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00:27 America is under attack, the world is under attack.
00:30 Freedom of speech is under attack, you're under attack, 00:34 and there is a part of you that is under attack 00:37 and I hate to say it but you may be the attacker 00:40 and it is your heart, Heart Attack. 00:43 And that is what we are going to talk about today 00:45 in Part 7 of Body Battles. 00:48 I'm Steve Wohlberg and my guest is Jack McIntosh who is a 00:52 Health Educator, Nutritionist, he's a Lifestyle Interventionist, 00:57 knows a lot about the body and he's been, my guest 01:00 Jack, here we go for Part 7. 01:03 Thank you for being with me and I want to just 01:06 remind people of, or maybe just inform them of something 01:11 that you said a long time ago that I haven't forgotten. 01:14 I was listening to you give a talk in a large church 01:19 and I remember you've said this line. "The first symptom 01:24 that most people have, that they're having a Heart Attack 01:28 is sudden death and I never forgot that. 01:32 It's been many years since you've said that so 01:35 let's get into this whole topic of the heart and how to 01:40 protect the heart. 01:42 It's certainly a symptom that's hard to get around, isn't it? 01:44 Sudden death doesn't give you many options. No, it doesn't. 01:47 And for some people that's true, it is the first symptom. 01:50 That's right and before you... before you launch in, 01:54 let me read a text here? Yes. 01:57 This is in the book of Proverbs chapter 4 verses 20 to 23 02:03 "My Son, attend to my words incline your ear to my sayings", 02:08 to Biblical sayings. "Let not them depart from your 02:11 eyes, keep them in the midst of your heart" 02:14 "for they are life to those who find them health to all 02:17 their flesh." So God is concerned about the heart 02:20 and about health. In Numbers 23 says "Keep your heart 02:24 with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life." 02:28 That's a powerful text so from the heart come the 02:31 Issues of Life" and that applies to things that are happening 02:35 within us like our motives and our desires and what we say 02:39 but it also applies to the health of our heart 02:42 because from the heart, the heart pump 02:47 pumps blood to every cell in the body and that's how we live. 02:52 The Bible said the blood is the life. Life is in the blood. 02:58 That's right. So we have a physical heart and we have 03:03 spiritual heart and we're supposed to keep both 03:06 with diligence. That's right. So as far as heart attacks 03:10 how big of a problem is this? 03:12 Well, it's a big problem, its the number one source of 03:15 mortality. But before we get into that, I want to introduce 03:17 a little humor because this is a tough subject you know. 03:21 For some people. I want to... in fact, I may ask our producers 03:26 to put this little graphic up on the screen. 03:29 A man walks into a restaurant with his wife, 03:32 a nice upscale restaurant, white tablecloth. 03:36 And he sits down and he says to the waiter 03:42 what comes with the steak? And the waiter says 03:46 heart disease, cancer, and your choice of rice pilaf 03:52 or a baked potato. So that's truth in advertising. Right! 03:57 That's what comes with the steak and unfortunately 04:03 there are many insults to the heart on a daily basis... 04:08 We don't get heart attacks the first time we have 04:12 some junk food or a greasy hamburger, something like that. 04:19 It takes years of insults, day after day, after day, the sweet 04:23 drinks, the hamburgers, the chicken, the high saturated 04:32 fat foods day after, day after day and those insults 04:37 add up and what happens is that eventually the heart 04:43 gives out because of a blood clot or a blockage of some kind 04:50 and we have what we call a heart attack. 04:55 But the truth is that the heart has been under attack 04:58 for a very long time before we get a heart attack. 05:01 So today we are going to talk about some of the things 05:05 we can do to prevent the insults to the heart and the 05:11 cardiovascular system, the whole vascular system really. 05:15 Okay, just clarify for me, is the biggest risk the heart 05:20 itself losing its ability on its own to pump 05:26 or is it the system of arteries around it that get clogged 05:31 so that then it runs into trouble, which is the 05:34 greater risk? 05:36 Well, it's the coronary arteries themselves that get blocked 05:41 and the blockage can come from years of insults as we said 05:45 to the vascular system the actual arteries and the heart 05:49 or it can come as a result of a blood clot. 05:52 Blood Clots of course are very dangerous and that's one reason 05:58 why we should keep the blood thin. Now very often 06:03 if the blood is very thick and we're subject to clots 06:06 the doctor will give us a drug to thin the blood 06:10 Coumadin or some other drug. 06:12 But in reality, the best way to thin your blood and prevent 06:18 a heart attack is to drink water because water thins the blood. 06:23 Now in America in the morning the first insult to the 06:29 vascular system is something that causes you to lose water. 06:34 We drink a drink that is a diuretic, a diuretic makes you 06:39 lose water, right, and the blood becomes thicker 06:42 and after the third cup of this insult to the vascular 06:47 system, the blood becomes very thick, and most heart attacks 06:51 happen in the morning. So you know it's 10 o'clock, 06:56 I've had my third cup of coffee and that caffeine is a diuretic 07:00 and so now my blood is very thick and if I should happen 07:04 to get a blood clot in that coronary artery and it blocks 07:08 that artery (he snaps fingers), I have a heart attack 07:11 and I could be 50%, there's a 50/50 chance you will die. 07:15 Fifty percent survive and 50% die when we do have a coronary 07:21 event or what they call a myocardial infarction 07:25 which means that there is a blockage in the 07:27 coronary arteries. So, it's very important in the morning 07:32 when you get up, excuse me. The first thing that you can do 07:37 to protect your heart is to drink pure water, 07:41 the beverage of Eden, because that thins your blood 07:44 and makes it less likely that you're going to get a blood-clot 07:49 because it's the blood-clot that is the most dangerous thing. 07:52 Even the blockages in the arteries where the arteries 07:55 narrow as we talked about yesterday. 07:57 Very often there is a hard covering on that 08:01 but sometimes that plaque in the arteries is soft 08:05 and when that plaque is soft and it doesn't have a hard 08:10 covering on it, it's liable to rupture and from that rupture 08:16 comes a blood clot, the blood flows out and it clots 08:20 and that clot can move on and block an artery down the line 08:25 and we have a classic heart attack. 08:29 So, something as simple as drinking water instead of coffee 08:34 is one of the best things that you can do to protect your heart. 08:37 Who knew? Right? 08:39 Okay, just to clarify for me, isn't the biggest risk for 08:42 heart attack has to do with the arteries, right? 08:45 The condition of the arteries or a blood clot or thinning, 08:49 or the thickening of the blood and the thickening of the 08:53 arterial walls...Yes. More than just the heart itself as a 08:58 muscle, its more the arteries that are going into the heart 09:02 that have problems which then eventually affects the muscle 09:06 the arteries within the heart, the coronary arteries. 09:09 Within the heart. Um, there is an artery that's called 09:15 "the widow maker," the left what is it? descending artery 09:19 and it gets blocked in men. But that's an artery within 09:23 heart, within the heart itself and that can get blocked 09:28 either by a blood clot or years of insults where the LDL 09:35 cholesterol, particularly, yesterday we talked about the 09:39 LDLB, which is a very dense form of the 09:43 Low-Density Lipoprotein LDL cholesterol that dense LDL can 09:51 under the endothelium and into the artery wall and do damage. 09:55 Especially, of course, the oxidized version of that. 09:59 So, that's one of the reasons why we want to eat foods that 10:06 are free of cholesterol because that LDLB is a heart attacker 10:12 if you will. It will do damage, there are two fractions 10:18 as we talked about yesterday, there's LDLA, it's kind of 10:22 large and fluffy and relatively harmless, but the B, LDLB 10:27 the dense LDL can get on to that endothelium, the lining 10:31 of the artery and the endothelium is very important 10:35 because we talked about how it produces nitric oxide 10:37 and it dilates your arteries and keeps them open 10:41 lowers your blood pressure and all that blood pressure, 10:43 high blood pressure is a risk factor for a heart attack, 10:47 for heart disease. So all those things mean something over time 10:53 the dietary, particularly the animal-based dietary really 10:58 makes a difference in whether or not we really are at risk. 11:02 So these days, for a long time the American Heart Association 11:08 and in other organizations resisted the idea that a 11:12 plant-based or what we call an Eden diet would be the 11:16 best protector for the heart. But now they are on our side 11:21 the statements are there, they say that plant-based diet is 11:27 the ideal diet for preventing heart disease. 11:31 So we're talking about the tubes that feed the heart 11:35 I mean tube, there is a big tube that goes into the heart 11:37 and then goes out, but the heart itself has these smaller tubes 11:41 that...artery, coronary artery is the tube that the blood 11:44 flows in and nourishes the heart and so we got to keep 11:48 those tubes healthy so that they are not hard, they are not 11:52 clogged, they're open, the blood isn't thick and so that 11:57 all these factors work together and you're saying that water 11:59 will help and the diet helps and all these things contribute 12:06 day by day, step by step to heart health so we don't 12:10 get a heart attack. 12:11 Now, we need to address some- thing else here and that is 12:15 that all of the lifestyle diseases that we can name 12:19 begin with inflammation and so there are markers for 12:24 inflammation in the body. When we have markers that 12:29 indicate that there is a high inflammatory process going on 12:33 and one of the markers is called CRP C-Reactive Protein 12:41 when that number is high, it means that there is a lot 12:44 of inflammation going on... In the tubes? 12:48 In the body in general. In the body, don't forget 12:52 that the inflammation is not going on just in the heart, 12:56 it's going on in the whole vascular system including the 12:59 brain and all of the organs of the body. 13:04 And so by looking at the CRP once a year, we can see 13:11 whether or not there is advanced inflammatory process going on 13:15 in the body. Secondly, we need to look at hemoglobin A1c 13:20 as we talked about yesterday, hemoglobin attaches to oxygen 13:26 naturally in the lungs and delivers it to the cells 13:29 but when sugar gets attached to our hemoglobin, 13:33 it never let's go and the red blood cell has to die 90 to 13:37 120 days later in order for us to get rid of 13:41 that what we call glycated hemoglobin. 13:44 Glycated meaning sugar attached to my hemoglobin 13:47 in the red blood cell, right? So that binding of sugar 13:53 with the red blood cell, with our hemoglobin and the 13:57 red blood cell is a danger to the vascular system, 14:01 to the circulatory system. 14:02 So, that's a number that we need to pay attention to 14:06 if that number is 6 or higher for instance, we are pre-diabetic 14:15 and that means that there is inflammation going on 14:18 and as we said yesterday, the number one killer of diabetics 14:22 is a heart attack because that glycated hemoglobin 14:27 sugar attached to my red-blood cell is a free radical and 14:31 it does accelerate damage to the vascular system 14:38 not just the heart but all over the body. 14:40 And so we need to pay attention to that number, 7 or higher 14:46 means we are diabetic but that high blood sugar is really 14:51 really puts us at a risk for heart attack so that's something 14:55 that we need to pay attention and of course your 14:59 blood pressure is important, we mentioned that Nitric Oxide 15:05 is the natural substance that the body uses to dilate arteries 15:11 and open them up and high blood pressure is a risk factor 15:14 for a heart attack. 15:16 So, we talked about physical activity increases your 15:21 Nitric Oxide and your ability to dilate your arteries 15:24 and open them up and when we sit in a chair all day long 15:28 watching television or whatever we are doing in a chair 15:31 that's not a good thing for your heart, that's a risk factor. 15:34 That's why yesterday we jumped up and did a few 15:38 exercises. So being sedentary is a risk, having a high-fat 15:43 diet is a risk, having too much sugar is a risk... 15:49 In fact, there's a saying out there right now that's 15:54 sitting is the new smoking and so sitting in a chair for 15:59 more than an hour, things start to happen, blood slows 16:02 down, the triglycerides start to get more active and 16:08 begin to do negative things to the vascular system... 16:13 Let's put it that way. So after sitting for an hour 16:19 it's just a good idea to get up out of the chair for 30 seconds 16:24 walk around the room maybe, and do a couple deep knee bends 16:29 and arms over your head exercises kind of thing and just get that 16:33 blood again because the sitting really puts long long hours 16:39 of sitting put us at risk for heart disease. 16:42 That's an important thing to realize. So keep moving 16:47 cut the fat, avoid the sugar, diabetes raises the risk for 16:52 heart disease, not moving around raises the risk 16:56 for heart disease and I'm sure there's a whole host 16:58 of other factors and I guess what we're focusing 17:01 here on in this program and this whole series is getting 17:05 back to simplicity, right? Back to the diet, God gave us 17:09 in the Garden of Eden... Eden diet...Which has... 17:11 It doesn't have the saturated fats, the processed fats... 17:15 And no cholesterol, there is no cholesterol and drink more 17:20 water, keep going, keep moving and all these things affect 17:24 the tubes that the blood flows through to go to the heart 17:29 which is the organ that pumps blood to the whole body 17:32 and that's what keeps us alive if we have a meltdown there 17:37 we're at risk of having the first symptom like you mentioned 17:41 which is sudden death. 17:43 Yes, and that is a very unpleasant symptom. 17:46 Now one of the risk factors that I need to mention 17:49 and that is abdominal fat, the fat that concentrates around 17:57 the abdomen. When we are on the S.A.D. diet, the Standard 18:02 American Diet, right? We very often, we'll accumulate 18:10 fat in the area of the abdomen, what they call visceral fat 18:14 which actually accumulates on the inside of the abdominal 18:18 cavity, around the organs. It turns out that fat is not 18:23 like the fat on your arms or on your legs, this kind of fat 18:29 visceral fat its load produces inflammatory cytokines 18:38 and these inflammatory cytokines are what do the damage to the 18:43 arteries that create the blocking of the arteries 18:48 overtime and as I said, and if its soft plaque then of course 18:54 it can rupture and produce a blood-clot. 18:56 So it is very important to make sure that your waist girth, 19:05 that's one of the risk factors, your waist girth is in the 19:10 right range, not more than 40 for men and 35 for women. 19:16 So the waist girth is important because it's the source of the 19:21 inflammatory cytokines that do the damage, 19:25 one of the sources that does damage to the arteries. 19:27 So you need to pay attention, so how do you reduce your waist 19:34 girth, your visceral fat, what to do? 19:36 Belly fat right? Belly fat exactly, what do you do? 19:40 the answer is, you know, you walk. You eat less and you 19:44 walk more. Well not even eat less, I would say that you eat 19:49 the Eden diet, the plant-based diet, you can eat as much as you 19:52 want of that diet because that diet is not going to have the 19:57 harmful cholesterol, the LDL, cholesterol that will damage 20:00 the artery and if you are walking, and using the 20:04 Eden diet, remember the Eden diet has lots of fiber... 20:07 Yesterday we talked about a minimum of 25 grams of fiber. 20:11 Well, if you are eating that diet you don't even have to 20:13 worry about counting how many grams of fiber you are getting 20:16 you're getting more than the minimum... 20:17 So what's the quickest way again to bring them the belly 20:20 down? Yeah, so you need that source of the high fiber sources 20:26 of calories to bring down the belly fat and you also need 20:32 the physical activity. The combination is very powerful... 20:35 The natural diet and movement? And moving. The combination... 20:41 One thing again, we would like to say one thing potentiates 20:44 the other makes the other more powerful. 20:46 There's a synergy that's going on there so that... 20:50 It's not just 1+1 is 2, it's 1+1 is 4 because it's so 20:57 powerful used together and that's the point. 21:00 So we need to pay attention to that. 21:04 On real practical level as you mentioned, heart disease 21:09 develops gradually, it develops bite by bite, chair by chair, 21:15 the longer we are just not moving around and the more 21:20 food that we eat that is not healthy for us, little by little 21:26 those tubes slowly get affected, the blood thickens, 21:30 the walls become damaged and we increase our risk. 21:34 and so really on a practical day today, it's just really, 21:39 it's those little decisions one by one and we're all being 21:42 bombarded with all these advertisements for food 21:46 that's not good for us. We got all the fast-food restaurants 21:50 all over the place and it's so easy just to compromise 21:53 and go along with what our taste buds want and what's 21:57 easier just sitting around but slowly but surely we're 22:01 raising our risk level... Insulting the heart... 22:04 And so to lower the risk, we need to just get into a habit 22:09 of moving more and eating more natural foods, more of the 22:14 food that's grown, the plant based foods...And drinking 22:17 that pure...Drinking that water and just step by step 22:19 we are lowering our risk, right of that heart attack 22:25 which is killing so many people. 22:27 So, in the few remaining minutes that we have left 22:31 I want to talk a little bit about this strategy that 22:35 you just mentioned. What are the practicalities of 22:37 putting that in place? 22:39 So many people make a New Year's Resolution, I'm going to be more 22:43 physically active, it lasts for a a week or ten days or... 22:47 A relatively short period of time. How can you make this 22:51 a habit so that it becomes a permanent part of your lifestyle? 22:56 And one of the things that I do as a Lifestyle Interventionist 23:00 is I facilitate the interventions that people 23:04 who are going to put in place? 23:06 So for instance I say to them look, if you're going to be 23:09 more physically active, you have to set a time, 23:12 you can't say I'm going to be walking today at noon 23:16 and then the next day at seven o'clock in the evening and 23:19 all over the map. There needs to be a time, the brain likes 23:24 regularity and so when you get up in the morning 23:27 think about the day. When is the best time for me to set a 23:30 time? Put a stake in the sand. And one of the facilitators 23:35 of that stake in the sand is your cell-phone. 23:38 Your cell phone has an alarm, set an alarm, if it's 11:00, 23:43 That cell phone goes off at 11:00 and you know it's time 23:46 to push back from the desk, whatever, get up... 23:51 Maybe in the morning when you got up, you've prepared 23:56 yourself by putting on your walking shoes 23:58 the brain takes note of that, I'm going to walk. 24:02 You see, all these little things that we do, the night before 24:05 you lay out your walking clothes or jogging whatever 24:09 you are going to. All those little things that you do to 24:11 prepare...It tells the brain something's going to happen 24:15 and it prepares you to get active...all these little things 24:19 make a difference. Shopping you know, making sure that you 24:24 bring the right foods home, that you're not putting that 24:27 sweet drink in the refrigerator. That high-fructose corn syrup 24:31 drink that's going to trash your arteries and create trouble 24:36 for you long term. 24:38 So all these things make a difference and we have to 24:42 recognize that little things can really, you know 24:46 little foxes spoil the vine, that's what the Bible says. 24:50 A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 24:52 So prepare the evening before and dress for the weather 24:57 there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. 25:01 Put on a hat so that you don't lose heat through your head, 25:06 a lot of the heat that you lose when you are out there 25:08 is through, from the top of your head...Put on a hat, 25:11 I wear some gloves, I dress warmly, I have a couple of 25:16 two or three layers and my wife and I go out and take that 25:19 brisk walk. We do it at a certain time every day 25:23 after breakfast basically. 25:26 And so, all those things, take a friend, in my case my friend 25:31 is my wife, so that's a good thing right? 25:34 A friend will hold you accountable, so all of those 25:38 things make a difference. 25:40 Practical steps, I like to walk after I eat, as much as I can 25:44 not always, but after breakfast this morning I took a walk, 25:47 after lunch today I'm going to take a little time and walk 25:50 and I do this often in the evenings too after I have 25:53 a supper and it's just those daily choices, step by step 25:58 that helps us to win the battle of the body. 26:01 The saying in Spanish, poco a poco aval joseos 26:04 little by little you go far. That's right little by little. 26:08 Well, we've come far to the end of our program so, 26:13 Proverbs chapter 4:23, the Bible says "Keep your heart with 26:20 all diligence," in other words, make those diligent efforts 26:25 to keep your heart, to have a healthy heart, not only 26:29 spiritually but physically for out of it are the issues of 26:34 life." And heart disease is a terrible thing and if loved ones, 26:38 someone that you know, or you, have a heart-attack 26:43 you could die early. I know this is a tragedy 26:47 and God wants us to live as long as possible down here 26:50 so take those practical steps, protect your heart from a 26:53 heart attack and don't you be attacker. Absolutely! 26:57 Thanks for watching, we'll see you next time. 26:59 We hope you have enjoyed this episode of Body Battles, 27:03 before you go, these health resources are available from 27:06 White Horse Media. 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