
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They took these
people and they said to them,
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we want you to think
back to a time in your life
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when you felt very distressed,
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when you felt
unloved, when you felt hurt,
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someone had done
something terrible to you
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and it was just a
very bad time in your life.
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Now Sheryl I don't want
you to think about a time
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like that and you
will see why shortly.
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They measure their
salivary IgA levels before this,
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then they had them
concentrate really get
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into relieving
that bad experience
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for just five
minutes, after five minutes
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they measure their
salivary IgA levels
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and they found that
within 15 minutes of that
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five minute time when
they thought back to that
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bitter bad time in
their life their salivary
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IgA levels fell
by 70 percent. Wow,
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and did not return to
baseline for five hours.
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It's very important
what you think about?
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A Merry Heart Doeth
Good Like a Medicine.
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A Merry Heart Doeth Good
Like a Medicine, you know,
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they took the
same group of people.
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Fortunately, they didn't
end with that study alone,
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they took the same group
of people and they said now
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we want you to think
back to a time in your life
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when you felt really
loved and it was just
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a wonderful time. It
was, you felt accepted
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and it was just the
best. Get into those feelings
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for five minutes and
relive that experience
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and they found that
their salivary IgA level
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of the people that
thought back to a time
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like that in their
lives went up by 80 percent
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and didn't return to
normal for five hours.
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Now there are
several very important things
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in the study. One is
of course its careful;
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we need to be
careful what we think about.
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We need to chose
our thoughts carefully
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and the memories we
have we need to be careful
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that we don't take time
reviewing all the bad stuff
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in our life, now
maybe some of you never
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had a bad
happening that's wonderful.
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I have a few things
its important for me
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not to think
about in my life because
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I want my immune system healthy,
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but the other interesting
thing about the study
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is it points out that
every single while blood cell
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has
neurochemical receptors on it.
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Every white cell is
under the direct control
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of our minds. As
the Bible says as a man
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think of in his heart so
is he we could add as you
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think in your
heart or as you think
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so is your immune
system very, very important
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and we find that
many people come down
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with cancer not
just because of exposure,
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but after a
stressful time in their life,
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when they instead
of dealing with it
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and moving on and concentrating
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on the better
things of life focused
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on the negative.
Their immune system
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was depressed and
cancer escaped surveillance
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and grew very,
very important for us
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to be careful what we think
about for our immune system
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strength and
health very important.
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So there really is a
connection then between
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the mind and our
body. I know we say this,
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but there are very
tangible connections there.
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There are very close
links between our mind
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and our body.
Sometimes we forget this,
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but it's
important that connection
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is almost
instantaneous. You think about
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what happened, it's the
B cells that were making
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those antibodies. They
got the signal from the brain
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bad time, oh
painful time and the B cells
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stop making IgA. The
IgA levels fell on the route
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second experiment the
B cells got the message
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from the brain good
times, wonderful times
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and they started producing
IgA and made lots more.
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It reminds me of
that wonderful chapter
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in Ministry of
Healing Mind Cure.
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In that chapter Ellen
White makes the statement,
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nothing tends more to
promote health of body
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and soul than does a
spirit of gratitude and praise.
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You know, I used to
need faith to believe
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in that book
Ministry of Healing.
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I don't really
need faith anymore
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because I have science
that shows me page after page
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then what that book says
is true today. Absolutely.
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And that study shows
it, but it's good for us
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to remember if
you wanna be healthy,
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if you want to
have a healthy vigorous
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immune system think positively,
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change the very
cells in your body
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with your thoughts. And I
appreciated you bringing up
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the Ministry of
Healing for any of our viewers
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who have not have
the pleasure of reading
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that book I highly recommend it.
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I find it absolutely
fascinating that it was
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written more
then a 100 years ago
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and science is just
now validating everything
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that's in there, so
very good information.
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I recently had a family
member who was diagnosed
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with breast cancer
and so this whole cancer
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conversation is
very interesting to me.
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Tell me a little bit
about breast cancer and maybe
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how the immune
system works with that?
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Well Sheryl let's
take a moment and step away
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from the immune
system and look at population
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studies on breast
cancer. Anyone with cancer
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of course we want to
have a vigorous immune system
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even if you have
been diagnosed with it,
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if you take steps to
improve your immune system
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function with
diet, with exercise,
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with careful thoughts,
you will improve your chance
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of survival, if
you don't have cancer
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you will improve
your risk or decrease
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your risk to get
cancer, but let's step away
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from that for a moment
and look a little more at diet
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and what it does
because it influences the rate
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at which those cells
become cancerous and of course
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if you have a
military in your body
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the immune system and
the world is at peace,
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your immune system can
rest. But even if you have
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the best immune
system in the world
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they are going to
be some casualties
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if there is war
broken out, so what can we do
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to reduce the chance
of a breakout of cancer
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or if you will a
conflict erupting in our body.
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Let's look at that for
a moment and look at it
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with breast cancer.
Breast cancer is very closely
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linked to estrogen
levels. Now, we know this
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because men
have breasts as well.
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They are just not
developed. The reason
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they are not
developed of course is because
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men don't have the
same level of estrogen
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that women do and men
have a 100 times less risk
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of developing
breast cancer than women.
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In the last 20 years,
I have diagnosed two men
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with breast
cancer, but many more women
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unfortunately. Why is it
of course that some women
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get breast
cancer and others don't?
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We hear a lot
about genetics today.
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There is the
BRCA that stands for
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breast cancer
gene. There is a BRCA 1
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and the BRCA 2 genes
and those are very important
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if you have one of
those genetic abnormalities
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you have a 50 percent
risk plus or minus in getting
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breast cancer
and some people say
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well breast cancer is
all in the genes not really.
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In fact only about
two to three percent
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of all cancer, breast
cancer included is genetic.
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The BRCA gene occurs
only in one in 500 women
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another question to
ask with that is why
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do only 50 percent of
people with the BRCA gene
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get cancer. What
about the 50 percent
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that don't? What are
they doing in their lives
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not to get cancer? I think
one of the most interesting
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studies in
breast cancer was done
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by Dr. T. Colin Campbell
it's called the China Study
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and he found that in
Chinese they had a much
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lower risk Chinese
women of breast cancer
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than their Western
counterparts that is you
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take Chinese women
and move them from China,
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Rural China as
where he did his studies
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and move them to
the west and the rates
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of breast cancer go up markedly.
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You don't change
their genetics that fast,
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but you do change
their risk of breast cancer
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and what he found is in
the rural Chinese women,
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he found about a
26 to 63 percent lower
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estrogen level than in
their Western counterparts
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that is than in
Chinese women who had moved
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to the West and were
eating our diets. Interesting.
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If the estrogen
level is lower the risk
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of breast cancer is
lower. The other thing
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that was
interesting about these people
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is their
menstruation started later.
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The average age for a
woman to start menstruating
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in this country is 11
years of age. Wow. In China,
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rural China the average
age in T. Colin Campbell study
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was 17. A huge difference
if you think about it.
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Six and more
years without estrogen
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and he found on the
end of life, not the end,
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but the end of menstruation,
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the Chinese women
stopped menstruating
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or went through menopause
about four to five years
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earlier than their
Western counterparts.
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So you have two factors
here in the Chinese study.
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You have a shortening
of the exposure to estrogen
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and you have a
lowering of the total
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amount of estrogen.
The interesting thing
00:20:38.77\00:20:42.63
that the Chinese study
pointed out was it was diet
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that made the difference
in the estrogen levels.
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If you change the diet,
you change the estrogen level
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and the biggest factor
in breast cancer development
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being estrogen, the
biggest dietary factor
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was animal protein.
As the animal protein
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intake increased, the
estrogen level increased
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as the estrogen level increased
00:21:12.95\00:21:15.58
the breast
cancer risk increased.
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The take home lesson
from the Chinese study
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isn't really about
immune system that is
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critically important it's
about diet. Interestingly,
00:21:26.10\00:21:31.04
if you have a
lower animal protein,
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you also have a
lower animal fat,
00:21:34.59\00:21:37.17
you are also eating
more complex carbohydrates,
00:21:37.20\00:21:41.02
more fresh fruits,
and fresh vegetables
00:21:41.05\00:21:44.14
and your immune system
is doing better as well.
00:21:44.17\00:21:47.35
Cancer risk goes down
and your ability to resist
00:21:47.38\00:21:52.50
cancer also goes down.
That explains why in rural China
00:21:52.53\00:21:56.91
the breast cancer
rates are much much lower
00:21:56.94\00:22:00.53
than they are in
Western Chinese women
00:22:00.56\00:22:05.05
and in American women as well.
00:22:05.08\00:22:06.95
Interesting, I had a
great fortunate living in China
00:22:06.98\00:22:10.34
for quite sometime
and definitely found
00:22:10.37\00:22:12.62
the difference in the
diet there compared to where
00:22:12.65\00:22:15.87
I grew up, in fact I don't think
00:22:15.90\00:22:17.11
I have ever eaten quite
as healthfully as I did there
00:22:17.14\00:22:19.92
with the fresh
fruits and vegetables,
00:22:19.95\00:22:23.35
very little animal
protein and it was unaffordable
00:22:23.38\00:22:26.93
there so
fascinating. Whenever I think of
00:22:26.96\00:22:31.08
breast cancer that
generally also cause me
00:22:31.11\00:22:34.18
to think about
prostate cancer in gentlemen so,
00:22:34.21\00:22:37.15
what is, what is
effect or role there?
00:22:37.18\00:22:39.23
Well you know its
interesting Sheryl,
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not many men get breast
cancer and not many women
00:22:41.19\00:22:45.71
get prostate
cancer. That's right.
00:22:45.74\00:22:47.46
And that's a
good thing you know.
00:22:47.49\00:22:49.08
Prostate cancer is
another interesting disease
00:22:49.11\00:22:52.52
and it's also looked
out in the China study
00:22:52.55\00:22:56.91
to some extent, but
there are many studies
00:22:56.94\00:22:59.47
now on prostate
cancer. Prostate cancer
00:22:59.50\00:23:02.72
is increasingly
diagnosed in this country
00:23:02.75\00:23:05.71
because of a new enzyme
as they called the prostate
00:23:05.74\00:23:10.20
specific antigen that's
actually not so new today,
00:23:10.23\00:23:14.33
but is still used very
widely and we can detect
00:23:14.36\00:23:17.94
cancer quite early
with this. We also detect
00:23:17.97\00:23:21.39
the lot of things
that aren't cancer,
00:23:21.42\00:23:23.37
prostate hypertrophy,
prostate irritation,
00:23:23.40\00:23:27.33
but it's a good screening tool.
00:23:27.36\00:23:29.46
The question
comes what can we do
00:23:29.49\00:23:32.42
to lower prostate
cancer risk and the development
00:23:32.45\00:23:37.12
of prostate cancer because
you know about 50 percent
00:23:37.15\00:23:41.45
of men 70 years of
age have prostate cancer
00:23:41.48\00:23:44.92
that doesn't mean
that all of them will die
00:23:44.95\00:23:47.72
with it.
Fortunately not all of the men
00:23:47.75\00:23:50.87
70 years of age
that have prostate cancer
00:23:50.90\00:23:53.97
will die from it. Many
will die with it because
00:23:54.00\00:23:58.79
prostate cancer is
different than breast cancer.
00:23:58.82\00:24:01.75
It's usually though not always,
00:24:01.78\00:24:04.09
it's usually slow
growing and a chronic disease
00:24:04.12\00:24:08.43
that doesn't take
your life, not always
00:24:08.46\00:24:11.47
and what they
found in every study just
00:24:11.50\00:24:15.60
about is that there is
one factor that increases
00:24:15.63\00:24:19.92
your risk for prostate
cancer and it increases
00:24:19.95\00:24:23.91
your risk of
having aggressive form
00:24:23.94\00:24:26.95
of prostate
cancer. Harvard published
00:24:26.98\00:24:29.88
an interesting
study review of all
00:24:29.91\00:24:33.26
the literature on
prostate cancer and they said
00:24:33.29\00:24:36.83
there is one thing that
is universally associated
00:24:36.86\00:24:41.57
with increased
risk of prostate cancer
00:24:41.60\00:24:44.52
and increased risk of
aggressive prostate cancer
00:24:44.55\00:24:48.92
and that one thing is
dairy intake, diary intake,
00:24:48.95\00:24:54.34
if you want to
avoid prostate cancer
00:24:54.37\00:24:57.98
avoid intake of dairy protein.
00:24:58.01\00:25:02.35
Now many people are
vegetarian and think
00:25:02.38\00:25:05.73
well I'm fine I
don't eat meat. Well no,
00:25:05.76\00:25:10.27
but how about dairy protein.
00:25:10.30\00:25:12.32
Dairy protein not only
increases prostate cancer
00:25:12.35\00:25:16.72
in men it also increases
breast cancer in women,
00:25:16.75\00:25:21.18
and as T. Colin
Campbell found in his research
00:25:21.21\00:25:24.68
on liver cancer and on
aflatoxins is that casein
00:25:24.71\00:25:30.00
the dairy protein that increases
00:25:30.03\00:25:32.36
your risk of liver
cancer and many other cancers
00:25:32.39\00:25:35.96
because in milk not
only do you have the protein,
00:25:35.99\00:25:39.27
you have an
insulin like growth factor
00:25:39.30\00:25:42.37
that signals growth
and frequently increases
00:25:42.40\00:25:47.38
your risk for
developing any cancer.
00:25:47.41\00:25:50.19
Interesting, I recently
had my very first colonoscopy
00:25:50.22\00:25:54.92
and it was not very
exciting and I immediately
00:25:54.95\00:25:59.58
thought about colon
cancer, so let's talk about
00:25:59.61\00:26:02.48
that briefly. You
know as far as colonoscopy
00:26:02.51\00:26:05.43
is concerned many
people come into my office
00:26:05.46\00:26:08.05
and they say I really
don't want a colonoscopy.
00:26:08.08\00:26:11.14
I say good you are normal
if you wanted a colonoscopy
00:26:11.17\00:26:14.24
I really worry about
you, but as Tim Sample
00:26:14.27\00:26:18.29
in Maine says a
colonoscopy is sort
00:26:18.32\00:26:21.13
of like a main
winter. It's not fun,
00:26:21.16\00:26:23.62
but you will get through
it. Colonoscopy is a really
00:26:23.65\00:26:27.14
important for
screening, but more important
00:26:27.17\00:26:29.97
than screening is
prevention, isn't it? Yes.
00:26:30.00\00:26:33.57
You know it's
the same story again.
00:26:33.60\00:26:35.86
We use to think it was fiber.
00:26:35.89\00:26:38.02
Dr. Burkett many years
ago did wonderful research
00:26:38.05\00:26:42.13
looking at fiber, but
we now know that fiber
00:26:42.16\00:26:45.45
is really a marker
for something else.
00:26:45.48\00:26:49.72
Same thing is in
the other two cancers
00:26:49.75\00:26:52.63
its protein intake.
Protein intake raises
00:26:52.66\00:26:57.72
your risk for colon cancer
that was found very clearly
00:26:57.75\00:27:01.85
in a study done in South Africa.
00:27:01.88\00:27:03.57
A 17 fold
increase in cancer in the
00:27:03.60\00:27:09.61
white South Africans
because of the meat intake.
00:27:09.64\00:27:13.45
All we need to be
careful what we eat,
00:27:13.48\00:27:16.12
we need to be
careful what we think,
00:27:16.15\00:27:18.48
we need to
remember God loves us,
00:27:18.51\00:27:22.28
he has given us the best
diet possible in Genesis.
00:27:22.31\00:27:26.58
Fresh fruits, fresh
vegetables, whole grains,
00:27:26.61\00:27:30.71
and nuts. If we eat
those we will reduce our risk
00:27:30.74\00:27:35.33
of cancer. We
will feel better now
00:27:35.36\00:27:37.94
and in the future. So,
A Merry Heart Doeth Good
00:27:37.97\00:27:43.82
Like a Medicine and we
have focused on the information
00:27:43.85\00:27:47.83
that we have been given
not only in this program,
00:27:47.86\00:27:51.36
but in books like
the Ministry of Healing
00:27:51.39\00:27:53.90
then we can
prevent our risk of cancer
00:27:53.93\00:27:56.88
and other diseases as
well, so thank you for being
00:27:56.91\00:28:01.06
with us today Dr.
Howe and thank you
00:28:01.09\00:28:03.19
guests for joining us today on
00:28:03.22\00:28:05.34
Wonderfully Made
and may God bless you.
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