Participants: Rico Hill (Host), Schubert Palmer
Series Code: FSH
Program Code: FSH000009
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00:04 Leviticus chapter 17 verses 10 and 11 says:
00:08 "And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel 00:12 or of the strangers that sojourn among you 00:15 that eateth any manor of blood 00:18 I will even set My face against that soul 00:21 that eateth blood and will cut him off from among his people. 00:25 For the life of the flesh is in the blood. " 00:29 Wow! Hello and welcome to From Sickness To Health. 00:32 I'm your host Rico Hill and I'm Sickness. Yes. 00:36 And let me guess. The topic of today's program is blood. 00:40 Yes... blood. I love talking about blood. 00:43 That figures. Yeah! Because there's that song: 00:46 "What can wash away my sins? 00:49 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 00:51 What can make me pure within? 00:53 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. " 00:55 It is so important to have clean blood 00:58 to have good health. Rico, clean blood is boring blood. 01:03 I've got to give up my party blood, probably eat your 01:06 boring food? No thanks. 01:09 Well I'm just curious. Can I ask you a question? 01:11 Sure. What color is your blood? Do you have blue blood? 01:15 What? I'm not going to answer that question. 01:17 You always ask me questions on the program. 01:19 Do you have blue blood? It's a simple question. 01:21 Roll the program! 01:22 Oh, so you don't want to answer my question 01:24 about your blue blood! Fine. Roll it. 01:28 Exit... stage right. 02:06 Well hello there and welcome to From Sickness To Health. 02:09 Thank you so much for joining us right here in the studio here. 02:13 And I'm joined by my good friend the doctor: 02:16 Dr. Schubert Palmer. And today we are going to be 02:20 talking about blood... something he knows a lot about. 02:26 In fact, Dr. Palmer is a cardiologist. 02:29 In fact, he's the chairman of the cardiology section 02:34 of the White Memorial Medical Center in LA, California. 02:38 But he does so much more than that. 02:40 And it's a wonder, it's amazing, that he can make time to come 02:43 and share with us good information about how we can be 02:47 healthy. His specialty is the heart, 02:50 but blood pumps through the heart. Welcome, doctor. 02:54 Thank you. Delighted to be here. 02:56 Now there are about eight pints of blood that just pump 02:59 through our bodies, moving through from the head to the toe 03:03 in about a minute. Um-hmm. That's about 3 miles per hour 03:06 in the average human being? Um-hmm. 03:08 So important is this blood, 03:10 yet most people don't know anything about it. 03:12 Today we want to really bring out 03:15 the importance, the power - the cleansing power - of blood. 03:21 But you've gotta have healthy blood. 03:23 Before we get into our discussion today 03:25 let's go and hear what Sickness has to say about blood. 03:31 Hey Rico. This is how we roll in Hollywood. 03:35 This is my sports car. 03:37 And according to the owner's manual they tell me to change 03:39 the oil every 3,000 miles. 03:42 The reason being it keeps the engine from seizing up 03:45 from all that dirty oil. 03:47 And I want to pay attention to that because, hey, if you have 03:49 dirty oil you could ruin the engine of your car. 03:52 You hear the similarities with the human body? 03:55 You've got a liver and kidneys to filter out 03:57 the old dirty blood, but people don't care about that stuff. 04:01 But they care about their cars! 04:03 They change the oil filter, they change their oil 04:06 and they keep it nice and clean so that pretty car can keep 04:09 running. That's what I do. Back to you, Rico. 04:13 I'm outta here. 04:14 Well... I don't know what to say about that. 04:18 Let's go ahead and get into our discussion. 04:21 I think there are some good points about what goes through 04:24 an engine and the fuel and the oil that goes into an engine, 04:28 but you know what? Blood is even more important. 04:33 Good blood is even better than good oil in a car, 04:36 so let's talk about good blood. 04:38 Can I start off, doctor, by reading a statement 04:40 that I think is just so powerful? 04:42 This is found in a book that... 04:46 that I love and enjoy. It says: 04:48 "In order to have good health we must have good blood 04:54 for the blood is the current of life. 04:58 It repairs waste and nourishes the body 05:01 when supplied with the proper food elements 05:05 and when cleansed and vitalized by contact with pure air 05:10 it carries life and vigor to every part of the system. 05:16 The more perfect the circulation 05:19 the better this will be accomplished. " 05:23 And that is from a book called Counsels for the Church 05:29 page 218. Wow! 05:31 What is blood being applied to the church for? 05:37 Well, as a physician and a scientist, I can validate that 05:41 statement to the "T. " I mean, my life's work 05:44 has to do with trying to correct folk who've had 05:47 "bad blood. " Bad blood... I like that! 05:53 Yeah, and there is... You won't find that in a 05:56 scientific textbook... bad blood... I guarantee that. 06:00 But if we can get our circulation right, 06:04 99% of our problems - at least 90% - 06:08 would disappear. 06:09 And when you think about this amazing body that we have - 06:13 yes - did you know that you have over 60,000 06:18 miles of blood vessels? It sounded like you said miles 06:21 but I think you meant 60,000 feet, right? 06:24 It sounds that way, but no. 60,000 to 100,000 miles 06:28 of blood vessels. This could go around the planet! 06:31 Just three of us and we could reach the moon! 06:35 That's the amount of circulation. Now they range 06:38 in size from the large arteries, you know, like the aorta - 06:42 like an inch size. Yeah. And they will get down 06:45 to the size of the arteriole which is 2/100 of an inch 06:48 down to the capillary size where they are so small 06:52 that the red blood cells have to squeeze through 06:56 these little capillaries one at a time. 07:00 Whoa! So if you can keep your circulation free and clear 07:05 you've gone a mighty long way to having good health. 07:09 So... the key to really good health 07:12 is having pure blood, 07:14 and that pure blood needs to be uninhibited 07:18 or impeded by anything so that it is circulating 07:23 at the rate of speed because it's taking things. 07:26 It's... Blood is not just blood. It's actually 07:30 sort of a transportation, sort of, mechanism. Isn't it? 07:33 Um-hmm. What is it moving through the body? 07:35 In fact, you can consider it like the current of life, 07:37 the river of life. The river! Bringing... 07:41 bringing nutrients - um-hmm - and probably the most important, 07:45 they're all important... but oxygen... Oxygen! 07:48 in those red blood cells. When you look at blood 07:51 55% or 54% is liquid or plasma. Yeah. 07:55 And then the other 45% are solid material, 07:58 the majority of which are the red blood cells 08:00 that are responsible for carrying the oxygen 08:03 in the hemoglobin molecule. Um-hmm. 08:05 And then bringing the "waste" back, or the carbon dioxide. 08:10 Maybe 70% of the carbon dioxide just is in the blood itself. 08:15 A percentage of it gets in the red blood cells 08:19 but most of it is just within the blood system itself. 08:22 So you have the oxygen/carbon dioxide exchange. 08:25 But that's only the beginning. 08:27 Now we have to look at the nutrients. 08:30 What are some of the... the hor- mones you have running around? 08:35 The body communicates by hormones and the brain will 08:39 send some hormones by the blood to the different organs. 08:42 If they are in trouble, they will send their signals 08:44 by the blood. So it's communication. 08:46 Communication network. Transportation; communication. 08:49 And the list goes on. OK. And then the immune system 08:54 is vitally dependent on the blood. 08:57 You have this array of white blood cells 09:00 that are designed to detect foreign invaders, 09:04 whether that is bacteria, viruses, or even cells that have 09:08 gone astray... the cancer cells. Aah! 09:11 And every one of us the thinking goes 09:14 during the course of our lifetime will have 09:16 anywhere from... hmmm... up to 250 cancer cells 09:21 that might form. Now your body has 100 trillion cells. 09:25 A hundred trillion? And trying to detect problems 09:29 in only 250... how do you do that? 09:33 The blood system is set up along with the lymphatic system 09:36 and so on to detect those cells 09:39 and to literally gobble up those cancer cells 09:43 before they cause trouble. 09:44 Diet is going to play a big part 09:46 in... because of the statement that I read... 09:48 the food that we eat is pretty much converted 09:51 to blood. Um-hmm. That's where our blood comes from. 09:54 That's how we make blood. 09:55 Good nutrition in... good, pure blood. Right? 09:59 But we're finding in a lot of communities, 10:01 certainly the African-American community and some others, 10:04 we have a higher incidence of hypertension and heart disease 10:08 and these kinds of things because our blood is not pure. 10:12 So we're talking about... we're still talking about 10:14 blood, though, because really we're told in Leviticus 10:19 chapter 17 and verse 11: 10:34 So the life of the flesh is in the blood. 10:37 Now I don't know if people would consider this to be 10:40 science, but in the Bible it says that the life of the flesh 10:45 is in the blood. When a person goes in for 10:48 a routine doctor's visit 10:50 what are they going to check and why? 10:52 They will do a physical examination. Of course, 10:55 a careful history, but usually they will do 10:58 a blood test. And you need to see 11:02 an inside view as to what's happening. 11:05 And one of the best ways to do that is to get some 11:09 blood tests done and you can get the answers 11:12 to many things. And nowadays it's even more fancy 11:15 with different tests that we have available. 11:17 So, if I want to know if someone might be... 11:21 On the other end of that video you were talking about 11:25 immune function and, you know, 11:28 we have trillions of blood cells 11:30 but at the same time 250 could be cancerous! 11:34 Right? So if we're going to be able to detect whether there is 11:38 cancer in the blood, are we saying that 11:41 through a blood test we can detect things like cancer? 11:44 By the time we detect cancer in a person 11:49 on the best science that we have right now 11:51 it's usually been around for five years or more. 11:55 So no... Blood tests are good for screening 11:58 but they're picking up the damage after it's been way gone. 12:03 So the old adage is true: a pound of prevention 12:08 is... or an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 12:11 Aah! So this is what it comes down to. 12:13 Again we're seeing that no matter what you may be 12:17 genetically predisposed to - that means, you know, having 12:20 something passed down from mama or daddy 12:24 or grandpa. But it really comes down to 12:27 how... or what measures are you taking to prevent 12:31 sickness and disease, right? 12:33 For the majority of cases that is true. 12:36 The majority of cases? There are like 70% I've read. 12:39 Um-hmm... yes. Or even more! 12:42 Or even higher. So I like this expression... 12:44 maybe you can expound upon it a little more... 12:46 and that is: "genetics loads the gun" - um-hmm - 12:51 "but your lifestyle pulls the trigger. " Pulls the trigger, 12:54 yes. Let me give you an example: for the heart disease 12:58 there are what they call 13:01 single nucleotide polymorphisms. 13:04 Big word, but these are genetic mutations 13:06 in the DNA - um-hmm - that lead to abnormalities 13:11 that predispose you to, say, heart disease. 13:14 And so we've figured out a lot of them. 13:17 And one of them in particular that they found out that's 13:21 pretty common, and they found that things like "fish oil" 13:25 can actually help that one. 13:27 But that's just one. And each of these mutations 13:31 has their own baggage with them. 13:33 Now... if you come down with a mutation problem, 13:37 and we all are damaged goods... 13:40 No matter what we do? Yes, and you can't change your genes. 13:45 Right. But the research is confirming that even though 13:48 you may have had bad genes - and there are a few exceptions 13:51 like people that have one called progeria in which 13:54 10-year-old kids get heart attacks 13:56 because they age so rapidly. One in 20 million people. 14:00 Very rare. Very rare. So the majority of problems 14:03 that we are seeing today cannot just be laid at the 14:06 "excuse" if you will of having bad genes 14:10 because the lifestyle that we develop will directly affect it. 14:15 And I have a good example of Mr. I Hate Beans. 14:18 Aah... OK. Well... Mr. I Hate Beans. 14:22 You just heard that. We're going to talk about 14:24 Mr. I Hate Beans. Tell us about Mr. I Hate Beans. 14:27 So this gentlemen walked into my office... OK. 14:30 Actually, I first saw him in the emergency room again. 14:32 Most of my people I see in the emergency room first. 14:35 And so he's having a heart attack. 14:37 We rush him to the cath lab. We went ahead and did a stent, 14:41 opened up the blocked artery. 14:42 And I talked to him about changing his lifestyle. 14:45 He didn't. He was smoking, eating at all the fast food 14:48 places. Every bad habit he had. 14:50 Around 2 or 3 heart attacks later and another 4-5 stents... 14:53 Two or three heart attacks? 14:55 Um-hmm. So then he comes in and we have to do a bypass 14:58 surgery. OK... so he got the bypass surgery 15:01 and now it's around five years from the first time I saw him. 15:07 And now he is saying: "I am having this severe 15:10 chest pain. I am using 100 nitroglycerine tablets a day. " 15:13 The pills you put under your tongue when you have chest 15:16 discomfort. Yeah. And he says: 15:18 "I can't walk to my bathroom unless I take a nitro. " 15:22 And so he comes into my office and he says: 15:25 "So Dr. Palmer... am I going to die? " 15:27 And I looked him in the eye and sadly said: 15:30 "Yes, you are going to die. " You had to be that honest? 15:32 I had to be straightforward with him. 15:34 And he says: "So can I? " 15:36 "Every time you come in, " I said, "your lifestyle changes. 15:39 I mean, a simple thing is eat your beans 15:42 and lentils, you know. Stay away from a lot of the food 15:46 that you are having and have more of the food as grown." 15:49 Plant-based diet versus the high-fat, saturated fried food. 15:52 Yes. And he just said: "I can't do it. " 15:55 OK. And so what happened over this time: now he's having 15:59 100 nitroglycerine tablets a day. 16:01 He is going to die. Yeah, I did an angiogram. 16:04 The surgeon said: "I would not touch that man with a 20 foot 16:07 pole. He would die on the table." 16:09 I couldn't do any more angioplasties. 16:11 There was nothing there when I did the angiogram. 16:14 No arteries that you could see. I knew that we were in trouble. 16:17 So I told him: "Yes, you can go back home 16:20 to your country to say goodbye to your folk. 16:23 You know, since you are not listening to me, just prepare 16:26 to die. " I prepared him. You know, we had a prayer 16:29 and my heart was... You prayed with him? 16:31 I pray with a lot of my patients when they allow me to. 16:33 Absolutely. Praise God! And so when I said goodbye 16:37 I knew I would never see him again. Three months later 16:40 this man walks through the door with the picture of perfect 16:43 health on him. You've gotta be kidding me! 16:46 I said: "Mr. I Hate Beans! " 16:48 That's what you called him? Well... 16:52 That's what you were thinking. 16:53 I said: "You are alive? What happened? 16:56 You're supposed to be dead. " 16:58 And then he said... His wife was with him and she confirmed 17:01 the story. She said: "I cannot keep up walking with this man. " 17:04 And I said: "So sit down; tell me what happened. " 17:07 He said: "Well, I went back to my home country 17:09 up in the hills where we live. " 17:11 And he said: "Where we live we are so poor 17:14 the only food that they had for me to eat 17:17 were lentils and beans. " 17:20 And then he said: "We are so poor, I couldn't walk 17:24 anywhere. I mean, I couldn't take a taxi. 17:26 I couldn't afford... " They couldn't afford taxis. 17:28 So he had to walk. "So I HAD to walk. " 17:30 And then he said: "We are so poor 17:32 we didn't have a TV, so I had to go into the backyard 17:35 and garden to spend time. " 17:37 What? So there was time out in the fresh air 17:41 in the sunshine and he was walking! 17:44 He was walking. And this turned his situation around. 17:46 Turned his situation around. 17:48 Wow! I'm sorry... go ahead. 17:51 What happened is when you look at an artery 17:55 the inside lining of the artery 17:57 there are special cells called endothelial cells. 18:01 They make their own nitroglycerine. 18:03 And to make their nitroglycerine for this inner lining of the 18:07 arteries they need to have... L-arginine is the building block 18:13 from which they can make nitric oxide. 18:16 Um-hmm. And nitric oxide is the most potent basal dilator 18:20 and also one of the most potent chemotherapy, 18:22 cancer-fighting chemicals known to man. 18:25 So fighting the cancer but also keeping the blood vessels 18:28 and the veins and arteries open. 18:30 All natural. Just naturally! Um-hmm. 18:32 From beans? Beans and lentils. 18:35 And these are high in the L-arginine foods 18:38 that your body uses to make nitric oxide. 18:42 Let's see if the people on the street know about 18:44 the goodness of beans and good blood and a good heart. 18:47 Let's turn to that. 18:51 Let me ask you a question. We're going to get all 18:53 "sciency" here. How fast does blood flow? 18:58 Very fast. Very fast? Very fast. 19:01 She didn't get good grades in school. I need some 19:02 specifics here. How fast does blood flow? 19:07 You know what? I was not very good in my science class 19:12 so... The answer is: too fast. 19:15 Blood needs to slow down because you know what? 19:18 It needs to slow down a little. All these people talking about 19:21 good circulation? You gotta let blood just do what it does. 19:25 Just do what it does. Coagulate... yes! 19:29 Do you like happy blood? I don't know what happy blood is. 19:32 Look, the way to get happy BLUE blood 19:35 is to sit on the couch, put your feet up, eat whatever you want 19:38 as often as you want and don't go to sleep. 19:41 See, that's the thing. Blue blood - slow blood - 19:45 is good blood. You see what I'm saying? 19:48 I think you see what I'm saying. You guys: you have good 19:51 blood flow? Yes. You have blue blood? 19:54 Yes. OK... circulation: how fast do you think in the 19:58 human body is circulation? How often does that happen? 20:00 How fast does it go? 20:02 I'm gettin' a little "sciency" on you... I'm pretty smart. 20:04 Hmm... I don't know. 20:07 He doesn't know. But you're smart... you look smart. 20:10 I have no idea. No idea. 20:12 You? No idea. No idea. 20:14 Do you like the sight of blood? The sight of it? 20:16 I mean, you like to look at blood itself. Nah. 20:19 No? Nah. I mean, you don't like blood. 20:21 I don't like blood. I mean, there's all this confusion 20:24 out there about blood. I think in concept 20:27 people like clean blood but in reality people like party blood. 20:33 They like the buzz, so don't be a buzzkill. 20:37 Clean blood sounds good but people would rather have 20:40 party blood, happy blood. Back to you, Rico. 20:47 Whoo! What can you say? 20:49 What can I say? People have their own ideas. 20:51 Um-hmm. But you know, what we like to do on this program 20:55 is really give, you know, really good science 20:58 and give you the truth. Dispel the myths and misconceptions 21:01 of these things and also go to the Word of God. 21:04 And, you know, at one point our doctor mentioned that, 21:08 you know, when we have good blood we're also transporting 21:12 these white blood cells which is our immune function. 21:15 And it says in Isaiah chapter 59 and verse 19 21:19 it says: "So shall they fear the name of the Lord 21:22 from the west and His glory from the rising of the sun. 21:25 When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the 21:30 Lord shall lift up a standard against him. " 21:34 So when the enemy - that is any type of pathogen or 21:38 bacterial/viral infection comes in, 21:41 God has a standard, doesn't He, that He raises up in the body. 21:45 But not only that, He's already given us a standard. 21:48 He's given us a healthy diet and all the things from the garden. 21:52 The fruits, the vegetables and the things that are good for us 21:56 to eat and will give us pure blood making good life. 22:00 Is that right? That's an awesome thing to know. 22:03 And to think that your best medicine can be found 22:07 in the produce section of the supermarket. 22:09 You mean not in the middle aisles where you can go and find 22:13 the things that are at eye level and that have lots of 22:16 descriptions and ingredients that you can't pronounce? 22:19 Not those? Not those. OK... so, you know, I want to 22:22 look at these things because this is a stent. 22:25 This is a stent that you often have to put in someone. 22:29 Is this? This has become almost commonplace. 22:32 In fact, our president... president. I mean our president. 22:37 He's former president, but Bill Clinton 22:39 he had one of these placed in him, didn't he? 22:41 He did. Not just one... he had several. 22:43 And when he saw his cardiologist at the time they told him 22:46 "Well, you're growing old and this is just a natural 22:48 process for growing old. " 22:51 That's what they told him? Unfortunately. They were wrong! 22:55 Well, I don't like to say anything about my colleagues 22:58 but just... The information was that... 23:01 We are able in a program like this to tell the truth. 23:07 The whole truth... and nothing but the truth... 23:09 and nothing but the truth. Amen! 23:10 So he had to get several of these in, 23:13 but that wasn't enough. And maybe some time on a later 23:17 program we'll show exactly what he said. 23:19 Because everyone was interviewing him and asking 23:23 "How did you overcome your issue? " 23:26 Um-hmm. And he tells the story. 23:28 He had to get several stents but his doctors told him 23:31 "You've got to change... " What? 23:33 You have to change your lifestyle... which the diet was 23:36 very critical. Diet was a part of it. 23:38 And now he's what we call a vegan. 23:43 And a vegan is basically someone who just has 23:45 a plant-based diet. Um-hmm. So we can avoid this thing. 23:49 Now is that painful? Well, of course not. 23:57 It is radical but it's not painful. 23:59 Well it is... sometimes. Let me tell the truth. 24:03 The whole truth and nothing but the truth! 24:05 We use local anesthesia and you're a little sedated. 24:08 And sometimes I will sing for my patients 24:10 if they really need the big anesthesia. 24:12 But after you have it in and you're walking around 24:15 you don't notice it but... No you don't. 24:17 For a while, though, you would feel some discomfort? 24:19 Would you? No... not necessarily. 24:21 If it's doing it's job it will be OK. 24:23 However, if your lifestyle hasn't changed 24:26 the process is starting to start up again or in another 24:30 area. And if you have to have a big surgery, 24:33 the bypass surgery, that one you will feel for quite a while. 24:38 Aah, well I tell you Dr. Palmer, thank you so much. 24:41 We're running out of time but we could just go on 24:44 for days and days. But here's the thing: 24:46 we know that there's a simple solution to this problem. 24:51 Let's eat better. Let's eat a diet that is... 24:54 or eat a diet that is going to be heart-healthy 24:58 and promote good blood and good health. 25:00 Because that is the river of life, and we want life, 25:04 don't we? Absolutely. 25:06 We'll see you next time here on From Sickness To Health. 25:08 Thank you, doctor. Appreciate it. My pleasure. 25:14 Today we have learned that in order to have good health 25:17 we must have good blood 25:19 for the blood is "the current of life. " 25:23 If you have a blood that is more acidic, 25:26 you have a garden where disease and sickness will thrive. 25:32 I go to places like the desert and everything is dry and dead. 25:35 But when there's a river there you'll see the green trees 25:39 and everything is flourishing. 25:40 That's what the blood is referred to: an actual river 25:44 of life. Wow! When you have good circulation 25:48 you'll have good health. It's amazing to me that 25:52 whatever we eat is converted to blood. 25:56 You eat an apple... it's going to turn into blood. 25:59 Eat a candy bar? Well... I'm not so sure. 26:02 But here's the thing: God desires us to have pure blood. 26:06 God designed this incredible organism 26:10 to be able to live because of this current of life. 26:14 I understand. I get it. 26:16 Look... you saw my sports car. I take care of it. 26:19 I understand that with good oil I have a good healthy car. 26:23 With dirty oil the engine will seize up. 26:25 I understand that, just like I understand all this stuff 26:27 you were talking about with the blood and the body. 26:29 That's not the issue. You're trying to take the fun 26:33 out of life. And people want to have a little party blood. 26:36 They want to have some fun in life, not eat all these leaf 26:39 things and gross stuff you've got to eat. 26:41 I'm sorry. I hate to cut you off but I heard you say 26:43 people want to have a little life. Well, 26:46 actually Leviticus 17:11 says 26:50 that "the life of the flesh is in the blood. " 26:54 Without good blood you have no life. 26:59 Aah! Let's listen to what God has said 27:02 to us regarding the life of this flesh being in the blood. 27:06 Well, that's our program for today. 27:08 I leave you with this as always: III John 2 says: 27:11 "Beloved, I wish above all things 27:14 that thou mayest prosper and be in health. " 27:17 I'm Rico Hill... I'm Sickness. 27:19 Maranatha. |
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