Participants: Curtis & Paula Eakins
Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL00195A
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00:01 Imagine an event that lasts less than a one
00:03 minute that can be crippling for a life long of 00:07 disability, it can change your world and the loved 00:10 ones around you. Today's topic is entitled different 00:14 strokes for different folks. 00:16 We will be right back. 00:44 Hi welcome to Abundant Living, this is Curtis 00:46 Eakins your co-host and I would like to introduce 00:48 my lovely bride of 16 glorious wonderful 00:52 years Paula Eakins. Hello. Hello. Okay, 00:56 that's all you're going to say just hello. 16, 16 00:59 wonderful years. Wonderful, you can add the word, 01:02 glorious and wonderful. Glorious, wonderful. 01:05 Okay, that's about all we going to do this right 01:06 now, maybe save some more adjective for the next 01:09 program. Perhaps. Perhaps, okay. Well, now this is a 01:13 series the clean heart series that we're doing and 01:17 this is the last of that series and of course this is 01:20 entitled, Different strokes for different folks, 01:22 we are going to be talking about of course strokes, 01:24 but also heart attacks as well because both are 01:26 somewhat similar to a degree, but it can be very 01:30 crippling and it can last, lets just say before just 01:32 a few seconds. That's a good one. The one on 01:36 stroke, we've done a lot of programs and we have not 01:38 done one specifically in this area of stroke, 01:41 we've talked about cardiovascular health but 01:43 strokes, let's talk about, let's first define what 01:47 exactly is stroke? Okay. If a person is having a 01:51 what define that for us. Let's go to a graphic, 01:55 we have a graphic first of all and let's go to this 01:57 graphic and this is basically what happens 01:59 inside a brain, of course the arrow there is pointing 02:02 where there is a deadness of the brain there because 02:05 the brain is simply is not getting any blood flow so 02:08 there is a deadness there and so there are basically 02:11 two types of strokes. They say really four but 02:15 I kind of crunched it down to about two types of 02:17 strokes. In the next picture we will see those two 02:21 types of strokes; the one on the left is a hemorrhagic 02:25 stroke which is simply a bleeding or blood leaks into 02:29 the brain tissue. Of course, now we talk about high 02:31 blood pressure and of course in the brain with 02:34 this high blood pressure in the brain, it causes tiny 02:38 breaks in the vessel wall and causes bleeding, 02:40 so that's a hemorrhagic, so bleeding right there, 02:43 that's one type of stroke. The other type of stroke on 02:46 the right side is a blood clot or any type of debris 02:52 that will clog the artery and causes a deadness in 02:56 the brain from a blood clot or some type of fat globule 03:00 or debris and therefore that's another type of 03:02 stroke Ischemic Stroke. Now, you have also what 03:06 we call a TIA, transient ischemic strokes and attacks 03:11 I should say, and these are like mini strokes and these 03:14 can happen many times, sometime throughout the 03:17 night and we're not even aware of them, 03:19 it's like miniature earthquake before the big 03:22 one to approach. So, therefore these are some 03:25 of the symptoms that you may have a stroke already, 03:28 you don't even know it, that's why it's very 03:31 encouraging to these programs about the a 03:34 clean heart series, blood pressure, cholesterol, 03:39 know your plaque, all of these can lead to a stroke 03:42 or even a heart attack as well so those are two basic 03:46 types of strokes the hemorrhage or the bleeding 03:48 and also the blood clot. What should a person do if 03:51 they are suspecting that they are about to have a 03:54 stroke? What they do? There are different things you 03:58 can do, now again let's keep in mind folks every 04:02 40 seconds someone has a stroke, every 40 seconds. 04:07 Okay. Alright, and so with that in mind an every 04:12 minute about 32000 brain cells die, brain cells unlike 04:18 other cells do not regenerate, if you just 04:21 lose those cells they don't come back, so that can be a 04:24 life long debility as far as when a stroke is concerned, 04:29 now what to do? The best acronym we can use is the 04:33 acronym fast. Okay, you said the word fast. 04:38 Now, we're not talking about not eating food. 04:40 No, no I was thinking about stiffness. You have to be 04:46 fast, and doing certain things, that's true. Okay, 04:49 okay explain that to us then. Okay well, FAST, 04:52 alright. F stands for Facial. Ask the person 04:56 to smile. If a person is having a stroke that's one 05:00 thing that they are going to have a difficult time 05:01 in doing is to so facial F smile, the second one is 05:07 A for arm, have the patient to raise both arms up in 05:13 the air again, a stroke going on then they won't 05:18 be able to do both arms at the same time because 05:21 usually they're going to be one side of the body or 05:22 the other, alright. Okay. The third acronym is S. 05:28 You ask the person to say a simple speech, 05:32 one sentence if a person is having a stroke, 05:36 they would not be able to do that easily. Alright, 05:39 the last one T, time. You need to call 911, the key 05:47 is that you want to get a person to the hospital 05:50 inside three hours, after the three hour window 05:55 then it's going to be very unlikely a person is going 05:58 to even recover or have any sense of wellness 06:03 or lifestyle after that three hours if did not 06:05 treated properly, because once you get to the hospital 06:08 give them some medication to avoid that. So, a three 06:11 hour window is very necessary, so the last one 06:14 is T for time, a call to 911, so therefore with that 06:18 in mind FAST. One thing about this, there are a lot 06:20 of people honey may experience a stroke and 06:24 may think that its not really ordeal and they may 06:28 go about their daily duties you know one 06:30 person who a movie star had a stroke and bumped 06:34 their head, was bleeding, they thought they felt okay 06:38 and that evening realized it was actually stroke 06:41 bleeding the brain, hemorrhagic that we just 06:43 talked about and saw it on the screen. Okay. 06:45 And that person actually died I think a couple of 06:47 days later, so when in doubt just go through that 06:50 acronym FAST. Okay, okay, okay, let me see if I 06:54 got it. F facial. Facial, ask the person to smile. 06:57 Smile, okay, A. Raise both arms up in the air. 07:03 S is for a simple sentence, okay, speech sentence. 07:08 And then lastly T, T, time. Time is factor, 07:12 every second 32, as I mean every second 32000 brain 07:18 cells die and unlike other cells of our body brain 07:22 cells die and unlike other cells of our body brain 07:23 cells do not regenerate. So, time is critical, okay, 07:27 in doing this FAST acronym. This is, this is really 07:31 good information I know it and I hope you're writing 07:33 this down because, think about it many people have 07:36 strokes and there is a time line in which they 07:40 could get help, that's true, and so this kind of a 07:43 program knowing the words FAST and also what's 07:47 going on or you just doing them, doing the different 07:49 things you are saying can really help them to survive. 07:53 Yeah, and you don't have to be you know in the 60s 07:55 and 70s, you know so one of the camera crew said 07:58 just a minute ago know someone who has a stroke 08:01 and mini-strokes in their 20s you know even a heart 08:04 attack, remember I was working for a hospital for 08:08 several years and at that time when I was there the 08:12 youngest person who had a coronary bypass was 18 08:16 years of age. So, again maybe due to diet, 08:20 lifestyle, blood pressure is untreated, so all these 08:24 things can add to a stroke or likelihood of a stroke. 08:27 Well, I know that for a longtime whenever any 08:30 kind of research was done it was always done 08:32 it was always done basically on men and now 08:35 they've discovered or with in sometime now they've 08:38 discovered that women do not have heart attacks like 08:42 men do, they don't have a stroke like a man does 08:44 and so how are they similar and then how are they 08:48 different as far as a male, female having a stroke? 08:54 You're very pretty, I just realized, just looking at 08:57 you, very lovely to look at. Okay, what was your 09:02 question again, I just kind of lost my train of thought 09:05 oh yeah, how are they similar and how they are 09:06 different. In male and female, okay, how are they 09:09 different when it comes to them having a stroke? 09:11 Do you have that now? I kind of lost. Are you 09:13 ready? I am ready now. Okay let's, because the 09:16 program is entitled different strokes for 09:19 different folks. So, I definitely need to take 09:21 care of that question you right there. Yes, yes. 09:23 There are some similarities, and the similarities is 09:25 in your book, the difference is that for one thing 09:29 is women having strokes, they sometime have 09:33 hiccups, a man doesn't do that usually, also they have 09:38 chest pain, we are talking about strokes, not heart 09:40 attacks but strokes, chest pains, also nausea and a 09:46 rapid heartbeat. So those are some differences 09:50 that women have that men normally don't have 09:53 when it comes to a stroke alright. So, we need to 09:56 be mindful of that because a lot of times people may 09:58 be having these symptoms, if they are having hiccups are 10:03 let's say nausea we may not necessarily think that 10:07 person is experiencing a stroke that may be a woman 10:11 having those symptoms that a man normally doesn't 10:14 have so it's very critical to understand the 10:16 differences of that. That still means that once again 10:20 male or female they're both individuals need to 10:23 practice that word FAST. That's right. And what is it 10:27 again honey, just for review. Okay Facial. Facial. 10:30 Raise those arms. Both arms. Speech. Speech, 10:33 a complete sentence. Okay. And then call to 911. 10:36 Time. Yeah I like that word, Time but I wanted to say 10:40 911. 911. Call 911. Okay now the other question is 10:45 a lot of times we talk about strokes, they are 10:47 also talking about blood thinners, thickening of the 10:50 blood is one of the things that actually causes that 10:53 problem you talked about that before as well. 10:55 So, let's talk about blood thinners. Yeah, a lot 10:58 of people who want to reduce their risk of stroke 11:01 will take a medication particularly anticoagulant 11:04 drugs, the number one anticoagulant drug that 11:08 reduce blood clot is Coumadin and but with that 11:12 in mind because you know all of the drugs have their 11:15 side effects, some have more than others. Coumadin 11:18 of course has this as well, there has just been a recent 11:21 recall well as of the day of this taping just last month 11:26 of Coumadin being recalled by the food and drug 11:30 administration. Yeah. 144,000 tablets that's been 11:35 already ministered to hospitals and physicians 11:37 samples, they recalled that because they discovered 11:40 that ingredient in Coumadin is very unstable. 11:44 Mercy. So, with that in mind, since it's unstable it 11:47 may not work as effectively, therefore you may not 11:51 have that blooding clotting capacity or it may work 11:55 more than that what it should, so it may tend to 11:57 thin the blood out, so you may have excessive 11:59 bleeding and so with that in mind they had to pull 12:02 that as of just recently but you know when you go 12:07 to the plant kingdom, there are some ingredients in 12:09 the plant kingdom that has what we call coumarin, 12:15 which they get the name Coumadin, in the plant 12:19 kingdom now these are not anticoagulant but they 12:22 help to move the blood through the blood vessels, 12:26 coumarin and there are foods in that category are 12:30 such as carrot your celery your parsnip and you 12:34 parsley. Those are plant chemicals coumarin, 12:39 that has those properties so therefore and that's how 12:42 the drug has had its name Coumadin. So, God has 12:45 things in nature now again need to remind people this 12:48 is not a anticoagulant this can not be taken in place of 12:53 the drug because it doesn't do the something but at 12:55 least it does help to move the blood along to reduce 12:58 the risk of a stroke, alright. I was thinking 13:01 about when you just said that also, an herb coumarin. 13:06 Its an coumarin actually an herb as well, it's 13:09 spice. Oh, you mean cumin. Cumin, yeah, a cumin. 13:13 I said coumarin, I meant cumin. Yeah cumin, yeah. 13:16 I meant cumin. But that's is a herb, that's true though. 13:21 It's definitely an herd and surprisingly it's going 13:24 to be a part of our recipe today as well. Oh Okay. 13:28 Risk factors. Okay, there are some risk factors that 13:32 are involved and of course some testing had to be 13:34 done with that as well. You are talking about 13:36 coumarin now, blood thinner, I mean you're saying 13:40 the risk factors, where are we gone with. Well, risk 13:43 factors as far as stroke. Okay. Yeah, and there are 13:46 some risk factors as far as that's concerned of course 13:48 smoking. If a person is a smoker, they going to have 13:51 as two to six times increased rate of having 13:55 a stroke, a smoker, Alright. Obesity, overweight you 13:59 will have an increased risk of a stroke, 14:03 inactivity, increased risk of a stroke, high blood 14:08 pressure, diabetes, an increased risk of a stroke, 14:13 so all those are increased risks and so therefore with 14:16 that in mind since we've done the a clean heart 14:19 series we talk about blood pressure, we talk about 14:21 cholesterol, we have done a winning weight series, 14:25 talk about weight management as well, 14:27 we are going to do a diabetes series in a next 14:30 few weeks, so we are going to try to cover these 14:32 things to because everything kind of links 14:34 with one and another alright if you reduce 14:37 weight, you also reduce your cholesterol if weight 14:40 comes down you reduce your blood pressure, 14:42 if weight comes down you reduce the risk of strokes 14:45 and heart attacks. So, everything kind of lines up 14:47 with one and another, but another thing we can do is, 14:51 I wanted to make sure that this one vessel or one 14:55 artery that needs to be checked, that will also create 15:00 a stoke and lets go to our last graphic, let's look 15:04 at this artery this is called the Carotid artery, 15:08 this is in the side of the neck. Now, we've done a lot 15:11 of these surgeries carotid endarterectomy in a hospital 15:15 where we open up the neck and open up the artery 15:18 itself and then we take it down you see there the 15:22 plaque is usually housed right in that V where the 15:27 artery device internal and external artery there. 15:31 And so with that in mind that's what a plaque is and 15:34 so therefore we want to have a carotid ultrasound to 15:37 see what out this any plaque in the Carotid 15:41 artery, because 20 percent of blood flow goes through 15:45 that artery, every time the heart beats, so with that 15:48 in mind you want to have that, now you have 15:49 something as visual as well and we talked about 15:52 plaque in the last program and let's hold that up honey 15:55 as far as the plaque build up in a artery wall. 15:57 We know so much of the your graphic, you've got to 15:59 finish showing, this is how the artery is supposed to 16:02 look nice and clean. Okay. Okay, alright. 16:04 Now, when that plaque begins to build up it just 16:06 a small amount but its actually building up and 16:08 therefore the blood can not get through as good as 16:11 it could if it was just clear. Okay. Alright, 16:14 now as that plaque begins to build it even more you 16:16 can see now where the blood having even a harder 16:18 time trying to get through and then eventually that 16:22 plaque will built to a point where just a pin hole. 16:25 About 90 percent blockage there. Now, the blood can 16:27 not get through there all, now anything above the 16:30 neck stroke, below the neck a heart attack, 16:34 so you want to keep these vessels, the vessels clean. 16:37 Yes. As much as possible and once again as you 16:39 mentioned earlier, weight control, the whole eight 16:43 natural laws, right, right, exactly once again. 16:45 Eight natural law, we talk about this all the time, 16:47 the eight natural laws is the way to go, the eight 16:49 natural doctors taking care of ourselves, get to bed on 16:53 time and exercising, eating right, the Plant-Based Diet 16:57 all these things are part of being able to prevent, 17:02 prevent, hopefully prevent I say hopefully because 17:04 there could be some other things genetic 17:06 included but basically we have found that as we do 17:09 those we will be okay. Yeah and you know what 17:13 we try to do because in this a clean heart series, 17:17 we did a lot on nutrition therapy in your work up we also 17:21 talked about physical activity preferably walking in 17:24 outdoors, emphasis water as well in destressing 17:27 something we wrote in the workbook as well so we are 17:30 going to probably go into the kitchen, and well you 17:33 have a text because there's sinners around, Psalm 51 17:37 verse 10, when we talked about that when we talked 17:39 about that I was thinking about a scripture text and 17:41 that was in Psalms. Psalms 51:10 David makes this 17:45 statement to God, he says create in me a clean heart, 17:51 oh God he says and renew the right spirit within me, 17:56 when you think about that fact that David is talking to 17:59 the Father about creating a clean hear with in him and 18:01 you know in our own lives God needs a clean heart 18:05 from us. That's true. Was it clean heart, an accepting 18:07 heart, a heart that accepts Christ as your personal 18:10 savior, a heart that keeps you from getting yourself all 18:13 stressed out because stress once again can close that 18:17 artery up to a point where it's going to cause some 18:19 issues for the blood okay. Create in me a clean heart 18:22 that's what we should say every morning when we 18:24 wake up. Yes. Have that devotion with the father, 18:26 thanking him for a brand new day knowing that God 18:30 whispers our name every single morning when he 18:33 whispers our names softly that's when we wake up. 18:37 So, that how long we're just saying you know father 18:39 thank you for a brand new day and create with in me 18:42 a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me, 18:45 what an appropriate scripture to go along with 18:48 something different strokes for different folks. 18:50 Because we talk them out clean arteries, you know 18:54 in our heart and in our legs also create in me a clean 18:58 heart, a spiritual heart, our thoughts to be pure and 19:03 undefiled. Well, I know you wondering whether we 19:05 go into the kitchen the answer is yes we are as 19:07 a matter of fact, some of the things that Curtis spoke 19:09 about the ingredients, so is it going to be in our 19:13 recipe today. We are going to be doing an 19:15 Enchilada Casserole, get your paper and your 19:18 pencil and meet us in the kitchen. |
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